PE: Cricket
This half-term, our PE topic has been cricket. We have been practising our batting, bowling and fielding skills. We have been perfecting the ready position in each of these rolls. In the past couple of lessons, we have been applying our improved skills in games of kwik cricket.
Help at home: Can you show the ready positions? What are the rules of kwik cricket?
Summer 2: Week 4
Literacy
This week, we’ve been reading Clean Up! by Nathan Bryon. After reading the book, we thought about how we could look after our oceans, animals and earth. It has helped us to understand that we are responsible for our own litter. We had a go at making some eye-catching posters to help get our important messages across.
To help keep our school tidy, we had a go at litter picking.
Art
Yesterday, we talked about Alexander Calder and had a look at some images of his famous moving mobiles. We talked about the different 3d shapes and had a go at creating our own representations of his work. We’ll continue to create our mobiles next week.
Living and Learning
This week, we’ve been recognising our strengths and saying good things about ourselves. I am good at…
Zo – swimming
Zu – writing
Ha – football
Ar – gymnastics
Geo – basketball
Ay – cricket
Po – being helpful
Je – being a good friend
Learning journey drop in
Your child should have a brought home a learning journey drop in letter. Please make sure your return your sign-up slip by Friday 4th July.
School trip
We’re really looking forward to our school trip to Nell Bank on Wednesday. Your child will need:
- Named water bottle
- Packed lunch
- Suitable coat
- Suitable footwear
Your child does not need their school bag on this day!
Temple Newsam Trip
Year 1 went on an amazing trip to Temple Newsam today! The weather was kind and the children were amazing!
We started off the day looking really carefully at the pigs. We learnt they are intelligent and actually very clean! We saw some piglets who had only been born on Tuesday – it was very exciting.
After that, we had to construct our own structure out of sticks (just like one of the three little pigs!). We tried really hard and I was really impressed with their buildings.
After lunch, we explored the farm even more and found lots of amazing animals. We even spotted a duck egg by the pond! Finally we had a play in the playground. I was very impressed with the children’s engagement, behaviour and stamina! We are very proud. Hope they sleep well tonight!
RE Drop Down Morning
This week, we’ve been learning all about Buddhism in our RE Drop Down morning.
We learnt about where the religion originated, how it began and what is important to people who follow it.
Buddhists follow the teaching of Buddha, a prince who saw suffering, greed and pain in the world around him. He began to live a modest life and renounced his privileged existence. He achieved enlightenment.
Meditation and karma are really important to Buddhists. They believe if you live a good life and make good choices, you will be reincarnated into a positive new existence.
We created some drama to show how good karma can affect a person’s rebirth, according to Buddhists.
Food Technology: Savoury Scones
Today, Year 4 had food technology and made savoury scones! Lots of us had tried scones with jam and cream before but most of us had never eaten a savoury scone before, let alone made them.
They were full of healthy vegetables like courgettes, carrot and sweetcorn. This was to make them filling and a part of our balanced diets.
We worked in two groups to make a batch of scones so we all had to share the jobs. The two main skills we learned and practised were grating and kneading.
We had to be safe when grating the vegetables as it can be tricky to keep the slippery grater up-right! We made sure our fingers weren’t too close.
Kneading our dough was difficult to start with as the dough was quite sticky. We had to use lots of flour on the surface and on our hands to stop it from sticking.
Here are some photos!
The scones came out fantastically and the children loved them! They’re a yummy and healthy snack.
Help at home: use the recipe below to remake the savoury scones but try adding different vegetables.
Junior Warrior
Last Friday, we had a BLAST at Junior Warrior!
Here we were before the race looking very clean…
Ready to take on the challenge!
At the end, we made sure to celebrate when anybody crossed the line.
And here we were after those 15 fun and muddy obstacles. Everyone made it back in possession of both shoes!
What away to celebrate a fantastic year!
Living and Learning: Relationships
Over the past 3 weeks, we have had a plethora of RSE lessons covering a range of topics. This week, we talked about relationships and what makes them healthy as well as families and what makes ours different and unique.
To start, we defined a relationship as “the way in which two or more people or things are connected, or the state of being connected” and then talked about the different relationships we have in our lives. Then, we discussed healthy and unhealthy relationships and thought about how we could support and improve them. Here are a few ideas:
- being kind, considerate and respectful
- being honest
- listening to each other
- respecting personal space, boundaries and privacy
- accepting others’ differences
We then talked about similarities and differences between our families and focused in our why our families are important to us. Here are a few responses. Families provide:
- love
- care
- support
- food
- shelter
- safety
Help at home: Talk with your child about the different relationships they have.
Numbots
With six Numbots certificates awarded this week, it’s great to see the children continuing to work hard at home to achieve their next level.
Certificates are awarded every Tuesday so let’s see how many more we can achieve before the end of the year.
Summer 2: Week 3
Poetry picnic
This week’s poem is called I Have a Little Frog. We had lots of fun using prosody when saying the last line. Click here to watch us perform our poem.
Literacy and history
This week, we’ve been reading Sharing a Shell by Julia Donaldson. Our word of the week was thoughtful. We talked about what the word means and how it links to our story. Yesterday, we looked at some past and present seaside holiday photographs. We talked about similarities and differences.
Role-play
With the weather heating up, we thought it would be a good idea to turn our home corner into an ice cream shop. Throughout the week, we’ve seen some amazing turn taking, communication skills and imaginative play. Some of the children made their own labels and signs to put up in the shop. I’ve definitely had my fair share of ice cream sundaes this week!
Jellyfish
This week’s creative chilli challenge was to make a jellyfish. From rainbow jellyfish to jellyfish with six eyes, we had lots of fun creating them.
Super skippers
This week, Year 2 took part in our Skipping School KS1 festival at Leeds Trinity University against four other Leeds schools.
The children have been learning lots of individual and group skipping skills and today it was great to see just how much the children have progressed.
All the class worked hard as a team to earn as many skips as possible in their events. Dexter’s 99 single bounce skips in 30 seconds certainly helped to contribute to our total!
After all the points (skips) were added up, the winning school was announced…
We were so excited and proud to hear we had won!
A huge well done to all the children for fantastic determination, resilience and team work. They have worked so hard by practising in PE, at lunchtime and playtime, at skipping after-school club and even at home!
The festival has been really fun. I feel happy.
I like it because I’ve learnt lots of different skips and people encouraged me.
I feel proud of my skipping.
This is the third year in a row our Year 2 classes have achieved this and we feel very proud of their success.
