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Science
Competition
Winners…
Phizzi Photo competition
‘Physics in Action!’
The Craven Science Partnership organised a photographic
competition during the Spring Term—’Physics in Action’
The Water Street Winners:
Chris G (Reception)
April 2021
Newsletter
Violet A (Year 2)
Runners up:
Gil T (Year 6), Emmy W (Year 2) & Alex K (Year 1)
Well done to everyone who entered…
Water Street is a member of the Craven
Science Partnership, f
or further information:
www.cravenpartnership.co.uk
Reception: Wow another month has gone by, time certainly flies in reception. We are all now fully settled back into class after lockdown and working and playing hard in class and outside. Since Easter we've been exploring life cycles and learning about all different plants and animals, exploring seed to sunflowers, acorns to oak trees, tadpoles to frogs, puppies to dogs, joeys to kangaroos, eggs to bees and many more. We have our own caterpillars in class and are enjoying watching them grow day by day, and this week spinning their co- coons. We’ve been thinking about where we might like to release our butterflies when they emerge. We’re also growing sunflowers and sweets peas from seeds too and are really enjoying caring for our seedlings. Our aim is to grow a sweet pea reading den and have a sunflower growing competition. We’ve been busy in phonics too and are blending to read and segmenting to spell like superstars. Our new favourite game (started during lockdown) is ‘phonics bumps’, as we love bring active during our phonics sessions. In maths we continue to explore the number system through the numberblocks. Lately we’ve learned that number 6-10 are made from five ‘and a bit’, that we can count on to find the difference and that numbers can be greater than, equal to or less than other numbers. We’re also starting to learn some two digit numbers and explore the idea that they all have a full ten and some extras ones. We’re enjoying warmer weather outside, becoming more independent in our learning and impressing our teachers on a daily basis. We hope you like the photos of us busy learn- ing through play. Mrs Robert & Mrs Busfield Due to children & adults in our school with nut allergies we kindly request that you do not include nuts or nut related products in your child’s packed lunch or mid morning snack. Thank you
Year 1: Another busy and exciting month of April with the Year 1’s: For our history topic we looked at Water Street School over time. This led the Year 1’s into looking at schools in the Victorian times. We talked a lot about how it used to be, what punishments they had by looking at old photos and watched a video but what better way of learning about how different it was than actually experiencing a Victorian school day! We all dressed up and had a go at writing on slate with chalk, listened and practiced saying a piece of poetry – ‘The Owl and the Pussy cat’, tasted Victorian lemonade and Victori- an cake. We learnt that every time an adult came in we had to stand up. Per- fect timing from Mr Anslow as he came in the children stood up and then went through the alphabet with them. We learnt that a lot of things were dif- ferent and not fair or equal. We also found some parts of Victorian school that we liked – mainly the lemonade and cake! In the afternoon we completed ‘drill’ outside and learnt how to roll hoops along. It was a great day and eve- ryone looked the part. We have taken advantage of the dry weather and explored outside where we have been able to continue our measurement of capacity and volume with lots of water and even making some potions! The children have thoroughly enjoyed using some of the PE equipment at playtimes that we have been very lucky to get. The hula hoops have definitely been popular to hula with or to roll and chase. They have even practiced and manged to hula on an arm rather than round their waists. We are looking at plants for our science topic where we have sorted different types of plants into trees, wild, garden and herbs. We went to have a look at the trees in the playground to see which were deciduous or evergreen. We were quite surprised as to how soft one of the evergreen’s needles were as they looked quite spiky and hard. We are watching our beans as they are starting to grow in the bags. We are beginning to see some roots come out and once they are bigger we are going to plant them in some compost. Some children are wishing for a magic beanstalk! After looking at different parts of plants that we can eat we then made a Tabbouleh Salad which has basil, mint, parsley tomatoes, cucumber and bulgar wheat in. The children made and then tasted their own individual salad. We are really proud of eve- ryone for giving it a try. Well done year 1 children! Mrs Balderstone and Mrs Stodart-Hall
Year 2: Year 2 have made a great start to the Summer Term. Our maths work has kicked off with learning about measuring lengths and we have been zooming about measuring each other, areas of the school and all sorts of different parts of the classroom We have particularly started to see the importance of where you start your measuring so that you have an accurate measurement - just by turning the tape measures around we discovered very quickly that we could not possibly be 150cm tall - although that would have been amazing and there are some children in Year 2 who are NEARLY that tall!! In English we have really been enjoying the book ‘Instructions’ by Neil Gaiman. It has been great to see the children really beginning to understand all the different types of sentence that can be found in this book and they have been really creative in their own writing having been inspired by Instructions. It really is a beautiful book and a rather lovely yet mysterious story and well worth a listen to (see YouTube to see/hear a reading by Neil Gaiman himself). The children have been loving having Geography with Mrs Bownass on Monday afternoons and they have been learning all about London and beginning to understand compass points on a map. In PSHE we have been focusing on our relationships and in particular our own VIPs and how we interact and treat our friends and people close to us and it has been wonderful to see some of our ideas in practise in school ALREADY! In Design and Technology we have been designing and having a go at using wheels and axles in order to make a moving vehicle of our own. Absolultely fantastic learning so far with super ideas and brilliant learning when using the equipment we have. I can’t wait to see the final products! We have an extra session of PE at the moment and have been working with Mr Mukher- jee on our ball skills. The children have even got to play some fun, short games of ‘cricket’ and are improving week on week! Mrs Munslow, Mrs J & Mrs Hay
Year 3:
The children have settled back to school really well after the Easter break and we
have done some brilliant learning over the past month. We have started a new
book for our English this month – Esio Trot by Roald Dahl. It has been great to see
how much fun they have had learning about the characters and writing character
descriptions. Their language skills have really developed well and they have writ-
ten some super descriptions and worked hard writing interesting phrases.
