Computing: Promgramming
Year 2 were amazing at programming a simple story using the programming app, Scratch Jr.
Living and Learning: Drugs
During our last living and learning sessions, Year 2 have been learning about drugs. Over the course of two sessions, we identified what can make people feel better if they are not feeling well. The children were able to explain that medicines come in different forms and are used in different ways. We recognised that some medicines, such as vaccinations, can help prevent illness and disease and that some people need to take medicines every day to help them to stay healthy. Finally, the children identified who helps people to stay healthy and what they do.
TTRS tournament winners (wb 24 May)
Hello again to all of the Times Tables Rock Stars out there,
Well done for all the engagement with TTRS you’re doing so far – keep it up!
BREAKING NEWS:
The results are in. We have our ROCK STARS OF THE WEEK.
With an outstanding 1470 points, this week’s winners are Y3!
Y3 have been able to reclaim the top spot in TTRS for this week. A well deserved victory.
A special mention for the efforts of Hafsa in Y3. She was able to accumulate the most correct answers out of anybody in the school. Congratulations, Hafsa!
Which class will claim the coveted guitar next time? Will it be your class? There’s only one way to make that happen – go on TTRS!
Remember to give your teacher a nudge as the week goes on if you’ve not yet had a chance to play on TTRS. If you’d like to play at home and would like a reminder of your login details, let your teacher know.
All the best TTRS!
Living and Learning: I know some drugs can be harmful.
This week, Y6 have been learning about helpful and harmful drugs.
We thought about what young people might be saying to each other about taking drugs.
There are many reasons why people take drugs: some are helpful and legal like paracetamol. Some are unhelpful and illegal like cannabis.
We discussed and ranked certain influences on us in the form of a diamond nine.
Lots of us said that friends might be an influence – we called this peer pressure.
“Peer pressure is when your friends are all doing something and they try and force you to do it too, even if you don’t want to,” explained Jess.
We discussed certain scenarios, like the one below.
There are different ways of dealing with pressure and one is the best way. Can you work out which from these definitions?
We practised our assertive responses in each situation. It’s important to remember that you don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do and you can be polite but firm about it.
You could say:
- No, thank you.
- I’m not interested.
- My religion doesn’t allow it.
- I don’t want to. Thanks!
- No thanks. I’m going to go home now.
Finally, we evaluated the most important thing that we’d learnt in this session.
Well done to all Y6 for a mature and thoughtful conversation.
Writing: editing, improving and presenting
We’ve been busy writing a story inspired by Michael Rosen’s poem, Chocolate Cake.
The children have worked really hard and produced some of their best writing this year.
In today’s lesson, they edited their writing for mistakes and improved it. They then chose whether to present it by writing it up on paper with illustrations or typing it using a word processing app on an iPad.
L&L: drugs
In our living and Learning lessons we’ve been learning about medicine and drugs.
We learned that it can be very dangerous if you take medicine that isn’t for you. We also learned that it’s really important that you take the correct amount (dose) of your medicine. Because, if you don’t, it may make you ill. We also talked about how and where to store medicines safely so that they’re out of reach of small children.
We learned about all the information that you can find on a medicine label:
- name and type of medicine
- possible side effects
- where and how to store it
- who the medicine is for
- how much to take
- safety warnings
- ingredients
- expiry date
Finally, we looked at some medicine safety scenarios and considered what the person should do in that scenario and how they should stay safe.
Things to do at home:
When you have some medicine for your child, look at the label and talk about the information on there.
- Can they find their name?
- Can they find the dosage details?
- Where do you keep medicines in your home?
Science: comparative test
In our science lessons the past couple of weeks, we’ve been investigating which is the strongest magnet in our big box of magnets!
We talked about and decided how we could investigate this question. Some of us decided to see how many paperclips a magnet could pick up. Others decided to see how many pieces of paper they could put between a magnet and a paperclip.
We thought about which variable would change (the magnets) and which would need to be the same (the type and size of paperclip and paper). We then Co ducted the experiments and recorded our results.
A conclusion we made was that it wasn’t the largest magnet that was the strongest.
Lost property
We have a few items of clothing, including cardigans, jumpers and PE black zip up tops with no names in the cloakroom.
Please ask if you think they might belong to your child.
Thank you.
Observation over time
Over the past few weeks, Year 2 have been growing radish seeds in different conditions in order to find out what seeds need to be healthy. This week, we recorded our results and made conclusions about our experiment.
Prior to recording our results, the children decided that the best way to assess how healthy the plants were was to compare their height and colour.
Through careful observation and diligent measuring, the children recorded their results and then made conclusions about what a plant needs to be healthy, based on their findings.
The children discovered that the plants that received water and sunlight grew the tallest and also looked the healthiest colour. Therefore, they concluded that plants need water and sunlight in order to grow.
We have really enjoyed our science topic this half term and hope that it has encouraged the children to plant more things at home.
Remember to send us pictures of your sunflowers as they grow!
This week in Reception
The children have been enjoying lots of physical activities including skipping, movement play and PE.
Phonics
We are continuing our Phase 4 phonics learning and learning to blend and segment words with four phonemes such as; stop, black, float, and storm.
We will continue to send sheets of words home for your child to blend. Please keep practising the phase 3 phonemes, especially ar, or, ow, oi, ur, ear, air, ure and er.
Maths
This week we will continue to learn about subtraction by taking away objects and using ten frames to help us see how many are left.
Literacy
This week’s story is ‘Mad about Minibeasts’. The children have been writing a class minibeast poem and using adjectives to describe their favourite minibeast. They have been making them with playdough.
Have a great half-term break. Hopefully the sun will shine!
Please send any ‘wow’ moments to
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org