A postcard to Miss Needham!
As you may or may not know, I am going to see Miss Needham over the Easter break. The children were so excited and wanted to tell Miss Needham everything that has been going on recently. So, we decided to each create a postcard. These are now packed in my suitcase ready to pass on to her! The children are looking forward to hearing her response.
Leeds Rhinos Easter activities
On Friday 18 April, Leeds Rhinos are hosting their annual family day, where all child tickets (seating and standing) are just £5. As well as the Rhinos match against Huddersfield Giants, there are a host of activities that the whole family can enjoy – all included in the price of entry.
There is also a free open training session and meet the players event at AMT Headingley Stadium, during the Easter Holidays, on Tuesday 15 April. Children and families will have the opportunity to watch the Rhinos train, meet Ronnie the Rhino and get autographs/pictures with the players at the end of the session.
English School Swimming Association North East Heat
Congratulations to our Year 5 and 6 swimmers who took part in the English School Swimming Association North East Heat at The Grammar School at Leeds. For most of the team, this was the first competitive swimming event they had taken part in so well done to all the children for their determination and also for taking responsibility by practising prior to the event. The team were then inspired by watching our City of Leeds swimmer take part in his individual races.
I’m going to practise more swimming to get faster to compete again in Year 6.
This was a great opportunity for us! Not everyone gets the chance to do this.
Living and Learning: Feeling good and being me!
In Living and Learning, the children discussed and defined ‘a compliment’ as “giving someone praise in a respectful way”. We then went on to give ourselves a compliment, others a compliment and also talked about how it makes us feel when we are given a compliment. Some of our emotions included: being happy; feeling embarrassed; being proud; feeling appreciated and validated.
Year 5 also gave out anonymous compliments to their peers in class. The children really thought about why each person is special to them. It was lovely to read these out in class!
Here are some of the things the children complimented themselves on:
Help at home: Why not go around the dinner table tonight and give each other compliments?
Guided Reading Week 5
As next week is the last week of Spring Term, your child’s target page is the end of the book (no matter the group). Guided reading books need to be returned before Friday 4th April, if possible. If your child will not have finished their book by this time, please ask them to speak to me and we can see if they can have the book for the break.
DT: Food Technology
Today, Year 5 made vegetable pasta bake! This is part of our Living and Learning (healthy eating) and Design and Technology (food preparation) learning. We worked in small groups to prepare the ingredients and then cook them. The children peeled, crushed, chopped, diced, cubed and sliced! We made sure that we washed our hands and wore our aprons for hygiene reasons.
We used the bridge cutting method and the claw cutting method to cut up our ingredients. These methods are the safest way to cut food as they help us from hurting ourselves!
Help at home: The children have been given a recipe to take home. Why not try it for yourselves? Is there anything you would change?
Topic: We are computer programmers!
In Computing, this week, we have been creating a pedometer. Pedometers are devices that measure the steps you walk. They have a device or arm inside that moves up and down with your hip motion. Each time you walk, your body tilts to one side, and you swing a leg moving forward. Your body then shifts the other way, and you swing your other leg forward as well.
Every tilt of your hips coupled with a shift of your legs counts as a step.
In our first lesson, our code did not go to plan. We had to use decomposition to help debug our code. So, in our next lesson, we used logical thinking to help create a different code. Thankfully, this one worked! Being a happy and healthy school, we put our pedometers to the test – some groups got up to 500 steps!!
Help at home: Why not have a go at creating a program on Makecode?
Moortown netballers
Well done to our Year 5/6 netballers who competed in the Bee Netball competition at Allerton High.
In each match, the team showed great teamwork and resilience. It’s great to see their netball skills progressing. Well done!
We’d also like to thank parents for helping with transport for this event.
Through our partnership with Leeds Rhinos, have a look at this special offer to see some more live netball this weekend.
Here are some local netball opportunities too.
Guided Reading Week 4
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 28th March.
Extra Time: up to chapter 38/page 177.
Flood and Fang: up to chapter 15/page 183.
Rooftoppers: up to chapter 17/page 150.
The Girl of Ink and Stars: up to chapter 21/page 186.
Kensuke’s Kingdom: up to chapter 8/page 117.
Reading in the sun!
Today, we decided to take our reading outside to enjoy the sun! This was a great opportunity for the children to read a book they were enjoying and catch up on their guided reading pages.
Help at home: Make sure your child is reading everyday and is up to date with the guided reading book target pages.