Year 6 Class News

Living and Learning: Parent/carer workshops Staying Safe themed week

Thank you to all the parents/carers who have signed up to the workshops on offer next week during our Staying Safe themed week.

There are a few places left if you would like to come along.

Benchball

Some of our KS2 children took part in a come and try benchball event at Roundhay School tonight.

Competing against other local schools, they showed great teamwork and PE skills.

Benchball uses a lot of the same skills as netball and we hope that some of the players come and join the netball after-school club on a Monday – we have a few places left!

Impressive writing

This half term, Year 6 are learning how to use colons, semi-colons and dashes.

Here’s some great writing from Martha about a mythical beast where she’s used these skills independently.

Martha will now use the feedback to help her to improve her writing and aim to write just as well and with fewer mistakes in her next piece.

At home, read this together and ask your child what they wrote about. Can they show you how to use colons and semi-colons correctly?

A-maze-ing computing

As part of our Fighting Fantasy topic, we’re working towards creating our own maze-based games on a computer programme called Kodu. Last week we learnt about algorithms, decomposition and debugging.

Today, we’ve continued our learning about debugging by creating our mazes offline.

When we realised our maze didn’t work or wasn’t complicated enough or was too complicated, we had to debug in order to improve it.

Using blocks, Lego or Kapla helped us to make sure we kept the lines of our mazes straight and allowed to be symmetrical with our designs.

Once we were happy with the shape of the maze, we started to think about what the aim  of the game would be, adding points or obstacles in our way.

Next week, we’ll move our learning onto the computers and create our maze in Kodu.

At home, ask us how our learning is developing and see whether we can tell you how the game we’re creating will work. Here’s an explanation for how to play this maze.

Living Streets new badge design competition

We are proud to work with Living Streets to support our aim for active and safe travel to and from school.

WOW is Living Streets’ year-round walk to school challenge and every day our pupils log their daily journeys to school on the WOW Travel Tracker. Those that make an active (walk, bike, scoot or park and stride) journey to school at least once a week for a month earn a WOW badge. There are 11 to collect across the year all of which have been designed by pupils in their annual badge design competition.

Living and Learning: I can make things better

Year 6’s Creative homework was really impressive this week. They were asked to show how we can make things better and there were all sorts of creative responses with all sorts of different contexts: friendship, the environment, school, home life – the list goes on.

We always enjoy looking at each other’s homework and we write comments in homework books to tell each what we think.

Lots of children liked Sachpreet’s homework – and not just for the great photo of the class back in Reception. They liked how she’d gone through the whole class saying what she felt each person had changed for the better.

Let’s let the dice decide

Year 6 turned their day into a Fighting Fantasy quest on Friday. They let the dice decide.

The dice decided which line came into the classroom first.

The dice decided when we did what lessons.

The dice decided what we ate for lunch.

The dice decided who we played with at breaktime.

It was an interesting day and, although they could choose not to, most children allowed the dice to make all of their decisions.

Quick Sticks hockey

Last week, some of our Year 5 and 6 children took part in the Leeds North East Quick Sticks hockey qualifying festival at Allerton High.  Well done to all the children involved and thank you to staff and parents who supported the event.

Staying Safe themed week 04 February

Our next whole school themed week, based around Staying Safe, will be taking place from Monday 04 February 2019.  The key message is how to be safe in a range of situations – at home, at school, online and in the environment.

A variety of events and visitors are planned to help us deliver this key aspect of education including road and scooter safety (Leeds City Council); water safety (Canal and River Trust and RNLI); bike maintenance (Edinburgh Bicycle Co-operative); staying safe around dogs (Dogs Trust) and e-safety (One Day Creative and d:side). Some of the events require parental permission and these letters have been sent out separately. There are also some opportunities for parents and carers, from all year groups, to get involved in the week. Please contact the office to reserve places.

*THIS WEEK* Thursday 24 January 2:30pm – 3:15pm d:side drug education information session

A representative from d:side, a health education provider, will be running an information session about drug education.

 Monday 04 February 2:30-3.15pm One Day Creative, creative education provider, e-safety workshop

Wednesday 06 February Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative Dr Bike event

Bring your bike for a free bike safety check, from 8:30am – no need to book.

Thursday 07 February 2:30-3.15pm First aid workshop

A representative from Leeds Beckett University, will be running a first aid workshop for parents and carers.

The themed week is a good opportunity to continue to think about healthy, active ways to travel to school.  Children are encouraged to travel to school in a sustainable way, keeping safe along the way.

Finally, can you help? Does your job involve an aspect of safety?  If you are able to support our Staying Safe themed week by coming into school, please contact Mrs Taylor via the school office.

We will keep you up to date about events during the week through Twitter and the class news pages on our website.

Thank you for your support to keep Moortown a happy, healthy and safe school.

After-school club availability

There’s still time to sign up to our Spring term after-school clubs starting next week.

Please contact the office if you would like to book a place on any of the following clubs which currently have spaces available.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday