Headlands Highlights March - April 2019

Spring is in the air, mornings and evenings are getting lighter and we’ve continued to

cram each school week full of exciting events and enrichment activities. Read on to find

out more...

OUTSTANDING WORK We held an Outstanding Work Assembly on Friday 15 March. Congratulations to all of the pupils below who

received the award. Their work is proudly displayed outside Mrs Cocker’s office. If you pass, please take the

time to stop and admire some superbly written descriptions, maths calculations and much more...

Nursery: Abigail

Reception: Thomas + Miles

Year 1: Lilly and Mabel

Year 2: Layla and Oscar

Year 3: Ava, Ellie and Ethan

Year 4: Esme and Martha

Year 5: Jake and Summer

Year 6: Adnan and Jude

West Yorkshire Cross Country Final

After competing in a number of qualifying races Seth (Y6) and

Jessica (Y5) showed they had what it takes and made it through

to the West Yorkshire Cross Country Finals which took place at

Temple Newsam. It was a very wet and muddy event but both

children gave it their all as they ran 1235 meters. It was a great

achievement for both children to make it to the finals and

everyone at Headlands is extremely proud of their efforts.

Thank You!

We would like to take this opportunity to

say a big thank you to all families who

supported our most recent book fair in

school. You helped us to raise a grand total

of £377.69 which means we have

approximately £111 in

commission money to

spend on books/

resources for our

school libraries.

We also held a non-uniform day on Friday

15th March in aid of

Comic Relief. Thanks

to your generous

donations of silver

coins we raised

£366.91!

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World Book Day 2019

What a fantastic World Book Day we had this year! A big thank you to all of the families, children and

staff who embraced dressing up as their favourite character- all of the amazing costumes were

wonderful to look at and there was a lovely atmosphere around school all day. Our theme this year

was traditional tales including: fairy tales, myths and stories from other cultures. Each year group

focused on a different story and enjoyed taking part in a range of exciting activities throughout the

day. One of the highlights this year was seeing the children from KS2 read and share stories with the

children in KS1 and EYFS. It was a lovely chance for our children to bond through adventure, mystery,

non-fiction, fantasy and lots of other different genres together. Please enjoy having a look at some of

the pictures below that were taken on the day - there are many more on our school website!

Miss Hull also took four children from Year 6 to Huddersfield Town Hall to take part in a world book day quiz.

The children had over 20 books to read and revise and were asked a series of questions throughout six rounds.

Although they didn’t win, the children worked incredibly well together and had a great time taking part. Their

behaviour was outstanding and they represented Headlands extremely well. Miss Hull said it was a pleasure to

share the experience with them. Well done Y6!

OUR 2019 QUIZ TEAM!

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WW2 Workshops

In March, Year 6 enjoyed a ‘World War 2 Home Front and Evacuee Drama Workshop’, whereby an experienced and highly

qualified drama teacher visited school and led a range of engaging and insightful activities with Year 6 all based on drama

and performance. The year 6 children demonstrated their existing knowledge and acquired further knowledge all about

evacuation and life on the home front. They then constructed some emotive and thought provoking freeze frames

demonstrating real life war experiences. It’s safe to say, we certainly have some aspiring actors/actresses in Year 6!

Choir Visit to Ings House

In March, Mrs Bradley and Mr

Holdsworth took fourteen members of

the choir to sing at the local Ings House

Residential Home. School started visiting

the home about five years ago and

always try to go at least once a year. The

choir sang a selection of their favourite

songs for about half an hour. Their

singing was very well received and the

residents even joined in with percussion

instruments for one of the songs. The

children behaved and sung perfectly and

they particularly enjoyed sharing buns

and juice with the residents afterwards!

Swimming Gala

A huge well done to the children in Y5/6 who represented Headlands

at the Spenborough Swimming Gala. All involved gave it their all and

showed great sportsmanship. We’d like to give a special mention to

Manuga who came 3rd overall in his race. The girls and boys relay

teams won the heats that they competed in too. Both Miss Dyson and

Mrs Pearson were extremely proud of all the competitor’s from

Headlands.

Well done Emmy!

Back in December, Emmy and her family held a Christmas Fair to raise funds for a CICRA, a

charity which supports children with Crohns Disease and Colitis. They organised stalls, a raffle,

a DJ, face painting and more! Emmy and her family raised an incredible £1015! Wow!

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Robinwood Residential Visit

What a fantastic residential Y6 had to Robinwood in March! All of the children gave the

activities their best and really challenged themselves to try things that were out of their

comfort zones. We are so proud of their super behaviour! All of our pupils represented

Headlands excellently and the staff and pupils had the most fun-filled, action-packed 3

days! Please take time to have a look through the photos from their time away to see

what exciting things they got up to! The photos are on our school website as a zip file for

you to download - we hope you enjoy looking through some great memories!

