Living & Learning
This week, reflecting and remembering are the two Rs for learning that we have focused on for Living and Learning. We talked about the importance of both of these Rs and what they mean to us. We also carried out a game that puts both of these Rs into practice.
The class sat in a circle and played ‘I went to the shops and bought…’. The aim of the game was to remember the sequence of items that the children before had listed, and then add to it themselves. Initially, we thought the class may struggle after ten items. As the session went on and more children had a turn, we quickly realised how wrong we were!
Without being prompted to do so, the class had made up actions to accompany each item that was listed. This meant that the class supported each other to remember the long shopping list. When we reflected on the task as a class, the children commented how useful the actions were when they were trying to remember all the items on the list.
Astonishingly, every child could remember the full 30 items on the shopping list! This was due to their quick thinking and developing a strategy to help them to remember. Well done, Year 3!
Ask your child – can they still remember any items?
Road safety
Year Three greatly enjoyed their road safety assembly this week. Anne, from Leeds City Council’s road safety team shared some important messages to make sure the children know how to stay safe. See the pictures below!
Can your child remember the song about the Green Cross Code?
Bounce into basketball
School Savings Club
The School Savings Club paying in sessions for this year are at 3.15-3.45pm on the following dates (the penultimate Thursday of each half term).
- 18 October
- 13 December
- 07 February
- 21 March
- 16 May
- 11 July
If you’re unable to attend in person, please hand in any money to be deposited to the office in a sealed envelope addressed to Mrs Tiffany.
If your child would like to open an account, please ask at the office.
There is an extra incentive for pupils in Year 3 as Leeds City Council will add £10 to your child’s account.
Road safety assembly
Anne, from Leeds City Council’s road safety team, delivered some great safety messages in our assembly this morning.
Can you remember the green cross code?
- Think!
- Stop!
- Look!
- Listen!
Mass park and stride
Thank you to all families who joined our mass park and stride this morning from Marks and Spencer. Special thanks as well to Leeds City Council road safety trainers, Dom Jacques and Living Streets representatives and especially Kerby for supporting this event to mark the start of International Walk to School month.
It was great to see so many families join the walk to school using Marks and Spencer to park their car rather than parking near the school gate.
Keep up those active journeys to school for a happy and healthy start to the day.
Start your day with an active journey
Today marks the start of International Walk to School month.
During October, we’re working alongside Living Streets to encourage families to travel in active ways to school. There are prize draws every week for children who have made active journeys to school (biking, scooting, walking or park and stride) with an added prize draw for those children who have made active journeys to school throughout October.
We realise that some families do need to come in the car to school so we are promoting Marks and Spencer car park (200 2 hour free spaces) as a place to park and then ‘stride’ the last part of the journey to school. This will avoid congestion at the school gate, improve health benefits to families and counts as an active journey.
Tomorrow, we will be working with Leeds City Council road safety trainers to deliver pedestrian training to Years 1, 2 and 3. Reception class will enjoy a class based safety session and Year 5 will be using the speed indicator device to check vehicle speeds in the 20mph zone outside school.
To start the day, join us for a mass park and stride meeting at Harrogate Road outside Marks and Spencer from 8:30am.
What? Mass Park and Stride
When? Tuesday 2nd October from 08:30am
Where? From Harrogate Road outside Marks and Spencer (200 free 2hr park and stride parking spaces)
Why? To encourage families to make active journeys to school and keep cars away from the school gates.
Who? Leeds City Council’s Road Safety Team, Kerby the road safety mascot, Living Streets representatives plus as many families as possible.
If you don’t come by car, join us on the route to school.
Maths
So far this term, Year 3 have been investigating place value. The class have been learning about the changing value of a digit, depending on where it is placed within a number. We have done lots of practice with saying three digit numbers out loud, careful to say ‘and’ exactly where it is needed.
During Thursday’s lesson, the children had to apply their resilience to a short maths challenge – see below.
The class came up with lots of interesting ideas to solve the challenge and enjoyed explaining to their partners how they approached the question. We had a really good discussion about finding more than one solution to a question and the importance of being resilient if we found it tricky. There was lots of talk about the value of apples and bananas too!
See some of the children’s workings out, answers and challenges they have written, below:
Time Travellers
In Year 3, we have officially launched our new topic – Time Travel.
During this topic, we’ll specifically focus on transport through the ages.
Wednesday afternoon kicked off with reflecting on our school trip, sharing what we could remember, and looking at some pictures, from our trip to the Transport Museum and Hull and East Riding Museum.
The class then worked together to jot down some questions that they would like to investigate throughout our Time Travel topic. Have a look at some of the questions the class had, below:
- Lewis: ‘What did the first hot air balloon look like?’
- Vedant & Jai: ‘When was the submarine invented?’
- Hashim & Christina: ‘How long would it take to travel to the moon?’
- Sukhmani & Harpreet: ‘Who was the first person to travel into space?’
- Sam & Evie: ‘Who was the first woman to travel into space?’
- Madison & Aadil: ‘Where did the inventors get their ideas from?’
- Sasha & Klara: ‘How much money did the first chariot cost?’
After-school clubs
Places are filling up for our after-school clubs starting next week.
We do have some places available on the following physical activity clubs. These clubs are subsidised using our PE Premium funding costing just £1 per week.
Monday
Volleyball
Have a try at a new sport. Led by Elaine Brown, Leeds Volleyball Club coach, come along to learn skills, develop team work and play competitive games on our volleyball court in the MUGA. This club finishes at 4.15pm. There is no session on Monday 22 October 2018. Open to Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6 Cost £7
Tuesday
Multi skills
Come and take part in a range of fun sporting games, challenges, matches and activities which include key motor skills such as throwing, catching, kicking, running, jumping, striking, Organised by Five Star Sports. This club finishes at 4.15pm. There is no session on Tuesday 23 October 2018 or Tuesday 27 November 2018. Open to Y1, Y2, Y3 Cost £6
Wednesday
Gymnastics
A fun way to keep fit while learning new skills. Organised by Leeds Gymnastics Club. This club finishes at 4.15pm. Open to Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5 Cost £8
Thursday
Wake Up Shake Up
Be ready to Wake it and Shake it at Mrs Charlesworth’s club. You’ll be swinging, shaking, moving and grooving your way to pop, rock, R’n’B and dance. This club finishes at 4.15pm. Open to Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6 Cost £8
How can I book a club?
Booking for after-school clubs is via School Gateway. Please contact the office if you need any assistance making a booking. Payment is due at the time of booking.