Calling all Greek gods and goddesses!
Active Travel
Next week sees the start of Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge. It inspires pupils to make active journeys to school, improve air quality in their neighbourhood and discover how these changes benefit their world.
Join us to take part in this challenge by walking, scooting, biking or park and stride from Marks and Spencers to school from Monday 20th March – Friday 31st March.
As part of this active travel event, we will be hosting a bike register session on Tuesday 21st March. Pupils, parents and family are invited to bring along their bikes to be registered at this bike security marking event at school.
Girls Dynamos Cricket
Staying safe online
As a follow up to the recent Safer Internet Day, PCSO Louise delivered an assembly for all classes to reinforce the key online safety messages.
Help at home by asking your child/children how the 4Cs relate to them when they are online.
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!
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.
Handwriting practise
This week in Year 3, we have had a big push on practising our handwriting!
We discussed how our handwriting improves when we turn our page to an angle (parallel to our arm) and use our other hand to hold the page steady.
Ensuring that we do these two things whenever we are writing means that our handwriting will be the best it can be!
Help at home by ensuring that when they writing, your child has positioned their page correctly and is using their other hand to keep the page still and watch their handwriting improve!
Supporting our school charity
St Gemma’s Hospice is our current school charity chosen democratically by the children.
Today, we welcomed Steph and Stewart from St Gemma’s Hospice for an assembly to find out more about the fantastic work they do in our local community.
Here, two of our junior leaders are presenting them with a cheque for £377 for the money we have raised so far.
Steph and Stewart commented on the impressive behaviour of the children and the intelligent questions they asked.
Our junior leaders are planning a visit to the hospice over the next few weeks to continue this partnership.
Living and Learning: I know that people shout treat others respectfully when online
On the 7th of February, Moortown celebrated ‘Safer Internet Day’ along with lots of other schools and organisations in the UK.
We spent some time learning about how we can work out if online information is true or not. ‘Fake news’ has become more of an issue on the internet and therefore, it is important that the children understand what it is and how to identify it.
We learnt some tips which help us in decipher what is ‘fake news’ and what news can be trusted. Some of these include questioning the source of the information, whether the story appears in more than one place and asking ‘if it feels right’.
We also spoke about the importance of speaking to a trusted adult if we see anything online that worries us.
Help at home by asking your child how they might be able to decipher whether a news story is trustworthy or not.
