This week’s whole school homework involves completing the pupil health questionnaire sent home with your child.
I can share my views about health.
This annual questionnaire has been compiled in consultation with our school council and helps us to find out pupil views on some of our key health issues at school. Please support your child to complete the health questionnaire by discussing these issues. The questionnaire should be returned to your class teacher by Wednesday 15 July.
As part of our Green Fingers topic, we have been learning about food origins and how all food comes from plants or animals. While our plants are not ready for eating, we’ve used vegetables that we are growing in our stripy salad pots.
Grating, snipping and chopping (bridge technique) were all skills we used to prepare our salad pots. There was lots of washing up to do too.
We discussed why some people might have different ingredients in their salad pot – likes/dislikes, allergies, religion and we also thought about how we could adapt this recipe, maybe adding pasta to make it a balanced meal.
Recently children have brought home information from Change 4 life on their latest campaign, 10 minute shake up. Similar to our daily Wake Up Shake Up activity, here is a 10 minute shake up video for you to follow at home.
As part of our Green Fingers topic, Year 1 and 2 have visited Harlow Carr gardens today. It’s been great to see the children’s enthusiasm for this topic and especially how their knowledge has grown when naming different plants and trees. We found plenty of shady spots to try and keep cool and the ice creams helped too. Well done both classes for demonstrating excellent behaviour. You were great ambassadors for the school.
Have you been watching Wimbledon? New tennis lessons are starting at Roundhay Park next week.
We’ve had some great homework this week, looking at plants in the local environment.
Can you remember the names of these herbs?
Free tennis lessons (for children and adults) are available locally at David Lloyd and Roundhay Park over the next few months.
So far in our new topic, Green Fingers, Year 1 have been getting their hands dirty. We’ve been following instructions for planting cress seeds and broad bean seeds and also planting a range of vegetables, herbs and flowers. It’s been great to hear that so many of the children are growing some of their own plants at home.
What do plants need to grow? This was a question we considered this week and we set up some experiments to test this.
As we continue to work on our writing targets in English, we’ve been writing descriptions of plants. This is also helping us to remember the names for the different parts of plants.
We’ve also been reading stories about plants – Jack and the Beanstalk, Jasper’s Beanstalk and Tiny Seed. Are there any other books about plants that you can think of?
Finally, here is our best crop so far!
In our latest session with Dan from Leeds United we looked at where to position ourselves to receive a ‘ball’. For a change, we used balloons to test this.
Fourteen of our Year 3 and 4 girls took part in the Wigton Moor ‘Join our Club’ festival at Immaculate Heart Primary. This followed a series of curriculum training sessions at school as part of the Join our Club initiative.
The festival involved three local schools, with over 60 girls taking part, providing the opportunity for the girls to play in friendly matches and demonstrate their skills. It was great to see so many girls getting involved, especially in the heat and after a three day residential for some! Well done to all our players.
Girls from Years 3, 4 and 5 are now invited to attend the Wigton Moor girls team trials on 28 June.
