Class News

Living and Learning: PANTS (the underwear rule)

In Living and Learning this week, we have discussed the NSPCC’s underwear rule and talking about the acronym PANTS.

More information about the Underwear Rule, including a short film and a parent guide can be found here including a parent guide for you to follow up this learning at home.

Food Technology: Summer Garden Salad

Today, Year 3 made a Summer Garden Salad! The children prepared all the ingredients, assembled the salad and ate almost all of it.

We used the bridge and claw cutting skills to cut up all the vegetables. The bridge was best for the new potatoes and the plum tomatoes. The claw was more suitable for the gem lettuce leaves and cucumber.

The carrot was grated to keep it fine and we boiled the new potatoes until they were soft!

We stayed safe by using these skills carefully and taking our time.

After we assembled all of the vegetables, we whisked together the yoghurt, oil and vinegar for the dressing.

Everyone tried it and the majority of us loved it! The dressing made it flavoursome and we liked the colours of all the ingredients.

Help by making it again at home! The recipe has been sent home with the children. Can you add something new? Could you try a different dressing?

Allergen Grange Sports Day 2024

Some of our speedy Y5 and Y6s took part in Allerton Grange’s annual primary school sports day!

We took part in a range of events such as 200m sprint, javelin and 50m relay.

We had a brilliant morning and even managed sixth place! Well done to everyone for taking part.

We are designers!

This half term in topic, we are designers.

We’re going to be design, making and evaluating a pouch! Year 4 will get to choose the purpose of their pouch; it could be a pencil case, a purse or a general pouch.

A key skill that we’ll be using to make these pouches will be sewing. We have been practising sewing using a running stich and an over stitch.

We followed these instructions:

1. First, thread the needle and tie a knot in the thread.
2. Then, complete a running stitch using your Binka fabric.
3. Finally, tie a knot at the end of the stitch and cut the excess thread.

The vocabulary for this topic can be found below:

Help at home by asking your child to define what a product is.

Spelling list for 3.2

This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:

• alternative graphemes: tion, sion, ssion, cian
• alternative graphemes: i, ie, y, i-e
• homophones: he’ll, heel, plain, plane, groan, grown, rain, rein, reign
• alternative graphemes: sc
• spelling patterns: que
• alternative graphemes: u spelled ou

Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.

Production: Ali Baba and the Bongo Bandits!

Hi everybody!

Please make sure you bring your costumes and props outlined in last week’s letter to school no later than Friday 21st June, in a named plastic bag. If you don’t have any of the items listed for your role, please let an adult in Year 5 or Year 6 know before this Friday.

Keep practising your lines at home and get into the character you are portraying!

Thanks everyone!

PE: Tennis

This half term our focus sport is Tennis. So far, we have practised our throwing, catching, serving and striking skills. Year 5 are now trying to hit a moving object with accuracy.

Today, we played hand tennis to help with our hand-eye coordination. The children also had time to explore with a ball and racket each. Our challenge is to improve our ‘keepy-uppies’ score. At the end of the lesson, we moved on to tennis football, where the children had to hit the ball into each other’s goals whilst the defenders stopped the ball with their racket.

Help at home: Go outside and practise throwing and catching with a tennis ball. Or, why not try our ‘keepy-uppies’ challenge? What’s your best score?

England Schools’ Swimming Association Primary Team Championships

This weekend, our Year 5 and 6 swimmers took part in this prestigious national finals event at Ponds Forge, Sheffield after recently qualifying in the North East regional heat.

Competing against schools from all over the country from Westminster to Guernsey to Devon, and with tough competition, all the team put in 100% in their mixed stroke and freestyle races. For some of our swimmers, this was their first experience of competitive swimming. We are very proud of how well all the children represented Moortown with such a great, supportive team spirit.

A huge thanks go to parents for their support with the team over the two events.

Races can be watched back on the following link.

1:08:00 lane 2 mixed stroke

2:40:50 lane 7 freestyle

PE: Tennis skills

This half term, Year 2 are learning the fundamental movement skills associated with tennis. Throughout the half term, we will be doing individual racket and ball activities and learning different skills. We have also started doing some partner activities; rolling and bouncing balls in and out of hoops, serving into a hoop and striking the ball on the floor to their partner with the tennis racket.

Help at home by talking about the skills your child is learning and practice hitting a ball with a tennis racket.

Design and Technology: Textiles

This half term we are learning all about Design and Technology and we will be sewing our own hand puppet! We are very excited to get going. Yesterday, we started practising our stitching skills by using the sewing cards. We had to thread our needle and tie a knot in the end. This took great resilience and perseverance but everybody did a brilliant job and kept on trying. Once the needle was threaded, we began to sew. We practised  both the overstitch and the running stitch and we were all very proud of ourselves!

Here is the vocabulary we will be learning about in this topic.

Help at home by looking over the vocabulary and discussing each word with your child.