Women’s role after WW2
After the end of WW2, women who had been working in munitions factories and doing agricultural work for the Women’s Land Army had to return to more traditional roles as men returned from war.
Having their horizons narrowed, women who worked during the war told stories to their daughters about the experiences of work they’d had during WW2.
As a result, the 60s and 70s saw the emergence of feminist groups who protested against the inequality between women and men.
In our history learning, we made freeze frames to illustrate how women felt after the end of WW2. Feelings of anger, solidarity and a longing to return to the jobs they had experienced during the war were prominent.
Help at home by asking your child if they can remember what the end of WW2 meant for women. This website is useful to recap our learning, too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/did-ww2-change-life-for-women/zbktwty
Well done, Y6!
Basketball
City of Leeds Basketball, who provide our after-school basketball clubs, have a range of sessions for children of all ages.
Visit their website to book.
Auditions for Y5/6 Production: Porridge
If you would like to audition for a specific role in this year’s production, please read on!
- Select a role you would like to audition for.
- Select no more than one page of dialogue to practise from the script.
- Rehearse for your audition which will take place on one of the following days:
Tuesday 23rd May
Wednesday 24th May
Thursday 25th May
Please tell your class teacher which role you will be auditioning for on Friday 19th May.
SATs Week!
After much preparation, Y6 completed their SATs tests this week. They have all worked extremely hard and should all be proud of themselves.
As a reward, we enjoyed an afternoon at Moortown park and ate some ice-creams as well!
Well done Y6 – have a great weekend!
Red Cross: Asylum Seekers
On Friday morning, we had a visitor from the Red Cross visit Year 6 to help us learn about refugees and asylum seekers.
We discussed empathy and the experience of asylum seekers, thinking about how we would respond if we were forced to flee our country. We read a story about a 13-year-old Syrian refugee and used key words from the story to create a poem.
Here is a poem written by one of our Year 6s:
School is free
Healthcare is free
Loving family
Everything changed
Uncle died
Have to move
Have to prove my identity
Been abused
Been robbed
Need to rotate
To reunite with my family
Help at home: ask your child what a refugee is and one thing they would do differently after today’s workshop.
Living and Learning: I know the importance of sleep
In this week’s L&L session, we learnt about the importance of sleep.
It’s recommended that at 10 years of age, you get 10 hours of sleep per night to reap the following benefits:
1. Concentration – increased concentration on tasks throughout the day
2. Health – you’ll feel fuller thus making it easier to maintain a healthy weight
3. Decision making – more decisive decision making
4. Memory – short term memory is transferred into long term memory
5. Mood – a better mood and less irritable
6. Repair – body’s muscles, organs and tissues are repaired during sleep
Well done, Gurvar, who received this week’s L&L certificate!
Help at home: establish a clear, structured nighttime routine with your child to ensure they get the recommended amount of sleep each night. This will help their social, mental, emotional and physical health!
Dissecting Alstroemerias
In this week’s science learning, we expanded our understanding of the anatomy and reproductive cycle of a plant.
We did this by dissecting alstroemerias and labelling the different parts.
After this, we created a cartoon comic strip to illustrate how alstroemerias (and similar plants) reproduce.
Help at Home: See if your child can remember the different parts of a plant. Even better if: they could draw a labelled diagram to illustrate their understanding!
West Yorkshire School Games Cross Country Final
A huge well done to our star Year 6 star runner who, after finishing 1st place in the Leeds final, represented Leeds today in the rearranged West Yorkshire Final at Temple Newsam. He ran a fantastic race and finished in a very impressive 6th place out of a very large field. What a great achievement!
Coronation celebration – Themed Menu 05 May 2023
Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu for the Coronation Celebration on Friday 05 May 2023. See the menu here.
Please contact the office, in the next few days, if your child would like a school dinner on this day (no action needed if your child normally has a school meal on this day).
Big Walk and Wheel final results
After the two week Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge, we now have the final results.
In our category of small primary schools, we finished in 24th place out of 514 schools with an average of 91.14% of our journeys to school being active. We achieved the highest national (24th) and Northern England (5th) ranking out of those schools in Leeds taking part.
This is a great achievement and we want to thank families for supporting this challenge.
We hope these active journeys continue as by walking, cycling and scooting to school, you are helping us make a positive change to the school run. With less cars close to the school gates, this is a safer and healthier way to start the day.