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!
Yeadon Tarn
On Wedensday, Year 6 went to Yeadon Tarn as part of the learning we’re doing on Kensuke’s Kingdom, a novel by Michael Morpurgo.
Michael, the main character, has set off on a voyage around the world with his mum and dad so we went our own voyage around the tarn (not quite the world).
When we weren’t sailing, we wrote shape poems about the water and created iMovies, imagining that we were Michael having been stranded on an island on his travels.
It was a really good day which resulted in a class of sailing fans by the end of it and a better understanding of lots of the vocabulary used in our class novel.
New Class Novel…Kensuke’s Kingdom
Today, we started our new class novel ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom‘ by Michael Morpurgo. We’ve each got a copy so we can read along in class. We’ll be linking some of our other learning to the book and our trip to Yeadon Tarn will all be based around Michael’s trip.
Ear defenders and popcorn?
To finish off our topic on sound, the children were set a task to design and make some ear defenders. The main objective was to find out which materials were the best to use to muffle or reduce sound.
The children looked closely at the resources available and then made predictions. They had to think carefully about making their tests fair.
- “I think that cotton wool will be best because you can pack it into all the space.”
- “The ear defenders need to fit securely to your head otherwise sound can still travel through to your ears.”
Time to get going ….
Time to test the ear defenders…
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What a laugh we had! Ask your child to find out what happened.
Cooking with sound?
Year 4 staff and children thought about what ingredients, whilst cooking, would create sound. We came up with popcorn.
Honey and popcorn flapjacks
The children had to listen carefully to the sound of the popping corn and describe it. We all had great fun and the noisy flapjack tasted delicious!
- “I’ve had the best lesson ever.”
- “I understand how sound travels now.”
- “This learning has been great fun!”
Well done to all the children and many thanks to Mrs Pearson and Mrs Charlesworth for all their hard work. It has been a fun, and sometimes noisy, mini topic. We all now need some peace and quiet so enjoy the half term break.
Walk to school prize draw
Well done to all pupils who have encouraged their families to walk to school this week or if you had to come by car, you have parked further away to park and stride. We hope you have enjoyed the benefits of this active travel.
Once our Living Streets travel tracker data is available after the half term, we will have the prize draw for all children who have walked/used park and stride this week.
Hope you get some chance this half term to continue to enjoy lots of physical activity – maybe a local walk, a parkrun, a bike ride or a swim.
Homework
I am aware of my route to school.
This week, the children were asked to explore their local area on foot.
We had some super pieces of work from filming a route to school using a camera attached to a dog’s collar to an ‘order my journey’ activity.
The children had spotted points of interest – houses, buildings, gardens, street furniture, historical landmarks, street names and local amenities, favourite shops, doctors and cafes.
We discussed points of improvement and spotted things that made our walk unpleasant. This included obstacles on the routes (pavements blocked with cars & bins), litter (where are the bins and whether littering is a problem) and difficult road crossings.
We will be adding all this information to a class map.
