Year 1 Class News

Goodbye Year 1….

…what an amazing year we have had!  You’ve all been incredibly hardworking and have been pleasure to teach.  You have all made different contributions and will be remembered for lots of different reasons:

• Well done to Zara and Enas – you are much more confident and will always join in now and, Zara, you are also the best giggler!
• Evie and Alexandra- you are amazing writers and have exceeded all expectations.
• Byron, Alexander, Finlay, William, Sam and Eliza have all made us say “wow” at some point this year with some of their maths.  It’s great to see your enthusiasm.
• Ben, Zakariya and Charlie – your handwriting is so much better. You’ve showed perseverance and determination. Ben, we also have to mention your stylish bed-hair!
• Musa, Daniel, Ahmed and Gurnoor – you ask really interesting questions and always want to find out more. Keep asking questions – that is how you find out more and more.
• Kismat (also known as Bob!), Eve, Rabiya, Kirsten, Natasha and Zidaan: you’ve made so much progress with your writing – you’re now much more confident and can write for lots of different reasons.
• Aisha has to be the most talkative member of Year 1 but she has also made lots of progress in phonics and is now a confident and accurate reader.
• Arundeep has learnt his spellings thoroughly every week and has been determined to get every spelling right each week – he has achieved this on many occasions.
• Poppy, Manpreet, Maggie and Nayaab: thank you for your efforts with your creative homework – it’s always something to look forward to.
• Eleni – your skills in PE are amazing.  You’re competitive but also a really good team player.

Thanks, Year 1, for a brilliant year.  Enjoy the summer and we will see you in September all ready for Year 2.

Summer Reading Challenge 2015

This year, the Summer Reading Challenge returns with the challenge of breaking records!

It’s really simple to join in and complete the challenge. All you have to do is

1. Join any Leeds library (including mobile libraries).
2. Borrow three books and read them. (You could write a short book review on them too.)
3. You can borrow any book: stories, joke books, information books or even audio books.
4. Return these (to any Leeds library) and borrow another three books.
5. That means you need only borrow six books altogether – or more, of course!
6. Once you’ve returned your second lot of three books, your challenge is complete!

We’re hoping to get lots more children taking on the challenge this year and enjoying their reading over the summer. Try not to borrow thick books that you’re never going to finish and make sure you pick books you’re going to be interested in, or, try something new. For any more information, take a look at the leaflet below.

 

Healthy Schools award

Following our School Health check earlier this year, to maintain our Healthy Schools status, we were proud to attend the Healthy Schools celebration event to receive our award.  Held in the debating chamber at Leeds Civic Hall, we enjoyed presentations from councillors and other schools around the 4 areas of Healthy Schools – physical activity, PSHE (personal, social and health education), healthy eating and emotional health.

Two of our sports leaders were invited to lead a practical session in the break for other pupils who were attending.  They did this with great confidence and encouragement.

As part of the event we also had the opportunity to use the voting system in the debating chamber to vote on key areas across health and wellbeing for councillors to consider on a city-wide strategic level.  Based on data from the 2014 My Health My School survey, our current Year 5 and 6 classes will be completing this survey for 2015.  The top priorities identified were levels of physical activity and eating 5 a day.

Healthy changes

As part of our SEAL theme of Changes, last week our SEAL statement focussed on making healthy changes. Some suggestions from Year 1 include:

• have fruit dessert instead of cake
• do more after-school clubs
• ride a bike more
• walk to the shops instead of driving
• do parkruns with your family
• go roller skating or skateboarding more
• walk to school more
• drink more water
• run somewhere every day
• eat more or different vegetables
• ask to go swimming more

Cycling events

Over the summer holiday there are two cycling events taking place locally.

Stripy salad pots

As part of our Green Fingers topic, we have been learning about food origins and how all food comes from plants or animals.  While our plants are not ready for eating, we’ve used vegetables that we are growing in our stripy salad pots.

Grating, snipping and chopping (bridge technique) were all skills we used to prepare our salad pots.  There was lots of washing up to do too.

We discussed why some people might have different ingredients in their salad pot – likes/dislikes, allergies, religion and we also thought about how we could adapt this recipe, maybe adding pasta to make it a balanced meal.

10 minute shake up

Recently children have brought home information from Change 4 life on their latest campaign, 10 minute shake up.  Similar to our daily Wake Up Shake Up activity, here is a 10 minute shake up video for you to follow at home.

Harlow Carr

As part of our Green Fingers topic, Year 1 and 2 have visited Harlow Carr gardens today.  It’s been great to see the children’s enthusiasm for this topic and especially how their knowledge has grown when naming different plants and trees.  We found plenty of shady spots to try and keep cool and the ice creams helped too.  Well done both classes for demonstrating excellent behaviour.  You were great ambassadors for the school.

Tennis training

Have you been watching Wimbledon?  New tennis lessons are starting at Roundhay Park next week.

Ruler rules

Now we can compare lengths and order them, it’s time to get better using a ruler.  After comparing different lengths and putting them in height order, we learnt how to use a ruler properly so that we could check whether our ordering was accurate.