A great start to the Big Pedal
After day one of the Big Pedal, we are 38th out of 500 schools in the small school category – the top school in Leeds! Brilliant news. The leaderboard can be viewed via the Sustrans Big Pedal website.
Well done everyone – keep your active travel going, great for you and great for the environment.
Remember active travel counts as walking, park and stride, scooting and biking. Supporter (parents/carers, siblings and staff) travel counts too.
Let’s keep those numbers high for the rest of the week and hopefully we’ll move up the leader board and be in with the chance to win prizes.
Moortown’s Got Talent!
The final of Moortown’s Got Talent was a great success last night with all of our finalists doing a fantastic doing (despite a few technical hitches).
Well done to everybody who took part and to all of those who auditioned. We are very pleased to announce our two runners up: Juho and Kian. Juho showed us some fantastic martial arts and Kian identified the flags of 100 different countries!
And, the one you’ve all been waiting for, our winner! A huge congratulations to Isla, Bridget and Eleanor. They treated us to singing que sera sera along with some dancing. Well done!
Just one week until Big Pedal starts
It’s just one week to the return of the Big Pedal.
We’re looking forward to taking part in Sustrans Big Pedal 2019, the UK’s largest inter-school cycling and scooting challenge, that inspires pupils, staff and parents to choose two (or three) wheels for their journey to school. We would love everyone to be involved.
For the first time, walking (and park and stride) will be counted alongside cycling and scooting. This year’s Big Pedal will run for five days, from 25th March to 29th March.
On each day, schools compete to see who can get as many of their pupils, staff and parents cycling or scooting to school then our results will determine our final position in the national league table.
To help parents prepare, Sustrans has developed a handy free guide packed with advice, games and challenges to help with having a hassle-free cycle, walk or scoot to school.
Rewind…
… to Easter!
Yesterday, Y5 walked to Moortown Baptist Church to learnt all about this Christian celebration. Challenge your child to explain what eggs symbolise for Christians?
We did some group activities…
… and also watched some short clips and a play!
We even got to design a plant pots to house our very own flowers!
We had a great morning learning about a (potentially) different religion and faith to our own.
Orienteering Competition
Yesterday, this heroic bunch of eight Y4 and Y5 pupils took part in an orienteering competition held at Wetherby High School.
Look at that for speed!
It was the Year 4’s turn first! They worked in pairs (one dibber and one map reader) to navigate the course. Despite the blustery conditions, both pairs showed true grit and determination. They finished the race in a brilliant 25 minutes.
Next up was the Y5 race.
Just like the Y4s, they never gave up and worked incredibly well as a team. Their time was a fantastic 18 minutes.
Well done to everyone who took part and I’d like to say a big thank you to the parents that came to support!
Help! We need your junk!
Mrs Bharath is Junk Modelling on Hobby Half Day this Friday.
If you have any clean empty boxes, tubes, cartons, plastic bottles lying around at home please drop them in at the Year 1 classroom by Thursday.
Thank you!
Cycling opportunities
Here are details of local cycling events due to be held in the Easter holiday.
Beginners Learn to Ride Sessions (FREE)
For non-riders aged 5 years and above
Tuesday 2nd April, Thursday 4th April and Tuesday 9th April – limited availability
At Carr Manor Community School (Secondary Phase)
Times: 9:30am, 10:45am, 12:30pm and 13:45pm (Tues 2nd only)
Improvers Cycling Session (FREE)
For ‘new’ riders aged 5 years and above
Thursday 4th April
At Carr Manor Community School (Secondary Phase)
Time: 13:45pm
The Brownlee Centre will also be hosting a pop up school holiday ride.
Orienteering
Stamina
- “You had to keep on running and keep up with your partner,” said Zidaan.
- Henry said, “I’m tired because most of the time I was sprinting!”
Resilience
- “I didn’t give up,” said Gurnoor.
Teamwork
- Rabiya said: “Me and Eliza were showing each other where the points and flags were.”
- “The person who was the best at reading maps read the maps and the person who was good at running went to put the dibber in the hole,” said Eleni.
- “Kirsten and I swapped over every time we went to a station so it was fair. We were both good at map reading and running,” said Poppy.
Map reading
- Ben said, “There was a direction pointing North so you knew where you were going. If you were at the starting point and no.1 was down by the bin, you knew were to go because there was the North direction point.”
- “On the symbols, you might not have worked them out without the key at the bottom, like a green circle was a tree so the key was very helpful,” said Eve.
Remembering
- Zak said, “You were running around and you went past a few stations that you didn’t need yet so you could remember what their number was so if you got a new map, you could come back and get it.”
Overall
- “I thought it was really fun because it gave us a chance to go outside and play with our friends at the same time as orienteering and having fun,” said Evie.
School Savings Club paying in dates
Please note a change of day for the remaining School Savings Club paying in dates.
If your child has a School Savings Club account, we hold paying in sessions on the penultimate week of every half term.
Thursday 18 October 2018 3.15-3.45pm
Thursday 13 December 2018 3.15-3.45pm
Thursday 07 February 2019 3.15-3.45pm
Wednesday 20 March 2019 3.15-3.45pm
Wednesday 15 May 2019 3.15-3.45pm
Wednesday 10 July 2019 3.15-3.45pm
If you are unable to attend in person, please hand in any money to be paid in, to the office in a sealed envelope addressed to Mrs Tiffany.
If you would like your child to open an account, please enquire at the office. Pupils in Year 3 can still take advantage of the £10 incentive offer.
Living and Learning – body image guide for parents and carers
Our focus in Living and Learning, for the rest of this half term, is body image.
What is body image?
Body image describes our idea of how our body looks and how we think it is perceived by others. This can include our thoughts and feelings about our height, weight, shape, skin colour, and our appearance and attractiveness more broadly.
This parent and carer guide has been designed to give practical ideas to support your child in building their emotional resilience in this area.
