£117.77 = lots of pennies!
Remember all the pennies collected by each class during the recent Money Matters themed week?
They were then used to create a penny trail in our playground.
After lots of counting (thank you to Mrs Russell), our total amount raised is £117.77.
Thank you for all your contributions. The total will now be split between our two school charities.
Abbey House Museum
What a great day we had yesterday! The weather was lovely enough to enjoy lunch and games outside, and we learnt so much about the past. I was very impressed with how enthusiastic the children were at discovering new things and of course their behaviour was fantastic. Here are a few pictures from our day.
We looked for pictures of Victorian people and dressed up as them!
Entry to Abbey House Museum is free and it is much bigger than it looks from the outside. With the holidays coming up, this could be a great day out to keep everybody occupied!
Wonder the world better
Our homework last week linked to a national competition to win a trip to the new Wonderlab at the Science Museum in London. There were lots of fantastic entries but we’ve whittled it down to one class winner which will be sent off to be judged.
Moses entered the winning piece but I’d like to give a special mention to Ebonnie who came in a close second!
Moses wonders…
I wonder what the world would be like without weather? Would it be hot or cold? Would the sun shine? How would we live? Would we need houses or shelters, would there still be nature without rain? Where would the water come from? Would life on earth exist without weather? We complain about the weather all the time but without it what earth look like? I think life would be less colourful, dull and boring, without the sunshine the sea would be grey like the sky above. What do you think the world would be like without weather?
Some brilliant thoughts that really got us thinking too. We’ve made it a more whole class entry as we then thought about what we wanted it to look like in order to catch the judges’ eyes. There were some lovely ideas but Isabelle’s, Jorja’s and Sarah’s had the edge.
Fingers crossed.
Abbey House Museum
We had a great day yesterday learning at Abbey House Museum. We also had time to wander around the abbey after we’d had lunch in the cloisters. Finally, we played some games before getting the bus home.
Digimap Steve Backshall competition
Thank you very much for your entries to the Steve Backshall competition.
Unfortunately, our entries were not chosen as winners. Copied below is their announcement of the winners:
Thank you so much for entering our Digimap for Schools Wildlife Maps competition to win a school visit from Steve Backshall. The standard of entries was amazing and has totally delighted us. The judging panel met at the Royal Geographical Society and whittled the entries down to a shortlist. Steve Backshall then selected the winner. The delay in responding to you all was caused by Steve’s busy filming schedule and I am sorry it’s taken so long to announce a winner.
It was a difficult task to judge from all of the excellent entries, and the team thoroughly enjoyed looking through the variety of wildlife photos and the questions relating to the photos. Finally, Mengham Junior School in Hayling Island was selected as the overall winner, and will soon have a visit from Steve Backshall. The wildlife presenter, naturalist and all-around adventurer will spend a morning with the school next week, taking the winning class on a nature walk and talking to the school.
There were also two runners-up, from St John’s Mead Church of England Primary School in Eastbourne and Kitebrook Preparatory School in Gloucestershire, who will receive signed books from Steve Backshall. More information about the winning entry is on our blog today https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2016/07/digimap-schools-competition-winner-announced/#more-21740
Thanks to Jack Elliott in Year 6 for letting me know about the competition and asking if we could enter. I know that some people had issues getting logged into the program and uploading your entry. I’m sorry about this. The password on the letter was correct and I’ve given feedback to Digimap.
Mindful morning
Year 2 finished the morning with a mindfulness finger sticks exercise which required a lot of concentration, trust and cooperation. Why not try some other mindfulness exercises.
Science with magnets!
Olympic themed menu
To celebrate the forthcoming Olympics, Catering Agency will be running a special themed menu for school dinners on Monday 18 July. Please contact the office if your child would like a school dinner on this day.
Swimming awards
Well done to our Year 3 class who are coming to the end of their swimming lessons as part of our PE curriculum.
It’s been great to see how the children have developed in skills and confidence over the year with an amazing 60% achieving 25m. This is the requirement for the end of Key Stage 2.
There will be plenty of awards to be given out following our final swim session next week.
Don’t forget Leeds Let’s Get Active offer free swimming sessions at local leisure centres to keep working on those swimming skills over the Summer holidays.
What healthy changes can you make?
As part of our SEAL theme of Changes, the SEAL statement next week is I can make a healthy change.
During the week, children will be encouraged to make a healthy change. This could be physically or emotionally and may include:
- being active after school rather than being on a computer
- having water with a packed lunch rather than a sugary drink
- having a water bottle at school
- taking part in a Sports Leader session at lunchtime
- bringing a piece of fruit for KS2 playtime and Year 3 swimming
- dealing with a problem in a positive way
- going to bed earlier
Here are some suggestions that have been made this week.
Another healthy change may be travelling to school in a sustainable way – walking, scooting and biking.
Each class will be recording their healthy changes with a reward for the class with the most changes. All journeys to and from school by foot, bike and scooter can also be counted.
At the end of the week, the whole school homework will be our annual pupil health questionnaire, this should be returned to your child’s class teacher by Wednesday 20 July.
Change4life, whose aim is ‘to motivate and support millions more people to make and sustain changes that will improve their health’, also provides lots of ideas.
We look forward to hearing all about your healthy changes.
