Author: Mrs Wood

Don’t forget the Early Maths Workshop on Tuesday 07 November at 6pm.

See you there!

Don’t forget to attend one of our phonics lessons this week.

Please join us on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday morning to see your child learn.

Don’t worry if you haven’t signed up yet – just come along!

See you there!

With two representatives from each class, chosen democratically by their peers, all children at Moortown Primary are encouraged to take an active part in pupil voice.

It’s time for children to consider if they would like to stand for election for our new School Council.

Elections will take place on Thursday 19 October with our polling station and ballot boxes at the ready. Candidates will have the opportunity to give their election speech to their class on Wednesday 18 October or Thursday 19 October.

If your child would like to be a school councillor, please help them to prepare a short speech.

What makes a good school councillor has been considered by our current school council.

• ‘use all the 8 Rs for learning’
• ‘be respectful’
• ‘help others’
• ‘be a good speaker and listener (to members of your class and in the meetings)’
• ‘tell the truth’
• ‘be confident with your ideas’
• ‘accept the views of others even if you don’t agree’
• ‘be friendly and approachable’
• ‘make good choices in class and around school’

Hints for your speech include:

• What skills and abilities would a good school councillor have?
• What are you particularly good at that would help you to be a great school councillor?
• What do you think would make the school better?
• What could you do that people would really like?
• Think of things that are realistic, maybe that you could do yourself, rather than having to ask other people to do

 

Good luck to all children who decide to stand in the elections.

   

There will be no Relax and Read this week. Instead, you’re invited to stay for a Communication, Language and Literacy session. You will join your child to retell and make up stories and play games to help develop their speaking and listening skills.

See you there!

Thanks to everyone who attended our ‘Early Reading’ workshop last week.

We will begin phase 2 of Letters and Sounds this week. Phase 2 involves learning phonemes to read and write simple words.

During this phase children will learn their first 19 phonemes:

• Set 1: s a t p
• Set 2: i n m d
• Set 3: g o c k
• Set 4: ck (as in duck) e u r
• Set 5: h   b l   f     ff (as in puff)   ll (as in hill)     ss (as in hiss)

They will use these phonemes to read and spell simple “consonant-vowel-consonant” (CVC) words: sat, tap, dig, duck, rug, puff, hill, hiss

All these words contain 3 phonemes.

Blending

Children need to be able to hear the separate sounds in a word and then blend them together to say the whole word.

Segmenting

Children need to be able to hear a whole word and say every sound that they hear.

If you have any questions, please ask!

 

 

 

 

This week the children enjoyed writing and performing their own version of ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, who do you see?’

Please ask your child to show you their book, ‘Reception, Reception, who can you see?’ next time you are in the classroom.

 

• Have you ever wondered what a phoneme is?
• Do you know how to split a digraph?

Make sure you come along to our Early Reading Workshop on Tuesday 03 October at 6pm.

Find out how we teach phonics and reading and how you can support your child at home.

See you there!

What is two?

In order to give children a deeper understanding of number we are investigating small numbers in our maths learning. This week, we’ll focus on the number 2 and what ‘two’ means.

Here are some ideas to help your child understand the ‘twoness of two’:

• Explore body parts which come in pairs, eyes, legs, nostrils etc
• Look at 2 x 1p, look at 2p, a £2 coin
• Cut fruit in half: one apple, 2 pieces of apple.
• Look at pairs of shoes, socks and boots