Living & Learning: healthy diets
Over the last couple of weeks in Year 4, we’ve been learning about the importance of a healthy, balanced diet.
We began by discussing the five main food groups. They all have a different function and help our bodies in different ways.
- Carbohydrates provides us with energy.
- Fruit and vegetables provide us with vitamins and minerals.
- Dairy is full of calcium which helps our bones and teeth stay strong and healthy.
- Protein helps our muscles repair and grow.
- Fats and oils provide us with energy and help our body absorb vitamins and minerals.
As these five food groups all have a different function, it’s important that we have a balanced diet to keep our bodies strong and healthy. We can use the Eatwell Guide to help us.
Year 4 had a go at creating their own Eatwell Guides…
Help at home: plan a balanced meal with your child and check you have a balanced amount of each food group.
Poetry Basket: Hungry birdies
This week’s poem is called Hungry Birdies.
We’ve been focussing on the words beak (a bird’s mouth) and spread (to open out).
Latin
On Fridays, Year 5 study Latin. The children have worked really hard on translating Latin sentences into English. We are able to recognise word endings of verbs and what that means. We can look for the subject and object of a sentence even though the words in Latin are not in the correct order.
I’ve been very impressed with the children’s knowledge and ability. It has also really helped us to work out the meanings of English words that have Latin roots as well as translate Latin words into English.
Help at home can you think what the Latin word audire means? What English words come from this word?
Science – Seasonal Change
Well done on another great week Year 1!
This week in Year 1 they have been learning about seasons, seasonal change and what kind of things we see in each one. The pupils shared some great ideas on things such as what we wear in each season, what we see and what changes there are. They had a lots of ideas to share, especially about winter (Christmas and Santa of course) but on top of this they also shared some great things about spring. One response that stood out was ‘in spring we see lots of things start to grow. Like grass and the trees.’.
Every one in class really impressed us and even made some great mind maps. Here is one that a table worked on about summer.
Year 3/4 production on Wednesday evening
Year 3 and 4 are performing on Wednesday, 1st April at 6pm.
We’ll need all children back in school from 5.30pm to get into their costumes ready for a 6pm start. It’ll be finished by 7pm so please be at school for pick up at no later than 7pm!
Please let us know if this is not possible so we can make other arrangements.
If your child is in wrap around until 5.30pm, we can collect them from there ready for the production.
Thank you!
Miss Birch and Miss Newman
Spring 2: Week 5
Visitors
Yesterday, we were very excited about our Teddy Bear Hospital workshop. Their interactive session helped promote healthy living while gently easing any worries about hospitals and doctors. The children thoroughly enjoyed taking part in activities, learning basic first aid, and discovering ways to keep themselves healthy.
Literacy
We continued to use the story map to retell Jack and the Beanstalk. We enjoyed using actions and, of course, prosody when retelling.
Click here to watch us.
Art
In art, we used tracing paper and templates of transport-related objects to create our own designs, inspired by Michael Craig-Martin. Here are some of our fantastic pieces of artwork.
Maths
This week, we developed our visualising skills by looking at arrangements of dots and describing what we could “see” in our minds. We practised subitising (recognising amounts without counting), helping us to understand equal groups.
Using practical resources and pictures, we explored dice patterns, finger numbers, and doubling numbers up to 10. We also used mathematical language to describe how objects were arranged, deepening our understanding.
Help at Home: Practise subitising and doubling
- Show your child dice or domino patterns. Ask: “Is this a double or not? How do you know?”
- Encourage your child to use their fingers to show the double.
- Can they make the double using small objects, like buttons, grapes, or toys?
Choosing time
In the early years, independent learning is a special and important part of your child’s day at school. We call this time choosing. During this time, children have the opportunity to follow their interests, explore different activities, and learn in their own way. They can create, make connections, share their ideas, and build confidence as they try new things.
Here’s a little snapshot of some of the wonderful independent learning that has taken place this week.
Topic Drop Down Morning
Today, we’ve had a busy morning re-visiting some learning from Year 1.
The children impressed us with their excellent recall of key facts about the Great Fire of London, as well as their strong knowledge of the continents, oceans, and the countries of the UK and their capital cities. We finished the morning by exploring artwork by George Seurat and Bridget Riley, where the children demonstrated excellent oracy skills as they thoughtfully discussed their likes and dislikes.
Year 5/6 netball
This week, our Year 5/6 netball team took part in the Leeds Well Schools Partnership netball competition at Allerton High.
Despite the rain, the team played some great netball and managed to finish second in their group.
For some of the children, this was their first time representing school at netball and for some it will be their last after many years of coming to our netball club so well done to all the children who competed.
Maths: distributive law
In Maths, Year 4 have been showing off their brilliant mathematical skills by demonstrating the distributive law.
The distributive law is when you multiply parts of a whole separately, then add the partial products together.
The distributive law is a helpful and efficient method to use when faced with multiplication questions that we don’t know fluently. It requires us to partition one of the factors into two parts.
7 x 13 may seem tricky initially but we can partition the 13 into 10 and 3. We can then multiply these parts separately and add them together to find our answer. Simple!
7 x 13 = 7 x 10 + 7 x 3
= 70 + 21
= 91
Help at home: ask your child to complete these multiplication questions using the distributive law…
- 8 x 16 =
- 4 x 14 =
- 3 x 17 =
- 5 x 18 =
Living and Learning: I know the importance of a healthy diet.
This week, Year 3 have been learning about having a healthy, balanced diet.
We recapped the five main food groups that we’ve learnt about during our Science lessons earlier this year.
- carbohydrates
- fruit and vegetables
- protein
- dairy
- fats
We need a balanced diet of these food groups to keep us healthy and strong. For example, carbohydrates give us energy and dairy is full of calcium that is great for our teeth and bones. We also need some fats as they give us energy and help us to absorb the vitamins and minerals that we eat through fruit and vegetables.
We had a go at creating our own balanced meal. Here are some of what we came up with…
Help at home by planning a meal with your child and checking that you have a balanced amount of each food group.