Junior snooker summer holiday club programme
Northern Snooker Centre will be running six sessions to introduce snooker and billiards to young people aged 10-16 this summer holiday, coordinated by a WPBSA World Snooker Coach.
These fun and engaging group sessions are aimed at new players, as part of a new national programme funded by Sport England. Each session costs only £1 to attend.
The club is a member of the national club scheme, which means it meets the governing body standards of safeguarding and equality, as well as adopting a Code of Conduct to ensure the right setup for juniors, overseen
by a Club Welfare Officer.
This is a fantastic opportunity to try an inclusive sport in an exciting and dynamic environment.
Great fun bowling
Last night, Year 6 had a lovely time bowling. Thank you for dropping them off and picking them up promptly!
Enterprising times
This week, as you may have noticed, Year 6 have been out in the playground after school raising money for the school charity and to contribute towards their leavers’ hoodies.
They’ve thoroughly enjoyed coming up with stalls to run and have had a great time working with customers. Our last day is today so come along and try out a stall you haven’t had a go at yet or just treat yourself to another ice cream!
Living and Learning: Physical Health
As well as our current learning about healthy food, we have been thinking about other aspects of health including physical health.
The Government Childhood Obesity Plan has set out the ambition for all children to achieve 60 minutes of physical activity every day – 30 active minutes in school and 30 active minutes out of school.
We considered different ways to achieve these recommendations.
Outside of school
- Walk/bike/scoot/park and stride to school
- after school clubs
- other sports clubs
- parkrun
- swimming lessons
- walking a pet
- playing in a park
- playing out/in the garden
- jumping on a trampoline
- skipping
- going for a walk
At school
- being active at playtime and lunchtime
- skipping
- playing in the MUGA
- Wake up Shake up
- Super Movers, GoNoodle, imoves active breaks in class
- using the climbing wall
- using the front playground
Picnic in the park
Well done to all the children today for designing and preparing all the parts of their picnic.
We’ve used lots of food preparation skills over the last two days and it was great to enjoy our trip to the park as the finale to our food topic.
‘The food was delicious.’
‘I enjoyed the cooking but some of it was tricky. It is hard to cut pieces the same size.’
‘The cooking was great fun.’
‘We got to play on the money bars, swings and skip.’
This learning has helped the children to understand what is needed for a healthy packed lunch based on the Eat Well Guide. We also have our Packed Lunch Guidance in case some of the children move to packed lunches in Year 3.
Hopefully you might get chance to enjoy another picnic in the park over the summer holidays (and get someone to make it for you!).
Reflecting on our maths learning!
This week, part of the learning in year five has seen a triple-pronged attack!
Children used their computing skills to create a PowerPoint with a partner about their maths learning across the year. This thirdly tied in with our Living and Learning statement this week which is I can reflect and look ahead.
Their presentations and discussions that followed evaluated what was learnt but also how it went, what they liked and where they made the most progress.
“I made the most progress in rounding decimals to one decimal place,” said Sam.
Rabiya said, “I improved my knowledge of improper fractions and mixed numbers the most.”
Picnic preparation
Today, we started to get ready for our end of year picnic in the park by making our fruit bars.
First of all, we got ready for cooking by making sure long hair was tied back, removing any watches, cleaning the surfaces, rolling up our sleeves, putting on our aprons and washing our hands.
Here are some of the skills we used.
Mashing
Snipping
Measuring
Mixing
Finally, there was no shortage of offers to help with the washing up! We’re looking forward to getting back in the kitchen tomorrow.
Testing out the fruit tuck shop
Recently, Year 2 wrote some persuasive letters to see if they could try out tuck shop before they move to Year 3. In Key Stage 2, children have the opportunity to visit the weekly tuck shop during Tuesday playtime.
We were very impressed by their persuasion and today they got to test it out for themselves. The children enjoyed the selection of fruits available and we hope they will become customers at the tuck shop in Year 3. Details of the tuck shop will be sent out when we return to school in September.
Pizza, picnic and park
Yesterday morning, the children made their own pitta bread pizzas and fruit salads for a picnic in the park.
Following a reminder of the safety rules when cooking, the class got to work on their own recipes. It was great to see both ‘the bridge and the claw‘ methods being used correctly.
The afternoon was spent playing games and enjoying the picnic in the local park.
Love of Reading
We love reading in Year Six and Year Three. Today we had a shared Love of Reading session outside in the sunshine. Here are some pictures.
