On Friday 07 July, we’re raising money for one of our school charities, Yorkshire Air Ambulance, by taking part in Yellow Yorkshire Day.
Children are encouraged to wear something yellow and bring a £1 donation.
A representative from Yorkshire Air Ambulance will be visiting school to talk about their important work in our county.
Well done to some of our Key Stage 2 children who represented the school at the Leeds North East Tri Golf Festival at Cookridge Hall this afternoon.
It was a very close competition and the team were just 5 points off the winners.
Sometimes in Year 2, we have whole class guided reading with all the children developing a particular reading skill. Today, we used indexes in non-fiction books to find information.
Ask your child the locations they were searching for in the atlases. These were places where pirates were found.
Use non-fiction books from home or the library to practise this skill.
The new school dinner menu, from our school meals provider, Catering Leeds, will be introduced in September and continues until February half term.
As well as on our website, the three week cyclical menu is also displayed on our dining room window for you to discuss with your child. Have a look for the weeks ahead to make your child aware of what the daily meals are. If you would like a printed copy, please ask at the office.
School meals continue to be free for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. If your child is in Key Stage 2, please check for eligibility for free school meals. (It’s important to check for eligibility for younger children, too, because school receives additional funding for each child who is eligible for a free meal, even when they’re free in Reception and Year 1 and Year 2!)
If your child would like to start having school dinners, please inform the office. A combination of packed lunches and school dinners is also available.
Children are consulted on school meals through our regular School Council meetings. Feedback may also be given by speaking to an adult in school or completing a suggestions/comments slip and posting it in their class SEAL box.
Thank you to parents who also raise questions and give feedback. We can then ensure this is passed on to the kitchen staff.
You may have heard about the requests from Year 2 to go to the Key Stage 2 tuck shop.
As part of our writing, the children wrote persuasive letters including many reasons why this should happen.
After considering their request, we decided the children had used enough persuasion skills to allow them to try it out for themselves.
Therefore, for the next two Tuesdays, Year 2 will be customers at the tuck shop to support their transition to Year 3.
Next year, in Year 3, children have the option to prepay for the weekly tuck shop (20p per portion) or pay on the day but no payment is needed for these two visits.
The children were excited to hear their persuasion had worked and are looking forward to choosing their healthy fruit snack.
Our final area of measurement learning in Year 2 is temperature. The children used thermometers, the correct units (degrees Celsius) and reading a scale as part of this learning.
Ask your child what they found out.
You may want to refer to temperature when checking the weather forecast.
For Drowning Prevention Week, Year 3 took part in a water safety session as part of their swimming curriculum. This included what to do to help themselves and others if they are in difficulty in the water.
As we end our mini topic on food, our homework this week is creative and is due in on Thursday 29 June.
I know the importance of eating the right amount of different types of food.
The Eat Well Guide (below) shows how much of what you eat overall should come from each food group to achieve a balanced diet. Copies were recently sent home and children should use this to support them with this homework.
Children might choose to do one of the following creative ideas:
…or any other creative ideas!
Following from our Staying Safe themed week and in association with National Drowning Prevention Week, West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (WYFRS) has released the following water safety advice.
As the Summer months are approaching and with more good weather on the way, young and old alike should be aware of the dangers of open water.
An open water source may look like a good way to cool down on a hot day, but every year, in the UK, around 400 people die from drowning as a result of an accident in or around water.
Nationally, the emergency services respond to over 100,000 water-related rescues, and flood events every year.
Reservoirs may look tempting to take a swim in but they can be killers and we’d like to raise awareness of these risks amongst young people. Cold water shock can lead to hyperventilation, increased blood pressure, breathing difficulties and heart attacks plus water temperatures remain just as cold in summer as in winter. Yorkshire Water have produced Cold Water Kills video to reinforce this message.
A summer safety message from the Royal National Life Saving Institute (RNLI), ‘Float to Live’, is a hard-hitting video, with advice on how to react should you become stricken in cold water.
Everyone who falls unexpectedly into cold water wants to follow the same instinct, to swim hard and to fight the cold water. But when people fight it, chances are, they lose. Cold water shock makes you gasp uncontrollably and breathe in water, which can quickly lead to drowning.
If you find yourself unexpectedly in the water, the message is to float until the cold water shock has passed and you will be able to control your breathing and have a far better chance of staying alive.
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The Swim England Diving National Age Group Championships 2017 are taking place at Ponds Forge, Sheffield on 06 – 09 July 2017. This is the largest national diving competition in England, with athletes battling for national honours across individual events on the 1m and 3m Springboards and the Platform, and as synchronised pairs from the 1m and 3m Springboard.
Tickets are available if you would like the opportunity to watch a National Diving Competition.
Maybe you might be inspired to give diving a go.