Year 4 Class News

This is Year 4 Class News

It’s all about health

Posted on Sunday 22 November 2015 by Mrs Taylor

This week is the first themed week of the year and it’s all about health.

Over the week classes will work with different visitors to school including:

There will be lots of learning in class too – hand washing, body image, emotional health, 5 a day and much more. Keep an eye on our class news pages to find out more.

On Monday 23 November, 3:00-3:30pm, there will be an information session for parents, led by d:side, where you can find out more about the drug education sessions delivered to each class this week. No need to book – just come along.

Takeover Day

Posted on Sunday 15 November 2015 by Mrs Taylor

Next Friday, 20 November, is Takeover Day.

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What is Takeover Day?

It’s a national initiative organised each year by the Children’s Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield OBE. Takeover gives children and young people the chance to work with adults for the day and to be involved in decision-making processes. Children and young people benefit from the opportunity to experience the world of work and make their voices heard, while adults and organisations gain a fresh perspective on what they do.

Recently our School Council discussed how children could be involved in ‘taking over’ at school.  Takeover activities will include school dinners (representatives from Year 4), the office (representatives from Year 5), assembly (representatives from Year 6) and KS2 tuck shop on 24 November (representatives from Year 2).

In addition there will be opportunities within class where children will takeover.  For example, spelling/times table tests, parts of lessons, PE warm ups and guided reading.

Check our class news pages to see this in action.

Make a noise about bullying

Posted on Friday 13 November 2015 by Mrs Taylor

Next week it is national anti-bullying week.

Our school definition has recently been reviewed by the School Council and remains unchanged.

‘Bullying is when you hurt someone, physically or emotionally, several times on purpose.’

This year the theme of the week is Make a noise about bullying and our children are familiar with another STOP message to address this, start telling other people.

Leeds Anti-Social Behaviour Team will once again deliver Show Racism the Red Card workshops across school and in class children will discuss these aspects of bullying:

  • Our definition of bullying (above)
  • Types of bullying – cyber-bullying and prejudice-based bullying related to gender, sexual orientation, race, religion and belief, special educational need and disability
  • What to do if children experience bullying. The key message is to tell someone (start telling other people)

Bullying resources can be found at…

Children tell us what they would do if they were bullied: ‘I would tell an adult, teacher or someone I trust.’

All classes have access to their class SEAL box or a whole school worry box where they can tell an adult any concerns about bullying or any other issues.

 

Track and field stars

Posted on Thursday 12 November 2015 by Mrs Taylor

Well done to our athletics team who came second in the first round of the North East  Leeds Sports hall athletics at Allerton Grange – a great achievement.  It was a new event for the school and, despite a few nerves, everyone performed to the best of their ability in every event.  Well done to all the children involved and to parents for their support.  Look out for details of the next round.

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If you’d like to continue athletics, there is also a local athletics club that runs at Scott Hall Leisure Centre.

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Basketball Come and Try, Thursday 19 November

Posted on Thursday 12 November 2015 by Mrs Taylor

We have a few spare places to come to the basketball come and try event at Roundhay School on Thursday 19 November.

  • What? Basketball session led by Leeds Force basketball club
  • Where? Roundhay School
  • When? Thursday 19 November, 3.30pm-5.30pm
  • Who? Open to all KS2 classes

Please contact the office if you are able to come to this event.  Children will be supervised at the session but need to be dropped off and collected from Roundhay School.

Top vegetable choices

Posted on Friday 06 November 2015 by Mrs Taylor

If your child chooses school dinners, they are served two portions of vegetables or vegetables and a portion of salad with each meal.  As we are all aware of the importance of eating vegetables, all children have been consulted on their favourite vegetables based on the vegetables that currently feature on the school dinner menu.  The most popular choices will now feature more regularly on the menu.

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We would also like your views on school dinners.  Look out for the school dinner survey due to be sent out next week.

An active half term

Posted on Sunday 01 November 2015 by Mrs Taylor

We’ve started the year with plenty of physical activities.  Here are some of the highlights.

Rugby World Cup

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In September, the Rugby World Cup came to Leeds and we were lucky enough to win tickets to watch Italy play Canada at Elland Road.  There was a great response to our prize draw for tickets and our three lucky winners enjoyed the World Cup experience.

Active Schools

This year as part of our investment of the Primary PE and sport premium government funding for schools we have joined the Leeds Active Schools programme.  Their mission is to promote and develop, through collaboration and partnership, a sustainable system for physical activity, PE and sport that enriches the lives of all children and young people.  Already this year, as part of this programme, we’ve had the opportunity to take part in some great events.

