The day the whole school went to Blackpool Zoo! - Water Street School
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The day the whole school went May 2019 to Blackpool Zoo!
RECEPTION
When May started we were still totally immersed in our ‘On the Farm’ theme. We told and wrote
stories about ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ on the farm and incorporated farming into all of our provision
inside and out. Although the children loved it, what they loved most of all was being animals in the
animal pen – our classroom was awash with straw!
I could tell you more about what we’ve been up to in class but what May was about in Reception was
getting out and learning in the outdoors. We had our first trip out on a bus to Thornton Farm where
we collected eggs, fed lambs and calves and saw deer, alpaca, pigs, horses and bulls. The weather was
amazing and we enjoyed running and rolling down the hillside, riding the ‘caterpillar’ and bouncing on
the huge inflatable pillows. We enjoyed further time outside in May when we had two cycling days with
‘Pedal and Scoot’. All of the children, regardless of their starting points, made huge progress on their
bikes and we thoroughly enjoyed sharing our experiences with parents who came along to share our
achievements at the end of the second day.
In May we also welcomed our parents into the classroom too – this time for phonics. Thank you all for
being such good sports and joining in. Thank you also for the wonderful feedback – we couldn’t do
what we do without the support of parents.
And now we move into June and a super-exciting first week with our first ever Water Street whole-
school trip out. Blackpool zoo here we come… Mrs Roberts
The winners for May 2019 are:
1st Prize of £24 Ben Swain (Number 123)
2nd Prize of £12 Jo Tamsons (Number 212)
3rd Prize of £6.50 Helen Knapp (Number 29)
Thank You and Congratulations!
If you have any questions or would like to join
the club please email Jo Nixon
(jo@philandjo.co.uk) or speak to anyone in the
Friends of Water Street.
Year 6 Summer Disco -
So we should probably mention that May started Wednesday 12th
off with the small matter of some VERY HARD June.
WORK….from everyone in Year 6, in
preparation for SATS week. With the aid of Tickets
Bourbons, custard creams and party ring biscuits available now
(you should see how some people in Y6 dissect a
biscuit!) - we managed to get to the end of the
week. Well done to everyone – we know how Thank you to the Friends of
hard you have all worked your socks off. Water Street School
So after all that was done we had a lovely day of for funding the new compost and
celebrations– having our own non-uniform day, plants in our planters at the front of
milk-shake treats at Shake-a-mania the school.
and a DVD afternoon! Now all we need is some sunshine to
get them flowering!
Congratulations to
Poppy in Year 6,
who is the
Skipton Gala
Queen this year!
Year 6 at Northern Sheep Day…
And the rest of May has been equally busy! Lots
of pupils took part in Bikability training around Here we are on the tractor, and checking out the sheep.
Skipton, learning how to ride a bike safely on the
road. Our Work in the style of Charles Rennie
Mackintosh is nearly complete– we can’t wait to
show you it. Pupils who didn’t do Bikeablity made
some rather amazing periscopes and
kalidoscopes ! We have also been taking part in
some amazing African Drumming with Mrs
Turvey, and starting some of the preparations for
our KS2 performance of “The Lion King”
This week we were very excited to set off to
Rathmell for “Northern Sheep”- we now know
nearly as much about Sheep as Mrs Taylor!
Year 2
Well May certainly has been very busy in Year Two and the children have
worked incredibly hard. We have managed to have pack in some great
learning in and amongst the Y2 SATs. We celebrated their hard work by
having a well-earned class treat and played outdoor games and the children
also enjoyed brining in their favourite games from home.
In English we have had a great time reading Julia Donaldson stories.
Following on from our study of ‘The Snail and the Whale’ and we
went on to write a letter from the Snail to his friends, telling of his
amazing adventures around the world and the wonderful things he saw. The descriptive writing was
fantastic!
In maths we ended the month playing maths games and using all our maths calculation skills in a fun way.
We enjoyed playing stick or roll and number line tug of war.
In our topic work we have enjoyed learning more about the Great Fire of London and ordering the
events. We also learnt why the fire started and then worked hard in groups to make a class display to
show the Tudor houses, the River Thames and the houses on fire! We also had a go at drawing Tudor
houses in art and worked hard using different art pencils to get different effects.
In science we have been busy observing the broad bean, potato and tomato plants and looking to see
how much they have grown over the past month. The potatoes have grown well and Ellie and Jack did a
great job looking after the broad beans. We have also started our ‘Living Things and Habitats’ topic and
went on a treasure hunt to find things that were living, never lived or dead. We collected lots of things in
our egg box and then had to sort them into the three categories. Finally, in computing we have all
enjoyed using the ‘2Paint a picture’ programme. The children looked at impressionist artists, Mondrian
and William Morris and then had a go at using different artistic styles to capture the ‘Great Fire of
London’.
Mrs Rimmington
Sports Days 2019 -
Key Stage 1 Sports Afternoon - Friday 21st June –
at St Stephens Presbytery Lawn – 1.30pm.
