Key Stage 2 tuck shop preview
You may have heard about the requests from Year 2 to go to the Key Stage 2 tuck shop.
As part of our writing, the children wrote persuasive letters including many reasons why this should happen.
- It would allow them to try different fruits in addition to the free fruit that Key Stage 1 currently have daily.
- It would help them to get their 5 a day.
- They are very polite and sensible and would be good customers.
- It would make our school even happier and healthier.
After considering their request, we decided the children had used enough persuasion skills to allow them to try it out for themselves.
Therefore, for the next two Tuesdays, Year 2 will be customers at the tuck shop to support their transition to Year 3.
Next year, in Year 3, children have the option to prepay for the weekly tuck shop (20p per portion) or pay on the day but no payment is needed for these two visits.
The children were excited to hear their persuasion had worked and are looking forward to choosing their healthy fruit snack.
23 June 2017
As we end our mini topic on food, our homework this week is creative and is due in on Thursday 29 June.
I know the importance of eating the right amount of different types of food.
The Eat Well Guide (below) shows how much of what you eat overall should come from each food group to achieve a balanced diet. Copies were recently sent home and children should use this to support them with this homework.
Children might choose to do one of the following creative ideas:
- A story
- A poem
- Instructions
- A comic strip
- An advert
- An interview
- A game
- Scenarios
…or any other creative ideas!
Dancing raisins
In our Food mini-topic so far, we’ve been learning about sources of food, where in the world our food comes from, different food groups and which are the most important for our health (check out the Eat Well Guide). Today, we became scientists to carry out an experiment with a type of food – raisins.
The children suggested their own question to test using different equipment and resources provided. It was great to see the progress the children have made with their scientific questioning throughout the year. The chosen test was to see what happened when we put raisins in the still water and the fizzy water. After using another key scientific skill, predicting, we started our test by making sure it was fair, too.
The results were dancing raisins in the fizzy water!
Our observation skills were needed to watch what was happening to the raisins and the bubbles. After the investigation, there were some great suggestions about what we could test next. Isabella wondered what might happen if we tried it in apple or orange juice?
Finally, we did some mindful eating (using our senses) to try some raisins. Most of us were able to wait until we actually tasted them!
d:side
D:side, a drug education provider, have worked with all classes this week as part of our Staying Safe themed week.
In Year 2, we started by looking at similarities and differences in our appearance.
We then considered what should and shouldn’t go into our body before identifying and naming internal parts of the body. The test was could we remember their position in the body?
We finished our learning with a special person car wash. This was a chance for all the class to show how they value others by telling them a compliment as they passed through the ‘car wash’. The smiles show how much they feel valued!
Bike maintenance with Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative
Thank you to Mark and Jack from Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative in Chapel Allerton who checked all the bikes at school today to ensure they were safe and road worthy.
They also delivered some bike maintenance sessions to Year 5 and 6 to make them aware of simple checks they can make to keep safe on their bikes.
Have a great holiday!
We hope you all have a great holiday after what has been a very busy term!
The highlight of our term has to be our trip to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. The children really enjoyed learning about polar bears and the threat they face to their habitat. We hope you are all turning off your lights!
Enjoy the two week break and we look forward to seeing you all at the start of the children’s last term in Reception.
Have a great holiday!
Just a quick note to say have a great holiday. All the children have worked very hard indeed and deserve a good rest. However, keep adding in a bit of learning here and there to keep them fresh for when they return to school.
Many thanks to everyone who came to see our recent production. The show was a big success and we were so very proud of each and every child. We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did.
Enjoy the break and we will see you back at school in two weeks (and one day).
Have a great holiday!
Just a quick note to say have a great holiday. Make sure that the children have a good rest but also dip in and out of some learning to keep them fresh for when they return in two weeks time. We’ve all done revision timetables which keep us doing little bits but make sure we’ve got time for resting, too.
See you in two weeks (and one day).
A brainy visitor
We had a visit from a scientist this week and learnt all about our brains. We had lots of questions and now know about the different parts of our brains, how neurons and receptors work and why we sometimes make conscious decisions and sometimes react reflexively.
First, we looked at different parts of the brain.
We even looked at real brains: a snail’s, a mouse’s and a rat’s.
Then we created a human model of how our receptors (buttons on our skins), which send messages down neurons to our brains and back.
We can see things from other people’s point of view.
This week’s Creative homework was great as usual.
I can see things from other people’s point of view.
Here are some examples of what we came up with and, as always, we enjoyed looking at each other’s and writing a comment to say what we thought about it.
Great effort, Year 6. Keep it up.