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Applying for a place at secondary school

The deadline for applying for Y7 places for next year is 31 October 2014 and Leeds on-line application system will close at midnight on that date for secondary applications (the on-line system will remain open for primary applications). Alternatively, you might prefer to apply via a paper form and hand your completed forms into school for us to forward to the Admissions Team.

Amy Vernon from the Choice Advice Service can support you if you’re struggling with the application process. Email [email protected] or call 0113 3951183.

Offer day is 02 March this year. Parents who apply on-line will receive an email with their offer any time from midnight onwards. Parents who apply on a paper form will have their offer posted to them 2nd class on 02 March so may not receive this until later in the week.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

 Recount of our day written by Noorpreet

On Wednesday, we went for a school trip. First, we went on the coach. There were lots of sculptures. It was a large park. We also had lunch and we had fun at a fountain. There was a sculpture called Family of Man. Also, ten seated figures. We even learnt about artists and sculptures and there was lots of grass. Some of the sculptures were strange or some of them were real. It was so good because we made our own sculptures. Ours was so tall and even though it was raining, it was fantastic.

Here are some pictures from our day.

We made our own sculptures in the afternoon like real artists!

We can be artists!

On Wednesday we all became artists in Yorkshire Sculpture Park.  The inspiration came from seeing so many wonderful sculptures – there were opportunities to d0 some observational drawings and then in the afternoon, lots of teamwork resulted in some amazing pieces of 3D art.

17 October 2014

This week, our homeworks are Practice Makes Perfect and Talk Timeand are due in on Wednesday 22October.

PMP: I can find missing angles.

Children have been learning about shape in maths this week. They have a sheet in their book which asks them to find some missing angles in either a straight line or a triangle.

As always, please encourage children to find me before Wednesday if they need further help.

Talk Time: Paper books or eReaders?

More and more people are reading using an electronic device like an eReader or a tablet instead of traditional books. What do you think about this change? Do members of your family have different opinions?

When discussing topics at home, encourage your child to use connectives to signpost their ideas. Use the table below as a guide:

17 October 2014

This week’s spellings are all words which use apostrophes to shorten (contract) two words into one word. I’ve found that a lot of children in the class are making mistakes in their writing when using these words.

17 October 2014

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect.

Time is a very hard concept to learn but we have made a good start.  After looking at all the different ways we can measure time, we’ve now started to look at actually telling the time.  This has started with o’clock, with some children moving on to half past.  This week’s homework is looking at telling the time so that the children can show you what they have been learning.  Please make sure that you encourage your child to look at clocks and tell the time with them as it can take a while for them to become confident with this aspect of maths.

Thanks for your support with homework – the children are handing in some excellent stuff!

17 October 2014

Here are this week’s spellings.  Please note that the spelling test will be on Thursday 23 October as school is closed on Friday 24 October.

17 October 2014

This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Wednesday 22 October 2014.

Is this art?

You have got four pieces of art to look at. All of them are very different.

• ‘Swept under the carpet’ – Banksy
• ‘Family of man’ – Barbara Hepworth
• ‘Rain princess’ – Leonid Afremov
• ‘Essence of elephants’ – Greg du Toit

Have a conversation around the dinner table or in the car about these pieces. Are they art? Do you like them? Which is your favourite? Make some notes about your ideas in your homework book and bring these to our class discussion on Wednesday 22 October.

Phonics visits

Thanks to all parents / carers who have visited the Reception classroom to watch and learn more about phonics. These open-sessions have taken place on Wednesday and Thursday, with one more tomorrow.  We’ll repeat the open-sessions when we move to a new stage in phonics teaching and learning – look out for when. Parents’ comments have been extremely positive; feedback includes:

• “These sessions are amazing. They allow us to fully support our children, working together with school. Team work!”
• “Fantastic! Amazing to see how engaged the children were and how you teach them, making it easier to support learning at home.”

Half-term coming up…

The museums and galleries of Leeds have got plenty to keep families entertained this October.

Leeds Discovery Museum

• Investigating Masks, Wednesday 29 October, 10am – 12pm
• Investigate real Asian masks from the World Cultures collection. Discover the history and stories behind them and design your own.

Lotherton Hall

• Spooky Scarecrow Trail, Friday 24 October – Sunday 2 November, 11am – 3pm
• Back and better than ever… beware: we aim to scare! Follow the clues around Lotherton Hall and see the spooky scarecrows on display. Don’t forget to visit the Witches’ Cottage! Plus five Days of Spooky Fun from Mon 27 – Fri 31 Oct, 11am – 3pm.

Abbey House Museum

• Spooky Murder Mystery, Thursday 30 October, 10am – 12pm & 2pm – 4pm, Saturday 1 & Sunday 2 November, 2pm – 4pm
• There has been another murder in our Victorian Streets. Follow the clues and see if you can discover the murderer. Suitable for families with older children.

Leeds Industrial Museum

• Halloween Family Fun Day, Sunday 26 October, 1pm – 4pm
• Join us for storytelling and face painting and see the amazing camera obscura bringing the outside to life.

Leeds City Museum

• Sparkly, Clay Diwali Lamps! Tuesday 28 & Wednesday 29 October, 10am – 12pm & 2pm – 4pm
• Mould, squidge and shape a lamp from clay, then adorn it with sparkles and colours. Join us to light up the museum with colours for Diwali.

Kirkstall Abbey

• Fairy Creatures Scarecrow Hunt, Tuesday 28 October – Sunday 1 November, 10am – 3pm
• Hunt around the abbey for our scarecrows inspired by fairy creatures. There will be good fairies and bad fairies, goblins and elves.

Temple Newsam

• Spooky Spooktacular, Friday 31 October, 5pm – 8pm, Adult £7, Child £4, Family £20, booking essential
• Bring your little ghosts and ghouls to trick or treat through the darkened house and farm. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

Leeds Art Gallery

• Creatures of a New World in Artspace, Monday 27, Tuesday 28, Thursday 30, Friday 31 October, 11am – 4pm
• Taking inspiration from the latest exhibition, Shezad Dawood’s ‘Towards the Possible Film’, sci-fi creatures appear in Artspace, will they need to live happily in our land?Join our artist-in-resident Karen Babayan to find out.

Thwaite Mills

• Scary Skeletons, Thursday 30 October, 11am – 3pm
• Make your own scary skeleton Halloween decoration complete with flashing eyes.