During last week’s living and learning session, we discussed that medicines are drugs to help us feel better. We also talked about harmful substances that we find around the house such as bleach, dishwasher tablets and fabric softener. After this, we worked as a group to sort pictures of food, medicines and harmful substances into three categories:
You might have read that the Department for Education has launched a scheme which will provide access to free period products in schools in England. Alongside this, Leeds Council launched a similar scheme a few months ago.
This scheme will ensure that period products are available to young people if they need them, when they need them. This will include supporting those who have started their period unexpectedly, forgotten to bring products with them and those who can’t afford to buy them.
Although there are some restrictions around how many products we can order, we’d like to assure you that the products are in school if your child needs to use them unexpectedly, or has forgotten them, or can’t afford them.
This week’s spellings are words that contain the ‘oy’ and ‘ir’ digraph.
| boy |
| toy |
| enjoy |
| destroy |
| bird |
| shirt |
| twirl |
| girl |
Each week, the children are expected to practise their spellings or complete a spelling activity. There will be a test on this week’s spellings and here are some examples of what we thought was effective practice.
As always, Year 4 shared their homework today. We enjoyed finding out what our friends had produced around the statement I can make things better. Some people thought about making the planet better, some thought about making friendships better and others thought about making the school environment better.
Here are some of our favourites:
After discussing alcohol, caffeine, nicotine and medicines in our Living and Learning lesson on Monday, Dave from d:side came in today to teach us more about alcohol.
We learnt about what is an is not alcohol; what alcohol does to people’s bodies; when it is legal and illegal to drink alcohol; and reasons might or might not drink alcohol.
Talk about this with us as home as we had lots of questions.
To finish off the lesson, some of us tried completing some simple tasks with ‘beer goggles’ on. This helped us to understand how alcohol can affect us physically and, although it was pretty funny in the classroom, we discuss when these affects would become dangerous.
In our first computing lesson, we explored what a Bee-Bot is and how they work. After that, we discussed what the word ‘algorithm’ meant. Then, we had a go at writing really simple algorithm’s to predict how many presses forward it would take for the Bee-Bot to get to the end of a track.
This week’s spellings are words that contain the ‘ay’, ‘ou’ ‘ea’ and ‘ie’ digraph.
| play |
| day |
| shout |
| round |
| pie |
| cried |
| tea |
| meal |
Year 4 are learning all about electricity in their science lessons this half term. We started off our topic finding out about the difference between mains and battery operated appliances and how we can use them safely around the home and school.
Now, we’re investigating circuits. We found out how to make a circuit to light a bulb and are now using this knowledge to test our own scientific questions.
In this lesson, we had to use some key scientific vocabulary. Test us at home to see how much we’ve remembered: circuit, cell, bulb, components
Our whole-school attendance figure so far this year is 96.5% – that’s a little lower than it was this time last year.
However, a big well done to Year 2 children (and mums, dads and carers at home) for their amazing attendance: it’s just short of 98%!
Well done to Year 3, with a figure of 96.8%. Also well done to our Reception class – their attendance matches the school average, which is really good because it’s quite often the case that Reception classes have a lower figure (because they may be more susceptible to bugs going around).
All the attendance figures are here: