Class News

Year 2 skipping festival

We’ve had confirmation of the date for our rearranged skipping festival, Friday 11 May, so there is plenty more practise time before the event.

The children all know now what they will be taking part in on the day. As well as their own event, there will also be whole class skipping to join in with alongside the other schools.

Bud to flower

Today, during our daily plant observations, we noticed that one of our amaryllis bulbs is beginning to open. The children made predictions as to what colour they think the flower will be.

• “I predict that it will be a purple flower,” commented Eve.
• “Explain why you think that Eve,” said Mrs Freeman.
• Eve replied, ” The bud looks quite dark. If you look very closely, just where the bud is beginning to open, there is some purple colouring.” 

Evie also noticed in her observation that the growth of the stem had slowed down considerably.

• “I think the plant has almost finished growing in height and is now putting all  nutrients and strength into helping it to flower.” 

Day 1                                                       33 days later

Celebrating success

In Year 4, there are lots of ways in which we celebrate success.

Success can be in any area of school life.

These rewards include individual golden tickets, certificates, prizes, stickers and postcards home. We also have whole class and table rewards. Look out for certificates this week and please celebrate your child’s achievements with them.

Yorkshire Wildlife Park

To support our Life Forces topic, Year 1 and 2 spent a great day in the sunshine at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. We were lucky enough to see many animals including lions, tigers, polar bears, giraffes, zebras, lemurs, giant otters, wallabies, baboons, meerkats and painted dogs. Our classroom session, all about food chains and diet, allowed children to consolidate their learning from the topic and show off some of their great knowledge.

All children demonstrated excellent behaviour throughout the visit – a credit to the school!

Here are some photos from the day.

Yorkshire Wildlife Park

To support our Life Forces big topic, Year 1 and 2 spent a great day in the sunshine at Yorkshire Wildlife Park.   We were lucky enough to see many animals including lions, tigers, polar bears, giraffes, zebras, lemurs, giant otters, wallabies, baboons, meerkats and painted dogs.  Our classroom session, all about food chains and diet, allowed the children to consolidate their learning from the topic and show off some of their great knowledge.

All the children demonstrated excellent behaviour throughout the visit – a credit to the school!

Here are some photos from the day.

Football Coaching

Our football coaching continues but I’ll pass straight on to the press officers to inform you of what we got up to.

Written by Hibba: In this session we started off in our groups practising dribbling, passing and tackling. Later in the session, we played 4 corners – the confident players playing each other and the less confident players playing each other. As always we had our rolls: Hibba was press officer; Aleena was the manager; Megan was the coach; and Edward was the kit manager and the physio.

Written by Isobel: In PE, we have continued playing football. Today we focused on tackling. Nico set up a drill which helped us with tackling, passing and dribbling – skills we learnt previously. At the end, we played four corners -with six corners. You number yourselves and if your number is called you go out and try to score in other team’s goals. If your goal is scored in you’re out. You win if you’re the last one left.

Written by Pippa: In P.E today, Year 6 continued their football skills. We learnt tackling and did a bit more on dribbling. Near the end of the lesson, everyone played a game of four (or six in our case) corners. In this game, we numbered ourselves one to five with one the least confident and five as the most. For our group, Archie was at five, Noah at four, Phoenix as three, Zack as two and Pippa (me) as one. Archie was the manager, Noah was physio, Phoenix was kit manager, Zack was coach and Pippa was press officer.

Written by Oliver: In football today we carried on our football skills ( tackling ). In training, my group played a tackling and interception game to help us . Then we moved on to four corners where you have to score in each other’s goal . Last person standing wins.

Written by Matteo: In Year 6, we continued our football skills and played a game called 4 corners. In 4 corners, you have to number yourself and the coach will call out a random number and they will try to score in everyone’s nets and the last person wins. 

