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This half-term…

This half-term, why not visit Leeds City Museum?

Currently, it has a fantastic wildlife photography exhibition on and I’m delighted to hear that Jonathan Long, a former pupil, has five photos exhibited.  He won 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the Animal Behaviour category,  1st place in the British Wildlife category and 2nd place in the Yorkshire Wildlife category, and was also the overall under 16s winner!

As well as this, check out the BBC site which outlines a variety of things to get up to.

Amazing attendance!

Our school average for the first half of the year is way better than last year: 97.2% compared with 95.5%.  All but one class has better attendance than last year, which is great.  Well done and thank you to everyone who has avoided lengthy term-time absences this year.

A special well done to the two classes who are above the school average – Year 2 and Year 5.  Here are the attendance figures for each class:

• Reception: 95.7%
• Year 1: 97.2%
• Year 2: 97.8%
• Year 3: 97.4%
• Year 4: 96.8%
• Year 5: 98.2%
• Year 6: 96.9%

Who will win our attendance competition?  There are 137 pupils who have 100% attendance – higher than last year (109 pupils), despite quite a few bugs going around.  The pupil who will win their family four main courses at Pizza Express will be announced tomorrow.

Pizza Express, Street Lane, have kindly donated more than was first advertised to you when we launched the competition: four free main courses (rather than £40 voucher).  It’s really wonderful of them to do this and we appreciate their support.  (I can heartily recommend their limited edition Cipollini pizza – it’s amazing!).

Going on an adventure!

In literacy, we are looking at scripts. Each group has got their own script with a different adventure. Today, we looked at the setting description at the beginning and got ourselves into our starting positions.

Arctic Adventure

ALL THE ESKIMOS ARE TRAVELLING ON A SLEDGE WITH DOGS PULLING THEM. IT IS VERY COLD.

Antarctic Adventure

ALL THE EXPLORERS ARE STANDING IN THE COLD ON THE SOUTH POLE, LOOKING A BIT CONFUSED.

Indian Adventure

A GROUP OF CHILDREN ARE ON A SCHOOL TRIP NEAR THE INDIAN OCEAN. IT IS VERY HOT.

Pacific Adventure

FISHERMEN ARE STUCK ON AN ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN. IT IS VERY HOT AND THEY ARE ALL SITTING UNDER A TREE FOR SHADE.

Atlantic Adventure

ON A BOAT SAILING FROM ENGLAND TO AMERICA BUT THERE IS A BIG STORM THAT IS GETTING STRONGER. THE SAILORS ARE SCARED.

We’re looking forward to practising and performing the rest of the scene while we learn about the features of a play script.

Parents’ evening time slots

Here are the times allocated for parents’ evenings this week. Times have been given on a first come, first served basis in relation to preferred times.

Wednesday 12 February

3.30 Megan
3.40 Grace
3.50 Oliver
4.00 Elias
4.10 Aleena
4.20 Harry
4.30 Zeewa
4.40 Neive
4.50 Pippa
5.00 Abdullah
5.10 Umaimah
5.20 Pohnum
5.30 Nishaan
5.40 Sam
5.50 Nico
6.00 Daanyaal
6.10 Stanley
6.20 Noah
6.30 Brandon
6.40 Saleem

Thursday 13 February

3.30 Hibba
3.40 Owen
3.50 Edward
4.00 Matteo
4.10 Isobel
4.20 Enya
4.30 Archie
4.40 Zack
4.50 Pavan

Please come and see me if you cannot make your time slot so that alternative arrangements can be made.

How can sitting on a bus make you a hero?

There was a lady in America who was arrested for not giving her seat up on a bus.  She was a black American lady and she was arrested because she did not give up her seat for a white man.

Why is she a hero?

She is a hero because she fought for the rights of black people in America.  Here are some photos of Y1 doing some drama while learning about Rosa Parks.

Challenge Corner

Challenges in Maths have been welcomed by the Year 1 children – they are always up for a challenge!  There are different challenges in this corner over two weeks; they will relate to some learning that the children have already done but will extend their thinking even more.  These challenges should develop the children’s independence while pushing their learning even further.

How many will you get?

There has been some tricky maths going on in Year 1. Grouping and sharing, the beginnings of division, has had the brains ticking more than ever.  Lots of practical work and some very resilient attitudes have shown that we can divide in Year 1.

07 February 2014

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 14 February 2014.

Don’t forget, there will be no spellings sent home over the half term holiday but you can still be looking at words and spellings while you are out and about!

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Evie and Poppy who were elected as the school councillors for Reception Class.

Well done to all the other candidates as well. We were really impressed with how confidently and clearly everyone spoke.

07 February 2014

Our spellings this week investigate how words change when er and est are added. In the list, all the words are adjectives – they describe nouns.

Notice how you drop the y for an i when changing the root word to er or est.