Key Stage 2 Sports Afternoon - Thursday 20th June –
at Sandylands – starting at 1.30pm
Year 4 Last term was very short but we managed to fit in so much. The highlight was our two-night residential trip to Nell Bank Centre, Ilkley. The pupils were a credit to both the school and their families due to their impeccable behaviour, resilient attitudes and the way they helped and supported each other. Staff thoroughly enjoyed being in their company. Pupils took part in a wide-range of team building games, managed a 7 mile walk from the centre to the Cow and Calf and back to the park (for well-deserved ice- creams), had a go at pond dipping, orienteering and den building as well as keeping staff entertained with the annual “Water Street’s Got Talent” show. Lots of special memories were made for all. The whole of year 4 also spent a day at Skipton Cricket Club where they all took part in a Skipton Schools’ Cricket Tournament. The pupils’ skills all improved greatly as the day progressed and a group of pupils even went on to win the tournament! Along with the rugby and hockey we have been doing in PE we are definitely keeping active in year 4. In Science, we have been learning all about electricity. We have been making simple circuits using using only tin foil, a battery and a bulb and then investigating what happened when we increased the number of bulbs or batteries in the circuit. The room actually lit up with our excitement when we made our first successful circuits! In English, year 4 have been reading Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The tragedy has kept us all intrigued and we have had great fun acting out the key scenes, writing our own # to title each act (our particular favourite was #hesnotthatintoyou) and trying to work out what famous Shakespearean quotes that we still use today actually mean. A couple of our favourites being… Bated breath - neither a lender nor a borrower be - eaten me out of house and home -in a pickle We can’t believe the final half-term is upon us but we have LOTS of fun things to pack into the last 7 weeks. We will all be ready for the Summer break by then. Mrs Bownass and Mrs Smith Day During School After School Monday 10th June Y4 sports event ( small group) Gardening Clubs Starts Tuesday 11th June Y6 Tag Rugby Tournament Costume and scenery club Wednesday 12th June School Disco Thursday 13th June Sports Club Friday 14th June Y6- Greatwood Cup Year 6 Girls Football @ Sandylands
Year 3 Year three have been working hard this month. We have been busy preparing and writing
adventure stories, based on the story ‘The Hodgeheg’ which we all loved and found very amusing. Everyone
created their own muddled up character and using inspiration from the Hodgeheg, took their character on an
adventure that had a few unsuccessful events. All of the stories were incredibly imaginative and followed the style
of the Hodgeheg brilliantly. Well done Year 3!
In Maths we have continued battling fractions - we have won the battle you will be pleased to know! We have
added, subtracted, found fractions of amounts, of shapes, found equivalent fractions and much, much more.
Everyone has really thrown themselves into this maths topic and is now much more confident with fractions –
what a busy May we have had in Maths!
Geography has seen us beginning our Europe topic, all children have been enjoying using maps and atlases to find
out where the countries in Europe are and using computers to research the rivers and mountains of these
countries. Although there has been a lot to learn and think about, we have jumped
head first into this topic and have even been asking for more lessons! It has been
really lovely to see the class getting so involved in a topic and I look forward to
continuing and finishing this next month.
In Science we have begun and completed our ‘Animals including Humans’ topic.
Here we have been learning all about the skeleton. This has included finding out
about the different types of skeletons and their uses, finding out about the bones
and uses of the human skeleton and learning about the muscles. We have had a
visit from Steve Bones (named by Year 3) our class skeleton which has given us all a
great insight into what the human skeleton really looks like.
May has been a fantastic month at school, I look forward to seeing what June will bring. Mrs Taylor
Year 5 There have been four big themes throughout May in Year 5. Firstly in Maths lessons we have done
a tonne of work on position and direction. We have located quadrilaterals accurately using co-ordinates, translat-
ed shapes and reflected shapes on both the x and y axis. As usual, our skills have been perfectly honed by marking
out a giant grid on our classroom carpet tiles. It’s amazing how much clearer things become when you can walk
over the top of them and view them from above!
Secondly, in English its all been about film clips. Firstly, we worked on characters with unexpected traits using a
short animation about a horrific, wild-eyed man covered with tattoos and piercings. Secondly, we were quickly
hooked on a music video about a school pupil who appeared to have unusual supernatural powers. We developed
some fantastic comprehension skills using this one! And thirdly, we are currently full of intrigue about how ‘The
Highwayman’ will end! We’re reading the poem at the same time as watching an amazing animation. We know
there’s true love, deception and death, but we don’t yet know which characters are impacted by which part!
Thirdly, we have learned ALL about how our bodies change as we move towards becoming adults. We giggled
quite a lot, we questioned quite a lot, and ultimately we probably have some good knowledge! The most im-
portant message from our work was that all bodies are different and this is OK! It would be GREAT if you could
reinforce this at home as much as possible.
And finally, our Theme work over the past three weeks has been all about UK Identity and trying to work out
what makes us British. It has been a fascinating theme and we enjoyed an interesting morning out and about in
Skipton, finding both recent and historical evidence of other cultures in our town.
Miss Longman
Year 1 What a busy couple of months we have had! The children have done some fabulous learn-
ing and we have covered a lot in a short time. As well as our Maths and English some of the highlights
have been:
Performing in front of our families and the school in our Class Assembly—it is always lovely to see how
the children are able to stand and speak and perform in front of their peers and family—as you well
know, not an easy thing to do!
Dissecting and learning about fish: as part of our Animals topic we have been learning about the different
classifications of animals—mammals, fish, birds, reptiles etc. Unfortunately our fish tank is not sustaining
fish life at the moment and we have had to talk about what happens when a fish dies… it did lead on to
our fish dissection very nicely! We explored the fish’s body and discussed what it had in common with
other animals and what it needed to live. We looked at the gills, the backbone and the eye and all the
children were very brave and had a touch and a feel of the fish too.
Having a visit from Mrs Munslow’s dog:
He came into our class and we talked about what a dog was like and asked lots of interesting questions
such as ‘what sort of dog is he?’, ‘does a dog only have black eyes?’ and ‘how long do dogs live?’.
Making and eating tabbouleh:
We found out that sometimes it is hard to tell when we are eating plants!
We had a lot of fun making our salad and all of us tried some to eat. Mint
and parsley are edible plants but not a favourite in our class!
Mrs Munslow
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