Class News

Super skippers

Today, the day had finally come. It was the event we had been building up to after all our skipping practising – the Year 2 Skipping Festival!

Jodi, Chris and Katie welcomed us and the other four schools to the event at Leeds Trinity University. First of all, there was a skipping warm up for everyone before the individual skippers did their events. The children were so encouraging and supportive to their class mates and every child tried their best and performed amazingly well.

Next, it was time for the group events. The children worked so well together in their teams and once again, we were so proud of what they have achieved. Even in the last few days, we have seen some of the children mastering these new skills.

Finally, it was time for the results. The tension was mounting.

We were so pleased to have received so many awards and to hear that we were the winning school made all the hard work and preparation worth while. What an achievement!

The children have been so resilient, determined and have definitely believed in themselves (even when it has been hard learning new skills) and we are very proud of them all.

Writing – generating ideas!

Today, Year 4 had a fantastic lesson generating ideas for their next spooky narrative! We worked in groups to get as many ideas down as possible so that tomorrow, we are ready to begin planning our individual stories.

The purpose of a narrative is to interest and entertain the reader by telling a story. Our narratives are going to jump straight into the action by beginning with dialogue. We’ve spent a long time perfecting writing direct speech so Year 4 are excited!

The scene will be set in a dark, forbidden forest during the night and either themselves and a friend or fictional characters will be trying to navigate their way through the forest safely… However, there might be some scary plot twists along the way.

Have a look at what we thought of!

Production – Porridge!

Hi everybody!

Please make sure you bring your costumes and props outlined in last week’s letter to school no later than Monday 26th June. If you don’t have any of the items listed for your role, please let an adult in Y5 or 6 know before this Friday.

Keep practising your lines at home and get into the character you are portraying!

Thanks everyone!

Living and learning: RSE

Last week in Living and Learning, Year 3 were learning all about pants from Pantosaurus!

While we had a lot of fun singing along, the lesson carried a very important message. We had a very mature conversation about how what is in our pants is private and what to do if someone makes us feel uncomfortable.

Help at home by reading the NSPCC guidance on how to speak to your child about pants.

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/support-for-parents/pants-underwear-rule/

Summer 2: Week 2

Literacy
To help get us thinking about the seaside, we read lots of seaside poems collected by Jill Bennett. For our writing activity, we wrote a sentence about things we might see or do at the seaside.
On Wednesday, we looked at some at a photograph of Scarborough and talked about the things we might see at the seaside that we don’t see in Leeds. We then thought about things they have in common.

You can’t see seaweed in Leeds.
You can’t see the sea in Leeds.
You can’t see a lighthouse in Leeds.
I can’t see a hermit crab in Leeds.
Leeds and the seaside have fish and chips.
You can see some beach huts at the seaside.
You can have ice cream in both places.
You can see hotels in Leeds and at the seaside.

Splish, splash, splosh!
We had lots of fun getting wet (and cooling down) in our very own paddling pool.
PE
This week, in Foot-Tech, we continued to play 4 corner tag. Each group were asked to set up their squares independently – I was so impressed with how well they did this! When playing the game, they were fantastic at negotiating space, changing direction and coming up with their own tactics to trick the tagger.

Jellyfish
One of the chilli challenges this week, was to make a jelly fish. Cutting the material for the tentacles was quite tricky.

Poetry picnic
This week, we’ve been learning the nursery rhyme The Big Ship Sails…

Check out their amazing singing!

Stay safe in the sun!
It looks like the glorious weather is here to stay for a little bit longer. Please continue to make sure you apply sun lotion to your child before school. This stops us from missing any learning time. Thank you to everyone that has done that this week.

Reminder
Don’t forget to attend the Reception to Y1 transition parent Zoom on Monday.

Living and learning: relationships

For the past fortnight we have been thinking about healthy and happy relationships in Living and Learning. We have discussed what makes a healthy relationship and how we can be good friends to each other.

In this week’s lesson we talked about caring for each other. We discussed different stages of life and who might need the most care. We thought babies, children and the elderly might need more care but we also discussed that people of different ages need different types of care. There are lots of ways we can show we care for someone. Here are some of the examples that the children came up with:

I care for my teachers by making good choices.

I care for my friends by looking after them when they are hurt.

I care for my friends by helping them.

I care for my family by helping at home.

We all thought of ways we could show that we care for people over the next week.

Help at home by talking to your children about how they can care for different members of your family or community.

English: our own Goldilocks story.

This week we have been learning and then changing the Goldilocks and the 3 bears story, inspired by Michael Rosen’s Goldilocks and the three crocodiles. We decided as a class we wanted to change the bears to penguins but this meant we had to change lots of other things too! The cottage became an igloo, the woods became Antartica, the porridge was fish, the chairs were ice cubes and the beds became water beds!

Once we had finished altering our story map, we took advantage of the glorious weather to practice retelling our story outside.

Our next job is to come up with our own animals and draw our own story map.

Help at home by practising their story at home.

Magnificent Maths!

We have started this half term learning about statistics and measures. Last week,  Year 2 learned how to recognise, create and interpret tally charts, block diagrams and pictograms.

For the next two weeks, we are learning how to measure mass and capacity. We will also be looking carefully at reading scales  in grams (g) , kilograms (kg) , millilitres (ml) and litres (l).

Help at home by looking at different scales. Can you weigh items and say how much the mass is in g or kg?

Drawing

This morning, we were very hot after doing LOTS of learning. Therefore, we decided to do a bit of mindfulness drawing to help cool us down. We had lots of fun using our imaginations to create purposeful drawings.
Click here to look at our wonderful drawings.

IMPORTANT REMINDER
Your child must bring a water bottle and named sun hat to school everyday. We will refill your child’s water bottle when needed.

New spelling list!

This half-term, instead of learning eight different words each week, we’d like you to learn these 40 words over the whole half-term. Lots of research suggests that learning more spellings over a longer time leads to better remembering how to spell them in the long term. 

How you decide to do this is up to you. You might decide to focus on the trickiest words first. Or, you might decide to learn 8 words a week and really focus on these whilst still practising the others, too. For some of you, you might already feel confident with some of the words so might choose to not practise these at all.

However you decide to do it, is up to you. The important thing is that you’re learning them and learning how you like to learn them best. 

Each week, we’ll choose eight random words to test you on. These tests aren’t pressured. They might just help you figure out which words you need to practise more. 

Learning spellings in this way might feel quite different – or even scary – but it shouldn’t. In fact, you’ve actually got less words to learn this half-term than you normally would. 

We’ll keep thinking about this in school and we’ll regularly talk about how we can best practise these words at home. 

If you need some ideas for practical things to do, check out the Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website.