Eatwell guide
Public Health England have launched a new Eatwell Guide. This relates to the Eatwell Plate, a key resource used in school, to show how much of what you eat overall should come from each food group.
Holiday activity idea
How are you feeling?
Across school, we’ve been trialling the use of colours to represent children’s emotions. Children are then encouraged to think whether this is a blocker or driver for their learning.
- ‘I feel blue because I am calm.’
- ‘I feel red because I had a fall out at lunchtime.’
- ‘I feel orange because I am excited to celebrate my brother’s birthday.’
Here is a new website to support young people’s emotional wellbeing in Leeds.
‘If you’re a young person, MindMate can help you understand the way you’re feeling and find the right advice and support. If you’re a parent, carer or professional, MindMate can help you support a young person you know.’
Children are also encouraged to speak with an adult, friend or use our class SEAL boxes to share any worries.
Leeds Youth Council
All young people aged 10-18 in Leeds can now join the Leeds Youth Council (LYC).
Board game fun!
We all really enjoyed learning about different types of punctuation through a board game last week. Sometimes we landed on a ‘tricky tester’ and had to answer a test question. On our next go we could land on ‘dastardly dictation’ where we had to listen to a sentence and write it with the correct punctuation.
Everybody had fun while making sure they were checking their answers and learning from it, too.
Eat, digest, do!
As part of the Science in school workshops led by Leeds University students, Year 5 and 6 took part in an interactive session all about the digestive system.
This included learning about what happens to food inside our body, the different parts and functions of the alimentary canal, what makes your tummy rumble and how far your food has to travel from one end to the other… A great addition to our current Life topic!
Thank you to Miss Mathias for providing this informative session.
- ‘I learnt how long the small intestine is – child is 5m and adult is 6-7m.’
- ‘I learnt how food gets through your body.’
- ‘I learnt what things are called in the digestive system and what everything does.’
- ‘I have learnt that your digestive system has lots of different parts.’
KidsHealth website provides a summary of what we learnt.
I can work with money
Last week’s Creative homework was based on Maths and the children really got their creative juices flowing to produce some great pieces of work.
Lots of our money homework is now on our Maths challenge table so the children can practise their skills through games, questions and challenges that have been set by each other.
World Book Week
Year 5 love books so we had a great time celebrating this last week. On Monday, we visited the Book Fair to see what great new books we could get for ourselves. There were some great choices for £1 which we could all go for with our free book voucher and those of use who had money to spend found some fantastic books.
Then, Thursday brought us World Book Day and a whole host of book characters strolled into the classroom. What a fantastic array of costumes that really got us in the mood for our book themed day.
We dived into the story of ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’. We began by imagining what the crayons would say to Duncan before reading the story and writing our own letters back to the crayons.
HURRAY FOR BOOKS!
Leeds Let’s Get Sugar Swapping!
Following the introduction of the Change4life Sugar Smart App, the Leeds Sugar Smart Challenge has been launched to ask families, schools and other organisations to share the amount of sugar they have saved by making sugar smart swaps. The Change4Life website has lots of information to help you to look for sugar on food labels if you are unable to access the app.
Leeds Sugar Smart Challenge features a city totalizer to record the number of sugar cubes saved, with prizes available at random to top swappers.
Wigton Moor girls’ football try outs
Are you interested in playing girls’ football and in Year 2, 3 or 4?
Places in Years 5 and 6 also available.
