Just one week until Big Pedal starts
It’s just one week to the return of the Big Pedal.
We’re looking forward to taking part in Sustrans Big Pedal 2019, the UK’s largest inter-school cycling and scooting challenge, that inspires pupils, staff and parents to choose two (or three) wheels for their journey to school. We would love everyone to be involved.
For the first time, walking (and park and stride) will be counted alongside cycling and scooting. This year’s Big Pedal will run for five days, from 25th March to 29th March.
On each day, schools compete to see who can get as many of their pupils, staff and parents cycling or scooting to school then our results will determine our final position in the national league table.
To help parents prepare, Sustrans has developed a handy free guide packed with advice, games and challenges to help with having a hassle-free cycle, walk or scoot to school.
Rewind…
… to Easter!
Yesterday, Y5 walked to Moortown Baptist Church to learnt all about this Christian celebration. Challenge your child to explain what eggs symbolise for Christians?
We did some group activities…
… and also watched some short clips and a play!
We even got to design a plant pots to house our very own flowers!
We had a great morning learning about a (potentially) different religion and faith to our own.
Orienteering Competition
Yesterday, this heroic bunch of eight Y4 and Y5 pupils took part in an orienteering competition held at Wetherby High School.
Look at that for speed!
It was the Year 4’s turn first! They worked in pairs (one dibber and one map reader) to navigate the course. Despite the blustery conditions, both pairs showed true grit and determination. They finished the race in a brilliant 25 minutes.
Next up was the Y5 race.
Just like the Y4s, they never gave up and worked incredibly well as a team. Their time was a fantastic 18 minutes.
Well done to everyone who took part and I’d like to say a big thank you to the parents that came to support!
Help! We need your junk!
Mrs Bharath is Junk Modelling on Hobby Half Day this Friday.
If you have any clean empty boxes, tubes, cartons, plastic bottles lying around at home please drop them in at the Year 1 classroom by Thursday.
Thank you!
Cycling opportunities
Here are details of local cycling events due to be held in the Easter holiday.
Beginners Learn to Ride Sessions (FREE)
For non-riders aged 5 years and above
Tuesday 2nd April, Thursday 4th April and Tuesday 9th April – limited availability
At Carr Manor Community School (Secondary Phase)
Times: 9:30am, 10:45am, 12:30pm and 13:45pm (Tues 2nd only)
Improvers Cycling Session (FREE)
For ‘new’ riders aged 5 years and above
Thursday 4th April
At Carr Manor Community School (Secondary Phase)
Time: 13:45pm
The Brownlee Centre will also be hosting a pop up school holiday ride.
Living and Learning: I can say something good about myself.
Recently, in one of our Living and Learning sessions, we discussed the importance of having a positive self imagine. The children loved this! It gave them a chance to write about the things they liked about themselves and the things that they are good at.
Take a look at a few examples of Year One saying something good about themselves and have the same discussion with your child.
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Living and Learning: Body image and compliments
Using two volunteers, we began our lesson with a question:
Who looks the best?
This question initiated a class debate.
- ‘They both look good.’
- ‘They have different qualities.’
- ‘It doesn’t matter what they look like.’
- ‘It’s what’s inside that is more important.’
- ‘Each person is unique.’
Since body image can be linked to a person’s self-esteem, teaching children to love their body is crucial to promoting a happy and positive attitude towards life. Body image describes our idea of how our body looks and how we think it is perceived by others. This can include our thoughts and feelings about our height, weight, shape, skin, colour, and our appearance and attractiveness.
- ‘Body image is how people see you.’ – Sakina
- ‘Body image means that we are all different.’ – Priya
- ‘People comment on clothes and skin colours.’ – Emma
- ‘I think body image is the shape or form of your body.’ – Harris
The class discussed that body image often focuses on the external aspect, specifically the way we look.
Following this, the children were asked to focus on their own talents. Every one of us has a gift or passion for something. Recognising and enhancing that passion or talent is important.
This led us to thinking about how it feels to receive a compliment. The children offered positive remarks to each other. We then discussed how it felt to hear these.
In our classroom, we have some compliment slips and it’s great to see the children using them.
Orienteering
Healthy, energetic, fun, challenging, active, entertaining and satisfying are just a few of the words Year 4 used to describe their orienteering experie
nce this week.
It was great to work in the new park which is right next to our school. The children were given several different maps and had to use these to navigate around the site.
When we got back to school, the class nominated members of their teams for golden tickets.
‘I’d like to nominate…
- …Jemima because she supported another member of her team.’
- …Sami, for keeping going.’
- …Isabella for resilience.’
- …Kashif, because he was a strong team member.’
- …Leo, because of his communication skills.’
- …Felix, Because he offered to be my partner.’
- …Emma, for being so enthusiastic.’
- …Liam for non stop running.’
- …Albie for great problem solving.’
- …Musa, for pure determination.’
- …the whole class for giving it their all and working well together.’
Orienteering
Stamina
- “You had to keep on running and keep up with your partner,” said Zidaan.
- Henry said, “I’m tired because most of the time I was sprinting!”
Resilience
- “I didn’t give up,” said Gurnoor.
Teamwork
- Rabiya said: “Me and Eliza were showing each other where the points and flags were.”
- “The person who was the best at reading maps read the maps and the person who was good at running went to put the dibber in the hole,” said Eleni.
- “Kirsten and I swapped over every time we went to a station so it was fair. We were both good at map reading and running,” said Poppy.
Map reading
- Ben said, “There was a direction pointing North so you knew where you were going. If you were at the starting point and no.1 was down by the bin, you knew were to go because there was the North direction point.”
- “On the symbols, you might not have worked them out without the key at the bottom, like a green circle was a tree so the key was very helpful,” said Eve.
Remembering
- Zak said, “You were running around and you went past a few stations that you didn’t need yet so you could remember what their number was so if you got a new map, you could come back and get it.”
Overall
- “I thought it was really fun because it gave us a chance to go outside and play with our friends at the same time as orienteering and having fun,” said Evie.
Living and Learning: Hate Crime
Year 6 were a very respectful, reflective group during our visit from ‘Real Friends’ today who performed some interactive drama all about Hate Crime. The group was made up of adults who had experienced hate crime themselves at some point in life. A hate crime is when a person commits a crime that is motivated by prejudice.
We heard Olivia’s story and suggested ways that issues around what she’d experienced in her life could be dealt with if we saw something similar. Olivia has autism and she’d been bullied throughout her school career and into her adult life.
After the drama, we worked with the group to create freeze frames which displayed our emotions clearly. Can you guess what situations the different groups were asked to re-create.
All of Year 6 really enjoyed the workshop and had some brilliant comments about what they’d learnt, the message it was sending and how powerful an experience it had been.