With just two more weeks left of the school year, it’s time to start thinking of our Summer Competition!
Summer competition
Each year, we invite you and your child to take part in our Summer Competition. We’ve asked for pics to show extreme reading, happy and healthy, smiley faces… This year, we’re inviting you to think about our name. More specifically, take a pic of one particular letter in MOORTOWN, but one which is hidden away or created in some unsual way.
Each letter is for one year group in school (this list refers to current years)…
- M – Reception
- O – Year 1
- O – staff
- R – Year 2
- T – Year 3
- O – Year 4
- W – Year 5
- N – Year 6
The winning entry will be a letter that’s been ‘found’ or created in an unusual way. There’s a £10 book token for one winner in each year group.
To enter, email your pics to moortownoffice@spherefederation.org by Friday 06 September. Enter ‘Summer competition’ as the subject. All entries will be displayed in school, and there are prizes for our favourites.
Here’s an idea to get you thinking…
Uniform
In the last couple of weeks, we’ve featured our updated Uniform Policy to help you to start preparing early for the new school year. Please read the latest version.
This week, we’re looking at what our policy says about jewellery…
Only discreet (ie small, not brightly coloured) stud earrings and items that are absolutely required by a religion are allowed. Advisors recommend no earrings are worn for PE; therefore, we will ask your child to remove earrings before the lesson and put them back in after the lesson. This will be carried out by the child. If they are unable to remove or put their earrings back in by themselves, they must not wear them on the day they have PE.
A watch or step counter is allowed. Any device that connects to the internet (eg a smart watch) or that can record (including taking photos) is not allowed for safeguarding reasons. Such items should be left at home, but can be handed over at the start of the day. Refer to the Positive Relationships Policy for more details of items not allowed.
We don’t accept responsibility for any loss or damage to an individual’s property.
Staying safe
Next week is another Living and Learning themed week.
The key message is how to be safe in a range of situations: at home, at school, online and in the environment. A variety of events and visitors are planned to help us deliver this key aspect of education, including…
- road safety (Leeds City Council)
- water safety (Canal and River Trust and RNLI)
- fire safety (West Yorkshire Fire Service)
- staying safe around dogs (Dogs Trust)
- first aid (Leeds Beckett and Red Cross)
- safety in our community (PCSOs)
- e-safety (d:side)
Some of the events require parental permission and these letters have been sent out separately.
There are also some opportunities for parents and carers, from all year groups, to get involved in the week:
- Monday 08 July, 3pm – 3:30pm: d:side e-safety drop in information session – a representative from d:side, a health education provider, will be available to discuss e-safety issues and details of your child’s e-safety learning in the themed week
- Thursday 11 July from 8:30am: West Yorkshire Police bike register event –
pupils are invited to bring along their bikes to be registered at this bike security marking event at school; registering your bike helps police and retailers identify and verify the legitimate owner of bikes that have been stolen or are being resold; this is a first come, first served event - Friday 12 July 2:35-3:15pm: Leeds Beckett University Carnegie Great Outdoors basic first aid session for parents/carers – there are limited places available so please confirm your place via School Gateway
Our Living and Learning statement is I make safe choices, including online. Check out these tips for helping children stay safe online.
The themed week is a good opportunity to continue to think about healthy, active and safe ways to travel to school. Children are encouraged to travel to school in a sustainable way, keeping safe along the way.
For a chance to win one of three £10 Love2Shop vouchers, we’d love to see their active travel staying safe photos, maybe using a traffic crossing or wearing their bike helmet (send photos to moortownoffice@spherefederation.org). Photos should be sent by 4pm on Thursday 11 July and winners will be announced on Friday 12 July.
Due to the rising costs of visitors to school, this year, we’re requesting a voluntary contribution of £1 per pupil to go towards paying for visitors. This can be made on School Gateway. Thank you for your support with this.
Thank you for your support to keep Moortown a happy and healthy and safe place to learn!
Next week is also the Key Stage 2 production: Tuesday and Wednesday at 6pm.
