A spring spruce!
Yesterday, we took advantage of the sunny afternoon and swept, mopped and scrubbed our outside area until it sparkled!
Why not encourage your child to clean at home? It helps to develop their upper body strength, which is essential for writing.
Meeting dragons!
This morning we met a variety of reptiles.
Did you know that a crested gecko could lick its own eyeballs?
Can your child name their favourite creature?
Change4Life healthier snacking
Have you see the recent Change4Life campaign encouraging children to have no more than two packaged snacks per day to reduce their sugar intake? Remember fruit and veg are always the best snack and count towards your child’s 5 A Day.
The campaign is launched as Public Health England reveals half the sugar children consume comes from unhealthy snacks and sugary drinks. Children in England are eating nearly three times the recommended amount of sugar. Too much sugar can lead to harmful fat building up inside and serious health problems, and also painful tooth decay.
Recently children brought home the Family Snack Challenge. Can your family complete the 7-day healthier snack challenge? Change4Life provides lots of hints and tips for healthier snacking.
Finding all possibilities
Children used their problem-solving skills to sort the mixed up polar animals. They needed persistence and perseverance to find all the possibilities. By comparing similarities and differences, they realised that there was more than one way to sort.
This sort of activity is a great way to develop problem-solving skills. Encourage your child to sort and compare objects at home using different criteria such as colour, size and type.
Ice painting
Lots of ice outside today. Time to get creative!
Skipping
Funded through our PE and Sport Premium, Year 2 and Year 4 have recently taken part in a skipping workshop led by ‘Skipping School’; both classes will then be part of a Leeds wide skipping competition.
- ‘I learnt a lot! It was fun and I learnt new skills.’
- ‘I think it is a good idea to skip because we are a happy and healthy school.’
- ‘I liked the skipping because I got to learn new things.’
- ‘I loved the skipping and the new skills because skipping makes you fit.’
- ‘First, I was really bad at skipping but when Jodi came I got better. Now I like skipping.’
We are offering all children the opportunity to learn these new skills, from their peers, by introducing skipping as a physical activity at lunchtimes. This is one way we are promoting physical activity during the school day for children to get their active 30 minutes.
The Government’s Childhood Obesity: A Plan for Action, shares the expectation for all primary schools to provide a minimum of 30 active minutes every day for all pupils. The Chief Medical Officers recommend a minimum of 60 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous activity for children aged 5-18. Schools are expected to provide 30 of these minutes and families to achieve the other 30.
‘Skipping School’ also sell their ropes and we would like to offer all children the chance to buy a rope at a heavily subsided price (funded by our PE Premium) to continue learning these fundamental movement skills at home.
Ropes will be on sale at a price of £2 (normal price £5) before and after school during the week of 05 February. Starting with a stall at the PTA cake sale, Year 6 children will be selling the ropes in the playground subject to the weather. Please bring exact change wherever possible.
Using Bee-Bots to learn about control, directional language and programming
Practising!
Don’t forget our assembly on Wednesday!
Phonics
When helping your child to blend the sounds in words, it’s really important to say the sounds as purely as possible.
Here is a guide to pronunciation of the phase 2 phonemes.
What is ‘8’?
We’ve been learning about the number 8. Can your child explain what’s happening in one of the pictures? Can your child spot eight things at home?
