Me and My Money week – school charity donations
Donating money is one choice people might make when using their money.
As part of our Me and My Money themed week, we welcomed visitors from St Gemma’s Hospice, our current school charity, to hear how they have been using our donations over this year.
We have raised a staggering £1500 across the year so thank you for all of these donations. St Gemma’s Hospice are very grateful for this support.
There is one more way we can donate money this week and this is by bringing any spare 1ps or 2ps into class to deposit in each class’ saving jar.
On Friday, we shall be having a money trail with all the coins donated so please bring any spare change before then.
Here are Year 2 counting their coins so far.
Living and Learning: democracy
Year 4 have been considering what is democracy and how we can become involved in democratic decisions.
Democracy, one of the British Values, means ‘rule by the people‘. It comes from the Greek words dêmos (people) and krátos (rule or strength).
We learnt about how democracy works in this country. This included learning about central and local government, what services government provide for the people and the role of political parties.
After that, we held our own democratic vote to elect our JLT members for this year.
Congratulations to our two new JLT members and well done to everyone who took part!
We are geographers!
To conclude our Geography topic this half term, Year 4 ventured into Moortown to conduct some fieldwork.
We collected data about how land is used in Moortown.
We plotted our route on a map and took photos of what we observed.
Our results concluded that the main land-uses in Moortown are residential, commercial and recreational.
Help at home by asking your child what land-uses we found during our fieldwork!
We are readers!
This half term, teachers have been keeping an eye out for children impressing them with their reading.
In KS2, teachers were looking out for Reading Records where the weekly activity had been completed with time and care, book reviews had been done or challenges ticked off!
In KS1, teachers were looking for children who were putting the most effort into learning to read fluently.
Well done to our winners for this half term and welcome to the Library Team! They’ll meet with Miss Wilson occasionally to share their ideas and help make decisions about our library.
Take a look at some of their fantastic efforts:
Did you know?
Those who read for pleasure…
- Know more words
- Are better writers
- Have more empathy
- Have better general knowledge
- Have a better understanding of other cultures
- Are better at making decisions
- Do better in school generally!
Keep up the fantastic reading, everyone. There were so many people to choose from and you never know – it could be you next time!
Observation over time
Last week, Year 4 ventured into our school grounds to gather our first round of data for our observation over time.
We are observing how the living things in our school grounds change over the course of the school year.
We are going to collect further data in the spring and summer term and then draw conclusions from our results.
Watch this space!
Help at home by asking your child what they observed in our school grounds.
Tom Palmer local events
This year, some children at school attended an online workshop with author Tom Palmer. Tom Palmer has been in touch to let us know about some local events he is attending in half term.
Message from Tom
For children and families – I am also coming to Leeds on Thursday 2 November
2023 :
* Farsley Book Festival – 10am-11am more here
https://trumanbooks.co.uk/event/flf-kids-day
* Chapel Allerton Library – 2pm
* Pudsey Community Hub and Library – 4pm
Latin!
In Latin, we have been learning lots of new vocabulary. We are enjoying making new connections between Latin and English words.
Last week, we combined various Latin words to create a new inventions. Take a look below!
Living and Learning: rights and responsibilities
In Year 4, we know that rights come with responsibilities.
For example, we have the right to think and believe what we wish to so we have the responsibility to respect other people’s thoughts and beliefs.
We have the right to an education therefore we have the responsibility to come to school and engage with our learning.
We have the right to food and therefore we have the responsibility to make our own healthy choices.
We have the right to play and we have the responsibility to play safely and sensibly with our friends.
Help at home by asking your child to think of their rights and therefore what responsibilities come with these rights.
Leeds Diving opportunities
Recently, Year 2 and 3 welcomed Leeds Diving as part of their talent in diving programme.
If your child is interested in learning to dive, please see the information and requirements below.
We are biologists!
In science, we are biologists.
We have been learning about living things and their habitats.
On Friday, we ventured into our school grounds to investigate what flowering and non-flowering plants we could find.
Help at home by asking your child what a flowering/non-flowering plant is.
