History: The End Of WWII
In History, we are nearing the end of our WWII topic and therefore looking at VE day. VE day stands for Victory in Europe day. This day was celebrated on the 8th May 1945. The children looked at a variety of photos that showed the celebrations that took place. We also discussed how the return of men (from the army) impacted the women’s role during WWII.
They then created their own freeze frames or dramas recreating the scenes.
Living and Learning: Healthy Eating
In Living and Learning, we discussed the importance of a balanced diet and the advice of ‘five-a-day’. We looked at the different portion sizes that counted towards your five-a-day and talked about the differences in fresh, dried, tinned and cooked fruit and vegetables.
Did you know:
- you should only have 150ml of fruit juice a day?
- if you drink a fruit smoothie, it only counts as one portion no matter how many different fruits are in there?
- dried fruit should be eaten as a dessert rather than a snack to prevent tooth decay?
- it is healthier to buy tinned fruit in juices rather than syrup?
Help at home: Visit the NHS website which gives more information about portion sizes and healthy choices. Then, with this knowledge, why not try to plan, prepare and enjoy a healthy meal which contributes towards your five-a-day.
Coronation Celebration
On Friday, we celebrated the coronation by coming to school in red, white and blue. At lunchtime, we had an indoor picnic and afterwards we had an assembly all about our new King. In class, we then created a college of King Charles III using images that represented London.
Living and Learning: Health and Prevention
Over the past two weeks, in Living and Learning lessons, the children have been looking at the importance of hygiene (especially handwashing) and the importance of sleep.
We defined hygiene and talked about several different ways we could make sure our hygiene was good. A few responses were: showering, brushing teeth and washing hands. Afterwards, we focussed on why we need to keep our hands clean (to prevent the spread of germs) and how to keep them clean. We also found out some very interesting facts about germs: did you know that if one million micro-organisms were packed right next to each other they would only cover a pin head in size? Did you know there are more microbes (good and bad) on one person’s hand than people on the planet!
Furthermore, we discussed how sleep has a variety of benefits. These being an improvement in memory; decision making; concentration and mood; immune system; and growth and repair. We learnt that a child aged 10 should be getting about 10 hours of sleep every night!
Help at home: Learn the handwashing soap and sanitiser song and put those actions into practice!
Or try some of our top tips to get a better night’s sleep:
- breathing exercises to slow down your heart rate;
- writing down worries in a diary;
- thinking of good things that have happened that day;
- talking to someone you can trust.
History: The Leeds Blitz
In History, we have been exploring how Leeds was impacted by The Blitz on the 14th-15th March 1941. We used secondary research from Leeds Becket University.
We found out that most of the bombs landed in the city centre and the closest event occurring nearest to Moortown was a fire in Meanwood.
Here are some of the events, the children found interesting:
Help at home: Explore the interactive map and find out more information about how Leeds was impacted by The Blitz.
Latin: Acting and Adverbs
In Latin, we read, translated and acted out a comic strip (see below) about life before the Romans conquered Britain. We also discussed adverbs in both English and Latin. Take a look at our great work:
Help at home: Identify the adverbs in the story, what three letters do they end in?
Science: We are biologists.
This half term, we are biologists. Biology is the study of living things.
In this week’s lesson, we dissected a flower called Alstroemeria. We labelled the different parts and discussed which of them make up the male and female reproductive systems. Have a look at our work:
Help at home: Label the different parts of the flower. Describe the process of pollination or plant fertilisation.
Coronation celebration – Themed Menu 05 May 2023
Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu for the Coronation Celebration on Friday 05 May 2023. See the menu here.
Please contact the office, in the next few days, if your child would like a school dinner on this day (no action needed if your child normally has a school meal on this day).
Big Walk and Wheel final results
After the two week Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge, we now have the final results.
In our category of small primary schools, we finished in 24th place out of 514 schools with an average of 91.14% of our journeys to school being active. We achieved the highest national (24th) and Northern England (5th) ranking out of those schools in Leeds taking part.
This is a great achievement and we want to thank families for supporting this challenge.
We hope these active journeys continue as by walking, cycling and scooting to school, you are helping us make a positive change to the school run. With less cars close to the school gates, this is a safer and healthier way to start the day.
Science: A sticky experiment!
In Science this week, the children planned and created their own glue. The children decided on their variables and then completed the experiment.
This type of scientific enquiry was comparative and fair testing.
We then put our glues to the test! The children added pegs to their pieces of paper which were stuck together using their glue. The glue that held the most pegs was the stickiest. In conclusion, we found out that flour and sugar were the stickiest substances.
Afterwards, the children went on to reflect on their experiment and decided what they would do differently next time. Some responses were: adding more glue between the pieces of paper; changing the amount of substance so it made the glue thicker and trying to add the pegs when the glue was still drying.
