Active travel in October – week two winner
Well done to our week two active travel winner (08 – 12 October) who was randomly selected to receive the latest £10 voucher.
Our week three winner will be announced early next week.
We have a final weekly prize to award and also a prize for someone who has made an active journey to school every day in October. These prizes will be awarded straight after half term once our Living Streets travel tracker data is available.
Remember an active journey can be walking, biking, scooting or parking away from the school gate and striding the last part of the journey.
On your marks, get set, bake!
Today, Year 4 got into the ‘Bake Off‘ spirit. The children enjoyed making healthy muffins. It was great to hear so much mathematical talk happening during our lesson. We discussed scales, fractions, amounts, cooking times, measures and much more.
Apples fresh from Mrs Pearson’s garden added a healthy, fruity twist to our muffins. Thank you, Mrs Pearson, for the ingredients and all your help.
Lost property
School Council are involved in a project to try and reduce the amount of lost property we have at school.
Starting this Friday, lost property will be available to look through in the playground to hopefully reduce the pile we have already this term!
Naming your child’s items helps to get things back to their owners so we will also be offering a clothing name labelling service for 20p per item. Profits will go to our school charity, Make-a-Wish.
New additions to the library – thank you, school councillors
At their final meeting, our current school councillors spent time, using part of their budget, choosing new books for our library.
From sport books to science books, there’s a great selection. The books will soon be available to borrow from the library.
And relax….
Following a morning packed with learning, Year 4 spent ten minutes enjoying some mindfulness techniques.
Mindfulness can add to the quality of our lives in numerous ways, from nurturing a sense of inner peace to enhancing self-confidence and our attitudes towards others.
Mindful Hearing
In this exercise, the children were guided through an experience of paying attention to sounds.
Mindful Breathing
In this exercise, children were guided through a process of paying attention to their breathing.
- “I feel so relaxed now.”
- “My lunch time is going to be calm.”
- “I reflected on my learning.”
- “I listened to my breathing. It was like the waves of the sea coming in and out.”
School Council elections
In our whole school assembly today, we launched this year’s School Council election process. Our School Council 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.
Our current school councillors spoke about their role over the last year and the qualities needed to be an effective school councillor.
These included:
- use the 8 Rs 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
Watch out for the whole school homework this week all about the election and democracy, ready for the elections next Thursday 25 October.
Bike and run at the Brownlee Centre
The Brownlee Centre is a great facility on our doorstep.
These bike and run sessions, run by the Brownlee Foundation, are open to all children, any ability, aged 8-14. Why not give it a tri?
Chariot construction
With our chariot designs complete, it was time to begin to build them. The children used clamps and saws carefully and safely. Accurate measuring and sizing proved a little tricky at times. During our lesson, I saw some superb teamwork, lots of resilience and impressive DT skills.
Super writing
Year 4 have been busy writing their very own recipes. All of the children have worked hard to structure their work according to the purpose. It is always great to see children using their learning environment (walls) and dictionaries to aid their writing.
Mr Owen and I have also given the class the choice of a pen or pencil to write with. Some of the class have a preference and we have seen such an improvement in handwriting and presentation.
Keep up the good work, Year 4!
Active travel winner
To mark International Walk to School month and our recent promotion of the Park and Stride site at Marks and Spencer, we are running a prize draw every week in October.
All children who make an active journey (bike, scoot, walk or park and stride) every day for each week are entered into a prize draw.
Each Friday in October, we will select a winner at random to win a £10 Love2Shop gift voucher.
Here’s our first winner. Keep up those active journeys to be in with a chance to win the next prize.
