Living and Learning (Staying Safe Week) : staying safe around dogs
- If a dog is resting, leave it alone.
- If a dog is eating, leave it alone.
- Stay quiet around dogs.
- Dogs don’t like hugs, they prefer gentle strokes.
- If a dog takes a toy, swap it, don’t take it.
Living and Learning (Staying Safe Week) : fire safety
Living and Learning (Staying Safe Week) : staying safe online
Living and Learning (Staying Safe Week) : Road Safety
Living and Learning: Safety Week – Road Safety
We had a great morning (although chilly) with Harriet, our visitor from Leeds City Council’s road safety team, learning all about keeping safe while crossing the road. We learned lots of new skills about how to cross the road.
Ask your child about their new skills.
We crossed near the school; we crossed at a T-junction; we crossed behind parked cars; we crossed as a whole group, and then in partners. By the end of the session, the children were confident in crossing the road super safely.
Living and Learning: Safer Internet Day
Children spent the day thinking about topics such as consent, digital footprints, secure passwords, phishing and age restrictions.
Children were shocked to discover that Whatsapp now has an age restriction of 16 years old. At home, talk about why this has changed from 13 and why most social media apps and websites have an age restriction of 13 years old.
Children took a quiz to find out how big their digital footprint was. From incognito to big foot, year 5/6 had it all. Whether it’s posting online or sending messages to friends, this all counts as part of your digital footprint.
Living and Learning (Staying Safe Week) : Safer Internet Day
Today is Safer Internet Day. We have talked about how we ‘go online’ and what is fun and what we like about it. We then talked about what can go wrong and what we can do about it.
Living and learning: I make safe choices, including online.
We were visited today by Harriet from Leeds City Council Road Safety Team. She talked to us about how the council are working hard to improve the safety of our roads in Leeds in order to reduce the number of accidents. We began by discussing how to make ourselves more visible to vehicles and finding safe places to cross roads. The children then worked in teams to plot their route to school and other local places, on a map of the area. They had to consider which areas on their route would benefit from traffic calming measures to improve safety. The children were given the costings of different measures such as double yellow lines and crossings, and they had to choose which ones would be best suited and which ones were within their £100,000 budget. They had to achieve the best value for money. Some children were excellent at budgeting, whilst others found this a little more challenging. It was an engaging and informative session that we all enjoyed.
Living and learning : assessing risk
This week, we have been discussing risks in our living and learning lessons. We put different activities on a ‘risk ladder’, deciding whether it was high or low risk. We decided that it depends on other factors too – and what you do to minimise risk. For example, climbing the stairs would become higher risk if you ran or went up carrying lots of toys. Help at home : talk to your child about where they put the activities on the risk ladder.
Chinese New Year
It was been a wonderful week of fun and learning in reception.
We have explored celebrations from other cultures – Chinese New Year.
We started by reading The Magic Paintbrush.
Here are things we would like to draw if we had a magic paintbrush…
I would paint a cat for my mummy. Penny
A rainbow because they have all my favourite colours in. Poppy
A tiger. Clara
A puppy. Leo
I would paint loads of food to share with the people who can’t afford food. Norah
I want to paint lots of money so people can afford food. Stanley
Using our knowledge of the story, we were able to sort true or false statements and retell main events.
The children enjoyed creating their own Chinese lanterns. After following instructions, the children were then able to help and teach others.
Using tissue paper and paper chains, we created a class Chinese dragon.
In maths, we have continued to develop our number knowledge. We have explored the composition of numbers six and seven.
Take a look at our other learning around the classroom…
We also had a Superhero photoshoot.
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What celebrations/traditions do you celebrate?
You may choose to discuss
- the meaning of the celebration/tradition
- food
- decorations
- clothes