Living and Learning – body image
The focus for our first body image Living and Learning lesson was to learn about our own identity and what makes us unique.
We started by thinking about different facial features and how you might describe a face.
Using a mirror, the children were asked to look at their own face and notice their own features. Can you recognise some of these class members?
We then worked in pairs to think of things about our appearance that are the same and different.
‘We’ve both got black hair and red tops and we’ve both got different length of hair.’
‘We are both boys and have got white tops but we don’t both have glasses.’
Finally, we discussed what it would be like if everyone looked exactly the same. We’re lucky to have a wide variety of different children in our class and school.
Living and Learning – a body image guide for parents and carers
This term, our Living and Learning theme is Being me. Part of this learning is all about body image. This parent and carer guide has been designed to give practical ideas to support your child in building their emotional resilience in this area.
Show and tell
Wow! What an amazing ‘show and tell’! Talk to your child about what’s happening here.
Dodgeball winners
Congratulations to the Year 5 dodgeball team who won the PE Partner North Leeds cup heat and have successfully gone through to the Leeds dodgeball final.
Making 10
Today we investigated the number 10.
“It’s 4 and 2 and 4.”
Year 2 skipping festival
We’ve had confirmation of the date for our rearranged skipping festival, Friday 11 May, so there is plenty more practise time before the event.
The children all know now what they will be taking part in on the day. As well as their own event, there will also be whole class skipping to join in with alongside the other schools.
Bud to flower
Today, during our daily plant observations, we noticed that one of our amaryllis bulbs is beginning to open. The children made predictions as to what colour they think the flower will be.
- “I predict that it will be a purple flower,” commented Eve.
- “Explain why you think that Eve,” said Mrs Freeman.
- Eve replied, ” The bud looks quite dark. If you look very closely, just where the bud is beginning to open, there is some purple colouring.”
Evie also noticed in her observation that the growth of the stem had slowed down considerably.
- “I think the plant has almost finished growing in height and is now putting all nutrients and strength into helping it to flower.”
Day 1 33 days later
Celebrating success
In Year 4, there are lots of ways in which we celebrate success.
Success can be in any area of school life.
These rewards include individual golden tickets, certificates, prizes, stickers and postcards home. We also have whole class and table rewards. Look out for certificates this week and please celebrate your child’s achievements with them.
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
To support our Life Forces topic, Year 1 and 2 spent a great day in the sunshine at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. We were lucky enough to see many animals including lions, tigers, polar bears, giraffes, zebras, lemurs, giant otters, wallabies, baboons, meerkats and painted dogs. Our classroom session, all about food chains and diet, allowed children to consolidate their learning from the topic and show off some of their great knowledge.
All children demonstrated excellent behaviour throughout the visit – a credit to the school!
Here are some photos from the day.
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
To support our Life Forces big topic, Year 1 and 2 spent a great day in the sunshine at Yorkshire Wildlife Park. We were lucky enough to see many animals including lions, tigers, polar bears, giraffes, zebras, lemurs, giant otters, wallabies, baboons, meerkats and painted dogs. Our classroom session, all about food chains and diet, allowed the children to consolidate their learning from the topic and show off some of their great knowledge.
All the children demonstrated excellent behaviour throughout the visit – a credit to the school!
Here are some photos from the day.
