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.
Living and Learning – What makes a boy or a girl?
Last week we talked about what attributes make a boy or girl. There were lots of stereotypical comments.
Girls have long hair but boys have short hair.
Boys play football and rugby but girls do dancing and gymnastics.
When we talked more about these comments the children were quick to give examples about girls with short hair or boys that dance. When we looked through the comments and talked about them we found that the facts were about body parts and functions.
Girls can have babies when they grow up.
Girls and boys have different private parts.
Help at home by challenging gender stereotypes and encouraging children to think about the person, rather than protected characteristics. It is, “one of the easiest ways to create a culture free of prejudice, and support children to develop a true sense of self, by actively celebrate difference. This helps children to understand that no two people are the same, and in turn makes all children feel happier and more secure.” stonewall.org.uk
Active Playtimes
We encourage children to be active at playtimes, ensuring that they have at least 30 minutes of physical activity during the school day. There is the adventure playground, the new playground markings, a variety of play equipment and skipping to choose from.
Golden Star
Well done to our most recent Golden Star!
