Moortown Primary is a ‘single-form entry’ school. This means we take only one class each year and so have one class in each year group. Classes are limited to a maximum of 30 children in Reception, Year 1 and 2 (like all schools), and classes in Years 3 to 6 are usually around this size, too.
Key information about the day-to-day running of Moortown Primary School can be found here – everything from the price of a school dinner to important dates in the school year. If there remains something that you still need to know, we’re always happy to answer any questions you may have – call in or contact us.
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Find out more about what makes us special
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Find out how your child can join Moortown Primary
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Read about our achievements and partners
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The government sets out expectations which complement our aims and ethos
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Stay up-to-date
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Information about school dinners, free school meals, packed lunches and other food in school
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Find us
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Find out the latest news, updates and reminders
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Read about the most recent Ofsted report for Moortown Primary
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How we organise our school day
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The results from end of Key Stage 2 national assessments
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Find out more about physical activity and how we invest PE and Sport Premium funding
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Some key policies and other points that might be of interest
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Funding that is used to support children who may be disadvantaged in some way
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Keeping children healthy and safe from harm
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Find out how school and the local authority can support your child
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Moortown Primary is part of a federation, but what is a federation?
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Find out more about the different teachers at Moortown Primary
This section is all about how you can join in and be part of our community.
Moortown Primary is very much an active community. Pupils, parents / carers and staff at school are all important 'stakeholders' and we want everyone to have their say, to express their ideas and to keep on making our learning community a great place to be.
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Check out the different events you can join in at Moortown Primary
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Encourage your child to join an after-school club or take up an instrument
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The ‘board of directors’ for our school
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How you can volunteer to help us
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Join in activities going on around Leeds
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Democracy in action!
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A group of parents / carers, supported by staff, who fundraise and organise social events
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We want to hear any questions, comments and concerns you may have
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We work with Red Kite Teacher Training, an Ofsted outstanding provider of school-based teacher training in North and West Yorkshire
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Do you want to work in our happy and healthy place to learn?
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Do you need care for your child before or after school?
Every pupil at Moortown Primary School is an enthusiastic, positive and expressive learner – but it's not just our children! We are all learners: we can keep on learning new methods, new facts, new points of view.
This section is all about learning and how parents / carers can support or join in the learning process.
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Updates from your child’s class and the learning that’s taking place
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An overview of principles and practice in the Foundation Stage
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Your child's journey to school starts at home
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Support your child's Maths at home
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Support your child’s reading and writing at home
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Find out about this week’s home learning including spellings to learn
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Learn more about the PSHE curriculum and other things that support children's personal development
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Aims and structure of the National Curriculum for schools in England
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Top e-safety tips
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Learn more about our curriculum: its intent, implementation and expectations
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Learn more about how we teach the early stages of reading and writing.
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Learn more about Relationships and Sex Education at Moortown Primary
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Discover how we promote your child’s social, moral, spiritual and cultural development
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This page is for our children - advice to help you to stay safe and be a happy and healthy person.
This week, Year 5 have started their new writing topic. Over the next three weeks, the children will write a short narrative which creates tension and suspense. We used an animated video as our stimulus which was sourced from the Literacy Shed.
This film is perfect at building tension: the narrator uses pauses and varies the speed at which he speaks in order to build the suspense. As well as speech used to create tension, the music also plays a key part in creating suspense.
Help at home: Watch the video with and without music. How does this alter the tension created?