‘The Tiny Seed’ drama
On Friday, Year 2 really enjoyed a drama workshop focussing on the book, ‘The Tiny Seed’. Thank you to Zia’s mum, who organised the workshop for us!
We then became sculptors and clay. The sculptor had to mould the clay into a shoot coming out of the ground and then a fully grown flower.
We played a corners game. When a season was called, we had to go to that season and take on the role of a plant.
Finally, we worked in groups to act out the story of the tiny seed, finishing it off as a whole class.
Healthy Schools award
Following our School Health check earlier this year, to maintain our Healthy Schools status, we were proud to attend the Healthy Schools celebration event to receive our award. Held in the debating chamber at Leeds Civic Hall, we enjoyed presentations from councillors and other schools around the 4 areas of Healthy Schools – physical activity, PSHE (personal, social and health education), healthy eating and emotional health.
Two of our sports leaders were invited to lead a practical session in the break for other pupils who were attending. They did this with great confidence and encouragement.
As part of the event we also had the opportunity to use the voting system in the debating chamber to vote on key areas across health and wellbeing for councillors to consider on a city-wide strategic level. Based on data from the 2014 My Health My School survey, our current Year 5 and 6 classes will be completing this survey for 2015. The top priorities identified were levels of physical activity and eating 5 a day.
Summer sports and arts camp (Edward Lynch)
Edward Lynch, a local dance coach who has worked with children during our curriculum and extra-curricular dance sessions, is helping to run a local sport and arts camp called IMPACT in the summer holidays.
Healthy changes
As part of our SEAL theme of Changes, last week our SEAL statement focussed on making healthy changes. Some suggestions from Year 1 include:
- have fruit dessert instead of cake
- do more after-school clubs
- ride a bike more
- walk to the shops instead of driving
- do parkruns with your family
- go roller skating or skateboarding more
- walk to school more
- drink more water
- run somewhere every day
- eat more or different vegetables
- ask to go swimming more
What healthy change could you make?
Change 4 life and Leeds Let’s Change can offer lots of suggestions.
Roundhay Park
What a super day out at Roundhay Park this week! We staged our very own mini Olympics and held a medal ceremony for the winning team – well done yellow team! Followed by a picnic, ice-creams and plenty more games.
Stripy salad pots
As part of our Green Fingers topic, we have been learning about food origins and how all food comes from plants or animals. While our plants are not ready for eating, we’ve used vegetables that we are growing in our stripy salad pots.
Grating, snipping and chopping (bridge technique) were all skills we used to prepare our salad pots. There was lots of washing up to do too.
We discussed why some people might have different ingredients in their salad pot – likes/dislikes, allergies, religion and we also thought about how we could adapt this recipe, maybe adding pasta to make it a balanced meal.
Alice in Wonderland
A massive well done to the class for their first performance this afternoon. You all did brilliantly to bring this rather bonkers story to life!
Looking forward to Thursday’s final performance!
10 minute shake up
Recently children have brought home information from Change 4 life on their latest campaign, 10 minute shake up. Similar to our daily Wake Up Shake Up activity, here is a 10 minute shake up video for you to follow at home.
Code Club
It was the last Code Club of the year on Tuesday. This term, we’ve had the highest participation in two years and also the highest number of female coders.
As well as using Scratch this term, we’ve started building our own webpages using Trinket.
A massive thank you must go to Linda Broughton who gives up her time every Tuesday to run Code Club. Thanks also to Mr Baynes and Mrs Freeman who have helped out this year.
