Super Science Day Talk Time
We don’t normally set specific homework tasks in the holidays, but we encourage you to spend some time discussing the nine science activities your child will have taken part in, especially considering what they have learnt. The learning objectives were:
- I know that dyes are made up of other colours
- I know why objects float
- I can create a gas with a solid and a liquid
- I know that static electricity creates a charge
- I know about irreversible changes
- I know the effects of a chemical reaction
- I know what exercise does to my body
- I am aware of acids and alkalis
- I know what happens when you mix water with oil
Check out the pictures from the day to help jog your child’s memory of each activity… Can they match the learning objective to the photo?
More Super Science Day
Is it magic? No! We learnt that opposite charges attract so the balloon’s negative charge is attracted to positive charges on clothes, hair and walls. This is what makes them stick to each other.
Super Science Day
We used static electricity to make the can roll without touching it!
The end of another busy term!
We’ve reached the end of another busy term in Reception. The time has flown!
Here are just some of the ways the children continue to impress us:
- Manpreet, Sachpreet and Noorpreet have been busy practising their letter formation and form all letters beautifully.
- Ismail, Albert, Theo, Josh and Ethan are making great progress with their independent writing.
- Isaiah has become the ‘King of Challenges’, by being so busy with his learning and engaging in every activity on offer.
- Dylan is well on his way to becoming an author! He writes stories every day.
- Ripley, Alex, Martha and Mia are becoming great mathematicians and love to challenge themselves in this area.
- Isaac and Thomas are fantastic readers and if you want to know about ‘split digraphs’, ‘Shy i and Tuffy y’ they are the people to ask.
- Lewis continues to impress us with his creativity and has given us lots of ideas.
- Gabby, Ishaan and Nicky have impressed us by the way they keep trying even when they find things hard.
- Humairah and Ben are consistently helpful and polite.
- Lori and Karam have tried really hard this term with their phonics and writing.
- Kai and Farai are the ‘kings’ of model building and storytelling with their models.
- Filip has become a confident talker and shown great knowledge and interest in our topic on minibeasts.
- Grace, Pia and Phoebe have made great progress in all their learning and become confident members of the class.
Have a great break and see you next term!
Remarkable recounts
To bring our recount writing to a close, I thought I would upload some amusing recounts performed by the children. The children have demonstrated some really fantastic ICT skills.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOjUIVUkVbA&feature=youtu.be
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac6X5P_9IhI&feature=youtu.be
Can you tell which words would be in brackets in this recount?
Science day warm-up
Getting the balance right – What should we eat to stay healthy? and Cough, sneeze, sniff and wheeze – How do we breathe? were two interactive sessions led by Leeds University students to Key Stage 2 classes this afternoon.
As part of the science in school initiative, two students delivered a variety of interactive activities and informative learning.
Year 3 and 4 focussed on What should we eat to stay healthy?
This session covered the important components of our diets – the major components which provide us with energy, and the building blocks that we need for growth and to maintain a healthy body, and the minor components – the vitamins and minerals.
Year 5 and 6 investigated How do we breathe?
- What causes us to breathe?
- How the lungs function under normal circumstances and after exercise
- The danger to the lungs of smoking or passive smoking
All in preparation for a packed science themed-day tomorrow!
Science afternoon
Miss Drake from Leeds University came into school today to speak to us about how we can be healthier. We learnt about how much energy we need, what types of food we should eat and what types of exercise we should do.
Great team effort
Well done to the members of Year 6 who took part in the netball competition tonight at Allerton Grange.
With matches against local primary schools, the team put in 100% effort and enthusiasm. As the competition progressed the children showed some excellent attacking and defending skills with lots of encouragement as a team. Well done!
There are some local weekly netball sessions at Scott Hall Leisure Centre, Wednesday 5pm-6pm, for those who would like to play netball more regularly. Please ring 0113 378 1285 to book.
Magnificent Monet
Year Six have used Monet as a stimulus for some artwork to convey the mood calm.
They looked at Monet’s style of painting in dabs and slabs with flat ended brushes and tried this technique to produce their own calm Monet-style artwork.
Jumping into art
Jumping into Art was exactly what Years 1 and 2 did today. Splats came in today to help us with some drama based on ‘Katie’s Picture Show‘ by James Mayhew. We explored five different pieces of art by pretending we were actually in the painting – we thought about how it would feel to be involved in the scene. The whole day was spent making props and learning different parts resulting in a short performance for an audience. This will be followed up in class with some descriptive writing, recounting our day. Aaron from Splats said that this was the first school where he had time to rehearse the performance because the children were so responsive and well behaved: “An excellent school and excellent children”.
