Tropical World
Today, Reception enjoyed a day out to Tropical World.
They were super excited when they saw the coach!
Their behaviour was impeccable. It was a pleasure taking them all on their first school trip.
In the morning, we enjoyed looking at all of the different animals/creatures in Tropical World. At lunchtime, we sat and had a picnic in the Tropical World gardens. After lunch, on the way to our workshop, we ran off some energy in Roundhay Park.
Click here to watch some of the highlights from our trip.
Super Sports Day!
As the sun shined, we all thoroughly enjoyed our Key Stage 2 sports day of summer 2022.
The children were fantastic and participated in sprint, sack, egg and spoon and obstacle races just to name a few!
To finish off, we enjoyed watching some very brave younger sibling and parents as they competed in running races.
A huge thank you to the parents who could come to support and cheer the children on!
Sports Day
Well done to all the children for showing resilience and determination in their races! Thank you to everybody who came and supported the children at our Sports Day.
This week’s bible story
Read the story of the two brothers.
Have a think about these questions as you read:
Why did the brothers decide to have a bet?
– Why was the farm labourer unhappy and how had the lady become wealthy?
– What did the priest think about the world?
– Who won the bet?
– When the poor brother was sheltering in the forest, what did he overhear?
– How did the poor brother help the farmer, the villagers and the queen?
– How was the poor brother rewarded?
– What happened when the dishonest brother met the elves?
What lesson do you think the writer of the story is trying to teach us?
Reflection:
Read the following poem and have a think about how this relates to our Christian value of honesty.
Sometimes, we think that it is easier to tell a little lie.
We find it hard to tell the truth, however, we may try.
We’re just afraid to take the blame,
We feel remorse, we’re full of shame.
We should not cheat when things go wrong,
Just face the facts, own up, be strong.
Prayer
Dear God,
Please help us to be honest and true
In all the things we say and do.
Amen.
Brilliant Bones!
Roads and rails
At nursery this week, the children have been discussing different types of vehicles, looking at maps and learning about road signs. To help us understand maps, we thought about our own classroom and made a simple plan of where everything belongs in the room. We worked out how to travel from the internal door, round the classroom and then out through the external door to the playground. We’ve also had fun making our own simple vehicles (lolly stick rafts) and we tested them to see if they would float. We thought about what we would need if we wanted to drive a car or a bus and we made our own steering wheels.
In maths, we’ve been learning about capacity and talking about empty, half-full and full. We used water, rice and uni-fix blocks to help us to understand the concept and we also used different sizes of containers to help us with our measurements.
It’s Sports Day on Tuesday morning so we hope to see lots of parents and carers in the crowd to cheer us all on. Please don’t go to any trouble buying a proper PE kit – a comfortable pair of shorts and a T-shirt (in your child’s team colour) will be perfect for the day.
Things to remember:
Please bring a NAMED water bottle to school and a NAMED hat for the warm, sunny weather.
Many thanks.
Reading
We have been reading and enjoying the story The Book with no Pictures by B J Novak .
After listening to the story being read aloud by the teacher the children took turns to read the story aloud to each other or to themselves. We talked about what we liked/disliked about the book. We all found it very funny and liked all the made up words and silly sentences.
We have also been looking at contractions and how sometimes when we speak or write we join two words together to create one word. We played a pairs came and Y2 had a go at an activity in their book.
01 July 2022
Year 1: rain wait train afraid oil join coin point
Year 2: cry cried cries fly flied flies reply replies replied every
homophones
Next week years 3 and 4 will be tested on homophone words.
there/they’re/their
whole/hole
peace/piece
right/write
break/brake
hear/here
This week’s message (Friday 01 July 2022)
Our message this week is a short one, but an important one. We know we send lots of messages about online safety, but please do take on board what we’re saying – this year, we’ve experienced more issues, and more serious issues, than ever before.
Ofcom recently published a report looking at media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 3-17. It also includes findings on parents’ views about their children’s media use, and how parents of children and young people aged 3-17 monitor and manage their children’s use.
The summary of key points (below) comes from a safeguarding email we receive each week in school. The bold text is from us:
- Children were more likely to experience being bullied via technology than face-to-face: 84% of 8-17s said they had been bullied this way (ie via text or messaging, on social media, in online games, through phone or video calls, or via other apps and sites).
- Nearly all children went online in 2021 (99%); the majority used a mobile phone (72%) or tablet (69%) to do so.
- Using video-sharing platforms (VSPs) such as YouTube or TikTok was the most popular online activity among children aged 3-17 (95%).
- Among all types of online platforms, YouTube was the most widely used by children; 89% used it, compared to half using TikTok. But TikTok was more popular than YouTube for posting content.
- A majority of children under 13 had their own profile on at least one social media app or site; 33% of parents of 5-7s said their child had a profile, and 60% of 8-11s said they had one. This is despite the minimum age for most social platforms being 13.
- Just four in ten parents of 3-17s knew the minimum age requirement for using most social media; 42% correctly said 13. Four in ten parents of 8-11-year-olds said they would allow their child to use social media (38%).
- Six in ten children aged 3-17 played games online in 2021, increasing to three-quarters of 12 – 17s.
- More than a third of 8-17s who gamed online played with people they didn’t know (36%); overall, 16% of 8-17s chatted to people they didn’t know, via the messaging/ chat functions in games. You wouldn’t let your child play out with random strangers – for the same reasons, talk to you child about who they may be chatting with online.
Check out our online safety tips.
As always, if you’ve any questions, comments or concerns, do speak with us.
Have a good weekend.