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.
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.
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.
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.
Harlow Carr
As part of our Green Fingers topic, Year 1 and 2 have visited Harlow Carr gardens today. It’s been great to see the children’s enthusiasm for this topic and especially how their knowledge has grown when naming different plants and trees. We found plenty of shady spots to try and keep cool and the ice creams helped too. Well done both classes for demonstrating excellent behaviour. You were great ambassadors for the school.
Tennis training
Have you been watching Wimbledon? New tennis lessons are starting at Roundhay Park next week.
Ruler rules
Now we can compare lengths and order them, it’s time to get better using a ruler. After comparing different lengths and putting them in height order, we learnt how to use a ruler properly so that we could check whether our ordering was accurate.
Good choices lead to good times
This is what happens when we make good choices – we get extra playtime in the front playground.
Into the woods….
Yesterday, we went for a walk to the top of Shadwell Lane and found a little woodland area. We spent an hour looking at the different trees, finding different leaves and sketching. We’re so lucky that we can find an area like this so close to school.
