SolART System
In Art, we learnt how to change the shade of a colour. Challenge your child to explain how. We had a go at mixing colours ahead of painting our planets.
Next, we began painting our planets. We had to be careful and precise with our paintbrushes and Eve noted that we had to be resilient, too. “If you were mixing a colour and it wasn’t quite right, you had to keep going until you were happy with it,” she said.
Poppy said, “I used a dabbing movement to make it look like Mercury has a rocky surface.” Challenge your child to name the three other rocky planets in our solar system.
Later in the week, we will recreate each planet’s rotations and orbits around the sun.
Walk to school week
To celebrate Walk to School week, next week, we’re working with Moortown Living Streets to run a fun daily quiz to help get more feet on the street! It is also our Money Matters themed week so what a better way to travel to school for free!
We all know that reducing school gate traffic improves air quality and safety and by walking some or all of the way families benefit from a healthier and more pleasant start to the day.
During Walk to School Week, Living Streets Moortown will be hiding ten words along the routes to school. See your child’s entry form for more details.
Find them each day to fill in the blanks and complete the story – remember to take a pen or pencil! There are also some daily ACTIONS for you to try – see if you can do them all!
At the end of Walk to School Week, your child should hand their completed story in to their class teacher for a chance to WIN one of four £10 Love to Shop vouchers!
ISS Expert Interviews
In reading this week, Y5 became experts on the International Space Station using a webpage that told us 23 facts!
Next, we wrote a script where one person was the interviewer and the other was the expert.
We used our retrieval skills by reading the text and writing and answering questions to create an expert interview and showcase the facts we’d learnt.
Finally, we performed our interviews to the class.
Great news for Leeds
This article is great news for the city enabling children to develop healthy lifestyle choices.
Leeds has become the first city in the UK to report a drop in childhood obesity bucking the national trend. The national child measurement programme (NCMP), which requires all children to be weighed at the start and end of primary school saw a decrease in obesity levels in both reception children and children in year 6.
After-school club availability
Our summer term after-school clubs have started this week but it’s not too late to sign up as we do have a few spaces still available.
Monday cricket Years 3-6
Tuesday skipping Years 1-4
Wednesday Gymnastics (Leeds Gymnastics Club) All years
Thursday multi games Years 3-6
Please contact the office to book for these clubs.
Mini Mermaids running club
Mini Mermaids running club are starting a new block of sessions, open to girls, from 7th June. The sessions build up to a 5km challenge at Roundhay parkrun on Saturday 20th July at 9am.
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For details of how to sign up, click on the booking page here.
Living and Learning: School charity fundraising
Our Money Matters themed week starts on 20 May.
During the week, there will be two opportunities to raise money for our current school charity, WWF (selected democratically by our school councillors).
Hot Shots Monday 20 May 2019
Every child will get chance to take part in this fun event to ‘kick’ off our Money Matters themed week. Children are encouraged to raise sponsorship money for taking part in the event with the money raised going to our school charity WWF.
Money trail 24 May 2019
Start saving your 1p and 2p coins to bring into class during the themed week. At the end of the week each class will use their class’s coins to make a whole school money trail in the playground.
Here’s our trail from last time where we raised £117.77. Can we beat this total?
Here’s some ways the money we raise might be used by WWF.
Living and Learning: Relationships education parent/carers information session
We will be holding two parent/carer information sessions on Monday 20 May at 2:30pm and 5:30pm. The sessions, open to parents/carers from all year groups, will give more information about the following.
- What does our Living and learning curriculum cover?
- What does relationships education look like in different year groups through school?
- What is included in our relationships and sex education policy?
If you are interested in attending, please complete and return the response slip on the letter being sent home to reserve a place.
If you are unable to attend but would like information from the session to be sent home with your child, please indicate this on the letter.
Homework Heroes
At risk of repeating myself again, this week’s homework in Y5 was ace!
There were some presentations and video submissions…
… lots of artwork …
… interactive games …
… some baking and some making!
Top effort, Y5.
Drama in Reading
This week, Year 5 have been reading a short story about an alien landing!
We have used lots of inference skills earlier in the week. For example, we completed a feelings graph to map the characters’ emotions and did some hotseating to really put ourselves in their shoes.
On Wednesday, Y5 created a piece of drama based around the story and performed it to the class. We needed to be confident, remember our lines and project our voices.
