Class News

Living and Learning: Physical Health

Posted on Friday 26 May 2023 by Mr Wain

In L&L, we learned about how physical activity can help our physical health as well as our mental health.

It is recommended that a child gets at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day to help reduce the chance of developing diseases and to help maintain healthy bones and muscles.

60 minutes  of physical activity could be walking, running, or anything that makes your heart beat faster.

We also talked about how physical activity releases chemicals into our brains to make us feel good. We also learnt that when we exercise, we have more energy which then means we can concentrate more and means we are more energised and alert!

Help at home: Try out a new sport or type of physical activity over the half term!

Summer 1: Week 6

Posted on Friday 26 May 2023 by Mrs Wood

This week, we’ve been learning about the human body. Before introducing our focus called See inside Your Body, I asked the children, “Does anybody know a fact about the human body?”

JQ – The skull protects your brain.
TH – This is your knee bone.
LC – Sometimes when you fall over, your body bleeds.
AP – Your heart beats 1,500 beats a day. My Mummy told me that.
HM – Your heart pumps blood around your body.
FlM – “The longest bone in your body is your leg and the shortest is in your ear.
SL – Whatever you do, your skeleton copies that.

We’ve looked at the human skeleton, drew pictures of our own skeletons and labelled some of the 206 bones we have in our body! The children were amazed that babies have about 300 bones! We also had lots of fun learning the skeleton dance.

We also looked at some x-ray pictures. We talked x-rays are important and why we might have one.
On Wednesday, we learnt about our five senses – hearing, touch, sight, smell and taste. We went on a senses walk around school and drew pictures of things we could hear, touch, see and smell. We talked about the sense we didn’t use and the children drew a picture of something they ate at snack time or for lunch.
PE
On Monday, the children practised their skipping skills. Many children found skipping quite tricky. Miss Gaunt was very impressed with their fantastic determination and perseverance.
Maths
This week, we introduced the Rekenreks to the children.  We continued to  practise our subitising skills by using our ‘fast eyes’ to subitise the beads on a Rekenrek. A Rekenrek allows the children to further develop their subitising skills as they explore the structure of small numbers, while building a foundation for further learning in Year 1.
We know to make sure all the beads are at the right-hand side of the rack. This is called the ‘ready position’. We then pause (think), place (one finger) and push (the beads) using the ‘one finger push’ method.

Poetry picnic
This week’s poem was all about looking after baby monkeys. Click here to watch us.

Here are some highlights from our last week of Summer 1…

Butterfly news
This afternoon, we released 3 of our butterflies! We got to watch one of the butterflies emerging from its chrysalis.

Reminders

  • Now the weather’s getting warmer, please remember to apply your child’s sun cream before they come to school! Your child can reapply their sun cream before lunch with adult guidance.
  • Please continue to read your e-books and your favourite stories next week.
  • Next half-term, PE will continue to be on Monday and Thursday.
  • Tuesday 06 June – Class photos
  • Monday 19 June -Parent presentation (Zoom): Reception to Y1 transition

Well, that’s another half-term done and dusted. I can’t believe we’ve only got only one half-term left in Reception. Where has this year gone?
I hope you all have a fantastic week off. Don’t forget to send me lots of pictures. See you on Monday 05 June for your final half-term in Reception.

 

Brilliant reports!

Posted on Friday 26 May 2023 by Mr McGriffiths

Last week and this week we have been writing reports about Nelson Mandela. We have used all the knowledge we have gained through our History topic and everyone has written a fantastic report. We have talked about titles, sub-headings and proper nouns as well as all the amazing facts and information we remember about Nelson Mandela. I am very proud of all the children! I think the reports speak for themselves.

Living and learning: Physical Activity

Posted on Friday 26 May 2023 by Mr McGriffiths

Our latest Living and Learning sessions have been all about the importance of exercise and how we need to keep active to keep our bodies and our minds healthy.

We thought about all the things we had done since waking up. Then, we checked which ones were active.

Trampolining in the garden

Wake up Shake up

Scooting to school

Playing  with friends at playtime

Star jumps brain break

Monkey bars

The NHS guidance states that children and young people should  ‘aim for an average of at least 60 minutes (30 minutes in school and 30 minutes out of school) of moderate or vigorous intensity physical activity a day across the week’. We know that the exercise we need to do to achieve this, should increase our heart rate.

We thought about how we manage to achieve our 30 minutes during the school day.

  • Daily WUSU
  • 2 weekly PE sessions
  • Playtimes
  • Lunchtime play
  • Go Noodle, Supermovers and active counting in class
  • Jogging around the playground for brain breaks
  • After school clubs

Help at home – try a new physical activity out of school – maybe a local Junior park runlocal cricket lessons or tennis lessons.

Living and Learning:physical activity

Posted on Friday 26 May 2023 by Mrs Taylor

Our latest Living and Learning sessions have been all about the importance of exercise and how we need to keep active to keep our bodies and our minds healthy.

We thought about all the things we had done since waking up. Then, we checked which ones were active.

