Author: Miss Beatson

Merry Christmas

It’s been a very busy week! It started with our visit to the care home on Sandbeck way to bury a time capsule. We then had two wonderful Christmas performances, parties, Santa visit and a Christingle service at church! Congratulations to Bailey in year 6! He designed a card, which was chosen by the Mayor of Wetherby, to be his Christmas card this year.

We have had a very successful term; the children and staff have worked incredibly hard. Thank you to all the parents, who have continued to support the school in a such a positive way. We would like to wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy new year. We look forward to seeing everyone again on Monday 7th December 2019!

 

Time Capsule

This morning, year 1-6 visited the Windsor Court care home on Sandbeck way. The new home will be opening in January 2019 and to help celebrate, we were asked to bury a time capsule with artefacts and pictures to represent what life is like now. The time capsule will be dug up in 2078! The care home are holding a cinema morning for children on Saturday 29th December at 10am with festive popcorn, if you fancy taking your children along.

 

 

14 December 2018

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect:

 I can add and subtract fractions.

This homework is an opportunity to show what you have learnt about adding and subtracting fractions.

Can you show how to add/subtract fractions with the same denominator? Eg; 2/5 + 1/5 = 3/5

Can you show how to add/subtract fractions with different denominators? Eg; 2/3 + 1/6 = 5/6

Year 6: Can you show how to add/subtract mixed numbers? Eg; 1 2/3 + ¾ = 2 5/12

You can draw pictures, write calculations and write number stories to show you can add and subtract fractions.

 

Christmas coffee morning

A reminder that we are having a Christmas coffee morning tomorrow at 9am. There will be tea/coffee, mince pies and Christmas crafts to do with your child. Mrs Small, our  learning mentor, will also be around to have chat with.

Musical stars!

Yesterday, we played music all day long – it was fantastic!

We learnt how to play different chords on the guitar and keyboard so we could play along to various pop songs. At the end of the day, we performed to the rest of the school and to some of our parents.

This was a music project supported by Leeds Artforms.

“It was fun and I loved playing along to the Christmas song- Last Christmas!”

“I enjoyed playing the keyboard because I could play the music. I liked playing the Taylor Swift song.”

 

Wetherby News

We feature in the Wetherby News this week, to celebrate the fact that we are the second most improved school in Leeds (by our KS2 outcomes) and to tell people about our recent visit from The Town Mayor, Cllr Galan Moss. We are very proud to show how fantastic and successful our children and the school are to everybody in the local community!

 

Let’s investigate!

This week, we’ve been investigating air resistance in our Forces topic.

‘The bigger the parachute, the slower it will fall.’

In groups, we investigated if this was true or not.

We discovered that the bigger parachute fell to the ground slower than the smaller parachute. We concluded that the bigger parachute had a larger surface area, therefore there’s more air resistance. The more air resistance there is, the slower an object will move.

Our school charity

On Friday, we all reviewed our whole-school homework on charity. We shared examples of charities we know and which charity we thought would be good to support this year.

Children brought some fantastic ideas to the table and could confidently  speak about why they had chosen a certain charity. Some children liked the work the charity did, whereas some children had been directly affected by their chosen charity.

Through good discussion and then a democratic voting process to reinforce British values, we narrowed a large list of charities down to just a few which were taken to School Council for the final vote: Cancer Research UK, Starlight, The Leeds Children’s Heart Surgery Fund, St Gemma’s Hospice, the NSPCC and many more.

Last year, our whole-school charity was Unicef– an international children’s charity. The School Council felt that this year it might be a good idea to support a national or even a local charity. After three different votes, we finally settled on our whole-school charity to be Dogs Trust. The voting was extremely close.

The School Council were happy with the overall decision and are looking forward to organising fundraising events!