Kestrels

Welcome back to a new school year Kestrels! 2023-2024 promises to be a brilliant year!

We have had a fantastic first few days together, getting to grips with new routines… and each other! Year 5 have made a great start to the year, diving into our new topic of Rotten Romans. Year 6 have now (almost) recovered from their Robin Wood residential and are getting ready to take on their responsibilities around school in their new job roles. In a couple of weeks, they will be meeting their Foundation Buddies and helping them to settle into our wonderful school.

This year promises to be another exciting adventure through our other topics of Watery Worlds and Groovy Greeks, with visits from Moveable Feasts Drama Company, and visits to Linton and Burnsall, not to mention some brilliant curriculum days and lots of cooking and creativity !

In addition, we have our annual Inter-house football, rugby, cycling and quiz competitions, and the legendary cross-country race, where we will be hoping to beat our scores from last year…fingers crossed! If we are good, Santa and the Easter Bunny may even pay us a visit this year – will you be able to hunt-out your egg?!

Another great highlight to look forward to is our end of year performance, along a Groovy Greek theme, which promises to be another sell-out show! By this point, we will be getting our wonderful Year 6s ready for the big step-up to secondary school, and will finally send them off with an emotional trip down memory lane, at our Leavers' Concert.

There is so much to look forward to over the next year. Here’s to a fantastic autumn, spring and summer. Let’s work hard and play hard in Kestrel Class!

Mrs Jarvis, Miss Clarkson and Mrs Geary

 

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News

Kestrel News
28/03/2024 6:20 PM
Kestrel News

Happy Easter Kestrels!

Thank you for a lovely last week of term. We have worked our socks off this week, trying to get all of our Watery Worlds pieces finished and our Geography topic folders compiled, not to mention lots of measuring in maths and writing our recount in English. You all deserve a restful break now!

Then there was the excitement of the Easter bunny yesterday, followed by the Interhouse Crosscountry today. I was really proud of all of you: some of us were nervous, some of us confident and some determined just to improve on last year's position. You were all so supportive of one another, and proud of each other -it was wonderful to see. Well done Team Kestrel!

See you all after the holidays when we have our Groovy Greek topic to get our teeth into - it's going to be a good one!

Mrs Jarvis

Kestrel News
22/03/2024 6:24 PM
Kestrel News

Well, we were lucky with the weather on Tuesday for our trip to Linton, Grassington and Burnsall! It was a bit nippy, but the rain mostly held off and we were able to collect all of our field data, and have a wander round this beautiful part of the Dales. Linton Falls looked brilliant, and after all of the recent rainfall, it was really impressive. In Burnsall, we walked part of the course of the River Wharfe and even popped into the church to see some original Viking artefacts found in the village. We will use our research and experience to produce a recount, an OS map of Burnsall, and a graph to show the contours of the river bed, over the next few days. 

Remember, next week, we have the Easter Egg hunt to look forward to as well as our annual Cross Country Interhouse event! On Tuesday, Year 6s will also watch their buddies at the Foundation Easter Bonnet parade- which is guaranteed to be very cute!

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Jarvis

 

Kestrel News
8/03/2024 5:41 PM
Kestrel News

We've had a lovely day in Kestrel class, celebrating World Book Day. Children who wanted to, came in some fantastic costumes, from Mo Salah to Matilda, and really got into character! We even had a fake snake slithering around the classroom at one point, thanks to Enzo! We enjoyed sharing our recommended reads, and all children added them to our class reading tree, which is now looking rather impressive. Across school, we all looked at the same book : FLOTSAM by David Wiesner. It is a beautifully illustrated picture book about a child who enjoys beach combing and stumbles upon an old camera. When he gets the film developed (it took a long time to explain what on earth that meant!!), he discovers that the camera holds secrets from beneath the waves - a really brilliant story!

This week we have also been working on our hockey skillls in PE, with some excellent dribbling, tackling and shooting skills developing. We have also being working on our coaching skills with the children developing warm-up activities to teach their peers and help each other improve. 

Percentages has been the order of the day in maths, and we have been practising how to calculate them if we have the decimal equivalents. Super effort from everyone!

Next Friday, remember it is Comic Refief. If your child would like to donate a pound, they can wow us with their stand-up skills and tell us a few jokes!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Jarvis

Kestrel News
1/03/2024 6:21 PM
Kestrel News

We have had some fantastic River Projects brought in to school today! And we have just started, this afternoon, to present them to the class. It's really noticeable how much more confident the children have become at public speaking and presenting their ideas to an audience. Well done also to those Year 6s who have been working hard on their revision over the past few weeks, instead of doing the project - all of your hard work will pay off I'm sure :-)

In English we have enjoyed doing some improvisation in our drama sessions, really getting to grips with different characters' points of view. It resulted in some fantatsic acting, with the children showing excellent inference skills from what they have read.

In maths we have been comparing and ordering fractions and decimals, with growing confidence. 

Next week, we can look forward to developing our Tapu Ae skills in PE, as well as our programing and coding skills in Computing! And don't forget, it's job reapplication deadline on Friday, as well as World Book Day. Dressing-up is optional, but please bring along a book to recommend to the class if you can.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Jarvis

Kestrel News
23/02/2024 7:33 PM
Kestrel News

It's been a full-on week back, and we've packed a lot in! In English we have started a new unit of writing based on the Michael Morpurgo book 'Zanzibar'. We have just started to get to grips with the characters in preparation for some drama work next week, which will hopefully culminate in some diary entries from lots of different perspectives. 

In maths, we have been revising decimals in preparation for conversions to fractions and percentages in the coming weeks. It's a heavy time of the year in maths and English, but the children are working incredibly hard to get their heads around some tricky concepts. Well done everyone!

In science, we have been researching about the function of our heart and the blood vessels that deliver oxygen and nutrients around the body - it's all very complicated, but we are steadily getting our heads around it! Doctors in the making!

Yesterday, we headed out to the Sikh Gurdwara in Leeds. They were such a welcoming group of volunteers, and even laid on an Indian feast for us! We learned about about their place of worship, their beliefs and how the gurdwara helps support the local multi-faith community in Beeston.

And finally, a special mention to India who smashed it in this week's cross country race, and also to our Year 5/6 boys who played in the Football match against Featherbank tonight, especially Rory, our Man of the Match! It was a close-run contest, but they did brilliantly to come from behind and clinch victory 3-2. Such excellent attitude throughout the match, and really supportive team spirit.

From next week, until further notice, our outdoor PE day will move from Thursday to Wednesday, due to our external coach's timetabling commitments. Apologies for the faff! Indoor PE will continue to be on Mondays.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Jarvis