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.)
We are Times Tables Rockstar Champions!
Congratulations Y6! We won our first ever battle last week with a spectacular 2006 points!
As you can see, we were really pleased…
… but the rock ‘n’ roll even seemed to get the better of one or two of us!
Just kidding… keep on rocking out Y6!
Litter Picking Legends
Last week, these legends saw something wrong in their community and decided to do something about it.
They grabbed gloves, litter pickers and bin bags and headed to Moortown Park – the rubbish laying all around had really put them off their last visit and they wanted to make a change.
They managed to clear up so much waste and they perfectly demonstrated our right to use the park as long as we have the responsibility to clean up afterwards.
Well done, litter picking legends. Y6 are very proud of you!
TTRS tournament winners (wb 26 April)
Hello again to all of the Times Tables Rock Stars out there,
It’s been great having you all back in class and seeing how much you are all improving with your times tables!
BREAKING NEWS:
The results are in. We have our ROCK STARS OF THE WEEK.
With an outstanding 2006 points, this week’s winners are Y6!
A massive well done to Y6 for finally beating Y3! Great effort.
Y3, 4 and 5 need to get their hands on the coveted guitar. Will next week be their week?
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!
This week
We hope you enjoyed the Bank Holiday!
On Friday the Junior Leadership team chose Dogs Trust as our school charity.
Our first fundraising event will be on Tuesday 04 May when all children will be taking part in the Captain Tom 100 challenge. There will be a bucket at the gate for donations of at least £1.
Reception are going to paint 100 handprints!
Phonics
This week we are learning the phonemes air, ure and er.
Maths
We have been investigating bigger numbers and this week will look at 100! We will paint our 100 handprints and use 10 frames to further develop the children’s understanding of 10.
This term, we are taking part in the West Yorkshire Skip into Summer project with Skipping School. We are excited to be part of the 136 schools and almost 33,000 children taking part!
If your child would like to buy a rope, to keep learning their new skills at home, they will be on sale, outside the Year 1 classroom in the middle playground, 3:10-3:30pm on Thursdays and Fridays.