Author: Mrs Taylor

Forces around us

As we continue our mini topic on forces, Year 2 have been thinking about forces around us for their latest homework.

One example is using a scooter (and also making an active journey to school!).

We took our learning outside and explored how forces help the scooter to move, speed up, slow down or change direction.

We tested how far the scooter travelled with one push off so in addition to the science learning, we also thought about maths learning too.

What are the units for measuring distance?

What would be the most appropriate unit for measuring the distance?

What is your estimate of the distance travelled?

How could we measure the distance?

To show that metres would be the most appropriate unit for measuring, we used the metre ruler to show that the scooter travelled 9m across the playground.

Friction is also working as a force and we talked about how the surface the scooter is travelling on affects its speed.

School Savings Club

The next School Savings Club paying in date is 13 December 2018 at 3.15-3.45pm.

If you’re unable to attend in person, please hand in any money to be deposited to the office in a sealed envelope addressed to Mrs Tiffany.

Paying in dates fall on the penultimate Thursday of each half term.

If your child would like to open account, please ask at the office.  This is a great opportunity for children to begin to manage their own money and understand the importance of saving.

 

New school meal menu

Our new Spring/Summer school meal menu, starting from after February half term, is now available on our Meals page.

The menu has been created in liaison with Catering Leeds to ensure it meets the School Food Standards.  We have also incorporated feedback from our school cook, pupils and parents/carers.

Pupils will continue to make their daily food choices at the start of the day to ensure they receive their first choice of main meal.

Year 2 book club

Next Tuesday, 11 December, it’s book club time in Year 2. This is an opportunity for the children to bring a favourite book to share with their classmates. It could be a story or an information book, a comic or a poem. It could be an old favourite or a book they’ve recently read.

Mrs Taylor and Mr Wilks will also share their favourite book!

We look forward to seeing and hearing about your choices!

When will be your next Park Run?

Thank you to Richard Spencer (parent, chair of the PTA and Park Run race director at Roundhay Park) who came to speak to the whole school this afternoon about the great, free, weekly Park Run events held locally.

We were impressed by the number of children who have already completed a Park Run event with one pupil achieving over 100 runs!

All you need to take part is to register for your personal bar code that is used at the event to record your position and time for the run.  ThePark Run event is not a race.  You are only trying to beat yourself by achieving a faster time each time you do it.

There is no commitment to attend every weekend: just turn up with your bar code when you can.

The course is fully marshalled and so children are able to run round with others as long as an adult accompanies them to the event.

We’d love to hear your Park Run achievements – let your teacher know!

 

Science mini topic

We’ve now started a science mini topic based on forces. To begin this topic, the children were shown a series of forces-related photos and asked to come up with questions based on what they would want to know.

There were some great scientific questions and these will lead into some investigations we will be doing based on forces.

BBC website has a number of videos on forces if you want to find out more.

What is our new school charity?

We support our school charity for a year and it is now time to change our current school charity, Make-A-Wish.

This week, each class, discussed a range of charities, researched by the children for their homework, and voted on one charity they wanted to put forward for the school councillors to decide on.

Here were the class choices:

Year 1 – Bubble Foundation
Year 2 – Children in Need
Year 3 – Camp Nibble
Year 4 – Bubble Foundation
Year 5 – WWF
Year 6 – Dogs Trust
At the School Council meeting, all of the children spoke passionately about their class’s chosen charity and gave a good overview of what they do and how our fundraising may help.

The final democratic decision was made by a vote by the School Council and the winning charity for 2018-2019 is WWF.  We will support this charity for one year.

KS1 cricket

Thank you to Tom Bates from Yorkshire Cricket who delivered great, fun cricket skills sessions yesterday for Year 1 and 2.

The sessions were to promote the All Stars cricket programme that will be available in 2019.  Preregister on their website to receive details of how your child can take part in the sessions due to be held at local cricket clubs next year.

This video gives more information about All Stars cricket.

 

 

Cross Country

Update 28.11.18

Congratulations to Edris and Billy who have qualified as wildcard runners for the Leeds City Finals at Temple Newsam in February.

Well done to all the Key Stage 2 children who represented school in traditional cross country weather today at the Leeds East North East cross country event at Cardinal Heenan school.  For some of the children, this was the first time they have taken part in a competitive event and spirits were still high despite the muddy and cold conditions.

Thank you to Mrs Small, Mrs Charlesworth and Mrs Maqbool who accompanied the children and for parents who helped with transport and gave support at the event.

We had a fantastic response to this event with over 50 children wanting to take part.  Even though we managed to increase our numbers, unfortunately there were still children who didn’t get chance to participate this time.  There will, however, be other competitive and participation opportunities happening over the year.

Living and Learning – Identity

For our next few Living and Learning sessions, we have asked the children to bring in something that represents them.  This links in with our current theme all about Identity and what makes them special and unique.

We will do this over the next three weeks so please note the dates and groups below.

Tuesday 27 November Arctic Ocean

Tuesday 4 December Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean

Tuesday 11 December Pacific Ocean and Southern Ocean

The children should choose to bring in or talk about something to do with their family, an interest they have or any achievements they have made and be ready to share this with the class.