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Ready to learn

During our SEAL theme of the Eight Rs for Learning, please do read the great leaflets produced by Family Action and the NAHT.

They promote readiness – and that’s one of our eight Rs.

The series of leaflets (so far) cover:

• Getting the most out of school
• Speaking and listening
• Giving your child a helping hand
• Preparing for change at school
• Your child’s wellbeing
• Independence and responsibility
• Online safety

Learn more about the guides and keep a look out for more in the series.

Heart Research

This morning, we’ve had a visit from at Heart Research UK who has taught us about the heart and the important job that it does in our bodies. We also learnt about how to take care of our heart.

Did you know…?

• The heart is a muscle and is about the same size as a clenched fist.
• The average heartbeat of an adult is 70 beats per minute.
• The blood cells in our body travel about 20,000 miles every day. That’s the equivalent of travelling from Leeds to Honk Kong and back again!
• The average heartbeat of a baby is between 130 and 150 beats per minute.
• Blood travels through the arteries at about 30 mph.
• Blood carrying oxygen travels through the body in arteries. Blood carrying blood without oxygen is carried through the body in veins.

Martial Arts!

Health week has started for us with some martial arts. Sensai John taught us some warm up stretches, punches, kicks and even Japanese numbers to ten.

14 November 2014

The homeworks this week are Talk Time and Practice Makes Perfect.

The Talk Time homework links to our  SEAL topic: 8Rs of Learning.

I can take responsibility for my learning and behaviour both in and out of school.

Please have a discussion with your children about how they could become more responsible learners and more responsible friends, family members, community members.

Questions for discussion could be:

• How can I make sure that I am always ready to learn? How can I learn more? What can I do if I have a problem at school?
• How can I be more responsible at home? How can I be a more responsible sibling? How can we sort problems more responsibly?
• How can I help my local community? Can I promise to do one thing which will help the local community?

The Practice Makes Perfect homework is another Mathletics challenge which should help embed the maths learning we’ve been doing in class.

Children have told me they have all been able to log-0n at home. However, if you do have any problems, please let me know.

14 November 2014

The spellings for this week link in with our SEAL theme. They are the 8Rs for Learning which we will be talking about throughout the half-term.

Cracking creative homeworks!

Here are some of our favourite homeworkers from this week:
This is Molly’s board game about staying safe:

This is Simran’s colourful safety poster:

This is Jahneil’s huge homework:

This is Jaskirat’s quiz:

This is Sofiah’s fantastic safety story:

14 November 2014

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect.  Please make sure it is handed in by Wednesday 19 November.

The focus of the homework this week is phonics.  There will be work for your child to complete in their homework book looking at different phonemes and then use of words in sentences.

Please make sure that your child is following the school handwriting scheme – don’t forget there is guidance on our website about handwriting if you need a reminder.

14 November 2014

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 21 November.

We can be artists

As you know, the homework last week was “I can be an artist.”

These pictures certainly show that all of Year 1 can be artists.  These are just a few examples – well done to everyone and thank you for your efforts with this homework and during this topic.

14 November 2014

This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Wednesday 19 November.

I can show what I have learnt in Katie and…

It is the end of our first Big Topic and we have thoroughly enjoyed it. Now it’s time to show everything you have learnt over the last eight weeks. Here are some ideas of ways to present your work.

• Poster – make a poster showing all of the different subjects we’ve covered.
• Quiz – create a quiz.
• Presentation – prepare a presentation to talk about what you’ve learnt (Maybe you could record yourself and bring in a video!).
• Examples – give examples of the different pieces of work we created.