We are Geographers
This half term our topic is Geography. We are learning all about the 7 continents and the 5 oceans. The children have been learning these songs to help them remember and they love them.
Continents song click here. Oceans song click here.
We will be going on to learn about hot and cold areas in the world and then focussing on Kenya. We will compare the physical and human geography ofNairobi and Kenya to Leeds and the UK. We will use all our knowledge and everything we have learnt to write a report at the end of the term.
Here is the vocabulary we will be learning.
Help at home by listening to the songs and talking through the vocabulary so your child knows what we will be learning. You can also talk about countries you may have visited and find them on a map.
Living and Learning: Solving problems
This term in Living and Learning we have been focussed on mental wellbeing. We have discussed different emotions and how they make us feel and act. We have also talked about friends and family as well as being positive with ourselves and others.
One lesson we particularly enjoyed was all about solving problems. First we watched a video where some animals were not showing good teamwork whilst crossing a bridge. Then, we came up with our own ideas for what you have to do to work well in a team.
After that, we put our learning into practice. We created our own narrow bridge outside and two teams had to cross it at the same time. The children were very inventive with their ideas and learnt that they had to listen and talk in order to solve the problem. Well done Year 1!
Help at home by talking to your child about how they can work as a team to solve problems.
We are authors!
Year 1 have been working really hard on writing a story inspired by the book ‘We’re going to find a monster!’ by Malorie Blackman. They came up with their own places to visits and decided what creatures they would find when they got there. Everyone in Year 1 has been really impressed with the language, effort and concentration the children have shown!
Today we got the chance to publish our work in our very own book! We wrote a title and a blurb as well as drew the pictures. Everybody was really focussed and produced some brilliant work.
Help at home by getting your child to share their book with you! Maybe they could even write a sequel!
Big Walk and Wheel final position
After the two week Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge, we now have the final results.
In our category of small primary schools, we finished in 20th place out of 459 schools with an average of 89.81% active journeys to school. We achieved the highest national (20th) and Northern England (3rd) ranking out of those schools in Leeds taking part.
With a total of 1655 active journeys across the two weeks, this is a great achievement and we want to thank families for supporting this challenge.
Help at home: By walking, cycling and scooting to school, you are helping us make a positive change to the school run. With less cars close to the school gates, this is a safer and healthier way to start the day.
We are game designers!
We have had a tremendous week in Year 1! On Tuesday we became game designers! We used post-it notes to create obstacles and a finishing point before we placed them on our game grid. After we had explained the game to the rest of our team they had to play it using the Beebot. One person was the writer (they had to write down the algorithm) and the other was the programmer (they had to input the algorithm into the Beebot). We all had a turn at the different roles. It was brilliant fun.
Help at home by talking to your child about their game and how they used the Beebot to play it.
Thanks as well for all the kind words and support over the past week. It has meant a lot to all the staff in school.
Big walk and wheel update
We’ve had a great start to the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge this week.
After the first five days, we are currently in 19th place (out of 549 schools) in the small primary category with an average of 84.76% of our journeys to school being active. This is a great achievement and we want to thank families for supporting this challenge.
To keep up with the leader board for the rest of the challenge, it can be viewed here.
The Big Walk and Wheel challenge continues until Friday 22nd March so we look forward to seeing our progress over the upcoming week.
Help at home: By walking, cycling and scooting to school, you are helping us make a positive change to the school run. With less cars close to the school gates, this is a safer and healthier way to start the day.
DT food technology – fruit salad
Yesterday, we had our spring term DT food technology session. We made a fruit salad and we had a brilliant time. We had to use lots of different skills including, measuring, claw grip, bridge hold, mixing and peeling. The children listened really carefully and made sure they kept safe during the cooking.
We washed our hands to make sure we didn’t spread germs.
We used the claw grip when we were cutting.
We made sure the knife was pointing away from us.
We listened to the adults carefully and followed their instructions.
We used lots and lots of different types of fruit and there was even some we haven’t tried before! When it came to eating, everybody (well most!) loved it and there was lots of clean bowls!
Help at home by talking about healthy eating as well as trying out the fruit salad recipe that was sent home.
Leeds Rhinos ticket offer
As part of our partnership, and as a thank you for all the great work that the children have been doing this year, Leeds Rhinos would like to offer children and their families an amazing opportunity to attend a match at AMT Headingley Stadium at a special discounted schools rate.
Date – Friday 5th April 2024
Kick off – 8pm
Opposition – Warrington Wolves
Venue – Headingley Stadium (LS6 3BR)
Tickets can be booked now through the school via School Gateway. Please note that tickets will go off sale at 10am on Monday 25th March 2024.
We look forward to welcoming Leeds Rhinos for an assembly next week too.
World Book Day!
Today we celebrated reading in Year One! We all had an incredible time!
First thing we had an assembly lead by Gangsta Granny (aka Mr Wilks). We learnt all about the joy of reading and how we can spend our £1 book token! Some teachers also read parts from their favourite books.
After wake up shake up Year 3 came to visit and we shared some of our favourite books with them. They read to us and we read to them. It was such a wonderfully calm atmosphere.
After breaktime, we had a webinar with John Patrick Green – author of the Investigators books. We listened to how he creates the books and had a go at drawing some of the characters. The drawings were very impressive!
In the afternoon, we looked at some of the books the children had brought in to match their costumes. We loved reading all the different types of books.
Throughout the day we also read as many other books as possible. Which one was your favourite?
Help at home by discussing the activities your child has done today and looking at the free books they can buy with their £1 book token.
The Secret Garden
It was a pleasure to welcome M&M productions to perform ‘The Secret Garden’ for us. It’s a classic story (written in 1911!) about resilience and friendship. They gave it a modern twist with some familiar songs – it was very entertaining!
What a start to the week it was! Keep your eyes peeled for what we get up to on World Book Day, this Thursday.
Help at home by discussing what your child liked about the performance using the pictures above! Can your child retell the story?
We loved it!
Y2 – I really liked it because Master Colin was able to walk. He believed in himself.
Y6 – It was funny and had all the things a play should have. I’ll definitely be checking out the book from the library.
Y3 – The sign language song was cool and interesting!
Y5 – I liked the show because they had a creative way to change the scene. They had a great voice projection.
