Living and Learning – health and prevention
Year 3 have been learning about how we can keep our bodies healthy. For example, we have learnt about what germs are and how to prevent spreading them.
We started off the lesson by talking about the different types of germs there are; bacteria, viruses and fungi. These can be all around us and some are helpful and some are harmful.
The children then discussed how quickly and easily germs can spread. Wetalked about the need to wash our hands to help prevent this spread. We could use soap or hand sanitiser and to make sure we’ve washed them thoroughly enough, you could sing happy birthday twice while you do it!
Help at home: Discuss other ways we can stop germs from spreading.
Science: plants
This half term in science we are being biologists. We are looking at plants and their different parts. Today, we learnt about the difference between wild flowers and garden flowers. We came up with an amazing list of all the flowers that we knew! Some flowers were difficult to say whether they were wild or garden flowers because lots of people plant flowers they see in the wild in their garden!
After that, we went outside to see what flowers we could see in The Green. We had use great observations skills when identifying the different plants.
Help at home by looking out for different flowers in the park or your own garden. Can you identify them? Are they wild or garden plants?
We are geographers!
This half term, we are geographers.
In our previous Geography unit this year, we were learning about the U.K. This half term, we are expanding our horizons in our explorers unit.
We have been learning about different climate zones and the capital cities of some European countries (which I must admit after all our practise playing Globle, we are very good at!)
Our geography topic will continue to look at flooding, flood defences and learning about the two cities of York and Venice.
Here is the vocabulary for this half term:
Help at home by asking your child what climate zones are!
Term 3.1 spellings
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative graphemes: sh (ch, ss, ti, s)
- alternative graphemes: k (ch)
- adding prefixes: mis, re
- adding prefixes: sub, tele, auto
- spelling patterns: gn, kn
- homophones: piece / peace, main / mane, fair / fare
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
position | submarine | re-centre | television | gnash |
piece | mention | autobiography | technology | kneel |
peace | automatic | possession | misheard | character |
misbelieves | main | reconsider | pressure | substitute |
disappear | mane | ache | gnome | special |
knot | stomach | fair | misremember | submerge |
anchor | re-group | fare | should | rebuild |
known | architect | build | telephone | teleport |
Living & Learning: Health and Prevention
Year 5 have been learning about germs and how to prevent spreading them.
We started off the lesson by taking part in a quiz. Did you know that the kitchen is normally the most germiest room in the house? And, there are 100,000 microbes in a sneeze?
The children then discussed cross contamination and how quickly germs can spread. We talked about the need to wash our hands to help prevent this spread. We could use soap or hand sanitiser.
Help at home: Discuss other ways we can stop germs from spreading.
Summer term after-school clubs
***Update***
The following clubs have availability and there is still time to sign up.
The after-school clubs for this term are available for booking from this Wednesday. We hope your child/children can get involved with our extra-curricular activities.
This term, clubs will run for 10 weeks rather than 8 weeks starting week commencing 29th April.
Please contact the office if you have any queries about the after-school clubs.
Super swimmers
UPDATE 26.04.24
Our team have qualified for the Nationals. What a great achievement – well done to all the children.
Our Year 5/6 swimming team competed in the English Schools’ Swimming Association North East Primary Schools’ Team Championship at the Grammar School at Leeds. A special thank you goes to one team member who joined the team late on.
All the children performed brilliantly throughout the afternoon competing against schools from Yorkshire. We are proud to announce the team came away with two silver medals in the freestyle (missing out on 1st place by just 1.2 second) and mixed stroke races.
Here are part of the team celebrating their success.
Following the team races, there was chance for the children to compete in individual races. In their breaststroke, backstroke and freestyle heats, the children came away with four 1sts, two 2nds, one 3rd and one 4th place.
The children were a credit to the school – supporting each other and giving 100% in every single race to get some great results.
A huge well done to the whole team.
Science – How does the distance between the object and light source affect the shadow created?
Enquiry question: How does the distance between the object and light source affect the shadow created?
Scientific enquiry type (how we are being scientists): I can set up a fair test.
Predictions: What do you think? Have a go at home!
I predict the shadow will become ______ when we move the light source closer.
I predict the shadow will become ______ when we move the light source further away.
What will we need to answer our question?
- torches
- opaque object
- pencil
- ruler
What will we measure?
We will measure the width of the shadow.
What will we change?
The distance between the object and the light source.
What will we keep the same?
The distance between the object and wall.
Here’s our fair test. We drew around each shadow with a pencil and then measured the width with a ruler.
Conclusion: The larger the distance from the light source to the object, the smaller the shadow became
Summer 1: Week 1
Welcome back! We hope you all had a happy and healthy break.
This half-term our topic is called Life on Earth. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be learning more about life cycles. We’ll closely observe caterpillars to help us understand the different stages of a life cycle.
Yesterday morning, a parcel arrived at school… It was 5 tiny caterpillars!
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On Wednesday morning, we used hand drills to make a bug hotel. We also used saws, hammers and screwdrivers. After that, the creative area has been really busy. They’ve really enjoyed making lots and lots of holes with the hand drills.
Phonics
This week, we’ve started Phase 4. In this phase children will use the phonemes learnt in Phase 2 and Phase 3 to read and spell words with four or more phonemes and words ending in suffixes:
–ing, –ed /t/, –ed /id/ /ed/, –est
Here are some examples:
CVCC words: tent, damp, toast
For example, in the word ‘damp’, d = consonant, a = vowel, m = consonant, p = consonant
CCVC words: swim, plum, spoon
For example, in the word ‘plum’, p = consonant, l = consonant, u = vowel, m = consonant
CCVCC words: stamp, crept, twist
For example, in the word ‘stamp’, s = consonant, t = consonant, a = vowel, m = consonant, p = consonant
CCCVC words: strap scrub strong
For example, in the word, ‘strap’, s = consonant, t = consonant, r = consonant, a = vowel, p = consonant
CCCVCC words: strand strict sprint
For example, in the word, ‘sprint’, s = consonant, p = consonant, r = consonant, i = vowel, n = consonant, t = consonant
They’ll also learn to read and write 18 new tricky words.
Help at home: Practise reading and writing this week’s tricky words.
said so have like
Poetry Picnic
This week’s poem was called Pitter Patter.
Some more fantastic learning…
Geography Topic – Explorers
This half-term, in Year 2, we are being geographers. This week we have been learning the names of the seven continents and five oceans. The children have enjoyed learning two songs to help them remember. We have also enjoyed exploring google earth and looking at a globe.
How can you help?
Google Earth is a brilliant tool to help develop children’s understanding of space, place, scale and interdependence. Zoom right in on your home and then zoom out to reveal the area of Leeds that you live in. Zoom further out to see what city you live. Zoom further for the county. A little further and you might start to spot some national parks. Further still and you can see the country that we live in. Keep zooming and you’ll see the continent we live in (though this isn’t labelled).
Quizzing your children about some locational knowledge will help them to remember important information.
- Which continent do we live in?
- Which country do we live in?
- In which hemisphere is our country located?
- Which county do we live in?
- Which city do we live in?
- Which part of Leeds do we live in?
- Which four countries make up the United Kingdom?