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10 June 2016

This week’s spellings have been chosen by the children and me because they’re words we’ve noticed lots of us make mistakes on. These spellings will be tested on Friday 17 June.

• favourite
• colour
• excited
• excellent
• different
• altogether
• absolutely
• definitely
• necessarily
• minutes

10 June 2016

Yellow and Red group: I have chosen eight ‘common exception words’ as your spellings this week. These are words which don’t follow the usual rules of phonics.
friend
one
once
our
school
house 
your
love

Green group:  I will be asking you any ten words from the following list of ‘common exception words’.

10 June 2016

The spellings this week are for everyone in Year 2.

Year 3 sound learning

This week, our mini topic has been hearing. We’ve been studying how sound is made and how we are able to hear it.

We put some oats onto a drum to help us observe the vibrations creating the sound. We also walked around school looking for sources of sound and identifying what might be vibrating.

Here are some quotes we wrote this morning about sound:

“This week, we have been learning that sound can travel through air (gas), water (liquid) and walls (solids).”

“We were also listening to some interesting sounds outside and around school.”

“When you speak, your vocal chords vibrate and these vibrations vibrate the air around them. This allows them to travel through the air to people’s ears.”

“If you hit a drum lightly the vibrations will be smaller and if you hit a drum harder the vibrations will be bigger. The bigger the vibration the louder the sound.”

10 June 2016

This week’s spellings are brought to you by the letter ‘w‘. Here is a list of common ‘w‘ words. Go through these words  with your child and decide which spellings they already know and which spellings they think they need to focus on learning. A very common error in class is using ‘Wh’ instead of ‘W’ (whent instead of went). On Friday, your child will be assessed through a dictation activity. The following week’s spellings will be based on the whole class’s results in that assessment.

Can your child spot any of our school spelling rules (drop the ‘y’ for an i, double up for a short vowel sound, drop the ‘e’ for ‘ing’)? Can your child spot any words within words to help them remember a spelling (warm)?

Safe and secure…

To make sure that Moortown Primary School is a happy, healthy and safe place to learn, we invited a safeguarding expert to come in and review our practice.  As a result there was a safeguarding review on Wednesday 08 June.  The process took all day and was very thorough.  I am pleased to tell you that it was a very productive exercise and the report was very positive.  Here is a summary of what was said:

“The school is clearly committed to safeguarding its pupils.  The school has an integrated approach to safeguarding which ensures that children are kept safe.  There is effective training and support for staff, and a clear induction process.  The school’s systems for raising and recording concerns about children works well and is used by staff of all roles in school.  There is a rich learning environment which gives children a positive sense of self-worth.  Behaviour is well managed and clear processes are in place.  The school has excellent attendance and the children seemed very happy to be in school.”

Well done to everyone for this great report.

10 June 2016

This week’s whole school homework is creative and is due Wednesday 15 June:

Why does money matter?

In our recent Money Matters themed week, we considered spending, donating, saving and getting money. Take a look through the news section and class news pages to remind you about the week.

Your child is required to show their understanding of money in a creative way. Ideas could include:

• a game
• a poem
• a song
• a quiz
• a letter
• a comic strip
• a script

10 June 2016

This week’s Talk Time homework is due on Monday 13 June to be used during an Relationships and Sex Education lesson.

Identify somebody who you would consider to be a role model. Bring in a picture and be prepared to discuss who they are and why they’re your role model.

We’ll be talking about ourselves and how our emotions change during puberty. Identifying a role model is part of making sure we maintain a positive image of ourselves, thinking about how we can use our role model to do this.

Hockey

We’re learning the basics of hockey in PE this half term. This week, we’ve been learning how to hold the hockey stick. This has been a real challenge for most children!

The way that most children have found helpful is this:
Imagine you are on a bike and hold the imaginary handlebars. Next, turn your right fist upside-down. Now we are ready to hold the stick! The left fist goes at the top and the upside-down fist goes nearer the bottom.

Please make sure that your child has shorts for PE as children in long trousers are getting too hot.

Brownlee Foundation triathlon

Well done to some of our Year 3 and 4 pupils who were part of 950 children competing in the Brownlee Foundation triathlon at John Smeaton Leisure Centre. This event has been hosted in preparation for the World Triathlon Series held in Leeds this weekend.  These children can be inspired to know that all three of the 2016 Mens Tri Olympic Team not only train in Leeds, but were born here too.

• ‘I really liked the triathlon because it makes you fit and it was really fun.’
• ‘I was really nervous at the start but I loved it.  It was challenging.’
• ‘I really enjoyed it and I would like to do it again.’
• ‘It was great fun because it gave you chance to practise different sports.’
• ‘I loved it because of the excitement of it.’

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