Author: Mr Roundtree

09 March 2018

For spelling this week, the children have looked through the Year 5.6 spelling list and chosen 15 words which they feel they need to practise.

Create ways for you to remember how to spell these words and generally practise using the strategies in the back of your homework book. Don’t forget to try adding prefixes and suffixes to the words. Spelling practice is best done little and often so make sure you come back to the spellings at least three times in the week. Date your practice and ask an adult to sign it to show that you’re practising regularly. There will be a test on Friday 16 March.

 

09 March 2018

This week’s homework is Practice Makes Perfect, consolidating learning we’ve been doing in Maths on area and perimeter. The children have a worksheet which requires them to take on the role of a flooring company, practising their skills in a real context.

This homework is due on Thursday 15 March when we will go through the answers together.

Yorkshire Wildlife Park

To support our Life Forces topic, Year 1 and 2 spent a great day in the sunshine at the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. We were lucky enough to see many animals including lions, tigers, polar bears, giraffes, zebras, lemurs, giant otters, wallabies, baboons, meerkats and painted dogs. Our classroom session, all about food chains and diet, allowed children to consolidate their learning from the topic and show off some of their great knowledge.

All children demonstrated excellent behaviour throughout the visit – a credit to the school!

Here are some photos from the day.

Football Coaching

Our football coaching continues but I’ll pass straight on to the press officers to inform you of what we got up to.

Written by Hibba: In this session we started off in our groups practising dribbling, passing and tackling. Later in the session, we played 4 corners – the confident players playing each other and the less confident players playing each other. As always we had our rolls: Hibba was press officer; Aleena was the manager; Megan was the coach; and Edward was the kit manager and the physio.

Written by Isobel: In PE, we have continued playing football. Today we focused on tackling. Nico set up a drill which helped us with tackling, passing and dribbling – skills we learnt previously. At the end, we played four corners -with six corners. You number yourselves and if your number is called you go out and try to score in other team’s goals. If your goal is scored in you’re out. You win if you’re the last one left.

Written by Pippa: In P.E today, Year 6 continued their football skills. We learnt tackling and did a bit more on dribbling. Near the end of the lesson, everyone played a game of four (or six in our case) corners. In this game, we numbered ourselves one to five with one the least confident and five as the most. For our group, Archie was at five, Noah at four, Phoenix as three, Zack as two and Pippa (me) as one. Archie was the manager, Noah was physio, Phoenix was kit manager, Zack was coach and Pippa was press officer.

Written by Oliver: In football today we carried on our football skills ( tackling ). In training, my group played a tackling and interception game to help us . Then we moved on to four corners where you have to score in each other’s goal . Last person standing wins.😀

Written by Matteo: In Year 6, we continued our football skills and played a game called 4 corners. In 4 corners, you have to number yourself and the coach will call out a random number and they will try to score in everyone’s nets and the last person wins. 

Written by Pavan: Today in PE we continued our lesson about football and today we focused on tackling. Stanley, kit manager; Nishaan, coach; Grace, physio; Abdullah, manager; and Pavan, press officer. First, Grace lead a warm up to get our heart beating and to stretch our muscles. Then, it was followed by Nishaan, our coach and we started off by setting a drill which Stanley made for us . Abdullah was our manager and I definitely saw some good tackling skills from him.

You ‘watched us while we work’…

Thank you to the parents who came to school today for the second of our Watch Us While We Work sessions of the year. This is an opportunity for you to get a flavour of what goes on in school – you might pick up ideas on how to support your child at home, you might be more aware of the high expectations around reading, writing or maths, or you might even notice how we react to minor behaviour problems.

Here are some of the comments:

  • ‘Really interesting to see the relationship between teacher, teaching assistant and children – all children really engaged.’
  • ‘Loved the way the teachers delivered the lessons; keep up the good teaching.’
  • ‘Fantastic to see what happens – the progress from Y2 to Y3 is amazing.’

That’s great feedback – thank you very much.

Sometimes, parents tell us it would be even better if they were able to visit their own child’s class. We appreciate this might nice, but we do know it often disrupts learning. However, do look out for a chance to visit the class: on Monday 12 March at 2.40pm, we’ll have a Topic Book Review session. Classes will be reaching the end of their second Big Topic – Life Forces. This is a chance to come in and find out more about the learning that’s gone on during topic lessons.

Football Coaching

Here are weekly reports on our football coaching…

Written by Stan: Today, Year 6 played some great football and there were no arguments. Everyone has their own role: kit manager (Pavan); manager (Nishaan); coach (Grace); physio (Abdullah); and press officer (Stan). After a few arguments last week, we were argument-free this week. This week we practised our passing: I definitely saw an improvement in Pavan’s passing. The last thing we did was play a match but it wasn’t an ordinary match – we weren’t allowed to tackle and we had to stop the ball on the line instead of shoot in the goal and the whole team had to touch the ball. I think most people would like to tackle but we’re practising tackling next week. I’m hoping to play a proper match next week. 😀

Written by Elias: Today, Year 6 were asked to join the groups they had last time and were given new roles: coach (Matteo), manager (Neive),kit/equipment manager (Enya), physio (Daanyaal) and the press officer (Elias). The children were asked to create a drill practising their dribbling skills as a group. At the end, the children played a match. Our group played very well due to some astonishing help by the people who were more confident helping the people who weren’t as confident and played very well with each other. Today, the children had a great time and hopefully this will be one of many.

Written by Archie: Today, Monday the 26 February 2018, Year 6 did football for PE. In this week’s session, we did passing. In my team, I had Phoenix, Pippa, Noah and Zack. When we were doing drills, our coach (Pippa) told us that we would be doing basic passing and gradually build it up to having defenders. Then, later on in PE, we grew into a match. Not a match you would normally think of. We had to pass it between our whole team and then stop it on the line. There was a hard part though: we had to make sure the opposition didn’t receive it.

Written by Isobel: After our warm up, led by Umiamah, we focused on passing. Harry created a drill that helped us with our passing and a bit of dribbling (which we focused on last week). At the end, we played a mini match where you scored a point by stopping the ball on the end line, helping our control skills. We had extra rules to help us with our passing. It was a draw. Overall, everyone enjoyed our PE lesson.

Written by Owen: Today, Y6 played some football and used great teamwork. This led to a fun and active PE lesson. Also, we learnt a lot to do with passing and receiving. The kids were getting along and smiling. We all had different roles: Press Officer- Owen, Physio- Saleem, Kit Manager- Iqra, and The Coach- Oliver.

Written by Megan: After having a few disagreements last week, this week’s PE turned out to be a lot better. Aleena started us off with some stretches which were important because otherwise we could have hurt or strained our muscles.
Next, Matthew led a drill, helping our dribbling, passing, communicating and stopping skills. After practising our skills to become more technical footballers, we played in a game versing another team. We had to stick to some rules though: everybody in your team had to touch the ball at least once before anyone could score; you could only intercept, not tackle; and you had to stop the ball ON the line (not any before or after).

In case of snow…

It’s been many years since Moortown Primary needed to close due to extreme snow – and we don’t intend to close this week, either, despite the weather warnings for parts of the UK which you’ll have heard.

If snow is bad, we have to make decisions based on various factors, including how safe it is for our staff to travel to school.

We will communicate if school is closed by text, email, Twitter and a news post on the website (which then uploads to Facebook, too).

We won’t take this decision lightly. However, if we do, we’ll aim to make the decision by 08.15 am at the latest. Until that point, please assume school will be open.