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.
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.
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.
Ask your child to sit facing away from you and the cup
One at a time, drop coins into the cup
Your child must listen and count
When you stop, they tell you how many coins are in the cup
Repeat several times. Can they be correct three times in a row?
Challenge
Drop coins into the cup with your child’s eyes shut
Take one out
How many are left?
Shape
Cut out simple 2D shapes from paper. Make different sizes and colours.
Can you describe the properties of the shapes? Talk about the number of sides and size.
Phonics Activity: Write the sentence. (Adult to read aloud.)
She has fair hair.
Remember to use your phoneme fingers to segment each word. There is one ‘tricky’word-can you spot it?
Literacy
Story of the week: What the ladybird heard by Julia Donaldson Listen to the story again. Join in with the animal noises.
In the story the baddies make a map of the farmyard so they can work out how to steal the cow.
Make your own map and label all the places and animals on your map.
Use your map to describe where things are and give directions to your adult to get to the cow; eg turn, next to, under, over etc.
Maths-teen numbers
For tips on how to help your child with maths, this Cbeebies video is very good.
Play this game.
Write the numbers 1-10 on large scraps of paper. Place them around the floor.
Your child chooses a number to stand on.
They must do actions to match that number.
E.g. If they stood on 6, they might do eight bunny hops.
Story of the week: What the ladybird heard by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story again.
Can you join in with me to make the animal noises? Purr Miaow Woof
Cluck Moo
Can you draw the animals with speech bubbles? What sound do they make?
Write the sound in the speech bubble.
Challenge: Try writing a sentence eg The sheep said baa.
Please read the digraphs to your child so that they don’t copy them. They can then write them in their home learning book.
For help with pronunciation –
Write a sentence about the picture; eg I can see fish and chips.
Remember to use a capital letter and a full stop.
Remember, it is okay for things to be spelt phonetically. It is important your child grows into an independent learner. Encouraging your child to write the words as they sound rather than always spelling correctly is important. It encourages the children to use their own skills – rather than copy from an adult.
First, there were 6 ducks in the water. Then, 4 got out of the water. How many are left in the water?
Challenge: There are 6 ducks in the water. Some ducks got out of the water. Now there are only half left in the water. How many ducks got out of the water? How many are left?
I had 8 apples. I ate 3. How many do I have left? Challenge: I had 8 apples. I ate some and have 5 left. How many did I eat?
There are 5 people in the house. How many shoes will be by the door? Try to count in 2’s to find the answer when counting the pairs of shoes.
Maths vocabulary in Reception
I’ve had some questions about the vocabulary we use in Reception-it is confusing!
The first words children use in maths are more, less, the same, many, lots, fewer, greater than, more than, less than to compare numbers and sets of objects.
During addition and subtraction activities we use:
add, plus, total, how many altogether, one more, equal, the same as
takeaway, subtract,total, how many are left, fewer than
We always use objects-cubes, counters, small toys or anything else the children can move around! We encourage children to draw pictures to help them develop their understanding.
At this stage the children don’t need to write a number sentence.
The important thing is the children’s understanding of number.
Use objects (counters, small toys, buttons etc) to represent the objects.
You can use a 10 frame and counters.
Georgina has 6 grapes. Ben has 4 grapes. How many
grapes do they have altogether
Jake has 3 blueberries. Sue has 7 blueberries. How many
grapes do they have altogether?
Kevin has 5 raisins. Joe has the same amount. How many do they have altogether?
Jennifer has 8 strawberries. George has 2 strawberries. How many do they have altogether?
Challenge: Practise your number bonds to 10.
Extra activity- Art
Create a self portrait
You will need:
Explore what you like in the mirror. Discuss the different features you see. Draw your face large enough to fill the page and add position features such as your eyes, nose and mouth.
Sit opposite your adult and draw each other at the same time-this can be quite funny!
