Author: Miss Young

This week KS1 have really being getting into our school motto, ‘Scholes is happy and healthy’. But what does it mean to be healthy?

We can keep our bodies healthy in lots of different ways. It is important to keep active and fit.

We do this each week by taking part in WUSU, PE and swimming. Lots of the children also take part in after school clubs.

Our diets are equally important to keep our bodies healthy. We know we need to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables each day. 

Our fantastic school library service has also brought us some fantastic books about keeping active and healthy. We are really enjoying making our way through them!

Help at home by discussing what it means to eat a healthy diet and encourage children to help prepare food where appropriate.

In Living and learning this week, KS1 have been looking at what a healthy diet is.

We know that we need to eat food from different food groups to create a ‘balanced diet’.

We also know what we need to do to keep our bodies healthy such as exercise and get enough sleep.

As part of our ‘being healthy’ focus, the children also came up with some brilliant games to play at playtime, to help count towards the 60 minutes of exercise they need each day.

Help at home by talking to your child about the importance of a balanced diet and encourage them to tell or show you what that might look like at tea time!

Well done 2C for another fantastic week in school. It’s been a scorcher this week, but children have been very responsible in wearing sun cream, hats, sunglasses and drinking lots of water.

We have been continuing to measure this week but have focussed more on metres than centimetres. Did you know, our KS1 playground is 27m long and 14m wide?!

 

The children have produced even more fantastic handwriting this week, using their leading lines and joining up some of their words! Well done everybody, and a special well done to this superstar for winning our handwriting trophy this week!

 

Our Living and Learning statement this week has been ‘I know the importance of sleep’. 

NL – ‘I think sleep is the best thing I do.’

OAS – ‘I definitely get enough sleep because I go to bed at 7pm and wake up at 7am.’ 

Sleep is very important. It helps our bodies and brains re-energise, ready for the following day.

 

We are LOVING our current History Topic this half term, learning about Nelson Mandela. Nelson is a hugely important historical figure because fought for what he believed in! He ended Apartheid and this resulted in equal rights in South Africa.

 

For the last 2 weeks in school, the Year 2 children have been learning about measurement.

We know that a centimetre is a small measurement. We each have a 30cm ruler on our desks at school.

SFK ‘I know that 100cm is equal to 1 metre.’

We have been measuring length and height. The length of an object is how long it is and the height is how tall an object is.

We have also been measuring ourselves.

We also measured our school playground, benches and outdoor equipment.

 

Help at home by using the vocabulary ‘longer’ and ‘shorter’ when discussing objects within the house.

Living and Learning in class 2C.

Last week our living and learning statement was ‘I can give and receive compliments.’ We talked about the things we are proud of and what we have achieved. It is important to celebrate what we are good at!

Each child wrote a certificate for somebody else and wrote them a personal compliment. See some of our certificates below!

 

This week our Living and Learning statement is ‘I know how to cope with change.’ We discussed how we have felt in the past when we have lost something that was imoportant to us. Some children mentioned physical objects, whilst others discussed pets or family members.

We also discussed who helps us when we are feeling unhappy, anxious or worried and what sorts of things can cheer us up.

We know that everyone will experience loss and it is important that we know how to deal with this.

 

This week in our living and learning lesson we were talking about resilience, which is one of our ‘Eight R’s’ in school. We know that resilience means not giving up, and trying even if at first we don’t succeed. We always try our best in our learning!

During circle time we each discussed something we are not good at, or have struggled with in the past.

One child said ‘I wasn’t very good at riding a bike when I was younger. But I kept on practising and now I can ride a bike without stabilisers. 

The children know it isn’t possible to be good at every skill straight away, but with resilience we can overcome challenges.

During the second part of the session, we worked as a team to build a tower. The children had 8 minutes to work in a team and build the tallest tower. They were not allowed to use sellotape or glue but could use materials in the classroom to build.

See how they got on below!

The team that won took their time to find strong materials.

SK: ‘I realised the heavy things couldn’t go on top so I moved them to the bottom and then the tower was strong.’ 

Help at home: by discussing resilience regularly and that as long as we try our best, that’s the most important thing!

Our focus in Maths at the moment is divide. Divide means to share equally. Equal means the same.

This week we are dividing by 5. We have been looking at lots of number stories  and discussing exactly what each number in our equations represent.

‘The 15 represents all of the eggs.”

”The 5 represents the eggs in each nest.”

”The three represents the number of nests.” 

We drew part-whole models to show how many fives make up a number. When we are thinking about multiples of 5, we know that the ones column must have either a 0 or a 5 in it.

”54 is not a multiple of 5 because even though it has a 5 in it, it is in the tens column. It needs to be in the ones column to be a multiple of 5.” (BC, 2C)

Help at home: by writing out dividing equations and really discussing what each number represents!

Remember – We always put the ‘big’ number at the start of a divide equations. This is the number we are dividing/ sharing.

2C have had a fantastic first week back in school. On Monday we started our DT food and we made overnight oats. Most of the children enjoyed the food and took a recipe home to try it out (maybe with a few tweaks)!

We’ve started to divide by 10 in Maths and we’ve looked at the relationship between multiply and divide.

‘If I know 10 x 2 = 20 then I know that 20 / 10 = 2’. 

The children have continued to learn to join up their hand writing and have been writing some sentences about our new class novel ‘Ollie’s Magic Bunny by Nicola Killen.’

Well done for a great first week back at school 2C!