This week at Moortown has been Being Healthy Week! All week we’ve been focusing on how we can stay healthy both physically and mentally. Here are some of our highlights of the week…
We started the week talking about healthy eating and how we can ensure we have a balanced diet. Your children were very knowledgeable on this and suggested various healthy meals/snacks that include all our important food groups.
We then were lucky enough to have a visit from British Military Martial Arts (BMMA). Your children played lots of fun games and got to showcase their new skills. They loved giving martial arts a go and exploring a new way of keeping fit.
This week, we’ve spoke a lot about mental health and its importance. We often find that doing things to promote our physical health, such as exercise and eating healthy, also help our mental health. Keeping our minds healthy is just as important as keeping our bodies healthy and we discussed various ways to do this. We played a fun game of self-care bingo where the children chose their favourite self-care techniques and had to act them out.
We had another excellent session with some visitors from City of Leeds Basketball. Your children did basketball in PE last year so this was a great opportunity to recap, learn and practise some basketball skills and ask the professionals all about their experiences in the sport.
One of our favourite moments of the week was our Hip Hop workshop with Phil. He spoke all about the culture of Hip Hop and how we can express ourselves through art, literature, music and dance. We then had the opportunity to watch Phil perform some amazing Hip Hop dancing and learnt a few moves ourselves! We all loved it!
As part of our Being Healthy Week, we had our annual sports day! It’s always a brilliant day in the sunshine and the children were all amazing. Medal or not, we were proud of all of your children as everybody demonstrated our School Games values:
- determination
- honesty
- passion
- respect
- self-belief
- teamwork
Your children always love a visit from D:Side and this week, the session was on drug education. We learnt all about alcohol – what it is, the laws around it and how we can stay safe and healthy when we’re older. We did some role plays of how to say no if somebody is trying to get you to do something you don’t want to. The session taught us some really important information and was fun and engaging too!
Overall, we had an amazing, jam packed week and learnt so much about how we can always stay healthy!