Author: Mrs Taylor

29 June 2018

As part of our Being Healthy themed week, the homework this week is to complete a health diary.  The completed diary should be brought back to school on Thursday 05 July to ensure all the entries are made.

The diary covers diet, sleep and physical activity.

Once completed, you should reflect on your diary:

  • what surprised you about your diary?
  • what were you proud of?
  • what could you improve?
  • did you make any improvements throughout the week?
  • did you manage to achieve your five a day?
  • did you have five different portions of fruit and vegetables?
  • did you try to reduce your number of snacks and sweetened drinks?
  • did you find any alternative healthier snacks and drinks?

Physical activity guidelines state that children should do at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day (30 minutes at school and 30 minutes outside of school).  Is this something you have achieved?

Sleep guidelines state how much sleep children should have at different ages.  For example, a seven year old should have 10 hours 30 minutes sleep.  Sleep is especially important for children as it directly impacts mental and physical development.

We look forward to reviewing the diaries next Thursday in our homework review.

 

 

Sports day access

Roundhegians have confirmed we will be using their main pitch, closest to the club house, for our sports day next Tuesday.  Access is via Chelwood Drive, off Street Lane.

As in previous years, we would be grateful to any parents who are able to lend and assemble gazebos for the children to sit under during the day.  

Being healthy themed week

We’re gearing up for a busy, active Being Healthy themed week, next week.

With lots of activities and visitors planned for the children, there are also some ways for you to get involved.  Firstly we have our health fair on Monday after school, open to all children and parent/carers.

 

Water safety

From this year, schools are required to publish how many Year 6 pupils have met the national curriculum requirements relating to swimming and water safety.

National Curriculum requirements for swimming and water safety:

  • swim competently, confidently and proficiently over a distance of at least 25 metres
  • use a range of strokes effectively
  • perform safe self-rescue in different water-based situations.

Following recent consultation about these attainment targets, and to ensure that all Year 6 children have met National Curriculum requirements for water safety, the class will be taking part in a water safety session on Friday 13 July.

The session is a land based session, in school, and will be a good reminder about how to stay safe around water as we come up to the summer holidays and with the current warm weather.

Being Healthy themed week 2 July

Our next whole school themed week, based around Being Healthy, will be taking place from Monday 2 July 2018.  Our key message will be how to be healthy; both physically and emotionally.  A variety of events and visitors are planned to help us deliver this key aspect of education.  We are looking forward to a very busy, healthy week!

Our School Council have been considering ways to support our school charity, Make-A-Wish, and as skipping has been taking off at school, we will be running a beat your personal best skipping challenge.  On Friday 6 July, this will culminate in a Make-A-Wish day with all children invited to wear blue and bring a £1 donation to support our charity while trying to beat our personal bests.

There are also some opportunities for parents and carers to get involved in the week.

Monday 02 July 3:15pm – 4:15pm Health fair

Our Health and Sports Fair in the hall is to promote health and sport opportunities and services in the local area.

Come along with your child/children after-school to find out more.

Tuesday 03 July Sports day Key Stage 2 9:30am Reception/Key Stage 2 1:30pm

You are welcome to come along to support our annual sports day at Roundhegians RUFC.  We require adults to help walk the children to Roundhegians so please contact the office if you can help with this.

Thursday 05 July 2:30pm – 3:15pm d:side drug education parent information session

Dave Hill from d:side, a health education provider, will be running an information session about drug education following his sessions with all classes during our themed week.  Parents and carers from all year groups are welcome to attend.  Please contact  the office if you would like to reserve a place.

Following our recent walk to school week and the Big Pedal scooter and bike week, this themed week is a good opportunity to continue to think about healthy, active ways to travel to school.  We will be encouraging children to use a sustainable method of transport, maybe parking further away from school, scooting, biking or walking to school.

 Finally, can you help? Does your job involve an aspect of health?  If you are able to support our Being Healthy themed week by coming into school, please contact your child’s class teacher directly or the office to arrange this.

Thank you for your support to keep Moortown a happy and healthy school.

Living and learning and maths

Our weekly Living and learning statement this week is…

As well as specific Living and learning lessons, we make reference to our statement in other lessons to promote use of these skills across the curriculum and also outside of the classroom.

Today in maths, while working in table groups, the children were encouraged to share and include others while completing a units of time sorting activity.