Living and Learning: Identity and Community
Hello!
Over the last two weeks, the Living and Learning statements have been based around identity and community.
We have been talking about our identities and why being proud of our own identities is important. What makes me, me? Everyone in the class was able to identify important parts of themselves that they believe makes them special. Examples of these consisted of certain interests they have, clubs they belong to and religions they follow. The best part about this was that everyone’s identities are so different!
We have also discussed different roles that exist in our communities and how they relate to us. We looked at key jobs such as doctors, nurses, emergency services, bus drivers, teachers, club leaders etc. Finally, we decided who, out of all the people we come across in our everyday lives, is in our close inner circle.
As you can see, lots of us chose to have close friends and family in our inner circle and put other people like club leaders and shopkeepers in our outer circle.
It was great to explore this topic with the class and to see how confident they became in expressing their own identities!
Spring term after-school clubs
After-school clubs will be restarting next week and they will run for eight weeks until the Easter break. Places can be booked via Gateway.
Our physical activity clubs continue to be heavily subsidised through the investment of our PE and Sport Premium.
Please contact the office if you have any queries about the clubs or the booking system.
Free White Rose Rugby event for all pupils
First week back!
Hello!
Year 4 have just left school for the weekend after our first week of the Spring Term. I want to say a huge well done to all the children for settling straight back into school after a well deserved Christmas break. They’ve remembered their manners, speaking and listening skills and have been ready to learn. This tied in well with our Living and Learning statement – I don’t interrupt (with my voice or my hand) – in which they demonstrated perfectly!
We also began our new Topic, which is History – Romans and the Anglo-Saxons. The class were really engaged and were overflowing with facts and information that they already know about these time periods. Some of these had come from our Latin lessons too!
You can help at home by visiting BBC Bitesize and looking at the history surrounding the Romans.
I hope we have carry on to have a fantastic Spring Term!
Thanks,
Miss Birch
City of Leeds Basketball
Merry Christmas!
Hello all!
I just wanted to say a massive thank you to all the Year 4 children and their families for an amazing autumn term. Myself, Mrs Maqbool, the children and now Mrs Stewart have become a great team and I can’t believe it’s already Christmas!
Here is just a few memories from this term that are worth celebrating:
- A big congratulations again to the children who participated in the cross country races. You did Moortown Primary School proud and you really tried your best!
- In science, we were learning about light and to finish off the unit, the class spent some time creating their own shadow puppets. They had the freedom to create whatever they liked and they all turned out fab! Have a look to see them in action…
- After learning about Kandinsky and Napaltjarri since the beginning of November, Year 4 became artists themselves! They got stuck in with experimenting with collage. The outcomes are great and the best thing about them is that they are all different.
- A big well done to all the Year 4s in swimming. They have all really improved since the start of the year and I can see their confidence growing with each lesson – keep it up!
I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Miss Birch
Skipping ropes for sale
This year we are continuing to work with Skipping School to develop the children’s skipping skills. Skipping School ropes (KS1 ropes and longer KS2 ropes) are now available to buy from the office.
I make healthy choices.
Our living and learning statement this week is ‘I make healthy choices.’
As a school, we promote a happy and healthy lifestyle. In class, we have been discussing how, as individuals, we can maintain this lifestyle ourselves.
This includes eating and drinking healthily and keeping an active body and mind. We realised that if we didn’t do these things, we might start to feel a bit low in our body and especially, in our mind.
Eating and drinking healthily doesn’t necessarily mean we can ONLY eating broccoli and peas but it means having a balanced diet. This means we can choose to eat lots of healthy things and then sometimes, we can have a treat! We also discussed that we should be drinking 2 litres of water a day to stay hydrated.
Keeping an active body means getting an hour of exercise every day. Whether this is walking to or from school, during Wake-Up Shake-Up or during a PE lesson – this is really important.
Doing both of these things keeps our mind healthy and happy. The more healthy choices we make, the more our bodies will thank us for it later!
Ask your child how many portions of fruit and vegetables they should be eating a day!
Anti-bullying Week
In last week’s living and learning session, we spoke about what bullying is and what we can do to prevent or stop it happening. Lots of children were already showing their support of anti-bullying week by wearing odd socks!
“Bullying is when you hurt someone physically or emotionally several times on purpose.”
Year 4 were already really knowledgable about bullying and how, as a class, we can continue to prevent this from happening. One of the most important things is: if bullying is happening to us, someone we know, or if we have seen or heard it happening to anyone, we must tell a teacher or a trusted adult.
We are all the same and we are all different. We discussed this statement and decided that as humans, we all have similarities, we all have differences but the differences are something to be celebrated! As a class, we continue to celebrate each other as we believe this helps to acceptance and eliminate bullying.
Ask your child at home to tell what you what they should do if they are aware of any bullying!
Girls rugby opportunity
Leos Junior Rugby Club are hosting a girls only training session, open to all girls in Reception to Year 6, on Sunday 28th November, with the aim of setting up a girls only rugby team in the area. Please see below for more information.
