World Book Day
The children enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day and talking about their favourite characters. We talked about our favourite books, shared them with children from other classes and enjoyed a reading assembly at the end of the day. Thank you for all the wonderful costumes!
1,2V getting creative
Children were excited to add to their art work for our upcoming pop-up art gallery on Tuesday 25 March 3.30-4pm. All classes are getting the opportunity to get creative this half term.
Living and Learning-I cover my mouth (when I yawn, cough or sneeze).
This week we have been thinking about manners. In particular, our living and learning weekly statement has encouraged our personal hygiene. Coughing and sneezing definitely spreads germs. We can’t all wash our hands every single time we cough or sneeze so we have a clever alternative: the vampire sneeze/sleeve. We simply cough, sneeze or yawn into our sleeves. Here some children are demonstrating the vampire sleeve.
When we yawn, we know it is polite to cover our mouths . We can do this through the covering of our mouths either by our hand or our sleeve.
Living and Learning-homework
Wow! There has been some fantastic creative homework this week. I can show different ways to stay safe was our prompt. Look at what we did in response…
Living and Learning-books for discussion.
We took out two books from our recent visit to Sholes village library. Both books prompted valuable discussions. The first, ‘Living with Mum and living with Dad’ allowed children to discuss their own family. We appreciated that all families are unique and the most important thing is that we are loved.
The second book, ‘Hooray for Knickers’, was very funny. It reminded us of our ‘pants are private’ rule. This rule comes from the NSPCC as an important message for preventing abuse. There is a catchy song and video that all children enjoying singing in KS1. What books will you take out of the library during this holiday?
Drama for writing (and Living and Learning – consent)
To enhance our Big Topic, we have been involved in some drama workshops delivered by The West Yorkshire Playhouse this week. They were based on the Katie and…. books by James Mayhew. We used Katie and the Dinosaurs and were transported into a wonderful imaginary world of dinosaurs. The children immersed themselves in the drama and produced some writing describing the dinosaurs they created.
The Living and Learning part involved the important topic of consent. We asked children for their consent to be photographed and we also asked Paul, our facilitator, for his consent too. This sets a good example for children and helps them to realise that they can consent (and withdraw their consent) for their photograph or video to be taken.
Golden Star Award
This week, it goes to…
Living and Learning-Safety Week Electrical Safety
Wow! What a superb week we have had! Everyday, we have had something very exciting planned to help us learn about safety. Today was no different. We had an education advisor from Northern Powergrid to help us learn about electrical safety. You too can find out what we learnt here.
Electricity is really useful but also very dangerous. We learnt about how it is made, transported to our homes and how it can electrocute us if we’re not careful! We were given booklets and pencils to help remind us of the ways that we can ‘Be Careful’ around electricity in our homes.
‘I loved the electricity machine Leena had. Seeing the electricity was so cool and also a bit scary!’
‘This week has been the best week ever!’
Leeds Art Gallery Trip (Living and Learning – staying safe in the environment)
We had a fantastic day at Leeds Art Gallery today. The children enjoyed this new experience and were captivated by the paintings, drawings, sculpture, installations and video art. We were lucky enough to see some 500 year old drawings by Leonardo da Vinci – they were so detailed but smaller than we thought they would be.
As part of Staying Safe week, we also highlighted all the things that help us stay safe when we are out and about. We wore high-vis jackets, seatbelts on the coach, lined up, walked with a partners, stayed near our adults and were counted many times by our teachers!
Fire engine visit (Living and Learning – Safety Week)
We were visited by White Watch who talked to us about how the fire service keep s safe.
