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Training Days

We’re happy to confirm the training days for next year:

• Monday 05 September
• Tuesday 06 September (which means children return to school on Wednesday 07 September)
• Monday 31 October (following the half-term holiday, which means children start the second Autumn term on Tuesday 01 November)
• polling day, sometime in May (this is likely to be 10 May, but has not been confirmed)
• Monday 23 July (this is the last day of the school year, which means children finish the Summer term on Friday 20 July).

We’re one of the first Leeds schools to confirm their training days.  We’re happy to do this in order for you to arrange holidays and therefore ensure term-time absences are kept to a minimum.

The dates will be posted to the school’s website calendar shortly.

06 April 2011

The homework this week is ‘Practice Makes Perfect’ and they will be tested on it on Wednesday 11^th May.

I can learn a new times table.

This is a great chance for your child to learn a whole new times table. They should know their 2x table, 5x table and 10x table so make sure they know these before you move on to any other times tables. Here a few ideas for how they could learn a new times table.

• They could repeat them out loud. You have to be sure that they can do the times tables out of order as well. For example, being able to do 7 x 3 without going through the whole table (3,6,9 etc).
• Give them a times table list to memorise. See if they can write the whole times table out. Similar to how they practise spellings, but once again, make sure they can do them in any order.
• Times Table Tennis. You start at any number in the times table and they have to say the next two in the sequence going upwards and downwards.

Then, play these fun games to see if they’ve got it!

SEAL statement 09 May

This week, as the Year 6 class prepare to sit their SAT tests, our SEAL statement is ‘I try my best for others and for myself.’

As Mrs Hazell has commented in the Year 6 class news the children have put a lot of hard work and time into their preparations.  Good luck to all of Year 6.

The Relax Kids website has some ideas for supporting your child through tests and you can view their magazine online too.

06 May 2011

This week’s spellings for Bananas and Oranges are words that begin with mis.

Apples have words that all have the sound oi in the middle.

They will be tested on Friday 13 May.

After school TAG rugby

In addition to our many after school clubs on offer this term we are pleased to announce a further club arranged for children in Year 3 and 4. 

The TAG rugby club, open to boys and girls, will start on Tuesday 17 May (there is no taster session) from 3.15pm to 4.15pm and is run by a rugby coach.  There is no charge for the club.  The club lasts for 5 weeks and the children will then have the opportunity to take part in a festival at a local rugby club against other schools. 

If you would like to take part in the club please complete the permission slip on the recent letter or ask for a letter at the office.

Kwik Cricket

Well done to all of Year 6 who took part in a Kwik Cricket tournament at Allerton Grange on Friday.  We were competing against another local primary school renowned for their excellent cricketers.  All our teams played with great co-operation and sportsmanship and overall our first team lost by only nine runs to the other school.  This was a fantastic achievement and we were congratulated by the opposing team’s teacher for making it such a close event. 

The class will be able to develop these cricket skills further after their SATs as they will be having three coaching sessions with a Yorkshire Cricket coach.

Stay for Sums on Wednesday!

This week, instead of ‘Relax and Read’ we are inviting you to stay and take part in some mathematical activities with your child.  Dig in the sand, cut and stick on the technology table or splash in the water. See you there!

Don’t forget our Monster Assembly on Thursday!

06 May 2011

This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 11 May 2011.

I know features of newspapers.

06 May 2011

This week’s spellings are words to help your child when writing newspaper articles about natural distasters. They’ll be tested on Friday 13 June 2011. The children could try to think of or find any other ambitious vocabulary (we call these ‘Wow Words’) which they could use in their writing.