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Living and Learning: Being healthy themed week

It was a busy end to our being healthy themed week with lots of visitors to support this key aspect of Living and Learning.

Matt, from Leeds Well School Partnership, visited to deliver an assembly all about being healthy. There were key messages about being active, sleep and healthy eating. We also got to hear our two winning entries that have now been published in a book titled Move Well looking at children’s relationship with physical activity and sport. Well done to Florence and Soham.

Catering Leeds, who provide our school meals, came to deliver their Bushtucker trial workshop all about healthy eating. Here, the children were able to taste blind taste and blind feel different fruits and vegetables. There were lots of new foods to explore.

Foot tech, who support our PE curriculum, came to deliver some of the games which we’ve enjoyed this year in a fun and active way.

Our final visitor was Hazel from D:side, a health charity. We started by thinking about the three main things that we need to put in our body – food water and air. We also looked at different parts of our body and what their job is. Finally, we thought about our emotions and used this car wash activity to share compliments to our friends while they walked down the ‘car wash’.

Another way we’ve thought about our emotional health is mindfulness and ways we can calm our mind. The children enjoyed using their glitter bottles to watch the glitter settle just like our emotions. We hope the children enjoy using these at home.

In our circle time, the children shared the ways they are going to improve their health following our learning.

I’m going to play outside more.

I’m going to drink more water.

I’m going to have less screen time and TV time.

I’m going to go to bed earlier.

I’m going to eat less sweets and chocolate.

I’m going to be more active on my way to school.

I’m going to try new foods.

I’m going to make sure I keep my body clean.

Help at home: support your child to complete the online health questionnaire homework to share your child’s views on health at school.

DT: Eggy Karts

Y6 have been busy working on their Eggy Karts.

We are following a design criteria:

• sturdy
• durable
• mobile
• protects Eggy
• aesthetically pleasing

We’ve used saws, clamps, bench hooks and glue. Later in the week, we’ll test them to see if they really do protect Eggy from getting scrambled.

Help at home by asking how your child stayed safe in these lessons.

They look great so far!

Being Healthy Week!

This week at Moortown has been Being Healthy Week! All week we’ve been focusing on how we can stay healthy both physically and mentally. Here are some of our highlights of the week…

We started the week talking about healthy eating and how we can ensure we have a balanced diet. Your children were very knowledgeable on this and suggested various healthy meals/snacks that include all our important food groups.

We then were lucky enough to have a visit from British Military Martial Arts (BMMA). Your children played lots of fun games and got to showcase their new skills. They loved giving martial arts a go and exploring a new way of keeping fit.

This week, we’ve spoke a lot about mental health and its importance. We often find that doing things to promote our physical health, such as exercise and eating healthy, also help our mental health. Keeping our minds healthy is just as important as keeping our bodies healthy and we discussed various ways to do this. We played a fun game of self-care bingo where the children chose their favourite self-care techniques and had to act them out.

We had another excellent session with some visitors from City of Leeds Basketball. Your children did basketball in PE last year so this was a great opportunity to recap, learn and practise some basketball skills and ask the professionals all about their experiences in the sport.

One of our favourite moments of the week was our Hip Hop workshop with Phil. He spoke all about the culture of Hip Hop and how we can express ourselves through art, literature, music and dance. We then had the opportunity to watch Phil perform some amazing Hip Hop dancing and learnt a few moves ourselves! We all loved it!

As part of our Being Healthy Week, we had our annual sports day! It’s always a brilliant day in the sunshine and the children were all amazing. Medal or not, we were proud of all of your children as everybody demonstrated our School Games values:

• determination
• honesty
• passion
• respect
• self-belief
• teamwork

Your children always love a visit from D:Side and this week, the session was on drug education. We learnt all about alcohol – what it is, the laws around it and how we can stay safe and healthy when we’re older. We did some role plays of how to say no if somebody is trying to get you to do something you don’t want to. The session taught us some really important information and was fun and engaging too!

Overall, we had an amazing, jam packed week and learnt so much about how we can always stay healthy!

Healthy Week

This week was our themed week: ‘Healthy Week’. Over the last 5 days, we have been off timetable and have been learning about lots of different ways to be healthy.

We kickstarted it with our new sessions of ‘Feelings First’. In these sessions, we have a feeling for the week and we discuss everything related to it: the definition; what happens if we have too much or too little of this emotion; what it might look like on us or others; how it might impact us or others; what other emotions are related to it; and how we can regulate it. We looked at 4 different feelings: influenced, offended, excluded and resentful.

On Monday, we had the British Military Martial Arts come to complete a session. The children were able to learn how to do a front kick, a jab, a cross punch and a side kick. The children got into teams to race against each other.

After we learn about allergies and how to help someone if they are having an allergic reaction.

Help at home: Which 3 do you think are the most important?

Our next lessons were about personal hygiene and dental health. We discussed what we use to stay clean, what areas should be cleaned the most, where does bacteria like the most, what causes damage to our teeth and where do you visit regularly to look at your teeth. The children created posters about the importance of personal hygiene and handwashing.

Did you know that in a can of Coca-Cola there is 35 grams of sugar – that’s the same as 10 teaspoons of sugar! Year 5 researched how much sugar was in their favourite snacks.

We finished off the afternoon with skipping school. The children practised and perfected partner skipping. They then showed off their amazing skills to the rest of the school!

On Tuesday, we started off the day with a road safety assembly and a feelings first session. We then had a zoom about about healthy eating. We looked at ‘The Eatwell Guide’. In the afternoon, we completed the first day of our personal best challenge – the children were able to pick one skill they wanted to improve on throughout the week. We finished off the day with a lesson looking at vaccinations, physical illness and how to spot changes in our bodies. We talked about why it’s important to report any differences: it could get worse if you don’t talk about it.

On Wednesday, we started off the day with a basketball session. We had lots of fun!

Year 5 had a lesson about mental health and tried mindful hearing – a nice calming exercise. We used our senses to  focus on the sounds around us.

In the afternoon, we had time to try and beat our personal best in PE. We also had a session with Hip Hop Phil – the children were amazed!

On Thursday, we had sports day! On Friday, we started off the day with an assembly about physical health and then followed this up with a lesson. The children took part in different physical activities and had to measure their heart rate using their pulse.

In the afternoon, we had a lesson about drug education from D:Side.

Help at home: What was your child’s favourite session of this week?

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.