Practised gymnastics

Wake up Shake up

Walking to school

Playing tig with friends at playtime

Classroom skipping brain break

Pull ups

The NHS guidance states that children and young people should  ‘aim for an average of at least 60 minutes (30 minutes in school and 30 minutes out of school) of moderate or vigorous intensity physical activity a day across the week’. We know that the exercise we need to do to achieve this, should increase our heart rate.

We thought about how we manage to achieve our 30 minutes during the school day.

  • Daily WUSU
  • 2 weekly PE sessions
  • Playtimes
  • Lunchtime play
  • Go Noodle, Supermovers and active counting in class
  • Jogging around the playground for brain breaks
  • After school clubs

Help at home – try a new physical activity out of school – maybe a local Junior park run, local cricket lessons or tennis lessons. Practice some skipping ready for our skipping festival.

Living and Learning: Physical Health

Posted on Thursday 25 May 2023 by Miss Goswami

We have been talking in Living and Learning lessons about how physical activity can help our physical health as well as our mental health. Firstly, we defined physical wellbeing/health as ‘looking after and feeling good in your body’ and mental wellbeing/health as ‘looking after and feeling good in your mind’.

We then discussed how partaking in physical activity releases chemicals into our brains to make us feel good. We also learnt that when we exercise we have more energy which then means we can concentrate more.

Help at home: Try out a new sport or type of physical activity over the half term.

We are physicists!

Posted on Thursday 25 May 2023 by Mr Roundtree

Today, Year 3 continued their learning about magnets.

We learnt that magnets are a non-contact force. We also learnt that magnets having a north pole and a south pole .

We then conducted an experiment to see which poles attract (pull together) and which repel (push apart).

Help at home by asking your child if they can remember which poles attract and which repel!

Living and Learning: Healthy Eating

Posted on Thursday 25 May 2023 by Mr Wain

In Living and Learning, we discussed the importance of a balanced diet and the advice of ‘five-a-day’.  We enjoyed this learning outside during a circle time!

Circle times are a great time in the week to have honest, open and mature discussions in a different seating arrangement!

In our circle time, we talked not only about a balanced diet and ‘five-a-day’ but about the different food groups and the benefits they provide our bodies!

Did you know:

  •  You should only have 150ml of fruit juice a day?
  • If you drink a fruit smoothie, it only counts as one portion no matter how many different fruits are in there?
  • Dried fruit should be eaten as a dessert rather than a snack to prevent tooth decay?
  • It is healthier to buy tinned fruit in juices rather than syrup?

Help at home: Visit the NHS website which gives more information about portion sizes and healthy choices.  Then, with this knowledge, why not try to plan, prepare and enjoy a healthy meal which contributes towards your five-a-day.

We are biologists

Posted on Wednesday 24 May 2023 by Mrs Taylor

This half-term, we’re biologists, learning specifically about plants.

Here’s a list of key words that we’ve been learning as part of our topic.

seed: the part of a plant which can grow into a new plant
bulbs: the round underground part of a plant that contains food for the plant (eg onion bulb, daffodil bulb, tulip bulb)
basic needs: the things that a plant needs to live
temperature: a measurement of how hot or cold something is
growth: an increase in size
healthy: feeling well and happy
germinate: when a seed begins to grow into a plant
seedling: a young plant grown from a seed

Throughout this learning, we have been carrying two investigations.

How do bulbs grow? What do plants need to help them grow?

We put some onion bulbs in different conditions and observed the changes over time.

Ask your child to explain what had happened.

What do seeds need to germinate?

After observing and comparing different seeds, we planted seeds in different locations (and therefore different conditions). All the plants were given water.

Week 1

After one week, this is what had happened. The seeds had germinated in two out of the three locations. Even though the seedlings had started to grow in the cupboard and the classroom, they looked different and we observed these differences.

After two weeks, we were surprised to see that the seeds in the fridge had started to germinate. There were only small seedlings and they looked pale and not very healthy. The seedlings in the classroom on the window sill were definitely looking the healthiest with lots of dark green leaves.

We’ve also noticed a change in the tree in the front playground. How has it changed?

Help at home this week, the children have taken home their own planted sunflower seed to look after. Read the instructions to help the plant to grow as best as it can. We’d love to see how the plants are getting on!

Women’s role after WW2

Posted on Tuesday 23 May 2023 by Mr Wain

After the end of WW2, women who had been working in munitions factories and doing agricultural work for the Women’s Land Army had to return to more traditional roles as men returned from war.

Having their horizons narrowed, women who worked during the war told stories to their daughters about the experiences of work they’d had during WW2.

As a result, the 60s and 70s saw the emergence of feminist groups who protested against the inequality between women and men.

In our history learning, we made freeze frames to illustrate how women felt after the end of WW2. Feelings of anger, solidarity and a longing to return to the jobs they had experienced during the war were prominent.

Help at home by asking your child if they can remember what the end of WW2 meant for women. This website is useful to recap our learning, too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/did-ww2-change-life-for-women/zbktwty

Well done, Y6!