Healthy packed lunches
As it is health week, copies of our Guide to Healthy Packed Lunches have been given out at lunchtime today as a reminder for children who choose to bring a packed lunch to school.
We encourage at least one piece of fruit or vegetable in packed lunches and snack items occasionally, as a treat, but aim for healthy options. Lots of learning has taken place in health week looking at quantities of sugar in drinks and the importance of drinking water to keep hydrated. We therefore encourage water which is freely available for packed lunch children.
There were also some prizes for healthy packed lunches.
27 November 2015
Following our Health themed week, this week, our whole school homework is creative and is due on Wednesday 02 December.
I make healthy choices.
Each class has taken part in a variety of learning this week including a range of visitors to support our teaching of keeping healthy (please see our Class News pages).
Your child could present this creative homework in a variety of different ways:
- a quiz which tests the knowledge of other children
- art work
- poetry
- a poster
- writing: diary, story, letter, instructions, report
- a rap
- a mindmap
- your own creative idea
We look forward to seeing your creative ideas to demonstrate how to keep healthy and this homework will be the focus of our open afternoon, next week.
Homework open afternoon, 2.40pm on Wednesday 02 December – parents/carers of children in Years 1 – 6 are invited into the classroom to help you to be aware of the standards of homework in your child’s class; it will also give you an insight into how we give feedback to your child even if the homework does not appear to be marked.
Which drinks are good for your teeth?
We’ve started an experiment this week investigating the effect that different drinks have on your teeth. Unfortunately, the children weren’t willing to give up their own wobbly teeth as they needed to keep them for the tooth fairy. Instead, we’ve used egg shells which do a similar job to the enamel on teeth.
We chose these drinks:
Water which has no sugar or sweeteners.
Fruit Shoot which has sweeteners and some natural sugar from fruit juice.
Lucozade which has 62g of sugar in a bottle.
Milk which has a little natural sugar.
Coca Cola which has 54g of sugar in a bottle.
Monster Energy which has sweeteners but no added sugar
We immersed the eggs in the liquids – after Mr Wilks had spent a daft amount of time poking holes in them with a pin and creating little hooks so we could lift them out of the liquids to look at them:
Next, we made predictions about what we thought would happen. Here are a few of our predictions:
- “I think the egg in the Lucazade will crack because Lucazade has a lot of sugar in it.”
- “Because the Fruit Shoot is purple, the egg will change colour to purple.”
- “I think the egg in the water will not change as it has no sugar in it.”
- “I think the egg in the Monster drink will break because it is an energy drink and it will push it down.”
We will update you with some photos over the next few days.
Health week
We have had a brilliant week learning about how we can keep our bodies and minds healthy. Here are a few pictures of what we’ve been up to.
Judo
Yesterday Rob taught us about judo. We learnt that judo originated in Japan. We learnt that respect is very important in judo. We also learnt that using your brain is as important as strength. Rob also taught us how to perform some judo techniques.
Yoga
This morning, Rachel taught us some yoga. It was very calm and relaxing though some of the movements were quite tough!
- “I felt relaxed” – Eleni
- “I felt liked is just woken up from a dream” – Arundeep
What’s for breakfast in your home?
Porridge? Cereal? An egg and toast?
It’s Health Week and a timely reminder about the importance of enjoying a healthy breakfast before school.
A new study has revealed that primary pupils who eat breakfast are up to twice as likely to do well at school as those who do not.
In particular, the research showed a strong link between a healthy breakfast – such as cereal, bread, dairy products or fruit – and doing well at school.
The study of around 5,000 pupils was led by a team at Cardiff University and looked at performance in Key Stage 2 teacher assessments.
More things for Health Week
Health week has been in full swing today. We started the day with a bit of judo, learning about the need to be respectful as well as handy tips for keeping each other pinned (safely and comfortably) to the floor.
In Key Stage 2, we’ve also completed half of our carousel activities and, in Year 5, we were learning all about the sugar in our snacks and drinks compared with how much we should be eating each day.
Can you name all the sports?
As an alternative to our daily Wake Up Shake Up today, Year 2 attempted all the actions from this Olympic sport themed action video.
Some sports were familiar but there were lots of new ones we tried out.
Why not try this routine at home?
Healthy eating
Food nutritionists from Catering Leeds, our school dinner provider, visited us today as part of health week. Using the eat well plate, we sorted ingredients from some of our school dinner meals. We also learnt about the importance of eating the right amount of different types of foods and looked at some healthy snack alternatives.
It was great to hear the visitors were impressed by the children’s prior knowledge of 5 a day and the eat well plate.
Why not try this at home? Ask your child to tell you which part of your meal goes in the different sections of the eat well plate (look out for copies of the eat well plate to be sent home this week).
