Author: Mrs Taylor

Body image, as part of our Living and Learning curriculum, uses a focus on self-esteem to promote a positive body image. There is a strong emphasis on appreciating and celebrating everyone’s unique qualities, talents and abilities.

We want to enable pupils to feel proud and confident about who they are and to value their own and each other’s individuality.

Firstly, we talked about what makes us special. This could be something physical or personal.

I’m special as I am kind to my friends.

I’m special because I can do lots of different skipping skills.

I’m special because I try hard on TTRS.

I’m special as I can run fast.

I’m special because I’m good at helping others.

Next, we discussed why we have names and what if everyone was nameless?

If we didn’t have names, we wouldn’t be as special as we are.

We have names because we are unique and special.

We need names as we wouldn’t know who people are.

Then, we considered why we like different activities.

We like different activities because we are different people.

Not everyone likes the same thing because we are all different.

It would be boring if everyone liked the same things.

Finally, we thought about why we look different and what things we can change and what things we can’t change about ourselves.

It’s always great to hear the children discussing and sharing ideas in our Living and Learning sessions and circle times.

Help at home: Listen to this text, Your Body is Awesome, with your child. What is brilliant about their body?

It’s been a busy sporting week for Year 2 with our skipping festival, the Olympic Event at Leeds Beckett for some children and sports day at Roundhegians Rugby Club this Tuesday 02 July.

The children have been told their teams and their races but please come and see us if you want to check this.

If possible, they will need to come in a t-shirt of their team colour on Tuesday. We can provide a bib instead if this isn’t possible.

There is an important update about access to Roundhegians Rugby Club.

We’ve been advised that the normal vehicle access and car park for Roundhegians is currently out of use due to building work taking place at the clubhouse.

Instead, access will be through the gate on High Moor Avenue. This will mean there will be limited on street parking so please walk to the venue if you can.

You’re welcome to bring chairs/rugs to enjoy the morning/afternoon’s events.

We hope to see you there at 1:30pm on Tuesday.

 

Today, a group of KS1 and Year 5/6 pupils took part in the East & North East Leeds Well School Partnership KS1&2 ‘Olympic’ Event at Leeds Beckett University.

Our KS1 children completed a 10-station skills circuit carousel on the pitch in the middle of the track while our KS2 children took part in athletic track and field events.

Well done to all the children for giving 100% in all of the activities and learning new skills in such a great sporting setting.

It was really fun and we got to do a mixture of events. There was something for everyone.

I thought all the activities were really good. My favourite was the skipping.

We had chance to run around the big track.

It was all about having fun and cheering on your team.

Today, Year 2 took part in the Skipping School KS1 festival at Leeds Trinity University against four other Leeds schools.

The children have been learning lots of individual and group skipping skills and today it was great to see just how much the children have progressed.

We were lucky enough to win some awards for the following events.

After all the points (skips) were added up, the winning school was announced…

We were so excited and proud to hear we had won!

A huge well done to all the children for fantastic determination, resilience and team work. They have worked so hard by practising in PE, at lunchtime and playtime, at skipping after-school club and even at home!

We looked super smart in our new KS1 PE tops too.

Skipping is amazing because it gives us exercise.

I really liked learning new skips at the festival.

It’s all been fun and it is good for your mental health.

 

For the last few weeks, our Living and Learning lessons and circle times have been all about happy and healthy relationships between our friends, peers and families.

Here, we thought about what makes a family.

A family can be three people or four people. It just matters that you LOVE them!

A family is a group of people and they love each other.

A family is people who are combined together.

You can show you care for your family by loving them as much as you love yourself and be kind and respectful.

Family respect you, take care of you and show you kindness and love.

Sometimes, you might have fall outs but you will come back together.

We read some texts about how not all families are the same and that is ok. The children also enjoyed sharing special members of their family.

The Family book by Todd Parr

The Great big book of families by Mary Hoffman

What is a healthy relationship? What does a good friend do? What should I do if I’m not happy with a friendship? These were all questions we considered as we moved onto thinking about friendships.

Consent is also part of this relationships learning. We have already learnt about consent in terms of permission seeking when online but here we thought about it when we are with others. We practised showing how we give and don’t give consent and how we can also change our mind if we want to.

We will continue to use this text to support learning about consent.

Finally, you will have seen the children have brought home the NSPCC Pants Underwear rule. We revisit this important learning every year.

Help at home: read the NSPCC pants underwear rule with your child/children and think about how this keeps you safe. This parent guide is available too.

Recently, as part of the Leeds Well Schools Partnership, some of our Year 5 and 6 children participated in a come and try orienteering event at Potternewton Park.

After being briefed on the rules and how to complete the orienteering challenge, they set off with their partner armed with a map of the site to find the first check point. Then, it was back to the start to hand over to the other pair in their team for them to find check point two and so on until all twelve markers had been found.

The children worked brilliantly in their teams encouraging and supporting each other especially up the hill back to the handover station.

Well done to all the children for representing the school so well and developing these great skills.

It was really fun but the hill was challenging.

We got to work with a partner and in a team so it was good to work together.

We didn’t give up.

We learnt how to use the map to find different places.

This week, as part of our biology learning in science, some visitors arrived in class.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be making lots of observations to see what changes over time with our caterpillars.

We have been learning about the different stages of the butterfly life cycle in science but also from our non-fiction reading fluency text.

Take a look at this video to see this amazing transformation and this video for more about animal life cycles.

When comparing butterflies to other living things, we noticed the offspring look very different to the adult.

Help at home: ask your child what is the next stage in the life cycle of a butterfly and what we will expect to see next.