Pumpkin picking
One of the community links for our Me and my community themed week, MHA Moor Allerton, are holding an open day next Tuesday 29 October 2pm to 4pm with pumpkin picking from their own pumpkin patch, refreshments and activities.
Living and Learning: New school charity
Every year, we vote for a new school charity to support.
Our new charity will replace our current school charity The Children’s Heart Fund. Thank you for all the donations and support given to this great, local cause, including £180 for our recent Rob Burrow Connect Challenge.
As part of our Me and my community themed week, children will be considering the following shortlist of charities. Children should start thinking about these charities and be ready to share their views.
Action Against Hunger aim to save the lives of vulnerable people affected by hunger. Action Against Hunger fights hunger and malnutrition around the world, because no child should ever suffer or die from it. Stop hunger today.
No child should live in poverty. All children should have their basic needs met so that they can achieve their full potential in life. Give every head a bed.
Each class will vote for one charity which will be brought to the Junior Leadership Team who will have the final vote on Thursday 07 November.
Performance Poetry
This week, we’re reading this poem by Nick Toczek – a Yorkshire born poet.
We watched Nick Toczek perform it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zxwqtfr/watch/z7w42hv
We had a think about what made his performance so good! These are the R2s (remember to) that we took from him:
- read with prosody
- add actions
- change tone of voice
- change volume of voice
- involve the audience
- well-rehearsed
We then used these R2s to do our performances! We worked in small groups to add actions, rehearse and practise reading with prosody. The performances were fantastic with some even memorising the words after 20 minutes!
Help at home by reading this poem at home and performing to each other! Can you use all the R2s?
Leeds School Sports Association cross country race 1
On Saturday, some of our key stage 2 children took part in the first of the Leeds Schools Sports Association Saturday morning cross country races. Over 100 children, from Leeds primary schools, compete in each of the Year 3-Year 6 girls and boys races.
A special mention to Ewan (Year 4) who finished in 5th place and Isla (Year 3) who finished in 13th place.
Thank you to the parents who supported and took their children to this event.
There are three more races coming up this year (see below) and details will be sent out for each race nearer the time if your child would like to get involved.
It’s nearly time to elect our new junior leaders
We have recently launched this year’s Junior Leadership Team election process. Our Junior Leadership Team is one of the ways that children are encouraged to take an active part in pupil voice.
The election process allows children to develop an understanding of one of the British Values, democracy, with two representatives from each class, chosen democratically by their peers.
Here are some of the qualities our junior leaders think are needed to be an effective JLT member.
- use the 8Rs for learning
- be respectful and polite
- help others
- be a good speaker and listener (to members of your class and in the meetings)
- share and be confident with your ideas
- let others speak
- accept the views of others even if you don’t agree
- be friendly and approachable
- follow our school rules and make good choices in class and around school
This weeks’ whole school homework is all about the election and democracy, ready for the elections on Thursday 24 October. For children who want to stand in the election, they will have the chance to share their speeches in class on Wednesday or Thursday this week.
Well done to all our current junior leaders who have represented their class so well this year. Remember, you can stand again in the election.
Maths – number fluency
Year 3 have been learning about numbers to 1,000. We’ve learnt about 3 digit numbers, how to read them, partition and manipulate them!
We’re moving onto our addition journey now and to help your child feel confident in using methods like column addition, they need to be secure with these facts.
These number facts are beyond 10 and there are lots of different strategies to work them out.
For example:
6 + 5
If I know 5 + 5 is 10, 1 more is 11.
Or
If I know 6 + 6 is 12, 1 less is 11.
9 + 4
If I know 9 + 1 is 10, 3 more is 13.
Help at home by practising these numbers facts colour by colour as these will really help when we come to addition with 3 digit numbers!
After-school clubs
Our autumn term clubs continue after half term and there is an opportunity to join the below after school clubs which currently have available places:
Monday
Hama Bead Club – Y4, Y5, Y6
Mindfulness & Yoga – Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6
Tuesday
Skipping – Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6
Sewing & weaving – Y4, Y5, Y6
Wednesday
Skipping – Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4
Girls Football – Y4, Y5, Y6
Thursday
Dazl Dance – Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4
Basketball – KS1
Basketball – KS2
Clubs run straight after school and finish at 4.15pm.
All clubs will run until w/c 9 December, which would give your child 6 sessions if they’d like to join.
If your child is interested in joining any of the above clubs, please reply to the email sent and an individual payment request will be set up.
Rugby ticket offer
Headingley Stadium has the honour of hosting the England men’s and women’s national team against Samoa and Wales respectively on Saturday 02 November 2024.
As a partner school of the Rhinos, we are pleased to offer children and families 20% off tickets. These are purchased directly from the Rugby Football League using the discount code shown below.
Living and Learning: What is democracy?
This week, Year 3 learnt about what is democracy and how we can become involved in democratic decisions.
Democracy, one of the British Values, means ‘rule by the people’. It comes from the Greek words dêmos (people) and krátos (rule or strength). This has linked to our Topic learning because the Ancient Greeks, more specifically the Athenians, who created the idea of democracy.
We learnt about how democracy works in this country. This included learning about central and local government, what services government provide for the people and the role of political parties.
Next week, we’ll have our own democratic vote to elect our new JLT members for this year.
Help at home: Create your speech for becoming a JLT candidate.
What good qualities do you have to be a good leader?
“I would be a great leader because I am a good listener.”
How can you help your class?
“I would help Year 3 by sharing your ideas with Mrs Weekes.”
Lotherton Hall Trip!
Today, Year 3 went on their school trip to Lotherton Hall. Lotherton Hall is full of animals and history which is perfect for our Science and History learning at the moment!
The focus today was Science – animals including humans. We discussed five ways we can group animals based on their characteristics:
- mammals
- reptiles
- birds
- fish
- amphibians
We looked at x-rays and replica skulls and classified them based on what we could see. For example, some animals had a backbone and others didn’t or some had wings and others didn’t.
We explored the Wildlife World and the playgrounds (of course!) The weather was great too so we were outside for most of the time. Take a look at us exploring…
Help at home by grouping animals based on their characteristics. What do penguins and flamingos have in common?
Why not take a trip to Lotherton Hall yourselves? There are some Halloween activities on this month until early November. https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/lotherton/