Living & Learning: Health and Prevention

Year 5 have been learning about germs and how to prevent spreading them.

We started off the lesson by taking part in a quiz. Did you know that the kitchen is normally the most germiest room in the house? And, there are 100,000 microbes in a sneeze?

The children then discussed cross contamination and how quickly germs can spread. We talked about the need to wash our hands to help prevent this spread. We could use soap or hand sanitiser.

Help at home: Discuss other ways we can stop germs from spreading.

Summer term after-school clubs

Super swimmers

UPDATE 26.04.24

Our team have qualified for the Nationals. What a great achievement – well done to all the children.

Our Year 5/6 swimming team competed in the English Schools’ Swimming Association North East Primary Schools’ Team Championship at the Grammar School at Leeds. A special thank you goes to one team member who joined the team late on.

All the children performed brilliantly throughout the afternoon competing against schools from Yorkshire. We are proud to announce the team came away with two silver medals in the freestyle (missing out on 1st place by just 1.2 second) and mixed stroke races.

Here are part of the team celebrating their success.

Following the team races, there was chance for the children to compete in individual races. In their breaststroke, backstroke and freestyle heats, the children came away with four 1sts, two 2nds, one 3rd and one 4th place.

The children were a credit to the school – supporting each other and giving 100% in every single race to get some great results.

A huge well done to the whole team.

We are chemists!

This week, we have started our next unit in science: reversible and irreversible changes. For this topic we are going to be chemists. Chemistry is the study of the properties of substances and the changes they go through.

In today’s lesson, we tested which substances could be dissolved in water. If our substance did dissolve this meant that it was soluble and created a solution. If it did not dissolve, then the substance was insoluble.

Our scientific enquiry type was ‘comparative and fair testing’.

Help at home: Discuss our new science vocabulary.

PE: Basketball

This half term our new PE unit is basketball. We had our first lesson and we practised our throwing and catching skills whilst in a game setting. Next lesson we will be perfecting our passes and thinking about tactics.

Help at home: Can you name all of the different types of passes?

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.

Food technology: Egg-cellent Omelette

On Friday, Year 5 made eggs-quisite omelettes.

We worked in small groups to prepare the ingredients and then cook them. We made sure that we washed our hands and wore our aprons for hygiene reasons.

We used the bridge cutting method and the claw cutting method to cut up our tomatoes. These methods are the safest way to cut food as they help us from hurting ourselves! We also grated cheese and whisked our eggs.

The recipe for the absolutely cracking omelette was sent home with your child on Friday, if they wish to make it at home too.

Living and Learning: I can give and receive compliments.

This week, Year 5 discussed what is right and wrong and how right and wrong might look different in a variety of situations. They then talked about how people’s actions can affect others. The children were able to share positive actions that they had done and how it impacted the people around them.

Here are a few examples:

• holding a door open for someone
• buying a blanket for someone in need
• sharing a smile
• saying Happy Birthday to someone
• letting someone play with you
• buying food for someone in need

Year 5 then wrote down anonymous compliments to their peers. We were able to read out a few at the end of the day and we will continue to hear them this next week.

Help at home: Discuss how receiving a compliment can make you feel.

Guided Reading Week 5

Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Thursday 28th March:

Divine Freaks: end of book.

Street Child: end of book.

How To Train Your Dragon: end of book.

The Considine Curse: end of book.

Extra Time: end of book.

The London Mystery Eye: end of book.

All guided reading books should be brought back in before the end of term. If you would like to keep your book over the holidays to finish it off, please speak to an adult in Year 5.