City of Leeds basketball girls opportunity
Living and Learning – d-side visit
Today, we enjoyed a visit from d-side Dave. During the session, we thought about what makes us special by looking at what’s the same and different about each of us. We then talked about what our bodies need to survive (food, water and air) and why it’s important to exercise.
Next, we looked at different parts of the body, including the lungs, heart, liver and stomach. We explored what each part does and used a prop to help us find where they are in our bodies.
To finish, we created a human car wash, where we each said something kind to a friend as they walked down the line. It was so lovely to hear such thoughtful words being shared with each other.
Help at home: Share something nice about each of your family members.
Living and Learning: RSE
Over the last 3 weeks in Year 3, we have explored the differences between male and females and different stages of life.
Sometimes we might need a change and change can seem scary when it’s new. We looked at the different stages of human life and the class discussed how our lives change over time.
For example, when we are born, we have no responsibilities and our grown ups look after us constantly. As we grow older, we have more freedom and we realised that with freedom comes more responsibilities like cooking for yourself, having a job and learning to drive.
Growing and changing is good because there is lots to look forward.
Growing and changing is good because we can try new things.
Help at home by discussing a change that is coming up soon. How do you feeling about moving up to Year 4?
Living & Learning: RSE
Over the last few weeks in Year 4, we’ve been exploring relationships and change.
We’ve discussed that our relationships should always be happy and healthy. We gave ideas for how we can make sure this is the case:
- We always respect each other.
- We are kind to each other.
- We try to help each other.
- We listen to each other.
If we don’t feel like our relationships are happy and healthy we should always speak to a trusted adult.
We then looked at the human life cycle and spoke about some of the changes that happen as we get older. For example, when we are born, we have no responsibilities and our grown ups look after us constantly. As we grow older, our bodies will change and we have more responsibilities like cooking for yourself, having a job and learning to drive.
Help at home: by discussing a change that is coming up soon. How do you feeling about moving up to Year 5? What things might change?
Forest School
Year 6 have started Forest School again. Whilst today was once again raining, hopefully the next few weeks will be better weather. However, please remember to send your child in with waterproof clothing and a change of shoes.
Today, the children played tug of war, made toast on an open fire and practised their fire making skills.
RE: Drop Down Morning
This year, Year 5 have already had 2 RE Drop Down Mornings. These are designed to recap learning over the course of a whole morning so that children can better remember key information. In Autumn term, we learnt about Christianity and then we learnt about Islam in Spring. This morning, it was the turn of Judaism.
We learnt about the history of Judaism and where Jewish people live today. We also learnt about what Jewish people believe and what is important to them. Finally, we summarised our learning across all three drop down mornings by sorting statements into a three way Venn diagram.
I have been very impressed with the children’s knowledge and understanding in this subject.
Help at home by asking your child to name the Abrahamic religions. What do they have in common?
Phonics Screening Checks.
After another wonderful week, our Year 1s have finished their Phonics Screening Checks. We are delighted with what we saw and every single one of the children should be very proud of themselves. They have worked very hard over the year on their phonics, it has shown and it has paid off. Well done Year 1, you are all stars!
Enjoy your hard earned rest over the weekend (and thank you parents for all the extra work you have done at home!)
D:Side Visit
Today, Year 4 were lucky to have a workshop from D:Side all about staying safe online – particularly when playing online games.
Not everything we see online is trustworthy and your children were great at identifying that! With the rise in AI, it’s more important than ever that we’re critical consumers of online content. We also discussed how not everyone online is who they say they are so we must always speak to a trusted adult if we are unsure or feel unsafe online.
Although the internet is great for many things, we must make sure we are using it safely. For example, your children love playing lots of online games (which can be great fun) but sometimes they also introduce some risks. That is why they have age restrictions based on what content is included in the games.
In Year 4, we should only be playing games that are rated ages 3 or 7. This is because they have content that is appropriate for our age.
We were all really impressed with your children’s knowledge of how to stay safe online. It was great to hear all their contributions for how we can also make sure we’re being safe and responsible online.
Help at home: ask your child what they could do to check if something they see online is true.
PE: Tennis
This half term, we are learning skills to help us with Tennis.
We begin the lesson by warming up. This prepares our bodies and muscles for movement during the learning.
We have 5 minutes to explore using the tennis raquets and balls. Can we keep the ball up for 10 bounces? Can we stop the ball with the raquet?
We practise a key skill. This could be hitting the ball back to a partner, bouncing the ball before we hit it or having a ready position.
We end the lesson with a team game where we may not even use the raquets! Possession ball is great example of this where we want to keep the ball on our team.
Help at home by practising the ready position when catch a ball. Hands in a ‘W’ shape, feet shoulder width a part and eyes on the ball.
Food Technology: summer garden salad
Today, Year 3 made a summer garden salad! The children prepared the ingredients, assembled the salad and ate almost all of it.
We used the bridge and claw cutting skills to cut up all the vegetables. The bridge was best for the new potatoes and the cherry tomatoes. The claw was more suitable for the gem lettuce leaves and cucumber.
The carrot was grated to keep it fine and we boiled the new potatoes until they were soft!
We stayed safe by using these skills and taking our time.
After we assembled all of the vegetables, we whisked together the oil and vinegar for the dressing.
Everyone tried it and the majority of us loved it! The dressing made it flavoursome and we liked the colours of all the ingredients.
Help by making it again at home! The recipe has been sent home with the children. Can you add something new? Could you try a different dressing?