Living & Learning – RSE
For the past three weeks, the Y5 topic has been Relationships and Sex Education (RSE). There are many branches to this topic including:
- maintaining positive relationships with family and friends
- exploring lots of different types of relationships and families
- the scientific terms for parts of the reproductive system
- what happens during puberty
- how to look after yourself and your personal hygiene
- how babies are made
- how to cope with emotional and physical changes
Year 5 have (unsurprisingly) been extremely mature and discussed our learning with enthusiasm and genuine interest. Here’s what they think:
“It’s been interesting but also a bit weird,” laughed Sam.
Evie said, “I feel confident about it now because I know what’s going to happen in future and what we need to do about it.”
“I feel happy because after hearing everyone else’s opinions it was really nice,” said Serenity.
Ben said, “I feel confident because I know what’s going to happen to me and how I can cope with it.”
“I feel happy because it’s not going to come straight out of the blue,” said Alexander.
“It’s nice when you’re going through something to be prepared,” Eve said.
“I felt confident asking questions since everyone had to put in a slip to the Ask It Basket,” said Eleni.
Living and Learning
In Living and learning we have been looking at the human life cycle.
We read the book ‘One There Were Giants’ by Martin Wadell. The story of the book followed the life of a girl who grew from a baby to an adult with her own baby.
We discussed different things that happen and you can do at different stages of the life cycle.
A baby cries, wears a nappy and doesn’t go to school yet.
A toddler learns to speak, crawl and walk. They also are potty trained.
A child can go to school, get dressed on their own and eat by themselves.
A teenager can go out by themselves, get a phone and a laptop.
An adult can get married, get a job, buy a car (Year 3 suggested a Lamborghini or Bugatti), buy alcohol, a house, a dog, go to the pub and have baby.
Elderly people often need a walking stick, help crossing the road, they can retire from their jobs and get a free bus pass.
Why did the girl in the book say there used to be giants in her house?
Sasha explained, “Because the book starts with her as a baby and her parents are adults. She thinks they are giants because adults are taller than a baby.”
Well done Year Three!
More robotics
Some of the robots are now complete and on display in the classroom. The children have worked incredibly hard creating these. There have been many skills on show as well as supporting and suggesting ideas for each other. Mrs Pearson and I would like to say well done to the whole class.
Feel free to pop in and have a look at the fantastic creations.
Recycled Robots
Work began today on our robots. In class, the children have written robot stories and then designed their own automation.
The children were asked to follow a specific design criteria to inform the design of their product. Ideas were generated, developed and communicated through discussion and annotated sketches.
When making their machines, the class selected from a wide range of resources and thought carefully about how to ensure their robot was sturdy and robust.
Showcase of skipping skills
Thank you to all parents, carers and family who came along to see the fantastic skipping skills on display at our recent skipping assembly.
Jodi, from Skipping School, provided skipping sessions for Reception class, Year 1, Year 3, Year 5 and Year 6 throughout the day and it was great to see all the new skills learnt. Year 2 and Year 4 have already been involved in their skipping projects this year and have taken part in festivals representing the school.
Skipping is one of the ways we encourage the children to achieve their 30 active minutes at school by providing short and long ropes at playtime and lunchtime.
If you didn’t get chance to buy a skipping rope after the assembly, we do have some available for sale. Please come to the Year 2 classroom on Monday or Tuesday, after school, if you would like to purchase one.
What is Light?
It’s been getting spooky in the Year 6 classroom this half term while we investigate a very serious crime.
A laptop has been stolen from school and there’s a mountain of evidence to trawl through, most of which seems to require specialist knowledge of light and how it behaves. Therefore, we have all become physicists to investigate the evidence and find out ‘who dun it’.
We’ve explored how light can be reflected because it can travel in straight lines.
We’ve found out how the angle of the light beam entering a mirror affects the angle at which it is reflected.
We’ve also investigated what factors change the length of a shadow.
So far, we’ve eliminated two suspects from our investigation. We’ll keep you posted on how it progresses in the coming days.
Living and Learning: NSPCC PANTS
In our Living and Learning lesson this week, we have been talking PANTS.
‘The Talk PANTS campaign helps parents of 4-11 year-olds keep their children safe from abuse. Like the Green Cross Code, it takes a potentially tricky subject and gives parents and teachers the tools to talk about it in an engaging and age-appropriate way.’
Using the NSPCC website, we talked about and learnt the PANTS rules.
While the Pantasaurus animation made us giggle, the song had an important message for us to learn.
As with every Living and Learning lesson, we thought about the different ways the children could seek help if they needed to. This included the people in their life who they feel they could confide in and trust.
NSPCC have produced a Talk Pants Guide for Parents if you would like to follow up this learning at home.
Wimbledon themed menu
Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu on Tuesday 9th July. Please contact the office, as soon as possible, if your child would like a school meal on this day (no action needed if your child normally has a school meal on this day). Subject to the weather on the day, we hope the children can enjoy this picnic themed meal outside.
Topic
Our Topic is Curiosity. We are looking at the Mars rover Curiosity and other rovers that have been sent into space.
Year Three are designing their own Mars rovers to be sent into space and to a given criteria.
The rovers need to:
- travel over rough terrain
- have the ability to carry something or someone
Here are some pictures of Year Three inspecting the equipment they will be using and designing their rovers.
We are Total Warriors!
Year 6 had a fantastic morning at Bramham Park on Friday conquering the Total Warrior junior course.
Before the event, we enjoyed getting our race numbers attached and our bandanas on – truly warrioresque.
The course threw muddy obstacle after muddy obstacle at us and we took them on head first.
Very muddy and very pleased with ourselves, we celebrated each of us crossing the finish line.
And the prize for muddiest warrior goes to…
