Be a part of the 2013 Rugby League World Cup
Fourteen teams are contesting the 2013 Rugby League World Cup through to the Final on 30th November at Old Trafford Stadium. The RL World Cup is coming to Leeds and Headingley Carnegie Stadium has the honour of hosting two international games, giving the city a perfect opportunity to be part of this unique event.
On Friday 8th November, New Zealand will play Papua New Guinea and on Friday 15th November the 1st Quarter Final match will be resolved.
Tickets are available from £15 for Adults and £7.50 for concessions and can be purchased online or through the 24 hour ticket hotline – 0844 847 2013. The RFL have announced a “Special Leeds Double Offer” for these games, buy a ticket for the NZ v Papua New Guinea game and get your Quarter Final ticket for half price.
A visitor for Key Stage 1
On Thursday, Year 1 and Year 2 had a surprise visitor in class. Florence Nightingale popped in to see Year 1 and hear all about what they had learned that afternoon about her life and she spent most of the afternoon teaching Year 2. The children were very interested to hear all about hospital conditions when Florence worked during the Crimean War and couldn’t believe it when she didn’t even know what lights or pens were!
Tasty and fun things to do for a healthy Autumn
A free children’s cookbook filled with healthy recipes has been developed by student health workers and members of the Watch It weight management programme for children in Leeds.
Along with recipes to get the whole family cooking together there are many ideas for activities around the city.
Watch It cookbook 2013 can be found in the publications section of the Watch It programme home page.
With a specific lunch section there are plenty of ideas for packed lunches!
It’s half-term…
…so no specific homework, spellings or tables this week. It’s a good time to relax and enjoy some time with your children – have you visited the free exhibition of Anthony Browne pictures at Leeds City Museum, for example?
Building a Saxon Roundhouse
On Monday morning, Year 3 and 4 took part in a great workshop where they used their maths and DT skills to build a Saxon Roundhouse. Although tricky at times, the children worked together collaboratively to solve problems and build their own section of the house.
25 October 2013
There will be no homework or spellings over the half term but if you want to do some work with your child, here are some suggestions.
- Read every day, asking questions about what is happening and how they feel about the book.
- Whenever you use numbers (cooking, shopping, temperature etc…) discuss them with your child. What do they know about that number? How much is it? How much change do I need? Is it colder or warmer?
- Encourage them to write. Maybe they could keep a diary for one day of the holidays and we can stick it into our class diary so that everybody could read it.
“We’re eating a balanced meal.”
Last week, Year 2 were introduced to some new friends who helped us know how to eating healthily. We met Donny Dairy, Colin Carbohydrate, Victor Vitamin, Peter Protein and Freddy Fats. First, we sorted different foods into the five food groups.
Then, we planned our own balanced meal by choosing
- three items of food from Victor Vitamin and Colin Carbohydrate (the food groups we should eat most of)
- two items of food from Donny dairy and Peter Protein
- one or no types of food from Freddy fat.
On Friday, we made our meal and all ate a healthy, balanced meal together.
When asked who had enjoyed their meal, here was the response!
More phonics
We have begun phase 2 of our phonics programme, ‘Letters and Sounds’.
In this phase children will continue practising what they have learned from phase 1, including ‘sound-talk’. They will also be taught the phonemes (sounds) for a number of letters (graphemes), which phoneme is represented by which grapheme and that a phoneme can be represented by more than one letter, for example, ll as in b-e-ll. We use Jolly Phonics actions to help children remember these phonemes. Each week the children will bring a set of letters home to learn. Please practise these every day and keep them in their book bag for us to add to.
Your child will be taught how to pronounce the phonemes correctly to make blending easier.
Sounds should be sustained where possible (e.g. sss, fff, mmm) and, where this is not possible, ‘uh’ sounds after consonants should be reduced as far as possible (e.g. try to avoid saying ‘buh’, ‘cuh’).
VC and CVC words
C and V are abbreviations for ‘consonant’ and ‘vowel’. VC words are words consisting of a vowel then a consonant (e.g. am, at, it) and CVC words are words consisting of a consonant then a vowel then a consonant (e.g. cat, rug, sun). Words such as tick and bell also count as CVC words – although they have four letters, they have only three sounds. For example, in the word bell, b = consonant, e = vowel, ll = consonant.
Now the children will be seeing letters and words, as well as hearing them. They will be shown how to make whole words by pushing magnetic or wooden letters together to form little words, reading words and breaking up words into individual sounds, which will help their spelling. These will be simple words made up of two phonemes, for example, am, at, it, or three phonemes, for example, cat, rug, sun, tick, bell.
How you can help at home:
Magnetic letters
Buy magnetic letters for your fridge.
Making little words together
Make little words together, for example, it, up, am, and, top, dig, run, met, pick. As you select the letters, say them aloud: ‘a-m – am’, ‘m-e-t – met’.
Breaking words up
Now do it the other way around: read the word, break the word up and move the letters away, saying: ‘met – m-e-t’.
Both these activities help children to see that reading and spelling are reversible processes.
Remember to make it fun!
18 October 2013
This week’s homework is creative homework.
I can show a healthy balanced diet.
Here are some ideas to get you going:
- cook something healthy and take photos
- design a healthy eating poster
- collage of favourite foods using lots of different materials or paper
- a healthy food quiz
We’re looking forward to looking at your healthy ideas – might just take some of your ideas for some healthy eating in the half-term holiday!
18 October 2013
The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 23 October.
I can solve division problems.
We’ve been learning about division all week so the children have some problems to solve. Ask your child to show you what method they have been taught to use to solve the problems.