15 July 2016
This week’s creative homework should be returned on Wednesday 20 July.
I can reflect on my time in primary school.
Children should reflect on their time in primary school and respond creatively. They could focus on friends they have made, what they will miss about Moortown Primary, what they have learnt, how they have changed over the course of their time at school, why they are proud to have attended Moortown Primary and anything else they wish to mention.
This is the last piece of homework that children will complete at primary school – make it a good one!
15 July 2016
The spellings this week are for the whole class. The focus is on words that use a double consonant for a short vowel sound. However, a range of the suffixes we’ve learned this year are also recapped. The spelling test will be on Thursday morning.
Abbey House Museum
What a great day we had yesterday! The weather was lovely enough to enjoy lunch and games outside, and we learnt so much about the past. I was very impressed with how enthusiastic the children were at discovering new things and of course their behaviour was fantastic. Here are a few pictures from our day.
We looked for pictures of Victorian people and dressed up as them!
Entry to Abbey House Museum is free and it is much bigger than it looks from the outside. With the holidays coming up, this could be a great day out to keep everybody occupied!
Wonder the world better
Our homework last week linked to a national competition to win a trip to the new Wonderlab at the Science Museum in London. There were lots of fantastic entries but we’ve whittled it down to one class winner which will be sent off to be judged.
Moses entered the winning piece but I’d like to give a special mention to Ebonnie who came in a close second!
Moses wonders…
I wonder what the world would be like without weather? Would it be hot or cold? Would the sun shine? How would we live? Would we need houses or shelters, would there still be nature without rain? Where would the water come from? Would life on earth exist without weather? We complain about the weather all the time but without it what earth look like? I think life would be less colourful, dull and boring, without the sunshine the sea would be grey like the sky above. What do you think the world would be like without weather?
Some brilliant thoughts that really got us thinking too. We’ve made it a more whole class entry as we then thought about what we wanted it to look like in order to catch the judges’ eyes. There were some lovely ideas but Isabelle’s, Jorja’s and Sarah’s had the edge.
Fingers crossed.
15 July 2016
These are the last spellings of the year! They focus on certain rules we have learnt: -ed, -ing, -er, -s and -es endings.
All children in Year 1 have the same spellings.
look
looked
looking
looks
box
boxes
sing
singer
Abbey House Museum
We had a great day yesterday learning at Abbey House Museum. We also had time to wander around the abbey after we’d had lunch in the cloisters. Finally, we played some games before getting the bus home.
Federation Consultation
As you know, Moortown Primary’s governors have proposed to join the federation of Scholes (Elmet) Primary School and St James’ Church of England Primary School. Any responses regarding this need to be returned to school by Monday 18 July. The details of the consultation and any contacts needed can be found in the consultation document.
15 July 2016
| forgetting, forgotten,
beginning, beginner, prefer, preferred subdivide, subheading, submarine, submerge measure, treasure creature, furniture vein, weigh, eight, neighbour , they, gardening limited, limitation
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young, touch, double,
trouble, country accept, except affect, effect disappoint, disagree, disobey misbehave, mislead, misspell inactive, incorrect illegal, illegible sadly, completely, usually, finally, comically happily, angrily gently, simply, humbly, nobly basically, frantically, dramatically ball, bawl berry, bury break, brake
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fair, fare
great, grate groan, grown main, mane meat, meet missed, mist piece, peace plain, plane rain, rein, reign seen, scene weather, whether whose, who’s girl’s, girls’ boy’s, boys’ men’s, babies’, here, hear heel, heal, he’ll not, knot male, mail |
The above spellings include a lot of words that we have learnt this year; some words that follow the spelling rules that we have focused on and some words that may be new to your child. Like the Year 3/4 spelling list, this represents the sorts of spellings Year 3 children are expected to spell confidently.
We have spent a lot of time in class discussing effective ways of practising spellings. Your child will be able to explain the following techniques:
~highlighting
~drawing around spellings
~spelling pyramids
~illustrating spellings
~letter colouring
Why not spend some time with your child trying out these different techniques?
Your child will be tested on eight of these spellings at the end of next week.
15 July 2016
This week’s whole school homework involves completing the pupil health questionnaire sent home with your child/children.
I can share my views about health.
This annual questionnaire helps us to find out pupil views on some of our key health issues at school. Please support your child to complete the health questionnaire by discussing these issues.
The questionnaire should be returned to your class teacher by Wednesday 20 July.
15 July 2016
This week’s Talk Time homework will be discussed on Wednesday 20 July.
How can Miss Rushbrooke make Year 6 enjoyable, productive and even better than Year 5?
As I have the pleasure of teaching the class again next year, it would be great to have some top tips from the children for what I could do to make their final year at Moortown a great one. I’m hoping for some realistic suggestions about how we can have fun – not just have break all the time! And how I can help them learn even more than they have this year.
- Is there anything in particular you’d like us to learn?
- Has any learning been particularly enjoyable – we could do something similar next year.
- Are there any suggestions for what the classroom should look like or have in it.
- Do you think there are any different ways we could work that would help us to be more productive?
- What have you liked this year that you’d want to continue?
- Is there any thing you haven’t liked this year and you’d like it to stop?
- Could we do more or less of anything?
There is always room for improvement and – I hope the children would agree – I’m always keen to hear how they’d like things to be and will adapt what I’m doing if I think it’s a good idea.
