Class News

Living and learning – body image

This afternoon, we continued to think about ‘Being Me’. In particular, we focussed on body image. After defining what body image is, we discussed how some people (according to some research as much as 50% of young people) have a negative view of their body image.

We learnt that this could be influenced by a range of external factors: the media, our friends, our family, our culture, our religion, our role models, advertisements, the TV and famous people. Then, we created a ‘diamond nine’ of how these things affect us.

Focusing on how the media may affect how we view ourselves, we watched this video and discussed the impact changing the way someone looks could have on others.

We then thought about someone who is special to us and wrote down all the things that make them special. We noticed that hardly any of them were related to the way they looked.

After this, we thought about what makes us special and celebrated how good it is to be us. Finally, we summarised our learning in one sentence:

• Albert: ‘It doesn’t matter what you look like – it matters about your actions.’
• Josh: ‘It’s good to be me.’
• Isaac: ‘It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, just be you!’
• Theo: ‘It doesn’t matter what you look like, we’re all the same.’
• Martha: ‘I’ve realised that it doesn’t matter what we look like. I don’t care what people think – THIS IS ME!’
• Sachpreet: ‘No matter who you are, just be yourself.’
• Grace: ‘I can be myself and I don’t care what other people think – it matters what I think!’
• Kai: ‘Don’t be afraid of who you are!’

How is our support helping?

As part of our on-going support for mountain gorillas, last week, Year 4 received the latest update from the WWF charity.

Year 4 are enjoying learning about these and other endangered animals. We have stories, leaflets, reports and lots of data in our reading area to further our knowledge of the amazing work done by the WWF.

“If we don’t look after these animals, then people in the future will never see them in real life!” commented Gurnoor.

Year 4 are learning lots of new vocabulary throughout of current topic of ‘Life Forces‘ and it has been great to hear them use these new words in their questions.

Here are some examples:

• extinct
• endangered
• habitat
• ecosystem
• vegetation
• environment
• life cycle
• nutrition
• predator/prey
• adaptations
• poaching
• conservation
• community
• threatened
• carnivore/herbivore
• reforestation
• vulnerable

…and many more new words.

Question your child about these words. Can they give you a definition? If not, can they find out how and where to get a definition from?

We constantly remind the children about using the internet for research safely.

Is all information online reliable?

Not all of the information you find on the internet is true because anybody can write anything they want to online.

Make sure you always compare the information you find online with other websites, books, or people who might know to make sure it is true. Use the 3 Website Rule.

Remember, when using the internet for research, use trusted child-friendly sites.

Stay safe online!

KS1 trip to Yorkshire Wildlife Park

Here are a few reminders about our trip on Monday.

• Children should come to school in their uniform
• Warm, waterproof clothes with a hat and gloves should be worn as it is an outdoor attraction
• Come in suitable footwear for walking
• A packed lunch, including a water bottle, should be brought in a bag/rucksack that the children can carry while we are there
• No money is needed
• Please arrive at school promptly as we will leaving at 9am

Have a look at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park website to find out some of the animals we will see.

It’s been perfect weather for some of the animals at the park this week.

Production

I’m sure you will agree – this week has been a fairly tricky one! It was great to see the majority of the children return to school today.

Over the next few weeks, Year 3 and 4 will be very busy rehearsing for their production. This takes place in the last week of term. We’d like all the children to learn their lines and the songs. Next week, your child will bring home a letter informing you of the costumes they will need for their part. Please don’t worry if you can’t provide some items. However, it would be much appreciated if you can search through your wardrobes and help us with this.

So far, the singing from both classes has been superb and we’re really looking forward to the children putting on a good show for us all to enjoy!

Many thanks.

Comparing heights

Today in maths, we had fun finding out how tall we are! We practised saying our height in different ways. For example:

“I am 1m and 26cm tall. I am 126cm tall,” said Jasraj.

Isabella said, “I am 1m 46cm or 146cm tall.”

We linked our measuring back to the equivalent lengths we looked at earlier in the week.

For example, 500cm is the same as “5m,” said Leo, and “5000mm,” said Jemima. (I really liked that answer.)

Here are some photos of us measuring our heights, making sure the tape measure started at the very bottom of our heels or the very top of our heads.

Living and learning – I can say something good about myself. 

What do Y3 like about themselves?

This week’s living and learning theme was all about saying something good about ourselves.

