Class News

Scooter Safety Training

Today, Year 3 braved the wind and rain and ventured out to Moortown Park to do some scooting!

We learnt lots about how to scoot safely. This included learning about how to cross the road with our scooters and how to scoot past driveways.

Help at home by asking your child how they cross the road safely with their scooters.

Snow day!

Year 3 had a brilliant afternoon playing in the back playground last Friday. It was a snow day to remember and here are a few pictures to prove it!

Snow Day!

Friday was a slightly different day to normal as it was a snow day!

After school started at 10:30am, we got on with the usual: spellings, rehearsals and reading.

At 2:30, Mrs Weekes kindly let us go outside and play in the untouched snow! We even had a class snowman competition. Year 4s was definitely the most creative!

Spring 2: Week 3

As always, it’s been a very busy (cold!) week in the Reception classroom. From making ramps in the construction area to creating our own junk-model vehicles, we’ve had another fun-filled transport week.

Literacy
This week, we continued our transport theme by reading The Hundred Decker Bus by Mike Smith.
After reading the story, we created our own Moortown bus. We had some fab ideas: a deck with a ice cream shop, a chocolate factory deck and a deck with a gym to keep us strong! Our bus doesn’t have one hundred decks (31 to be precise) but there is one deck created by each member of Reception.
Click here to view our bus.

DT
This week, the creative area has been a very popular area. We’ve had lots of fun joining materials to create junk-model vehicles.

Science
In the construction area, we’ve been making ramps and watching how far the vehicles travel.
PE
This week, we continued to learn all about throwing at a target. We practised aiming at targets of different heights and distances. At the end of our sessions, we applied our throwing skills when playing partner games.

Snow, snow, snow!
This afternoon, we had lots of fun in the snow. We enjoyed making snow angels and snow people.
Reminders

• York Railway Museum – Friday 24 March
  We are really looking forward to our first school trip!
• Reception parents’ coffee morning
  Monday 27 March – 9.00am-10.00am
• Learning Journey Drop In’s
  Monday 27th March – 3.15pm – 3.45pm
  Tuesday 28th March – 9.00am – 9.30am & 3.15pm – 3.45pm
  Thursday 30th March – 9.00am – 9.30am 

Computing Topic

This half term Year 2 are studying Computing in Topic. Last week, we discussed what a computer is and what sort of devices we might have at home that have a computer built-in.

This week, we have been looking at algorithms. We have been learning all about the program ‘Scratch Jr’ and how to create an algorithm. We know how to set a sequence so that our Sprites (characters) move, shrink, grow and turn.

We also learnt how to debug an algorithm that does not work and how to alter a sequence.

We’ve had a lot of fun using Scratch and learning about all of the buttons and how they work. We are really looking forward to using the program again next week and learning more!

Leeds Rhinos!

Over the last two weeks, Leeds Rhinos have been into school to work with Year 4. They have been delivering some fantastic sessions where they are teaching the children lots of rugby skills.

These skills include:

• The ball looks like a face with two ears and we hold it by the face.
• When waiting to catch the ball, we hold our hands out in a ‘W’ shape to show we are ready.
• We throw the ball from our hip forwards with our hands pointing towards the person catching it.

As well as this, the children have been practising their team work skills by supporting and encouraging  one another during team games!

Thank you Leeds Rhinos!

Living and Learning: Safer Internet

Recently, we enjoyed a day looking at how to be safe online.

Safer Internet Day

One of our sessions involved a visitor!

We enjoyed learning some statistics about being safe online before deciding if some online accounts were real or fake. We learnt not to trust every piece of information we see online: online accounts on social media sites or gaming sites might not always be as they seem!

Think before you post: We also learnt that once we share something online, a picture or post for example, it’s out there for good no matter if you delete it. If you post a picture but change your mind, someone could have easily saved it and passed it on in that time!

Help at home by talking to your child regularly about the pros and cons of being online and monitoring their online usage!

Spring 2: Week 2

For World Book Day 2023, we enjoyed reading with the Year 3 children and doing some drama. The children were put into small groups and given a traditional tale book. They amazed us with their team work and acting skills!
We were also lucky to have some of our parents and grandparents join us for a stay and read session this morning- thank you to those who could make it.

Literacy
We continued our transport topic by reading The Hundred Decker Rocket by Mike Smith. We designed our own deck and wrote a sentence about our design. We also watched a video of first moon landing and looked at some rockets from the past. Ask your child if they can remember the names of:

• The first person in space.
• The first dog in space.
• The first man to land on the moon.
  Maths
  This week, we continued to engage with activities that focussed on the purpose of counting – to find out ‘how many’ objects there are. We revisited the concept of cardinality – the idea that the last number in the count tells us how many things there are altogether.  We also looked at the staircase pattern. This pattern has helped us develop a clear understanding that each number has a value of 1 more than the previous number, and 1 less than the following number. We used the below image of the Numberblocks, alongside the our fingers, to represent ‘5 and a bit’ quantities, which will help to embed this key understanding.

On Monday, the children enjoyed their music session with Miss Gaunt. They listened carefully to a song called Golden and responded with rhythm, gesture and emotion. Click here to watch them sing the song.

Poetry Picnic
This week’s poem has gone down with a BAM! Click here to POP away with us.

RE
This half-term, we’re learning about different religious and cultural celebrations. Last week, we learnt about a carnival that happens in places like Brazil and other South American countries.
This morning, we learnt about a Hindu festival called the Holi Festival. After watching a video about how Hindus celebrate this festival, we had to have a go at getting (a bit) messy ourselves! Click here to watch some snapshots.

Take a look at some of this week’s chilli challenges:

Reminders 

• Learning Journey Drop Ins –
  We’ve had to slightly change the dates/times for some of these. Here are the new dates/times:
  Monday 27th March – 3.15pm – 3.45pm
  Tuesday 28th March – 9.00am – 9.30am & 3.15pm – 3.45pm
  Thursday 30th March – 9.00am – 9.30am
• Please make sure you are writing in your child’s reading record book every week.
• Library books must be returned every Friday.
• Please continue to bring in recyclable packaging for us to use in our creative area.

Guided reading

Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 10th March.

How to train your dragon: up to chapter 7/page 82.

Rooftoppers: up to chapter 10/page 87.

The London Eye Mystery: up to chapter 12/page 89.

Extra Time: up to chapter 18/page 80.

Kensuke’s Kingdom: up to chapter 5/page 69.

World Book Day!

Happy World Book Day!

Year 3 have had a fabulous day hearing teachers read extracts from their favourite books, designing their own book covers and creating crosswords based on their favourite stories.

The highlight of today was definitely reading with our Reception class. I was so impressed with Year 3’s eagerness to show their love of reading to the children in Reception. They read with prosody, expression and fluency and were fantastic role models to the younger children.