Living and Learning: Staying Safe
What an action-packed week we had last week!
We were learning all about staying safe, looking after ourselves and making safe choices, including online.
We had lots of visitors, including Mrs Hill from Dogs’ Trust who taught us about how our behaviour can change how a dog feels and therefore reacts. We can make safe choices around them to help everyone.
“If a dog is eating or sleeping, just leave them. When they’re awake, then you can pet them,” said Evie.
Asthon explained, “When a dog comes near you that you don’t know, you can put your hands across your body and turn away.”
Leeds City Council’s Road Safety Team came to talk to us about the choices we can make to stay safe on the roads. We also looked at what they do in order to protect us.
“I learnt that lots of road safety equipment cost a lot of money!” shared Aadil.
“I enjoyed the lesson – it was a good idea to use a real life situation where we only had a certain amount of money in order to help people,” said Billy.
Go Wise came in to talk to us about the safe choices we can make online. Check out the pictures above for their golden rules plus what to do if you have a problem.
“There can be some weird people on the internet so we can be safe by blocking strangers you don’t know or not accepting random friend requests,” said Harman.
Da’wud simply stated, “Screenshot. Block. Report.”
Lots of our favourite visitors were the fire officers. We discussed fire hazards in the home and had a great chat with them about how they keep us safe in our community.
Khadija learnt that they have to wear a special suit to protect them against the fire and they have a tank filled with air that’s very heavy.
“I liked when they came in because they showed us the fire equipment up close,” said Christina.
“It’s best to close your doors at night because they can stop the fire from spreading around your house,” said Vedant.
We also talked about safe choices when it comes to setting physical boundaries and being in charge of you. The book below is a great way to open up the conversation.
“I liked how it shows real life situations and it made me feel more confident about not just going with it like you’re crossing a road or you don’t always have to hug someone – you can high five them if you prefer!” reassured Sasha.
Finally, we watched a virtual assembly, hosted by some familiar faces, which was all about speaking out to get the help you need in order to stay safe.
Living & Learning: Staying safe online
In Staying safe week, our visitor, Sarah from Go Wise Online, shared some great tips for staying safe online. The internet is a great resource but we need to stay safe when using it.
In class, we considered how the children use the internet and some of the online games that are popular. For each game, we checked the PEGI rating. Fortnite, for example, has a PEGI rating of 12 meaning the game is suitable for children age 12 and up.
To link with our current science learning, seasonal changes, we used iPads to find out answers to some of the questions we had.
When searching on the internet, we need to be aware what to do if something comes on the screen that makes us scared or sad. We also learnt about the padlock that can be found at the start of some web addresses (URL).
Discuss these questions with your child.
Here’s some pictures of our safe searches.
Finally, we watched some videos to give us some more advice about staying safe online. Watch them again and discuss the key safety messages with your child.
Living and Learning: Safety Week
This week, Moortown Primary School has been taking part in Safety Week.
Year 5 have been learning lots about different ways that they can stay safe both inside and outside of school.
Some highlights include…
A visit from Dogs Trust informing us how we stay safe around dogs – be that our own dog or a dog we might not know.
Road Safety learning:
Safer Internet Day: a whole day dedicated to learning about how we can stay safe online. The children really impressed me with their knowledge about how they stay safe online.
A visit from Moortown Fire Service where the children were able to ask questions about how to prevent a fire and stay safe in the event of one. Something that really resonated with the class was the importance of sleeping with your door closed. Ask your child if they can remember why this is important.
And a quiet half an hour where we read this book about consent.
If you or your child have any questions about anything we have discussed this week please don’t hesitate to ask.
Abbey House Museum
Year 1 had an incredible time at Abbey House Museum yesterday! The children behaved excellently and were very enthusiastic about all the artefacts they saw. We explored rooms of old toys and compared them to now. They were even some toys from when Mr McGriffiths was a child!
We also explored the Victorian street and went inside some of the shops. I wonder which shop was your favourite. We talked about how these shops were similar or different to shops today. We also had a workshop where we were able to handle and explore different objects from the past. It was so exciting but the soap smelt horrible!
Living and Learning – Staying safe week
We have had an amazing week learning all about staying safe. We had so many visitors teaching us to stay safe in lots of different situations! Thank you to Mrs Taylor for organising a brilliant week!
Monday
We learnt how to stay safe on the roads. Remember to ‘Think, Stop, Look, Listen.’
We also had a visitor from the dog’s trust who told us the 5 rules for staying safe around dogs. I wonder if your child can remember all 5.
Tuesday
Tuesday was Safer Internet Day and we learnt lots about how to stay safe on the internet. We watched a video called ‘Jessie and Friends’ who helped us to learn what we should do if we see something on the internet that upsets us or if someone tries to message us on the internet. You can see the videos here.
We also have a visitor from ‘Go Wise Online’ who also explained how to use the internet safely.
Wednesday
We were very excited to have a visit from both the Police and the Fire Service today! We really enjoyed asking them questions and finding out about how they keep us safe.
Friday
The final visit of the week was from the Canals and Rivers trust who explained how we should stay safe near water. Remember:
Stay Away From the Edge.
The children listened and engaged brilliantly all week! Well done everyone!
Evolution
In Science, Year 5 have been learning about evolution and how things adapt over time.
We learnt about Darwin’s finches – a study conducted by Charles Darwin where he explained why different birds had different beaks. Darwin hypothesised that birds with long, pointy beaks had adapted in order to eat insects. On the other hand, birds with shorter, sharp beaks had adapted to eat hard fruits.
We conducted an experiment to see which beaks would be better suited to eat sunflower eats. We used chopsticks to represent the long, pointy beaks with chopsticks and tweezers to represent the shorter, sharp beaks.
Ask your child which instrument was better for picking up the sunflower seeds and therefore what we concluded from this experiment!
Learning how to stay safe
A great week of learning all about staying safe.
Fire Safety
This week, we were joined by four firefighters from Moortown Fire Station. They came in to educate us about fire safety. It was incredibly useful and we learnt lots about how to stay safe. We were also very lucky to see the fire engine and ask lots of questions.
We learnt what fires need to get started: the Triangle of Fire. Ask your child if they can remember what this means.
Abbey House Museum
Today, we had a great day at Abbey House Museum. We were all impressed with how well behaved, enthusiastic and engaged the children were. Today, was a wonderful opportunity to cement our learning from topic lessons. We learnt more about how shopping has changed and what life was like in Victorian Britain.
Living and Learning: Staying safe week – safety around dogs
The visitor from our current school charity, Dog’s Trust, taught us all about keeping safe around dogs. Again, the children were excellent listeners and asked some great questions.
There were five main things to remember. Ask your child to talk about these and to show the action that goes with each one.
1.When a dog is sleeping, we leave them alone.
2. When a dog is eating, we leave them alone.
3. Remember to be quiet around dogs.
4. Dogs don’t like hugs. They like gentle strokes.
5.We never take. We always swop.
