Living and Learning: health and prevention
Over the last fortnight Year 1 have been learning all about what keeps us healthy. We started off by discussing all the things we knew about staying healthy. We knew lots and lots, I was very impressed.
In the first week, we learnt about the sun. The sun can provide us with lots of things we need, like vitamin D for strong bones, but we need to be really careful in the sun too. As a class we discussed the dangers of the sun: heat stroke, eye damage and sunburn.
We knew all the things we needed to keep safe too:
- sun cream
- hats
- water
- wearing long sleeves
You have to put sun cream on so your skin doesn’t get damaged.
Drink lots of water when you are in the sun.
In the second week, we learnt about the importance of good sleep.
We talked about what makes a good sleep routine and why it is so important to get a good sleep to keep us healthy. We had lots of good ideas of what makes a good bedtime routine.
Help at home by talking to your children about how to keep healthy and helping them make healthy choices.
Living and Learning: I know the importance of sleep
In this week’s L&L session, we learnt about the importance of sleep.
It’s recommended that at 10 years of age, you get 10 hours of sleep per night to reap the following benefits:
1. Concentration – increased concentration on tasks throughout the day
2. Health – you’ll feel fuller thus making it easier to maintain a healthy weight
3. Decision making – more decisive decision making
4. Memory – short term memory is transferred into long term memory
5. Mood – a better mood and less irritable
6. Repair – body’s muscles, organs and tissues are repaired during sleep
Well done, Gurvar, who received this week’s L&L certificate!
Help at home: establish a clear, structured nighttime routine with your child to ensure they get the recommended amount of sleep each night. This will help their social, mental, emotional and physical health!
Living and Learning: health prevention
In our latest learning about ‘healthy me’ we thought about what a healthy person would be like.
Healthy = keeping your body working at its best.
Being safe in the sun is one way we can keep our body healthy and this reading fluency text helped us to understand why this is important.
We’ve also been thinking about the importance of sleep.
Sleep helps your body work and can help you get better if you don’t feel well.
If you don’t have enough sleep, you feel grumpy, you can’t focus and you can’t control yourself.
If you have a busy brain it can be hard to get to sleep.
We thought about the things that can help you get to sleep.
- calm music
- relaxation and mindfulness
- yoga
- reading a book
- counting sheep
- drinking some warm milk
- thinking of something nice that you want to dream about
- being in a dark room
- having a teddy or toy with you
- stop using a screen an hour before bed
Sometimes, things can stop you getting to sleep.
- loud noises
- lights
- nightmares
- being on a screen close to bedtime
- staying up too late
- if you are scared
- if you have a worry
Help at home: ask your child what the three key sun safety messages are.
Have a look together at these sleep tips for children.
History: The Leeds Blitz
In History, we have been exploring how Leeds was impacted by The Blitz on the 14th-15th March 1941. We used secondary research from Leeds Becket University.
We found out that most of the bombs landed in the city centre and the closest event occurring nearest to Moortown was a fire in Meanwood.
Here are some of the events, the children found interesting:
Help at home: Explore the interactive map and find out more information about how Leeds was impacted by The Blitz.
Summer 1: Week 2
Literacy
This week, we’ve been reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. To help us remember the order of story, we made our own story maps.
Next week, we’ll be getting creative with our writing. We’ll have a go at making our own versions.
Last Friday, we had special delivery…
We were so excited when the caterpillars arrived! We are looking forward to watching the life cycle of a butterfly.
Role-play
Yesterday, the role-play area turned into a bug cafe. From worm and spider spaghetti to slug slime soup, we had lots of fun making lots of disgusting meals!
Help at home: Using your imagination, can you think of a new menu choice to make in our bug cafe? Draw a picture and label it.
Bug hotels
This week, we put sticks, grass, leaves and pine cones into our bug hotels. 
A group of children put the bug hotels around school. Can you spot the bug hotels in our front playground?
We evaluated our bug hotels and wrote sentence about what we enjoyed.
Reminders
- Friday 05 May – Coronation celebrations
Your child can come to school wearing red, white and blue. - Reading records need to be returned every Thursday.
Super skippers
Here are the final results from the Year 4 skipping festival this week.
The Skipping School programme (for Year 2 and Year 4) is one of the ways we invest our PE Premium so we always like to check if the investment was worthwhile for the children.
Pupil feedback
I learnt lots of new skips. Now I can do fancy footwork and at first I had no clue what to do!
I enjoyed the skipping festival because we got to have a little bit of competition and skipping is great exercise.
I couldn’t do side straddle and now I have learnt how to do it.
I learnt different skips and I had a really good time at the festival.
I really enjoyed it because of all the new things I learnt.
It was good to do skipping in PE as well as other sports.
I learnt to have fun whilst exercising and winning doesn’t matter. Taking part was important.
Parent feedback
My son thoroughly enjoyed this event. He doesn’t normally do PE competitions so it was really good for the whole class to go. He was so proud of his two certificates.
Organiser feedback
Your Year 4s did an amazing job at the festival this morning.
Save the date – Wednesday 21st June
Wednesday 21st June is the date for our Year 2 skipping festival. It will take place at Leeds Trinity University and more details will be sent out shortly.
We are doing lots of practising at school and ropes are still available to buy (£3 at the office) to keep improving those skills at home.
History – Heroes (Nelson Mandela and Leonora Cohen)
We have started out new history topic all about real life heroes. The first important person we’re learning about it Nelson Mandela. You can find more about him here. He believed that everyone should be treated the same. We will be learning about equality, apartheid and the suffragettes.
Skipping Festival!
Hello!
Year 4 had their skipping festival today at Leeds Trinity University and they did an absolutely amazing job! The teamwork and support they showed between one another was outstanding and they cheered each other on when some were feeling a bit nervous.
Overall, we won a mixture of bronze, silver and gold awards on the individual skills and we did an amazing job on the group skips too!
In between the skills, the children had the chance to skip, dance and sing along to the music.
A big well done to all of the Year 4s for trying their best and representing Moortown so well.
Rounders!
This week in PE, Year 3 welcomed in the summer term with their first PE lesson playing rounders!
We practised our batting and fielding skills whilst getting to grips with the rules of the game.
Year 3 loved the PE lesson and we look forward to developing our rounders skills as the summer term progresses!
