Living and Learning: oral hygiene
In this week’s Living and Learning lesson, we’ve been learning about the importance of oral hygiene.
We talked about dos and don’ts when it comes to oral hygiene. Here are some of the dos:
- brush teeth twice a day for two minutes
- visit a dentist regularly
- drink water
- eat foods low in sugar
- floss
Here are some of the don’ts:
- forget to brush your teeth
- drink a lot of fizzy drinks
- eat foods high in sugar
- spit out toothpaste straight away
- rinse your mouth with water after brushing your teeth as it washes away the fluoride (which helps prevent plaque
I was really impressed with how much the children knew and got some good tips!
TTRS tournament winners (wb 03 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 1920 points, this week’s winners are Y6!
Well, well, well… Y6 are on a streak now! Well done to Y6 – a thoroughly deserved victory.
Y3, 4 and 5 need to keep up that engagement with TTRS to reclaim the coveted guitar!
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!
100 skips
This week, Year 2 took part in their Captain Tom 100 challenge by completing 100 skips in the playground. The class really enjoyed the challenge and some children even carried on skipping after they had reached 100!
All of the funds that were raised from this event have gone to our new school charity, Dogs Trust. Thank you for all your donations.
Living and Learning: Sun Safety
Year 2 have been learning about about sun safety in our living and learning session this week. We have been reading the text below daily to help us know how to reduce the risk of sun damage. 
The children used the text to create posters. We are going to to stick them on our living and learning display to help us remember how to stay safe in the sun.
Living and Learning: Sun Safety
Year 1 have been learning all about how to stay safe in the sun and a good place to start was by using our fluency text. Each week, the class start a new fluency text. This is read daily and helps to build up fluency. The children benefit from modelled expressive reading, echo reading, repeated re-reading, skilled questioning and modelled comprehension skills.
This afternoon, the children worked in teams to create a Sun Safety notice.
Stay in the shade when possible and try to avoid being in the sun between 11am and 3pm.
Use a good sun cream and don’t forget your ears, nose and the tops of your feet. Remember to keep topping up your sun cream.
Always wear a sunhat. It’s a good idea to wear a floppy sunhat that protects the face and neck.
Drink lots of water.
Here is a link to a sun safety story for you to enjoy with your child at home.
Living and Learning: health and prevention
Across school, our current Living and Learning topic is all about health and prevention which forms part of the new statutory Health Education. Here are the objectives for the children to learn by the end of Year 6.
Year 1 and 2 will be focusing their learning on sun safety and sleep but as dental hygiene is also part of this learning, the children will soon be bringing home their own toothbrush and toothpaste.
Here is some information you might want to read with your child to talk about this at home.
Living and Learning: I recognise the importance of hygiene including handwashing.
In this week’s living and learning lesson, we talked about the importance of hygiene.
We discussed things we can do to manage our personal hygiene such as:
- brushing teeth
- washing hair and face
- using deodorant
- making sure clothes are clean
- and washing hands!
We put on our science hats to find out the reason why tackling ‘germs’ are so important.
Challenge your child to tell you another word for a germ from our whiteboards below.
We also used some reading skills too – retrieval!
Notice how these brilliant people have highlighted key words in the question and edited with a purple pen when getting some feedback.
Finally, we decided ways we can assure germs, viruses and bacteria are not passed on.
Challenge your child to give the term for when a virus is ‘spreadable’.
100 laps for charity
Making a Chat Bot
In this week’s computing, Y6 were tasked with making a ‘Chat Bot’ which was an interactive quiz!
In order to make this program, they had to write a series of algorithms which looked like this…
Challenge your child to define both program and algorithm! Here they are in action!
We had to work as a team, constantly checking our code in case there was a bug. The main aim of today’s session was to practise adding a variable.
Ask your child what their variable was and how it worked.
When we found a bug, we used logical reasoning to debug it – it felt so satisfying to finally fix the problem that has been truly bugging you!
Finally, we showed our Chat Bot quizzes to the rest of the class for them to play along, with some really funny results!
Using selection meant that our Chat Bots responded to us differently depending on which answer we’d given – the program chose which algorithm to carry out.
Clever stuff, Y6!
Remember: if you want to practise at home, you can! Have a go on Scratch online.
Captain Tom’s 100 Challenge
Today, Y6 completed a 100 Goal Challenge!
Captain Tom 100 is a way to spread a message of hope and resilience in memory of him and we also raised some money along the way.
We each took turns taking a penalty (and also had a go in goal, too!).
There were some super saves and celebrations…
… some superb shots…
… and some silky skills on show!
Doing something new to test ourselves whilst raising money felt really good.
(No Y6s were harmed in the making of these celebratory photographs.)