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Manor Leas Junior Academy
What's Happening at Manor Leas?
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/
Year 4 children at Manor Leas Junior Academy have been undertaking random acts of kindness within school.
We have such lovely thoughtful pupils here!
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/
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!
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)
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!