Author: rmpstaff

This week we will have two sessions on RSHP on Tuesday. The first session we will continue to look at Friends and Friendship (full details of what is covered can be found on a previous blog post) and in the second section we will look at ‘My Body is Changing’.

The children are working on the topic of my body. They are learning about how their body changes with puberty. To help the children understand puberty’s main changes, they have been learning about menstruation (a girl having their period) and about erections/wet dreams. We learn about these things now so that children understand that they do not need to worry about the changes that will happen. The children are being encouraged to speak to a trusted adult if they have any questions or worries. If you would like to help your child continue their learning at home, you may find the following books and websites useful.
This is a good article to read yourself or with your child: http://kidshealth.org/en/kids/puberty.html

The local library should be able to get these books for you:

Usborne Facts of Life: Growing Up ISBN-10: 0746031424

What’s Happening to Me (Girls Edition) Facts of Life (Usborne ISBN-10: 0746069952) also available digitally ISBN-10: 0746069952

What’s Happening to Me (Boys) Facts of Life (Usborne ISBN-10: 0746076630)

if you wish to look over the resources which will be used in class please follow the link below and navigate to the ‘Part 2: My Body is Changing (inc. Menstruation)’ and under Friends and Friendship ‘Part 2: Making and Keeping Friends’.

Second Level

If you have any queries or questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Mr McPheely

Please find attached the home learning for this week. You can submit home learning on teams, via email or a paper copy by Thursday.

Thanks!

Mr McPheely

This week you have been set Education City Numeracy Tasks for Thursday, 20th of May. The tasks will cover our current topic of algebraic thinking, division and times table revision.

We are continuing to work on our JASS-My Interests at home. This can be brought in to school and I will take a photo of it, emailed as a photo or upload a photo of the evidence to TEAMS. A reminder of what this entails is below.

I hope you all have a lovely week. Any questions or anything not clear, please just ask me.

Homework

• Education City – This week your homework is to revise the aw/au digraph which is the colour orange on our Edinburgh Sound Chart.
• Tricky words – See if you can watch this video and shout out the word when Miss Copeland shows them to you slowly or if you want a challenge, see if you can do it quickly!
• Reading – Reading books will go home on Thursday. Please return them on Tuesday when you come back to school (bank holiday on Monday). You can read a range of stage books for free on the Oxford Old eBook Library.
• Maths – Pupils, have a go at playing some of the Natwest MoneySense games here and there’s a parent area too.

To view this week’s learning, click below.

Gymnastics

Gymnastics has risks, and we are learning to reduce and manage these risks. We all know that Miss Copeland’s instructions keep us safe and when we prove that we can be safe, we can add more challenge! This week, we learned how to ‘spot’ for each other. A spotters job is to make sure the equipment is ready and to watch and catch them if needed. We also learned how to land safely (knees bent and arms straight out in front. We can all perform a straight jump!

You may wish to wear trousers or shorts under your skirts/dresses on Wednesdays and Fridays

Worry Monsters

A Worry Monster likes to eat worries. You can draw your worry, write it down or ask an adult to write it down. Feed it to your monster and it will gobble it up! We enjoyed getting super creative (and very messy) decorating our worry monsters. Thank you to the Equalities Group for the challenge!

Dinosaurs

We had a live session with Lizzy from Lapworth Museum of Geology in Birmingham. She showed us Roary, their allosaurus, along with fossilised poo, footprints, the backplate of a Stegosaurus, a sabertoothed tiger and a maiasaura skull!

*We had a few technical issues during our session, so Lizzy wants to try and join us again on another day!* You can also check our their YouTube page

You can check out some of the artefacts on this virtual 3d platform https://sketchfab.com/LapworthMuseum

We enjoyed being archaeologists and brushing off hidden bones

Wow! Our dinosaurs went on so many different adventures over the weekend. I can see some of you researched all about your dinosaurs and some have used your imagination and creativity to look after them! Super job P1!

Money

This week we were matching the correct coin to the price of the item. We also learnt the names of all of the coins. We have to be careful with our 1p and £1 coins. Some pupils know that £1 is the same as 100p.

We also set up a shop where you pay with dot cards. Some pupils noticed that you could combine the dot cards to pay for an item e.g. 1+2+2 = 5.
Next week we will be replacing these dot cards with 1p, 2p and 5p coins, aiming to add the coins together to pay for an item.

On Thursday and Friday we were revising Greater Alligator. Would he rather eat four lots of 1p coins or one 5p coin? Watch the video below to remind yourself about what he likes to eat…

Another plant update

Theodora has also been taking super care of her plant! Remember to send your photos to admin if you want to share them on the blog.

Have a great week!
Miss Copeland, Mrs B and Mrs McGlashan

Check out our very own Worry monsters!

Here we are having a great time with outdoor (& maths) learning in our playground and Dunbar’s Close:

More outdoor fun:

MAY highlights…