Find out what's happening in school:

• Coronovirus information

  Wed 18 Mar 2020 Mr B

  We have set up a specific section of our website where all information about the coronavirus, including the school's most up to date advice and policies, will be posted. 

  Please find the 'Coronavirus information' section under the 'Parents' tab, or follow this link: https://www.strawberryfields.leeds.sch.uk/coronavirus-information/ 

  Please take care and stay safe!

• World Book Day

  Sat 14 Mar 2020 Mr B

  We had a great time in school on World Book Day. There was such an interesting variety of costumes on display, many of which were very creative! More importantly it gave us a chance to celebrate books and reading, which included children writing book reviews of much loved books, a 'book swap', in which children were able to bring books from home to swap with their peers, and classes teaming up to get older and younger children reading together. We also had some potatoes decorated as book characters, which were fantastic!

  Next week, we will be having our 'Bedtime Stories' event, which will be another opportunity to share a love of reading with the children.

• Arla visit

  Sat 14 Mar 2020 Mr B
  On March 4th, seven members of our eco-council visited Arla dairies. The children really enjoyed the visit (especially the flavoured milks!) and learned more about how the factory works. The project was organised in conjunction with Rethink Food and linked to work done in school using our growing tower. The children had seeded the tower earlier in the term and then wrote stories about what happened next to Daisy from Jack and the Beanstalk after she had been sold, which they told to younger children around the tower on World Book Day. The following week, the tower was harvested and every member of the eco-council was given a bag of fresh, school-grown salad to take home!

• Spring Term Sport

  Sat 14 Mar 2020 Mr B

  This term so far, we have taken part in a Year 5/6 mixed rugby tournament, a Year 4 skipping competition and played our game in the next round of the Datacable Under 9s cup.

   

  Tag Rugby

  The rugby team acquitted themselves well. They did not quite qualify for the semi-finals, but finished mid-table in their group with a couple of wins. It is always pleasing to be able to introduce children to a new sport. Only one of our squad is a regular rugby player, and several played rugby for the first time this year. Hopefully, some of them might be inspired to play or watch the sport in the future!

   

  Skipping competition

  As ever, Mrs. Driscoll worked really hard preparing 30 Year Four children for the skipping competition. They learned a variety of dances and techniques. Although we did not win overall, we took a number of first, second and third place finishes for different dances and individual skippers. Well done to everyone! Again, many of the children were learning new skills for the first time and will hopefully be inspired to continue exercising through skipping and dancing in the future.

   

  Year 4 football

  We played Ninelands in a local derby in the next round of the cup. The game finished 8-4 to Ninelands. There was far less in the game than the scoreline suggests and in fact at half-time we had actually had more of the play and taken more shots on goal, despite being 3-0 down! It was a cold and damp evening, so well done to all the boys for keeping going to the end. A special mention to Flynn, scorer of all four of our goals!