Health Week Highlights 2-6 July 2018
What a jam-packed week! We focused on learning about our physical and mental health and engaged in a wide variety of activities including:
- Whole school sports roundabout
- Tag rugby sessions with 5 Star Sports
- Tutti Frutti production of ‘Keepy Uppy’
- Fruit tasting, drawing, smoothie and kebab making
- Living and Learning lessons – healthy choices and sun safety
- Crucial Crew – personal safety and risk assessing
- KS2 competitive sports afternoon
- WUSU Crew performance
- Dodgeball – Leeds City Finals
- Netball, rounders, football
- Mindfulness
- Yoga
- Change for Life – Train like a Jedi
- Visit from Doodles the donkey from the Donkey Sanctuary
- Flex Dance – World Cup dance workshops and dance-off in front of the whole school
- Whole school health related homework
- Leeds Rhinos Rhinestones street dance workshops
- Health Fair after school
Healthy Week- Skipping Challenge.
Here is just a snippet of our skipping. How many skips can you do in one minute? Could you challenge yourself to beat that score? All of KS1 have repeated this challenge throughout the week. It’s been a highlight for lots of the children. 
Healthy Week-Daily Mile
We have been running our daily mile around the school playground. Here are 2KL with some eager faces. (We did stagger our starts after the photo was taken). 
Healthy Week-rugby in the sun!
Our amazing 5*Sports coaches helped us with our rugby skills. Everyone had a fun time.
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.
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.
Living and Learning-We respect and understand the differences between people. (SRE)
We have had some wonderful discussions about the differences between boys and girls! We have been challenging stereotypes and questioning many things.
Do only girls have long hair? Do all boys enjoy football? Why do we dress baby boys in blue and not pink? Are girls or boys better at gymnastics? Do only girls like fashion?
We were fascinated that girls can have babies. We linked this to our previous Topic work on mammals feeding their young.
In the end, the children summarised their learning to this: the main differences between boys and girls are their bodies. 
Maths-Measures
We have been comparing and ordering length and mass. In particular, we focused on mm, cm, m and Km. The children have enjoyed using a trundle wheel in the playground to measure our playground markings.
