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Healthy bodies, healthy minds

What a fun filled week of learning about keeping healthy bodies and healthy minds.  We’ve had a variety of visitors throughout the week and we’ve been out and about too.  Year 1 have certainly been resilient and taken some safe risks as part of their learning. Take a look at what we’ve been doing…

Using the Eat well plate we learnt about the importance of eating lots of fruit and vegetable (5 a day).  Did you know this could be fresh, frozen, dried, tinned or fresh juice.  Ask your child how big a portion is.

We named lots of different fruit and vegetables, tasted some dried fruits and then learnt the bridge and claw cutting techniques to create our own Mr Potato Heads.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Breakfast is said to be the most important meal of the day.  A healthy breakfast gives you energy to start your day and your learning.  We loved our porridge and banana slices – hopefully there have been some requests to have this at home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When learning about ‘healthy’ drinks, we found out that water and milk are the best drinks to have to keep us hydrated.  We couldn’t believe the amount of sugar in some of these other drinks aimed at children.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now time for some physical activity which also helped us to relax our minds – tai chi and karate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’ve been busy doing other physical activities too – dance at Allerton Grange and Year 6 took over our PE lesson.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

D:side visited us on Tuesday and we met Q who had come to found out about humans.  We learnt about parts of our body and their functions, healthy foods and the safe use of medicines.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A highlight of the week was our Farm to Fork trail at Tesco.  Starting in the bakery we saw the process of making bread and we even brought some back to school to taste.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next was the fish counter.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the cheese counter, we tried two different types of cheese: Wensleydale and Cheddar.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We learnt about lots of different fruits and vegetables – some we had never seen before.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally we took a look inside the fridges and freezers.  It really was freezing!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’re looking forward to seeing all your homework to show how to keep a healthy body and healthy mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

21 November 2014

The spellings for the next few weeks all contain different suffixes. This week, the suffix is …able. The children will be tested on the words in the second column.

Group 1 

	root word	able word
1.	prefer	preferable
2.	believe	believable
3.	consider	considerable
4.	notice	noticeable
5.	respect	respectable
6.	knowledge	knowledgeable
7.	achieve	achievable
8.	remove	removable

Watch out because most of the root words which end in e will require you to drop the e before adding the able. Unfortunately, this rule doesn’t apply all of the time! Spot the words in your list where you do need to drop the e and the ones where you don’t.

Group 2 

	root word	able word
1.	accept	acceptable
2.	comfort	comfortable
3.	prevent	preventable
4.	enjoy	enjoyable
5.	fashion	fashionable
6.	enjoy	enjoyable
7.	adjust	adjustable
8.	consider	considerable

 

 

Better than?

On Wednesday, we had a visit from Jhardine Farrell, who talked to us about our perceptions of people. It was a great, interactive session which challenged children’s images of people. I was so impressed with the mature conversations the children engaged in. Some of their responses are listed below:

“We are all different but we are all equal.”
“We should all be treated the same.”
“No one is better than anyone else.”
“Don’t judge a book by its cover.”
“Some people may think they are better than others but inside we are all the same.”

It was great to hear so many thoughtful, respectful comments. We just need to ensure that we remember this whenever we meet new people, walk past people in the street, see a new person at school, get a new neighbour, etc.

The Challenge Cup

We were lucky enough to get a class photo with the Challenge Cup yesterday after the assembly from Leeds Rhinos.

Ronnie the Rhino and the Challenge Cup!

Yesterday, we had a fun-packed assembly from two Leeds Rhino Coaches who recapped some very important messages about how to have a healthy lifestyle. They introduced us to their friend Ronnie the Rhino – who had successfully changed his unhealthy lifestyle by eating a more balanced diet and doing lots more exercise. We were also very lucky as Ronnie had brought in The Challenge Cup which the Leeds Rhinos won recently.

Takeover Day!

Today is Takeover Day which means the children are doing lots of the jobs adults usually do in school (or at least helping them). In Year 5 this has meant that some children led a DT lesson; some children led the weekly tests; some children served school dinners; children chose the certificates and presented them in assembly.

Zack’s marvellous Mathletics achievement!

Yesterday was a great day for Zack! He was the first person in our class, and possibly the school, to break into the top 100 UK students on Mathletics. Each time you play a game or complete an activity, you get a certain number of points. These points are added up over the course of a week and the students with the best scores go up on the leaderboard. Unfortunately, we’ve not (yet) managed to get on to the leaderboard for the top UK classes. I’m hoping to see us up there soon!

21 November 2014

Following our Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds themed week, our whole school creative homework this week is:

I know how to have a healthy body and healthy mind.

Each class has taken part in a variety of learning this week including a range of visitors to support our teaching of keeping healthy bodies and healthy minds.  These include physical activities such as karate, tai chi, tennis, Leeds United football, assemblies by Leeds Rhinos and Leeds anti-social behaviour unit, class talks by Heart Research UK, d:side (drug education), various parents with health-related jobs and visits to Tesco for their Farm to Fork scheme and Allerton Grange.  Class-based learning has also included dental health, hand-washing, the importance of sleep and breakfast, healthy eating and food preparation and mental health.

Your child could present this creative homework in a variety of different ways:

• a quiz which tests the knowledge of other children
• art work
• poetry
• a poster
• writing: diary, story, letter, instructions, report
• a rap
• a mindmap
• your own creative idea

We look forward to seeing your creative ideas to demonstrate how to keep a healthy body and healthy mind.

Please return this homework by Wednesday 26 November.

21 November 2014

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 28 November 2014.

Red Group	Yellow Group	Green Group
manure	children	balanced
sure	handstand	healthy
pure	thundering	exercise
cure	softest	fruit
nature	giftbox	vegetables
adventure	shelving	fluoride
	helpdesk	sugar
	melting	fat
		toothpaste
		resilient

 

d:side

We had a visit from d:side this morning to talk to us about the dangers of solvents and solvent abuse.