Author: Miss Goswami

This week in Living and Learning, we talked about what body image is and what might influence it.

The children created a variety of definitions but in the end all agreed that ‘Body image is our idea of how our body looks and how we think it looks to others. This can include our feelings and thoughts about our height, weight, shape, skin colour, appearance or attractiveness’.

We then went on to discuss potential influences. Here are the ones we thought of:

• Social Media
• TV
• Celebrities
• Friends
• Family
• News
• Ourselves
• Fashion
• Experience (e.g. sports clubs, school, parties)

Help at home: Discuss how each of the influences might impact our body images.

Over the past 3 weeks, we have had a plethora of RSE lessons covering a range of topics. This week, we talked about relationships and what makes them healthy as well as families and what makes ours different and unique.

To start, we defined a relationship as “the way in which two or more people or things are connected, or the state of being connected” and then talked about the different relationships we have in our lives. Then, we discussed healthy and unhealthy relationships and thought about how we could support and improve them. Here are a few ideas:

• being kind, considerate and respectful
• being honest
• listening to each other
• respecting personal space, boundaries and privacy
• accepting others’ differences

We then talked about similarities and differences between our families and focused in our why our families are important to us. Here are a few responses. Families provide:

• love
• care
• support
• food
• shelter
• safety

Help at home: Talk with your child about the different relationships they have.

We have been talking in Living and Learning lessons about how physical activity can help our physical health as well as our mental health. Firstly, we defined physical wellbeing/health as ‘looking after and feeling good in your body’ and mental wellbeing/health as ‘looking after and feeling good in your mind’.

We then discussed how partaking in physical activity releases chemicals into our brains to make us feel good. We also learnt that when we exercise we have more energy which then means we can concentrate more.

Help at home: Try out a new sport or type of physical activity over the half term.

Over the next two weeks, in Writing, we will be exploring, planning and writing a WWII recount as if we are evacuees. Yesterday, the children looked at and created Expanded Noun Phrases (ENPs) that they could use in their piece of writing.

An ENP is made up of a ‘determiner adjective, adjective noun’ or ‘determiner adjective noun’. Here are a few we made:

• a picturesque view
• several weary, emotional evacuees
• many worried, exhausted mothers
• the congested, humid train

Help at home: Take a look at ENPs on BBC bitesize or create your own ENPs for this picture.

In History, we are nearing the end of our WWII topic and therefore looking at VE day. VE day stands for Victory in Europe day. This day was celebrated on the 8th May 1945. The children looked at a variety of photos that showed the celebrations that took place. We also discussed how the return of men (from the army) impacted the women’s role during WWII.

They then created their own freeze frames or dramas recreating the scenes.