Fire Safety
This afternoon, we’ve been joined by two firefighters from Moortown Fire Station. They came in to educate us about fire safety. The afternoon was incredibly useful and we learnt lots about how to stay safe.
We learnt what fires need to get started: the Triangle of Fire. Ask your child if they can remember what this means. Importantly, we learnt how crucial it is that every house has an agreed fire safety action plan. This is a series of things that each person in the house will do in the event of a fire. Do you have one at home? The firefighters were very keen for everyone to have a fire action plan agreed with the people they live with; it’s a huge predictor for how likely you are to escape unharmed in the event of a fire.
Really importantly, we learnt about the dangers of making hoax calls to the emergency services. Ask you child why making false calls to the fire brigade can have deadly ramifications.
On a very serious note, I was alarmed that some children in the class thought the emergency services number was 911 not 999. Please make sure that your children are aware of critical information like this for their safety and yours.
Homework Review
As always, our homework was great this week. We had lots of varied responses to our creative piece: demonstrations, Scratch projects, interviews with parents, videos, collages and loads more.
Below are some of our favourites. It’s always interesting that the children’s favourite pieces are not always the most ‘jazzy’, or the most colourful, but the pieces that are original, different and interesting.
Our week
This week, as ever, has been a very busy one.
We have started rehearsals for our production in a few weeks. The children are learning their parts well and the songs are coming along nicely, too.
A tennis coach came to deliver a lesson on Thursday and he was very impressed with how the children listened and followed instructions well. An extra well done goes to Isaac and Kai for their tennis skills, great partner work and the support they gave to one another.
World Book Day went well. We had a classroom full of book characters dressed in fantastic costumes. It was great to see how much thought and effort the children had put into their outfits.
Talking of books, our Friday session of reading for pleasure continues to be a big success. Please remember that children are invited to bring a book from home to add to our library if they wish.
During our SEAL lesson and homework review, Year 4 were able to suggest some very good ways in which to help a group to work co-operatively. As well as suggesting these ideas, I have seen lots of children demonstrating these within a lesson. An extra special well done to Thomas, Martha, Lewis and Isaiah for doing just that.
As always, please feel free to pop in and see us if you have any concerns or general enquiries regarding your child.
World Book Day
We’ve had a great morning celebrating World Book Day. It’s been great to dedicate so much time to reading and, for some of us, getting dressed up has been great fun, too.
Already today we’ve crammed in lots of great learning:
- A special World Book Day celebration assembly.
- Mrs Burke came in to read a couple of her favourite children’s books to us.
- We had the chance to particpate in group discussions about the books we’ve brought in.
- We did ‘speed dating’ but with books where we had one minute to recommend our favourite book to a friend.
- We spent time reading someone else’s book to see if we enjoyed it
- And, this afternoon, we’ll enjoy some time relaxing and reading just for pleasure.
Here’s a few pictures from our day so far…
Getting On
This half-term our SEAL theme is ‘Getting On‘. This week, we had an open, honest conversation as a class in which we all agreed that we could improve our ability to get on. We decided to think of Year 5 as being a team – a team we are all a part of.
I then set the children a challenge. In teams, they had to build the biggest tower they could. However, all they could use were marshmallows and spaghetti. As we were building we thought about what makes a good team and even came up with our own (very cheesy) class motto:
“Teamwork makes the dream work!”
World Book Day
As part of our World Book Day celebrations tomorrow, we’ll be holding a table sale of books written by a family member of two pupils in school.
Finlay and Evie’s auntie, Clare Luther, is the author of a great series of a SEAL related books and they will be available to buy after school tomorrow in the playground (weather permitting).
Have you tried the Be Food Smart quiz?
As part of the Be Food Smart Change4life campaign, have you tried the quiz to find out how much you know about what’s really inside your food and drink!
PE
Our second PE lesson this week will be on Friday where Dance Leaders from Allerton Grange will be visiting us to lead a session with the class.
Please ensure your child has their PE kit on Friday and at all times.
I work co-operatively to help a group.
This week our SEAL statement is…
We used drama to demonstrate this in our SEAL lesson and the children devised some key things to remember when working with others.
- Be kind to your friends
- Share and take turns
- Listen to other people when they speak
- Listen to all the ideas from your group
- Let all your group speak, in turn, and make sure no one is left out
- Don’t take over
- If someone says something that you do not think is good, just change it a bit
- Help other members of your group
- Be fair
- Follow the school rules
- Don’t ever interrupt!
- Take a risk
We put this to the test with a team challenge in PE. Each group had to get across the hall using only three hoops. There was plenty of team work, problem solving and lots of encouragement!
Book Fair
This afternoon, we’ve been lucky enough to visit the book fair as a class. We enjoyed perusing the many books and were each given a voucher to use to buy one of the featured books.
We’ve discussed in the past how important reading is and this week is a great chance to really promote a love of reading. Ask your child if they enjoyed the book fair; talk to them about the book they chose; ask them if there were any other books that they liked – could you go to a library and see if you can find it?
Also, don’t forget that World Book Day is this Thursday. Your child should bring in a book from home and everyone has the opportunity to dress up if they would like.