Author: Mrs Taylor

Leeds Rhinos Easter activities

On Friday 18 April, Leeds Rhinos are hosting their annual family day, where all child tickets (seating and standing) are just £5. As well as the Rhinos match against Huddersfield Giants, there are a host of activities that the whole family can enjoy – all included in the price of entry.

There is also a free open training session and meet the players event at AMT Headingley Stadium, during the Easter Holidays, on Tuesday 15 April. Children and families will have the opportunity to watch the Rhinos train, meet Ronnie the Rhino and get autographs/pictures with the players at the end of the session.

English School Swimming Association North East Heat

Congratulations to our Year 5 and 6 swimmers who took part in the English School Swimming Association North East Heat at The Grammar School at Leeds. For most of the team, this was the first competitive swimming event they had taken part in so well done to all the children for their determination and also for taking responsibility by practising prior to the event. The team were then inspired by watching our City of Leeds swimmer take part in his individual races.

I’m going to practise more swimming to get faster to compete again in Year 6.

This was a great opportunity for us! Not everyone gets the chance to do this.

Moortown netballers

Well done to our Year 5/6 netballers who competed in the Bee Netball competition at Allerton High.

In each match, the team showed great teamwork and resilience. It’s great to see their netball skills progressing. Well done!

We’d also like to thank parents for helping with transport for this event.

Through our partnership with Leeds Rhinos, have a look at this special offer to see some more live netball this weekend.

Here are some local netball opportunities too.

Design & Technology food: overnight oats

This week, Year 2 have prepared, eaten and evaluated our overnight oats. This is part of our Living and Learning (healthy eating) and Design and Technology (food preparation) learning.

The children have used some different food preparation skills (snipping, peeling, bridge and claw cutting technique, mixing, measuring liquids, using measuring spoons, weighing and arranging toppings) as part of this learning to create their finished product.

Then, it was the best bit – the tasting!

Finally, we evaluated our product and considered any changes we’d make next time.

Help at home: your child will be bringing this recipe home. Why not try it at home and let your child show you the skills they have learnt.

West Yorkshire cross country final

We were very proud of our five Key Stage 2 children who took part in the West Yorkshire Cross Country Final at Temple Newsam today in the glorious sunshine.

In tough, competitive conditions, with the best runners from across West Yorkshire, they all put in 100% effort in their races and were a great support for each other. The children should feel proud of competing at this level. We even had a top 10 finisher out of 146 runners and our Year 3 girls team came 6th place our of 21 schools. What an amazing team effort!

Thank you to parents who helped with transport and supported at the event.


Leeds Rhinos healthy lifestyle assembly and ticket offer

This week, we welcomed Luke from Leeds Rhinos to deliver a healthy lifestyle assembly.

We thought about different aspects of keeping a healthy lifestyle including food and nutrition, sleep, exercise, hydration and hygiene.

Luke also spoke about the ticket offer available for families for one of the upcoming Leeds Rhinos home games.

As part of our partnership, and as a reward for all the great work that the children have been doing this year, Leeds Rhinos would like to offer children and their families an amazing opportunity to attend a match at AMT Headingley Stadium (LS6 3BR) at a special discounted schools rate.

Date – Saturday 22nd March 2025
Kick off  – 5:30pm
Opposition – Wigan Warriors

Standing tickets can be booked now through the school via School Gateway. Please note that tickets will be on sale until 10am on Tuesday 18th March.

 

World Book Day

This Thursday is World Book Day where we celebrate books and reading.

Today, we joined an online talk from the illustrator, David O’Connell.

First, we learnt some bugs facts based on the living things in his books.

Then, David showed us how to draw three of his characters, Dribble, Dash and Nettie, taken from his latest book, The Beastie Bros. The children’s illustrations were excellent.


Finally, there was chance to think about what questions we’d like to ask David.

How many books have you wrote?

What was your first book called?

Why did you want to become an illustrator and author?

Help at home: have a look at some illustrations in books at home. How are they similar or different to the characters David draws?

Living and Learning: MindMate

This half term our Living and Learning lessons are based around the MindMate learning themes of emotions and friendships.

Our first lesson was based around strong emotions and exploring and describing how it feels to be sad/unhappy.

We thought about how others might express feelings of unhappiness and if they did feel unhappy, to practise asking, and listening to, others about what makes them unhappy.

We reinforced that everyone feels sad or unhappy at times and that’s natural.

In our circle time, on the same theme, the children suggested some things to do if they were feeling sad.

Would it help if…

  • you walked away from the situation making you sad
  • you talked to a friend or a trusted adult
  • you wrote down how you felt
  • you read a book
  • you went for a walk
  • you did some exercise like dancing

As part of this lesson, we did two of the mindfulness exercises taken from this website – mindful hearing and mindful breathing.

Help at home – ask your child what they might do if they were feeling unhappy or if a friend was feeling unhappy.