Living and Learning: Identity and Community
Hello!
Over the last two weeks, the Living and Learning statements have been based around identity and community.
We have been talking about our identities and why being proud of our own identities is important. What makes me, me? Everyone in the class was able to identify important parts of themselves that they believe makes them special. Examples of these consisted of certain interests they have, clubs they belong to and religions they follow. The best part about this was that everyone’s identities are so different!
We have also discussed different roles that exist in our communities and how they relate to us. We looked at key jobs such as doctors, nurses, emergency services, bus drivers, teachers, club leaders etc. Finally, we decided who, out of all the people we come across in our everyday lives, is in our close inner circle.
As you can see, lots of us chose to have close friends and family in our inner circle and put other people like club leaders and shopkeepers in our outer circle.
It was great to explore this topic with the class and to see how confident they became in expressing their own identities!
Making a switch!
In this week’s science learning, we learnt about switches and even made our own!
See if your child can fill in the gaps to our learning below.
When a switch is ______, the light bulb will turn on as the power from the cell can flow through the circuit.
When a switch is _____, the light bulb will not turn on as the power from the cell cannot travel around the whole circuit.
open, closed
Living and Learning: Identity
Over the past two weeks, Year 5 have been learning about identity. Identity is what makes you, you!
Year 5 were great at explaining the similarities and difference between themselves in a respectful way.
Last Friday, we also took part in Identity Day. This was an amazing opportunity to show who we are as people by coming into school wearing clothes that show a community we are a part of.
All the children were extremely proud of their identity – as they should be! And I was proud of them, too, for expressing themselves so confidently but respectfully with their classmates.
Great job, Year 5!
Spring term after-school clubs
After-school clubs will be restarting next week and they will run for eight weeks until the Easter break. Places can be booked via Gateway.
Our physical activity clubs continue to be heavily subsidised through the investment of our PE and Sport Premium.
Please contact the office if you have any queries about the clubs or the booking system.
Living & Learning: Identity
This week and last week’s Living and Learning lessons have had a strong thread of respect running through them.
“Respect is important because people have different personalities and like different things like football or make up. You should never say nasty things about what they like. Or at school if you’re playing a game of tig, you should follow the rules and tag them respectfully,” explained Billy.
“Respect is when you treat someone fairly no matter what even if they have different beliefs to you. We should all try and get along,” stated Saahir.
“Respect is understanding why they like something. If you don’t like something, that’s fine but keep rude comments inside. You should support the people around you,” said Christina.
We took part in Identity Day which is an amazing opportunity to show who we are as people by coming into school wearing clothes that show a community we’re a part of.
Take a look at our fantastic choices!
We also explored our own identities in even more detail by creating our own unique identity maps. Take a look at some of the great examples below.
Can penguins fly?
In Friday’s assembly, I was reliably informed that penguins can’t fly but that they are very good swimmers. Just an example of the learning that has been happening in Reception.
They haven’t just been learning about penguins; one of the new phonemes in phonics was ‘ng’ and there has been lots of investigating about the number 5.
We hope that your child is enjoying the e-books – they’re showing excellent reading skills in school and they can show you at home that they are ‘readers’. Lots of practice in school means that they will be familiar with the e-books that they can see at home. Happy reading!
Change to PE days
Our PE days are changing from next week. We will now be doing PE on a Monday and Friday. The children should come to school in their school uniform on Thursday.
Please ensure that your child comes to school wearing the correct PE kit on Monday and Friday. If you have any questions about this – please refer to our uniform policy or speak to me.
Thank you!
Let’s get reading!
Another busy week in Reception and despite the disruption of Covid cases, the children have been amazing.
Thank you for your patience with regards to the e-books that we are using as part of our reading practice. As Mrs Burke has been unwell, there has been a slight delay but you’ll be pleased to know that each child has been allocated three e-books. This means they can read with you at home and show you that they are ‘readers’.
Normally, they’ll only get one allocated but we’ve made more available to keep you going and then hopefully, Mrs Burke will be back and we’ll get into more of a routine. In the meantime, enjoy the e-books and sharing them with your child.
If you have any issues in logging on, please ask a member of staff and we’ll try and sort it out for you.
As always, thank you for your support and patience.
Inheritance (like you’ve never seen before!)
In biology, Year 5 have been learning about inheritance and how characteristics are passed down from parents to offspring.
We used Mr Men and Little Miss to demonstrate our understanding of this. Check them out below!
Electrical Circuits
In today’s science learning, children were given the following components:
– two wires
– one cell
– one lightbulb
Without any instruction, children were asked to make the light bulb turn on.
See if your child can remember the components needed to make a complete electrical circuit that turns a lightbulb on!