Living and Learning: Being healthy themed week
We have had a jam packed week of activities all about staying healthy this week. Here is a little snippet!
A calm and peaceful Yoga session to start on Monday morning!
Learning about healthy food with Mrs Taylor.
D:side Dave came in to talk to us about how we look after our bodies.
We also had a healthy eating assembly on Wednesday morning!
This was followed by a brilliant skipping session!
Thursday afternoon we pushed ourselves in sports day! Well done to everyone involved!
On Friday morning we were very brave tasting new and unusual food in a bush tucker trial!
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!
Being Healthy themed week 10 July
Our next whole school themed week, based around Being Healthy, will be taking place from Monday 10th July. This is the second of two themed weeks in the year.
DT food: fruit bars!
Today in DT we made fruit bars! We very carefully weighed, mashed, chopped, melted, measured stirred, mixed and baked! We were very responsible and Mrs Russell was very impressed with how mature and sensible we were in the kitchen. Once the fruit bars were baked, we had a taste. Most of us thought they were delicious! There was even enough for everyone to take a second slice home.
Help at home by doing some more baking. What could you make?
Lotherton Hall trip
On Wednesday Year 1 had a fantastic trip to Lotherton Hall. The weather was extremely kind to us and everyone had a brilliant time!
Help at home by discussing your child’s biological knowledge. This links well with this week’s Talk Time homework.
We are designers!
Last week in DT we were testing the strength of different shapes. We made a triangular prism, a cuboid and and a cylinder and placed books on them to see how strong they were.
The cylinder was the strongest because it held 36 books before it collapsed.
This everyone made a cylinder and we put 6 together to make a superstructure to see if it would be stronger. It held 175 books! Everyone was very excited to see how strong just 6 bits a card could be!
Then we put 24 cylinders together and tested if it was strong enough to stand on! We were amazed to find out it was! Although, it did collapse when Mr McGriffiths stood on it!!
Help at home by asking your child how to make a cylinder using card and tape. You could also think about your design for your chair for baby bear!
Living and learning: relationships
For the past fortnight we have been thinking about healthy and happy relationships in Living and Learning. We have discussed what makes a healthy relationship and how we can be good friends to each other.
In this week’s lesson we talked about caring for each other. We discussed different stages of life and who might need the most care. We thought babies, children and the elderly might need more care but we also discussed that people of different ages need different types of care. There are lots of ways we can show we care for someone. Here are some of the examples that the children came up with:
I care for my teachers by making good choices.
I care for my friends by looking after them when they are hurt.
I care for my friends by helping them.
I care for my family by helping at home.
We all thought of ways we could show that we care for people over the next week.
Help at home by talking to your children about how they can care for different members of your family or community.
English: our own Goldilocks story.
This week we have been learning and then changing the Goldilocks and the 3 bears story, inspired by Michael Rosen’s Goldilocks and the three crocodiles. We decided as a class we wanted to change the bears to penguins but this meant we had to change lots of other things too! The cottage became an igloo, the woods became Antartica, the porridge was fish, the chairs were ice cubes and the beds became water beds!
Once we had finished altering our story map, we took advantage of the glorious weather to practice retelling our story outside.
Our next job is to come up with our own animals and draw our own story map.
Help at home by practising their story at home.
Design and Technology
This week we have started our new topic all about Design and Technology. We have been learning about the design process. It involves three stages (plan, make, evaluate) and is always repeating.
Today, we evaluated some products to see if they had been badly or well designed. We pointed out problems and thought about solutions. Can you spot the problems with these products.
Our project this half term is to build a new chair for baby bear and we can’t wait to get going.
Help at home by looking at the vocabulary in this week’s talk time.
Brilliant reports!
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.
