Food Technology: Egg Pot
Today, Year 4 made egg pots in food technology! They prepared, cooked and ate their delicious snacks.
To begin, we used the bridge cutting technique when cutting our tomatoes. This was a safe method to use to stop the tomatoes slipping while we cut them.
Then, we used the microwave to heat the tomatoes and beans. We used small bursts, checking each time, to ensure we didn’t overcook them. Once they were hot, we cracked in our egg and continued cooking until the egg was opaque (not see through).
Finally, it was the best part – eating it! Most of your children loved it and were keen to make it again at home.
Your children stayed safe throughout by taking their time, concentrating, using the bridge technique when cutting and being careful handling the hot food.
Help at home: make the recipe again! Can you add something new? Maybe spinach, ham, mushrooms etc.
Design & Technology: food preparation
This week, Year 2 have been using their food preparation skills to create their latest product, fruit smoothies.
This forms part of our Design and Technology food learning which involves following a recipe to create a product each term.
The recipe, taken from this healthy eating website, is our reading fluency text of the week so we’ve had chance to read and understand the instructions before we made our smoothies.
First, we got ready to cook by washing our hands, rolling up jumpers, putting on our aprons and tying long hair back.
We used lots of different food preparation skills including peeling, fork hold to help with claw grip (for chopping), measuring liquids and using measuring spoons.
Then, the children got to enjoy their smoothies.
We always evaluate our product afterwards to see how it could be changed next time. In a link to our learning about adjectives (words that add information about a noun), there were plenty of adjectives used to describe the smoothies – extraordinary, bubbly, fizzy, tasty, yummy, creamy and delicious.
Well done to all the children who worked safely and sensibly with Mrs Roth.
Help at home: your child has taken this recipe home. Can they demonstrate some of their food preparation skills by making this again at home.
Maths – column addition
Year 3 have recently learnt how to add two numbers using column addition. Column addition is a great method for when we aren’t able to use reasoning and mental maths to help us add numbers together.
Top tips:
- Use HTO to help you line up your numbers.
- Use one digit per box to keep it neat and tidy.
- Always start adding from the smallest value column!
This is what your working out might look like if each column adds up to 9 or less.
We have then learnt what to do if a column totals 10 or more! We use these facts to help us:
10 ones = 1 ten
10 tens = 1 hundred
We must exchange the 10 ones for 1 ten and mark it underneath our answer box and do the same for 10 tens exchanged for 1 hundred.
Here’s some of our work!
Help at home by practising this method. Can you add two 3-digit numbers using column addition?
Writing: instructions
This week, Year 4 have been writing instructions!
Purpose: to tell the reader how to do something.
We’ve looked at the features of instructions (our R2s):
- imperative (bossy) verbs
- time connectives
- adverbs
- adjectives
- present tense
- chronological order
Your children chose what they wrote their instructions for.
How to survive a day without technology.
How to make a tuna and cucumber sandwich.
How to escape King Minos’ castle.
How to control a robot.
We planned, wrote and then edited our writing to ensure it was as fantastic as possible.
I’ve loved reading all of your children’s brilliant instructions! Later in the week, we’re going to share them with Year 3 and see if they can follow them correctly.
Help at home: ask your children to write you a simple set of instructions.
- How to get dressed for school.
- How to make their favourite meal.
- How to build a bridge in Minecraft.
- How to get ready for bed.
English – Little Red
We are linking it to learning about nouns and adjectives in our writing. We are also using our retrieval and inference skills in reading and thinking about the author’s choice or words and phrases.
Help at home by discussing the text with your child. How is Little Red different to the traditional tale Little Red Riding Hood?
Living and Learning: mental health
For the next three weeks, mental health is our new theme in our Living and Learning lessons.
Talking about feelings and knowing where and how to seek help for yourself or others is very important.
People can help you if you tell them how you feel.
If something is wrong and you don’t tell an adult, it might get bigger.
Start telling other people so you can feel better.
This week, Year 2, with the help of some of the characters from the Beano, have been learning about a range of emotions.
Emotions are feelings. They can change all the time.
We all experience a whole range of emotions, from anger to happiness to fear.
Looking at someone’s face and their body language can help us to understand how others might be feeling.
How might Dennis be feeling? What clues tell you this?
We discussed why it is important to recognise and talk about our emotions and how to seek help with our feelings or if we notice a friend might need help.
Next week, we will be thinking about self care techniques that can help us to look after our own mental health. Mindfulness is one example of a self care technique. We do lots of mindfulness techniques in class – ask your child to share them with you. Also, look out for the wellbeing bingo for you to try at home.
Help at home: We’ve talked about how people’s faces and body language can help us to understand how others are feeling. What emotions are the children showing here? Maybe try some other emotions at home too.
Reminder: learning drop in
This is an opportunity to “drop into” school and share your child’s learning journal with them. This will involve looking through your child’s learning journey book.
Learning Journey Drop in 1 – 03.12.24 and 05.12.24 Times – 8.45 am-9.15am and 3.15pm-3.45pm
Guided Reading Week 3
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 29th November.
Extra Time: up to chapter 15/page 66.
Divine Freaks: up to chapter 7/pg 74.
Mr Gum: up to chapter 9/pg 130.
How To Train Your Dragon: up to pg 83.
Kensuke’s Kingdom: up to chapter 6/page 85.
Living and Learning: Online Safety
In Living and Learning, this week, Year 5 learnt about online safety. We learnt about how apps and online games are businesses and their mission is to persuade people to stay online for as long as possible and encourage them to spend money or for them to make money through advertising. We discussed how this was not a good moral choice so we need to look after ourselves. You can do this by limiting your screen time, avoiding clicking on ads and clearing your cookies frequently.
We created posters to inform others about how to make healthy online choices.
North East Leeds cross country
** UPDATE ** Eight of our runners have qualified for the Leeds cross country final – congratulations!
Today, thirty of our Key Stage 2 children took part in the Leeds North East School Games Cross Country festival at Roundhay High School attended by twenty nine schools.
We had a great start from our Year 3 runners with three children coming in the top 15 including an amazing third and fifth place! Then, an effortless first place by one of our Year 4 runners was a great achievement. After that, we saw some excellent efforts and determination from the rest of the children throughout the afternoon with great support and encouragement from the other pupils.
Well done to all the children who took part and represented the school. We are sure there will be some qualifiers for the next race, the Leeds final. Watch this space!
Thank you to the parents who came along to help and support at this event.
If you’re child would like to take part in cross country, have a look at our physical activity guide for details of local running clubs and junior Park Runs.
Some of the children who took part, are regular runners at the Leeds Schools Sports Association Saturday morning cross country races. Details will shortly be sent out for the next race on Saturday 14th December.
