Welcome to Highfield Primary School.

This morning, the School Council had the exciting opportunity to visit the Mayor at the Civic Hall in Leeds. The children were welcomed into the Council Chamber, where they learned all about how the council works and discovered the fascinating history of the building. During their tour, they explored some of the Civic Hall’s most impressive rooms, including the grand Banqueting Hall, which was being prepared for a large function, and the Lady Mayoress’s Room, where members of the Royal Family relax during visits to Leeds. The School Council also enjoyed meeting the Mayor himself, asking lots of thoughtful questions and hearing about his role and experiences over the past year. The Mayor kindly provided juice and biscuits for everyone to enjoy. The children were especially interested in seeing the gifts presented to Leeds from around the world, including two pottery cows from Dortmund in Germany, one of Leeds’ twin cities. We had a wonderful time and are extremely grateful to the Mayor for making us feel so welcome. It was a particularly special visit as we were the Mayor’s final official visitors before he hands over the role to the next councillor tomorrow after completing his year in office.

Year 2 have been exploring making tally charts and pictograms in computing. We collected our data and entered it carefully onto the J2e software.

Brooke's mum was our Secret Reader in 1B today, and her little brother came along too. She read us The Snail and the Whale and told us she has an important birthday tomorrow, so she got to wear the birthday hat, and we all sang “Happy Birthday” to her!

On Friday, 3T went on a trip to Tropical World and Roundhay Park. This was as part of our scientific enquiry about butterflies. We loved looking at butterflies, giant tortoises, meercats, birds and fish in Tropical World - we saw so many! Afterwards, we enjoyed a picnic lunch and learning more about butterflies specifically. We then went to search for butterflies. Because it has rained so much recently, we didn't see any but we did lots of evidence of caterpillars. Robyn even found a caterpillar and Gurbani found one on her skirt! Finally, we made natural sculptures of butterflies, ensuring we included their four wings, antennae, six legs, head, thorax and abdomen. We had a brilliant time and the staff said we were the best class they'd had! We also got lots of compliments from members of the public about how polite and considerate we were in Tropical World by allowing toddlers to go first and being incredibly gentle. As their teacher, I am so incredibly proud of them.

1W were exploring fractions in maths this week, halves and quarters of shape and quantity.