Active travel in October – week three winner
Well done to our week three winner who made active journeys to school every day last week.
Our active travel section on the website has recently been updated. Have a look at some of the initiatives we take part in to encourage a happy and healthy start to the school day.
Homework Review
The children thoroughly enjoyed sharing their creative homework about The Great Fire of London with their friends. As always, there were lots of effort put in by the children and they were proud of what they had done.
Living and Learning
In our last PE session, Year One combined PE and Living and Learning. The children had to use some of the 8Rs of learning they have been taught this half term to help them complete the throwing challenge they were faced with.
The children were split into teams of six and had to throw their bean bag into the hoop in the middle of the circle. However, if one bean bag missed the hoop or was touching the hoop, the children had to start again.
Here’s how they used some of the 8Rs:
I can show I am ready to learn – The children were expected to watch demos of me throwing the bean bag as well as others to help them learn.
I remember – The children had to remember what they had been taught about throwing in previous sessions.
I reflect on my learning – If the children missed, they needed to ask themselves, ‘Why did I miss?’ ‘Do I need to throw the bean bag harder or softer?’
I respond to feedback – I was walking round the hall giving the children tips on how to throw the bean bag. The children needed to use this feedback to help them succeed.
I take responsibility for my own learning – If the children were struggling to throw the bean bag into the hoop, they needed to take responsibly and ask for help or watch their friend.
I am resilient – The challenge was frustrating for the children as all six bean bags needed to go into the hoop. The children had to be resilient as a group and not give up.
Active travel in October – week two winner
Well done to our week two active travel winner (08 – 12 October) who was randomly selected to receive the latest £10 voucher.
Our week three winner will be announced early next week.
We have a final weekly prize to award and also a prize for someone who has made an active journey to school every day in October. These prizes will be awarded straight after half term once our Living Streets travel tracker data is available.
Remember an active journey can be walking, biking, scooting or parking away from the school gate and striding the last part of the journey.
Lost property
School Council are involved in a project to try and reduce the amount of lost property we have at school.
Starting this Friday, lost property will be available to look through in the playground to hopefully reduce the pile we have already this term!
Naming your child’s items helps to get things back to their owners so we will also be offering a clothing name labelling service for 20p per item. Profits will go to our school charity, Make-a-Wish.
New additions to the library – thank you, school councillors
At their final meeting, our current school councillors spent time, using part of their budget, choosing new books for our library.
From sport books to science books, there’s a great selection. The books will soon be available to borrow from the library.
School Council elections
In our whole school assembly today, we launched this year’s School Council election process. Our School Council is one of the ways that children are encouraged to take an active part in pupil voice.
The election process allows children to develop an understanding of one of the British Values, democracy, with two representatives from each class, chosen democratically by their peers.
Our current school councillors spoke about their role over the last year and the qualities needed to be an effective school councillor.
These included:
- use the 8 Rs for learning
- be respectful and polite
- help others
- be a good speaker and listener (to members of your class and in the meetings)
- share and be confident with your ideas
- let others speak
- accept the views of others even if you don’t agree
- be friendly and approachable
- follow our school rules and make good choices in class and around school
Watch out for the whole school homework this week all about the election and democracy, ready for the elections next Thursday 25 October.
Ordinal Numbers
To learn about ordinal numbers, we took our learning outside. Racing in groups of five or ten, the children gained an excelling understanding of ordinal numbers. Plus, it was fun to take our learning outside and get active.
Time Travel
In our topic, ‘Time Travel’ the children have been learning about objects from the past and how they have changed over time. The children were given a picture of a vacuum cleaner and asked to guess what it was. After that, they were given other vacuum cleaners and asked to work together to put them in chronological order.
In this lesson, the children demonstrated that they could use the historical skill of recognising that changes happen over time.
Half term boys gymnastics
