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The club provided a supportive and enjoyable environment where children took part in creative, interactive activities designed to build confidence, communication, and social connections.
The children who attended said:
“It was fun and relaxing.”
“It was exciting and brilliant.”
“Amazing.”
“I liked the crafts.”
Year 2 are now on their final Jigsaw piece which is ‘Changing Me’.
We have been thinking about changes that happen that are out of our control, like growing older and changes to us this means.
As part of this, some of the children, brought in photographs of older member of their family, how they are now and how they used to be.
They were excited to share them with their classmates and this enabled some great discussions.
Year 2 have started their fifth Jigsaw piece in PSHE this term, we are thinking all about Relationships.
We will be having discussion about:- families, keeping safe, friends and conflicts, secrets, trust and appreciation and celebrating special relationships.
Last week we explored keeping safe and physical contact.
First, we chatted about how physical touch is important to humans, that it can help us to feel loved, protected and safe. We spoke about how it’s ok to not like some kinds of physical contact and that asking permission and respecting each others voices is important.
As a class, we discussed some of the touches that we don’t like e.g. fighting in the playground, pushing and shoving, a smack or a thump, smothering hugs from a relative or family friend.
The children understood that it is okay not to like some forms of physical contact/touch and also that different people prefer different types of touch e.g. some people like being tickled and others don’t.
We spoke about how we can all make sure that our hands are ‘kind hands’ that don’t hurt other people. We ensured that everyone knew they have the right to say, “please stop, I don’t like that”, and that they knew who they can talk to if someone touches them in a way that they do not like.
After that we had an amazing lesson… first we drew shapes on the back of our partners had, trying to guess it and also saying how it felt…
…then we shared hugs…
…and high-fives!
After that, we drew around our own hand…
…then, we drew around our friend’s hand…
…and finally, we wrote in our books about the touches we like and the ones that we don’t.
Mrs Smith’s class were very excited to visit the library this week.
We love to look at the books and share stories with each other. It is always calm and relaxing when we visit the library. It helps us to clear our minds and get lost in a magical world far away when we read some of the amazing fiction books we have.
We can’t wait until our next visit when get to read more books.
This week in Year 5, we have been exploring explanation texts. We wrote a guide on how to be a good friend, focusing closely on the importance of being kind, listening and offering support, as well as being honest and trustworthy. This work has linked closely with Wonder, the book we are currently reading, as we have been discussing the importance of kindness, empathy and treating others with respect.
This week has been Science Week, and in year 5 we have taken part in the BBC Live Lesson. During this session, the children learned about space and light, which linked to our Autumn term science topic on Space, where we explored the sun, moon, orbiting, and the other planets in our solar system.
In our science lessons this week, we continued learning about the human life cycle, focusing on the final stage: old age. The children discussed how our bodies change as we grow older and what we can do to support a healthy lifestyle throughout our lives. They then created informative posters highlighting ways to stay healthy to promote a better quality of life in old age.
Year 3 have spent time this Mental Health Awareness Week discussing how we belong.
Some of us belong with our families, some with sports teams, some with friends, some with clubs. We realised we all belonged somewhere and that we are a really important part of something. One of the most important places we belong is in our classroom with our peers and our teacher.
In HUB 2 today, we have talked about the word BELONGING and the different ways we can feel that we belong. From this, we created our own unique maps, entitled THIS IS MY PLACE, which identify the places, groups, activities including our interests that provide us with a sense of belonging.
As you can see, our hobbies, interests, pets, families, friends alongside our special places ( school, home and favourite restaurants) all have a special place in our daily lives as they all make us feel that we belong.
Safer Internet Day is held every February all around the world. Last year, over 170 different countries celebrated the day! Safer Internet Day is a chance to think about any worries we might have about using technology and the internet, but it’s also about celebrating all the fantastic things technology can help us with. Last year, over half of the children in the UK heard about or joined in with Safer Internet Day.
To mark Safer Internet Day this year, the Year 5/6 children took part in a whole-phase assembly.
This year for Safer Internet Day we were thinking about an exciting type of technology: AI.
AI stands for artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is a type of computer system, which has been designed to try and do some of the things a human brain can do. Over time, computer scientists have developed AI to try and do some of the amazing things our brains can do. AI uses information too, but it’s normally called data. AI can be trained to spot patterns and make certain decisions, and as the technology improves, it is being used in all kinds of exciting ways.
AI is like any technology – we can use it to do amazing things, but we also need to remember to use it safely and responsibly, in a way that makes you and other people feel good.
Here are some important things to remember when using AI technology:
This term our Jigsaw piece has been ‘Dreams and Goals‘.
We have been thinking about what skills enable us to achieve our goals, how we can help ourselves to achieve success and finding out what our individual learning strengths are.
First, we each chose an individual achievable challenge:-
Next, we took part in a group challenge to make a dream bird.
Finally, we thought about the skills that were needed to achieve both these challenges.
During our individual challenge, we printed out instructions/words, watched a video, read and repeated … and practised, practised, practised!
The children were excited to perform to each other the following week.
Then the children all participated in a group challenge to make a dream bird.
The children were all able to work well in a group to create an end product. They communicated well and used each others skills, teamwork, problem solving and praise were displayed. They were able to explain some of the ways they worked well in their group to create the end product and could express how they felt to be working as part of their group, using words such as successful, proud, achievement and happy.
Just look at their amazing dream bird creations!
