Author: Miss Goswami

Living and Learning: Healthy Eating

In Living and Learning, we discussed the importance of a balanced diet and the advice of ‘five-a-day’. We looked at the different portion sizes that counted towards your five-a-day and talked about the differences in fresh, dried, tinned and cooked fruit and vegetables.

Did you know:

  •  you should only have 150ml of fruit juice a day?
  • if you drink a fruit smoothie, it only counts as one portion no matter how many different fruits are in there?
  • dried fruit should be eaten as a dessert rather than a snack to prevent tooth decay?
  • it is healthier to buy tinned fruit in juices rather than syrup?

Help at home: Visit the NHS website which gives more information about portion sizes and healthy choices.  Then, with this knowledge, why not try to plan, prepare and enjoy a healthy meal which contributes towards your five-a-day.

Living and Learning: Health and Prevention

Over the past two weeks, in Living and Learning lessons, the children have been looking at the importance of hygiene (especially handwashing) and the importance of sleep.

We defined hygiene and talked about several different ways we could make sure our hygiene was good. A few responses were: showering, brushing teeth and washing hands. Afterwards, we focussed on why we need to keep our hands clean (to prevent the spread of germs) and how to keep them clean. We also found out some very interesting facts about germs: did you know that if one million micro-organisms were packed right next to each other they would only cover a pin head in size? Did you know there are more microbes (good and bad) on one person’s hand than people on the planet!

Furthermore, we discussed how sleep has a variety of benefits. These being an improvement in memory; decision making; concentration and mood; immune system; and growth and repair. We learnt that a child aged 10 should be getting about 10 hours of sleep every night!

Help at home: Learn the handwashing soap and sanitiser song and put those actions into practice!

Or try some of our top tips to get a better night’s sleep:

  • breathing exercises to slow down your heart rate;
  • writing down worries in a diary;
  • thinking of good things that have happened that day;
  • talking to someone you can trust.

History: The Leeds Blitz

In History, we have been exploring how Leeds was impacted by The Blitz on the 14th-15th March 1941. We used secondary research from Leeds Becket University.

We found out that most of the bombs landed in the city centre and the closest event occurring nearest to Moortown was a fire in Meanwood.

Here are some of the events, the children found interesting:

Help at home: Explore the interactive map and find out more information about how Leeds was impacted by The Blitz.

 

Science: We are biologists.

This half term, we are biologists. Biology is the study of living things.

In this week’s lesson, we dissected a flower called Alstroemeria. We labelled the different parts and discussed which of them make up the male and female reproductive systems. Have a look at our work:

Help at home: Label the different parts of the flower. Describe the process of pollination or plant fertilisation. 

Flower Parts