In maths we have been looking at
fractions, counting them on a number line and finding frac-
tions of amounts. We have just moved on to look at equiva-
lent fractions and have been making our own fraction walls.
They have worked really hard using different methods to
record their maths and not given up when it has seemed
difficult.
In PE we have been practising our table tennis and they have been working hard
to improve the forehand and backhand. It has been great fun and they have
worked brilliantly with their partner.
In Geography through our ‘Food for Thought’ topic they have continued to im-
press me week on week with their thoughts and contributions to class discus-
sions. We have learnt about the process of making chocolate – from bean to bar
and talk about why fair trade is so important. We then went on to look at how
the weather can affect food supply and lead to hunger in different parts of the
world and how we can send aid to help countries when they need it. All in all,
some great discussions have been taking place in Year 3.
Our DT project – 2D to 3D, has seen us busy with sewing and they worked really
hard to improve their skills and have produced some lovely work. They are all
really proud of their individual designs and I hope you enjoyed the finished
product.
Year 3 have also started Music again with Mrs Turvey and are lov-
ing it. They have been learning about music notation and are really
good and remembering what each note means in terms of length.
It has been great to see how quickly they have learnt this new skill.
April seems to have zipped by and they have
achieved so much great learning. I can’t wait
to see what we get up to in May.
Mrs R, Mrs Wilson & Mr Roberts
Class photos will be taken on
Monday 10th May.
All pupils will need to be in uniform–
not PE Kit Thank you
Year 4: We have continued to look at persuasive writing in English, and we have been thinking about the effect of loggers in the Amazonian rainforest. We listened to ‘The Vanishing Rainforest’, and then acted as one of the characters trying to persuade others to see our point of view. Following this, we made ‘persuasive people’ with our persuasive statements on ready to help us write a letter to the logging company to share our thoughts. In maths we have been looking at decimal fractions and learning how they can be written as proper fractions, and vice versa. We have ordered decimals, placed them on number lines, spotted patterns, noticed where numbers have been divided by 10 and 100 – lots of different things! It has been great to get more ‘practical’ maths in which has really helped our understanding. We will be using more decimals in our next topic, which is money! In History we have started to learn about the Vikings. We had a really interesting session looking at how periods of time in History overlap, especially the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings! We found out about some significant Viking people; King Alfred the Great and King Athelstan. We found out that Alfred the Great is the only British Monarch to have ‘Great’ in his title! We pretended that we were the two Kings ‘come back to life’, and we used our persuasive language to try and persuade each other why one King had been ‘greater’ than the other and why. It was very impressive just how much information the children had learned and included in their statements! In PE Jonny has been coming in to teach us tennis on Mondays, and Mr Mukherjee has been doing PE with us. We have had a fantastic time developing our skills, helped by some super Summery weather! We have also had a great time at playtime with the equipment that we got at Christmas. In Science with Mrs Stinton we have been looking at evaporation. We investigated how a puddle of water outside got smaller as the water was heated by the sun and evaporated. We linked this to how water evaporates in the water cycle, and then to how it condenses into clouds once it cools. There have been lots of fantastically fun experiments go- ing on! It’s been a really amazing April. You’re all brilliant, Year 4! Here’s to a Marvellous May! With many thanks and best wishes to you all, Mrs Jackson and Mrs Procter
Year 5: Year 5 have had another busy month and have continued to impress us with their effort and attitude. We have continued our work on ‘What it means to be British’ by considering why people come to live in the UK and what it means to be a multi-cultural society. We ended our topic with an online Parliament workshop in which Julian Smith attended for a question and an- swer session. We have all thoroughly enjoyed this topic and it has instigated some thoughtful discussions. Year 5 have continued to prove themselves to be eco-warriors. Last term, they worked hard to raise awareness about the litter problems in Aireville Park, Skipton. This wasn’t a subject we had planned to work on but one that the pupils themselves had raised as a problem