Living and Learning: 8Rs for learning
For the start of this half-term, our Living and Learning focus is the ‘8 Rs for learning’. This is about promoting good learning behaviour for your child.
In class, the children will focus on different ‘Rs’. We use an animal to symbolise each ‘R’, which might help your child remember all eight – can your child remember which animal matches the correct ‘R’?
You can support your child at home – we’ve listed a few ideas to help you below. Ask us if you’ve any questions or comments.
Download top tips for promoting the 8Rs for good learning behaviour.
Risk taking
Talk about the difference between a safe and unsafe risk. At school, we want your child to take a safe risk by having a go at answering, even if unsure; trying something new and attempting harder learning.
Responsibility
Provide time and space at home so your child is able to organise themselves: their PE kit, reading book, homework, spellings and tables… Don’t organise everything for them!
Make a link between rights and responsibilities: your child has the right to a great education, but needs to be responsible for their own learning.
Responding
This could be responding to their teacher in class or responding to feedback in their learning.
Ready
Make sure your child is at school on time for a prompt start.
Make sure your child has had plenty of sleep so they are alert and ready to learn at all times.
Encourage your child to ask lots of questions – that shows they want to learn!
Resourceful
Encourage your child to be organised so they can play with a range of different toys.
Encourage your child to try new ways to solve a tricky problem.
Resilience
Encourage your child to keep going! Set a tricky challenge or puzzle for your child to do.
Encourage your child to think of different ways of doing things.
Don’t let your child win when they play a game – they need to experience losing, too!
Celebrate mistakes as opportunities to learn – be happy that your child found some learning hard and encourage them to ‘bounce back’ and learn from the experience.
Relate this ‘R’ to Humpty Dumpty and our current whole school topic, After the Fall.
Remember
Make sure they have time to learn spellings, number bonds and times tables – a little practice daily is best.
Play memory games:
Kim’s game: show them objects for 30 seconds… can they remember all the objects?
Can they build up the sequence, ‘I went to the shop and I bought an apple’… ‘I went to the shop and I bought an apple and a bike.’… ‘I went to the shop and I bought an apple, a bike and a cucumber.’ etc … Take turns!
Reflect
Talk with your child about what they’ve learnt, asking questions about how they learnt, why they learnt it, when they’ll use their learning, how they would teach this to someone else, what learning might link with what they’ve learnt today…
This week, children will have the opportunity to not only reflect on their learning in general but also reflect on how the 8Rs supports their learning.
Of course, these characteristics are referred to throughout the year across all subjects to promote good learning behaviour.
Own It app
Has you child got a mobile phone? If they have, do the have the Own It app from the BBC?
The Own It app helps children and young people take control of your online life. It gives them advice when they need it, in real-time as they type. It’s designed to help them make smart choices, feel more confident, and live their best life online.
The Own It app comes with a special keyboard. This can be used like any other keyboard, but it also gives users helpful tips and friendly advice as they write.
There’s also the ability to track how they feel and improve their wellbeing. There are plenty of gifs and emojis so users can express themselves.
The Own It keyboard and app is personal to the user. Everything your child types is kept completely private, and never leaves the Own It app on their phone.
Goodbye Y5!
Dear Year 5,
What an absolute pleasure it has been to have you as my class this year. I couldn’t have asked for a more hardworking, fun, kind and generally awesome group of people to share my first year of teaching with.
I know that the end of the year hasn’t been what we expected it to be, but take nothing away from the commitment and effort you have demonstrated through this time and through the whole year – you guys should be extremely proud of yourselves.
I have no doubt that you will be amazing in Year 6 and I will always be around for a chat – I’m looking forward to seeing your faces again in September.
Have a wonderful and well deserved rest this summer!
Mr Wain
Dragon’s Den Product
Some of you in Y5 have sent through some absolutely ingenious ideas for the Dragon’s Den Project.
They are all wonderful and you can view them for yourself below:
First up, one of our classmates has designed a renewable energy source called the ME box. See their pitch here.
Secondly, another one of our classmates has designed a product to help cinema workers! Click here to see their pitch.
Next, this person has designed a product which will help with the problem of dog litter that hasn’t been picked up! Click here to see their pitch.
This person has designed a product which will change the way we take photographs for good! Click here to see their pitch.
Also, one of our classmates has designed a computer that does your writing for you! See it here.
Fab stuff.
Hello to the new Y6 class!
Hey everyone!
It’s Miss Wilson and we’re going to be reunited for your very last year at Moortown Primary School!
Take a look at this quick hello…
See you very soon!
Miss W
Virtual sports day results and skipping challenges
Well done to all children who took part, at home and at school, in the virtual sports day yesterday.
The results are in and can be accessed here.
Here’s our overall school results for each challenge (out of 217 schools).
Netball challenge 56th
Keepie uppie challenge 27th
Rugby challenge 93rd
Speed bounce challenge 46th
Skipping challenges
If you are interested in trying another physical activity challenge, Jodi from Skipping School – a regular visitor to school, is running a daily skipping skill challenge this week. Sadly, Year 2 and Year 4 have missed out on their skipping festivals this year so these videos will help the children to recap the skills they have learnt at school.
Knowledgeable Kahooters!
Recently, within our Y5/6 reading lessons, we have been completing Kahoot’s based on texts that we have read.
Our first Kahoot was about the story: Gaby to the Rescue.
Out of 49 of us who played, there could only be three places on the podium.
These have gone to… (drum roll)
Congratulations to Eliza, Daisy and F (whoever you are)!
Keep up the good work, everybody!
Celebrating Home Learning
I am still ever so proud of the sheer effort and determination you lot are putting into your home learning. It seems like it has been ages but you guys have shown me just how dedicated to your learning you are – it’s wonderful!
Below are some pictures of learning that have been sent to me.
See if you can find your own learning or work out who the other pieces of learning belong to!
Remember, keep sending me your work so I can send you stars and steps and well done again.
Year 5 class photo
Hi everybody!
A parent of a Y5 pupil has organised a class photo for us all via Zoom. This Zoom call will take place at 4 pm on Tuesday 02 June and the details have been emailed out – ask school is you’re not sure. Some of the teaching team and I will be attending and we hope that you can make it, too!
Leeds Children’s Mayor
Year 5 pupils!
A great opportunity lies below…
You have the chance to become the next Children’s Mayor of Leeds!
This is a great opportunity to learn about citizenship and democracy and to stand a chance of becoming the next Children’s Mayor of Leeds.
Leeds Children’s Mayors is an annual citizenship project that has been running for 15 years. It is run in partnership between Democratic Services and the Voice and Influence Team at Leeds City Council.
The 12 finalists: The final 12 candidates will have their photo and manifesto published on the Breeze website during the voting period before being invited to the prestigious finalist’s reception at Leeds Civic Hall where they will have tea with the Lord Mayor of Leeds.
The Leeds Children’s Mayor serves a one year term, which is for the duration they are in year 6. During their term they will attend lots of different events with the Lord Mayor of Leeds as well as work with council offers to make their manifesto idea into a reality.
What you need to do:
You need to write a manifesto to become Leeds Children’s Mayor.
http://www.leedsforlearning.co.uk/Page/16720
If you are interested, click on the above link for further information. You can find previous winning manifestos for help, further guidance and more general information about the contest.
If you want to ask me any questions then feel free, too! oliwain@spherefederation.org
The deadline for submissions is Wednesday 17th June.
Good luck!
