Miss Wilson is reporting for Moortown Magazine.
Moortown Primary School, set in picturesque North Leeds, was where ground-breaking learning took place this week. Experts claim that Moortown Primary is home to some of the most hardworking pupils in the country.
This week, Year 3 has enjoyed: brilliant raft building, a confusing code breaker, phenomenal physical education, resilience in reading sessions, and fantastic fact files.
After being presented with the challenge of designing and creating a raft in order to save Mr Owen, who was stranded on a desert island, the students worked in pairs to meet the design criteria.
Will, a member of the class, said: “It was really exciting and fun.”
Jessica commented: “I liked using our own designs.”
On Monday, the students’ creations will be put to the test to see if they actually float and can save the poor Y4 teacher.
Problem-solving has also appeared in maths this week, where children were faced with a code-breaker situation. Number sentences were given to the young mathematicians, who had to use column addition to work out the answer. Their resulting number translated to a letter which formed a word. This is what the code breakers had to say:
Rayn, who enjoyed the task despite its difficulty, stated: “I found it really tricky to match the number answers to the letter codes.”
“It was hard because it was a race against other teams,” fellow classmate, Emma, said.
The class will apply this knowledge to their subtraction studies next week.
Year 3 were visited once again by local gymnastic experts. The focus, mirroring previous weeks, was balance and coordination alongside lots of elements of fun.
“I liked it because it was fun sliding on the benches using our bodies!” a visibly excited Yusayrah purported.
Leo claimed: “It was tricky bending down on one leg with the other one sticking out in front of you.”
Check out these epic slow-mo videos captured at the scene:
Stretching tall and jumping high
Balancing on the benches
Bunny hops
During reading this week, Year 3 has sampled a variety of tasks. One of these challenges was ‘Draw and Label’ where students listened to a description from their class novel and had to sketch out how they imagined the scene to look.
Hifza, who is soon to turn 8, said: “I thought this activity was interesting because I’ve never done it before.”
Meanwhile, Musa alleged that it was fun because he enjoyed labelling the drawing.
Continuing their geography theme in topic lessons (‘LO: to know about global regions’), Year 3 worked collaboratively to build a country fact file in pairs.
Regarding the task, Jemima remarked: “It was hard because some of the words were really tricky.”
“I enjoyed searching on the iPads,” said Mr Laverick, aged 7.
If you haven’t already guessed, this week and next week’s English theme is newspapers! We have discussed the features of news reports and learnt about the punctuation required for quotes and speech. (Ask your child what a colon means! “Hang on…”) This has been tricky for many, as it may be completely new, so when we did succeed with our learning, it tasted even more sweet!
It was great to meet lots of parents at the homework review on Thursday and I hope you enjoyed looking at and hearing about our amazingly creative homework! Here are some highlights:
I look forward to seeing you on Monday or Tuesday for parents’ evening.
