Girls Golf Rocks
Would your child like to give golf a try?
Here’s details of a FREE local project targeting girls golf taking place in the half term break.
What makes a good sports leader?
Thank you to our current Year 6 Sports Leaders who have fulfilled this role for the past year. It’s now time to train up some new leaders to take over lunchtime physical activity sessions.
Year 5 were invited to sign up for the roles and we had some great applications.
Today, fifteen Year 5 pupils began their training to gain their Mini Leaders Award. As well as learning a variety of physical activities, the group worked on their communication, explanation and organisational skills. After their second training session on Friday, they will be ready to lead sessions to the rest of the school from next week.
Maths in the Sun!
What’s better than learning about equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages? Learning about equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages outside in the sunshine!
Y5 played a FDP loop game, where each card had an answer at the top above a question underneath. For example: “What is 3/4 as a percentage?” Whoever had ‘75%’ at the top of their card had to stand up and say the answer, followed by asking their question and so on until the loop was completed.
We played several times in order to beat our record time and to become even more familiar with equivalent FDPs! Challenge your child to tell you what 1/8 is as a percentage!
The next level up was trying to arrange ourselves into a correct loop and into a complete circle. We had to do this by talking to each other, discussing the right answers and deciding which order to stand in! It was tricky!
“It helped me because you had to find which version matched your own. You had to think about what question might get your answer as its answer,” said Will.
SolART System
In Art, we learnt how to change the shade of a colour. Challenge your child to explain how. We had a go at mixing colours ahead of painting our planets.
Next, we began painting our planets. We had to be careful and precise with our paintbrushes and Eve noted that we had to be resilient, too. “If you were mixing a colour and it wasn’t quite right, you had to keep going until you were happy with it,” she said.
Poppy said, “I used a dabbing movement to make it look like Mercury has a rocky surface.” Challenge your child to name the three other rocky planets in our solar system.
Later in the week, we will recreate each planet’s rotations and orbits around the sun.
Walk to school week
To celebrate Walk to School week, next week, we’re working with Moortown Living Streets to run a fun daily quiz to help get more feet on the street! It is also our Money Matters themed week so what a better way to travel to school for free!
We all know that reducing school gate traffic improves air quality and safety and by walking some or all of the way families benefit from a healthier and more pleasant start to the day.
During Walk to School Week, Living Streets Moortown will be hiding ten words along the routes to school. See your child’s entry form for more details.
Find them each day to fill in the blanks and complete the story – remember to take a pen or pencil! There are also some daily ACTIONS for you to try – see if you can do them all!
At the end of Walk to School Week, your child should hand their completed story in to their class teacher for a chance to WIN one of four £10 Love to Shop vouchers!
ISS Expert Interviews
In reading this week, Y5 became experts on the International Space Station using a webpage that told us 23 facts!
Next, we wrote a script where one person was the interviewer and the other was the expert.
We used our retrieval skills by reading the text and writing and answering questions to create an expert interview and showcase the facts we’d learnt.
Finally, we performed our interviews to the class.
Great news for Leeds
This article is great news for the city enabling children to develop healthy lifestyle choices.
Leeds has become the first city in the UK to report a drop in childhood obesity bucking the national trend. The national child measurement programme (NCMP), which requires all children to be weighed at the start and end of primary school saw a decrease in obesity levels in both reception children and children in year 6.
After-school club availability
Our summer term after-school clubs have started this week but it’s not too late to sign up as we do have a few spaces still available.
Monday cricket Years 3-6
Tuesday skipping Years 1-4
Wednesday Gymnastics (Leeds Gymnastics Club) All years
Thursday multi games Years 3-6
Please contact the office to book for these clubs.
Mini Mermaids running club
Mini Mermaids running club are starting a new block of sessions, open to girls, from 7th June. The sessions build up to a 5km challenge at Roundhay parkrun on Saturday 20th July at 9am.
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For details of how to sign up, click on the booking page here.
Living and Learning: School charity fundraising
Our Money Matters themed week starts on 20 May.
During the week, there will be two opportunities to raise money for our current school charity, WWF (selected democratically by our school councillors).
Hot Shots Monday 20 May 2019
Every child will get chance to take part in this fun event to ‘kick’ off our Money Matters themed week. Children are encouraged to raise sponsorship money for taking part in the event with the money raised going to our school charity WWF.
Money trail 24 May 2019
Start saving your 1p and 2p coins to bring into class during the themed week. At the end of the week each class will use their class’s coins to make a whole school money trail in the playground.
Here’s our trail from last time where we raised £117.77. Can we beat this total?
Here’s some ways the money we raise might be used by WWF.
