Leeds Fun Run 8th May
The Arena Group Leeds Fun Run is back for 2022, taking place on Sunday 8th May.
It offers a great opportunity to get families together, while staying and active and healthy at the same time.
Children of all abilities are encouraged to take part as they wheel, walk, jog or run the 1.3 km route around the city centre.
Catalan Soccer
This week, all classes are taking part in sessions led by Catalan Soccer.
Thank you to the Year 5 pupil, who currently attends Catalan Soccer sessions outside of school, who requested they came into school.
The classes have been brilliant and the coaches have fed back what a delight the kids have been to coach!
The coaches also commented how welcome they have been made to feel by your staff and teachers, so a huge thanks for that!
If your child enjoyed their session, please contact Catalan Soccer to find out more about the classes and holiday camps they run in Leeds.
Big Walk and Wheel
Thank you to all the families who have supported the Big Walk and Wheel over the last two weeks.
Overall, we were placed 150th in the small school category, out of 643 schools, with a daily average of 74.29% of journeys to school being active. In Northern England, we were 18th out of 107 small schools. Well done to everyone who took an active journey to help to achieve this.
Over the two week period we actively travelled 1,358 times!
It would be great for these active journeys to continue. Travelling actively (walking, park and stride – Marks and Spencers car park, scooting or biking) is a safe and healthy start to the school day.
Living and Learning – First Aid
Last week, Y4 learnt what to do in case someone is suddenly ill, injured or needs help.
Basic Rules:
➤If an accident happens, it is most important that before you do anything else you must ensure that it is safe to approach and offer help.
➤If anything happens to you then you will be unable to help anyone else. This could mean one casualty then becomes two.
If it’s serious, call 999 and remember LIONEL…
➤Location. Tell them where the emergency is and where you want them to arrive.
➤Incident. Tell them what has happened.
➤Other services. Do you need more than one?
➤Number of people that are involved.
➤Extent of the injuries. What types of injuries do people have?
➤Location. Repeat again where they need to arrive.
What would you do in an emergency?
Year 4 Class Assembly
Hello!
This Thursday (31st March) Year 4 will be showcasing their class assembly at 2.50 pm. We hope that lots of grown ups can make it as we have been rehearsing all week!
We look forward to having you back in school, finally!
Miss Birch
Living and Learning – Health and Prevention
For the last two weeks, Year 4 have been learning about the importance of personal hygiene including handwashing and sleep.
The children have been talking and mostly (due to COVID) have been recapping what they already know about the importance of personal hygiene. Keeping ourselves clean means that we keep ourselves healthy and in turn help others around us too. This is has worked well in conjunction with our science topic which is all about micro-organisms. The children were able to identify and classify bacteria, viruses and fungi as well as talk about how some are good for us and some are dangerous. These are things that cannot be seen by the naked eye and therefore, highlighted the importance of handwashing!
Secondly, the importance of sleep was interesting because now the children are getting older, they forget just how important sleep is. Children should get around 10-12 hours sleep a night. This sounds like a lot but makes such a difference to how they feel during the day. Year 4 worked together to create their own night time routines to ensure that they get the most sleep possible! I have personally noticed a difference in the class when they have gotten more sleep so fingers crossed this continues!
NSPCC Speak out Stay safe
During our recent Staying Safe themed week, all pupils took part in the NSPCC Speak out Stay safe learning featuring Ant and Dec and Buddy.
We are proud to receive our certificate to recognise this.
Big Walk and Wheel
Get set… we’re taking part in Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel 2022 (the new name for Big Pedal), the UK’s largest inter-school cycling, walking, wheeling and scooting challenge. The challenge runs from 21 March to 1 April. It’s free and we would love everyone to be involved.
What do you need to do?
Encourage your child(ren) to walk, scoot or cycle to school on as many days as possible during the event. Park and stride (parking your car further away from school, for example, Marks and Spencer car park and walking, scooting or biking the final part of the journey) also counts.
Why we are taking part
As a happy and healthy school, Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel is a great way to build physical activity in children’s daily routine which is important for their physical health and mental wellbeing.
Active school runs also help to reduce congestion and air pollution outside the school gate. A 2021 YouGov study showed nearly half of UK children worry about air pollution near their school. Children thought active travel was the best away to bring down these pollution levels.
Plus there are some great prizes to be won every day if we get enough children taking part!
Useful resources
To help you prepare, Sustrans has developed a handy free guide packed with advice, games and challenges to help you have hassle-free cycle, walk or scoot to school.
Download your free family guide here.
Times tables
Hello!
Hopefully you have already heard about this from your child but if not, Times Table Rock Stars tournaments are back on! Our focus in Year 4 at the moment are times tables. They’re so fundamental in being able to develop in maths.
Year 4 have just beaten Year 6 in the first round, which is amazing, but we need to keep it up to be able to beat Year 3…
Don’t worry, you don’t need to do anything differently but just make sure your child is logging on to TTRS daily and playing as many games as you can to keep us in the lead. Not only is this fun and exciting for the children but it’s going to improve their rapid recall of their times tables which is essential during lesson time.
Bring on the next tournament!
Cross country runners
Well done to pupils who took part in the Leeds Schools Athletics Association Saturday morning race at Middleton Park. These races are open to Key Stage 2 children. This was the final race for the season but we will continue to offer these races next year.
It was great to hear they were encouraging each other at the event. Great work!
