Change4Life healthier snacking
Have you see the recent Change4Life campaign encouraging children to have no more than two packaged snacks per day to reduce their sugar intake? Remember fruit and veg are always the best snack and count towards your child’s 5 A Day.
The campaign is launched as Public Health England reveals half the sugar children consume comes from unhealthy snacks and sugary drinks. Children in England are eating nearly three times the recommended amount of sugar. Too much sugar can lead to harmful fat building up inside and serious health problems, and also painful tooth decay.
Recently children brought home the Family Snack Challenge. Can your family complete the 7-day healthier snack challenge? Change4Life provides lots of hints and tips for healthier snacking.
Supermovers
The BBC and Premier League have launched a campaign called Super Movers to encourage children to become more active while learning. Teachers will be using the video resources to get children moving in lessons throughout the day. This physical activity can contribute to the 30 active minutes children should be doing at school.
Why not use the Super Movers video resources to support your child’s learning at home. Activities range from learning times tables to apostrophes.
Living and Learning – I stay safe online
This week’s homework was Talk Time and generated brilliant discussion in class. It became obvious that everyone in Y3 had taken on board what has been spoken about and learnt in school and this was talked about in depth at home.
We collected the key points as a class:
Here’s an example of what this may look like in books. (Obviously it doesn’t have to be recorded like this but this was awesome!)
Keep up the good work, everyone.
Features of living things
Have you ever met MRS GREN? She’s the friendly old acronym that helps us understand the features of living things.
- Movement
- Respiration
- Sensitivity
- Growth
- Reproduction
- Excretion
- Nutrition
Can you guess which feature we’re acting out in the clips below?
“Movement is when a human’s body moves or a plant moves towards the sun.” – Yusayrah
“Respiration is when you breathe and get oxygen from the air.” – Leo
“Sensitivity is when something happens in the environment and it causes you to act upon it.” – Henka
“Growth is when you get bigger from eating. A plant needs water and sun to grow from a seed.” – Rayn
“Reproduction is when something has babies.” – Ethan C
“Excretion is getting rid of waste.” – Hifza
“Nutrition is the food we eat like fruit.” – Priya
Susie the snake
Today, Y3 tackled some tricky problem solving in maths.
“Susie the snake has up to 20 eggs. When she counts them in 4s, she has 3 left over. When she counts them in 5s, she has 4 left over. How many eggs might Susie have?”
Think you could work out all the possibilities? We used counters and cubes to help us.
We recorded number sentences to match the story problem.
“19 because 5 + 5 + 5 + 4 = 19.”
“15 because 3 x 4 + 3 = 15.”
We discovered seven possibilities! Do you think you could find them all?
Skipping
Funded through our PE and Sport Premium, Year 2 and Year 4 have recently taken part in a skipping workshop led by ‘Skipping School’; both classes will then be part of a Leeds wide skipping competition.
- ‘I learnt a lot! It was fun and I learnt new skills.’
- ‘I think it is a good idea to skip because we are a happy and healthy school.’
- ‘I liked the skipping because I got to learn new things.’
- ‘I loved the skipping and the new skills because skipping makes you fit.’
- ‘First, I was really bad at skipping but when Jodi came I got better. Now I like skipping.’
We are offering all children the opportunity to learn these new skills, from their peers, by introducing skipping as a physical activity at lunchtimes. This is one way we are promoting physical activity during the school day for children to get their active 30 minutes.
The Government’s Childhood Obesity: A Plan for Action, shares the expectation for all primary schools to provide a minimum of 30 active minutes every day for all pupils. The Chief Medical Officers recommend a minimum of 60 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous activity for children aged 5-18. Schools are expected to provide 30 of these minutes and families to achieve the other 30.
‘Skipping School’ also sell their ropes and we would like to offer all children the chance to buy a rope at a heavily subsided price (funded by our PE Premium) to continue learning these fundamental movement skills at home.
Ropes will be on sale at a price of £2 (normal price £5) before and after school during the week of 05 February. Starting with a stall at the PTA cake sale, Year 6 children will be selling the ropes in the playground subject to the weather. Please bring exact change wherever possible.
Are you safe online?
Today, we had a brilliant visitor who came in to talk to us about being safe online. This links to our Living and Learning theme I can make safe choices.
We discussed the fun activities we do online…
…and how we can do them safely. Have you ever heard of YouTube Kids? Make sure your profile settings are always set to private and you only chat or game with people that you know in real life and trust.
We sorted information into what was safe to share and what was unsafe to share which created lots of discussion and showed how clued up we already were.
Never tell anyone your personal information like where you live or your full name. It’s much safer to make up a different username for each game, such as MinecraftMonster or GlitterUnicorn21.
Make sure you tell an adult if anything is worrying you. Have fun online but be safe!
After-school clubs
Safer Internet Day 06 February
Splats Team Robot v Meanies e-Safety Show
As part of Safer Internet Day, on February 06, the pupils from Years 3 to 6 are learning and performing a show-in-a-day with Splats Entertainment e-Safety show.
The day is all about how we act online and in life. Each group of pupils work with the ‘Splats’ director where they learn their scene and then they make props in the classroom. The show is then being performed at the end of school at 2:30pm which we would like to invite you to attend. The day and performance is led by the ‘Splats’ director and the pupils join in and act out the parts.
It is a fun and light-hearted look at what is, of course, a very important issue of safety. The day is designed to get the pupils thinking, talking and developing their awareness of their online behaviour. We hope it will help facilitate discussion at school and at home and help the pupils be responsible and careful in their online activity.
Topics covered during the day include: keeping personal information safe; how we never know who we are talking to online; how to deal with any mean messages; how we never know how other people feel with what we say online; and if we are unsure of anything, we should always seek help from a trusted adult.
If you would like to come and watch the e-safety show, please complete the reply slip, on your child’s letter, and return to school as soon as possible as we have a limited number of spaces.
Mimika Theatre
Magical thought Emily
Imaginative said Jemima
Mesmerising whispered Will
Incredible shouted Hifza
Kashif loved it
Albie’s allotment friends
Talha stated it was amazing
Harris loved the lifelike flamingo
Excited were Liam and Sakina
Astonishing scenes blew Leo away
Terrific and thrilling explained Parth
Rayn loved the monkey even though it made us jump
Educational entertainment about the world around us
- written by Year 3