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21 November 2014

The spellings for the next few weeks all contain different suffixes. This week, the suffix is …able. The children will be tested on the words in the second column.

Group 1 

Watch out because most of the root words which end in e will require you to drop the e before adding the able. Unfortunately, this rule doesn’t apply all of the time! Spot the words in your list where you do need to drop the e and the ones where you don’t.

Group 2 

Better than?

On Wednesday, we had a visit from Jhardine Farrell, who talked to us about our perceptions of people. It was a great, interactive session which challenged children’s images of people. I was so impressed with the mature conversations the children engaged in. Some of their responses are listed below:

“We are all different but we are all equal.”
“We should all be treated the same.”
“No one is better than anyone else.”
“Don’t judge a book by its cover.”
“Some people may think they are better than others but inside we are all the same.”

It was great to hear so many thoughtful, respectful comments. We just need to ensure that we remember this whenever we meet new people, walk past people in the street, see a new person at school, get a new neighbour, etc.

The Challenge Cup

We were lucky enough to get a class photo with the Challenge Cup yesterday after the assembly from Leeds Rhinos.

Ronnie the Rhino and the Challenge Cup!

Yesterday, we had a fun-packed assembly from two Leeds Rhino Coaches who recapped some very important messages about how to have a healthy lifestyle. They introduced us to their friend Ronnie the Rhino – who had successfully changed his unhealthy lifestyle by eating a more balanced diet and doing lots more exercise. We were also very lucky as Ronnie had brought in The Challenge Cup which the Leeds Rhinos won recently.

Takeover Day!

Today is Takeover Day which means the children are doing lots of the jobs adults usually do in school (or at least helping them). In Year 5 this has meant that some children led a DT lesson; some children led the weekly tests; some children served school dinners; children chose the certificates and presented them in assembly.

Zack’s marvellous Mathletics achievement!

Yesterday was a great day for Zack! He was the first person in our class, and possibly the school, to break into the top 100 UK students on Mathletics. Each time you play a game or complete an activity, you get a certain number of points. These points are added up over the course of a week and the students with the best scores go up on the leaderboard. Unfortunately, we’ve not (yet) managed to get on to the leaderboard for the top UK classes. I’m hoping to see us up there soon!

21 November 2014

Following our Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds themed week, our whole school creative homework this week is:

I know how to have a healthy body and healthy mind.

Each class has taken part in a variety of learning this week including a range of visitors to support our teaching of keeping healthy bodies and healthy minds.  These include physical activities such as karate, tai chi, tennis, Leeds United football, assemblies by Leeds Rhinos and Leeds anti-social behaviour unit, class talks by Heart Research UK, d:side (drug education), various parents with health-related jobs and visits to Tesco for their Farm to Fork scheme and Allerton Grange.  Class-based learning has also included dental health, hand-washing, the importance of sleep and breakfast, healthy eating and food preparation and mental health.

Your child could present this creative homework in a variety of different ways:

• a quiz which tests the knowledge of other children
• art work
• poetry
• a poster
• writing: diary, story, letter, instructions, report
• a rap
• a mindmap
• your own creative idea

We look forward to seeing your creative ideas to demonstrate how to keep a healthy body and healthy mind.

Please return this homework by Wednesday 26 November.

21 November 2014

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 28 November 2014.

d:side

We had a visit from d:side this morning to talk to us about the dangers of solvents and solvent abuse.

Healthy bodies, healthy minds

This week sees us concentrating on all things healthy. So far, we’ve learnt about being safe with drugs and been taught PE, not by Miss Rushbrooke, but by Year 6!

As well as this, we’ve tried out two new physical activities and thoroughly enjoyed them both.

Martial Arts

Thai Chi

We’ll keep you posted on what other intersting activities we get up to for the rest of the week. Watch this space…