Living and Learning: Being Healthy themed week – healthy teeth
Instructions are currently part of our writing learning and so we tied this in with our Being Healthy themed week.
First of all, we watched this video that gave us lots of tips for how to look after our teeth.
We worked in groups to sequence instructions for how to brush our teeth and we identified the imperative verbs in each instruction.
Help at home: can your child retell the instructions and can they remember why it’s important not to rinse after spitting out.
Living and Learning: Being Healthy themed week – Mindful Monday
We kicked off the Being Healthy themed week with Mindful Monday recognising that our mental health is as important as our physical health.
Mindfulness can make you calm.
Mindfulness is good for you because it can make you feel relaxed and calm down your feelings.
Mindfulness is good because it helps your mental health.
We regularly have mindfulness time after lunchtimes but today was chance to add some more techniques to the ones we already know (self hug, ok breathing, breathing tree, starfish meditation and back to back breathing).
Yoga is a great way to help our mental health and Vikki from The Yoga House came to teach us some yoga poses and relaxation.
I enjoyed the yoga because it made me feel really relaxed.
I liked the yoga because it made me feel really joyful and active.I loved the yoga because it made me feel calm and made my worries float away.
I liked it because I enjoy doing yoga at home.
I loved the yoga because when you have shavasana time, you feel relaxed and I had lots of deep breaths.
Help at home: discuss these relaxation techniques with your child. Which is their favourite and which works for them? Also, have a look at our mindfulness guide for more ideas to try at home.
Being Healthy themed week 10 July
Our next whole school themed week, based around Being Healthy, will be taking place from Monday 10th July. This is the second of two themed weeks in the year.
Living and learning: body image
Our latest Living and Learning sessions have been focussed on body image and we started this learning by thinking about what is special about our own identity and how we can describe our own identity in terms of our physical appearance.
We also thought of other ways we might be different, on the inside as well as the outside. For example, we don’t all have the same personality and characteristics and we have different interests and hobbies.
We agreed that being different is a good thing and it should be celebrated as it would be boring if we were all the same!
I am different because I have a different family to others.
I am different because I have a different skin and hair colour to my friend.
I am different because I like dogs but my friend is allergic to them.
Moortown Lego Legends
This week, we had a presentation from six members of the class, also known as Moortown Lego Legends, to share their project they have been working on for the last four months. The class had lots of questions to ask them.
They have worked together as a team on a great Lego and coding project, putting into practice some of their programming skills learnt earlier this year in our computing topic, while also learning about sustainable energy sources.
Well done to all the children involved and thank you to the parents for supporting them in this learning out of school.
Lotherton Hall Trip
On Wednesday, Year 2 enjoyed a day out of school to Lotherton Hall. It was jam-packed day of sunshine, smiles and wildlife!
As part of our science learning this half term, we enjoyed a workshop called ‘who eats who’. In the workshop we looked at lots of science vocabulary: herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, prey, predator and producer.
The Year 2 children were brilliant at identifying skulls from different animals by looking at the size, teeth and features.
Before we left, we enjoyed time climbing and enjoying the park grounds and playgrounds.
Help at home by discussing your child’s biological knowledge. This links well with this week’s Talk Time homework.
Design and technology: food
This week, Year 2 have been using their design and technology food preparation skills to make our latest recipe, fruit bars.
After the cooking, we carried out the evaluation of the product and we enjoyed the tasting all together.
I liked the fruit bars because you could really taste the coconut and honey but next time I would change the apricots more dates or raisins.
I liked it because it was really crunchy. I would change it next time by adding blackberries.
I didn’t like the bars because of the seeds. Next time, I would leave the seeds out.
I liked the bars because it was sweet from the honey.
I really liked it because I could all the ingredients. Next time, I would take the seeds out and I would replace them with watermelon.
I liked the fruit bars as I liked the apricots but I would eliminate the seeds and replace them with dried berries.
It was so good that I want another one.
Help at home: Ask your child/children what food preparation skills they have used in this learning and can they demonstrate these at home.
Living and Learning: relationships
For the last few weeks, our Living and Learning lessons and circle times have been all about happy and healthy relationships between our friends, peers and families.
Here we thought about different words that we associate with families and we read some texts about how not all families are the same and that is ok. The children enjoyed sharing special members of their family.
The Great big book of families by Mary Hoffman
We have already learnt about consent in terms of permission seeking when online but here we thought about it when we are with others. We practised showing how we give and don’t give consent and how we can also change our mind if we want to.
Finally, you will have seen the children have brought home the NSPCC Pants Underwear rule. We revisit this important learning every year.
Help at home: read the NSPCC pants underwear rule with your child/children and think about how this keeps you safe. This parent guide is available too.
Super skippers
Today, the day had finally come. It was the event we had been building up to after all our skipping practising – the Year 2 Skipping Festival!
Jodi, Chris and Katie welcomed us and the other four schools to the event at Leeds Trinity University. First of all, there was a skipping warm up for everyone before the individual skippers did their events. The children were so encouraging and supportive to their class mates and every child tried their best and performed amazingly well.
Next, it was time for the group events. The children worked so well together in their teams and once again, we were so proud of what they have achieved. Even in the last few days, we have seen some of the children mastering these new skills.
Finally, it was time for the results. The tension was mounting.
We were so pleased to have received so many awards and to hear that we were the winning school made all the hard work and preparation worth while. What an achievement!
The children have been so resilient, determined and have definitely believed in themselves (even when it has been hard learning new skills) and we are very proud of them all.
Magnificent Maths!
We have started this half term learning about statistics and measures. Last week, Year 2 learned how to recognise, create and interpret tally charts, block diagrams and pictograms.
For the next two weeks, we are learning how to measure mass and capacity. We will also be looking carefully at reading scales in grams (g) , kilograms (kg) , millilitres (ml) and litres (l).
Help at home by looking at different scales. Can you weigh items and say how much the mass is in g or kg?
