10 July 2015
The spellings this week are a little different. The children won’t know the spelling list until the test. However, they have been told that the words will be from the three main spelling rules we talk about:
- drop the e for ing
- double up for short vowel sounds
- drop the y for an i
Children should look back at their learning lists for spelling lists featuring these rules.
Healthy Schools award
Following our School Health check earlier this year, to maintain our Healthy Schools status, we were proud to attend the Healthy Schools celebration event to receive our award. Held in the debating chamber at Leeds Civic Hall, we enjoyed presentations from councillors and other schools around the 4 areas of Healthy Schools – physical activity, PSHE (personal, social and health education), healthy eating and emotional health.
Two of our sports leaders were invited to lead a practical session in the break for other pupils who were attending. They did this with great confidence and encouragement.
As part of the event we also had the opportunity to use the voting system in the debating chamber to vote on key areas across health and wellbeing for councillors to consider on a city-wide strategic level. Based on data from the 2014 My Health My School survey, our current Year 5 and 6 classes will be completing this survey for 2015. The top priorities identified were levels of physical activity and eating 5 a day.
Summer sports and arts camp (Edward Lynch)
Edward Lynch, a local dance coach who has worked with children during our curriculum and extra-curricular dance sessions, is helping to run a local sport and arts camp called IMPACT in the summer holidays.
Healthy changes
As part of our SEAL theme of Changes, last week our SEAL statement focussed on making healthy changes. Some suggestions from Year 1 include:
- have fruit dessert instead of cake
- do more after-school clubs
- ride a bike more
- walk to the shops instead of driving
- do parkruns with your family
- go roller skating or skateboarding more
- walk to school more
- drink more water
- run somewhere every day
- eat more or different vegetables
- ask to go swimming more
What healthy change could you make?
Change 4 life and Leeds Let’s Change can offer lots of suggestions.
Roundhay Park
What a super day out at Roundhay Park this week! We staged our very own mini Olympics and held a medal ceremony for the winning team – well done yellow team! Followed by a picnic, ice-creams and plenty more games.
10 July 2015
This week’s whole school homework involves completing the pupil health questionnaire sent home with your child.
I can share my views about health.
This annual questionnaire has been compiled in consultation with our school council and helps us to find out pupil views on some of our key health issues at school. Please support your child to complete the health questionnaire by discussing these issues. The questionnaire should be returned to your class teacher by Wednesday 15 July.
Stripy salad pots
As part of our Green Fingers topic, we have been learning about food origins and how all food comes from plants or animals. While our plants are not ready for eating, we’ve used vegetables that we are growing in our stripy salad pots.
Grating, snipping and chopping (bridge technique) were all skills we used to prepare our salad pots. There was lots of washing up to do too.
We discussed why some people might have different ingredients in their salad pot – likes/dislikes, allergies, religion and we also thought about how we could adapt this recipe, maybe adding pasta to make it a balanced meal.
Alice in Wonderland
A massive well done to the class for their first performance this afternoon. You all did brilliantly to bring this rather bonkers story to life!
Looking forward to Thursday’s final performance!
Unclaimed raffle prizes
Following Saturday’s super, sensational Summer Fair, there are a few unclaimed raffle prizes…
- £151.40 prize for the Half ‘n’ Half jar: orange 193
- Oranaise restaurant voucher: orange border 62
- Tumble Tots annual membership and one free term of lessons: orange border 98
- two free studio fees for Jack Rabbit’s pottery studio in Oakwood: pink border 469
- free holiday camp session for Leeds Gymnastics Club and free parent and child class: orange border 179
- Nichols Vegetarian Deli in Chapel Allerton voucher: pink 382
- one Guisley football family match pass: white 526
- one Guisley football family match pass: orange border 45
- White Rose Marshall Arts vouchers: pink 400, pink border 379
- five swimming lessons with Neptunes swimming: orange border 121
- voucher for Explore learning: pink border 467
- water bottles from Edinburgh Bicycle Shop (all of the following): white 396, pink 386, orange border 158, orange border 184, orange border 79