Forest School
Today, Year 6 LOVED Forest School.
Reminder: Your child NEEDS to bring a change of clothes and shoes (including socks). They were incredibly muddy and wet afterwards and needed warm school clothing to get changed into.
Reading: Viking Boy
This week in Reading, we have been focussing on our new class novel for this term: Viking Boy by Tony Bradman.
Today, we created Top Trumps cards about the characters that we have met so far. We used our retrieval and inference skills. Retrieval to create a fact file about the person and inference to rate them in each category (strength, bravery, Viking skill, loyalty and importance to the story).
We then played a game of Top Trumps. The children really enjoyed it!
Help at home: Can your child summarise what has happened in the book so far? Who are the main characters?
Spring term after-school clubs
UPDATE
The following clubs have availability and can still be booked.
The after-school clubs for next term will be available for booking on Monday 29th December ready to start w/c 12 January.
We hope your child/children can get involved with our extra-curricular activities. We will update you with club availability after the holidays.
Please contact the office if you have any queries about the after-school clubs.
Winter Wonderland Cards and 2026 Calendars
As this term comes to a close, we have been making winter wonderland cards and 2026 calendars. SURPRISE adults at home! They have created some brilliant ones.
We hope you all have a lovely break and can’t wait to see everyone refreshed in the New Year!
Basketball Christmas camps
City of Leeds Basketball Club, who run one of our after-school clubs, are holding Christmas camps locally over the holidays.
Reading: Class Novel
This half term, Year 6 have been reading Holes by Louis Sachar.
The children have really enjoyed this book and have shown plenty of different reading skills whilst listening. Take a look at some of their summarising skills:
Help at home: Discuss what has happened in the book so far. Who is the main character? What has happened to them? What do they think will happen at the end of the book?
Art: Soapy Sculptures!
This week in art, we have been beginning to sculpt. The children were very excited to get going. They created a design, which was inspired by the sculptures of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. Afterwards, we learnt how to use spoons, paper clips and a wet paper towel to create shape, form and texture in our soap. We were really focussed and created some brilliant sculptures.
Help at home: Discuss how your child was inspired by our featured artists when creating their own sculptures.
Leeds Rhinos festive match
The annual Wetherby Whaler Boxing Day Challenge against Wakefield Trinity is back again this year; and alongside the match children and families can experience family friendly festive fun as Father Christmas will once again take over game day proceedings before returning to the North Pole.
The match day will also feature Santa’s elves and a sing along with Frozen Princesses Anna and Elsa. Plus children can also take part in our half time snowball fight lead by a certain Christmas loathing Grinch!
Use the link to find out more and purchase tickets.
Guided Reading Week 5
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 12th December.
Divine Freaks: up to page 193
Spirit Walker: up to page 257
How to Train your Dragon: finish the book
The Considine Curse: up to page 167
The Switch: finish the book
Food Technology: Tomato and Lentil Soup
Today, Year 6 made tomato and lentil soup! We worked in small groups to prepare the ingredients and then cook them. We made sure that we washed our hands and wore our aprons for hygiene reasons.
We used the bridge cutting method and the claw cutting method to cut up our ingredients. These methods are the safest way to cut food as they help us from hurting ourselves!
Help at home: Have your child show you the bridge and claw cutting methods. Why not try making the recipe at home? It has been sent home with your child.