Summer2: Week5
It has been a fun filled week for reception this week.
The children enjoyed going to see their new teacher on Wednesday. They asked lots of great questions and were excited to talk about their new classroom when they came back.
During the trip on Thursday, the children were fantastic. They enjoyed adventures in the woods, learning more about recycling, hunting for minibeasts and exploring with water.
The children were able to use our word of the week (humungous) to describe the play area.
Maths
The children have been looking at fair and unfair sharing. They are now able to identify when something has been shared fairly. We looked at sharing different amounts of objects between 2,3 and 4 people.
Help at home: by sharing objects out fairly and unfairly.
Staying Safe themed week
Our next whole school themed week, based around Staying Safe, will be taking place next 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) and e-safety (d:side).
Here are some events taking place.
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.
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 are 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.
Finally, can you help? Does your job involve an aspect of safety? If you are able to support our Staying Safe themed week by coming into school to speak to the children, please contact me via the office or your child’s class teacher.
We will keep you up to date about events during the week on the class news pages on our website.
Thank you for your support to keep Moortown a happy, healthy and safe school.
Summer 2: week4
PE
We have been practising our races for sports day again this week. The children are really enjoying using the different equipment and developing new skills!
English
This week’s book is called Clean Up. It is about a girl called Rocket who cleans up the beach whilst on holiday. It has inspired the children to clean up our school. They have been proud litter pickers picking up any rubbish that they find and using it to make creations in the classroom. They have been using the word of the week (pollution) whilst discussing what they have been doing and why.
Help at home: by using our word of the week with your child.
Maths
This week we have been discovering bonds to 5. The children have been making these and using the sentence stem:
5 is made from …. and …..
…. and …. combine to make 5
We have also been singing lots of songs including five little speckled frogs to consolidate this learning.
Reminders
Next week is a busy week. We have sports day, meet the teacher, our school trip and the summer fair.
Transition
As the weather becomes brighter and we near the end of the academic year you may be thinking about your child’s next steps as they journey into Year 1. Moving to Year 1 is perhaps a less significant change for children, and that’s because we’re a happy and healthy place to learn where we all know each other.
A zoom meeting for parent’s starts our transition process, here you will meet the Key Stage 1 staff and find out about the Year 1 curriculum.
The zoom meeting is on Tuesday 25th June 6-7 for all reception parents. Please follow the link that will be emailed to you.
The next step is for your child to spend some time in the Year 1 classrooms. They’ll meet the teachers and join in with the learning, they’ll get a taste of what it’s like to be in Year 1. The whole-school transition, later in July, completes the process, by spending a morning with their new class teacher.
This is a really exciting time of year, moving on and taking those next steps whilst continuing to strengthen the effective learning behaviours they have established in Reception.
Summer2: Week3
This week, has been a busy fun filled week.
We have started practising our dance around the May Pole ready for the summer fair. The children have been inspired by videos of others doing it and were very excited to get started themselves.
PE
During PE lessons, we have been practisig some of the different sports day activities. Please see your child’s sports day team below. Your child will need to come to school wearing their team colour tshirt on the day.
Handwriting
We have been recapping the letters a and g this week in handwriting.
We have also been practsing forming the letters m and n.
Maths
During maths this week, we have been looking at counting up to 20 objects.
Help at home: by getting different amounts of objects upto 20. Support your child with counting them.
Living and Learning:
The children were talking about consent during this weeks living and learning session. We discussed the importance of being asked for consent before taking a picture. The children understood that it’s their right to say no if they don’t want one taken.
We also talked about stop means stop. You have the right to say stop if you don’t like something.
If someone was being unkind I would tell them to stop.
If someone tried to hurt me I would say stop.
Poetry Picnic
We have been performing our poem this week with musical instruments. The children enjoyed selecting which instrument they would like and following the beat of the poem.
Sports Day
I have attached the groups for sport day. Please ensure your child comes in a plain tshirt that is their team colour.
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
Summer 2: Week2
PE
During PE this week, the children have been developing their racket skills.
They have been learning how to control a ball on a racket and developing their technique of hitting the ball to a target.
Maths
This week in maths, we have been looking at what 5 needs in order to make numbers. For example, 5 needs 3 to make 8.
Help at home: by giving your child a number that is between 5-10. Ask them what 5 needs in order to make that number.
Topic
During topic this week, we have been comparing the city to the seaside.
The children were able to list some things that they might find at the seaside and some things that they might find in the city.
Handwriting
We have been focusing on forming the letters c, o, a, d and g this week.
Help at home: by practising these with your children. These can be done with chalk, in sand, using coloured pencils or pens.
What can you achieve?
Today, Jess Wright, who is a coach with PE Partner and leads one of our after-school clubs, came to speak to the children in an assembly.
At only 17, Jess has been playing football for over ten years and currently plays for Sheffield Wednesday. She also coaches at different levels from children to adults and referees too.
Jess has another role which is to try to get children, especially girls, into football and providing opportunities for children who want to get involved.
Jess shared information of how to get involved in local physical activities. This could be our school after-school clubs, other local physical activities listed in our guide for parents and carers or other opportunities especially around football and getting girls into football.
Leeds City JFC are a local club looking for new members especially in their girls teams.
Wigton Moor JFC are another local club with opportunities.
Catalan Soccer offer classes and camps.
Thank you to Jess for coming into school to inspire the children and to share her experiences around football and the opportunities and skills it provides.
Summer 2: week 1
The children have come back well rested and taller after the half term.
We have had lots of fun performing our poem Thunderstorm this week. The children have created their own actions for it and used musical instruments to bring it to life.
English
The children have enjoyed reading lots of pirate stories this week and have been writing their own setences about pirates, finding treasure and building their own pirate ships. They have also been walking the plank!
Maths
In maths this week, we have been looking at what is and what is not a double. We have been choosing numbers 0-10 and placing them on a tens frame to check if they are a double or not a double.
Help at home: give your child a number between 0-10 and ask them to check if it is a double or not. They can do this by getting the correct amount of objects and putting them into two piles. If they can make the piles equal, they know that it is a double.
Living and Learning: I know the ingredients of a happy and healthy relationship.
The children were able to discuss what a happy and healthy relationship looks like. They talked about how it should make them feel and what they could do to build one.
They should ask me if I’m ok.
They should cheer me up if I’m sad.
We should play together and take turns.
Summer1: Week6
On Monday, we had a very exciting day. We released our butterflies. The children have enjoyed observing the life cycle of the butterflies over the last few weeks and were happy to set them free.
Maths
This week we have been learning how to use the rekenreks. We have been subitising numbers on them aswell as making different amounts within ten.
English
During our English this week, we have been learning about our bodies. The children were able to say and write a fact about the human body.
Poetry Picnic
This week’s poem was called Monkey Babies. The children have enjoyed both reading and performing this poem throughout the week.
PE
During this half term the children have been developing their ball skills. They have been practising bouncing a ball in a hoop and catching a ball that someone else has bounced to them.
Help at home: by reading lots, both to and with your child over the half term.