To understand how behaviour can impact on a group

By Olivia Mead7th November 2022

Year 5 discussed the importance of individual rights and responsibilities, and how these can potentially impact others – answering these questions:

• Why do we need rules in society?
• How do rules keep us safe?
• Why might people break rules?
• What can we do if we think a rule is not fair?
• How can rules in a school help us to learn and grow?

For each right and responsibility, we thought of an appropriate reward if children are seen to be upholding that right. We also thought of an alternative consequence if children were not showing responsible behaviour and the right was being ignored.

Some examples included:

Being kind to other children in your class. The rewards for this were to be given dojo points, table points or to have one day per week on chrome books. If this right was to be ignored, consequences would have to take place. The children came up with sensible consequences such as: have a playtime taken from you, having to clean other children’s’ mess or having to write in pencil all day if you have a pen license.

Finally, as a class, we discussed the rewards and consequences from the lesson the children would like to see in our classroom.

These rights and responsibilities are important to discuss as children gage an understanding of the importance of obeying rules and working together to achieve their goals.

Y4 PE: Outdoor Adventure Activities: Problem Solving

By Miss L STEWART7th November 2022

Y4E are enjoying our current Outdoor Adventure Activities in PE and recognising the benefits of working effectively as a team in order to solve problems.  The children have been sharing their opinions on the best way to solve the posed tasks and listening to each other to ensure that everyone feels values and included.

Here in the Bench Challenge, the children had to co-operate with each other to get themselves into height order whilst standing on a bench without touching the floor.

As you can see, the moves were tricky but the children demonstrated great TEAMWORK to accomplish the task!

In the Pen Challenge, the children had to work together as a team to place the marker pen down so that it stood up as far as possible from behind a line. Firstly the task was completed independently…

The children then had to try and better their independent measured reach by working as a Team!

We found that by reaching with support using a lever technique or wrist grip for support that their measured reach was improved.

Great TEAMWORK Y4E!

Bonfire Night!

By Mrs H WILEMAN4th November 2022

To celebrate Bonfire Night, we enjoyed using blow and fringe painting techniques to create our fireworks.

Tim had so much fun squeezing the paint onto his tray before fringe painting.

Some of the fireworks we saw on our video were a little too noisy for us but we enjoyed looking at the colours once the volume was turned off.

             

Blake appeared to understand the importance of fire safety keeping a safe distance from our cosy Hub fire. Blake repeatedly said “Hot!”

Y4 PE: Invasion Games: Football

By Miss L STEWART31st October 2022

Y4E were able to recap and demonstrate their knowledge of the skills they learnt in Y3 last year when we began our Football lessons in our new PE Invasion Games unit this term. So far, we have utilised our knowledge of working as a team, space, dribbling, passing and control of the ball as well as attacking and defending.

Y3 JIGSAW: Being Me in My World

By Miss L STEWART23rd October 2022

In Year 3, we have been identifying our positive traits and the things we would like to achieve this academic year. From achieving a pen licence, learning our times tables, improving our running speed so that we can run faster on Sport’s Day next year to reading more books, the children all recognise that to be the best that they can be they need to practise in order to achieve their newly set goals.

In a class discussion, the children recognised that our actions often bring rewards as well as consequences and have identified the many ways that we can help each other to remain positive. We recognised that at Christopher Pickering, we receive Dojos as a reward and that our Traffic Light System is is place to manage both positive and negative actions. A range of scenarios were explored which enabled the children to work as a team to agree on the many ways we can can solve a situation together as well as to agree on the rewards and consequences that should be in place.

 

NSPCC PANTS

By Miss P STATHERS21st October 2022

Year 2 have been learning about the NSPCC Pants rules in PSHE this week. We loved learning the Pantosaurus song and the we designed our own pants!

 

Y4 JIGSAW: Being Me in My World

By Miss L STEWART21st October 2022

In Year 4, we have discussed the concept of the way an individual’s attitude and actions can make a difference to the class team. We also explored the concept of inclusion and exclusion and all agreed that feeling included allows an individual to feel that they belong. We then shared our own definitions of what Teamwork is…

Standing up for each other
Inclusion
Respect
Being kind
Working together 
Feeling Safe

The children went on to identify all of the individuals who are a part of the Christopher Pickering Community and realised that in order for our school to function effectively that everyone works together as a TEAM!

For Mental Health Week 2022, as a class we explored the question ‘What is Mental Health?’ We worked collaboratively to arrange and array of situations which may impact on either our physical and mental health or in some instances both.

 

 

Hull Hub Fair!

By Mrs H WILEMAN14th October 2022

We have had the best time exploring all our emotions and senses at our ‘Hull Hub Fair’ this week!

Our Hub classroom was set up just like the real Hull Fair with stalls and simulating rides!

 

We travelled in style in our ‘Hub Bus‘ observing our local area and visiting Hull Fair!

We saw lots of rides and were amazed at the size of the ‘Big Wheel’. We viewed the homes of the travelling community and bought some tasty treats to try at our food tasting session.

We couldn’t wait to taste all the food we bought at Hull Fair! We tasted candy floss, pomegranates, brandy snap, nougat. We loved the texture of the coconut but we didn’t want to taste it.

We made our own candy floss, using cotton wool. Some of us weren’t too sure about the texture and didn’t like it sticking to our fingers.

Making our own chocolate apples was the best activity of the week. Most of us went home with very chocolate but very happy faces.

World Mental Health Day

By Miss P STATHERS13th October 2022

To celebrate World Mental Health Day, the children came to school dressed in yellow. In Year 2, we discussed how we have different feelings throughout the day. We thought about times when we had felt different emotions. In groups we then matched different emotions to different situations. Image

During story time we read Ruby’s Worry and discussed how we deal with our worries.

Mental health awareness week!

By Olivia Mead12th October 2022

For Mental Health Awareness Week, Year 5 have been learning about mental/physical wellbeing. We spoke about how we can improve our wellbeing by moving, eating and sleeping; we discussed how we can achieve these areas and the children worked together to complete the wellbeing jigsaw template.