Year 5 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.

Health Week

Posted on Sunday 22 November 2015 by Mr Roundtree

This week is a themed week. We’ll be focussing on health, discussing ways in which we can keep ourselves healthy. That might include food and drink choices; ensuring that we’re being active enough each day; maintaining personal hygiene through hand-washing and brushing our teeth thoroughly; and being aware of our mental health.

There are lots of visitor sessions to look forward to: drug education, judo, pilates, basketball and ‘Learn by Heart’. Additionally, the children will work with other teachers each discussing a different aspect of health.

Help at home by discussing how you stay healthy and ask what special learning the children have been doing each day. Will what your child has learnt affect any of the choices (s)he makes from now on?

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.

Enjoying the library

Posted on Wednesday 11 November 2015 by Mr Roundtree

We took our English lesson to the library today, exploring different types of story openings in the perfect surroundings. DAD helps our writing – description, action and dialogue. We compared different books and their beginnings.

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Homework that’s ‘out of this world’

Posted on Wednesday 11 November 2015 by Mr Roundtree

As always, Year 5 have really impressed me with this week’s homework. We were tasked with showing what we know about the solar system and we had some fantastic ideas: informative books, puzzles, models and diagrams adorned our classroom. We really enjoyed exploring each other’s work.

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Malham

Posted on Saturday 07 November 2015 by Mr Roundtree

We had a fantastic day in Malham last Monday (2 November) due to the great weather we enjoyed and the great geography learning we did (both physical and human).

On our return, we wrote a newspaper article to inform others about our day so, rather than tell you about it myself, I’ll show you a couple of the reports we wrote alongside some great pictures.

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Look at how drastically the weather changed along our journey!

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Finally, we returned from our fairytale land of blue skies and warm weather back to foggy Leeds.

 

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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.

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