Living and Learning – First Aid
Last week, Y4 learnt what to do in case someone is suddenly ill, injured or needs help.
Basic Rules:
➤If an accident happens, it is most important that before you do anything else you must ensure that it is safe to approach and offer help.
➤If anything happens to you then you will be unable to help anyone else. This could mean one casualty then becomes two.
If it’s serious, call 999 and remember LIONEL…
➤Location. Tell them where the emergency is and where you want them to arrive.
➤Incident. Tell them what has happened.
➤Other services. Do you need more than one?
➤Number of people that are involved.
➤Extent of the injuries. What types of injuries do people have?
➤Location. Repeat again where they need to arrive.
What would you do in an emergency?
Year 4 Class Assembly
Hello!
This Thursday (31st March) Year 4 will be showcasing their class assembly at 2.50 pm. We hope that lots of grown ups can make it as we have been rehearsing all week!
We look forward to having you back in school, finally!
Miss Birch
Living and Learning – Health and Prevention
For the last two weeks, Year 4 have been learning about the importance of personal hygiene including handwashing and sleep.
The children have been talking and mostly (due to COVID) have been recapping what they already know about the importance of personal hygiene. Keeping ourselves clean means that we keep ourselves healthy and in turn help others around us too. This is has worked well in conjunction with our science topic which is all about micro-organisms. The children were able to identify and classify bacteria, viruses and fungi as well as talk about how some are good for us and some are dangerous. These are things that cannot be seen by the naked eye and therefore, highlighted the importance of handwashing!
Secondly, the importance of sleep was interesting because now the children are getting older, they forget just how important sleep is. Children should get around 10-12 hours sleep a night. This sounds like a lot but makes such a difference to how they feel during the day. Year 4 worked together to create their own night time routines to ensure that they get the most sleep possible! I have personally noticed a difference in the class when they have gotten more sleep so fingers crossed this continues!
NSPCC Speak out Stay safe
During our recent Staying Safe themed week, all pupils took part in the NSPCC Speak out Stay safe learning featuring Ant and Dec and Buddy.
We are proud to receive our certificate to recognise this.
Big Walk and Wheel
Get set… we’re taking part in Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel 2022 (the new name for Big Pedal), the UK’s largest inter-school cycling, walking, wheeling and scooting challenge. The challenge runs from 21 March to 1 April. It’s free and we would love everyone to be involved.
What do you need to do?
Encourage your child(ren) to walk, scoot or cycle to school on as many days as possible during the event. Park and stride (parking your car further away from school, for example, Marks and Spencer car park and walking, scooting or biking the final part of the journey) also counts.
Why we are taking part
As a happy and healthy school, Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel is a great way to build physical activity in children’s daily routine which is important for their physical health and mental wellbeing.
Active school runs also help to reduce congestion and air pollution outside the school gate. A 2021 YouGov study showed nearly half of UK children worry about air pollution near their school. Children thought active travel was the best away to bring down these pollution levels.
Plus there are some great prizes to be won every day if we get enough children taking part!
Useful resources
To help you prepare, Sustrans has developed a handy free guide packed with advice, games and challenges to help you have hassle-free cycle, walk or scoot to school.
Download your free family guide here.
Times tables
Hello!
Hopefully you have already heard about this from your child but if not, Times Table Rock Stars tournaments are back on! Our focus in Year 4 at the moment are times tables. They’re so fundamental in being able to develop in maths.
Year 4 have just beaten Year 6 in the first round, which is amazing, but we need to keep it up to be able to beat Year 3…
Don’t worry, you don’t need to do anything differently but just make sure your child is logging on to TTRS daily and playing as many games as you can to keep us in the lead. Not only is this fun and exciting for the children but it’s going to improve their rapid recall of their times tables which is essential during lesson time.
Bring on the next tournament!
Cross country runners
Well done to pupils who took part in the Leeds Schools Athletics Association Saturday morning race at Middleton Park. These races are open to Key Stage 2 children. This was the final race for the season but we will continue to offer these races next year.
It was great to hear they were encouraging each other at the event. Great work!
Cross country opportunity
We are pleased to invite KS2 children to compete in an upcoming cross country race as part of the Leeds Schools Athletics Association cross country programme of Saturday morning races. Children will compete against pupils from other Leeds schools.
The race will take place at 10am on Saturday 5th March at Middleton Park (next to the John Charles Centre for Sport, Middleton Grove, Leeds, LS11 5DJ).
There are opportunities for Year 3 and 4 girls and boys (under 9) to race 900m and Year 5 and 6 girls and boys (under 11) to race 1500m. Once your child has completed their race, you are free to leave the event.
Please note, parents/carers are responsible for taking and supervising their child/children.
If your child is interested in taking part, please respond to the the message recently sent out.
We look forward to pupils representing our school at this event.
If you are unable to take part in this event, you may want to join the free Sunday morning junior parkruns held locally at Roundhay Park, Temple Newsam and Boddington.
Half term Dog’s Trust workshop
Rachael, from the Dog’s Trust in Leeds, visited all classes last week in our Staying Safe themed week.
She is holding a half term workshop next week and she would like us to share this with our families.
Contact Rachael, by email, if your child is interested in attending.
Safety Week!
Hello!
Moortown Primary School are half way through their first themed week of the school year – Safety Week.
Year 4 have been visited by a handful of different experts in being safe and more specifically, being safe on the roads, online and around fire!
Monday focused on road safety and the children learnt this sequence for when walking out and about:
- THINK
- STOP
- LOOK
- LISTEN
Each group then ventured out into Moortown to put it to good use!
Tuesday was Safer Internet Day where the children learnt about being safe online. They had a great visitor (a previous police detective!) who talked through all of the must dos and must don’ts when online! The key points included:
- the importance of being kind online,
- how to keep personal information safe,
- being careful to avoid strangers and scams
- who to talk to if you experience or see cyber-bullying.
Ask your children at home on how to stay safe online!
Today, we were visited by fire fighters and the police. STOP, DROP and ROLL plus GET OUT, STAY OUT and CALL 999 were a focus. The children were so inquisitive when it came to learning about the visitors day to day lives and especially loved seeing the fire engine!
We’re looking forward to the rest of the week… bring it on!
