Author: Mr Roundtree

I can show a moral choice.

This week’s homework was Creative and we explored what a moral choice is. We had a great range of examples: choosing to tell the truth; paying people according to the ‘worth’ of their job; standing up to bullies; choices politicians have made; and many more.

Here are some the class nominated to be shown on our website:

Ethan created a comic strip about standing up to your friends making bad choices.

Isaac’s story was about the consequences of lying.

Isabella explored choices that are made which result in gender inequality.

Ripley explored the difference in wages and whether they had been allocated morally.

Amrit thought about choices Barak Obama made in his career as President.

07 June 2019

This week’s homework is Creative and is due on Thursday 13 June.

What is Light?

This half term, the children will be learning about light, how it travels and how it helps us to see. We have all explored some questions around light this week and this creative homework invites the children to demonstrate what they know to each other.

As always, creative homework can be anything! We suggest that it should be one page of a homework book and take around 40 minutes to complete. Here are some suggestions:

  • Create a diagram to show how light travels/how the eye works/how we see objects and colours…
  • Write an information text including everything you know about light.
  • Write a poem entitled, ‘Light’.
  • Create a piece of art using the light spectrum.

Have fun with it and we’ll enjoy sharing them next week.

07 June 2019

Year 6 are learning about how light works in this half term’s science learning. The following words/phrases will be used throughout the topic. Choose two of these words to create a word study on. Spelling is due on Thursday 13 June.

 

light, light source, names of light sources,

dark, reflect,

reflective, mirror, shadow,

block, absorb, direct/ direction,

transparent, opaque, translucent,

straight, rainbow, colours

Don’t forget to complete an annual survey

At Moortown Primary, we’re always keen to hear your views.

Please complete the survey – it’ll only take a few minutes or so.

We hope that you let us know any questions, comments and concerns (as well as causes for celebration!) whenever these crop up, but we like to gather the views more generally at the end of the year. We’re looking forward to reading your views.

Annual survey of parents / carers

At Moortown Primary, we’re always keen to hear your views. We hope that you let us know any questions, comments and concerns (as well as causes for celebration!) whenever these crop up, but we like to gather the views more generally at the end of the year – we do this via the annual survey.

Please complete the survey – it’ll only take a few minutes or so. You’ve plenty of time to do this – the deadline is Monday 24 June 2019.

We can’t guarantee to meet the needs and wants of every parent / carer, but we do assure you that we consider all the points raise and aim to act on specific points that are raised by many, or a useful idea raised by just a few.

Last year, based on your feedback, for example, we changed how we update you about your child’s progress so that you get five updates over the year: a parent-teacher consultation in Autumn 1 and Spring 1; a Learning Update ‘mini-report’ in Autumn 2 and Spring 2; and a final end-of-year report in Summer 2.

We’re looking forward to reading your views.

17 May 2019

This week’s homework is Talk Time and will be discussed on Tuesday 21 May.

I can talk about careers.

As part of our themed Money Week, we’ll be discussing where money comes from which will involve talking about careers. At home, discuss what career you have now and whether it is the same career you hoped you’d have when you were ten. Talk about the decisions you’ve made in your life to take you on the path to your current workplace and what path your child might have to take to get them to their desired career.

For Talk Time homework, children should write a few bullet-pointed notes which will help them take part in our class discussion.

Attendance matters

Here’s an update on the attendance of each class in school so far this school year. The overall school attendance is 96.6% – highlighted in orange are all the classes with attendance above this average.

Reception – 96.5%
Y1 – 96.6%
Y2 – 98.0%
Y3 – 95.9%
Y4 – 95.0%
Y5 – 96.9%
Y6 – 97.3%

Well done to children in Year 2 – they have the highest attendance of all the classes! It’s also great to see both classes in our Y5,6 phase with above average attendance.