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15 July 2016

Gobblefunk words

To promote the big read and celebrate the work of Roald Dahl, this week’s spellings are all words found in his books.

Children should learn how to spell these words in preparation for their final spelling test on Thursday 21st July.

Although these are made-up words, your child be practising the skill of learning new words – a vital life skill. There are lots of rules in these words which apply to spelling real or made-up words. (‘Squibbling’, for example, is probably a verb, ‘to squibble’, and uses two key rules: ‘drop the e for i n g‘ and the always important ‘double up for short vowel sounds’.)

I wonder if you can figure out what they mean too or even track down some Roald Dahl books that have them in!

Digimap Steve Backshall competition

Thank you very much for your entries to the Steve Backshall competition.

Unfortunately, our entries were not chosen as winners. Copied below is their announcement of the winners:

Thank you so much for entering our Digimap for Schools Wildlife Maps competition to win a school visit from Steve Backshall. The standard of entries was amazing and has totally delighted us. The judging panel met at the Royal Geographical Society and whittled the entries down to a shortlist. Steve Backshall then selected the winner. The delay in responding to you all was caused by Steve’s busy filming schedule and  I am sorry it’s taken so long to announce a winner.

It was a difficult task to judge from all of the excellent entries, and the team thoroughly enjoyed looking through the variety of wildlife photos and the questions relating to the photos. Finally, Mengham Junior School in Hayling Island was selected as the overall winner, and will soon have a visit from Steve Backshall. The wildlife presenter, naturalist and all-around adventurer will spend a morning with the school next week, taking the winning class on a nature walk and talking to the school.

There were also two runners-up, from St John’s Mead Church of England Primary School in Eastbourne and Kitebrook Preparatory School in Gloucestershire, who will receive signed books from Steve Backshall. More information about the winning entry is on our blog today https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/blog/2016/07/digimap-schools-competition-winner-announced/#more-21740

Thanks to Jack Elliott in Year 6 for letting me know about the competition and asking if we could enter. I know that some people had issues getting logged into the program and uploading your entry. I’m sorry about this. The password on the letter was correct and I’ve given feedback to Digimap.

Mindful morning

Year 2 finished the morning with a mindfulness finger sticks exercise which required a lot of concentration, trust and cooperation.  Why not try some other mindfulness exercises.

Science with magnets!

Olympic themed menu

To celebrate the forthcoming Olympics, Catering Agency will be running a special themed menu for school dinners on Monday 18 July. Please contact the office if your child would like a school dinner on this day.

Applying for a secondary school place for September 2017

Parents of pupils who are due to go into Year 7 in September 2017, will be able to apply for a place between 01 August 2016 and 31 October 2016.

All applications for Year 7 pupils starting secondary school in September 2017 need to be made via the online application system.

You can apply for a place by going to www.leeds.gov.uk/admissions.  This site will also give access to a video which will give you a step by step guide to completing your online application.  The online application form and the video will be available from 01 August 2016.

You will need a valid e-mail account in order to set up and create an account in the online system.  Free computer access and help with setting up an e-mail account is available in Leeds City Council libraries and One Stop Centres.  If you need help with applying for a place for your child, the following drop in sessions have been planned to help you:

If you feel that you are having difficulty with completing the application form, please contact school or the Admissions Team on 0113 2224414 to access individual support.

08 July 2016

This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Wednesday 13 July and is an exciting national competition.

Think about how you can present this creatively. We’ll be having a look at everyone’s homework and then we’ll need to decide which one of our class’s homework we want to enter into the competition.

08 July 2016

For our Talk Time homework this week, we’re reflecting on this week’s SEAL sentence.

I can discuss strategies to deal with feelings to do with change. 

Think about effective strategies for coping with change and write some notes to help you discuss this in class.

Homework should be returned by 13 July 2016.

08 July 2016

Gobblefunk words

To promote the big read and celebrate the work of Roald Dahl, this week’s spellings are all words found in his books.

Children should learn how to spell these words in preparation for their final spelling test on Friday 15 July.

Although these are made-up words, your child be practising the skill of learning new words – a vital life skill. There are lots of rules in these words which apply to spelling real or made-up words. (‘Squibbling’, for example, is probably a verb, ‘to squibble’, and uses two key rules: ‘drop the e for i n g‘ and the always important ‘double up for short vowel sounds’.)

08 July 2016

This week’s homework is creative and due on 14 July 2016.

What is multiplication?

This week we have been using problem-solving skills to solve multiplication word problems. To reinforce our learning in class, your child needs to show us what they think multiplication is.

They could:

• write some of their own word problems using their favourite characters from books
• create their own ‘maths challenges’ that could be put on our maths challenge table
• produce their own arrays and explain the multiplication they can interpret
• use images of groups to represent multiplication questions

For example, part of my homework could include this image.

I could says that I can see five groups of four legs and label this image with 4 x 5 = 20. Your child should be able to create more than one multiplication questions for an image like this (four lots of single alpaca, five pairs of eyes).