Two truths and a lie…
We’ve been having great fun during our daily afternoon zooms playing different games and quizzes.
One of the games we play is ‘two truths and a lie’. In this game, one person will say three statements. Two are true statements and one is a lie.
Here are Mrs Welsby’s statements.
And, here are Mrs Rowley’s statements.
Can you figure out which are the lies? We’d love for you to join in with our game. Email your two truths and a lie to Stjamesy3y4@spherefederation.org and we can add it to our daily afternoon zoom!
P.S
Here are the answers to Mrs Welsby’s and Mrs Rowley’s statements.
How are you doing?
Its been 5 weeks of home learning and with just one left until half term!
How are you finding it?
Are you managing to get out and do some exercise? Have you read any good books? Jack has done both of these recently!
Mrs Welsby and I have got a challenge for you!
When we go back to school, we will be doing ‘Wake Up, Shake Up’ again so we’d like to challenge you to learn this dance that has gone viral around the world (you’re watching the Irish Garda but lots of other people have participated around the world!). Here is a video tutorial to help you – Mrs Welsby and I will be learning it too!
Newsworthy writing
From Mr Catherall, who is leading the Y3,4 home learning writing sessions…
Hi everyone
I hope you’re all happy, healthy and safe. I wanted to share with you – and celebrate – some of the awesome writing that’s been sent in by children across our federation. Home learning is tough. There are many challenges, for children and adults, but these superstars have been ready, resourceful and resilient learners. (Can you remember the other 8Rs for learning?)
In the Y3,4 phase, we spent last week building up to writing our own news report about a (made-up) volcanic eruption. This links to our geography and science learning.
Here are a small selection of the wonderful examples we’ve been sent in from all three schools. If you’d like to send yours in, I’d love to see it (send me an email – olliecatherall@spherefederation.org).
From my class at Scholes (Elmet)… I love the varied sentence starts in this one (Late on Friday night, On Saturday, In the escape).
We’ve got a budding journalist at St James’ CE… I really like the news report structure here.
Back to Scholes (Elmet) for some another great piece… This time, I really like the main news section (the first paragraph in bold) because it’s exactly like you’d read in a newspaper or online.
Some amazing writing from Moortown… I love the expanded noun phrase (the orange, glowing liquid) and the vocabulary (predicted, nightfall, terrified) in this one.
Another super piece of writing from my class at Scholes (can you tell I’m proud?!)… There’s a lot to celebrate here – particularly the vocabulary (menacing, catastrophic, awoke, ear-splitting, historic)…
Back at Moortown for another great example of journalistic writing… I particularly enjoyed the use of questions to engage the reader and the way this writer has presented their news report in the style of a newspaper.
Another impressive report from Scholes… In this one, I love the vocabulary (citizens, fled on foot, vast amount).
Whatever writing you’ve managed to do at home, well done! After the last lockdown, writing was one of the few areas that we noticed children hadn’t progressed in. Try to help by completing at least one of the writing lessons each day (and always keep a focus on handwriting).
Home learning
Hi,
We have nearly made it to the end of January. well done, everyone!
How are you all getting along? It’s been great to hear from you on our daily 2pm zooms and sharing our learning. Which has been your best bits so far? Lots of you are loving the Geography with Mr Wilks. Siana, Emilija, Will and Brooklyn have all shared their hard work. Anyone else make any rock sandwiches this week? 
Siana has shared some lovely spelling spirals. What’s your favourite way of practising you spellings? Don’t forget if you have written a poem with your spellings this week to send them in to us!
Super home learners
How are you all getting on with your home learning? We have been enjoying our daily zoom’s. We have loved speak to you each day and seeing all that you have been getting up to. Each day, we have been doing a quick quiz – this has been great fun. If you’re shy and don’t want to speak, but still want to see us and join our zoom, that is fine by us – we have a few children who just give us a thumbs up and a wave.
Here’s a quick picture of one of our zooms this week – we even got to see the chidlren who were in school!
So far… so good…
So, we’re two weeks into the new term… how are we all doing? It’s lovely to hear how you are getting on at home. Thank you for those of you that have sent in pictures of your learning experiences at home.
Mr Roundtree was very impressed with the video that we received this week from one of our Y4s. This is what he thought: ‘What a well-presented video – very clearly introduced and explained. I enjoyed watching this immensely.‘ Click here to enjoy it for yourself!
It’s also been great to see those of you that have logged in to our 2pm zoom calls this week. Don’t forget, they’re available every weekday and it’s fun being able to see other classmates and share our experiences of home learning and lockdown life.
Pantomime time
What a busy day we have had!
“Oh, no, you haven’t!”
“Oh, yes, we have!”
This morning, in between other school work, we have been decorating our clay jar decorations, and in the afternoon we watched the pantomime about Rapunzel.
Class 3/4 want to say a BIG thank you to the PTA for enabling us to watch the panto this afternoon. Here are some of the things that we said about the show:
Daisy: Thank you so much for letting us watch the pantomime. My favourite character was the dragon and Rapunzel.
Olivia: I enjoyed it because it was super funny.
Jack: It was extremely exciting. I loved the dragon!
Ellie: I enjoyed the bit of the video when the dragon said, “My name is Geoff.”
Mia: I think it is funny when the woman drank the baby potion.
Eliza: The best bit was when the prince and Rapunzel got married.
Louie: I enjoyed it when they all sang.
Leah: Thank you for buying this amazing play – it was brilliant!
Edward: Thanks for the play and thanks for everything. It was super funny.
Christmas Dinner
Today we have had a busy day. In the morning we had a zoom visit from Santa. It was lovely to chat with him and ask questions. Thank you, Santa! Then we enjoyed Christmas Lunch together, pulling crackers and sharing jokes.
Happy Christmas!
We were not able to do our usual Christmas performance this year… but we hope you like this instead!
Living and Learning: I can demonstrate different emotions
This week, our Living and Learning statement is I can demonstrate different emotions.
As part of this Living and Learning statement, we had a creative homework. It was great to see how the children all tackled this. If ever the children are stuck on their homework, please get in touch with us at Stjamesy3y4@spherefederation.org
Have a look at some of the homework below. We had a great variety of stories, pictures and posters.
