Being Healthy Week – Phase 3,4
What a fabulous week!
This week, the children have discussed the importance of keeping healthy physically and mentally by eating a balance of foods, exercising regularly, drinking plenty of water, getting a good sleep and by looking after their mental wellbeing.
We have also discussed the importance of personal hygiene including dental care. We’ve completed Personal Best challenges and on Wednesday morning, we got together as a phase to practise our skills for Sports Day.
Our visitors this week have included d:side, LS-TEN and Flex Dance. We’ve also joined an assembly about healthy eating.
What a way to finish this week with a fabulous, successful and very hot Sports Day! Well done to all of the children who took part, won events, challenged themselves and, most importantly, had fun. Thanks to everyone who came to watch!
Well done phase 3,4!
Harvest time
You may remember back at the beginning of the summer term when the children helped to prepare the soil so that they could plant beans, carrots, strawberries and peas in the nursery garden.
Over the last few months they have watered and watched the seeds develop and this week it was harvest time for some of the crops.
The carrots had grown so big, the children really enjoyed pulling them up. They looked carefully at the roots and noticed that some of the carrots were longer than others. They washed and scrubbed the carrots, enjoying tasting them at snack time.
The strawberries had also ripened and were juicy and red.
The peas were growing fast too. We are hoping to be able to enjoy popping some pods before we break up for summer next week.
The children have really enjoyed nurturing these plants and have been checking on their progress daily.
Thank you for all of your “bean updates” too. It’s great to see how many of you will have some green beans to enjoy very soon.
We really have had ” green fingers” in nursery this summer.
Class 3,4C – Personal Best Targets
As part of Being Healthy Week, each child in 3,4C has set their own ‘Personal Best’ target for the week. Examples include how many pretzel skips or laps of the playground can be completed in one minute. The children have enjoyed trying to improve on their target each day this week.
At home, why not set your own personal best fitness challenges?
LS-TEN Skateboarding
On Monday, all six Key Stage 2 classes enjoyed the skateboarding workshop. The children had great fun learning how to jump onto a skateboard and how to move! They demonstrated excellent balancing skills.
Thanks to LS-TEN! We all had so much fun!
Over the summer, why not not visit the LS-TEN skate park and practise your new skills?
Water safety
As part of Healthy Week, Year 5 and 6 had a water safety workshop. The children were taught about the dangers of water and how to stay safe when swimming. The children recognised that there are safe places to swim, such as public pools but that others such as reservoirs can be very dangerous. We learnt some quite shocking facts about how quickly cold water can cause your body to go into shock and the fact that there are approximately 400 drownings per year.
The children were taught about life saving devices they could use such as life buoys. They also learnt that if you get into difficulty in open water, you should float on your back like a starfish. This keeps your head above the water and allows you to breathe.
We watched a useful video which you can access here.
Summer disco
We had a fantastic time at the school disco on Friday. We danced and sang to some of our favourite music and played lots of games. Thank you to everyone for coming and as always, thank you for the support of FOSP for the end of disco treats.
WE HAD LOTS OF FUN!
The Snail and the Whale
The Snail and The Whale
We’ve been reading The Snail and The Whale, another book by one of our favourite authors, Julia Donaldson
We’ve been retelling the story in our own words and writing special blackboard messages, just like the snail trail messages in the story!
The book had some fantastic adventurous words to describe landscapes and actions. Our word of the week was humongous. We discussed the meaning of lots of other words too.
Can your child tell you what each of these words mean? They could use the images to remind them.
Transition
On Wednesday, the Reception children had a wonderful visit to their new Year 1 classroom. It was a delightful experience for the children as they met their new teacher and explored their future learning environment.
The children were excited and engaged, participating in fun activities to make them feel welcome and at ease. This visit was a positive step in helping the children transition smoothly into Year 1. They left with big smiles and lots of enthusiasm!
Phonics
Summer 2 week 5 has focused on root word ending in: –er, –est.
Poetry Picnic
Each week we will be learning a new poem. We will recite this poem each day. By saying the poem out loud, we can focus on the sounds and rhythm of each word or line. We talk to the children about how this can help us become better readers.
This week’s poem is Sliced Bread
Nell Bank
On Thursday, we set off on our trip to Nell Bank. We began by listening to a story about Pete who liked to be TIDY but maybe a little bit too much.
We worked together safely to clear up a big mess! During this activity, we explored ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle, and discussed what would happen to litter if it was left.
Afterwards, the children had the opportunity to go on a mini-beast hunt to help Pete find lots of worms. Following this, it was time to help Pete make a new home in the woods. One of their favourite parts of the day (outside of lunch, of course) was the water play area.
Design and Technology
We are currently in the process of creating our own moving vehicles in design technology to keep Eggy the egg safe. The design criteria for our product was that the cars needed to be durable, safe and movable. The children had great fun drawing annotated diagrams of their designs and then calculating the dimensions. The children are using wooden dowel, axles and wooden wheels to build their cars. The children have used hack saws and G-clamps to cut the dowel to the appropriate lengths. They have built the bases of their cars so far and are now building the frames. The children are constantly thinking about safety features to ensure that Eggy survives if he/she had a collision.
We built some chairs!
This week, 2C have been busy building chairs this week for baby bear to sit on. We had a practice last week using paper however we realised this material was not strong enough. This week we used cardboard. This was a much stronger material.
We used card, masking tape and paper straws to build our chairs.
What a busy week!
We enjoyed sharing our story What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside, there were lots of conversations in Nursery about the differences between the seaside and the countryside.
“There is sand at the seaside”
“I can see fields in the countryside”
” That’s the sea or the ocean”
The children enjoyed developing their cutting skills this week, snipping paper in the creative area and making long snakes to snip in the dough. We talked about using scissors carefully.
Outside the children were very busy using their imagination and creativity, gathering all the natural resources they needed to create their own dinosaur worlds.
Finding the ingredients they needed for potions and stirring them carefully.
Creating amazing tracks using ramps, crates, tyres and stands. What great team work!
More tracks were devised using shapes with the children balancing carefully along.
This week our Story of the week
Commotion in the Ocean
Our Nursery Rhyme of the week
1,2,3,4,5 Once I caught a fish alive
During maths group times this week, we’re learning about positional language.
Help at home: Try to use positional language in your day to day conversations and during play. For example -Can you put your teddy underneath the box? The car is behind the garage. The monkey is on top of the tree. Put your shoes next to the cupboard. As you look at illustrations in a story, ask questions such as ‘Where is the cat hiding?’ or ‘What can you see in front of the fence?’
Reminders
Please ensure that your child has a complete change of clothes at Nursery every day ( including socks)
If your child is returning to Nursery in September can you please ensure that your child’s returners paperwork is handed into the school office by Monday 30th June.