Living and learning: health and prevention
Over the past couple of weeks in Living and Learning, Year 4 have been learning about how we can keep our bodies healthy.
Last week, we learnt about germs and how we can prevent them from spreading and therefore keep ourselves well.
We started off the lesson by talking about the different types of germs there are; bacteria, viruses and fungi. These are all around us. Some are helpful but some are harmful!
We then discussed how quickly and easily germs can spread. We spent a lot of the lesson talking about the importance of hand washing and how this is the most effective way for us to combat spreading harmful germs.
Help at home by looking at this hand washing guide with your child to remind them to wash their hands thoroughly!
We are geographers!
This half term, we are geographers.
In our previous Geography unit this year, we were learning about the U.K. This half term, we are expanding our horizons in our explorers unit.
We have been learning about different climate zones and the capital cities of some European countries (which I must admit after all our practise playing Globle, we are very good at!)
Our geography topic will continue to look at flooding, flood defences and learning about the two cities of York and Venice.
Here is the vocabulary for this half term:
Help at home by asking your child what climate zones are!
Term 3.1 spellings
This half-term, our spellings are linked to the rules and strategies we’ll be learning in class:
- alternative graphemes: sh (ch, ss, ti, s)
- alternative graphemes: k (ch)
- adding prefixes: mis, re
- adding prefixes: sub, tele, auto
- spelling patterns: gn, kn
- homophones: piece / peace, main / mane, fair / fare
Each Friday, you’ll be tested on 8 of the words from the list below.
| position | submarine | re-centre | television | gnash |
| piece | mention | autobiography | technology | kneel |
| peace | automatic | possession | misheard | character |
| misbelieves | main | reconsider | pressure | substitute |
| disappear | mane | ache | gnome | special |
| knot | stomach | fair | misremember | submerge |
| anchor | re-group | fare | should | rebuild |
| known | architect | build | telephone | teleport |
Summer term after-school clubs
***Update***
The following clubs have availability and there is still time to sign up.
The after-school clubs for this term are available for booking from this Wednesday. We hope your child/children can get involved with our extra-curricular activities.
This term, clubs will run for 10 weeks rather than 8 weeks starting week commencing 29th April.
Please contact the office if you have any queries about the after-school clubs.
We are computer programmers!
In computing, we have been learning about sequencing, repetition and decomposition.
Sequencing is where we have to arrange instructions in a particular order for program to run successfully.
Repetition is where we repeat the execution of certain instructions to make our algorithm simpler.
Decomposition is the process of breaking a task down into manageable chunks in order to be successful.
Today, Year 4 applied all their learning and created their own ‘Crossy Road’ games on Scratch Jr.
Help at home by encouraging your child to go on Scratch Jr and show you what they have learnt this half term!
Skipping festival 2024
Year 4 had a great morning out at the skipping festival last week!
The whole class worked so well as a team showing great support for everyone.
We won lots of awards including a few gold medals!
Well done to the whole of Year 4 for representing Moortown so well!
Moortown Netballers
Some of the netballers from our after-school club took part in the Leeds Well School Partnership Bee Netball competition at Allerton High this week.
This was their first team event and we were very proud of their performance and team work. Thank you to parents for supporting and for helping with transport.
The Tuesday after-school netball club will be restarting in the summer term for those children who would like to come and join.
Netball activities are also available over Easter from Leeds Rhinos Netball.
Big Walk and Wheel final position
After the two week Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge, we now have the final results.
In our category of small primary schools, we finished in 20th place out of 459 schools with an average of 89.81% active journeys to school. We achieved the highest national (20th) and Northern England (3rd) ranking out of those schools in Leeds taking part.
With a total of 1655 active journeys across the two weeks, this is a great achievement and we want to thank families for supporting this challenge.
Help at home: By walking, cycling and scooting to school, you are helping us make a positive change to the school run. With less cars close to the school gates, this is a safer and healthier way to start the day.
Big walk and wheel update
We’ve had a great start to the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge this week.
After the first five days, we are currently in 19th place (out of 549 schools) in the small primary category with an average of 84.76% of our journeys to school being active. This is a great achievement and we want to thank families for supporting this challenge.
To keep up with the leader board for the rest of the challenge, it can be viewed here.
The Big Walk and Wheel challenge continues until Friday 22nd March so we look forward to seeing our progress over the upcoming week.
Help at home: By walking, cycling and scooting to school, you are helping us make a positive change to the school run. With less cars close to the school gates, this is a safer and healthier way to start the day.
World Book Day
Year 4 love reading and we enjoyed being able to share this love of reading with the Year 2’s on World Book Day!
Help at home and tell your child about your favourite book. When did you first read it? Why is it your favourite?
