Beach Party fun, goodbye and thank you!
We had an amazing time at the Beach Party yesterday. The sun shone for us and we had sand, water, dancing, toys and snacks!
Thank you for all the support this year. A home-school partnership makes everything run smoothly and gets the best out of the children.
Have a lovely summer.
Goodbye from the KS1 Team : Mrs Latham, Miss Lowry and Miss Young
xxx
Living and Learning (Being Healthy week) : Health education by D:side
D:side have been in school to deliver some health education sessions. Year 1 and 2 discussed and compared bodies, talked about what we need to keep our body healthy and also what body parts we have inside our body.
Living and Learning (Being Healthy week) : Physical health and activity
Year 1 and 2 enjoyed some sessions delivered by 5 Star Sports this week. This helped us see how exercise effects our body and how we need to look after our body to keep it healthy.
Living and Learning (Being Healthy week) : Yoga and mindfulness
Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 5 and Year 6 all enjoyed yoga sessions from School of Yoga this week. This helped us learn about the importance of mental wellbeing and wellness, as well as physical health. Time to be mindful is important for our mental health.
Health week
This week KS1 have been getting involved in Health week. We have been taking part in a personal best challenge. We picked 4 activities and have done each 3 times across the week in attempt to improve our scores by the end of the week. The activities included:
- Amount of star jumps in one minute.
- Amount of speed jumps (side to side) in one minute.
- Amount of skips in one minute.
- Laps of the playground in one minute.
Take a look at some of our attempts!
DT – baby bear’s chair
This half term we have been working towards making a freestanding chair that is suitable for ‘baby bear’. We have been trying to find out which 3D shapes are strongest for the legs of a chair. As part of the design process, we experimented with playdough as well as card and tape to research which structure was the strongest. The structures we made were cuboids, triangular prisms and cylinders.
After experimenting how many books can be balanced onto our structures. We even managed to get a child to balance on the structure.
Here are some of our finished products!
For the final part of our design process, we will be evaluating our chairs. We will be discussing what went well and what we would do differently next time.
Living and Learning (Being Healthy week) : Soggy Sport Roundabout
A big THANK YOU to everyone who came to support our rather wet Sport Roundabout afternoon today.
We all still had fun, despite the rain. The winning team was France – but check out where your team came.
Another THANK YOU for sending children in fantastic coloured clothes to match their country team too.
1st France
2nd England
3rd Nigeria
4th Spain
5th Italy
6th Portugal
7th Germany
8th Colombia
9th Norway
10th Netherlands
11th Argentina
12th Brazil
Living and Learning : Being Healthy week launch
We launched our Being Healthy themed week today with a whole school assembly. We talked about physical and mental health. We also did some mindfulness (belly breathing).
We’re looking forward to a happy and healthy week next week.
Living and Learning
Our Living and Learning statement this week is ‘I know that people I see in the media don’t always reflect real life’.
In KS1 our Learning Objective is ‘I understand ways in which we are different from each other.’ For our activity, we placed a smiley face on one side of the room and a not so smiley face on the other side of the room. We asked the children to stand in an imaginary line somewhere between the two faces depending, on how much they liked an activity such as swimming, gymnastics or karate. During the session, children moved frequently. We then discussed how everybody is different and we each have different interests. Some children like martial arts whereas some children have never tried it. Some children dislike playing football whilst others love it.
We know that:
- We enjoy different things.
- We each have different opinions.
We then talked in small groups about what we appreciate about one another. Each child had a turn telling somebody in the class what they like about them.
Science – sorting food into groups
In our Science lesson today, 2C have been sorting food into different groups.
The first idea we had was to sort food into liquids and solids. We had some great discussions about why some foods can be seen as a solid or a liquid depending on their state or consistency. For example single cream is a liquid, but whipped cream is a solid. We have drinkable yoghurts, and yoghurts that require a spoon.
We also sorted the food into green and non-green foods.
Other ideas we had about how to sort food was splitting them into healthy and unhealthy foods or fruit/vegetables and ‘other’. We are really looking forward to continuing our investigations. Next week we will be focussing on the types of food we should eat and different food groups.