Stanningley Primary School

This week, the children enjoyed a Road Safety session, led by Leeds City Council. They were given the task of locating their homes on a local area map and, in small teams, they were given a budget £200,000) to spend on measures to make the roads near their homes safer.; for instance, zebra crossings, traffic lights, pelican crossings etc. The children were amazed by how expensive such measures are!

This week, the children enjoyed a Road Safety session, led by Leeds City Council. They were given the task of locating their homes on a local area map and, in small teams, they were given a budget £200,000) to spend on measures to make the roads near their homes safer.; for instance, zebra crossings, traffic lights, pelican crossings etc. The children were amazed by how expensive such measures are!

Class Six welcome Jan, an Outreach Educator from the National Holocaust Museum, to Stanningley Primary School this week. Through a series pf activities, Jan told the story of Leo. Leo was a young, Jewish boy who lived in Berlin in 1938. Jan introduced the children to some of the ways that Jewish people in Germany were discriminated against leading up to World War Two. This was done in a very senstive, age appropriate way; the children did not learn about anything that happened to Jewish people during the war. This will prepare them for when they are in secondary school and learn about World War Two content that is not covered fully in KS2. Jan was absolutely fantastic and the children were fully engaged. They asked amazing questions and made all the staff at SPS INCREDIBLY proud.

This term, our science topic is 'Electricity'. In today's lesson, the children were tasked with creating a circuit, without any instructions how do so! This was to see how much they remembered from Year 4 (the last time they did science learning linked to this topic). ALL children remembered how to create a simple circuit! After this, the children learnt new learning: scientific circuit symbols. They had to label and draw their own circuits using the scientific symbols. Well done to all!

This term, the children are focussing on balance and jumping/landing in their Real PE lesson. They worked together to complete some incredibly tricky challenges! One of these involved working as a team, to get from one end of the hall to the other, not stepping a single foot off/ out of the equipment they were given! Well done Class Six!

To start Peace Week, the children took part in National Odd Socks Day. This day is aimed at children showing an understanding of all people being unique and such uniqueness, is to be celebrated! The children completed tasks linked to this theme within their PSHE lesson.

This week, to mark Languages Week in Leeds, the children enjoyed a Spanish Story workshop. This involved learning the Spanish names for animal to play games and understand the story in Spanish (using the animal characters).

The children all looked AMAZING at their final Halloween Disco! The effort made was phenomenal and they all had a super time!

The children in Rapid's Group had an AMAZING time! They showed fantastic resilience and teamwork and we are proud of every single child!

Lake Group had a FANTASTIC time during the residential! The all conquered every single challenge put in front of them and showed so much resilience. They really have made memories that will last a lifetime!

The children had an AMAZING time at Robinwood! They completed so many activities and any fears that they had, were well and truly faced and conquered! We are so proud of ALL of the children. Here are Mr Harington's River Group photos!

During this lesson, the children explored some of the ways in which animals can adapt in order to survive and then continue to breed and pass on characteristics to their offspring. By placing white and newspaper print squares on both a white and a newspaper background, the children were tasked with being a ‘predator’ one at a time (within groups). They then had a pair of tweezers which they had to use to pick up as many pieces of paper as they could in thirty seconds from each background! We found that more children picked up newspaper print squares from the white background and on the newspaper background, more children collected white squares. Having discussed results and discrepancies (difficult to pick up the white paper!), we then linked this to camouflage and how animals do this in order to survive! Our eyes were drawn to the colour that we could see the most!

The children in Year 6 were invited to take part in a Leeds United workshop linked to all the potential risks/dangers when out and about in the local area. This workshop links fantastically to our current PSHE unit (Managing Risk and Keeping Safe) and so for this reason, the children's knowledge was incredible! They discussed/explored what anti-social behaviour is, potential risks of posting images to social media, risks/repercussions of carrying a knife and many more important topics! We were so impressed with the engagement level of all children (especially when answering questions and during role play activities). Well done Class Six!

The children enjoyed our annual coffee morning once again! Our Student Council members completed their first task in their new roles organising and selling the sweet treats and they did a brilliant job!

A huge well done to all of the children who read out their persuasive speeches this week! The children were asked to write a School Council speech to persuade other children in class to elect them to be a Class 6 representative! Well done to ALL children who read out their speech, regardless of being elected!

The final group of children to complete their Bikeability levels had the weather on their side (finally!). The children were amazing (again) and the instructors gave excellent feedback to the adults in class. Feedback from all of the groups was super and we are all incredibly proud! Level 1 photographs can be seen here!

Another very wet two days for the children completing their Bikeability Level 1 and Level 2! Group Two really did have to show so much resilience when faced with the wind and the rain and they were all amazing! Here are photographs of Level 1 before the children completed Level 2 on the local roads. Well done to all!

Despite the downpours today, the children showed fantastic determination and resilience and completed their Level 1 Bikeability on the playground! The next stage for the children is Level 2 (on the road). Well done to ALL children in Group 1!

This term, each child in Class 6 will take part in Cooking in the Curriculum. Each child will spend one afternoon of the half term, learning how to cook a stir fry. Miss Hudson and Miss Di said the children were AMAZING!