Author: Mrs Wood

We hope you all have a great holiday after what has been a very busy term!

The highlight of our term has to be our trip to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. The children really enjoyed learning about polar bears and the threat they face to their habitat. We hope you are all turning off your lights!

Enjoy the two week break and we look forward to seeing you all at the start of the children’s last term in Reception.

We had a great (and exhausting) day at the wildlife park!

    

We’ll soon begin Phase 4 of Letters and Sounds. In this phase, children will continue to practise previously learned graphemes and phonemes and learn how to read and write:

CVCC words: tent, damp, toast, chimp. For example, in the word ‘toast’, t = consonant,  oa = vowel,  s = consonant,  t = consonant.

CCVC words: swim, plum, sport, cream, spoon. For example, in the word ‘cream’, c = consonant, r = consonant, ea = vowel, m = consonant.

They will be learning more tricky words and continuing to read and write sentences together.

Tricky words:
said, so, do, have, like, some, come, were, there, little, one, when, out, what

Ways you can support your child at home

• Practise reading and spelling some CVCC and CCVC words but continue to play around with CVC words. Children like reading and spelling words that they have previously worked with, as this makes them feel successful.
• Make up captions and phrases for your child to read and write, for example, a silver star, clear the pond, crunch crisps. Write some simple sentences and leave them around the house for your child to find and read. After they have found and read three, give them a treat!
• Look out for words in the environment, such as on food packaging, which your child will find easy to read, for example, lunch, fresh milk, drink, fish and chips, jam.
• Work on reading words together, for example, a street name such as Park Road, captions on buses and lorries, street signs such as bus stop.

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

Elections for our new school council will take place next Thursday 09 February 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 08 February.

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

‘Communicating with others – pupils and adults.’
‘Having good listening skills to know what to contribute in meetings.’
‘Thinking of realistic ideas to suggest in meetings.’
‘Considering other people’s views even if you don’t agree with them.’

If your child would like to stand, please could you help them to prepare a speech.

Hints for their speech include:

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

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

If you choose not to stand in the election then you should consider the importance of voting.