We’ll Meet Again…
A huge, HUGE well done to everyone in Year 5 and 6 for three truly incredible performances of this summer’s production, We’ll Meet Again.
Everyone stepped up to their role, whatever it was, with passion, pride and commitment.
Thank you for your support, whether that was supplying a costume or practising the songs endlessly at home. We really appreciate it and know that it made the production what it was.
We had some excellent acting, impressive singing and standout props. It was a performance that will hopefully stay with the children for the rest of their lives.
Living and Learning – Being Healthy Week
We have had an amazing week this week being healthy and the week has been jam packed!
We have been kept very active and busy. We have done yoga, hip hop breaking, martial arts, foot tech, skipping AND sports day!
We have also learnt about staying healthy in other ways. We have learnt about a healthy diet, personal hygiene, sun safety and online safety. We have also had visits from D:side, Leeds catering, Leeds road safety and Leeds schools well partnership.
We have talked a lot about our feelings as well this week and each day we have discussed a new feeling. So far we have covered: happy, sad, grateful, apprehensive and embarrassed. We discussed how and when we might feel these feelings and different strategies to regulate these feelings if they get too much! I have been very impressed by the children’s maturity during these discussions.
Help at home by discussing what we have been learning this week and everyone at home can stay healthy!
Being Healthy Themed Week!
This week is Being Healthy Week! It has been a week full of learning and activities that help us to know how we can be healthy, physically and mentally.
Monday
We began the week off by talking about a healthy, balanced lifestyle. A healthy, balanced life style can benefit us in many ways…
The children were very knowledgeable about how they can make balanced choices like having fruit instead of sweets or scooting to school rather than driving.
Year 3 went back to Skipping School! One great way to stay physically active is by skipping. They learnt two new skipping skills; the cross over and pretzel!
We had a visit from BMMA – British Military Martial Arts. Many of the children have been to this club before so they were experts.
Tuesday
Being healthy includes how to be safe. The children were visited by Leeds City Council to recap how they can be safe around the road. The Green Cross Code:
THINK
STOP
LOOK
LISTEN
Year 3 took part in an amazing Yoga session where they practised mindfulness and different strategies to support their mental well-being.
We’ve never seen the children look this relaxed!
The children have been set personal best targets. Yesterday, we completed as many speed bounces as we could in one minute and held a stork pose for as long as we could. We’ll do these again two more times this week and hopefully, we improve each time.
Wednesday
Wednesday kicked off with an amazing session with Phil – a ‘break boy’. He showed the children different ways that they can express themselves through art, music and dance. This can help the children with their mental well-being and they had a go at ‘breaking’ themselves!
We had a workshop to learn about personal hygiene. Keeping our personal hygiene up is really important to stop spreading bacteria and virus’ to each other. We saw how soap helps to stop this spread. Black pepper acted as our germs…
Our last visitor on Wednesday were the Basketball team coaches. We showed off our dribbling and shooting skills.
Thursday
Sports Day!
Friday
Leeds Well came to visit to remind us of the main things that we can do to have a healthy lifestyle. These include; eating a balanced diet that can give us energy, staying hydrated with water and low sugar drinks and exercising for 60 minutes a day.
D:Side Dave was in to educate us about cigarettes and smoking and the risks that come with it. This will set us up to make sensible choices when we are 18 and older.
Overall, Year 3 have had a fantastic ‘Being Healthy’ week learning and celebrating being healthy and active. Help at home by talking to your child about the activities they’ve taken part in this week. What was their favourite?
Topic: Design and technology
This week, Year 2 have been busy building chairs for baby bear to sit on. We had a practice last week using paper however we realised this material was not strong enough. This week we used cardboard. This was a much stronger material. We followed out designs carefully. and made some very stable structures.
When we finished, it was time to evaluate our chairs and see if they were stable enough for baby bear to sit on.
Being Healthy: physical activity
What a fantastic start to being healthy week. We have has some great visitors in school delivering some physical activity sessions.
On Monday, to kick start the week, we had two physical activity sessions.
Daisy from BMMA delivered a fun and active martial arts session.
