School Savings Club
The School Savings Club paying in sessions for this year are at 3.15-3.45pm on the following dates (the penultimate Thursday of each half term).
- 18 October
- 13 December
- 07 February
- 21 March
- 16 May
- 11 July
If you’re unable to attend in person, please hand in any money to be deposited to the office in a sealed envelope addressed to Mrs Tiffany.
If your child would like to open an account, please ask at the office.
There is an extra incentive for pupils in Year 3 as Leeds City Council will add £10 to your child’s account.
Road safety assembly
Anne, from Leeds City Council’s road safety team, delivered some great safety messages in our assembly this morning.
Can you remember the green cross code?
- Think!
- Stop!
- Look!
- Listen!
Mass park and stride
Thank you to all families who joined our mass park and stride this morning from Marks and Spencer. Special thanks as well to Leeds City Council road safety trainers, Dom Jacques and Living Streets representatives and especially Kerby for supporting this event to mark the start of International Walk to School month.
It was great to see so many families join the walk to school using Marks and Spencer to park their car rather than parking near the school gate.
Keep up those active journeys to school for a happy and healthy start to the day.
Start your day with an active journey
Today marks the start of International Walk to School month.
During October, we’re working alongside Living Streets to encourage families to travel in active ways to school. There are prize draws every week for children who have made active journeys to school (biking, scooting, walking or park and stride) with an added prize draw for those children who have made active journeys to school throughout October.
We realise that some families do need to come in the car to school so we are promoting Marks and Spencer car park (200 2 hour free spaces) as a place to park and then ‘stride’ the last part of the journey to school. This will avoid congestion at the school gate, improve health benefits to families and counts as an active journey.
Tomorrow, we will be working with Leeds City Council road safety trainers to deliver pedestrian training to Years 1, 2 and 3. Reception class will enjoy a class based safety session and Year 5 will be using the speed indicator device to check vehicle speeds in the 20mph zone outside school.
To start the day, join us for a mass park and stride meeting at Harrogate Road outside Marks and Spencer from 8:30am.
What? Mass Park and Stride
When? Tuesday 2nd October from 08:30am
Where? From Harrogate Road outside Marks and Spencer (200 free 2hr park and stride parking spaces)
Why? To encourage families to make active journeys to school and keep cars away from the school gates.
Who? Leeds City Council’s Road Safety Team, Kerby the road safety mascot, Living Streets representatives plus as many families as possible.
If you don’t come by car, join us on the route to school.
Our favourite time of the week!
On Fridays, we read with our Reception friends!
For us, it’s great to practise our expression…
… and to make friends with our newest members of school.
For Reception children, it’s great to listen to different people reading…
… and fun to investigate different areas of school (with big chairs!).
Homework heroes
This week, we thoroughly enjoyed discussing a future invention that could help the world of today. The children had thought carefully about what the problem was and what a possible solution could be. It was great to see some creative spellings, too!
Positive about negative numbers
In maths, we’ve been counting forwards and backwards with positive and negative whole numbers (including through zero).
To practise, we’ve been playing a couple of games, including…
… using a number line …
… dice and counters.
You had to roll the dice, predict where your counter would end up, and move along the number line.
The person to get to their end first won!
Next up was Negative Numbers Connect Three.
The object of the game was to roll two dice and decide whether to add them together or subtract one from the other. 
The numbers on the grid ranged from -5 to 12 and were randomly placed.
It was challenging working out whether to add or subtract depending on which numbers you needed to cover!
Living and Learning – Y5 are resilient
This week, we’ve been focusing on our fifth and sixth of the 8Rs for learning: resourcefulness and resilience.
As we’re already pretty resourceful (we go and get resources when we need them or we use our surroundings to help us), this week’s Living and Learning session revolved around resilience – something we’re always keen to work on.
In small groups, we had to build towers using really tiny blocks. It was very fiddly and, of course, they kept falling down. It was very frustrating at times. In order to build the biggest tower, we had to work well as a team, keep calm and never give up.
We discussed our emotions throughout:
It’s important to recognise your own emotions and manage them effectively so that you persist with your task. This includes keeping giddy, happy emotions to an optimum level and angry, frustrated ones under control.
We’ve also looked at some maths that required resilience in order to solve the problem. Even if we didn’t get all the answers correct, or even finish, we never gave up trying. Here are some of our celebratory poses:
After-school clubs
Places are filling up for our after-school clubs starting next week.
We do have some places available on the following physical activity clubs. These clubs are subsidised using our PE Premium funding costing just £1 per week.
Monday
Volleyball
Have a try at a new sport. Led by Elaine Brown, Leeds Volleyball Club coach, come along to learn skills, develop team work and play competitive games on our volleyball court in the MUGA. This club finishes at 4.15pm. There is no session on Monday 22 October 2018. Open to Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6 Cost £7
Tuesday
Multi skills
Come and take part in a range of fun sporting games, challenges, matches and activities which include key motor skills such as throwing, catching, kicking, running, jumping, striking, Organised by Five Star Sports. This club finishes at 4.15pm. There is no session on Tuesday 23 October 2018 or Tuesday 27 November 2018. Open to Y1, Y2, Y3 Cost £6
Wednesday
Gymnastics
A fun way to keep fit while learning new skills. Organised by Leeds Gymnastics Club. This club finishes at 4.15pm. Open to Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5 Cost £8
Thursday
Wake Up Shake Up
Be ready to Wake it and Shake it at Mrs Charlesworth’s club. You’ll be swinging, shaking, moving and grooving your way to pop, rock, R’n’B and dance. This club finishes at 4.15pm. Open to Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6 Cost £8
How can I book a club?
Booking for after-school clubs is via School Gateway. Please contact the office if you need any assistance making a booking. Payment is due at the time of booking.
National Fitness Day
Some of our Key Stage 2 children enjoyed an active morning taking part in a range of activities for National Fitness Day:
- ‘I loved the dodgeball.’
- ‘I enjoyed all the activities.’
- ‘It was fun to do the different games.’
