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Canals and rivers – be safe!

There are lots of dangerous situations when near a river or canal. Luckily, Year 3 had an expert from the Canals and Rivers Trust to fill us in on how to be safe. 

We learnt:

• We can’t stand on lily pads. We are too heavy and will fall in!
• We can’t walk on ice – we’re too heavy and that will break too.
• We can’t swim against the current in the river. It’s too strong and we can get lost. 
• Say yes to life jackets. 
• For emergencies at a canal or river the operator will send a fire engine. 

Always:

• “Wear a life jacket when near water. Even if you’re a good swimmer!”Sasha. 
• Tell the person in the water that you’re going to get someone to help them. 
• Lie down on the floor when pulling someone out of the water. 
• Call 999 in an emergency. 
• Calm the person in trouble down by talking to them:

“Can you swim?” Evie. 

“Calm down, someone is coming to help you.” Edris.

“Use a life buoy!” Aadil.

Remember – always throw the buoy near the person so you don’t  hurt them.  

Never:

• Sit on the side of a river or canal. Water levels rise and fall, boats go past and you could fall in. 
• Swing on ropes from trees over a river. You could fall in. 
• Throw things into water. This is dangerous and could kill wildlife. 
• Go on a boat without a life jacket. 
• Jump into the water to save someone. 
• Use a life buoy like a hoop ring game. You could knock someone unconscious. 

Living and Learning: Staying Safe at home

I can stay safe at home is one of our main areas of learning this week.

We used this interactive story to consider different dangers that could be found in the home.

Tiger the Cat sees Poppy being taken off to hospital in an ambulance and learns that she has been hurt at home. He is determined to go through the house and find out how she might have hurt herself, in order to make the house safer for the family. The story shows different rooms or areas around the house (kitchen, lounge, hall, landing, bedroom, bathroom, garden, garden shed) – each has a number of potential dangers.

Can your child remember the dangers found in the kitchen below?

Here is a summary of the Year 2 learning about keeping safe at home.

Living and Learning: Staying Safe with the police

Some of our local PCSOs came to visit school today.  They talked about their role helping people in the community and keeping them safe.  The class had some interesting questions to ask them.

‘I learnt what police community support officers do.  They don’t have handcuffs as they don’t arrest people.’

‘I learnt that they work in different parts of Leeds.’

‘We saw the different parts of their uniform and we heard someone talking on the walkie talkie.  On the top of the walkie talkie, there is a panic button so they can get help from other police officers.’

Living Streets new badge design competition

We are proud to work with Living Streets to support our aim for active and safe travel to and from school.

WOW is Living Streets’ year-round walk to school challenge and every day our pupils log their daily journeys to school on the WOW Travel Tracker. Those that make an active (walk, bike, scoot or park and stride) journey to school at least once a week for a month earn a WOW badge. There are 11 to collect across the year all of which have been designed by pupils in their annual badge design competition.

Stay and play

Thank you for attending our ‘stay and play’ session this morning.

We hope you enjoyed looking at your child’s learning journeys. The children really enjoyed sharing them with you.

Allerton Grange visit

Yesterday, Year 2 walked to Allerton Grange for a sports session led by some of their sports leaders.

For the Level 1 sports leaders, this was their first session working with other children and we felt they did a great job encouraging and motivating the children and teaching and organising the session. The class were particularly excited to find out the session was based around football skills – football is definitely a class favourite!

These sessions, where we work in partnership with Allerton Grange, support the leadership skills of the sports leaders and also give our children the chance to visit a local high school and take part in an active PE session in a different setting.

PE kit in school

On Tuesday morning, we will be visiting Allerton Grange for a PE lesson led by their sports leaders.

The children will be walking to Allerton Grange so please ensure they have tracksuit bottoms or leggings, PE t-shirt and some trainers or pumps in their PE kit to wear.

Living and Learning: What’s the matter?

As well as a science focus for the What’s the matter? topic, we’ve also been thinking about What’s the matter? from an emotional point of view.

Hopefully you got chance to find out more about this in our recent class assembly.

A focus for our writing, as we start this new term, is using conjunctions.  We’ve used different pictures as a stimulus to ask What’s the matter? and in our responses we’ve been using a variety of conjunctions.

Ask your child if they can spot the conjunction that has not been highlighted.

Materials and their properties

As part of our What’s the matter? mini science topic, we been identifying and also describing the properties of materials.  There’s been lots of new words to learn.  Ask your child if they can name something that might be rigid, opaque, transparency or stretchy.

In this learning, we combined science with maths to sort objects according to their properties using a venn diagram.

Ask your child what might go in the centre of the venn diagram and what might go outside the venn diagram.

Living and Learning – solving problems

This week’s Living and Learning theme is I can make things better. Year 5 had a very in depth and beneficial circle time to discuss how we can solve problems and improve any tricky situations we are experiencing. We covered some important topics: sleep, resolving arguments and online behaviour.

We first “opened up the floor” to ask if anyone was having difficulty with anything and I would like to thank Year 5 for being very mature, open and honest.

Our first topic was sleep; lots of us said we were finding it hard (or harder) to sleep since returning to school. This included Miss Wilson! Here are our top tips, if you’re having trouble:

Key points:

• Reduce / stop screen time in the hours leading up to bed.
• Write down any worries you have and scrunch them up.
• Listen to calming music or do something relaxing.

Next up – resolving arguments:

Key points:

• Treat people how you would like to be treated.
• Walk away and give yourself time to calm down if you need to.
• Be a good role model for siblings.

Finally, something that was very important for lots of people in the class and seems to have been causing a couple of issues outside of school. Here are our top tips:

Lots of children were sharing their experiences of online behaviour that made them feel upset or uncomfortable. This is a great start. To make things better, often the first step should be to talk to someone.

Key points:

• Do not – DO NOT – ever share your password with someone under any circumstances! This is your personal information and should be kept a secret. Would you give anybody a key to your house or car? It’s the same thing.
• Change your password if you suspect anybody knows it. And make it as complex as you can whilst it still being memorable.
• Act online how you would in real life. Hiding behind a keyboard does not make you brave. Make sensible, kind choices online – just like when you’re face to face.

Thanks to Year 5 for our mature and beneficial talk this week.

If any parents or children are still having issues or have concerns, please come in to speak to me or to Mrs Weekes to discuss this further. Thanks!