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07 December 2012

The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 12 December 2012.

There are two different homeworks this week. Look in your homework book to see which one you are doing. You might be practising using proper nouns or practising interpreting the information in pictograms.

If you have any questions, please come and see me.

07 December 2012

This week’s homework is slightly different as it’s Practice makes Perfect.

I know the difference between no and know. 

I want your child to be able to distinguish between no and know. In the children’s writing this week, some have struggled with writing the correct homophone.

Here are a couple of activities that you can do to test whether your child knows the difference:

• Write no on a piece of paper and on the back write know. Then, read out a sentence and they have to show you whether they need to use no or know.
• Write a sentence and leave a gap in the middle for your child to place either no or know.

The children don’t have to write anything in their books, but they will be tested on iPads on Friday 14 December.

07 December 2012

The focus for our spellings this week, are all words that have the long vowel sound ‘ai‘ in with the suffix ed. These words all have the same sound in middle.

Thanks…

At Moortown Primary, we work closely with other companies to enhance our curriculum.

This week, we’ve been delighted to welcome Theatre in Education back in to school to work with Y6 children.  Theatre in Education are great: they produce and perform quality drama which they then follow up with workshops which develop the personal and social awareness and understanding of our pupils.  This week, they’ve performed ‘One of Fagin’s Boys’.  Iona, one of our Y6 pupils, commented, “I think Fagin’s Boys was imaginitive although some of it was hard to understand. Also, I liked it because it was telling us what the life of a child in care might be like.”

We’ve also welcomed Yoga Bugs in to school.  They’ve worked with some of our classes – check out the pics in Y3 Class News for example.  YogaBugs are always popular visitors to school – they develop children’s physical and emotional health through yoga-inspired activity.  They bring stories to life through specially developed moves which combine fun with exercise: children go on wild adventures where they may roar like a lion, fly like a bird or blast into outer space!  Isabelle, who is in Y3, said, “I think it really calms you down and stretches your body.”

We’d also like to thank Leeds Festival Wind Quintet.  Recently, they played at the ceremony for turning on Moortown’s Christmas Lights.  They’ve since made a donation to school to spend on music – a very kind and thoughtful gesture.

Great partnerships!

Yoga Bugs!

This afternoon, we’ve been learning about yoga and how it helps us to both relax and energise our bodies.

Yoga fun!

Today, we’re going on a journey in our mind to a calmer and more peaceful place through yoga!

First of all, we’re going to have a bit of a warm up.

Now, we’re skiing through the Alps, surfing in Australia, riding camels in Egypt and…

you guessed it

in India pretending to be elephants!

Gymnastics at Allerton Grange

This morning, we’ve been learning some gymnastics skills and putting them into routines at Allerton Grange.

Outdoor learning in Reception

The children spend a lot of time learning outside in Reception.

The following information about the importance of being outside is taken from the revised curriculum for the Foundation Stage:

• Being outdoors has a positive impact on children’s sense of well-being and this has an impact on all aspects of children’s development.
• Being outdoors offers opportunities for doing things differently and on a different scale than when learning indoors.
• It gives children first hand contact with weather, seasons and the natural world.
• Outdoor environments offer children freedom to explore, use their senses and be physically active and exuberant.

Look at some of the things we have been doing outside.

We’ll be outside all winter, so please ensure your child has suitable clothing. Wellington boots are a good idea!

30 November 2012

This week, the tricky words to learn to spell are:

These words will be tested on Friday 07 December 2012.

Goodbye Tanishqa

Today, we had to say goodbye to a well-loved member of our class. Tanishqa has been an asset to Moortown. She has a close group of friends who will miss her dearly. Best wishes to Tanishqa and her family in their fresh start in India.