West Yorkshire Cross Country Championship
This week, Grace, one of our Year 6 pupils, took part in the West Yorkshire Cross Country Championships, competing against pupils from Calderdale, Bradford, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield.
Grace qualified for the finals by coming 14th in the Leeds championships.
She faced the finest runners in the county and out of a field of nearly 150 runners, Grace came a fantastic 32nd place – the 12th Leeds finisher.
Well done to Grace on her great performance!
Skipping
With an upcoming skipping competition in a few months, Year 4 have been continuing practising for this event. Today, it was very evident, from the amount of progress, that lots of children have been skipping at home too – well done!
We science
Yesterday, we had a visitor who is studying medicine at Leeds University.
He came to teach us about the heart and circulatory system. We got to use stethoscopes! It was really cool!
However, they did garner some mixed results!
We carried out an experiment about what happens to your heart during exercise.
- “We measured before exercising for ten seconds, then we measured straight after and then a minute after.” – Felix
- “Your heart pumps faster when you exercise and then slows down.” – Liam
Lastly, we enjoyed a quiz to test how much we’d learnt!
Moortown play park consultation
- Would you like to find out more about the proposed play park on the land at the rear of school?
- Would you like to comment on the proposed play equipment suggested in the design?
- Maybe you’ve seen equipment in other parks that you’d like to recommend.
Helen Forman, a design officer from Leeds City Council, will be visiting school tomorrow to consult with our School Council. After that, all children will have chance to see the proposals in an assembly. Helen is keen to hear their views as the future users!
From 3pm, there will be chance for parents and carers to see and comment on the proposed designs.
We hope to see you there.
Living and Learning- body image
Body image is the focus of this half term’s Living and Learning lessons.
Today, we began our sessions by reading a newspaper report encouraging boys to talk about body image and the effect that it can have on thier mental health and well being.
There is growing evidence that boys do care deeply about how they look, and it can be something that makes them feel bad about themselves.
As a class, we discussed factors that may influence how a person feels about their body. Advertisements, media, wanting to ‘fit in’, peer pressure, inclusion and popularity were just some ideas we came up with.
The children were very mature throughout this lesson and asked some interesting questions.
We thought about the parts of our bodies that we couldn’t change and why some people feel they need to alter thier image.
University Student Visit
We had a visit from a student from Leeds University today. He was studying Biomedical Sciences and taught us all sorts about what keeps us alive and what keeps us healthy.
We took on the role of aliens (hence our headgear) and pretended we were studying this strange species from another planet: humans.
We investigated how much we breathe every minute and learnt about what breathing actually is and why we need to do it.
Our diaphragm moves up and down as we breathe in and out and Mr Cook gave us these mini models so that we could see what was happening inside us.
We created our own body system with half of us being oxygenated blood travelling to our organs and the other half carrying the deoxygenated blood back to the heart and the lungs. The deoxygenated team were much more efficient that the oxygenated team – particularly Dan and Matthew.
Fractions
As we come to the end of our unit on fractions, today we were learning about equivalent fractions.
We explored how two quarters and one half of the same whole are equivalent (the same).
This Super Movers routine is a great summary of our fractions learning. Also, check your child’s assigned tasks on Mathletics to follow up this learning at home.
Girls golf rocks
Girls Golf Rocks is a partnership project aimed at addressing the disparity between girls’ and boys’ participation in golf.
The county-wide recruitment drive targets girls aged 5-18 years of age, providing the opportunity for them to access free taster sessions, followed by a five week coaching, Par 3 event & a 7 iron golf club – all for £14.
There are eight centres across Yorkshire running the programme, delivering girls only sessions with an emphasis placed on fun, social and friendship aspects of golf rather than just the coaching and playing side of the game.
Measuring
This week in maths, we’re learning all about measuring. Yesterday, we had fun finding out if we were taller or shorter than some of our friends. We stood back-to-back with another person, making sure that we stood up straight. Then, we asked one of our friends to measure us. By the end of the lesson, we found out that Inam was taller than everyone in the whole class (apart from Mr Parker, of course).
Today, we compared the length of objects we use everyday in the classroom.
Our evidence board is taking shape…
