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We are excited to share with you our teachers for next year! Get to know your new teachers by reading their profiles below
This week, Year 3 have been writing newspaper reports about the new Key Stage 2 playground .
On Monday, Jo from Picture News visited the children (virtually) to tell them all about her job. This gave the children lots of great ideas. In Wednesday’s lesson, the children did their research and interviewed Mr Trower. On Thursday, the children wrote their reports independently. On Friday, the children were very excited to edit their work and even publish their newspaper reports to take home!
4A visited the Education Centre at Ewden Water Treatment Works in Sheffield today as part of their water topic for this term.
The children were given a tour around the operational site where they were taken through the step by step process of how water is treated to get rid of the ‘baddies’, and how this is then released into our taps, healthy, clean and fresh for us to enjoy. The children enjoyed the interactive activities and left with some goodies from the education centre.
This week, Year 3 went to Magna in Sheffield.
The children had a great day exploring air, water, earth and fire. It was lots of fun looking around the museum learning about how the different elements are used. They even got to see a fire tornado!! At the end of the day, they had some time to play on the museum’s HUGE playground – the children and the adults enjoyed this! Miss Wilson and Miss Frame were really impressed with the children’s behaviour on the trip. They were all polite and patient whilst moving around the museum. Well done Year 3!
Year 3 and 4 Family Breakfast
We’ve had another fantastic week of learning this week, with lots of trips out and visitors. Make sure you check out our stories to see what we get up to!
Last week was Art Week! All classes got involved, looking at a range of different art topics. Each year group looked at a different topic. There was drama, movement and dancing, 2D mark making, 3D mark making, photography and filmography.
The children had a great day looking at these different topics and exploring how to create a range of different art works. As part of Art week, Year 6 visited Co-op Academy Leeds and took part in an art workshop. The children had a great afternoon learning about Islamic art. Year 5 also visited Co-op Academy Leeds and took part in a music workshop!
On Friday 17th June, we will be sharing some of the children’s art work at Co-op Academy Woodlands first Art Exhibition – Keep an eye out for your invite!
As part of art week, Matt Abbott, a poet from Wakefield, visited Woodlands. He started the day with a KS2 assembly. The children loved listening to Matt talk about the process of writing poems and what being a poet involves. He then shared some of his poems from his book ‘A Hurricane in My Head’. Matt then spent the rest of the day working with Year 4, writing amazing poems!
Some of our year 4, 5 and 6 pupils were invited to attend the Trust’s pupil voice conference on Friday 10th June.
The event took place at The Co-op Group headquarters, One Angel Square in Manchester. The day was designed for the children to give their opinions on what schools should prioritise to make them better places and what makes Co-op Academy Woodlands a great place to learn.
There was lots of information to take in, with presentations about becoming a Co-op Young Leader, how to help local communities and what makes an effective school council.
After a delicious picnic lunch, the children were then presented with some very special gold Co-op badges to thank them for all their hard work.
It was a fantastic opportunity for our student pioneers to visit the Co-op HQ to share their thoughts and ideas. The children were great role models and did a wonderful job representing the academy.
Miss Hobson, Co-op Coordinator
Welcome back! We hope everyone in our community had a safe, resful half term break. It has been wonderful to see so many children back in school this week. You may have noticed our KS2 playground is being refitted; this will be completed soon and it has been wonderful to see the children sharing our new playground equipment and enjoying time outside together.
As we start a new half term, please remember:
In May 2022, we mark
Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee!
What is the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee?
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee is a celebration of the historic 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II. This will be the first British Monarch to achieve this amount of service to the country; Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne on 6 February 1952, at just 25 years old. The United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and others around the world are invited to come together to celebrate this momentous occasion.
When will the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee take place?
The four-day Platinum Jubilee celebrations will be marked from Thursday 2 to Sunday 5 June 2022, which is also a UK bank holiday weekend.
On Friday 27th May, we celebrated in style by dressing up in red, white and blue clothing. We also made lots of tasty treats and got together for a street party! Take a look at what we got up to!
It has been a very busy half term. We’ve had lots of fantastic learning, trips outside of school and visitors coming in. We also had the return of the SATs tests for Year 6 and Year 2. We are very proud of our children and their hard work over the last half term. We’d like to thank our staff for their dedication.
We wish everyone in our school community has a safe, restful half term. See you at 8:50 am on Tuesday 7th June!