Later in the afternoon, it was wonderful to see the whole school participating in skipping on the playground led by Katie from skipping school. Thank you to all the parents that came to support their children.
Tuesday we took part in a relaxing, mindful yoga session.
Today, the children took part in a basketball session and a hip-hop session. The children represented our school brilliantly and thoroughly enjoyed learning some new skills.
Throughout the week, the children are taking part in a personal best challenge. Some children choose the stork balance and some choose speed bounce. On Friday, the children will bring their scores home and you may wish to donate £1 to our school charity for their efforts.
Being Healthy themed week
This week, we’ve had an action-packed schedule all about being healthy.
We’ve taken part in mixed martial arts…
We’ve created posters to warn others about early signs of physical illness…
We’ve completed a short course about allergies from St John Ambulance Service…
And looked at personal health including dental hygiene and handwashing…
We’ve taken part in a skipping school and performed for the rest of the school with some awesome skills…
We’ve considered our healthy choices all week…
We welcomed the Road Safety Team who gave us a great assembly and we took part in some pedestrian training…
We’ve played some basketball with Leeds City Basketball…
We’ve learnt about viruses, bacteria, fungi and antibiotics…
… along with so many more!
Help at home by asking your child what healthy choices you make at home.
Drop Down Morning
On Friday, it was Topic Drop Down Morning. Year 5 and 6 joined together for these sessions: History, Geography and Art.
In History, we recapped our knowledge about the Stone Age to Iron Age and Ancient Egypt. The children had to match the significant element to the time period.
To finish off the lesson, Year 5 and 6 needed to decide which civilisation was the most advanced and why.
Help at home: Which time period do you think was the most advanced? Give 3 reasons why.
In Geography, we looked back at out climate change unit. The children needed to match key vocabulary to their definitions.
We then read a kids guide to climate change. The children had to create retrieval questions for their partner to answer.
In our final session of the morning, Year 5 and 6 revisited their art learning – looking specifically at visual and tactile elements. Small groups were given an element each and they had to draw or write something to represent their given word.
Help at home: Can you name all 9 elements?
They then had to match significant artists to their artwork. To finish the lesson, they described the artwork using the visual and tactile elements.
Living & Learning: Body Image
In our L&L sessions in Year 4, we’ve been looking at and discussing body image.
We began by thinking about the word ‘beauty’ and what it can mean. It’s important to realise that…
Everyone’s idea of beauty is different.
We talked about how media and advertising can make us think that beauty is to look one way or another.
However, some of these images may have been edited or changed to look a certain way. So, it is important that we do not compare ourselves to the images that we see online. Not everything we see online is real! We looked at two images and identified the edits that had been made between them.
We then thought about ourselves and how we are all beautiful in our own ways.
Help at home: watch this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpM499XhMJQ ) and have a discussion about it. Reinforce the idea that not everything we see online is real.
Summer 2: Week 5
Nell Bank
We had a fantastic day on Wednesday learning about the importance of recycling, hunting for bugs and making houses for the baby badgers. The children’s behaviour was impeccable and their enthusiasm and knowledge was amazing.
Library books
Please return all library books for the end of the school year.
Health week
Next week, is our second themed week of the year. We’ll be taking part in various healthy activities. Your child can come to school in their PE kit all week.
Living & Learning: body image
Our latest Living and Learning sessions have been focussed on body image and we started this learning by thinking about what is special about our own identity and how we can describe our own identity in terms of our physical appearance.
Our self portraits show just how unique we all are.
We also thought of other ways we might be different, on the inside as well as the outside. For example, we don’t all have the same personality and characteristics and we have different interests and hobbies.
We agreed that being different is a good thing and it should be celebrated as it would be boring if we were all the same!
In our circle time, we thought about good things about ourselves…
I am alive.
I can be on stage confidently.
I have a good imagination.
I care about the environment.
I care for others and help my friends.
I am funny.
…and what we like about our bodies.
I am flexible.
I like my long hair.
I am unique.
I can see and hear.
I like my eye colour.
My brain helps me think.
Help at home: discuss this learning with your child. Encourage them to think about their strengths and what they like about who they are.