Summer support
The long holidays can be a tricky time for families. The extended services team (EPOSS) have organised two drop-ins for parents / carers – an opportunity to come in and chat with the team about any difficulties, ask advice or look at problem solving together, to try and help the holidays be an enjoyable time for all the family. Or, just a chance to have some adult
conversation and a cuppa!
There’s no need to make an appointment. Just drop in at any time during the session.
- Friday 10 August, 10.00am – 12 noon, Wetherby Children’s Centre
- Friday 17 August, 10.00am – 12pm noon, Boston Spa Children’s Centre
Conrad Burdekin – Library Grand Opening
Yesterday, we had the pleasure of welcoming local author Conrad Burdekin into school to ‘officially’ open our library.
Throughout the day, Conrad worked with every child in school. He read a selection of his poetry and challenged the children to a tongue twister competition. He started the day with an assembly where he taught the whole school to recite a short poem about bananas.
At the end of his day in school, Conrad cut the ribbon and officially opened the new, revamped library. School council members had the pleasure of watching him open the library and then enjoy reading their favourite books.
The children loved listening to Conrad’s poems with many children purchasing signed copies of his books. There are copies of Conrad’s books in our school library for your child to borrow if they enjoyed listening to his poetry.
Conrad was a great sport at lunchtime by helping the Year 6 children raise money as part of their enterprise week. The children enjoyed throwing their sponges at him.
To see examples of his poetry and to order his books you can visit his website –http://www.conradburdekin.com/conrads-poems/
Pupil power
Year 5 and 6 School Councillors have had a fabulous day attending the Youth Voice Summit at the Leeds Civic Hall. The purpose of the day was to learn what a campaign was and how to implement one within school.
During the day, we created a campaign – IF THE SEA CAN’T PROTEST, WE WILL! The campaign was all about using less plastic.
We made our own placards and shared our campaign aims with School Councillors from other schools. We even met the Lord Mayor and learned how the 99 council members of Leeds vote.
It was fun quizzing the Lord Mayor.
I really liked going into the council chambers.
Our Grand Library Opening!
Our new library is opening on Thursday 28th June.
Conrad Burdekin (local author and poet) will be in school on Thursday, working with the children to create some poetry of their own. He has kindly agreed to ‘officially’ open our library at the end of the day with School Council (and guests) present.
At 3.30, we are opening the library for you to view. Please feel free to come along and see how amazing our library looks. There will be the opportunity to meet Conrad and, if you wish, buy one of his poetry books. The children have been reading them this week and have found them very funny!
Well done, Charlotte!
It’s great to see this by Leeds Civic Hall – great design, Charlotte!
(Bit of a shame about the dodgy grammar and spelling…)
Scholes Tennis Club – coaching sessions
Full Ball & Adults (15yrs+) 6:30 – 8.00pm
Technical and tactical play on the evening.
Rackets available.
Junior Session – Members £2.50, Non Members £5
Full Ball Session – Members FREE Non Members £5
Hope to see you there!
Any questions – just email lenworth.b@hotmail.co.uk or text 07715 627159
Hope to see you there!
Library competition – please vote!
Please vote for Scholes Elmet Primary in the National Book Tokens Competition!
Green fingers? Help needed!
Scholes in Bloom judging day is Monday 6 August this year. If you are available and would like to join the effort for gold, please come and collect a plant from Mrs Myers or Mrs Latham. All you need to do is look after it and meet us at the flower bed outside school on judging day at 10am. If you prefer, you could make a ‘scarecrow’ and bring it on the same day. The theme is ‘all creatures great and small’. Hope to see you there!
Pupil Voice – Friendship Benches
School Council had a really tough time deciding which designs would be used to decorate our friendship benches.
There were some lovely messages and creative ideas used to make these benches feel a positive and inviting place to be.
These are the chosen designs.
I love the message – friends are like rainbows they brighten your day.
I think the colours will brighten up our playground.
It has a happy vibe.
It has nice vocabulary on it.
Scholes Gala – skippers and dancers
Thank you to our Y4 Skipping Crew and the Y1, Y2 and Y6 WUSU Crews who represented school so brilliantly at Scholes village gala.
