Classes
Y1 Summer Term Newsletter
23 April 2012
Dear Parents,
Welcome back to school. It was lovely to see so many parents at the Year 1 Class Assembly last week. All the children did a wonderful job and we are very proud of them. This letter is to tell you about the work we will be covering within the curriculum this year. Any resources or expertise you may have that would enhance the children’s learning in any of these areas would be much appreciated. Read More…
Deadly 60
Please click on the link below for Deadly 60 :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/living_things/variation/play.shtml
The Year 5 Apprentice
The Year 5 Apprentice – a montage of Y5’s biscuit adverts.
Year 5 have been designing biscuits to sell to different classes. Each group was assigned a target class. They started their project with an evaluation of existing products, focussing on taste, packaging etc. Next they carried out some market research in their target class to find out which shape, colour and topping the children preferred. They looked at their results and designed a biscuit from their findings. After that, they had to give their biscuit a name, slogan and logo. They used ICT to design packaging for their biscuits and they also filmed an advert to persuade their target class to buy them. After making one test batch of biscuits they were able to calculate how much it cost them to make one biscuit. They were then able to set the price of their biscuit and calculate how much profit they were likely to make. Finally, it was time to sell their biscuits! All groups sold out, and we made a class profit of £42.50. We haven’t yet decided how to spend it!
Let us know what you thought of the biscuits their tastes, packaging and prices, or if you have any thoughts on how we could spend our profits.
Please check out our video by clicking on the link below:
https://www.radiowaves.co.uk/story/366274/title/biscuitsinyear5
Y1 at Thwaite Mills
Year 1 all dressed up as Victorians and had a fantastic trip to Thwaite Mills. As you can see, we had to work really hard doing household chores!
K-NEX challenge
Year 5 and 6 were set a challenge to use K-NEX to build a hotel with a rotating restaurant. The guidlines given were:
height of 50cm
rotating restaurant
Children as architects designed their hotels planning each detail including measurements.
The Highwayman
In Literacy year 5 have been studying The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. Freeze frames have been used to understand the poem in greater depth and get into character.
see more pictures… Read More…
Film Competition
In December, a group of Y5 children entered a film competition run by the organisers of the North of England Education Conference (NEEC 2012).Their film was about their vision of education in 5 years’ time. Our entry depicted a school being run by the Royal Family!
The judges included: Nigel Richardson – Director of Children’s Services
Joe Smith – Leeds Children’s Mayor
Paul Napier – Editor, Yorkshire Evening Post
Simon Grayson – Leeds United Manager.
We are very pleased and proud to announce that Spring Bank were runners up in the competition and won a mini HD camcorder for our school!
Spring Bank will also be entering the Golden Owl Film Awards soon – so watch this space!
Click on the link below to see the film.
