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.
The end of the road……
Our big topic ‘Time Travel’ has now come to an end. From Roman roads and chariots, to Japanese magnetic trains, Year 4 have enjoyed their journey through time. We have studied so many different forms of transportation and the purpose for which they were designed.
The Year 4s and the Year 6s spent part of Friday morning talking about the learning in their books. 
They then fed back about what each other had learned and particular pieces of learning that impressed them.
Finally, we would like to share some of our learning that has been put on display in the classroom.
Creative homeworks
Last week, the whole school had the same Creative homework.
‘I know how to STOP bullying.’
This homework was set in response to our learning last week during anti-bullying week. Throughout the week, each class had the chance to talk about what bullying is, what the different types of bullying are and how can we STOP it:
Start
Telling
Other
People
Our school definition of bullying is, as agreed by our School Councillors:
Bullying is when you hurt someone, physically or emotionally, several times on purpose.
We invited parents in to see how we celebrate and review our homework.
We began by looking around the room at each other’s work before sharing some that had stood out to us. There certainly was plenty of creativity on show.
It was impressive to see how many different ways the children thought of to get our message of STOP across.
Great Writing
We’ve been working on writing descriptively this half term and this week’s main aim was to get our readers feeling tense. Here are three great pieces of writing.
Lewis
I was having a calm, relaxing flight until a baby started to cry – classic. The scream engulfed my ears in noise. I didn’t think much of it for five minutes or so… Suddenly, my food started to shake vigorously – very vigorously. Then, the air-con slowed down and the seatbelt sign began to flicker. Then, uncharacteristically, the air stewards looked rather nervous. I started to panic as we had hit some turbulence. Were my eyes deceiving me? The TV stuttered and then went blank – my heart sank. Anxiously, I waited until large bang reverberated around the cabin. It was a suitcase falling out of the overhead lockers… I could feel the tension around me. The air masks dropped over my head as wisps of smoke filled the fuselage. The plane leaned to the right. We were going down.
Humairah
…
As I started to eat, the air-com – loud and noisy – began to slow down every minute until it finally turned off. I, and most people, thought it broke and ignored it. The lights began to flicker same as the seatbelt sign. Getting quicker every minute, the food and trays – loud and shaking – were moving side to side. The shake of the seats reverberated through my body. I still stayed calm. I decided to look through my window and I saw tiny cracks in the wings. Just then, my TV screen began to get fuzzy – probably a glitch – and then turn off completely. That happened to everybody else’s. Some people began to panic – but not me. Then, when I tried to relax and keep calm, the hum of the engine began to get louder and louder as if it were a swarm of bees collecting pollen from flowers in a meadow.
…
Grace
Beginning to doze off in the cool breeze of the air-con, I noticed the breeze slowed. This didn’t concern me. Until… it stopped. I tried everything: pressing the buttons, opening and closing the air-con flaps and trying to tell and air steward or stewardess. They wouldn’t listen. No matter how hard I tried, it didn’t work. So relaxing!
A short minute later, I heard a baby’s shriek from several seats behind me. It was reverberating around my head. I tried getting the thickest cushion I had. Reaching down to get my pillow, I noticed the food on my steel-grey tray was shaking. The crying had now suddenly stopped. I looked around the plane – new and comfortable – and noticed the window cover was shaking. I looked to see if anything else was shaking, It was – everything was shaking.
At home, have a look at this writing together. You could discuss:
- what they’ve done well
- what we were writing about
- how you feel as a reader
- what your child’s writing was like
Living and Learning: Take Over Day
Year 6 have enjoyed taking over today and I’ve enjoyed putting my feet up!
- Dylan started the day by welcoming the class from the playground and saying good morning as they came in the door.
- Sachpreet took the register and noted down everybody’s choices for lunch.
- Martha took charge of answering any phone calls to our building throughout the day.
- Isabella and Albert did a great job leading our topic review lesson with the Year 4s visiting.
- Ethan led our spelling test and Isaac gave us out times table test, coming up with questions (and answers) himself.
- Grace and Rohan joined Mrs Weekes on a learning walk of the school – which they really enjoyed.
- Josh kept a record of any warnings the class received through the day.
- Ben and Noorpreet were on duty at break, giving out cool class tokens for good choices.
- Isaiah and Sachpreet joined Mrs Small on the gate at the end of the day.
- Ripley and Nicky gave out Living and Learning certificates in assembly.
- Pia and Lewis gave out Learning certificates during assembly.
- Humairah and Haniah revealed who had won the cool class cup during assembly.
- Rohan chose the winners of our golden ticket prizes at the end of the day.
- Filip and Noorpreet gave out cool class tokens during assembly.
- Kai gave out homework and made sure everybody knew what they needed to do for it.
Everybody who wanted a job took over part of the day and enjoyed every minute of it.
Here’s our assembly take over
