Living and learning : Community Week – A Polish Visitor
All the Year 1 and 2 classes welcomed a visitor this week. Carolina, who was born and lived in Poland until she was 19, came to talk to us about living and working in a different country. It was really interesting to see and hear about the differences and similarities between her life in Poland and England. The children were very respectful, asking questions and listening intently.
Living and Learning – Me and My Community Week – Coffee Morning
Coffee morning and WUSU.
What a great success! Thank you to the members of the FOSP team who ran the coffee morning on Thursday. Thank you to the adults who supported our school community by coming to the coffee morning and joining the children at Wake Up, Shake Up!
Living and Learning – Me and My Community Week – Grandad Wheels
On Wednesday, the children enjoyed a fantastic and hilarious visit from Grandad Wheels, author, Brian Abram.
Brian, ‘Grandad Wheels’, delivered assemblies where he shared his story, told jokes and made us all laugh, as well as discussing what life is like in a wheelchair. We enjoyed listening to ‘Chaos at Cheapfoods!’. At the end of the assemblies, Brian set the children the challenge of designing a new wheelchair.
After reading a story to the Reception children in the school library, Brain visited each class so the children could share their designs. He was really impressed.
Thank you to FOSP for funding this wonderful visit.
Thank you to everyone who ordered a book from Brain – in total, £254 was raised through book orders – Brian puts this money towards two charities that support spinal injury.
@grandadwheels
Our new school charity
As part of our Community Week, we have been discussing about charities and how charity is the act of giving help to those who need it. There was a list of charities for each class to research and consider. The children enjoyed discussing these with their peers. A democratic vote was made in each class and the result was brought to the Junior Leadership Team. They discussed the votes and settled on The Willow Foundation.
The main objective of the charity is to support 16-40 year olds in the UK who are newly diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. When they should be enjoying the prime of life, they’re dealing with stress, isolation, medication and hospital appointments.
Willow believes that every moment should be precious. They’re dedicated to helping young adults take much needed time out from the reality of living with serious illness, creating magic moments that become lasting memories.
If you’d like to find out more about the charity, please visit the website below.
https://www.willowfoundation.org.uk/
Fundraising that takes place this year will be donated to this charity.
Thank you for your support with this.
Scholes Community Library
All classes in school have been lucky enough to visit Scholes Library this week. It has been a fabulous opportunity to support a great community resource which we are fortunate enough to have on our school’s doorstep. Each class had the opportunity to explore the library and to bring back five books to enjoy in class.
Help at home: Visit the library with your child. You can help to engage your child with reading new books and help to support our local community at the same time.
Back to Funky Fingers with a bang!
We’ve had a brilliant evening at Funky Fingers club. We started off the session with 2 draw along videos of fireworks… after all, it is Bonfire Night!
How To Draw An Exploding Firework
(Please note that these videos do not belong to School. Please watch your child when on YouTube).
The children then used their imaginations to make various collages, drawings and models inspired by the fireworks.
KS1 Caring For Our Community
Today we launched Me and My Community Week in class. It started with a discussion about the word ‘community’ and what it means. We talked about how you can be connected with people within a community in lots of different ways. The pupils thought about the family, friendship groups, school, clubs and religious groups that we may be a part of. We wondered about the people who we are connected with through these groups.
Circle Time
During Circle Time, we played a game where we each, in turn, chose someone and thought of a way we’re connected with them and then sat down. They then had their turn to choose someone and sit down. And so it went until everyone was sat down. We learnt that some of us are connected together in different ways but we are all connected together in class by being part of the Scholes (Elmet) Primary School community.
“I’m connected with R because I saw him at Lotherton Hall in the holiday.”
“I’m connected with K because we both go to football.”
“I’m connected with D because we go to the same school.”
“I’m connected with A because we always play together.”
Caring for our community
How can you look after your family community?
“I can look after my family community by making dinner for them and whatever they want, I’d give it to them.”
“I can look after my family community by making my bed and cleaning the yard.”
“I can look after my family community by cleaning the mess downstairs and in my brother’s bedroom.”
“I would just help them and if they’re sick I would help them and give them medicine and plasters and chairs to sit on so they can rest their energy.”
How can you look after your school community?
“I can look after my school community by not getting any warnings.”
“I can look after my school community by tidying up.”
“I can look after my school community by helping people with their handwriting and telling them the sentence when they forget.”
“I can look after my school community by tidying up the classroom.”
Help at home: Talk to your child about your community and which groups or clubs they may be a part of. Who do they know from them and how are they connected to those people? You could create a spider chart of one of the clubs with strands of the people they know from it.
Living and Learning- I take part in democratic decisions
Voting for our class Junior Leadership Member is always an exciting part of the school year. KS1 had a fantastic time listening to candidate speeches and voting via secret ballot. Congratulations to our winners. We anticipate great things from our Junior Leadership Team this year!
New Junior Leadership Team
Democracy is a key part of British Values and during this week, our classes have cast their votes for who they would like to represent their class on the JLT. We were absolutely overwhelmed by the number of children that wrote speeches. These were well written, full of ideas and showed off their best qualities such as leadership, good listening skills and initiative.
The votes were counted and the new members have been announced!
Here are our new members:
5,6A – Ben
5,6B – Lilly
5,6C – Jeevan
3,4A – Bradley
3,4B – Violet
3,4C – Adam
2C – Ted
1,2B – Mollie
1A – Rupert
Well done to each of you. I’m looking forward to working with you this year and can’t wait to get started.
Maths – fun online games
We use a website called Top Marks in maths. There are lots of fun games that help children use the maths they are learning at school. To help with place value this half term, we have played Place Value Basketball and used Paint the Squares, which is an interactive 100 square to count in different ways.
Help at home by going on Numbots for maths facts or Top Marks for other maths games.
