An electrifying afternoon!
This afternoon, we learnt a little more about electricity. We discussed what the symbols in a diagram of a circuit mean and what the circuit needs to work.
We used the scientific equipment to test in which circuits a bulb would light, explaining why they would or they would not. For example:
“In circuit A, the bulb would not light because the switch is open.” – Phoebe
Next, we investigated different materials to find conductors and insulators of electricity. Can your child remember their definitions? Here’s a hint: we found metal was the best conductor and plastic and rubber were insulators.
We found our circuits could be completed by a Kara- what a shocker!
Living and Learning homework: I can recognise emotions in myself and others.
“I can recognise emotions in myself and others.”
Do you need wheels for the Big Pedal?
Big Pedal Day 3
MORE PRIZES announced for The Big Pedal!
Computing with Kodu
LO: I can create and debug algorithms.
“Today we did coding with Kodu where we had different characters. We changed the heights of them and the settings of them by left-clicking and right-clicking.” – Sami
“First we clicked Kodu and pressed program. Then we had to click When… keyboard. We clicked the little add and used WASD. We went on the Do which was move and we kept it on move.” – Yusayrah
Not only did we have a go at programming our Kodus to move using algorithms, we found a bug in a pre-written piece of code and said how to fix the problem – this is called debugging.
“First we looked at them both and saw that both were arrows. We needed to change one of them to WASD because if we had both as arrows, it would control both of them.” – Albie
“I found the most challenging part was to control the Kodu because you might have pressed the wrong button and it went into the Rover.” – Phoebe
“I found moving the land the hardest because you could move it into the wrong place and do the wrong things. Remember to press F4 to put it back to the middle.” – Jasraj
“My favourite part was getting the Kodu and the Rover. They are really cute and you can change their colours.” – Jemima
“My favourite bit was moving Rover because sometimes when Safiya-Mishal was helping other people I tried to do 360’s around our other Kodu.” – Noah
Next week, we’ll design other sequences of instructions to achieve a goal. The aim for the end of the unit is to create our very own games!
School dinner consultation
Thank you to all parents and carers who provided feedback on the recent school dinner consultation of meal choices for the September menu.
Catering Leeds, our school meal provider, can offer an alternate jacket potato and sandwich option alongside the meat and vegetarian daily option and we welcomed your feedback on whether this would work for you and your child(ren).
There were a number of parents/carers who were interested to try this option but the majority of responses expressed an interest to keep the options as they currently are. The main feedback was for children to have a hot meal for their school meal rather than a sandwich.
As a result of this, we will continue with the existing daily meat, vegetarian and jacket potato option.
The September menu is currently in the planning stages and we have liaised with Catering Leeds to ensure the menu is tailored to our children’s preferences, while still meeting the national school food criteria. Once finalised, this new menu will be made available to parents/carers at the end of the summer term.
Our current menu can be viewed in the Health section and is displayed around school.
Thank you once again for your feedback on our school meals.
Themed menu
Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu on Tuesday 15 May.
Please contact the office, by Friday 04 May, if your child would like a school dinner on this day.
Big Pedal day 2
We’ve had a great increase in the number of journeys to school by bike and scooter with 24% of pupils travelling in this way today. Thank you for your support to promote this sustainable travel.
Reception continue to be the class with the highest number of pupils biking or scooting with Year 2 in second place today.
Remember, if you have to come by car to school, park further away so your child can scoot or bike the rest of the way.
The Big Pedal
Today was the first day of the Big Pedal, a Sustrans initiative to encourage sustainable travel to school by bike or scooter, running from 23 April to 04 May.
Well done to Reception who were our winning class today with a third of the children travelling to school by scooter. Year 3 were second and Year 4 were third.
Schools will be entered into daily prize draws if we have over 15% cycle or scoot on each day of the challenge. Let’s try to increase numbers of children who bike or scoot to school tomorrow as we compete with schools locally and across the country.
Electricity
Today we made circuits! We had to make them complete in order for the bulb to light up.
We made and tested predictions about what would happen if we added more batteries or more bulbs.
We had to use the equipment carefully. 
We worked as a team. 
We also did some maths learning. We had to work out the total cost of different circuits using each component’s individual price. We also helped Miss Wilson find and correct her mistake in her own maths learning, too!
It was a great feeling when we were successful!
