Big Walk and Wheel final position
After the two week Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge, we now have the final results.
In our category of small primary schools, we finished in 20th place out of 459 schools with an average of 89.81% active journeys to school. We achieved the highest national (20th) and Northern England (3rd) ranking out of those schools in Leeds taking part.
With a total of 1655 active journeys across the two weeks, this is a great achievement and we want to thank families for supporting this challenge.
Help at home: By walking, cycling and scooting to school, you are helping us make a positive change to the school run. With less cars close to the school gates, this is a safer and healthier way to start the day.
Living and Learning: seeing change positively
This week, our Living and Learning lesson focused on coping with change.
We talked about different changes someone may face in their life and focused on one story in particular of ‘The New Kid’.
Help at home by analysing feelings on a deeper level. The boy in the video wasn’t just ‘sad’. He felt lonely, isolated, scared and alone. Sometimes it can help to have a more accurate description of how you’re feeling so you can even better work out how to make it better and cope.
We also discussed how feelings change depending on our environment and the things happening to us. Importantly, we also decided what could be done about these feelings.
Remember – change is a positive thing! It means you’re growing and developing as a person. When you’ve the right strategies, change can be a powerful and exciting thing.
Finally, we gave strategies and advice for anyone coping with – or struggling with – change.
Book Fair
Today, Y6 had the pleasure of visiting the Book Fair!
We loved browsing the shelves and reading the exciting blurbs. It was great to have more time to celebrate books.
Help at home by joining your local library! Ask your child why this is important after our discussion in class prompted by yesterday’s Newsround.
“I recommend Biggles by Captain W. E. Johns as a class novel when you’re learning about history because it’s set in the First World War. The author flew with the Royal Flying Corps!” – Theo
“I recommend Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Mehregan because she loves the author.” – Olivia
“I recommend this Find Bluey book to Sunny because I know how much he enjoys Where’s Wally!”- Saif
“I recommend Dogman: The Scarlet Shedder by Dav Pilkey to Javi because I know he loves that series!” – Evan
Debate team winners!
Last week, three Year 6 students went to Wigton Moor to represent Moortown at a debating competition. The group argued for the abolition of zoos. Each member had 2 minutes to talk and present their reasons. They did amazingly well and won their debate. Congratulations!
Big walk and wheel update
We’ve had a great start to the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge this week.
After the first five days, we are currently in 19th place (out of 549 schools) in the small primary category with an average of 84.76% of our journeys to school being active. This is a great achievement and we want to thank families for supporting this challenge.
To keep up with the leader board for the rest of the challenge, it can be viewed here.
The Big Walk and Wheel challenge continues until Friday 22nd March so we look forward to seeing our progress over the upcoming week.
Help at home: By walking, cycling and scooting to school, you are helping us make a positive change to the school run. With less cars close to the school gates, this is a safer and healthier way to start the day.
Science and computing: the circulatory system
In today’s science lesson, we created stop motion animations to illustrate how oxygenated and deoxygenated blood travels around our body.
We learnt that deoxygenated blood travels through the veins to the heart. It then gets pumped to the lungs where it picks up oxygen. The blood is now oxygenated and travels through arteries back to the heart where it is pumped around the body. This process repeats infinitely.
What makes a good promotion?
Over the next two weeks, we’ll be writing a promotion about our Scratch games that we’ve been making in computing.
Here’s an example of the code for a program we made which is similar to Times Tables Rockstars.
In writing, we’ve analysed what makes a good promotion including the features that it should have.
Help at home by writing some persuasive sentences when practising your spellings. Could you incorporate any of this half term’s words into this piece of writing?
PE: dance
This week, we moved onto a new unit of learning in PE: dance!
After the successes of gymnastics and yoga this year, we were excited to get underway.
We focused on pathways and suiting our movements to the style of music. We’ve listened to two contrasting pieces: Le Freak by Chic and Storm Interlude from “Peter Grimes” by Benjamin Britten.
We enjoyed our warm up called Dancing Whispers. The idea is to get the same dance move to travel from the back of the line to the front by passing it from person to person – but you can only watch it once! It was very funny.
Help at home by discussing how the skills of dance transfer to other sports.
Leeds Rhinos ticket offer
As part of our partnership, and as a thank you for all the great work that the children have been doing this year, Leeds Rhinos would like to offer children and their families an amazing opportunity to attend a match at AMT Headingley Stadium at a special discounted schools rate.
Date – Friday 5th April 2024
Kick off – 8pm
Opposition – Warrington Wolves
Venue – Headingley Stadium (LS6 3BR)
Tickets can be booked now through the school via School Gateway. Please note that tickets will go off sale at 10am on Monday 25th March 2024.
We look forward to welcoming Leeds Rhinos for an assembly next week too.
Leeds North East Youth Summit 2024
Today, the Year 5 and 6 Junior Leaders visited the Leeds Civic Hall to attend the North East Youth Summit. It was a great day where the children had the opportunity to meet and hear from councillors, ask questions and give their say when thinking about things we would like to change and improve about our local area.
We even got to sit in the chambers with Leeds City’s Mayor! Will asked her a question on the microphone, “How many candidates were there for mayor?” “It can depend, sometimes there are 4, 2 or even just 1!”
We were in a room with lots of other Junior Leaders from around our locality so it was great to meet them as well!
