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.
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.