Written by Pavan: Today in PE we continued our lesson about football and today we focused on tackling. Stanley, kit manager; Nishaan, coach; Grace, physio; Abdullah, manager; and Pavan, press officer. First, Grace lead a warm up to get our heart beating and to stretch our muscles. Then, it was followed by Nishaan, our coach and we started off by setting a drill which Stanley made for us . Abdullah was our manager and I definitely saw some good tackling skills from him.

Living and learning – body image

This afternoon, we continued to think about ‘Being Me’. In particular, we focussed on body image. After defining what body image is, we discussed how some people (according to some research as much as 50% of young people) have a negative view of their body image.

We learnt that this could be influenced by a range of external factors: the media, our friends, our family, our culture, our religion, our role models, advertisements, the TV and famous people. Then, we created a ‘diamond nine’ of how these things affect us.

Focusing on how the media may affect how we view ourselves, we watched this video and discussed the impact changing the way someone looks could have on others.

We then thought about someone who is special to us and wrote down all the things that make them special. We noticed that hardly any of them were related to the way they looked.

After this, we thought about what makes us special and celebrated how good it is to be us. Finally, we summarised our learning in one sentence:

• Albert: ‘It doesn’t matter what you look like – it matters about your actions.’
• Josh: ‘It’s good to be me.’
• Isaac: ‘It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, just be you!’
• Theo: ‘It doesn’t matter what you look like, we’re all the same.’
• Martha: ‘I’ve realised that it doesn’t matter what we look like. I don’t care what people think – THIS IS ME!’
• Sachpreet: ‘No matter who you are, just be yourself.’
• Grace: ‘I can be myself and I don’t care what other people think – it matters what I think!’
• Kai: ‘Don’t be afraid of who you are!’

How is our support helping?

As part of our on-going support for mountain gorillas, last week, Year 4 received the latest update from the WWF charity.

Year 4 are enjoying learning about these and other endangered animals. We have stories, leaflets, reports and lots of data in our reading area to further our knowledge of the amazing work done by the WWF.

“If we don’t look after these animals, then people in the future will never see them in real life!” commented Gurnoor.

Year 4 are learning lots of new vocabulary throughout of current topic of ‘Life Forces‘ and it has been great to hear them use these new words in their questions.

Here are some examples:

• extinct
• endangered
• habitat
• ecosystem
• vegetation
• environment
• life cycle
• nutrition
• predator/prey
• adaptations
• poaching
• conservation
• community
• threatened
• carnivore/herbivore
• reforestation
• vulnerable

…and many more new words.

Question your child about these words. Can they give you a definition? If not, can they find out how and where to get a definition from?

We constantly remind the children about using the internet for research safely.

Is all information online reliable?

Not all of the information you find on the internet is true because anybody can write anything they want to online.

Make sure you always compare the information you find online with other websites, books, or people who might know to make sure it is true. Use the 3 Website Rule.

Remember, when using the internet for research, use trusted child-friendly sites.

Stay safe online!

KS1 trip to Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Here are a few reminders about our trip on Monday.

• Children should come to school in their uniform
• Warm, waterproof clothes with a hat and gloves should be worn as it is an outdoor attraction
• Come in suitable footwear for walking
• A packed lunch, including a water bottle, should be brought in a bag/rucksack that the children can carry while we are there
• No money is needed
• Please arrive at school promptly as we will leaving at 9am

Have a look at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park website to find out some of the animals we will see.

It’s been perfect weather for some of the animals at the park this week.

Production

I’m sure you will agree – this week has been a fairly tricky one! It was great to see the majority of the children return to school today.

Over the next few weeks, Year 3 and 4 will be very busy rehearsing for their production. This takes place in the last week of term. We’d like all the children to learn their lines and the songs. Next week, your child will bring home a letter informing you of the costumes they will need for their part. Please don’t worry if you can’t provide some items. However, it would be much appreciated if you can search through your wardrobes and help us with this.

So far, the singing from both classes has been superb and we’re really looking forward to the children putting on a good show for us all to enjoy!

Many thanks.