Year 2 Class News

Living and Learning: Staying Safe week begins

Our Staying Safe themed week started today with a launch assembly by Leeds City Council’s road safety team.  This included some key active travel and safety messages.

The trainers worked with a number of classes throughout the day.

• Year 3 pedestrian training
• Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 scooter training
• Year 6 Speed Indication Device – checking vehicle speeds in the 20mph zone on Shadwell Lane

Another visitor, Richard from One Day Creative, has worked with three classes today to deliver e-safety themed drama workshops. Other classes will take part in this learning tomorrow.

Ask your child what they have learnt so far based on our four main objectives for the week:

• Staying safe online
• Staying safe at home
• Staying safe at school
• Staying safe in the environment

Thank you to those parents and carers who attended the e-safety session at the end of the day.  We hope you found it useful to learn more about your child’s e-safety learning.  To help with practical support with devices at home, O2 in partnership with NSPCC offer a free service over the phone, 0808 800 5002, or in one of their stores.

Tomorrow is Safer Internet Day so there will be lots of in class learning on this subject.  Have a look at our e-safety end of year expectations for your child’s year group.

Leonardo Da Vinci: A life in drawing

We are very excited this exhibition of some of Leonardo Da Vinci’s art work, at Leeds Art Gallery, is taking place during our current art based big topic, Katie and…

A visit is planned to the art gallery, as part of our topic learning, so the children will get chance to see these famous pieces of art.  More details about the trip will follow.

Scooter training reminder

To start our Staying Safe themed week this week, don’t forget your scooters and helmets on Monday for the scooter training.

The trainers will bring spare scooters and helmets so don’t worry if your child can’t bring one to school.

To make sure we can access the scooters for each class, please park your scooters outside your child’s classroom when you arrive in the morning.

Finally, any remaining permissions must be given for your child to take part in this activity.

Living and Learning: Parent/carer workshops Staying Safe themed week

Thank you to all the parents/carers who have signed up to the workshops on offer next week during our Staying Safe themed week.

There are a few places left if you would like to come along.

Living Streets new badge design competition

We are proud to work with Living Streets to support our aim for active and safe travel to and from school.

WOW is Living Streets’ year-round walk to school challenge and every day our pupils log their daily journeys to school on the WOW Travel Tracker. Those that make an active (walk, bike, scoot or park and stride) journey to school at least once a week for a month earn a WOW badge. There are 11 to collect across the year all of which have been designed by pupils in their annual badge design competition.

Maths: Katie and…

In a topic lesson, we looked at a variety of the Katie and… books. Children looked at the cover and blurb and then voted for which of the books they wanted to read next. We then put this data into a tally chart before making a class block chart.

Science: d:side visit

This morning Ruth from d:side visited us to talk to us about how we can keep our bodies healthy.

We talked about how to keep the outside of our body clean and healthy by washing and cleaning our teeth.

We then learnt about the inside of our body. We learnt about the different organs and the jobs they do. We then talked about how to keep these organs healthy by doing lots of exercise, having a healthy diet and getting lots of sleep.

Staying Safe themed week 04 February

Our next whole school themed week, based around Staying Safe, will be taking place from Monday 04 February 2019.  The key message is how to be safe in a range of situations – at home, at school, online and in the environment.

A variety of events and visitors are planned to help us deliver this key aspect of education including road and scooter safety (Leeds City Council); water safety (Canal and River Trust and RNLI); bike maintenance (Edinburgh Bicycle Co-operative); staying safe around dogs (Dogs Trust) and e-safety (One Day Creative and d:side). Some of the events require parental permission and these letters have been sent out separately. There are also some opportunities for parents and carers, from all year groups, to get involved in the week. Please contact the office to reserve places.

*THIS WEEK* Thursday 24 January 2:30pm – 3:15pm d:side drug education information session

A representative from d:side, a health education provider, will be running an information session about drug education.

 Monday 04 February 2:30-3.15pm One Day Creative, creative education provider, e-safety workshop

Wednesday 06 February Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative Dr Bike event

Bring your bike for a free bike safety check, from 8:30am – no need to book.

Thursday 07 February 2:30-3.15pm First aid workshop

A representative from Leeds Beckett University, will be running a first aid workshop for parents and carers.

The themed week is a good opportunity to continue to think about healthy, active ways to travel to school.  Children are encouraged to travel to school in a sustainable way, keeping safe along the way.

Finally, can you help? Does your job involve an aspect of safety?  If you are able to support our Staying Safe themed week by coming into school, please contact Mrs Taylor via the school office.

We will keep you up to date about events during the week through Twitter and the class news pages on our website.

Thank you for your support to keep Moortown a happy, healthy and safe school.

Allerton Grange visit

Yesterday, Year 2 walked to Allerton Grange for a sports session led by some of their sports leaders.

For the Level 1 sports leaders, this was their first session working with other children and we felt they did a great job encouraging and motivating the children and teaching and organising the session. The class were particularly excited to find out the session was based around football skills – football is definitely a class favourite!

These sessions, where we work in partnership with Allerton Grange, support the leadership skills of the sports leaders and also give our children the chance to visit a local high school and take part in an active PE session in a different setting.

After-school club availability

There’s still time to sign up to our Spring term after-school clubs starting next week.

Please contact the office if you would like to book a place on any of the following clubs which currently have spaces available.

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