Design and Technology: Go-Karts!
Hello!
As you would have seen on our last post, Year 4 have been busy designing, creating and evaluating their go-kart prototypes!
Today, they had their final session to complete any finishing touches. We had some last minute changes to make sure that they could move freely and hold a model figure. Therefore, some go-karts don’t have a motor and some do!
Here are some of our groups with their go-karts. They were absolutely fantastic and Mrs Charlesworth and I were incredibly impressed.
Well done to Year 4 for working well together as a team and using their skills to create and change go-karts for the better!
We are PE game designers.
This term we have been very lucky to have Luke and Nick from Foot-tech helping with our PE sessions. The children have loved the games and activities they have done every Thursday afternoon. We have learnt so much that we had a go at creating our games in PE this week! The children were split into groups and given free access to the equipment. Each group came up with a brilliant game and worked really well as a team! We then moved around each group while one person stayed behind to explain their game. I was really impressed by both the children’s creativity and maturity!
Living and Learning
This week, our Living and Learning statement is I make healthy choices. On Monday, we had a visitor from D:side called Dave . He talked staying safe around medicine, healthy foods and brushing teeth. The children listened well and answered lots of questions.
Help at home: What healthy choices do you do at home?
Sports Day
Well done to all the children for showing resilience and determination in their races! We had a wonderful afternoon cheering on our friends. Thank you to everybody who came and supported the children at our Sports Day.
Living and Learning: Being Healthy themed week – Active Tuesday
Over the course of the Being Healthy themed week, Year 2 worked on improving a physical activity skill and we saw improvements in the children’s personal bests.
Teamwork, speed and looking skills were needed for this active treasure hunt. How quick could each team find the different locations on the school grounds?
Help at home: ask your child how much physically activity they should have in a day?
Living and Learning: Being Healthy themed week – healthy teeth
Instructions are currently part of our writing learning and so we tied this in with our Being Healthy themed week.
First of all, we watched this video that gave us lots of tips for how to look after our teeth.
We worked in groups to sequence instructions for how to brush our teeth and we identified the imperative verbs in each instruction.
Help at home: can your child retell the instructions and can they remember why it’s important not to rinse after spitting out.
Being healthy themed week: staff vs pupils netball
At our final netball after-school club, and as it is our being healthy themed week, we enjoyed a hard fought match between the pupils and staff.
The children have progressed really well with their netball skills this term and we hope the Year 6 netballers continue to enjoy this sport as they move to high school.
Living and Learning: Being Healthy themed week – Mindful Monday
We kicked off the Being Healthy themed week with Mindful Monday recognising that our mental health is as important as our physical health.
Mindfulness can make you calm.
Mindfulness is good for you because it can make you feel relaxed and calm down your feelings.
Mindfulness is good because it helps your mental health.
We regularly have mindfulness time after lunchtimes but today was chance to add some more techniques to the ones we already know (self hug, ok breathing, breathing tree, starfish meditation and back to back breathing).
Yoga is a great way to help our mental health and Vikki from The Yoga House came to teach us some yoga poses and relaxation.
I enjoyed the yoga because it made me feel really relaxed.
I liked the yoga because it made me feel really joyful and active.I loved the yoga because it made me feel calm and made my worries float away.
I liked it because I enjoy doing yoga at home.
I loved the yoga because when you have shavasana time, you feel relaxed and I had lots of deep breaths.
Help at home: discuss these relaxation techniques with your child. Which is their favourite and which works for them? Also, have a look at our mindfulness guide for more ideas to try at home.
Book Club
This afternoon, we took advantage of our new green space and lovely weather and took our reading books outside. Some of us read FirstNews, some of us read our library books and the rest of us took atlases out and improved our geography knowledge.
Help at home by giving your child as many opportunities to read as possible!
Temple Newsam Farm
We’ve had a wonderful time today on our trip to Temple Newsam Farm! The children’s behaviour was impeccable and they were a credit to our school.
