Author visit
This morning Hayley, came in to class to tell us about her book Emma Bright and the super food fight.
As well as being a really fun and exciting story, it has lots of positive message about a healthy lifestyle.
Later in the session, we created our own superfood heroes on paper plates.
Superfood collage
We’ve been looking at the paintings of Guiseppe Arcimboldo in art lessons this half-term. This links well with our food topic as Arcimboldo was famous for drawing different fruits and vegetables to create portraits. 
Using these paintings as inspiration, we created our own collages using actual fruit and vegetables. First we designed our portraits and then we made them. 
Finally, the children devoured their creations! 
Living and Learning: Physical Health
As well as our current learning about healthy food, we have been thinking about other aspects of health including physical health.
The Government Childhood Obesity Plan has set out the ambition for all children to achieve 60 minutes of physical activity every day – 30 active minutes in school and 30 active minutes out of school.
We considered different ways to achieve these recommendations.
Outside of school
- Walk/bike/scoot/park and stride to school
- after school clubs
- other sports clubs
- parkrun
- swimming lessons
- walking a pet
- playing in a park
- playing out/in the garden
- jumping on a trampoline
- skipping
- going for a walk
At school
- being active at playtime and lunchtime
- skipping
- playing in the MUGA
- Wake up Shake up
- Super Movers, GoNoodle, imoves active breaks in class
- using the climbing wall
- using the front playground
Picnic in the park
Well done to all the children today for designing and preparing all the parts of their picnic.
We’ve used lots of food preparation skills over the last two days and it was great to enjoy our trip to the park as the finale to our food topic.
‘The food was delicious.’
‘I enjoyed the cooking but some of it was tricky. It is hard to cut pieces the same size.’
‘The cooking was great fun.’
‘We got to play on the money bars, swings and skip.’
This learning has helped the children to understand what is needed for a healthy packed lunch based on the Eat Well Guide. We also have our Packed Lunch Guidance in case some of the children move to packed lunches in Year 3.
Hopefully you might get chance to enjoy another picnic in the park over the summer holidays (and get someone to make it for you!).
Picnic preparation
Today, we started to get ready for our end of year picnic in the park by making our fruit bars.
First of all, we got ready for cooking by making sure long hair was tied back, removing any watches, cleaning the surfaces, rolling up our sleeves, putting on our aprons and washing our hands.
Here are some of the skills we used.
Mashing
Snipping
Measuring
Mixing
Finally, there was no shortage of offers to help with the washing up! We’re looking forward to getting back in the kitchen tomorrow.
Testing out the fruit tuck shop
Recently, Year 2 wrote some persuasive letters to see if they could try out tuck shop before they move to Year 3. In Key Stage 2, children have the opportunity to visit the weekly tuck shop during Tuesday playtime.
We were very impressed by their persuasion and today they got to test it out for themselves. The children enjoyed the selection of fruits available and we hope they will become customers at the tuck shop in Year 3. Details of the tuck shop will be sent out when we return to school in September.
New school meal menu
Our new autumn/spring school meal menu, starting in September, is now available on our Meals page. It continues to follow a three week cycle.
The menu has been created in liaison with Catering Leeds to ensure it meets the School Food Standards. We have also incorporated feedback from our school cook, pupils and parents/carers. We will continue to offer meat free Monday on one out of the three weeks.
Pupils will continue to make their daily food choices at the start of the day to ensure they receive their first choice of main meal.
If you would like a paper copy of the menu, please ask at the office.
DT Project: Party Food
This half-term we’ve been learning about food:
- where it comes from
- how to have a healthy diet
- who might or might not eat a particular food and for what reason
- how to prepare food
- tasting different (and unusual) foods
- planning and making a finger food for a party
On Wednesday afternoon, the children created their bagel bruschetta as for their party. They used a range of food preparation techniques before they finally got to eat their creations. It was great fun. Well done!
Library books, reading at home and LEXIA
As we near the end of the year, we have made the children aware of any outstanding library books. Do pop into the classroom if you want to check the title of a book you still have at home. All library books should be return next week.
Many children have reached their end of Year 2 LEXIA target (Level 9 certificate). It would be great to get all the children closer to this target so please continue to work on LEXIA at home if you get the chance.
We have been running a read at home challenge this term with lots of children earning rewards once they have read ten times. Again, if your child is close to their next reward, please encourage them to read at home and put their book and reading record in the basket on Monday and Thursday.
Well done to Isla, Noah F, Lily, Rizwan, Harry, Jack, Iris and Jake who have read and read at home this term – fantastic!
Reading books and reading records will be collected from next Wednesday.
Picnic in the park
