Living Streets local area audit
As part of our partnership with Living Streets and during our Being Healthy week, some of our school councillors joined representatives from Living Streets to carry out an active travel audit in the immediate area. They were looking for barriers that families might face when traveling to school in an active way.
We look forward to hearing all about the findings.
Youth Voice Summit
Recently, our Year 5 and 6 school councillors attended the third annual youth voice summit for primary schools in the banqueting suite at Leeds Civic Hall. During the event, the children:
- Learnt how to run effective social action campaigns in their schools and communities
- Learnt about influential historical and current campaigns such as the suffragettes and American civil rights
- Learnt about how to write to the government and local council
- Had the opportunity to come up with their own campaigns and create placards
- Had a full tour of the Leeds Council Chamber
Their chosen campaign, to work on back at school with the rest of the school council, is all about clearing up litter. We look forward to seeing how this campaign will develop.
Moortown PE polo and hooded tops
As we come to the end of the school year, please check at home and return to school any red polo shirts or black hooded tops that your child may have borrowed for a sporting event over the year.
Please could you ensure they are returned to the office asap to ensure we have all the kit available for our next sporting events.
School Savings Club
The next School Savings Club paying in date is Thursday 12 July 2018 at 3.15-3.45pm.
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.
The paying in dates are the penultimate Thursday of each half term and dates for next year will be posted to the website in September.
Finally, if your child would like to open account, please ask at the office.
parkrun
- Roundhay Park
- Temple Newsam
- Wetherby
- Boddington Cycle Centre
West Leeds Activity Centre
West Leeds Activity Centre, who visited our recent health fair, will be running holiday camps over the summer.
PE Partner holiday clubs
PE Partner, who visited our recent health fair and who run our Friday after-school football clubs, have holiday activity clubs available over the summer.
Mummification update
Year 4 have observed their mummified apples one week after we started the experiment. WOW! What a difference!
The natron we made, had most definitely preserved the skin of the apple. The colour of the apple skin remained green and in relatively good condition.
We noted that the flesh of the fruit had dried up and the apple had shrunk in size.
“Our starting weight was 24g and now it has gone down to 9g!!”
“I think the natron has dried up the water in the fruit.”
“The apple smells strange and it feels soft.”
“Look how green the skin still is.”
Note the difference with the apple that wasn’t in any preservatives.
We compared these apple slices and noted the differences.
The children, will again, weigh their mummified apples next week to find out if the natron has done its job!
Stay posted ….
Apple mummification
Have you ever wondered why every time you eat salty foods, you get thirsty? Or why fresh vegetables tend to shrivel up when you sprinkle salt on them?
The answer is simple. Salt is a desiccant – it helps remove water from things, including human bodies. Which is why the Ancient Egyptians used salts when they were mummifying bodies.
Year 4 decided to put this to the test and used a quarter of an apple for the experiment.
First, we had to make natron.
Classically, natron was gathered from a salt mixture derived out of dry lake beds in ancient Egypt and was used as a cleansing product for personal use. The consistency of natron removes oil and grease and was often used as a type of soap when mixed with oil. To make our own natron we mixed together salt and baking soda. After mixing these together in a sealed bag, we had our own form of natron.
Baseline measurement
Why is this important?
“We had to weigh the apple first because that would give us a starting weight. If we didn’t do this then we would have nothing to compare the next weight measurement to.”
Predictions
“I predict that the apple will shrivel up and rot.”
“I think the natron will get rid of all the water and the apple will weigh less next time.”
We will be observing this experiment over three weeks, with weekly weigh ins.
In order to make some comparisons about the effectiveness of preservatives, we put a piece of apple in just sugar and another one without anything at all!
Stay posted to find out if our apple mummifications were a success.
Old Leos cricket events
Old Leos cricket club, based locally in Alwoodley, were one of the visitors we welcomed to our health fair this week.
If you didn’t get to speak to them on the day, here is some information about their fun cricket sessions as well as an event this weekend.