they had noticed. They wrote letters to Julian Smith and in their own time many pupils went litter picking in the park. During our Question and Answer session with Julian Smith on the 4 th May, he acknowledged our ‘fantastic’ letters and is hoping to come and meet the children in Aireville Park to litter pick alongside them in the near future. This term they have all decided to apply for their Green Blue Peter Badges by becoming ‘Climate Heroes’. They have each made 3 individual pledges that they are carrying out at home. The pledges had to link to power, plastic and plants. Examples included; turning the water off when brushing teeth, swapping 30 minutes a day electronic time for 30 minutes playing out, recycling, planting pollinators (sunflowers)….. We have also made some class pledges that we are all sticking to and have been busy making and putting posters up around school to help others to remember. The sunflowers we are growing will not only be good pollinators but have also allowed use to apply our knowledge of plants and seeds from last term’s Science to see who can grow the tallest one! As well as taking good care of the environment we have also been taking good care of ourselves. We are trying to keep as active as possible as we know how important it is to both our physical and mental health. We try to stay ac- tive within the classroom with our regular movement games and breaks, Super Movers is one of our favourites. In PE we have been working with Jonny to improve our tennis skills and with Mrs Bownass we have continued working on our fitness. Our ‘Daily Mile’ scores have all continued to improve and we enjoyed the circuit training exercises where again our personal scores all continued to go up. Next, we will be working alongside Hedley to apply our invasion skills knowledge to the game of tag rugby. Daily skipping is our newest challenge so watch this space to see how we get on! We have started our new Materials and their properties topic in Science. We are currently designing new lunch boxes by testing out which materials make the best thermal insulators. In Maths we have been learning how to use a protractor to draw and measure angles. We have also continued to learn about fractions – subtracting fractions from whole numbers and subtracting mixed numbers. We have also been multiplying fractions. In English we have been learning about the features of a comparative non-chronological report and we have been using those features to plan a non-chronological report comparing the four Ancient Civilisations that we are learning about in History. In History we have been finding out what was happening at the same time as the Ancient Egypt civilisation. We are focussing on the Ancient Sumer, Indus Valley, Shang Dynasty and comparing them to Ancient Egypt. We have found quite a few similarities already, including the location (30 degrees north of the Equator) and that they all were found next to a river. After learning about the achievements of these civilisations, we will go on to look in-depth at Ancient Egypt. Mrs Bownass & Mrs Smith
Year 6:
This month has seen us busy starting lots of our summer term topics. Over the
last 2 weeks we have been researching, designing and constructing bridges!
Having developed our strengthening, joining and measuring skills we embarked
on working in groups and then individually on making bridges…..and every
bridge we build got a little bit better each time! We are looking forward to dis-
playing them, so you can see all our amazing work! Here are some amazing
photos of our work!
In our work on Natural disasters we have started to find out more about volcanoes
and the ring of fire. Thanks to George, we even had a zoom call from his uncle, who
ended up in Barbados when the volcano in St Vincent erupted and was confined to
his hotel room due to the ash cloud. The children had some brilliant questions to ask-
it was amazing to talk to a real eye witness.
We have made a start with our school production of “What a Knight”- we had a won-
derful afternoon of auditions. Not only were so many people very brave to perform
songs and lines in front of their class mates, but the support and encouragement from
the rest of the class was outstanding. We can’t wait to get going!- there’s going to be
lots to do!
You will be pleased to know the next episode of WSNTV is going to be released soon-
Thanks to Y5 as well for joining a quiz show that will appear in this months episode.
We are very optimistic that lots of our end of Year 6 events will be able to happen!
This month we are starting with bikeability- so look out for Y6 wobbling around on
their bikes in the Raikes area in the next few weeks!
We will shortly be starting our electricity topic when we will be doing lots of experi-
ments, and also we will embark on our “Race around the World”- visiting lots of differ-
ent places in the USA.
Mrs Macnab and Mrs Hopwell.
Great
work
Year 6...
