What's Happening at Manor Leas?

• NB Community Award

  Tue 06 Oct 2020
  Congratulations to Nancy for being nominated for a Younger Achiever award for her work in litter picking and posting on social media.

  

• Our first word millionaire of the 2020-2021 academic year

  Thu 01 Oct 2020
  Congratulations to Kevin in Year 6 in becoming the first word millionaire of this academic year. He was read an amazing 1,107,134 words since returning to school on 3rd September.

  

• September 2020 Reopening

  Fri 28 Aug 2020
  Good morning parents/carers,
  
  Please read the letter found here which outlines the arrangements for the start of term.
  
  The school remains closed until Tuesday 1st September, when staff will be in for training. If you have any questions, please contact school reception on Tuesday.
  
  We look forward to welcoming our Year 3 pupils on Wednesday 2nd September and our Year 4/5/6 pupils on Thursday 3rd September at 8:30am. Please ensure you check them map on the letter for arrival/departure points to the school site and stay 2 metres apart from anyone not in your household. As the school site will be busy, we ask only one parent/carer attends the school drop off/pick up please.
  
  We are looking forward to seeing all the children back in school!
  
  Kind regards,
  Team Manor Leas

• Girls football

  Wed 12 Feb 2020

  Our amazing girls football team have won the Lincolnshire finals and are now going to the region final in Nottingham. Read all about it on the lincolnite.

   

  https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2020/02/success-for-lincoln-schools-girls-football-team-in-county-finals/

   

• NSPCC - Fundraising

  Thu 30 Jan 2020
  Children have enjoyed the chance to drop their books and boogie to raise money for the NSPCC.  On the hour every hour the children stopped their work and danced for two minutes to support the national charity. Thank you to everyone who has returned the sponsor money. We have made an amazing £1036 for the NSPCC.

• Year 4 are being kind!

  Mon 16 Dec 2019

  Year 4 children at Manor Leas Junior Academy have been undertaking random acts of kindness within school.

   

  We have such lovely thoughtful pupils here!

   

  Please click here for the BBC Look North report

• Year 5 Take to the Stage

  Thu 07 Nov 2019

  Year 5 pupils will be performing a Midsummer Night's Dream on the 12th November at the Lincoln Drill Hall at 7.00pm

   

  Whether you are a parent, friend or another school, the Shakespeare School's Festival is a wonderful way to experience the language, magic and possibilities of Shakespeare.  It will be a night to be treasured.   

   

  Tickets: Adults £9.95

  Concessions: £8.00

  https://www.lincolndrillhall.com/shows/shakespeare-schools-festival/

   

  

• School fund raises for Macmillan Cancer Support!

  Mon 04 Nov 2019

  Thank you to everyone who donated biscuits and cakes to the coffee morning that was held on Friday 4th October.

  
  Just by sharing a cuppa and a few biscuits the school raised £376.70 for such a worthy cause!

• Lost words found by school children

  Thu 31 Oct 2019 Mrs Tyas

  During the last two weeks before half term, all classes at Manor Leas Junior Academy (MLJA) combined poetry and music to bring back some of the ‘lost words’ from the Oxford Junior Dictionary.

   

  The project was inspired by the beautifully illustrated anthology, ‘The Lost Words: A Spell Book’ written by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris.  Each poem is a spell written in the hope to summon lost nature words back into the vocabulary of British children. 

   

  During the project, each class at MLJA studied a lost nature word, no longer included in the Oxford Junior Dictionary, including Bluebell, Conker, Adder, Acorn, Heron and Willow.  They wrote their own poems or ‘spells’ so the words would not be lost forever. 

   

  As well as poetry, each class used GarageBand to compose their own Spell Song to accompany their spells.  At the end of the project, each year group across MLJA celebrated their poetry and music in a performance to parents.

   

  “The way the children at our school have embraced this important project has been inspiring, giving me hope that even though the nature words no longer feature in the Oxford Junior Dictionary, they will not be forgotten at our school.”  Mrs Tyas (Year 4 Teacher)

  

• MLJA READS THE MOST in the UK!

  Wed 18 Sep 2019

  Last term the pupils at Manor Leas Junior Academy participated in a national competition against other Accelerated Reader schools to find out 'Who Reads the Most?' in the UK.

   

  For an entire week our reading habits were tracked and monitored, with Manor Leas Junior Academy reading an incredible total of 3,052 books in just one week! That is over 9 books per pupil! Wow!

   

  We were the Grand Prize Winners, topping the leader board against the other schools competing, including Secondary schools! We received book packs from publishers for our school library and other prizes for our pupils. 

   

  Reading is a part of our culture at Manor Leas Junior Academy and we are so proud of the amazing learning attitudes of all our pupils! Well done Team Manor Leas!