Living and Learning – relationships
For the past few weeks, we have been learning about relationships that are important to us, in particular our friends and family. We came up with lots of ways to be a good friend and what friends do to make us feel happy (a healthy relationship). We thought about the importance of family and we recognised that all families are different. We respect these differences. The ways people care for each other in these families remains the same. We spoke about special people in our lives and why they are special to us.
Finally, we reminded ourselves of the important NSPCC Underwear rule and enjoyed the Pantosaurus song too. We hope you can share this important learning again with your child at home.
We even created our own design of pants to remind us of the rule!
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Year 1 had an incredible time at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park on Thursday! The children were all brilliantly behaved and learnt so much about the different animals we saw. They also showed great perseverance because we did a lot of walking! During a workshop some of us were brave enough to hold a huge African land snail and a wriggly cockroach! Well done to everyone!
Living and learning: relationships
For the past few weeks, we have been learning about relationships that are important to us, in particular our friends and family.
We came up with lots of ways to be a good friend and what friends do to make us feel happy (a healthy relationship).
We thought about the importance of family and we recognised that all families are different. We respect these differences.
The ways people care for each other in these families remains the same.
Here are some of our special people and why they are important to us.
Daddy is fun because he is really fun to play with.
Mummy is special because she looks after me if I am sad.
Aaron is special to me because if I get hurt, he helps me.
Erica is special to me as she makes me feel happy.
My grandma is special to me because she tells me the finniest stories at bedtime.
My whole family are special because they look after me.
Finally, we reminded ourselves of the important NSPCC Underwear rule and enjoyed the Pantosaurus song too. Hope you can share this important learning again with your child at home.
Scooter training and sports day
Year 2 have an active start to the week this week.
Monday 4th July scooter training
If your child has a scooter and helmet, please bring these to school and leave them against the wall outside the classroom. If not, the trainers will provide this equipment.
Tuesday 5th July sports day
Sports day is at 1:30pm at Roundhegians Rugby Club (access for parents is from Chelwood Drive). Children should come in their PE kit ideally with a t-shirt of their team colour. If not, coloured bibs are available and can be used over your child’s white PE t-shirt. The children must have a water bottle in school and please bring a hat and apply sun screen depending on the weather on the day.
Year 2 will be also helping with the Key Stage 2 sports day in the morning.
Any questions, please come and ask.
This week
This week will be a very busy one!
Sports Day
Remember to send your child to school in their PE kit and correct coloured T- shirt. They will need their water bottle and hat if it’s sunny.
PE
PE will now be on Thursday until the end of term as the children will be having football coaching.
Library
We are now visiting our school library to borrow books every Tuesday. Please bring library books back on Tuesdays.
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
What a truly amazing day we had Yesterday at Yorkshire Wildlife Park! The children all had a brilliant time, were extremely well behaved and learned so much about animals from the visit. The workshop we attended was brilliant! The Brave Year 2 children held cockroaches and African land snails. They also learned more about the types of animals in Yorkshire Wildlife Park and how they look after them.
Meanwood Valley Farm
We had a great time at the farm-but the best part was the bus journey!
George and the Dragon writing
This week in Year 1 we have been looking at the story ‘George and the Dragon’ by Chris Wormell! It is a very funny story about a huge, fierce dragon who is terrified of… mice!!
We learnt a class version of the story and then began to change it to make it our own. We invented our own dragon and thought about how fierce it was! Then we decided what our dragon would be so fearful of. We had some great ideas: frogs, snails, worms, birds and even chickens!!
The next step was drawing a story map of our ideas and practising telling it to our classmates. We had a great time sharing our stories in the sun!
The final stage was the writing! We were very keen to get going and showed amazing stamina for writing! Everyone in Year 1 was so proud of the finished writing! Well done to all the children!
A busy week ahead!
We have a very busy few weeks ahead of us as we reach the end of term.
Balanceability
These sessions will be held on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Please make sure your child has long trousers and suitable footwear.
Meanwood Valley Urban Farm
Please send your child in their school uniform and with a packed lunch. It looks like it will be a sunny day, so please send your child with a hat and apply sun cream before they come to school.
Topic
The children are enjoying learning about oceans and the animals that live there.
They have been role-playing in our ‘ice-cream shop’ and reading in our ‘under the sea’ reading area.
The children have been visiting the Year 1/2 shared area and enjoyed finding new equipment and challenges.
Living and Learning: money workshop
Today, visitors, from HSBC, came to deliver a money workshop as part of our Living and Learning curriculum.
The workshop, to buy or not to buy, included learning about:
- the difference between a need and a want
- people making different choices about saving and spending money
- prioritising needs over wants
- saving for the things we want
Our visitors were very impressed with the knowledge and participation from the children. The visit supplemented our recent learning about money education so it was great to hear this.
