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• Healthy School Week - Day 1

  Mon 09 Feb 2015

  We have had a fabulous start to Healthy School Week! Thank you to everyone who joined us for a delicious and healthy breakfast, it was a brilliant way to start the day! Don't worry if you couldn't make it for breakfast today, we will be serving breakfast everyday this week from 8am. Many thanks to all those parents/carers who visited their child's class to read together with them this morning. Lots of lovely reading activities were enjoyed by all including reading fiction and non-fiction books, using story sacks to act out stories and to play games, reading and writing real and alien words and even looking at Learning Journeys and Wow work folders. Again, don't worry if you missed it this morning, you are able to go into your child's class from 8.30am everyday this week, we look forward to seeing more of you tomorrow! 

   

  After a very busy start to the day learning continued in many exciting forms today. Every class completed FINS. The children all worked very hard on their balancing, jumping and hoping skills! Thank you to all those who have sent in their sponsorship forms already and if you return the form and money this week your child will be presented with their certificate in assembly on Friday. You can continue to send in sponsorship forms after half term and your child will receive their certificate after the holiday. All the money raised is greatly appreciated by Loros and the pupils at Westfield Infant School have done a fantastic job of fundraising so far.

   

  We also had a visit from the school nurse today where Reception classes learnt all about staying clean and healthy by washing their hands carefully and Year 1 learnt all about dental hygiene. Ask your children what they have learnt! When do they need to wash their hands? Why do they need to wash their hands? How do they make sure they wash their hands properly? How often do they need top brush their teeth? Which foods have lots of sugar? Which foods are good for your teeth?

   

  As well as all of these exciting visitors into school children have been busy in the classes learning about healthy eating, what is inside your body, the jobs of organs, the importance of sleep, the importance of exercise, how to live a healthy lifestyle, how to stay safe on the internet and how to keep our bodies clean and what to do if we get head lice!

   

  We have had a busy and exciting day of learning so I hope all the children manage to have a healthy dinner and an early night so they have lots of rest ready for more learning in the morning!

  

• Year 1 Superhero Day

  Fri 06 Feb 2015

  Today Year 1 had an amazing Superhero Day! For our homework, we had to design and make a superhero outfit which we wore to school. We did a Circle Time in the morning, where we showed everyone our superhero outfit and told them our superhero name and what powers we have. Throughout the day, we did lots of exciting activities including; sewing and decorating our 'mini me' hand puppet, talking about fruit and why it is healthy and practising our knife skills to make our own fruit salad. Finally, we used our superhero powers on the patio! We had a fantastic day and love our 'mini me' puppets to remind us of the day.

   

  Thank you to all the parents for the huge effort made for Superhero Day. The outfits were FANTASTIC!

  

• Captain Carrot Assembly

  Wed 04 Feb 2015
  We enjoyed a fantastic Captain Carrot show today which helped us to learn all about healthy eating ready for our Healthy School Week next week. We learnt about the fantastic vitamins and minerals in fruits and vegetables which are very healthy and help us to learn, grow and to concentrate. We also the villains Baron VonBurger and the Noxious Nuggets! We learnt that burgers and nuggets and chips are full of fat which is not healthy and makes us feel tired and lacking in energy. We thoroughly enjoyed the show and learnt lots of healthy eating messages. Now we are trying to put this healthy eating into practice!

  

• A Firefighter Visits Year 1

  Tue 03 Feb 2015

  Today a firefighter came to visit us at school as we have been learning about superheroes.

  We thought about road safety and some of the important things to think about when we are in a car or near a road. Can you share any of these with your adults at home?

  We also watched a video about a firefly called Frances who listened to Cocky the Cockroach and lit a match! Unfortunately, he burnt his wings and caused a lot of damage to his city. Frances learned to never play with matches. We know this too!

  The firefighter taught us what to do if our clothes ever caught fire. We now know to STOP! DROP! ROLL! The firefighter also explained that when there is a fire, we need to protect ourselves from the smoke and he said we could do this by crawling along the floor to the nearest fire exit. We listened really well and know what to do when we hear a fire alarm at home or at school.

  

• Radio Leicester - Interview with Miss Hamilton and Mrs Guest

  Mon 02 Feb 2015

  Today Miss Hamilton and Mrs Guest were interviewed on Radio Leicester about their adventures visiting schools in India at the end of last term.

  All the children here at school listened to the live  interview from their classrooms!

  To hear the interview please click the following link. (The interview begins 12mins:48secs in to the program and lasts for approximately 6 minutes - it will be available to hear for 29 days)

   

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02h758y