DT: Food and Nutrition
Today, Year 5 made an omelette in food technology. The children did an amazing job grating cheese, measuring ingredients, cracking eggs, chopping tomatoes and helping with the cooking.
The reviews were overwhelmingly positive and most children scored the omelette 9 or 10/10!
Help at home by using the recipe below to cook your own omelette. What different ingredients would you use?
Leeds Rhinos Foundation Netball Camps
Easter and May half term Netball camps (open to boys and girls) are on sale and are taking place in Leeds, Wakefield, Harrogate, Pudsey and Sheffield. The camps cost £30 per day and run from 10am – 3pm.
Full details and how to book can be found here.
Latin
On Fridays, Year 5 study Latin. The children have worked really hard on translating Latin sentences into English. We are able to recognise word endings of verbs and what that means. We can look for the subject and object of a sentence even though the words in Latin are not in the correct order.
I’ve been very impressed with the children’s knowledge and ability. It has also really helped us to work out the meanings of English words that have Latin roots as well as translate Latin words into English.
Help at home can you think what the Latin word audire means? What English words come from this word?
Year 5/6 netball
This week, our Year 5/6 netball team took part in the Leeds Well Schools Partnership netball competition at Allerton High.
Despite the rain, the team played some great netball and managed to finish second in their group.
For some of the children, this was their first time representing school at netball and for some it will be their last after many years of coming to our netball club so well done to all the children who competed.
Topic: Drop down morning
Today, we had a topic Drop Down Morning. We revisited knowledge about UK geography, the West Indies carnival and Martha McDonald Napaltjarri’s artwork.
In Geography, Year 5 used the iPads to plot some of the major cities and rivers of the UK on to a blank map.
Help at home can you find some places that are significant to you on a map?
In History, we recapped our knowledge of the historical concepts and linked these to the Atlantic Slave Trade and the West Indies carnival.
In Art, we revisited all the visual and tactile elements and thought about how they link to Martha McDonald Napaltjarri’s artwork ‘Warlukuritji’.
Living and Learning: health and prevention
The children then discussed cross contamination and how quickly germs can spread. We talked about the need to wash our hands to help prevent this spread. We could use soap or hand sanitiser.
Help at home: Discuss other ways we can stop germs from spreading.
Computing: Scratch programming
This half term we are improving our computing skills. The first few lessons have focussed on logical reasoning, including solving sudoku and number sequences. This week, we worked on using the Scratch program to create a Chatbot quiz. In our quiz we programmed the sprite to ask our name, respond with a greeting and then ask us a question. We were able to use the ‘if, then and else’ block to ensure that the right answer had a positive response and all other answers gave a different response.
We really enjoyed getting stuck in with the coding and we worked very well together with our partners.
Help at home by logging on to Scratch and letting your children experiment with coding at home.
World Book Day!
After a particularly busy week for Year 5, it was lovely to celebrate World Book Day together! We started of the day with an assembly lead by Mr Wilks where we got to hear from teachers about their favourite book.
After Wake Up Shake Up we went to Year 2 to do some shared reading. The children were very kind and read wonderfully with their Year 2 partner.
After break, we took part in the BBC live lesson which was all about finding our reading vibe. Do you like adventurous books, funny books, fact books?
In between these times, we talked about the books we have enjoyed as well as listened to teachers share their favourite books. We also completed some activities on Authorfy and explored new and exciting authors.
Help at home by sharing your favourite book and talking to your children about what they love about reading!
Cross country
We’ve had two cross country events this week.
First of all, it was the final Saturday morning race at Middleton Park. Well done to all of the children who have taken part in the four races held across the year and for parents who supported at these events.
On Tuesday, five of our Key Stage 2 children represented Leeds at the West Yorkshire cross country final at Temple Newsam in the glorious sunshine.
We are very proud of all our runners who raced in tough, competitive conditions, with the best runners from across West Yorkshire. They all put in 100% effort and were a great support for each other. The children should feel proud of competing at this level.
A special mention to our Year 5 runner who finished 10th place out of 151 runners and has now qualified for the national cross country final later this month. One of our Year 4 runners narrowly missed out on this qualification by two places.
Thank you to parents who helped with transport and supported at the event.
Writing: Francis
This film is perfect at building tension: the narrator uses pauses and varies the speed at which he speaks in order to build the suspense. As well as speech used to create tension, the music also plays a key part in creating suspense.
Help at home: Watch the video with and without music. How does this alter the tension created?