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.
Learning at home
It’s great to see many children doing extra learning at home. Take a look at this clock that was made at home after learning about time in class – the clock even has moving hands! Thanks to all of you who are supporting your child’s learning in different ways.
Key Stage One Art Gallery – one day only!
This afternoon saw Key Stage One’s Art Gallery opening.
Parents, children, aunties, uncles, grandmas, grandads and siblings alike came flooding into Key Stage One’s Art Gallery today. Thank you to all of you who came to view the amazing work Year 1 and 2 have one during our Katie and… topic. If you couldn’t make it, here’s a sneak peek. Step into the pictures, just as Katie would have, and imagine you were there.
You could put on your headphones and listen to the pieces of music that inspired us to create art that matched it.
Take a comfy seat in the book area and read the books that helped us create all of this amazing art.
Take a vote on your favourite piece of art or spend the time trying to find art by names you recognise.
Lots of people enjoyed our live art exhibition and joined in by printing a poppy onto the field for Remembrance Day (11.11.14). Thank you to those people who made a donation to our school charities.
Thank you to Year 1 and 2 for all their hard work and enjoyment of the Katie and… topic.
Athletics preparation
Recently some children from Year 4, 5 and 6 visited Roundhay School to practise their athletics skills ahead of the first round of the competition next week. It was great to use the equipment and everyone had a blast! Good luck with the competition.
Leeds United PE Coaching
We’re really excited about our PE sessions this term as we’re being taught by a coach from Leeds United.
Computing in Y5
Scratching away at a maze game!
