Non-chronological report writing.
Year 5/6 have used their computing topic as a stimulus for their current piece of writing. The have written non-chronological reports to explain all the different elements of their Scratch games. They included sections such as ‘Meet the team’ and ‘Testimonials.’ They had to structure their reports well and include varied sentences, dashes, semi-colons and commas. They were very keen to promote their games and their vocabulary choices were effective and persuasive.
Safer Internet Day
Today is National Safer Internet Day. To celebrate this, and as part of our current topic (computing), Year 5 and 6 have spent some time thinking about how we can stay safe online.
We focused specifically on online persuasion: the idea that much of what we see online is designed to persuade us to act in a certain way.
We started off by searching ‘Plumber Leeds’ on Bing. You can Help at home by searching this with your child and seeing if they can explain to you what we noticed about the top results (hint: sponsorship).
Then, we learnt about cookies and how they store information about our digital footprint. As part of our learning about cookies, we learnt about what pop ups are, why they can be a bad thing and, most importantly, what we should do if we come across one online.
We learnt about how online games persuade us to stay on them for longer and spend money – and what’s in it for the games companies (who, despite the fact that one game earnt a whopping £1.38bn last year in revenue, advertise as being free for all).
Finally, we reflected on our learning and made pledges for how we can stay safe, happy and healthy online.
Help at home by asking your child what they pledged. Or, you could also help at home by asking your child the questions below.
Sport Relief – The Big Summit Sofa Challenge Friday 06 March
We are very excited to announce that Scholes (Elmet) Primary School will be the starting point of the BBC’s Big Summit Sofa Challenge on Friday 06 March.
Harry Gration, Amy Garcia and Paul Hudson from BBC Look North will join in with Wake Up Shake Up as their warm-up before they set off at 10am. They will then head towards Barwick, pulling and pushing their red sofa 100 miles, incorporating some of Yorkshire’s biggest climbs. We will be making banners, flags and as much noise as we can to create an amazing send off for the celebrity team.
It would be amazing if we were able to start this challenge off with a generous donation and so we are inviting the children to come to school in their sports kit, in exchange for a £1 contribution.
The BBC television cameras will also be in school to film us and talk to as many people as they can – some may even feature on the news that night.
They have asked that we encourage as many parents, family and friends to stay after they have dropped children off in the morning, so please feel free to show your support and join in with the fun!
Thank you in anticipation of your support.
PE – gymnastics
This week, in our PE session, 56OB finished off a unit of gymnastics learning by getting out the equipment in the hall. We had a great time using our balance, coordination and strength to tackle a range of tricky equipment – lots of us were super resilient, too!
Here’s a few action shots…
Ask your child what they’ve been learning about in PE recently. Challenge them to explain what impact this has had on their physical and mental health.
Computer Coding!
As part of our computing topic, we’ve been programming our own games on Scratch. We used to decomposition to break down making a game into smaller, more manageable chunks.
We’ve written algorithms using sequence and selection to tell the computer what to do and when. It’s been very tricky though. We’ve constantly had to debug our code for errors – it’s really hard so we’ve made plenty of mistakes. But we’ve all enjoyed the process and the children this week commented that they felt proud of their learning.
Here’s a few pictures of our games. They’re not finished yet but you should be able to see that they’re super impressive.
Challenge your child by asking them to explain the algorithms to you. For a further challenge, can they talk about their own games using some of our topic vocabulary: sequence & selection, decomposition, algorithm, variable.
Dog’s Trust Visit
We have found out about all about the great work that the Dog’s Trust do to care for and rehome dogs.
It was interesting to learn about a day in the life of a dog at the centre.
We also got taught some great ways to keep safe around dogs to make us and the dog feel safe when playing, feeding or stroking a dog.
Did you know the dogs at the Dog’s Trust even go to dog school?
They learn tricks and skills to help them become great pets for their new owners.
The Leeds centre rehomed 876 dogs last year. The money you help our school raise will help them to continue to support and care for the dogs, buy toys, blankets, beds and important medicine and treatment.
School Council visit the Dog’s Trust
18 excited school council members visited the Leeds Dog’s Trust centre.
We were guided though the centre with a look behind the scenes.
The staff at the Dog’s Trust were very grateful for our first donation of £517!
Thank you to everyone that donated on our recent film night.
School Council Film Night
What a fabulous film night we had yesterday!
With your support, we raised over £500 for the Dog’s Trust.
The film last night was so good!
I liked eating the popcorn.
It was great because I got to sit with my friends.
I hope it becomes a regular event.
Cross Country – Leeds City Finals
A massive well done to our Y6 girls team that qualified to the cross country city finals that were held at Temple Newsam today. They represented school brilliantly and we are very proud of them!
Computing
We have been looking at different search engines this week in Computing, such as Yahoo and Google. The children researched Juliane Koepcke using a range of different search engines. They evaluated each one and were able to identify how these could be improved and what they liked about them. Have a go at using a different search engine at home, such as Swisscows or Escosia. See what you think.
