Today we met the baby chicks visiting school at the moment.

We each took turns to hold the chicks, stroking them very gently. We talked about how their fluff will soon turn into feathers and how they will grow and change.

To complete our week of Healthy Lifestyles, today we focussed on a healthy mind!

We completed mindful colouring listening to calm music, practised deep breathing exercises (ask us about the smelling the flower and blowing the leaf technique), and we also went to relax and watch the clouds pass by, looking at the shapes they make.

Such a relaxing day in this glorious weather.

This week has been healthy lifestyles week in school.

Today Reception had a great time completing a range of activities all about how to keep our body healthy. 

We looked at a balanced diet and the importance of eating healthily. We then designed our own healthy meal plate.

We spoke about how regular exercise is important as one of the ways to keep our bodies healthy. We then completed a yoga session, carried out a 1Km run around our playground, joined in a Zumba session with Mrs Trevor and used our outdoor gym to exercise our bodies. It was hot, tiring work but great fun! After the exercise we discussed how our bodies had changed thinking about how our body felt before, during and after exercise. Well done Reception!

Today we went exploring our local area to conduct some fieldwork. We used our observational skills to look for the different signs of nature in our local area. Whilst on our walk we saw Hawthorne trees, holly, thistles, brambles, ferns, buttercups, daisies and foxgloves. We even spotted some butterflies and ducks too. We saw the local landmark of the Wrekin in the distance. The children were very well behaved following the Be Smart code and enjoyed looking at the variety of nature around us.

Another amazing day in Reception.

Mrs Sturrock and Mrs Evans’ Star of the Week this week is Joshua for excellent mental maths work and impressing all the adults in class with his excellent knowledge of number facts. Well done Joshua! 😊

This week has been Careers Week at Newdale. We have learnt about different jobs and discussed what we might like to do when we grow up.
This morning was so exciting as we had a special visitor in school called Sarah who works at Hoo Zoo.
Sarah told us all about her job at Hoo Zoo and some of the things she has to do while she is there. She also brought in a tortoise and a snake for us to look at. Sarah told us some information about these two, very different, animals and then let us stroke them if we wanted to. We were all very brave and everybody in the class stroked both the snake and the tortoise. What a fantastic day we had! Well done everyone.

This week has been Career Day at Newdale. We have learnt about different jobs and discussed what we might like to do when we grow up.
Yesterday morning was so exciting. We had a special visitor in class to tell us about his job. This was Sergeant Ashley who works in the Army.
Sergeant Ashley first taught us how to march like real soldiers. He then put us through our paces in a team based obstacle course to demonstrate the Army is all about teamwork. We then got to see what he has to carry around with him whilst away in his enormous backpack. We even got to try on his bulletproof army vest and helmet and then crawled through his tent. We all had the best time.