What happened?
Look at these gorgeous babies! Who are they? Year 1 didn’t think that the teachers were the only ones who could have a baby photo competition. We’ve had our own mini competition for a bit of fun and these are a few of the photos that we looked at.
What a cute bunch – I’m not sure what happened between then and now?! Have a look and see if you can guess which Year 1 children (still cute of course!) are in the photos. Just a bit of fun but an important part of learning about who we are.
Who do you think you are?
This week is a themed week in school. On Tuesday, we had a visit from the Deaf Awareness charity and Kidzaware. We learnt some basic sign language as well as finding out what life is like living with a disability. Ask your child if they can remember the signs for any of the letters of the alphabet.
This morning, we visited St. Gemma’s Hospice and found out all about the amazing work they do, not only in the community, but also for their patients and families too!
Have a look at our week so far.
Don’t forget, Thursday is our class assembly (2.40pm). We look forward to seeing you there.
What is a community?
Mr Dunn, a student from Leeds Beckett University talked to is about what a community is and how a university is a community and also part of our larger community.
Community Day
We visited the Marjorie and Arnold Ziff centre this morning to find out about how they help different people in our local community.
Sign language
We used no words this morning, turning instead to our hands for communication. As part of Community Week, we’ve thought about how communities are diverse in terms of different genders, race, age, religion and disabilities. Year 2 really tried to empathise with those who might be deaf or dumb, imagining the difficulties they might face and how these might be overcome. To help us understand, we tried out British Sign Language and, actually, we were pretty good!
Here are some of the things we learnt…
and we learnt some letters too..
Test us at home and see what can remember.
Similarites and differences
After looking at our own identity and subsequently how we are all different, Year 1 spent time with a friend in the class finding out about each other. This involved a lot of discussion to find out their similarities and differences that weren’t immediately visible.
Communicating without speaking
Visitors from Dales (Deaf Across Leeds Enablement Service) taught us a range of different sign language today to raise awareness of people who have a hearing impairment. From general greetings to the alphabet and numbers, signing proved to be a new skill all the children enjoyed learning.
Kidzaware
Kidzaware, a local charity who provide educational programmes about disabilities, visited today as part of our learning about diversity. We met puppets, learnt a song, used signing and generally became more aware of a range of disabilities and appropriate ways to interact.
Identity
This morning, Miss Farrell has been helping us learn about who we are and what different things make up our identity.
Our Rube Goldberg machine
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