School Savings Club
The next School Savings Club paying in date is 09 December 2019 at 3.15-3.45pm.
The account is open to all children and it is free to set up. As there is not minimum deposit requirement, it is a great way for your child/children to begin to manage their own money and understand the importance of saving. We offer paying in sessions every half term where you can bring along any savings to be paid into your child’s account.
As an extra incentive, Year 3 pupils who open an account, or who currently have an account, will be credited with £10.
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.
Here are the remaining paying in dates for this year (the penultimate Monday of each half term).
- 03 February
- 23 March
- 11 May
- 06 July
To find out more about the accounts or if your child would like to open account, please enquire at the office.
Themed Week
Last week, during our ‘My Community’ themed week, the children had a very exciting visit from the local fire and rescue service. They chatted to us about their role in the community and then showed us around one of their fire engines.
This was followed by a visit from two local police community support officers.
Spelling Shed
Spelling Shed is a great interactive resource to use at home to reinforce learning in class. We have set up a new feature on Spelling Shed whereby your child will have their weekly spellings as a list to practise when they log on. We hope this will give children an alternative way to learn their weekly spelling words.
All children have received their Spelling Shed logins but if you have misplaced this information, please come and ask us. Login details can also be found inside your child’s reading record books.
Here’s a reminder about how Spelling Shed works.
The game is simple and gives four different degrees of support in the form of difficulty modes; easy, medium, hard and extreme. Higher levels allow a higher score to be achieved but children can practise as much as they like on lower levels before trying to gain high scores. The scores achieved give a league position and each class has its own league position within a school league and our world league.
Thank you for your support with this learning at home.
Living and Learning: Out in the community
As part of our My Community themed week, Year 2 enjoyed a trip to Donisthorpe Hall to their weekly residents’ concert to help us learn more about some of the people that make up our community.
It was an absolute delight to see the young and the old dancing together. Our residents had a really lovely afternoon. We would love any of the pupils to come back any time.
What a fantastic afternoon which the older residents at Donisthorpe clearly enjoyed. Their joy at seeing and meeting the year 2 children was lovely and the children fully engaged with them. The residents and children had a lovely time. Thank you for organising such a worthwhile community activity.
Gymnastics
On Friday, a group of children attended an event at Leeds Gymnastics Club. It was great to see the children trying out new skills and really enjoying themselves. Thank you to Mrs Bharath and the parents who helped out with this session.
Geography: Exploring OS Maps
As part of our geography learning, we explored the UK using OS maps today. OS stands for Ordnance Survey. The children were amazed at how detailed these maps are and we were particularly excited to find Loch Lomond, Scafell Pike and Snowdon on them as these are physical features of the UK that we’ve already learnt about.
Dig out any maps you’ve got at home and see what exploring you can do without eve leaving your house!
What is reflection?
In this week’s science, we have been learning how you can see objects round corners using mirrors!
We also discussed how the angle of the travelling light ray is the same as the angle of the reflected one.
Ask your child to define what reflection is using these words:
- travel
- direction
- light ray
- light source
- change
- mirror
Living & Learning – Community Week
Here’s Y6 showing off what makes them who they are!
And this second picture is definitely showing it, too!
Andy Goldsworthy inspired art
This week the children looked at the work of artist Andy Goldsworthy and were inspired to make their own environmental art.
Have look at our display of the children’s work next time you are in the classroom.
29 November 2019
This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect and is due on Thursday 5 December 2019.
Having learnt all about Scotland in our topic learning this week, the children have a text t0 read and answer questions. We’ll read it together and mark our work in our homework review on Thursday 5 Dec.