Living and Learning: physical health and fitness
Our latest Living and Learning sessions have been all about the importance of exercise and how we need to keep active to keep our bodies and our minds healthy.
We thought about all the things we had done since waking up. Then, we checked which ones were active.
Practised gymnastics
Wake up Shake up
Walking to school
Playing tig with friends at playtime
Classroom skipping brain break
Pull ups
The NHS guidance states that children and young people should ‘aim for an average of at least 60 minutes (30 minutes in school and 30 minutes out of school) of moderate or vigorous intensity physical activity a day across the week’. We know that the exercise we need to do to achieve this, should increase our heart rate.
How do we manage to achieve our 30 minutes during the school day?
- Daily WUSU
- 2 weekly PE sessions
- Playtimes
- Lunchtime play – front playground, MUGA
- Go Noodle, Supermovers and active counting in class
- Jogging around the playground for brain breaks
- After school clubs
Help at home – try a new physical activity out of school – maybe a local junior park run, tennis lessons or have a look at our local physical activity guide for more ideas. Don’t forget to do skipping practice for our upcoming festival too.
Summer 1: Week 5
This week, we’ve been learning about the human body. Before introducing our focus called See inside Your Body, I asked the class if anybody knew any facts about the human body.
Ta – The heartbeat helps us get red blood around our tummies.
Po – Our neck is really important
Ell – Lungs help us breath.
Gur – We have a brain.
Tee – We have to have bones.
We looked at the human skeleton, drew pictures of skeletons and labelled some of the 206 bones we have in our body! We also had lots of fun learning the skeleton dance. We also looked at some x-ray pictures and talked about why we might have one.
Role-play
In the home corner, we’ve had a very busy doctors’ surgery! Many of our children turned into doctors and nurses. They’ve been checking heart beats, putting bandages on and giving medicine to help their patients feel better.
Butterflies
On Monday, we released our butterflies! We enjoyed waving goodbye when watching them fly away.
Poetry Picnic
This week’s poem was called The Fox. When learning this poem, we shared lots of our own experiences about foxes.
Je – I’ve seen three foxes before. When we were in our old house we saw a baby fox.
Tho – I’ve seen a fox through my car window creeping along the edge of the road near a bush.
Poppy – I saw a fox in my garden and it jumped over my fence.
Phonics
This week, we’ve been learning to read and write words ending in:
- – ing
For example, squelching, twisting - – ed =/t/
For example, bumped, cracked - -ed = /id/
For example, grunted, trusted - -est
For example, plumpest, freshest
We also learnt the last two phase 4 tricky words.
Help at home: Practise reading and writing the phase 4 tricky words.
I can’t believe we’ve only got only one half-term left in Reception. Where has this year gone?
I hope you all have a fantastic week off. Don’t forget to send me lots of pictures. See you on Monday 2nd June for your final half-term in Reception.
Living and Learning: 60 active minutes
This week in Living and Learning, we discussed 60 active minutes. This means staying active for 30 minutes at school and 30 minutes at school!
The children had some amazing ideas as to how they could be active outside of school.
I play in the park after school.
I ride my bike to school and home again!
I bounce on my trampoline every day.
I do junior parkrun at the weekend.
I was very impressed how active everyone is being! Well done Year 1!
Help at home by talking to your child about how they can stay active and giving them as much chance as possible to be active!
Living and Learning: Physical Health and Fitness
This week, our L&L statement is ‘I know that being physically active is mentally and physically healthy’.
We also watched a video which explained why movement was so vital to our lives – it prevents disease, helps memory and builds muscle.
We discussed lots of other ways that being active improves mental wellbeing and came up with our own. We listed some top tips for getting moving.
Help at home: What advice would you offer to this person?
A suprise!
Year 5 had a surprise visit from Miss Needham! The children were thrilled to see her. Whilst she’s back for a flying visit, she popped in to see us before she jets back off to Australia.
Roundhay Tennis open days
Waterstones!
Yesterday, 9 children from Year 3 and 4 went on a trip into Leeds city centre to visit Waterstones!
The children had a look around and all chose a book to take home. We had great fun looking at all the different choices that were available. It was hard to choose just one!
Your children chose a mixture of books – graphic novels, narratives and non-fiction books.
It was a lovely afternoon out!
Brownlee Triathlon
This week, a group of our Key Stage 2 pupils took part in the Brownlee Foundation Mini Triathlon event at John Smeaton. This is always a popular and oversubscribed event and it introduces the children to the elements of triathlon – a swim, a bike ride and a run.
Well done to all the children for taking part, showing great determination and supporting each other.
If your child is interested in triathlons, please see more details in our physical activity guide or have a look at the bike and run opportunities at the Brownlee Centre.
Some children are also competing in the upcoming junior aquathlon taking place at Leeds University on 1st June. More details can be found here.
Maths: length and height
It’s always great to hear about extra learning at home.
Here’s some great measuring.
Writing: a letter to a loved one
This week, writing has linked to history because we’ve been writing a recount of an evacuee’s journey to the countryside.
Today, we planned them using story maps.
We want our letters to include information about the journey there, what our host family is like and what we’ve done so far. Our aim is to remember to use a variety of sentence structures whilst remembering our vital must dos: full stops, capital letters and accurate spelling.
Some children had never seen farm animals before (or so much grass!) so we want to capture the culture shock of moving to a completely new place.
Evacuating to the countryside must have been terrifying as well as partly enjoyable but ultimately it kept millions of children safe.
Help at home by asking your child what the purpose and audience of our recount is.
