26 April 2024
Orca
Today we began with - as always- with Worship by the Waves where Mrs Popay taught the school the story of St Oswald.
After that, we moved to PE where we are focusing on Rounders, we discussed the history of Rounders - did you know that even the Tudors used to play Rounders? The Orca class first of all, led the warm up where each child gave a different cardiovascular exercise for the class to complete, we then worked on accuracy and our under arm throwing with a partner. Next, the class split into groups of five - surprisingly it became five boys and five girls - they then took part in the different positions on a rounders team, back stop, bowler, batter and fielder.
After PE we had a quick break and moved to PSHE where Mrs Brealey taught a session on need and want. Again the children split into groups and worked together to categorise certain items into needs and wants.
Next we continued with our Youth Leader Award and the children were introduced to some leaders who can said to be inspirational - Michelle Obama, Queen Elizabeth II, Gareth Southgate and Dr John Sentamu, we discussed the qualities that these people had and how they can be described as being a good leader. The children then got into pairs and one person in the pair was given a blindfold the non blindfolded person then had to lead them around the beach and over different obstacles. We discussed the qualities of which a person needed to be classed as a good leader - good communication, clear instructions and trustworthy.
After lunch at the Golf Club we then headed back to school to finish the next part of our Youth Leader Award where we then chose a leader and researched them and their qualities and how they are seen to be a good leader, choices included Ghandi, Mother Teresa and Owen Morgan.
We continued our story at the beach today with ‘Once Upon a Tide’ by Tony Mitton and Selina Young again this week.
After worship by the waves it began to rain so we didn’t listen to the story straight away instead we thought about, how in the story, the two characters walk on shingle. We discussed what shingle was and then looked along the beach for some small stones so we could make our own shingle. After that we used the beanbags to practise our throwing and catching and played a game on ‘The farmers in his den’. When the rain stopped we were able to listen to the story. In the story the characters find some treasure. We had a small treasure chest and looked at what was inside. We thought about words that described the treasure and wrote some sentences. They also used a compass in the story so we used some compasses to find north. We spoke about how to remember the order of the compass points. We came up with our own which was ‘Never (north) East (east) Soggy (south) Waffles (west). We drew compassed in the sand and wrote the sounds for the words.
After lunch we went back to the beach for our RE. We heard the Hindu story ‘Rama and Sita’. The story has the message to tell people that good overcomes evil and light overcomes dark. We collected shells to use as the diva lamps that helped Rama and Sita get back home.