Big sing Big dance

A group of our Year 3 pupils were part of over one thousand children from across Leeds who took part in the Rugby World Cup Big dance Big sing event in Millenium Square.

Singing and dancing to the Rugby World Cup theme tune ‘World in Union’, the event was to celebrate the rugby matches in Leeds.

  • ‘I loved it and I tried my best.’
  • ‘It was exciting when we did the dance.’
  • ‘I enjoyed using the rugby balls for the dance and singing the song, too.’

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Rugby World Cup fanzone

As part of the celebrations for the Rugby World Cup, a number of children had the opportunity to be involved in the fanzone in Millenium Square.  There was a carousel of activities including rugby activities and inflatables, a practical Tagtiv8 session and a visit to Leeds Library to meet author Tom Palmer.  Tom writes sports novels for children, including the Rugby Academy series.

  • ‘I really enjoyed the event. It was fun, especially the bit with Tom Palmer.’
  • ‘I loved it! I especially enjoyed when I won the rugby ball. It was so good I want to do it again.’
  • ‘I enjoyed playing pass with my friends and learning how rugby started.’

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Brownlee Triathlon

Harewood House recently hosted the Brownlee Triathlon.  Following this, a number of our children took part in the children’s Brownlee Triathlon held at the John Charles Centre.

The event involved a 30m swim, 1km cycle and a 400m run and was attended by Jonny Brownlee.

  • ‘It was the best sporting event that I’ve ever done.’
  • ‘It was great and was very challenging but in a good way.’
  • ‘I have never done a triathlon.  It was amazing, especially the fact that I met the Brownlee brothers.’

 

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This year we continue to be part of the Leeds School Football Association leagues for Year 4, 5 and 6, led by Mr Lawton and Mr Catherall.  Here is a summary of their season so far.

The ‘Moortown Dragons’ (Year 4 football team) are learning quickly what it means to be part of a team: sticking together, working for each other, and keeping smiles on everyone’s faces. In our most recent game, they showed off some sharp passing as a team, gritty goalkeeping displays, and capped it off with a couple of stylish goals. ‘Make friends, make friends, never, never break friends!’

In the short time we’ve had, the Year 5 footballers have impressed with their passion for the game. They’ve started to show their desire to work for each other, and we’re looking forward to a good run of matches after half term. If they can show half the skills that they demonstrate daily in the playground, and keep looking out for each other, they’ll go far indeed.

The Year 6 football team have grown in confidence throughout each of their fixtures so far this year. With an emphasis on teamwork, enjoyment and working hard (on and off the ball), each team member has improved significantly. Their continued development as a team was, perhaps, most evident in the recent game against local rivals Gledhow. Well done to all! Keep it up and you’ll soon be rewarded for your efforts.

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Events to look forward to next half term include more football matches, Leeds North East sports hall athletics competition, a Come and Try basketball session at Roundhay, cross country and a health-themed week, too.

Thank you to all parents who support with transport and accompanying children to these events.

Well done to all our competitors and participants who have represented the school.

Newsletters

Posted on Wednesday 16 September 2015 by Mr Roundtree

This term’s newsletters have been emailed and paper copies will be sent home later this week.

This year, we’ll publish the newsletters on the website, too. Here are the first half-term’s…

Reception provide their own newsletters and lots of photos, top tips and news on their class news page.

Rugby world cup activities

Posted on Tuesday 15 September 2015 by Mrs Taylor

As the Rugby World Cup approaches, Roundhegians are organising activities for both children and adults at their local facilities.

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SEAL New beginnings

Posted on Sunday 06 September 2015 by Mrs Taylor

As we start the new school year, our SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) theme focuses on New Beginnings.

We have three new members of staff making a new beginning at Moortown, Mrs Wells, Mr McKeon and Mr Lawton, alongside new children joining our school and our new Reception class.

I make someone feel welcome‘ is the first SEAL statement to launch the theme.

New beginnings allows children the opportunity to discuss and reflect on how they or others may feel in a new situation or setting. This SEAL theme offers children the opportunity to see themselves as valued individuals within a community, and to contribute to shaping a welcoming, safe and fair learning community for all.

During the theme, the key areas of learning are empathy, self-awareness, social skills and motivation.

Through discrete SEAL lessons, circle times and across the curriculum, children will explore feelings of happiness and excitement, sadness, anxiety and fearfulness, while learning (and putting into practice) shared models for calming down and problem-solving.

New Beginnings supports the development of a learning community in each classroom where all members feel that they belong. Class contracts, produced at the start of the year, allow children to contribute to how they feel they can achieve a safe and fair learning community.