Well done Charlotte

It’s great to hear that Charlotte in

Y4 has recently demonstrated a

range of gymnastics exercises with

success in order to receive this

award for confidence. She looks

very proud of herself in this photo

and we are very proud of her too.

Dance Champion

We’ve also loved hearing

about Megan in Y6 who

recently competed in a dance

festival. She was awarded

three 1st place medals and

also placed 3rd and 4th in two

other dances. Well done

Megan and good luck in your

future competitions.

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Carry My Story

Year 4 have been continuing with their ‘Carry My

Story’ project.

A parishioner from the local community came into

school during the second half of the Spring term to be

interviewed by some of the Year 4 children. The

children generated the questions that they wanted to

ask her and did a great job representing Headlands

School and retrieving the information. The children

then shared what they had found out with the rest of

the class, this is an example of another story that they

have now ‘carried’.

RATS!

Year 3 and 4 worked incredibly hard this half term and managed to pull

off a fantastic performance of ‘RATS’. The children showed off their

talents using expression and intonation to portray each of their

characters.

They were given lots of praise by all the teaching staff plus parents and

carers who came to see

them perform.

The children put in a lot of

time and dedication in

order to make their play a success, the acting was

incredible and the Year 3 choir sang with confidence.

Well done everyone!

Football Stars!

We were delighted to receive this photograph of Liam, George and Robbie in

Y1 who have all made the development team for Bradford City.

George and Robbie train once a week and Liam trains

twice a week. Their families are incredibly proud of them

and we are too.

Keep up the hard work boys!

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WOW!

We were absolutely amazed to hear about Tyler’s

skills in Y4. His family have informed us that he is

able to solve a scrambled Rubik’s cube in less than

90 seconds!! WOW!

Tyler was bought his first Rubik’s cube in

December 2018 and has taught himself how to

solve the puzzle by watching online tutorials and

memorising complicated algorithms.

Well done Tyler!

Bumpy - Ready, Steady, Go!

We’ve heard Jacob had a wonderful time in Birstall

when he took part in the Bumpy Ready, Steady, Go

project. This project enabled Jacob to experience the

thrill of using a variety of adapted off-road vehicles.

Jacob loves spending time outdoors and had a great

time (he even appeared on Calendar News alongside

some other children from the project). Jacob hopes

to take part in the project again soon.

We hope you have lots of fun next time too Jacob!

Zoolab

Recently, Zoolab visited Y2 with some special visitors to help reinforce the children’s understanding of habitats. The

children were very lucky to meet Grumpy Bob the African Land Snail (who is normally found in rainforests). They also met

Harriet the scorpion as well as

Ozzy the corn snake. There were

also visitors from an urban

habitat; Scabbers and Remus,

two playful rats. The children

and staff had an AWESOME

afternoon and it was a brilliant

end to their topic ‘Who lives in a

place like this?’.

See our website galleries for

more photos!

Y3 Trip

Year 3 had a fun packed day at the Tropical Butterfly House, Wildlife and

Falconry Centre in Sheffield on Wednesday 10th

April. Their visit linked to their rainforest topic

and they learnt lots of exciting facts about the

different animals that live there - they even got

to hold some of them! The children and staff

explored the park and saw lots of other animals

including lemurs, meerkats, porcupines and

chipmunks. See our website galleries for more

photos!

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Reception Trip

Reception also spent the day learning offsite on Wednesday

10th April when they visited Cannon Hall Farm.

The children enjoyed seeing all of the animals from pigs to

alpacas and meerkats too. The children loved the tour of

the farm especially feeding the animals and watching a

milking demonstration. Everyone was super well behaved

and made all the teachers proud.

See our website galleries for more photos!

Easter Fun

The Friends of Headlands Easter Egg-stravaganza was a success on Monday 8th April. The Easter Bunny even joined families

for an egg hunt in the school woodland where children searched for three hidden Spring pictures in exchange for a choco-

late egg. There was also an opportunity for families to purchase some delicious cakes, buns and other sweet treats. Huge

thanks to all of the families who baked for the event. Many children also took part in school’s Easter poster and bonnet

competitions - prizes were awarded on Thursday 11th April - congratulations to all of the winners! See our website galleries

for more photos! The school council also organised an Easter raffle in school. Thank you to all families who took part in the

raffle - the money raised will be sent to a school we are twinned with in Tanzania who are currently fundraising for desks

for their pupils. We hope you all have a safe, fun-filled Easter holiday! School opens again on Monday 29th April.