We had a whale of a time!
Rocket seeds
You may have seen on Newsround recently that many schools have received some seeds from outer space; we are one of those schools! Today, Year 5 were set the very important challenge of planting our schools ‘red’ and ‘blue’ seeds.
Each school has received two sets of seeds (red and blue); one lot is from space and the other are plain old Earth seeds. We don’t know which one is which but we’ve planted both and so begins our experiment to find out: will seeds grow if they’ve been cultivated in space?
This is a six week experiment through which we’re required to observe, record, measure and question – all essential scientific skills. Although Year 5 have planted them, children from across the school will be involved in looking after and monitoring them throughout the project. We’ll keep you updated as the seeds grow and let you know which ones we think are from space.
Which do you think?
Lights… camera…action…
Before the holidays, Year 5 were asked what they’d like their next topic to be about. Obviously we had lots of ideas which covered all of our different interests:
- food
- film
- sport
- mythology
- technology
After Miss Rushbrooke narrowed down the selection to just four, we voted on which topic we’d most like to learn about and the one with most votes became our first topic for the Summer term. Film snatched it and so we have begun our ‘Lights…Camera…Action…’ topic.
The children ‘oood’ and ahhhhd’ when they walked in on Tuesday afternoon to find many interesting and unknown objects to explore and question.
We identified what we could see, thought about what they might do and wondered who made them; when they were made; and whether they still worked now.
We then went on to look at how films began by making some optical toys which were the foundations of the technology to transform still pictures into moving ones.
It’s been a fantastic start to the topic with many more exciting things to come!
Scratch!
Today, we have been creating algorithms using scratch. We wrote a code to manipulate a sprite. Why not ask your child what a sprite is?
What do children learn through cooking?
Pupils always enjoy cooking at school. Here is an article about its benefits.
What do children learn through cooking?
Year 3 have continued to develop their food technology skills in our session today.
Cooking is always a popular lesson and here is a recent article about its benefits.
Super Sporting Success
Fantastic news for the first day of the Summer term.
Mrs Taylor submitted an application for the Yorkshire Primary PE and Sport Premium Awards and I am delighted to tell you that our application has been chosen as the West Yorkshire winner in the Broader Sporting Experience category.
Your application fulfilled criteria for creativity, sustainability and creating a measurable impact on pupils and will now be put forward as the West Yorkshire representative at the Yorkshire finals in Harrogate in June. All county winners are invited to the Yorkshire finals to accept their West Yorkshire award and be in the running to win one of the regional awards.
West Yorkshire Sport will be coming in to school to do some filming with some of our children and this will be used in the award ceremony.
Well done and thank you to Mrs Taylor for all her efforts in putting this application together.
Free tennis
Tennis For Kids is a free 6-week coaching course packed full of action packed games and activities designed as the perfect introduction to tennis for kids aged 5-8.
Courses are available locally at Roundhay Park tennis courts and Alwoodley tennis club.
In addition, free family open days will be running locally, at David Lloyd and Roundhay Park, over the next few months.
KS2 Tuesday tuck shop
Our weekly fruit tuck shop returns on Tuesday 26 April.
As an incentive for selecting the pre-pay option, we continue to offer you one week free. Therefore, for the Summer term, the cost for one portion of fruit from 26 April to 12 July 2016 inclusive (11 weeks) is £2.00 (10 x 20p) and the cost for two portions is £4.00 (10 x 40p). Please note that if you choose to pay in advance, your payment is non-refundable and must be made in cash with the exact money.
If you prefer your child to continue paying in cash on a weekly basis, that’s fine – we’ll continue to operate this system. Each portion costs 20p.
If you would like to pay in advance for your child to visit the tuck shop, please provide money to the office as soon as possible.
KS2 fruit tuck shop takes place every Tuesday morning playtime.
Year 5 food technologists
Year 5 learnt a number of new baking skills while preparing our savoury scones including rubbing in. We’ve also learnt how to get ready to cook, about different ingredients and equipment used in a kitchen and also why some recipes need to be adapted to take account of food allergies.
The finished product appeared to be a popular after-school snack.
