Zack’s marvellous Mathletics achievement!
Yesterday was a great day for Zack! He was the first person in our class, and possibly the school, to break into the top 100 UK students on Mathletics. Each time you play a game or complete an activity, you get a certain number of points. These points are added up over the course of a week and the students with the best scores go up on the leaderboard. Unfortunately, we’ve not (yet) managed to get on to the leaderboard for the top UK classes. I’m hoping to see us up there soon!
d:side
We had a visit from d:side this morning to talk to us about the dangers of solvents and solvent abuse.
Healthy bodies, healthy minds
This week sees us concentrating on all things healthy. So far, we’ve learnt about being safe with drugs and been taught PE, not by Miss Rushbrooke, but by Year 6!
As well as this, we’ve tried out two new physical activities and thoroughly enjoyed them both.
Martial Arts
Thai Chi
We’ll keep you posted on what other intersting activities we get up to for the rest of the week. Watch this space…
Leeds United player visits Year 5
This afternoon, Molly Cawood, a professional footballer at Leeds United, visited the class to talk about her experiences of being a professional footballer and how she makes sure she stays fit and healthy.
Tai Chi
We’ve been learning about Tai Chi this morning.
Did you know that Tai Chi means Supreme Ultimate Fist? It is a Chinese martial art which focuses on defence. It is a graceful form of exercise involving slow, precise movements.
Heart Research
This morning, we’ve had a visit from at Heart Research UK who has taught us about the heart and the important job that it does in our bodies. We also learnt about how to take care of our heart.
Did you know…?
- The heart is a muscle and is about the same size as a clenched fist.
- The average heartbeat of an adult is 70 beats per minute.
- The blood cells in our body travel about 20,000 miles every day. That’s the equivalent of travelling from Leeds to Honk Kong and back again!
- The average heartbeat of a baby is between 130 and 150 beats per minute.
- Blood travels through the arteries at about 30 mph.
- Blood carrying oxygen travels through the body in arteries. Blood carrying blood without oxygen is carried through the body in veins.
Martial Arts!
Health week has started for us with some martial arts. Sensai John taught us some warm up stretches, punches, kicks and even Japanese numbers to ten.
Cracking creative homeworks!
Here are some of our favourite homeworkers from this week:
This is Molly’s board game about staying safe:
This is Simran’s colourful safety poster:
This is Jahneil’s huge homework:
This is Jaskirat’s quiz:
This is Sofiah’s fantastic safety story:
We can be artists
As you know, the homework last week was “I can be an artist.”
These pictures certainly show that all of Year 1 can be artists. These are just a few examples – well done to everyone and thank you for your efforts with this homework and during this topic.
Mathletics
A quick well done to those children that have been using Mathletics at home. We’ve really enjoyed playing on Live Mathletics and some children have tried Level 2 questions and even Level 3! Have a look at the activities you can complete, particularly in the Counting and Number section and Grouping and Sharing.
I have assigned everyone an activity this week that you will have to complete before you can go on anything else. All of the children should be confident with this as it’s related to arrays, which has been our maths focus this week.
Please let me know if your child’s multiplication activity doesn’t seem to have been assigned.