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.
Safety Week!
Hello!
Moortown Primary School are half way through their first themed week of the school year – Safety Week.
Year 4 have been visited by a handful of different experts in being safe and more specifically, being safe on the roads, online and around fire!
Monday focused on road safety and the children learnt this sequence for when walking out and about:
- THINK
- STOP
- LOOK
- LISTEN
Each group then ventured out into Moortown to put it to good use!
Tuesday was Safer Internet Day where the children learnt about being safe online. They had a great visitor (a previous police detective!) who talked through all of the must dos and must don’ts when online! The key points included:
- the importance of being kind online,
- how to keep personal information safe,
- being careful to avoid strangers and scams
- who to talk to if you experience or see cyber-bullying.
Ask your children at home on how to stay safe online!
Today, we were visited by fire fighters and the police. STOP, DROP and ROLL plus GET OUT, STAY OUT and CALL 999 were a focus. The children were so inquisitive when it came to learning about the visitors day to day lives and especially loved seeing the fire engine!
We’re looking forward to the rest of the week… bring it on!
Living and Learning: Staying safe week – road safety
We had a great morning with Harriet, our visitor from Leeds City Council’s road safety team, learning all about keeping safe while crossing the road. It was lovely to hear Harriet’s positive comments about the behaviour and listening from the class.
Here are the actions to help to remember the four steps of the green cross code.
Finally, when thinking about staying safe in a car, we looked at what height children need to be to not need a car seat. The height is 135cm so all the class should still be using these while travelling in a car.
Staying Safe
It’s great to be back! I had a lovely week with the children last week -I had really missed them!
This week is a themed week, ‘Staying Safe’. The children will be learning all about how we can stay safe in our home, near water, on the roads and around dogs. We have lots of visitors coming in to school and I am sure it will be a very exciting week.
Phonics
We are continuing to learn digraphs (two letters that make one sound). This week our new digraphs are oo, ar and or.
Reading
The children read their phonics book at least three times in the week with an adult. This book will be sent as an e-book at the end of the week. If you are having problems accessing your child’s book, please let me know. Most of the children are telling me they enjoy reading these at home.
Maths
This week we are learning to compare sets of objects and use the language more, fewer and equal. We are continuing to investigate numbers to 6.
We have a trainee teacher, Miss Brownbridge, with us this term. She will be teaching some activities and sessions.
A request
We really need some junk modelling materials for our technology area. These could include boxes, cereal packets, egg boxes and plastic containers.
Active maths
As we are starting to learn the two, five and ten times table, these Super Movers active songs are ones we use in class to help with our maths learning and for a brain break too.
