Bike and run at the Brownlee Centre
The Brownlee Centre is a great facility on our doorstep.
These bike and run sessions, run by the Brownlee Foundation, are open to all children, any ability, aged 8-14. Why not give it a tri?
Homework Review
We really enjoyed reading all of our stories in this week’s homework review. There were some fantastic tales that really showed off the writing we’ve worked on so far this year.
First, we summarised our story for the people on our table using only ten words. Then, we swapped with someone else on our table and told them what we liked about it.
We then had the chance to wander around the class to get a snippet from lots of people’s before settling down to read another one and tell them what we thought.
We nominated stories to be shared on the website, giving reasons why we felt that story should be shared.
Farai’s was nominated because Thomas felt like he’d written like a Tom Gates story and he loved the cliff hanger.
Kai’s was nominated by Martha because he’d put lots of effort in and used great adjectives.
Lory’s was chosen by Rohan because it was action-packed.
Josh’s was chosen by Farai because he used some great verbs and sentence openers.
Living and Learning
Although this week’s Living and Learning statement is about summarising the work on the 8Rs we’ve been focusing on so far this half term, this week we had a visit from Dove to talk about body image.
We explored where pressure comes from for us to consider our appearance too much. Some really interesting videos showed us just how much an image we might see in professional media can be manipulated. Then, we discussed different points of the video in groups.
When we were sharing our thoughts, we had some really thoughtful and mature points to make:
Active travel winner
To mark International Walk to School month and our recent promotion of the Park and Stride site at Marks and Spencer, we are running a prize draw every week in October.
All children who make an active journey (bike, scoot, walk or park and stride) every day for each week are entered into a prize draw.
Each Friday in October, we will select a winner at random to win a £10 Love2Shop gift voucher.
Here’s our first winner. Keep up those active journeys to be in with a chance to win the next prize.
Talk Time Homework
Our Talk Time homework got us discussing who we would take with us if we went back in time. We talk in partners first, sharing who we would take.
Then, we all listened as a table.
Finally, we shared some with the class that we thought were particularly interesting:
Pia would take David Attenborough and she would visit the person who invented plastic. Together, they would explain to the inventor what problems their invention would cause. We thought this was a brilliant, thoughtful idea.
Ishaan would take Thomas because he has such a good historical knowledge.
Ripley would take Gottlieb Daimler to see what cars used to look like. He would also visit the year 0 to see whether Jesus actually was born then.
Lewis would take Lewis Hamilton and together they would go back in time to meet Ayrton Senna.
Ethan would need a minibus for his trip! He said he’d take Thomas, a translator, friends and Owen from Jurassic World.
A History of Britain – in Freeze Frames
The whole school thoroughly enjoyed watching the Hobgoblin Theatre performance of A History of Britain this morning. It was very fun and very informative.
Year 5 and 6 were then lucky enough to attend a drama workshop from them which was equally fun and equally informative.
We warmed up…
We moulded each other into people from different points in history…
We got into groups and created tableaus of different events in history…
At home, ask us about the performance and about what we learnt about the history of Britain from it. You’ll be amazed!
Living and Learning
This week’s Rs of Learning are remember and reflect.
We played some memory games, discussing how our short and long term memory work and developing some techniques to enable us to remember more.
We reflect on our learning lots and we’re pretty good at it too. Take a look at the blob tree that we sometimes use and discuss it with your child at home.
- Which blob represents you getting up in the morning?
- Which blob represents you on a Saturday?
- Which blob represents you being told to tidy your room?
‘Wheely’ good fun in topic
We’ve gone way back in time this week, right back to the Stone Age when the wheel was first invented. Through our Reading, Writing and Topic lessons, we’ve learnt all about the wheel (and axel), made our own Lego chariots, and written some great instructions for how to make them.
At home, ask us about the wheel and about our learning this week. It’s been really fun!
Bounce into basketball
School Savings Club
The School Savings Club paying in sessions for this year are at 3.15-3.45pm on the following dates (the penultimate Thursday of each half term).
- 18 October
- 13 December
- 07 February
- 21 March
- 16 May
- 11 July
If you’re unable to attend in person, please hand in any money to be deposited to the office in a sealed envelope addressed to Mrs Tiffany.
If your child would like to open an account, please ask at the office.
There is an extra incentive for pupils in Year 3 as Leeds City Council will add £10 to your child’s account.
