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
What is a safe risk?
…was this week’s homework task. In our review, we discussed lots of different safe and unsafe risks. It was evident that children had engaged brilliantly with adults at home – well done.
We linked taking risks to challenge, and talked about how both made us feel. Miss Wilson introduced us to the learning zone model which describes three different stages of learning – the comfort zone (where you feel safe and no risks are taken), the stretch zone (sometimes called the learning zone, where you are challenged and you grow and learn) and the panic zone (where the risk is too great and there is fear and anxiety). We placed each of our risks onto the learning zone model.
It was an interesting discussion as answers varied across the class and answers varied depending on the situation…
“Challenge is when you might be scared or emotional. I wouldn’t ever give up and I would keep trying.” – Musa
“Division has been challenging for me because we used some tricky numbers.” – Ethan C
“Using a number line to subtract was hard. It made me feel a bit panicked because I didn’t like getting them wrong. When I worked with Mrs Burgess I got the hang of it and felt calm.” – Safiya-Mishal
A special visitor…
We want to say a massive thank you to Mrs Khan who came in to talk to us about Muslim birth ceremonies.
The children loved finding out about a different religion or more about their own as part of this week’s RE learning.
“It was very interesting because I didn’t know that when a baby was born, they got someone special to sing.” – Harris
“I enjoyed learning more about my religion.” – Hifza
“I enjoyed learning about when people have to shave off their hair. They weighed the hair and they paid that amount of gold or silver to the poor.” – Leo