We hope you had a happy and healthy half-term break.

Have you had a chance to complete our short annual survey? It’ll take just five minutes or so. You’ve still plenty of time – the closing date is Friday 20 June.

Themed week: Being healthy

Our next themed week is the week beginning Monday 07 July. This is the second of two themed weeks each year.

Learning will be based around how to be healthy physically and emotionally.  A variety of events and visitors are planned to help us deliver this key aspect of Living and Learning.

Drug education

D:side will deliver drug education sessions to all classes. Information for parents and carers about these sessions will be available from d:side on Friday 11 July from 3.00pm-3:30pm. Weather permitting, you’ll find Dave in the main playground.

Sports Day

As part of the week, you’re invited to watch your child take part in our annual Sports Day:

• Thursday 10 July
• Key Stage 2: 9.30am – 11.30am
• Reception and Key Stage 1: 1.30 – 3.00pm
• Roundhegians Rugby Club, LS8 2AT

Personal best challenge

Our Junior Leaders have suggested for all children to take part in a fundraising personal best challenge event during the week. Money raised will go to our school charity, Yorkshire Air Ambulance. We request a £1 minimum donation for this event which can be made on School Gateway.

Healthy way to travel to school

This themed week is a good opportunity to think about a healthy way to travel to school. We encourage children to use an active and sustainable method of transport, maybe parking further away from school (Marks and Spencers offer car park spaces to park and stride), scooting, biking or walking to school. We’d love to see their active travel photos (send photos to moortownoffice@spherefederation.org by Thursday 10 July). There will be a prize draw at the end of the week for children to win a voucher.

Can you help?

If your job involves an aspect of health and you can support our Being Healthy themed week by coming into school, please contact the office to pass on your details.

A few other things…

Due to the rising costs of visitors to school, we’re inviting you to make a small contribution: £2 per pupil will help us to pay for visitors and ensure themed weeks like this one can continue in the future. If you choose to contribute, you can do this on School Gateway. Thank you for your support with this.

Due to the nature of the activities planned, children are allowed to wear PE kit all week. Please respect our Uniform Policy for what to wear on PE days.

We’ll keep you up to date about events during the week on the Class News pages on our website.

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

Staying safe in the sun

Now that summer’s here, it’s important to remember to stay safe in the sun. Please remember to apply sunscreen to keep your child safe.

Every day matters

Our whole-school attendance figure is 95.2%. This means we’re above national figures: 93.3% for all schools and 94.9% for primary schools.

All the classes are above the 93.3% national figure. Particular well done to Year 3 and Year 4 children…

• Reception: 96.2%
• Year 1: 94.2%
• Year 2: 94.7%
• Year 3: 97.2%
• Year 4: 97.6%
• Year 5: 96.6%
• Year 6: 97.8%

Thank you for making sure your child attends school as much as possible.

Well done…

One of our Y5 friends has been selected to be part of Opera North next year, performing in different parts of the country. This is an amazing opportunity – hopefully, she’ll remember us when she’s famous.