Cross country stars
What a great few days of cross country action! On Friday, twenty four Key Stage 2 children took part in the North East School Games Cross Country festival. It was great to be back competing after such a long break.
All the children put in 100% effort and we had some fantastic results which will hopefully mean a number of children will qualify for the Leeds finals once we hear the final results.
Thank you to parents who helped to accompany the children, to Allerton Grange for transporting us and lastly to all the children who competed so well and supported and encouraged each other.
I really enjoyed it.
I just enjoy running.
It was my first time but I just kept going.
It was tough but once I’d done it I felt like I’d achieved something.
It was really fun. It didn’t really matter where you came. You just tried your best.
On Saturday, a number of children took part in the Leeds Schools Athletics Association cross country race at Prince Henry’s, Otley. Well done to all children who took part and represented to school. Once again, it was great to hear about the team spirit and support for each other.
Living and Learning: Anti-Bullying Week
We are all the same and we are all different.
Last week in our living and learning session, we spoke about what bullying is and what we can do to prevent or stop it happening.
“Bullying is when you hurt someone physically or emotionally several times on purpose.”
Year 5 were fantastic at explaining what to do if they encountered bullying or saw it happening to someone else.
We use the following acronyms to remember what bullying means and what to do if we know bullying is happening:
S – several
T – times
O – on
P – purpose
S – start
T – telling
O – other
P – people
Remember, if bullying is happening to us, someone we know, or if we have seen or heard it happening to anyone, we must tell a teacher or a trusted adult.
It’s magic!
This week we start our mini-topic-‘It’s magic’.
Our roleplay area has been transformed into a witch’s kitchen based on the fantastic book, ‘What’s in the witch’s kitchen’ by Nick Sharratt.
The children will be scientists this week making their own potions and observing what happens when different ingredients are mixed together.
Phonics
We have finished the first sets of letters and will be recapping them this week. Please continue to practise blending and segmenting words at home and learning the tricky words to, the, I, no, go, into. When we teach these words, we look at which part of the word is ‘tricky’. The children can still use their phonic knowledge to decode them.
Maths
We are continuing to investigate the number 5 and learning which numbers can be used to make 5.
We will also be investigating capacity and building on children’s understanding of full, empty, half full, nearly full and nearly empty.
They will make direct comparisons by pouring from one container to another and indirect comparisons by counting how many pots it takes to fill each container.
Expressive arts and design
Last week the children looked at ‘The Starry Night’ by Vincent Van Gogh and produced their own version using a printing technique.
Don’t forget our drop-in session on Wednesday.
We look forward to seeing you all.
Printing!
This week in Art we produced some wonderful prints, inspired by Paul Klee as well as our trip to Leeds Art Gallery. We designed our patterns and then drawn them carefully on polystyrene tablets. Next we had to roll out some printing ink so it was very thin before we rolled it on to our polystyrene design. The final stage was to firmly press our design onto the white paper and gently lift it off! It was brilliant to watch the ‘wow’ moment when the printed pattern was revealed! We can’t wait to do more printing next week!
Living and Learning: Anti-bullying week
In this week’s living and learning session, we spoke about what bullying is and what we can do to prevent or stop it happening.
“Bullying is when you hurt someone physically or emotionally several times on purpose.”
We use the following acronyms to remember what bullying means and what to do if we know bullying is happening:
S – several
T – times
O – on
P – purpose
S – start
T – telling
O – other
P – people
If bullying is happening to us, someone we know, or if we have seen or heard it happening to anyone, we must tell a teacher or a trusted adult.
Ask your child at home to tell what you what they should do if they are aware of any bullying!
Exploring the colour wheel
In this week’s art lesson, we explored the colour wheel.
We were confidently able to identify the three primary colours and the three secondary colours they make when mixed together!
Primary colours: red, yellow and blue
secondary colours:
red+blue=purple
red+yellow=orange
blue+yellow=green
Quiz your child at home to see if they can remember our learning!
Skipping School
Hello everyone,
Year 4 had a fantastic morning with Skipping School leader’s – Jodi and Katie. They took the children through each step such as how to hold your skipping rope in a smile shape and when to jump after the rope clicks the floor. They then built up to doing complicated straddle jumps and crossing the skipping ropes! The children were great and picked up each skill with ease while working together and encouraging one another.
Year 4 will be participating in the Skipping School Competition after Easter which is all about getting moving and having fun while doing so! We will be practicing the skipping skills we learnt today, up until that point.
Help at home by getting the children skipping.
Living and Learning: Anti-bullying week
We have continued to have an anti-bullying theme to our learning this week.
One Kind Word has been this years’ key message and we created our own kindness wall to spread this message.
Our fluency text this week, which we read daily, is based on our child friendly anti-bullying policy. As part of these sessions, we discuss the vocabulary used in the text. We often use word hippo to check any definitions or to find synonyms for words to help us to understand their meaning.
Another reading activity involved understanding word definitions where the children had to sort the words into bullying and anti-bullying words.
This reading activity is called a RIC where the children answer questions about the text – some answers may be in the text (retrieval questions), others may need some more thought and interpretation.
Alongside discussing what bullying is, we considered how someone might feel if they were being bullied and how it would affect their mental health. The children generated a great list of emotions when thinking about this.
Finally, we reinforced the importance of the STOP message in our school.
STOP stands for two things:
- the definition of bullying: Several Times On Purpose
- the solution for bullying: Start Telling Other People
Well done Year 2 – you have showed great understanding around the subject of bullying.
Living and Learning: Odd socks day
It was great to see so many odd socks today – thank you for supporting this start to anti-bullying week.
Odd socks day is a great way to celebrate what makes us all unique! Odd Socks Day is held in partnership with Andy and the Odd Socks. Have a listen to their song for this year.
The theme for this year’s anti-bullying week is One Kind Word. One kind word can lead to another and today we sent a wave of kindness through the class by giving compliments to each other. We saw how kindness fuels kindness. We also made some kindness pledges.
Look back tomorrow for more learning about how to STOP bullying.
Living and Learning: Anti-Bullying Week
If you do just one thing today, choose “one kind word”. What could you say?
Today, Y6 wore odd socks!
“It’s to show we’re all the same because we all wear socks but we’re all different because they all have different patterns!” said Sasha.
“People have different personalities and like different things. Some people may wear a plain grey or black while some may wear crazy rainbow coloured ice cream ones!” explained Edris.
“But no matter what, people should be treated fairly and respectfully,” Hashim stated.
Here are our odd socks!
We also read about the character of our class novel, Stanley Yelnats, who was having trouble with a bully. We wrote letters to encourage him to seek help.
We also reminded ourselves of our bullying definition of STOP: someone is hurting you physically or emotionally, including online, several times on purpose.
This means you need to Start Telling Other People!
Challenge your child to show you the hand signals for the child line phone number! (08001111)