Looking forward to this year!
Hello Year 4!
As you know, I’m Miss Birch and I’m going to be your teacher for the next year! I’m really looking forward to working with all of you. I hope you’ve all had a wonderful summer holiday and are raring to come back. I just know that we’re going to be a fabulous team – bring it on!
Goodbye Reception 2022!
We have reached the end of our year in Reception.
The children have all been amazing and we have been impressed with how much they have progressed. I will miss seeing them grow up!
Thank you for all your kind messages and presents.
Have a happy and healthy summer.
Goodbye Year 2!
Mrs Taylor, Mrs Lake, Mrs Burgess and Miss Gilliland would like to wish you all a happy and healthy summer holiday.
Thank you for all the kind and generous gifts we’ve received.
It has been a pleasure to teach the children and see how much they have progressed and matured over the year. We shall miss them!
Summer of sport
It’s just 7 days to go until the Commonwealth Games begin in Birmingham. Watch this introductory video to find out more.
To keep active over the summer holidays, why not try these commonwealth personal best challenges at home. My Commonwealth PB incorporates skills that are used in 7 of the sports which will be taking place at the B2022
Commonwealth Games.
Use the QR codes below to see each challenge.
We’d love to hear how you get on!
Roundhegians
Fruit bars
It was back in the kitchen for Year 2 again yesterday. This time, we made fruit bars (a healthy snack option). After using fresh and frozen fruits in our fruit salad on Monday, this time we used dried fruits.
We used measuring, mixing, snipping and mashing skills.
Hopefully the children enjoyed the finished product as a snack after school!
Learning new food preparation skills
Today, Year 2 have been learning some food preparation skills while making a fruit salad. This learning also included a reminder about the 5-a-day message and that a fruit can be fresh, dried, tinned or frozen.
There are two main techniques we use for cutting – bridge hold and claw grip and the children learnt to use these techniques safely today. We also used peeling, segmenting and mixing skills. Ask your child to demonstrate these techniques at home.
We talked a lot about safety and food preparation especially around using sharp knives, that are kept in a locked drawer, and getting ready to cook (washing hands, cleaning down surfaces, tying hair back).
Then, it was time for the tasting!
I enjoyed eating the melon.
I didn’t like strawberries before but now I like them.
Now I like blueberries.
I liked the juicy melon and strawberries.
I learnt how to make a fruit salad and I want to make one at home.
I liked the melon because it was nice and juicy.
I learnt how to do the bridge and claw skill.
I learnt how to cut safely.
I learnt how to do the bridge skill for cutting the grapes.
I learnt how to use the claw skill for cutting the stalk off the strawberry.
The frozen fruit made the fruit salad moist.
I liked that when the frozen fruit defrosted, it was all juicy.
I enjoyed learning how to do the bridge hold and I liked eating the fruit.
Living and Learning – drugs, alcohol and tobacco
The last couple of weeks have been focused on talking about drugs, alcohol and tobacco. This topic is really important. The children became familiar and educated on these substances so that once they are old enough, they can make safe and informed decisions on what they choose to do.
The year 4 children identified how certain drugs and household items (i.e. paracetamol or surface cleaner) should be used safely. They were really sensible and knew exactly what to do:
- Do not touch these items without permission from a trusted adult.
- The instructions on the products must be followed.
- Keep them out of reach of small children.
D:side came in the following week to talk about alcohol and it was a fantastic session with lots of interactive activities that the children loved! The session wasn’t to worry the children about alcohol but just to make them aware of what it is and the rules around it. The children began acting out how they would respond if a friend was pressuring them to drink alcohol and they even got to try the alcohol glasses on and have a walk around the classroom – tricky!
Living and learning: RSE
This half term, Year 5 have been learning about Relationships and Sex Education.
We have completed 9 RSE lessons in total. These lessons have answered these questions:
What is a healthy friendship?
What are the male and female parts of the body?
What is puberty and what happens during puberty?
What is a respectful relationship?
Why are families important?
Why is personal hygiene important?
How might our emotions change?
What kind of relationships are there?
What kind of families are there?
Science learning
This half term, Year 2 have enjoyed learning all about animals (including humans) in our science topic.
This week, as the science learning comes to an end, the children will be self assessing their understanding of the vocabulary as shown below.
Our visit to Yorkshire Wildlife Park allowed the children to use their knowledge learnt at school to describe the animals we saw.
We saw a wallaby which is a mammal because it has live babies but we didn’t see any fish.
We saw a lion and a lion is a mammal because it has fur. We didn’t see any amphibians.
The BBC website is great to support science learning and these videos are a good recap of our learning.
To share their knowledge, ask your child to have a go at these true or false statements about carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
