Topic Review
To review the learning that we did in our recent big topic, ‘Time Travel’, we mixed up the classes. We mixed classes with Year 3 and talked with them about the great learning that was in our books and in theirs. We then fed back about pieces of learning that we particularly liked.
Mindful Writing
Check how peaceful our writing is. Children are describing their own lands – both weird and wonderful – that they have drawn earlier in the week.
I’m looking forward to reading them!
Great Assembly
Well done to all of Year 3 for a super assembly today. The children spoke clearly and with such confidence. We all enjoyed the ‘Guess Who‘ game too!
Thank you to all who came to watch the assembly. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!
Descriptive, Creative Writing
Some great examples of narrative writing typed up for Class News by Henka and Liam.
Dobby the Brave
by Henka
One miserable evening, the elves were gathered in the palace on top of the toadstool blundering about Fenris and what to do with the powerful, massive wolf. They figured that they needed a magical rope, forged by goblins, to tie Fenris up. A shrill voice broke the silence: “Let me go! I will get the rope and trap the mighty wolf!”. Dobby’s voice broke the sullen silence. Although Dobby barely had anything to help him except a hat, that allowed him to fly and a wrankin, a race of animals that have parts of different creatures – elephant, unicorn, snake, T-Rex, werewolf and sabre-toothed tiger. Although it is dangerous, it is quite gentle. Dobby ran out of the castle and set off to find the rope.
Dobby travelled far and wide looking for the golden rope. He passed valleys, crossed rivers and walked through deserts. When walking, he encountered villagers who pressed juicy plums and long baguettes into his cold and shaky hands. He ate these contentedly and carried on his journey. When they reached Neilfam, the home of frost giants and a really cold, windy and snowy place, was when Wig loses Dobby’s hat. He blew out his trunk which made the magical hat fly away and Dobby plummeted to the ground! Wig just managed to save his master but the hat was nowhere to be seen. Dobby sat and cried and cried and cried until he had no more tears to cry.
Crump and Wadela’s Adventure
by Liam
One freezing cold night, the fierce warriors met in their ruined house to make a plan to defeat the evil, ugly goblins. The warriors angrily and loudly discussed a plan.
In angry voices, the other warriors said Crump should go and get the diamond, shimmering crystal. Crump felt scared. But he wanted to see the crystal first, so he snatched Wadela’s hands and set off nervously. Crump walked through the gloomy, damp forest with his four-legged, horn-headed friend. For the next two days, they travelled across swing bridges, over steep mountains, shadowy lakes and icy rivers. As they travelled, people pressed smelly cheese, brown crusty bread and clear water into hands.
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.
What is air resistance?
Our new mini topic is Forces.
Rather than explain what air resistance is, we got the Year 6s to feel air resistance today. Running with a parachute tailing you is significantly more difficult that running without. It even adds seconds on to how long it takes you to run 100m!
Three children ran the same distance without anything attached to them:
We timed how long that took and recorded it.
Each person in the class had a different job and we all took our roles very seriously.
Then, we attached the parachute…
It reduced our running time by an average of 3 seconds!
We’re going to continue to investigate this over the next couple of weeks. This will make our data more reliable (and will mean we all get a go with the parachute).
We’re also going to use this information to investigate air resistance in relation to parachutes. We started this off with a simple experiment around a flat piece of paper and a balled up piece of paper and watching them fall. Try this at home and see whether you can complete the missing labels on the diagram below:
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.
Herd Farm
We had a great time on our school trip to Herd Farm. Year One were time travellers for the day. We travelled back in time to see how people in the Stone Age and Iron Age lived. We even got to build teepees just like people in the Stone Age. The children loved visiting the roundhouses in the Iron Age village and sitting peacefully around a fire sketching. A fantastic day! 
Time Travel Topic Review
Last week, Year 5 shared their topic learning with Year 2. We had half of their class visit us and bring their topic learning along with them.
It was great to hear about their learning and find out how Time Travel linked to houses.
“I learnt they learnt about a special tool that was used to squirt water onto the fire and the fire spread because the houses were too close together,” said Gurnoor.
“It was fun because I was learning something new from the Y2s,” said Darien.
We also enjoyed sharing our own learning about Time Travel – Inventions.
Eve said, “It was fun to see what the Year 2s had been learning about and discussing it.”
There was some fantastic discussion and it was clear that both classes had thoroughly enjoyed the last eight weeks of learning.
Zak said, “It was ok because it wasn’t too surprising because we learnt about houses in Year 2. My favourite thing was the Great Fire of London.”
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.