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The Really Big Summer Adventure

Change4Life have launched their new campaign to run throughout the six week summer holiday to inspire children and their families to increase their physical activity and healthy eating.

Year 3, 4 and 5 will be receiving their Really Big Summer Adventure maps this week full of daily activities, weekly challenges and gold medal rewards to keep active all summer long. 

However, all children, parents and carers are encouraged to use the Change4Life Fun Generator with over 100 fun activities to keep children up and about during the summer holidays.

Have a happy and healthy summer!

It’s the summer…

…so there are no homework activities or spellings to learn.

Don’t forget learning can still happen in the holidays:

• take your children to the park and talk about what they can see, hear and smell;
• take a trip using a bus or train, and take time to look at the timetable (Why is it in the 24 hour clock? How long will the journey last? When will we arrive?)
• enjoy visits to the local library;
• spend time baking (What unit of measurement will we use to weigh? If we want to make twice as much, how much will we need? When will the food be ready?);
• encourage your child to write some postcards to friends and family;
• take a trip to a museum or art gallery.

Research shows that the long summer holidays can mean some children’s learning regresses and they might struggle in the autumn term to keep up.  Frequent talk-times, reading, counting and tables practice are so important!

On Our Doorstep

A visit to Tropical World taught us about lots of different animals and their habitats.  Even though a tarantula or snake are not local to Leeds, we are fortunate enough to have them on our doorstep!

We also spent a lot of time in Roundhay Park investigating the wonderful green space that is within walking distance of our school.  Yes, you’re right!  We walked all the way from school to the park (we did cheat on the way back and jumped on the bus!).  We had a great day and finished it off with an ice cream treat.

SEAL statement 11 July

‘I am ready to cope with a change of teacher’ is the final SEAL statement for our Changes theme. 

This week the children will be spending an afternoon with their new teacher and teaching assistant in their new classroom. 

During the session the children will be able to ask questions about their new class and get to know their new teacher, helping them to get ready for this upcoming change.

08 July 2011

This week, we are looking at words we need to spell correctly in our writing.

These words will be tested on Friday 15 July.

08 July 2011

The spellings this week are all words that have an ‘ed’ ending. Nouns and verbs practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise numbers 1-10.

1. asked
2. looked
3. showed
4. stopped
5. dragged
6. explored
7. touched
8. travelled
9. bewildered
10. abandoned

The spellings will be tested on Friday 15 July.

08 July 2011

This week’s spellings for Bananas and Oranges are words that have a consonant followed by a ‘le’ ending.

Apples have words that are plurals ending with ‘s’.

They will be tested on Friday 15 July 2011.

08 July 2011

This is your final piece of spelling homework.

You need to learn the WOW words from the previous four spelling lists. You need to learn all of them but I will only test a random selection.

You also need to learn all the definitions ready to put the words into sentences to show you understand the meanings.

Spellings will be tested on Friday 15 July 2011.

08 July 2011

This week’s homework is Creative Homework.   Please hand in on Wednesday 13 July.

I can show my learning journey.

This is the final homework of this academic year.  It’s an opportunity for your child to reflect on their learning over the year.   Their reflections could include:

• what they have learned
• when they learn best
• how they learn something new
• how they know they have learned something new
• how they approach learning something

We look forward to sharing these learning journeys with the children.

Thank you for all your support with homework over the past year.

Don’t forget learning can still happen in the holidays:

• take your children to the park and talk about what they can see, hear and smell;
• take a trip using a bus or train, and take time to look at the timetable (Why is it in the 24 hour clock? How long will the journey last? When will we arrive?)
• enjoy visits to the local library;
• spend time baking (What unit of measurement will we use to weigh? If we want to make twice as much, how much will we need? When will the food be ready?);
• encourage your child to write some postcards to friends and family;
• take a trip to a museum or art gallery.

Research shows that the long summer holidays can mean some children’s learning regresses and they might struggle in the autumn term to keep up.  Frequent talk-times, reading, counting and tables practice are so important!

08 July 2011

This week’s spellings are words with the ‘ible‘ suffix. They will be tested on Friday 15 July 2011.