Stay safe and well
All the Year 2 adults would like to wish all the children and their families a happy and healthy Christmas. We hope their glitter bottles come in useful if things get a bit exciting over the next few days!
Thank you for all your support this term. The children have been fantastic and they continue to make us proud. Here’s a few pictures from their Christmas party and lunch this week.
Stay safe and well and see you in the new year!
We are scientists
This half term, Year 2 have enjoyed lots of practical science in our working scientifically learning.
We’ve done lots of investigating, sorting, identifying, comparing and predicting and the children are becoming more familiar with all of this scientific vocabulary.
We’ve also been revising some of our previous learning.
Ask your child about these pictures.
Christmas
Yesterday was a busy day in Year 2 with our production filming in the morning and then enjoying a movie afternoon. Thank you to the PTA for our movie snacks.
The children have all done incredibly well learning their lines, songs and actions for this year’s Whoops a Daisy Angel production. They also coped with the last minute change of performing on their own without Year 1 and Reception. We are very proud of them all and we hope you enjoy watching the video with them at home.
Whoops a Daisy Angel cast
Merry Christmas!
Hello all!
I just wanted to say a massive thank you to all the Year 4 children and their families for an amazing autumn term. Myself, Mrs Maqbool, the children and now Mrs Stewart have become a great team and I can’t believe it’s already Christmas!
Here is just a few memories from this term that are worth celebrating:
- A big congratulations again to the children who participated in the cross country races. You did Moortown Primary School proud and you really tried your best!
- In science, we were learning about light and to finish off the unit, the class spent some time creating their own shadow puppets. They had the freedom to create whatever they liked and they all turned out fab! Have a look to see them in action…
- After learning about Kandinsky and Napaltjarri since the beginning of November, Year 4 became artists themselves! They got stuck in with experimenting with collage. The outcomes are great and the best thing about them is that they are all different.
- A big well done to all the Year 4s in swimming. They have all really improved since the start of the year and I can see their confidence growing with each lesson – keep it up!
I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Miss Birch
Living and Learning: Physical health and fitness
Our latest Living and Learning lessons have been all about physical health and fitness. Here are the main age related expectations for this learning.
Firstly, we remembered how much exercise children should do each day (60 minutes – 30 minutes in school and 30 minutes out of school).
How can we achieve that target? We thought about all the ways to keep active including:
- active travel to and from school
- skipping at playtimes
- brain breaks in lessons
- active games at lunchtime
- after-school clubs
- Junior parkrun
- going on a bike ride
- playing outside
Then, it was time to get active and have a brain break.
We know how much exercise is needed to keep our bodies healthy but what are the benefits of physical activity? Ask your child if the following statements are true or false.
Finally, we thought about what to do if we were worried about our health.
Tell a trusted adult.
Tell my parents.
Tell my teachers.
Ask my friends.
Write it down in the Living and Learning box.
Winter poems!
Today in Year 1 we got more into the Christmas spirit by writing some beautiful winter poems! We thought of lots of nouns, adjectives and verbs to describe a wintry scene. Then we arranged them into a diamond to make a poem. We started with a noun and then two adjectives. The middle line was three verbs and then we finished with two more adjectives and a final noun. We did amazingly well and enjoyed reading them out to the class as well.
Living and Learning: I make healthy choices
Last week in Living and learning we talked about making healthy choices to keep ourselves physically and mentally healthy. We talked about how physical activity can keep our minds and bodies healthy. We talked about our heart being a muscle and discovered how it beats much faster after some of exercise!
Then we thought about when we could be physically active throughout the day. We learnt we had to be active for 60 minutes a day!!
Living and Learning: I make healthy choices
This week in Living and Learning, Year 5 have been talking about how to make healthy choices.
We discussed how it is important to be healthy both physically and mentally.
Year 5 were able to come up with lots of examples about how they make healthy choices.
I enjoy baking but we usually bake healthy alternatives instead of lots of cakes and biscuits – Lily
I like going to dancing at the weekend which helps me stay physically healthy – Isla
I stay healthy by keeping active and eating lots of fruit – Harry
At the end of our Living and Learning session, we had a debate about whether fast food should be allowed in our school.
After a heated discussion with good points both in favour and against, in the end, Year 5 voted that they would like Moortown Primary School to remain a happy and healthy place to learn.
Living and Learning: Perseverance
In this week’s L&L session, we learned what perseverance means.
‘persistence in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success’
We watched a clip that showed a Llama who had to persevere in tricky situations and it didn’t give up! We discussed the sort of things we could try when persevering:
– trying a different approach
– taking a break
– celebrating the small successes
– think about why you started in the first place
We then created a poster to illustrate our knowledge of perseverance and what it means.
We can see people trying to climb mountains and learn how to ride a bike – two things which definitely require perseverance!
Living and Learning: I make healthy choices
In Living and Learning over the last few weeks, we’ve spent time talking about what being healthy means, the effects of exercise on our bodies both physically and mentally and what choices we can make to be healthy.
”Exercising regularly can improve your concentration and help you learn better,” said Soham.
”It can also help you sleep at night,” added Hidayah.
”Doing exercise releases a chemical called endorphins in your brain which makes you feel really good,” commented Safi.
We also learned that doing at least sixty minutes of exercise every day is a healthy approach.
Remember that your child is allowed to bring a healthy snack on a Wednesday to enjoy after swimming!