Author: Mrs Wood

Thank you for sending emails informing us of your child’s achievements at home.

Please keep them coming! They really help us to plan for your child’s interests and help us to accurately assess their abilities.

Below is an example(names have been changed).

This email informs us that Jane is writing at home and using lead-ins. More importantly it tells us that she really enjoys her learning.

Thanks to everyone who attended our Maths Stay and Play. We hope you had fun!

Please continue to let us know what your child’s current interests are and those moments that make you proud.

This information really helps us to assess your child and lets us know what they are interested in.

For instance, you have told us which children have been practising their writing at home, learning to fasten their coats and reading to their younger brothers and sisters.

Thank you!

moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org

Join us on Thursday for our Stay and Play session which will focus on maths. Come along and join your child in their learning of number, shape, space and measures.

See you there!

There will be no Relax and Read this week.

We have begun phase 3 of the ‘Letters and Sounds’ phonics programme.

The purpose of this phase is to:

• teach more graphemes, most of which are made of two letters, for example, ‘oa’ as in boat
• practise blending and segmenting a wider set of CVC words, for example, fizz, chip, sheep, light
• learn all letter names and begin to form them correctly
• read more tricky words and begin to spell some of them
• read and write words in phrases and sentences

Here are some examples of words your children will be reading: tail, week, right, soap, food, park, burn, cord, town, soil

Tricky words
During phase 3 the children will learn more ‘tricky words’: he, she, we, me, be, was, my, you, her, they, all, said.

In addition, during this phase children will be expected to begin to write sentences independently.

Our next phonics mornings will be held in February.

It has been great to see so many of you at Relax and Read this term!

We have reached the last week of the children’s first term at Moortown. What a busy term it has been! The children have settled really well and it has been great to get to know them and see them learn and grow in confidence.

We hope you have a great Christmas and Happy New Year!

We’ve enjoyed having lots of different visitors and activities as part of our themed week.

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This week, we focus on identity, diversity and community in our Who do you think you are? themed week.  As part of this week, children will think about our school charity.  Currently, we support Yorkshire Air Ambulance and Leeds Mind.  A previous School Council selected these because they wanted to help people, support a mental health charity and wanted to help local and regional charities.  They were chosen because pupils passed on to School Councillors very clear and strong arguments.

We’ve helped these charities for two years now, so it’s time for a change. We need you to have a discussion at home about which charity would be best for us to support. We will now support one charity for a year.  Each class will then discuss this and then the councillors will bring the views and ideas together to decide on the charities.

Once your child has decided on a charity, make sure they have clear, powerful reasons to support their views.

You might want to discuss whether we support…

• a local charity
• a children’s charity
• a charity which helps a vulnerable group in our community

We’ve been busy making magic potions in Reception and most children liked the idea of turning people into animals.

You have been warned!