We Love Poetry!
We all enjoyed our visit by Yorkshire poet and storyteller, Conrad Burdekin. He entertained and enthused us and got us talking about poetry, creating and writing our own.
Home Link – Being Healthy
This week, we will be talking about how we keep healthy. Talk to your child about all the things they do to keep fit and be healthy.
- Do they go to any sporting activities or clubs?
- You could play some games in the garden together. What happens to your body when you exercise?
- What are your favourite foods? Ask your child to help you prepare a healthy snack.
- Make a chart to see if you can eat your ‘5’ fruit and vegetables every day.
- How do you look after your body? Bath time, cleaning teeth, going to bed early etc.. You could draw a picture of all the things you do to stay happy and healthy.
This week’s letter sound is ‘Jj’ for jumping and jiggling jelly. Please sing along to the Jolly Phonics song at home and look for things beginning with ‘j’.
You could even make some jelly (sugar free, of course!),and talk about how you make it and the changes that occur.
Celebration assembly!
Congratulations to the children whose effort and achievements have stood out this week. It’s been particularly impressive to maintain such focus on their learning in such high temperatures! In addition, we celebrated the Y5, who triumphed in the Brownlee Triathlon hosted by John Smeaton School. Well done everyone!
Healthy Eating
Week 4 – Healthy Eating
Children have loved tasting different types of fruits at snack time this week. Some children had never tasted some of the fruits and with a bit of encouragement to try them, they were pleasantly surprised and enjoyed it! Thank you very much for your kind donations. In group times, we talked about healthy eating and how to look after our teeth. Children enjoyed using toothbrushes to clean the ‘teeth’, making sure that they brushed the top and the bottom ones and got into all the gaps.
We were really pleased to see the butterflies had emerged from their cocoons. We looked at the patterns on their wings and talked about symmetry. In our painting area, we made butterfly prints and we used the Smartboard to draw symmetrical patterns.
Children were really excited to be able to release them into the garden and watched them fly away.
It was a very hot week in Nursery, we found lots of ways to try and keep cool. Can you guess what our favourite way was?
Week 5 – What are we learning this week?
There are lots of sports activities happening in school this week. Nursery will join in with some of them and take part in our own sports themed fun. We will:
- Play ‘Sport’s day games’ outside involving running, jumping, throwing and catching.
- Take part in Wake-up Shake-up.
- Talk about how our bodies feel after we have been exercising.
- Think about ways that we try to keep healthy.
- Learn about the letter sound ‘j’ for jumping.
- Play skittles and count how many pins are left standing.
Living and Learning – Being different!
In Living and Learning this week, we have been looking at ways to identify positive things about ourselves and to challenge stereotyping.
We discussed the meaning of the word ‘stereotyping’ (A fixed idea about a group of people that says that everyone who is part of that group is the same. A stereotype is an idea that limits what people can do, be or experience. Stereotypes don’t celebrate difference.
Stereotypes upset people by telling them that they can’t be who they are.)
Interestingly, the children were asked to draw pictures of a scientist, a doctor and a ballet dancer – with some surprising results.
The focus of the discussion ended on the issues of gender by inviting the class to consider whether girls and boys are good at the same things.
Art-Aboriginal art.
We have enjoyed replicating Aboriginal art using our fingers or a tool of our choice (A pencil or the end of a paintbrush). We found that Aboriginal art has crocodiles in it which linked to our recent book focus on ‘The Enotmous Crocodile.’ 
Maths-volume and capacity.
Such wonderful timing to be learning about capacity on sunny days! We have enjoyed learning the difference between volume and capacity whilst learning to read scales. Of course we challenged ourselves to solve some tricky problems too.
Living & learning- Understand that all living things start life as babies. (SRE)
Today we thought about the life cycle of humans. We read the book ‘Once There Were Giants’ by Penny Dale. It helped us to appreciate the passage of time. We discussed the things that we couldn’t do as a baby but can do now. We thought about what we’re looking forward to doing as teenagers and adults. Here are some examples of our work.
Year 6 enterprise project
Year 6 have been working hard this week to raise funds for their end of party.
Thank you to parents and children for your support. Pupils had a wonderful time throwing wet sponges at their teachers and poet, Conrad Burdekin.
Conrad Burdekin workshop
Conrad Burdekin, who opened our school library, taught the children a few poems and held a tongue twister competition. Congratulations to Millie for completing this tongue twister in 2.55 seconds.