At Moortown, we strive to be confident in our abilities and comfortable in our own skin.

During our circle time this week, we discussed what was good about ourselves and each other. Take a look at the main themes that came up below:

“I am good at anything as long as I work hard. I’m really proud of myself,” said Rayn.

Should zoos be banned?

Well done to all of Y3 for engaging brilliantly with this week’s Talk Time homework.

Even though there were people who believed in one side of the argument only, they were able to understand and give points for the other side, too. Everyone listened and waited for their turn to speak.

We had a really interesting discussion in class. Overall, we voted that we thought zoos should not be banned.

Take a look at the table below. Can you spot something you had spoken about at home?

Should zoos be banned?

Year 2 skipping festival

UPDATE Thursday 01 March – due to the weather, the event has been cancelled for tomorrow and will be rearranged.  Therefore we’ve more time to practise skipping – maybe tricky in the snow though!

We’re all gearing up for the skipping festival organised by Skipping School on Friday morning.  The children have all been assigned a skipping skill for the event and have amazed us with how they’ve improved their skills since the start of the project.

On Friday, we need to leave school at 9:00am prompt so please ensure your child is at school for registration at 8:50am.  Children can come into class from 8:45am.

Here are some other reminders:

• Children should come to school in PE kit (long sleeved top and bottoms would be preferable as the event is in a sports hall).  Remember: no earrings.
• Uniform should be brought to school for children to change into when we return to school
• All children need to bring a packed lunch to have as we return to school
• Ensure your child has their water bottle at school that day
• We will be taking a fruit snack with us to have during the morning

Don’t forget…

Today’s Phonics Superstar would like to remind you about our phonics mornings this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

See you there!

Football Coaching

Here are weekly reports on our football coaching…

Written by Stan: Today, Year 6 played some great football and there were no arguments. Everyone has their own role: kit manager (Pavan); manager (Nishaan); coach (Grace); physio (Abdullah); and press officer (Stan). After a few arguments last week, we were argument-free this week. This week we practised our passing: I definitely saw an improvement in Pavan’s passing. The last thing we did was play a match but it wasn’t an ordinary match – we weren’t allowed to tackle and we had to stop the ball on the line instead of shoot in the goal and the whole team had to touch the ball. I think most people would like to tackle but we’re practising tackling next week. I’m hoping to play a proper match next week. 😀

Written by Elias: Today, Year 6 were asked to join the groups they had last time and were given new roles: coach (Matteo), manager (Neive),kit/equipment manager (Enya), physio (Daanyaal) and the press officer (Elias). The children were asked to create a drill practising their dribbling skills as a group. At the end, the children played a match. Our group played very well due to some astonishing help by the people who were more confident helping the people who weren’t as confident and played very well with each other. Today, the children had a great time and hopefully this will be one of many.

Written by Archie: Today, Monday the 26 February 2018, Year 6 did football for PE. In this week’s session, we did passing. In my team, I had Phoenix, Pippa, Noah and Zack. When we were doing drills, our coach (Pippa) told us that we would be doing basic passing and gradually build it up to having defenders. Then, later on in PE, we grew into a match. Not a match you would normally think of. We had to pass it between our whole team and then stop it on the line. There was a hard part though: we had to make sure the opposition didn’t receive it.

Written by Isobel: After our warm up, led by Umiamah, we focused on passing. Harry created a drill that helped us with our passing and a bit of dribbling (which we focused on last week). At the end, we played a mini match where you scored a point by stopping the ball on the end line, helping our control skills. We had extra rules to help us with our passing. It was a draw. Overall, everyone enjoyed our PE lesson.

Written by Owen: Today, Y6 played some football and used great teamwork. This led to a fun and active PE lesson. Also, we learnt a lot to do with passing and receiving. The kids were getting along and smiling. We all had different roles: Press Officer- Owen, Physio- Saleem, Kit Manager- Iqra, and The Coach- Oliver.

Written by Megan: After having a few disagreements last week, this week’s PE turned out to be a lot better. Aleena started us off with some stretches which were important because otherwise we could have hurt or strained our muscles.
Next, Matthew led a drill, helping our dribbling, passing, communicating and stopping skills. After practising our skills to become more technical footballers, we played in a game versing another team. We had to stick to some rules though: everybody in your team had to touch the ball at least once before anyone could score; you could only intercept, not tackle; and you had to stop the ball ON the line (not any before or after).