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21 September 2018

Best of British themed menu

Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu on Thursday 04 October.

Please contact the office, by Wednesday 26 September, if your child would like a school dinner on this day.

Holiday activities

Here are some more ideas for keeping active over the summer holiday.

Make-A-Wish skipping challenge

At the end of the Being Healthy themed week, we wore blue for our Make-A-Wish skipping challenge day.

There was some fantastic skipping on the day with many children challenging themselves with new skipping skills or improving the number of skips individually or with a partner.

Thank you for all the donations for our school charity.

We raised £196 for Make-A-Wish.

Goodbye Reception 2018

Well done to all the children in Reception for having such a fantastic year. We hope they have had as much fun as we have! 

From investigating ice to reading in the glorious sunshine.

From minibeast hunts at Nellbank to becoming astronauts during our space topic.

We’ve learnt to read, write and ride a bicycle amongst many other things! The children have grown in confidence and we look forward to seeing their progress and minds grow in Year One. 

Thank you for all of your support throughout the year.

Balance, Pedal, Go!

This report highlights that, according to new research by Keep Britain Tidy, a third of primary school children have never been taught how to ride a bike.

We’re happy to say that following the recent Reception balance, pedal, go bike training sessions, 24 out of 30 children can now ride a pedal bike.  Two children missed their final session so the number could be even higher!  Prior to the training, four children could ride a pedal bike.

Well done to the Reception children who remained focussed through their sessions and used determination to achieve this key life skill.

These sessions were funded by our PE Premium and from the staff, parent and pupil feedback, this will be an initiative we will repeat next year too.

We hope the children will continue to develop their riding skills over the holidays – maybe going on a family bike ride; taking part in the Leeds Let’s Ride event on traffic free roads on Sunday 2 September; going along to a Let’s Ride Pop Up ride locally and most importantly using their bikes to travel to school when we return in September.

It’s gold again!

At the end of each year, schools are invited to apply for their School Games Mark. The School Games Mark rewards schools for their commitment to and development of competition, school sport and physical education.

We are very proud to announce that our application has been verified and we have been awarded Gold award for the fourth year running.

Thank you to staff who have accompanied children to these events or run after-school clubs this year. Thank you also to Mrs Russell who provides excellent administration of our clubs and sporting events and competitions.

Thank you as well to all parents/carers who have helped with transport and supported at our events this year. Finally, thank you to all pupils who have tried out a new physical activity either at an after-school club or as part of a competition or participation event and to those children who have represented our school so well this year.

Free tennis weekend

This weekend, 21st and 22nd July, sees free tennis activities for all ages and abilities at David Lloyd to celebrate Great British Tennis Weekend.

Poetry

In our English lesson today, we matched different forms of poetry to their definitions.

We had to read really carefully to match them.

13 July 2018

This week’s whole homework involves completing the pupil health questionnaire sent home with your child/children.

 I can share my views about health.

Pupil voice is an important part of our school and this annual questionnaire provides pupil views on some of our key health issues.

Please support your child to complete the health questionnaire by discussing these issues.

Please note the questionnaire should be returned to your class teacher by Wednesday 18 July.