Super skippers
Here are the final results from the Year 4 skipping festival this week.
The Skipping School programme (for Year 2 and Year 4) is one of the ways we invest our PE Premium so we always like to check if the investment was worthwhile for the children.
Pupil feedback
I learnt lots of new skips. Now I can do fancy footwork and at first I had no clue what to do!
I enjoyed the skipping festival because we got to have a little bit of competition and skipping is great exercise.
I couldn’t do side straddle and now I have learnt how to do it.
I learnt different skips and I had a really good time at the festival.
I really enjoyed it because of all the new things I learnt.
It was good to do skipping in PE as well as other sports.
I learnt to have fun whilst exercising and winning doesn’t matter. Taking part was important.
Parent feedback
My son thoroughly enjoyed this event. He doesn’t normally do PE competitions so it was really good for the whole class to go. He was so proud of his two certificates.
Organiser feedback
Your Year 4s did an amazing job at the festival this morning.
Skipping Festival!
Hello!
Year 4 had their skipping festival today at Leeds Trinity University and they did an absolutely amazing job! The teamwork and support they showed between one another was outstanding and they cheered each other on when some were feeling a bit nervous.
Overall, we won a mixture of bronze, silver and gold awards on the individual skills and we did an amazing job on the group skips too!
In between the skills, the children had the chance to skip, dance and sing along to the music.
A big well done to all of the Year 4s for trying their best and representing Moortown so well.
Chocolate cake!
Our first week back has been all about chocolate cake! What’s not to love?
We have focused our Writing and Reading learning around a poem – Chocolate Cake by Michael Rosen. This children’s poem is about how much a young boy (Michael) loved chocolate cake and how one time, he ate an entire cake in the middle of the night. What is the meaning of the chocolate cake? We decided as a class that it’s all about temptation and that when it comes to things you love, it can be tricky or impossible to control one’s impulses.
Click here to read the poem: https://www.uv.mx/personal/jomartinez/files/2011/08/Chocolate-Cake.pdf
In the next two weeks, Year 4 will be writing a narrative about leaving the classroom, sneaking up to the staffroom and eating the teachers chocolate cake! It’s made us hungry just thinking about it.
Just like the poem, the purpose of our narrative will be to entertain and interest the reader by telling a story. The features we’ll use are: descriptions, direct speech and adverbial phrases to add detail.
In Reading, we have put ourselves into Michael’s shoes and performed part of the poem by adding actions and expressions to the words. Here’s some of us in action!
We’ve also picked the poem a part to answer retrieval questions, where the answer is in the text and inference questions, where we’ve needed to use clues to find the answer.
Help at home by thinking of lots of adjectives (describing words) to describe this chocolate cake. We’ll use them in our writing!
Coronation celebration – Themed Menu 05 May 2023
Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu for the Coronation Celebration on Friday 05 May 2023. See the menu here.
Please contact the office, in the next few days, if your child would like a school dinner on this day (no action needed if your child normally has a school meal on this day).
Big Walk and Wheel final results
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 24th place out of 514 schools with an average of 91.14% of our journeys to school being active. We achieved the highest national (24th) and Northern England (5th) ranking out of those schools in Leeds taking part.
This is a great achievement and we want to thank families for supporting this challenge.
We hope these active journeys continue as 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.
Living and Learning – Change and Loss
Over the previous term, Year 4 were learning about different emotions and how we can deal with those emotions in a healthy way. For one week, we focused on change and loss. Change and loss occurs all the time during our lives in small and big ways and it’s important to know how to deal with the emotions that come with these situations.
We identified things that change can change such as; changing topics, clothes and seasons but also changing friendships, year groups and someone not being here anymore. When these things change, we might feel a loss and miss how things were before and that’s ok!
Teddies play a big role in many children’s lives. We listened to the story ‘Dogger’ by Shirley Hughes and here’s what we discussed…
What does your teddy mean to you?
I’ve had my teddy since I was born so I feel safe when I have it.
How would you feel if you lost your teddy?
I would feel upset and miss it a lot.
How might your body feel if you lost your teddy?
I might feel anxious and nervous because I’m worried about where it is.
What could make you feel better if this happened?
I could ask my family and friends to help me look for it.
I could talk to my grown ups about how I feel.
I could hug a friend.
Help at home by talking about any changes, big or small, that might be coming up at home and share how you are feeling about them!
Smart Money Award 2023
Today, we welcomed Nicola and Linda from HSBC to our whole school assembly to present us with our Smart Money Award 2023.
This is awarded for financial education lessons which took place in school for all classes last summer as part of our Living and Learning curriculum.
Nicola combined this visit with some more financial education for the children.
Big Walk and Wheel – getting active on the way to school
It’s been a great start to Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge this week.
After the first five days, we are currently in 14th place (out of 514 schools) in the small primary category with an average of 90.36% 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.
Thank you to those families who brought along bikes to the bike register event too. Nineteen bikes were registered at school.
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.
The Big Walk and Wheel challenge continues until Friday 31st March so we look forward to seeing our progress over the upcoming week.
Go For Gold!
As I’m sure you are aware, Year 3 and 4 having been working their socks off preparing and rehearsing for their Easter production for the last 5 weeks. Today was their first official dress rehearsal in front of their first audience and Miss Needham and I (plus everyone else!) were just blown away by how well they did.
The 3 key points that we practised the most were:
- Projecting our voices so that even people at the back of the hall can hear us.
- Using the stage to our advantage and standing in the correct places.
- Facing the audience even though we might be having a conversation with someone else across the stage.
Every single person remembered all of these points and went above and beyond by adding actions and expression into their voices. The audience loved it, especially the songs.
A huge thank you to all the help with costumes and props – we couldn’t have done this without everyones help!
We look forward to our next two performances… let’s break a leg!
Miss Birch
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