Water Street
Sport News …
Thank you to everyone who took the time to fill in the Sports Questionnaire that was sent out. 125 responses so far
which is great! We are starting to look carefully at the results to help us plan for future activities. Pupils and staff
have also completed questionnaires within school. All this data will hopefully help me put together a clear plan for PE
and Sports at Water Street next year.
Ensuring that our pupils keep active is more important than ever as the benefits of exercise have such a positive ef-
fect on both physical and mental health and are key to helping us become the best learners we can be. Delivering not
only high quality PE lessons but also planning in active learning within lessons and active playtimes are held in high
priority. Each class has had a new set of playground equipment bought for them and we are currently awaiting a
whole school set of skipping ropes to arrive. We are hoping to timetable in a daily 10 minute skipping challenge as
part of our ‘Active Learning’ timetables for the Summer Term. We will be using some Year 5/6 pupils as ‘Skipping
Ambassadors’ to help us get this up and running
PE: All classes are back to having 2 PE lessons each week
Key Stage 1: Tuesday lesson delivered by Adam Cox (Skipton Tennis Centre) Focus: Multi -sports skills
Lesson 2: delivered by class teacher : Focus: Fundamental movement skills
Year 2 : Mr Mukherjee Focus: Skills required for Striking and Fielding games
Year 3 / 4/ 6: Thursday lesson delivered by Mr Mukherjee. Focus: Striking and Fielding Games
Year 4/ 5: Tennis skills with Skipton Tennis Club
Year 6: Rugby skills with Hedley (Upper Wharfedale RUFC)
Year 3: Table-Tennis skills
Year 5: Fitness (Circuit training/ Daily Mile)
Swimming
Covid restrictions have prevented us from offering the usual swimming timetable where all Key Stage 2 pupils would
usually be offered free swimming lessons. We endeavour to get this back up running for the next academic year.
We will be able to take Year 5 swimming for 6 weeks in the Summer Term and Year 6 will complete 2 weeks of Wa-
ter Safety lessons before they leave us.
After School Clubs
Year 6 Football at Sandylands (Fridays)
Year 3/4 Multi-sports club with Mr Mukherjee (Thursdays).
Next half term will be year 5/6 turn to attend Mr Mukherjee’s club (details will be sent out
nearer the time)
Sports News Continued:
Inter-School Competitions
Covid restrictions have prevented us from competing face to face as we would normally do however we have con-
tinued to take part in Virtual Events.
Key Stage 2 pupils have competed within school and then the highest scores entered into the Skipton Schools
Competitions:
Virtual Events: Tennis, Hockey Dribble, Shuttle Run, Target Throw and Speed Bounce
A huge well done to:
Hockey
Year 3/4 Boys: 2nd place: Archie, Henry and Seb Year 3/4 Girls: 3 rd Place – Ellie
Year 5/6 Boys: 1st place – Archie 2nd place – Edward & William Year 5/6 Girls: 1st place – Elena H & Erin 2nd place
– Chloe H
Tennis
Yr 5/6 Boys – Edward 2nd Yr 5/6 Girls – Millie 1st Katie 3rd
Pupils are now busy practising and competing in a Virtual Skipping Competition against the Skipton Schools Clus-
ter (open to all pupils KS1 and KS2) See below for further details.
Coming Up
Hopefully as Covid restrictions relax we will be able to offer even more of the opportunities that we usually have
timetabled in plus more.
Years 4, 5 and 6: Will be attending a Multi-Sports Festival at Sandylands (class bubbles and no mixing with other
schools)
Year 6: Cycling Proficiency
Year 5: Team Building, Outdoor and Adventurous day at Nell Bank
Sports Day: Watch this space: Planning has been started but we will have to wait to confirm final details.
Year 3,4: Virtual Multi-Skills Competition
Year 5,6: Sports Hall Athletics: Pentathlon
Skipping Challenge
We will be practising in school, but if you want to practise your skills at home ready to enter the Virtual Competi-
tion:
Challenge 1. Double bounce 30 second challenge:
For this challenge you do two little jumps every time you turn the rope once, keeping your feet together at all times.
Challenge 2. Hop & Swap 30 second challenge
For this challenge you do 2 little hops on each foot every time you turn the rope once.
Challenge 3 - Side Swing 30 second challenge
For this challenge you do 1 rotational swing of the rope on each side of your body, then
open your arms and jump the rope once, and then repeat the whole move.The winners for April 2021 are: 1st Prize of £25 Rebecca Antrobus (Number 34) 2nd Prize of £12 Natasha Ross (Number 248) 3rd Prize of £7 Grace Mills (Number 109) Thank You and Congratulations! If you have any questions or would like to join the club please email Jo Nixon (jo@philandjo.co.uk)
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