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Seaside sing-a-long

Year 1 have been getting in the mood for our upcoming seaside trip with a seaside-themed singing session.  A sailor went to sea, sea, sea is one of our favourites and Mia even taught us the clapping rhyme to go with the song – great partner work.

Are you a recycling hero?

To celebrate Recycling Week and Le Grand Depart, Leeds City Council is giving away a fantastic prize to one of Leeds’ recycling, reducing and reusing heroes.

Sharing a recycling ‘selfie’ could win tickets for two of the best seats in Leeds to watch Le Grand Depart, and inspire the rest of the city to recycle for Leeds, too. Just take a quick picture of any way you reduce, reuse and recycle to save waste from landfill and cash for our city’s services, then post it on facebook.com/leedswastedocs or tweet them to us at @LeedsWasteDocs.

It could be a photograph of your child recycling waste electrical equipment through our WEEE Bank or using the schools recycling bins… anything that keeps waste from going to landfill sites. Whether you’re doing this for the first time, or you’re a committed recycler – we want to see and share your efforts.

Closing date is early next week so get snapping and sharing.

20 June 2014

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on 27.06.14.

20 June 2014

This week’s spellings are all words with the suffix ful.

Ful means ‘full of’. Notice how when full is added on to the end it loses one of its ls. For example, wish and full becomes wishful.

20 June 2014

This weeks’ whole school homework is Talk Time and also involves completing the pupil health questionnaire sent home with your child.

I can share my views about health.

Emotional health and obesity are our two main health targets to further our healthy schools status and the questions are linked to these areas. They include:

• Are you happy at school?
• What do you enjoy most about playtimes and lunchtimes?

Please support your child to complete the health questionnaire in order to find out their views on some of our key health issues at school.  This should be returned to your class teacher by Wednesday 25 June.

13 June 2014

This week’s homework is an investigative task.  Earlier in the week the children were investigating arrays, a picture showing multiplication.  This homework supports their learning, seeing maths in everyday life.

I can find examples of real life arrays.

An example of a real life array would be an egg box:

• 2 rows of 3 = 6 (2 x 3 = 6)
• 3 rows of 2 = 6 (3 x 2 = 6)

(Don’t forget the link to division, too!)

13 June 2014

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 20 June 2014.

13 June 2014

We’ve been learning a lot of cycling and geography vocabulary in our lessons this week. The spellings this week are some of these words.

13 June 2014

We’ve been learning a lot of cycling and geography vocabulary in our lessons this week. The spellings this week are some of these words.

Also, we have a word of the week: treacherous. Can you use it correctly over the weekend? Fuzzies will be awarded if you have!

Important dates

Important dates for the rest of this term:

• Fri 13 June: school photographer takes end-of-year class photos
• Wed 18 – Fri 20 June: 24 of the 30 Y6 children go on their residential
• Wed 25 June: Y1 and Y2 are off to the seaside!
• Thurs 26 June, 3.15pm: presentation to Y5 parents about next year’s residential
• From Mon 30 June to Fri 11 July: new Reception children visit school
• Fri 04 July: non-uniform day…PTA ask that you make a donation for the Summer Fair
• From Mon 07 July: themed week about taking safe risks
• Tues 08 July: end-of-year reports are sent home
• Wed 09 July, 2.00pm, and Thurs 10 July, 6.00pm: Y5 and Y6 summer production of Oliver Twist
• Fri 11 July, 2.30pm: PTA Summer Fair
• Mon 14 July: transition afternoon, when children visit their new teacher (this year, we invite new Reception children into school for a third visit)
• Wed 16 July: Sports Day (location to be confirmed – I’m trying to sort this out with the Leeds Children’s Services)
• Thurs 17 July: Y6 Bowling evening
• Fri 18 July, 2.40pm: Y6 Leavers’ Assembly
• Mon 21 July: Reserve Sports Day
• Tues 22 July: Attendance Assembly, when certificates and prizes for good attendance will be awarded

The last day of term is Tuesday 22 July.

…and for next year:

We start the school year on Tuesday 02 September following a training day on the Monday.

The other training days are:

• Friday 24 October
• Thursday 07 May
• Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 July (meaning you’ve an extra-long holiday in 2015!)

New Reception children start school in the week commencing Monday 15 September.