Year 2 Class News

First aid

Posted on Thursday 12 July 2018 by Mr Wilks

During health week, Betsy’s mum, who’s a nurse, talked to us about her job. We had a go at using a stethoscope and then bandaging each other. It was great fun!

Sword Dancing

Posted on Thursday 12 July 2018 by Mr Wilks

We learnt a traditional English sword dance during Health Week.

The ‘swords’ were actually used to wipe down pit ponies after a hard days work in the coal mines in North East England.

Year 2 being healthy

Posted on Wednesday 11 July 2018 by Mrs Taylor

Last week, Year 2 enjoyed a packed Being Healthy themed week with lots of visitors and learning all about being healthy both physically and emotionally.

We started the week thinking about our skipping challenge for Make-A-Wish.  In Year 2, we’ve learnt lots of skipping techniques this year and it was great that children challenged themselves to try some of the skills we’ve seen Year 4 demonstrate such as the butterfly and the pretzel.

As part of the transition to Year 3, have 2 0f our 5 a day and a chance to try out different fruits, we had our own fruit tuck shop.

In Year 3, the children will have the chance to prepay or bring their money to school (20p per portion) for the Key Stage 2 fruit tuck shop that runs weekly on a Tuesday playtime.  The tuck shop was really popular and it looks like there will be lots of Year 3 customers next year!  More details about the tuck shop will follow in September.

Our first visitor was Anabelle from One Day Creative to talk about mental health and mindfulness.  We remembered some techniques from earlier in the year and learnt even more mindfulness techniques to use at school and at home.

Before we started the session, Annabelle witnessed and was very impressed with our mindful afternoon register time where the children can choose a technique to have some quiet time after a busy lunchtime.

We learnt lots of new techniques so ask your child about their favourite way to be calm and in the moment.

Shark fin breathing – breathe in and as you breathe out move your ‘shark fin’ down your face and exhale ‘sh’.

Listen to the sound of the singing bowl until you can hear it no more.

Back to back breathing – take deep breaths and feel your partner breathing.

A great one for concentration – clap as the hands cross in front of the body.

Thumb emotions – blow on your thumb and show your emotion using your thumb.

Colour breathing – think of a relaxing colour when you breathe in and think of a stressed colour to send out of your body as you breathe out.

Five senses – can you think of five things you can see, hear, smell, touch and taste around you?  Do you notice things you’ve not seen/heard before?

Starfish breathing – breathe in as you slowly move your finger up to your finger tip and breathe out as you move down your finger tip.  Repeat slowly around your hand.

Living Streets local area audit

Posted on Wednesday 11 July 2018 by Mrs Taylor

As part of our partnership with Living Streets and during our Being Healthy week, some of our school councillors joined representatives from Living Streets to carry out an active travel audit in the immediate area.  They were looking for barriers that families might face when traveling to school in an active way.

We look forward to hearing all about the findings.

Youth Voice Summit

Posted on Wednesday 11 July 2018 by Mrs Taylor

Recently, our Year 5 and 6 school councillors attended the third annual youth voice summit for primary schools in the banqueting suite at Leeds Civic Hall. During the event, the children:

  • Learnt how to run effective social action campaigns in their schools and communities
  • Learnt about influential historical and current campaigns such as the suffragettes and American civil rights
  • Learnt about how to write to the government and local council
  • Had the opportunity to come up with their own campaigns and create placards
  • Had a full tour of the Leeds Council Chamber

Their chosen campaign, to work on back at school with the rest of the school council, is all about clearing up litter.  We look forward to seeing how this campaign will develop.

School Savings Club

Posted on Wednesday 11 July 2018 by Mrs Taylor

The next School Savings Club paying in date is Thursday 12 July 2018 at 3.15-3.45pm.

If you’re unable to attend in person, please hand in any money to be deposited to the office in a sealed envelope addressed to Mrs Tiffany.

The paying in dates are the penultimate Thursday of each half term and dates for next year will be posted to the website in September.

Finally, if your child would like to open account, please ask at the office.

parkrun

Posted on Wednesday 11 July 2018 by Mrs Taylor

It’s great to hear how many of our pupils currently take part in the parkrun events.  As a free to participate event, parkrun offers a great chance for children and adults to walk/jog/run along the local routes on a weekly basis or when you can attend.
There are a number of local parkruns available.
  • Roundhay Park
Adult parkrun Saturday 9am
Junior 2km parkrun Sunday 9am
  • Temple Newsam
Adult 5km parkrun Saturday 9am
Junior 2km parkrun Sunday 9am (currently 10am start – 9am start from 2 September)
  • Wetherby
Adult 5km parkrun Saturday 9am
  • Boddington Cycle Centre
Junior 2km parkrun Sunday 9am

 

PE Partner holiday clubs

Posted on Wednesday 11 July 2018 by Mrs Taylor

PE Partner, who visited our recent health fair and who run our Friday after-school football clubs, have holiday activity clubs available over the summer.

Old Leos cricket events

Posted on Friday 06 July 2018 by Mrs Taylor

Old Leos cricket club, based locally in Alwoodley,  were one of the visitors we welcomed to our health fair this week.

If you didn’t get to speak to them on the day, here is some information about their fun cricket sessions as well as an event this weekend.

Brownlee Centre

Posted on Thursday 05 July 2018 by Mrs Taylor

Earlier this week, a group of upper Key Stage 2 children had the opportunity to attend the schools Tour de Yorkshire celebration event at the Brownlee Centre.

The structured coaching session involved different cycling skills activities and was a great chance for the pupils to test out the cycle circuit.

As a result of the positive feedback from the children, we hope to participate in future events at the circuit.

The next pop-up ride at the centre is this weekend, Sunday 08 July 12:00pm – register to take part using the Let’s Ride website.