All Stars Cricket Festival
This afternoon, Year 2 spent a very enjoyable, hot and active afternoon at Old Leos cricket club taking part in the All Stars cricket festival with other Year 2 children.
All the activities involved skills associated with cricket – bowling, batting, aiming at a target, catching and throwing. The children put great effort into each activity.
Tom from All Stars cricket will be visiting school next week to deliver sessions for Year 1 and Year 2 and a whole school assembly where the children will find out the All Stars cricket programme at local clubs.
We even had a star cricketer who impressed the organisers with his skills.
Thank you to parents who helped to transport the children and for the loan of booster seats.
Capacity and volume
Today, we’ve continued our maths learning about measurement looking at capacity and volume. We’ve been investigating, using different measuring jugs, cylinders and containers, different capacities with millilitres (ml) or litres (l) as our units.
Tanvi had spotted this morning that her sun cream bottle had a capacity of 200ml and this afternoon at our cricket festival we estimated how much water we had left in our water bottles (not much in the heat today!). Have a look at the labels on household items to find their capacity. For example, milk bottles, sauce bottles, toothpaste and other liquids.
Taken from the Year 2 age related expectations, here are the related objectives we’ve been learning.
24. choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass (kg/g); temperature (°C); capacity (litres/ml) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales, thermometers and measuring vessels
25. compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results using >, < and =
We used a word study to consolidate our learning.
Here are some example questions of how this learning might appear in a KS1 maths reasoning SAT paper.
Also, take a look at Mathletics as new activities have been assigned for the children to follow up this learning at home.
Cycling opportunities
Have you been inspired by the recent Tour de Yorkshire and our Big Pedal bike and scoot to school initiative?
Here are some cycling opportunities coming up locally.
Children’s Beginners Learn to Ride Sessions
Wednesday 30th May – Carr Manor Community School (Secondary Phase)
Times: 9am, 10:30am and 12:00
Children’s Improvers – Skills, Circuits & Games!
Wednesday 30th May – Carr Manor Community School (Secondary Phase)
Time: 2:00pm
Booking is essential for all sessions and can be done by clicking on the appropriate link above. For any additional questions, please contact [email protected]
Let’s Ride Pop up Brownlee Centre
Sunday 13th May 2018 12:00pm
Brownlee Centre, Bodington Playing Fields, Leeds, LS16 6HE
This free monthly pop-up event gives you the chance to ride a traffic-free cycle circuit as many times as you want, at a pace that suits you.
The event is open to all ages and abilities and the circuit is easy to ride, with volunteers on hand throughout, ensuring peace of mind and safety for all cyclists.
For those wanting to take things up a gear, British Cycling Go-Ride coaches will also be available to help you improve your cycling skills, and local Ride Leaders and Breeze Champions will be there on the day to tell you more about other cycling opportunities in Leeds with HSBC UK Guided Rides and HSBC UK Breeze.
Bike hire: No bike, no problem! Bike hire is available on the day, including a fleet of tandems, trikes and hand-cycles. Simply register your free place and turn up on the day.
Year 2 cricket festival
Just to confirm, we’ve been allocated extra places for the Year 2 cricket festival next Tuesday afternoon, 08.05.18, at Old Leos cricket club, so the whole class will be going.
We have still got some outstanding permissions for the visit so please complete this as soon as possible.
Thank you to those parents who have offered to help with transport. We have enough support now but if you can provide any booster seats to use on the day, we require four more.
The children will be having their lunch before we set off and they need outdoor PE kit as well as their water bottle in school.
We’ll return to school by the end of the day.
The forecast currently looks good for Tuesday so a hat and suncream (applied at home before school) might be needed!
Girls Golf Rocks
A great opportunity to try out a new activity locally.
All Stars cricket
All Stars Cricket will soon be starting their cricket programme at local clubs. Register and find out more on their website.
Big Pedal – our best day so far!
Today, we’ve recorded the highest number of active journeys by bike and scooter for the Big Pedal – 64 pupils (30%).
It would be great to increase these figures for the last few days of the Big Pedal.
After-school clubs update
We’ve had a great response to our summer term after-school clubs with a number of the clubs already full.
There are the following places available so please contact the office if your child would like to join.
- Tuesday: 1 place netball Year 3-6
- Thursday: 1 place skipping Year 2-6
- Thursday: 1 place multi-sports Year 3-6
Pop Art
In an art lesson, we used iPads to create pop art style images. Children had to take photos, edit them to change them to black and white. Then they imported the photos into an art app before choosing bright blocks of colour to accentuate parts of their face. Lots of different art and ICT skills!
Measuring
Today, we’ve continued our maths learning about measurement looking at mass and weight. So far, we’ve been investigating how heavy and light objects are using different equipment. If you’ve any measuring scales at home, find some things to weigh to practise this skill. We’ve investigated when to use grams (g) or kilograms (kg) as the units for measuring mass and weight.
Taken from the Year 2 age related expectations, here are the related objectives we’ll be learning.
24. choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass (kg/g); temperature (°C); capacity (litres/ml) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales, thermometers and measuring vessels
25. compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results using >, < and =
We consolidated this learning using a word study.
Here are some example questions of how this learning might appear in a maths reasoning SAT paper.
Also, take a look at Mathletics as new activities have been assigned for the children to follow up this learning at home.
