Cricket
Year 6 had their first cricket lesson this week and they all really enjoyed it. They started off with some simple drills practising their throwing and catching skills before moving very quickly into a big batting and fielding game. We then finished off with some quick cricket which we’ll be playing again next week after some batting and bowling practice.
Girls Golf Rocks
A great opportunity to try out a new activity locally.
Big Pedal – our best day so far!
Today, we’ve recorded the highest number of active journeys by bike and scooter for the Big Pedal – 64 pupils (30%).
It would be great to increase these figures for the last few days of the Big Pedal.
After-school clubs update
We’ve had a great response to our summer term after-school clubs with a number of the clubs already full.
There are the following places available so please contact the office if your child would like to join.
- Tuesday: 1 place netball Year 3-6
- Thursday: 1 place skipping Year 2-6
- Thursday: 1 place multi-sports Year 3-6
After-school clubs
We’ve had a great start to our summer term after-school clubs with Wake up Shake up Club and Scooter Club taking place tonight.
If your child is coming to Scooter Club, please ensure they bring their scooter and helmet every Monday.
A new city for Ade
As we’ve finished our class novel, ‘The Boy in the Tower‘, we’re creating a display based around it. Ade’s city was destroyed so we’re rebuilding it through art.
Ade used to live in a tower which was surrounded by lots of other towers so we’re designing and sketching our own towers to create a whole new city for him.
Big Pedal
- We’ve had 179 journeys recorded by bike or scooter so far.
- Wednesday 25 April was our highest participation rate with 28% of children taking part.
We’d love to improve these figures for this week.
Netball
Well done to our Year 5/6 netball team who took part in the Leeds North East High 5 netball competition at Allerton Grange today.
There was some great netball skills and teamwork from the children in all their matches. The team were proud to be complimented on their play by one of the umpires.
If you’d like to improve your netball skills, our after-school club starts next Tuesday and there are a few places available.
Great spelling practice
In Year 6, we’ve been working on our ability to spell words when we haven’t had the week to learn them. We had a go at fifteen words each day (with Miss Rushbrooke reminding us about spelling patterns, sounding words out, pointing out trickier parts and all sorts of other hints and tips). Then we spent ten minutes practising any words we’d found difficult or got wrong.
We’ve really enjoyed our spelling practice and have been getting more creative every day, trying to make sure we’re thinking of ways to remember the spelling rather than just write it over and over.
Here’s an example you could use in your practice at home.
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