KS1 and KS2 Olympic Event
Today, a group of KS1 and Year 5/6 pupils took part in the East & North East Leeds Well School Partnership KS1&2 ‘Olympic’ Event at Leeds Beckett University.
Our KS1 children completed a 10-station skills circuit carousel on the pitch in the middle of the track while our KS2 children took part in athletic track and field events.
Well done to all the children for giving 100% in all of the activities and learning new skills in such a great sporting setting.
It was really fun and we got to do a mixture of events. There was something for everyone.
I thought all the activities were really good. My favourite was the skipping.
We had chance to run around the big track.
It was all about having fun and cheering on your team.
Thank you Miss Parwani!
Today was Miss Parwani’s last day of teacher training with us in Year 1. She has done a brilliant job and the children have loved having her in the class. We are sad to see her go but we had a really fun afternoon saying goodbye in the sunshine!
All the children wrote a message in her goodbye card and I was really impressed with her kind and thoughtful they all were.
She will now move on to the next stage of her teaching journey as an ECT and we wish her all the best going forward.
Thank you Miss Parwani!
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.
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
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.
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.
Geography: Kenya reports
This week we rounded off our Geography topic by writing a report all about Kenya. We were able to show off both our knowledge of Kenya and the world as well as our impressive writing skills. Both Miss Parwani and I thought everybody’s writing was excellent. They have learnt so much during this topic and they enjoyed the chance to write about it.
Help at home by discussing what they have learnt about Kenya and maybe choosing a different country to explore! What hemisphere is it in? What continent? Is it near the equator? What is the weather like? How is it different to the UK?
We are mathematicians!
Over the past couple of weeks in maths Year 1 have been working hard on numbers up to 100. We have been making the numbers using resources as well as breaking apart the numbers into tens and ones. We have looked at one more and one less than any number to 100 as well as comparing two numbers using the greater than (>) and less than (<) signs. The children have done brilliantly and I have been very impressed with their knowledge and how flexibly they can work with these numbers. These will great an amazing foundation for their work in Year 2.
Help at home by talking about numbers to 100 and asking children questions such as ‘What’s one more than _____? What’s one less? How many tens and how many ones are there in _____?’
Wonderful writing!
This week in Year 1 we have been writing a report all about our own Wild Thing. After reading the book Where the Wild Things Are, we thought about what our own Wild Thing would look like and we drew some pictures. Then we thought about what it would eat, how it moved and where it lived. There was some brilliant and very original ideas! Some of us even managed to include a ‘Did you know?’ fact. Miss Parwani was very impressed with everybody’s effort and attitude to their writing.
Well done Year 1!
Help at home by discussing your child’s Wild Thing with them. Can they describe to you all the different elements we have talked about at school?
Living and learning: dental health
This week in Living and Learning we learnt all about our teeth and how to keep them healthy. First of all we discussed what are some of the things we need to do to keep our teeth healthy, including visiting the dentist and brushing them twice a day.
Then we talked about what types of food are best for our teeth and which foods damage our teeth. We were really good at telling the difference between the two.
Finally, we talked about how to brush our teeth properly. We discussed the different stages and then had a practise on some big teeth! I love this song to help children remember how to brush their teeth!
Help at home by talking to your child about their dental health and how to brush their teeth properly.
