Our school trip to Magna!
Today, we were lucky enough to visit Magna on our second school trip of the year! Magna is a science adventure centre but this trip also linked brilliantly to our current geography topic: volcanoes.
Living and Learning: Speak Out, Stay Safe
This week, the children learnt all about speaking out to stay safe with NSPCC.
We discussed children’s rights and the importance of the NSPCCs message of ‘speak out, stay safe’.
As part of this session, they identified their trusted adults that they could talk to if they needed or wanted. It’s so important to have these trusted adults and why we should always speak out rather than keeping our worries in.
Adults that we can talk to include:
- parents/carers
- grandparents
- older siblings
- teachers/headteacher
- club leaders
- friend’s parents
- Alternatively, Childline is always there to call or visit their website for help. https://www.nspcc.org.uk/
We watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRSJ0U3xWM4
Help at home: discuss who your child can talk to if they need help. If they don’t feel comfortable using their words, how else can they communicate? Write a note? Record their voice? Draw a picture?
Writing: Persuasive letters
This week, we’ve starting looking at our next piece of writing. We are going to be writing a persuasive letter. To persuade means to cause someone to do something through reasoning and argument.
We’re going to persuade the Minister for the Environment for the UK, Steve Reed, to tackle climate change more effectively. In our persuasion letters, we’ll have to make him aware of the devastating effects climate change is having around the world and what he can do to combat these effects!
Once we’ve written our letters, we’ll go and post them and await a response!
So far, we have looked at good examples and identified features.
In today’s lesson, we picked out phrases that we can use in our own writing.
Help at home: Have a discussion about how climate change is affecting our world. Is there anything we can personally do to stop it?
Yorkshire Air Ambulance
This year, our Junior Leadership Team democratically selected Yorkshire Air Ambulance as our new school charity to support.
Yorkshire Air Ambulance is an independent charity providing a lifesaving rapid response emergency service to 5 million people across the whole of Yorkshire. Money raised keeps both of their air ambulance helicopters maintained and in the air.
This week, we welcomed representatives from Yorkshire Air Ambulance for an assembly to hear first hand about the excellent work they do and how our donations will help the charity.
Did you know it costs £21,000 per day to keep the Yorkshire Air Ambulance running.
It’s great to hear the children have already got ideas of how we can raise money for YAA. They are encouraged to put these ideas into our class Living and learning boxes for the Junior Leadership Team to consider.
Living & Learning: Speak Out, Stay Safe
This week is our second week on being safe in L&L. Today, your children learnt all about speaking out to stay safe with NSPCC.
We discussed children’s rights and the importance of the NSPCCs message of ‘speak out, stay safe’.
As part of this lesson, your children identified their trusted adults (over 18) that they could confidently ask anything. We discussed the importance of having these trusted adults and why we should always speak out rather than bottling things up.
Alongside this, we spoke about how our trusted adults make us feel. Your children were really confident and comfortable speaking to their trusted adults about any worries or concerns.
Our Living and Learning box, in the classroom, is another way the children can speak out and write down any worries.
Help at home: visit the Childline website with your children (https://www.childline.org.uk/kids). Explore the games, interactive tools and age-appropriate advice.
Reminder: stay and learn
Stay and learn will take place next week.
Fine Motor Skills and coffee morning – 03.02.25 9-10am
It would be great to see you all there. It is a fantastic opportunity for you to learn how we deliver our lessons and the content that is covered. We are offering a coffee afterwards and a chance for you to ask questions about the lesson you saw.
Maths: measure
Over the last couple of weeks, Y6 have been learning about measure.
We’ve looked at mass, length and capacity.
We also looked at solving problems which contain a range of skills.
The presentation was standout this week – as well as the confidence!
Help at home by asking your child how many:
- g are in a kg?
- ml are in a l?
- mm are in a cm?
Writing: escaping a volcanic eruption!
This week, Year 4 have been writing their recounts about escaping a volcanic eruption. This links nicely to our volcanoes topic in geography this half-term.
A recount re-tells events and describes what happened.
Our R2s (remember to) were:
- conjunctions (subordinating and coordinating)
- impressive vocabulary
- past tense
Your children used these R2s when planning, writing and editing their recounts. I was wowed by the final pieces! Your children really put themselves in the shoes of an escapee and were able to write exciting and gripping recounts.
Help at home: ask your children to write a short recount of their day at school using conjunctions and past tense.
Coordinating conjunctions:
Subordinating conjunctions:
Geography: exploring our locality
This morning Year 1 braved the wind and went out to explore our local area. Armed with a clipboard and a pencil, we completed a survey of what we liked and disliked about places in Moortown. We chose 5 different areas near to school and rated them for noise, litter, recycling bins, safety and plants. We recorded what we thought by drawing either a sad, happy or straight face.
Help at home by talking to your child about what they like or dislike about the local area. Is there anything they would want to improve? How?
Spring 1: Week 3 Living and Learning
This week’s living and learning statement is I can assess my own risk.
The children came up with some great ideas during our class discussion.
“If you are in the snow you need to make sure you stay warm.”
“You need to protect your skin when it is hot.”
“Don’t build towers too tall.”
This week, we have been exploring art by Yayoi Kusama. We have been inspired by her work and created similar pieces. The children were encouraged to say what they liked/disliked about her art using the word because.
“I like it because I like the rainbow colours.”
“I like it because there are clothes in it.”
Help at home: by encouraging your child to speak in full sentences.
Maths
During this week’s lessons we have been doing lots of singing. We have used different songs to explore the different ways you can make 5. For example, using the speckle frog song we were able to discuss how many frogs were in the pond, how many were on the log and how many frogs there were altogether.
