Y6 Residential
Having finally sieved through the many photos we took while on residential, it is finally time to share them with you!
Every single child was a credit to our school both when responding to RobinWood staff and when working with children from our federation schools, Scholes and St James. We had a great time and here are a few snippets and thoughts from the children.
Pippa: Climbing was really fun and the challenge at the end was exciting.
Elias: It was very funny when we were blindfolded because you didn’t know where to grab and you looked cringy.
Phoenix: Archery was really fun and we got to learn how to use a real bow and arrow.
Neive: The evening activities were very fun and helped us build our teamwork.
Harry: It was fun canoeing and taught us what to do if we went canoeing again.
Nishaan: The trapeze was really fun because it was like being in a circus and you could jump to the wire.
Zack: You had to put a lot of effort into completing the quests and some of the puzzles were extremely hard.
Edward: Night line was really cool because you had to use your senses to navigate around.
Aleena: It hilarious because the squirrels weed on you and tickled you.
Oliver: The canoeing football was really fun because it was funny when Elias dropped his oar in the water.
Stan: It was really funny raft building because when they put the raft on the water, ours was sinking slowly. When everyone got on, they all fell off!
Owen: The dancing challenge was fun and it was a good experience.
Brandon: It was extremely fun because it felt like you were jumping off a really high cliff.
Hibba: Caving was really fun because all the challenges we had to complete were confusing but exciting.
Pippa: The cup challenge was really fun because we got to 12 cups high and we banked it – it was frustrating when they knocked it over though.
Neive: I think piranha pool was fun because I like solving riddles and getting wet.
Aleena: It was very nerve wracking but exciting on the giant swing because when you chopped the banana, it was sudden but then it was fun.
Zack: I think crate challenge was good because it was cool to build a crate tower and not hurt yourself when it fell down.
Tomb Explorers
Today, the classroom was transformed into a classtomb.
Children needed to navigate the dark, twisted maze using arrows to find artefacts, read clues, discover treasure and escape to tell the tale.
Who were the Ancient Egyptians?
What do these artefacts tell us about how they lived?
These pictures, taken by the explorers themselves, will help us to build a picture of their lives.
Phonics
Thanks for attending our phonics mornings last week. We hope you found it useful.
Here is a list of the ‘tricky words’ your child should be able to read and begin to use in their writing.
the, I, to, no, go, into, he, she, me, we, be, my, you, are, all, said, was, they, her, have, like, so,do,some, come, were, there, little, one, when, out, what.
We hope you saw how confident and capable the children have become. Please help them to continue their writing journey by encouraging them to write at home and praise their efforts.
Train like a ninja
Change4Life and Star Wars have joined forces to help get more children active with an exciting new Train Like A Jedi programme. The video, featuring double Olympic gold taekwondo champion, Jade Jones, will demonstrate a series of 12 moves that will help children master the ways of the Jedi.
This resource is a great way for children to get active and to contribute to the recommended daily 60 minutes of physical activity (30 minutes during the school day). We can’t wait to try out this video as one of our daily brain breaks.
Why not have a go at home to try and master some of the Jedi moves?
Tennis for free
A community sports charity is offering free tennis coaching every Saturday at Cross Flats Park. These are fun sessions for all abilities.
Cycling events
Recently, some of our Key Stage 2 children enjoyed taking part in the Brownlee triathlon at John Smeaton Leisure Centre. It is always one of the most popular events on our competition calendar.
This weekend, it is the real thing and the World Triathlon Series returns to Leeds. Starting locally at Roundhay Park, this is a perfect chance to see the athletes as they head to the city centre.
There is also a Let’s Ride pop up ride at the Brownlee Centre on Sunday.
Whether you want to ride for fun or fitness, the free monthly pop-up events gives you the chance to ride a traffic-free cycle circuit as many times as you want, at a pace that suits you.
The event is open to all ages and abilities and the circuit is easy to ride, with volunteers on hand throughout, ensuring peace of mind and safety for all cyclists.
What time is it?
By the end of Year 4, children are expected to be able to;
read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12- and 24-hour clocks
solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days.
The class have been working hard to grasp the concept of time. To aid understanding, we have used lots of time related resources.
Children need hands on and visual hooks to understand new concepts in Maths. Resources play a very important role and provide the children a ‘window’ in, to make sense of the problem at hand by touching them, playing with them, exploring the patterns and relationships which can make a huge difference between understanding for depth or just for procedure.
“Playing a time game has helped me to understand how to convert to digital.”
Question your child about time.
How many days in a fortnight?
True or false? There are seven months in the year that have 31 days?
A school day lasts for 6 hours and 35 minutes. How long is this in just minutes?
What is the difference between am and pm?
How many years are there in 9 decades?
Hero Homeworks
We really enjoyed looking at and reading your homeworks about your heroes this week. They were fabulous.
As usual, here are a selection of favourites:
Are you a good friend?
It is important for the children to understand how we all have relationships with other people and how we need to have certain qualities, characteristics, attributes in order to maintain these relationships. The children need to understand that good relationships are so important to keep us happy and healthy. By understanding this they can begin to protect themselves when they recognise things going wrong
Today, we discussed a famous friendship that has spun over many years – Ant and Dec.
The children watched a clip about this well known duo that showed their very strong and positive relationship. We then thought about why their relationship is so good and what attributes to a quality friendship.
Having made a list of positive attributes, we then thought about whether we could identify some of these attributes in ourselves. We should be proud of these attributes and the effect they have on friendships.
Can we think of another attribute that we would like to develop?
Year 4 were very honest about which attributes they could recognise that needing some developing.
“I would like to be more patient.”
” My anger is something I need to improve!”
“Sometimes I can be bossy and my friends get frustrated with me.”
We went on a bear hunt!
We had a great time at Nell Bank yesterday. We retold the story, searched for mini beasts and went pond dipping. We ended the day getting very wet at the water park!
