Living and Learning: online safety
This week, our Living and Learning focus has been about online safety and in particular spotting adverts online.
First of all, we thought about what an advert is and what a pop up is.
Adverts can be everywhere online and they can often be misleading.
They can pop-up on our screens, ask us to input personal information and even say things that are too good to be true!
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If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is! They’re businesses that are trying to make money.
We came up with a list of top tips to use when thinking about adverts online:
- Don’t click on adverts or pop-ups.
- Keep your personal information safe.
- Talk to a trusted adult if you see something inappropriate or you’re unsure what to do.
Help at home: Talk about what you would do if this popped up on your screen?
Living and Learning: online safety
This week, our Living and Learning focus has been about online safety and in particular spotting adverts online.
First of all, we thought about what an advert is and what a pop up is.
Then, we read a story about Smartie who had a dilemma with a pop up while he was online.
Pop ups, including online adverts, if clicked on, may take us away from the page we’re looking at so we learnt this key message to help keep us safe online.
Help at home: reinforce this key message of telling an adult if an advert pops up on screen.
Observational Drawing
In very exciting news, Y6 got to choose their own leaf from The Green today to become the subject of an observational drawing! The sheer joy was palpable as we made our way outside to carefully select The One.
We used lines to create the leaf’s shape, texture and colour.
Help at home by giving this same activity a go! Narrate what you’re doing and why.
Check out some of the finished articles below.
Living and Learning – online safety
This week’s Living and Learning lesson was about online safety.
We learnt how apps and online games are businesses and their mission is to persuade people to stay online for as long as possible. They way they achieve this is a number of clever ways, such as making the game customisable, offering enticing rewards and competitive leaderboards / other social features.
We created posters to inform others about how to make healthy online choices….
…and we were very proud of them!
Assembly stars
Well done to all the children who performed so well in our class assembly. The children have worked hard to rehearse and they have enjoyed being able to share their learning with you.
Assemblies give the children a chance to practice their oracy skills in particular to project their voice and we hope you’d agree they did that well.
Thank you for your support to help the children to learn their lines and for coming to watch on day. We hope you enjoyed it.
We are artists!
This half-term, Year 5 are becoming artists! We will be looking at two famous artists: William Morris and Orla Kiely.
Art learning is usually categorised into two strands of learning:
– learning about art (history of art)
– learning practical skills to help us become better artists.
Each week, we will have a lesson about the history of art and then a practical skills lesson. In our first practical skills lesson, the children drew an observational drawing of a leaf. In our second lesson, Year 5 created a monoprint. Take a look at their brilliant prints:
Help at home: Use the key vocabulary in a sentence. Can you define them all?
Living & Learning: Money and Online Safety
Yesterday, Year 4 learnt all about online adverts and pop-ups as part of our L&L theme: money and online safety.
We discussed what an advert is and where we can find them. Your children came up with lots of brilliant suggestions:
- before YouTube videos
- on Roblox
- while watching TV
- when you google something
- at the cinema
Importantly, the children learnt that if an advert sounds too good to be true, it probably is and we shouldn’t click on it.
Some top tips for prevent online adverts and pop-ups:
- You can also download add-ons or adblockers to stop pop-up adverts on the sites you visit.
- Before downloading a new app, always check out the reviews in the app store. They’ll often tell you if an app has too much advertising or displays adverts that are inappropriate.
- Don’t click on the adverts or purchase anything on apps/games without talking to a trusted adult first.
- Always speak to a trusted adult about any adverts or pop-ups that you see or are unsure about.
The children then created some posters all about spotting and preventing online adverts and pop-ups – they were brilliant!
Help at home: watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRDy-2JkBtc and discuss, with your children, how they can spot and avoid online adverts and pop-ups.
Food Technology: egg pot!
Today, Year 3 made an egg pot! The children prepared all the ingredients, cooked it in the microwave and ate almost all of it.
We used the bridge cutting skills to cut up all the tomatoes. The bridge was best for these because they are small and were a bit slippery after washing them!
We used the microwave to heat up the tomatoes and beans. We cooked them in 1 minute bursts. Then, after we cracked the egg into the jug, we microwaved it for a further 2 minutes to make sure the egg had cooked through. We could tell when it was done by seeing if the white of the egg was opaque (not see through).
We stayed safe by concentrating and taking our time.
Everyone tried it and the majority of us loved it! The beans were our favourite part.
Help by making it again at home! The recipe has been sent home with the children. Can you add something new? Could you try putting it on toast?
Nursery Rhyme Week
During nursery rhyme week, the children enjoyed reciting and acting out different nursery rhymes.
Linked to World Nursery Rhyme Week, we’ve been reading this classic book by Jane and Allan Ahlberg. The children loved listening carefully for the rhyming words and spotting familiar characters on each page.
Class Assembly
With our class assembly quickly approaching (Wednesday 20th November), please remember to practise your speaking parts and refresh your memory by watching the YouTube video of the song we will be singing.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/CMs_IGKxMu0
