Feel the benefits of being active in Leeds
Leeds Let’s Get Active is a programme of free activities from October to December 2013. Free gym and swim sessions will be available across all Leeds City Council leisure centres from 30 September 2013. Other activities such as walking and running as well as family-based activities are also available at locations in the city. You can now register online to find out more information on what is available, where and when on the Leeds Let’s Get Active activity programme.
With free swim and gym at Scott Hall leisure centre and health walks at Meanwood there is plenty on offer in the local area.
How high can you jump?
Amazing star jumps in our gym lesson this week.
Marvellous measures
A week’s learning about measures ended with lots of measuring of arms, legs and heads. As part of the big topic, Doctor Doctor, measurements of our bodies were compared. Measuring length can be done using non-standard units and standard units. The week was started by measuring with paperclips, dinosaurs and highlighters, then home-made tape measures were used to practise the actual concept of using a tape and then the standard units of centimetres and metres were introduced.
- How many centimetres in a metre?
- Who had the biggest hand span?
- How do you measure a hand span?
…all questions that you can ask Year 1.
Code Club starts at Moortown
It was the taster session for the new computer programming after school club today. Led by the very talented and inspiring Linda Broughton, the club uses Scratch to introduce children to computer programming. Over the next few weeks, the children will be creating their own games and animations which they can then upload to the Internet and finish at home or just enjoy playing them! The club takes place in The Space which was previously the ICT suite. This new area allows each child to have their own laptop so they can take their games in the direction that they want to whilst still allowing them to chat to friends and share what they are doing. This club is about inspiring a love of computing in children and celebrating their creativity – but most of all, it’s about having fun!
Measuring George’s Marvellous Medicine
We have been learning about measures in maths and today we made our very own marvellous medicine. We put all sorts of horrible things in; like engine oil, plant juice, hair growth ointment and lots more! Our measuring was very accurate and we all worked well in our teams to help each other.
Miss Rushbrooke tasted it!
Nothing has happened to her yet, I wonder if she’ll be any different tomorrow?
Yoga time
Having discussed ways for us to calm down if we are nervous, scared, excited or giddy, we tried out a few yoga positions. Take a look at their names, we found them really useful when remembering which position was which.
Maybe you could try it yourself? We felt very calm and relaxed afterwards!
Identifying the parts of a sentence
In a recent literacy lesson, we were learning about the parts of a sentence. In these pictures we were identifying the adverbs and verbs on a sentence.
Year 3 Super Readers!
Here are some great Year 3 Readers:
We try to read as much as can in school. We need to be reading at home with an adult as often as we can. This will make us all super readers and help us to be super writers as well.
Enjoying our new outdoor area!
The children have been enjoying our new outdoor area.
Did you know that in order to develop perfect coordination of body and brain, children need to do lots of actions in which their muscles encounter resistance such as pushing, pulling, stretching and carrying?
Children like to hang from bars, to dig and rake and to feel tension in their limbs. Activities which allow for this are skipping, climbing, pedalling bicycles and pushing wheelbarrows. We intend to do lots of these over the year.
Significantly, movement is actually what allows children to sit still!
Magnificent measurements
Year 2 have just started their new topic ‘Doctor! Doctor!’
We spent our first lesson on length measuring different parts of our bodies.
