Active travel winner
To mark International Walk to School month and our recent promotion of the Park and Stride site at Marks and Spencer, we are running a prize draw every week in October.
All children who make an active journey (bike, scoot, walk or park and stride) every day for each week are entered into a prize draw.
Each Friday in October, we will select a winner at random to win a £10 Love2Shop gift voucher.
Here’s our first winner. Keep up those active journeys to be in with a chance to win the next prize.
Talk Time Homework
Our Talk Time homework got us discussing who we would take with us if we went back in time. We talk in partners first, sharing who we would take.
Then, we all listened as a table.
Finally, we shared some with the class that we thought were particularly interesting:
Pia would take David Attenborough and she would visit the person who invented plastic. Together, they would explain to the inventor what problems their invention would cause. We thought this was a brilliant, thoughtful idea.
Ishaan would take Thomas because he has such a good historical knowledge.
Ripley would take Gottlieb Daimler to see what cars used to look like. He would also visit the year 0 to see whether Jesus actually was born then.
Lewis would take Lewis Hamilton and together they would go back in time to meet Ayrton Senna.
Ethan would need a minibus for his trip! He said he’d take Thomas, a translator, friends and Owen from Jurassic World.
A History of Britain – in Freeze Frames
The whole school thoroughly enjoyed watching the Hobgoblin Theatre performance of A History of Britain this morning. It was very fun and very informative.
Year 5 and 6 were then lucky enough to attend a drama workshop from them which was equally fun and equally informative.
We warmed up…
We moulded each other into people from different points in history…
We got into groups and created tableaus of different events in history…
At home, ask us about the performance and about what we learnt about the history of Britain from it. You’ll be amazed!
Living and Learning
This week’s Rs of Learning are remember and reflect.
We played some memory games, discussing how our short and long term memory work and developing some techniques to enable us to remember more.
We reflect on our learning lots and we’re pretty good at it too. Take a look at the blob tree that we sometimes use and discuss it with your child at home.
- Which blob represents you getting up in the morning?
- Which blob represents you on a Saturday?
- Which blob represents you being told to tidy your room?
‘Wheely’ good fun in topic
We’ve gone way back in time this week, right back to the Stone Age when the wheel was first invented. Through our Reading, Writing and Topic lessons, we’ve learnt all about the wheel (and axel), made our own Lego chariots, and written some great instructions for how to make them.
At home, ask us about the wheel and about our learning this week. It’s been really fun!
Bounce into basketball
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.
