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.
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.
School Savings Club paying in dates
Please note a change of day for the remaining School Savings Club paying in dates.
If your child has a School Savings Club account, we hold paying in sessions on the penultimate week of every half term.
Thursday 18 October 2018 3.15-3.45pm
Thursday 13 December 2018 3.15-3.45pm
Thursday 07 February 2019 3.15-3.45pm
Wednesday 20 March 2019 3.15-3.45pm
Wednesday 15 May 2019 3.15-3.45pm
Wednesday 10 July 2019 3.15-3.45pm
If you are unable to attend in person, please hand in any money to be paid in, to the office in a sealed envelope addressed to Mrs Tiffany.
If you would like your child to open an account, please enquire at the office. Pupils in Year 3 can still take advantage of the £10 incentive offer.
Costumes
Rehearsals for our upcoming production, are now in full swing! This week, we’ll send home costume suggestions for some of the characters. We’d be very grateful for any help in getting these together. Please let us know if you are unable to provide items and we will try to sort this.
Many thanks in advance.
Living and Learning – body image guide for parents and carers
Our focus in Living and Learning, for the rest of this half term, is body image.
What is body image?
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 more broadly.
This parent and carer guide has been designed to give practical ideas to support your child in building their emotional resilience in this area.
Great competitors
Well done to pupils who have represented school recently in sporting competitions.
Congratulations to our Year 3 qualifier in the West Yorkshire cross country final. She ran a fantastic race at the event at Temple Newsam.
In wet conditions last Friday, our Year 5/6 hockey team competed in the Leeds Quick Sticks competition. Well done to all the children involved.
Thank you to parents and carers who supported these events by transporting the children.
Why is travelling actively to school important?
Sustrans have recently published this article about the importance of travelling actively to school.
With just two weeks to go, Sustrans Big Pedal, is one way we will be encouraging active journeys this term alongside our year round Living Streets WOW sustainable travel initiative where the children record how they travel to school on our daily travel tracker.
Sustrans Big Pedal is 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.
You might also be interested in a current bike promotion from our local Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative branch.
Writing
Today, we were lucky enough to have a visitor from the Leeds Playhouse.
We used alliteration to jazz up our names to introduce ourselves. We met: Kind Klara, Joyful James and Awesome Amrit to name a few!
We then played a game which involved plotting where we live in the mountain range. We shared something that we could see out of our windows and build a whole imaginary community.
Just like in our class novel, we met a firework maker, called Lalchand, who has lost his daughter Lila.
We did lots of role play as these characters. We shared what we thought our character would be thinking and feeling at key points of the story. This is something that you can do at home when reading to support your child.
We came up with an action plan To help Lachand. All adventurers need a well-packed bag. Ours included:
- Binoculars
- Compass
- Bottle
- Pillow
- Blanket
- Packed lunch
- Bandages
- Spare shoes
- Some fireworks (Golden Sneezes)
- Some water
- A torch
We were ready to head off into the jungle on our adventure to find Lila.
We used our torches to find the entrance of the Fire-Fiend at Mount Mirapi.
We saw:
Black rocks crumbling – Billy
An alligator snapping at us – Lewis
Black ash on the ground of the cave – Evie
A yellow monkey rummaging around inside the cave – Ashton
We then made some notes to inspire our writing based on what we could see, hear, touch, taste and feel.
Edris:
Saahir:
Tanvi:
Then, Lila finally met the fire-fiend inside Mount Miripi.
She discovered that she needed to have three things to offer the fire-fiend. These things you cannot touch. We thought these things could be: determination, courage, love, happiness or ambition.
Since this drama workshop, we have gone on to write Haiku poems and setting drescriptions. Have a look at some of our Cinquain poem work below.
Cinquain poems have a specific syllable pattern. Can your child remember this and explain it to you?
Fe Fi Fo Fum! The Easter production has begun…
Big news in Years 3 and 4! We have officially kicked off rehearsals for the Easter production.
The production is called ‘Fe Fi Fo Fum’. So far we have held auditions and allocated the parts to pupils. Fe Fi Fo Fum is an action packed panto which brings the story of Jack and the Beanstalk up to date with a hilarious script, colourful characters and irresistible songs. Jack has to overcome his terrible fear of heights – a bit of a problem when trying to climb a beanstalk!
How can you help?
It is vital that your child brings their script into school every day. We are rehearsing regularly and annotating onto our scripts.
Please encourage your child to practise their lines at home and know what they need to say and any actions they need as well.
We look forward to seeing you all at the Easter production. Thank you for your support at home on this.