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‘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!

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.

We’re ready to travel back in time

We’re excited to start our new history themed topic, Time Travel.  In Year 1 and 2, we’ll be focusing this learning on houses and homes in the past to the current day.

First, we considered what we want to find out.

‘I would like to learn about where rich and poor people lived in the Victorian times.’ Eleanor

‘What did people live in back in time?’ Sameeksha

‘I would like to learn about bungalows and other houses.’ Kirtan

‘What did Stone Age houses look like?’ Jack

‘How many houses are there in the United Kingdom?’ (Nice link to our Where in the world? topic, Junior!)

‘How would people afford houses in the past?’ Zain

‘I would like to learn how you make a house.’ Isla

‘I want to learn about how dark the houses were.’ Lily

‘I would like to know how houses were built in the olden times.’ Jake

‘I would like to learn about what beds used to be like.’ Bridget

Where in the world?

This week, we have begun our new history themed topic, Time Travel.  Before that we reflected (one of 8Rs for learning) on our geography topic, Where in the world?

‘I learnt there are five oceans in the world.’ Inam

‘Australasia is a continent.’ Noah G

‘I learnt that North America is joined up to South America.’ Gabrielle H

‘I learnt the North Pole and the South Pole are the coldest places.’ Shasmeen

‘I learnt there are four countries in the United Kingdom.’ Soloman

‘I learnt that all countries need a capital letter.’ Olivia

‘I learnt all the oceans and continents in our topic.’ Rizwan

21 September 2018

Best of British themed menu

Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu on Thursday 04 October.

Please contact the office, by Wednesday 26 September, if your child would like a school dinner on this day.

Holiday activities

Here are some more ideas for keeping active over the summer holiday.

Make-A-Wish skipping challenge

At the end of the Being Healthy themed week, we wore blue for our Make-A-Wish skipping challenge day.

There was some fantastic skipping on the day with many children challenging themselves with new skipping skills or improving the number of skips individually or with a partner.

Thank you for all the donations for our school charity.

We raised £196 for Make-A-Wish.

Goodbye Reception 2018

Well done to all the children in Reception for having such a fantastic year. We hope they have had as much fun as we have! 

From investigating ice to reading in the glorious sunshine.

From minibeast hunts at Nellbank to becoming astronauts during our space topic.

We’ve learnt to read, write and ride a bicycle amongst many other things! The children have grown in confidence and we look forward to seeing their progress and minds grow in Year One. 

Thank you for all of your support throughout the year.

Balance, Pedal, Go!

This report highlights that, according to new research by Keep Britain Tidy, a third of primary school children have never been taught how to ride a bike.

We’re happy to say that following the recent Reception balance, pedal, go bike training sessions, 24 out of 30 children can now ride a pedal bike.  Two children missed their final session so the number could be even higher!  Prior to the training, four children could ride a pedal bike.

Well done to the Reception children who remained focussed through their sessions and used determination to achieve this key life skill.

These sessions were funded by our PE Premium and from the staff, parent and pupil feedback, this will be an initiative we will repeat next year too.

We hope the children will continue to develop their riding skills over the holidays – maybe going on a family bike ride; taking part in the Leeds Let’s Ride event on traffic free roads on Sunday 2 September; going along to a Let’s Ride Pop Up ride locally and most importantly using their bikes to travel to school when we return in September.