Living and Learning : NSPCC PANTS rule
We have been talking about pants again! Children love talking about pants and find them funny but we use it in school to deliver a serious safeguarding message. The NSPCC have created some fab resources for us, and you, to use when teaching our children how to keep themselves safe. Ask your child about the PANTS rule and sing along to the catchy song!
Happy and healthy playtimes
Our new playtime equipment arrived today. The children were so excited to unpack it! Regular exercise has lots of health benefits for children such as providing an opportunity to socialise, increasing concentration and improving self-esteem.
Virtual after school clubs
Aimed mainly at primary-aged children, a different theme has been assigned for each day of the club – Adventure Monday, Tuesday Play, Wild Wednesday, Thinking Thursday and Fun Friday.
Find out more: https://www.youthsporttrust.org/AfterSchoolSportClub
History : What’s the artefact?
We’ve had some great history lessons this week. We looked at some artefacts (old objects) and tried to guess what they were. This one is a water squirt – used to squirt water on buildings during the Great Fire of London.
The children guessed what it might be before we talked about what it was used for. We were great historians!
It might be a ski.
It’s a gun.
It’s a needle.
Celebration certificates
The certificates this week go to…
For great learning…
Willow – for working hard in reading this week.
For sport and physical activity…
Evie – for great enthusiasm and determination in PE.
For living and learning…
Summer – for remembering our school definition of bullying.
Numbotter of the week– Emily for earning loads of stars!
Our new class reward system is still going down well too. For making good choices throughout the day, children can write their name on a raffle ticket (some children have got 9 or 10 tickets in this week). On a Friday, 5 winners will be drawn out and can choose a prize from the Raffle Reward box.
Adjective day 2020
We had a fabulous Adjective Day today. It was a bit different having to stay in our bubble and not being able to parade in and out of every classroom but we still had a great time. We have lots of examples of adjectives on our word wall now. We even managed a distanced rendition of our adjective song.
Adjectives can tell you more,
About a noun and that’s for sure,
Ad-jec-tives!
Healthy eating assemblies
The whole federation joined together to take part in an assembly about healthy eating last week. It was very exciting to see the other classes in the other schools! We had these booked in for Health Week last summer, which had to be cancelled.
The Leeds Health and Wellbeing Team delivered the assembly where we learnt all sorts of interesting things about keeping healthy and finished off with an interactive quiz.
Celebration certificates
We have had another busy week! Our certificates this week go to…
For great learning…
Noah – For great work in reading. You have concentrated well and shared your ideas.
For sport and physical activity…
Jacob – For determination in PE – trying to beat your skipping personal best.
For living and learning…
Ralph – For being considerate of others.
Our new class reward system starts next week too. For making good choices throughout the day, children can write their name on a raffle ticket. On a Friday, 5 winners will be drawn out and can choose a prize from the Raffle Reward box.
English – all about nouns
This week, we have been learning about how different words can have different ‘jobs’. We have talked about nouns this week. We learnt a song to help us.
NOUNS
Every person, place or thing,
Needs a name and so we sing,
Nouns means names.
We went on a noun hunt around our classroom – there are nouns everywhere!
Handwriting – a helpful video
The Year 1s we have started learning how to write letters using a lead-in line. We have practised ‘c’ and ‘o’ so far. Next week, we will be practising ‘a’. In year two, children are encouraged to join letters. A copy of the handwriting guide can be found here. Try watching this at home to support your child’s learning. (This is a YouTube link. Top tip for watching YouTube with your child: go to the settings cog along the play bar and turn off autoplay – this avoids an inappropriate clip coming up automatically, and helps to discourage your child from passively watching clip after clip.)