This week’s homework is creative and is due on Wednesday 04 February.
I can write a story set in a Norman castle.
R2s (our ‘remember to’ reminders…):
Before you write your story think about these questions…
…and thanks for your compliments! Here are just three of them…
This week’s homework is Talk Time and is due on Wednesday 28 January.
Which house would you live in and why?
All of the houses in your book are from different periods in time. Have a look. Imagine what they would be like inside and what it would be like to live there. Then, decide which house you would choose to live in and explain why you have chosen this.
Talk Time homework encourages discussion at the dinner table but please write a couple of notes explaining your choice to help you when we discuss the subject in class.
Our new Big Topic is Time Travel. Year 1 and 2 are focussing on houses through time. To kick off, we’ve all gone for a walk to see what the houses around us look like today. There are lots of different houses all around the small area near school so just imagine how many different styles we’ll see across thousands of years.
We had to be careful as the streets have been very slippery this week.
We saw detached houses, semi-detached house, bungalows and flats all in our mile long walk! I wonder what different houses we’ll see as we travel through time?
What can you make out of the rubbish (recycling) in your house?
What a great response to this week’s homework! I’ve seen lots of amazing work in books as well as models we brought into school. Here are some things we created…
Our new neighbours will be a nursery and provider of pre-school and after school care.
Some of you may know that, here at Moortown Primary School, we’ll soon have new neighbours. The building next door, which used to be Search Laboratories, is soon to become a nursery and a pre-school and after school care provider. Whilst we don’t endorse one provider over another, we thought you might like to hear more about this news as it’s so local to our school. Here’s a message from the new owners:
Hello there. I’m Helen Gration and I’m honoured to have gained planning permission to open the ‘Moortown Montessori Nursery’ next to your outstanding school.
Our passion for supporting children in their early years reflects the same values that have right here in your school – high-quality care, outstanding education, and staff with some of the best hearts in childcare. Our nursery will be open 7.30am – 6.30pm and there’ll be an out-of-school service for those who need it too. We already have two children’s nurseries in York where we have gained ‘outstanding’ judgements from Ofsted and we’ll be bringing those values with us.
Work on the Old Chapel next door will start very soon and we’re heading for an opening for the Summer term. We’ll keep you posted but, if you’ve any questions, you can email us on [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you in the neighbourhood!
For the first two weeks of Spring Term, we’ve enjoyed a book called The Tin Forest by Helen Ward. This tells the tale of an old man who lives on the edge of nowhere, near forgotten, whose house is surrounded by other people’s rubbish.
We started our mini topic by looking at the pictures and developing our prediction and inference skills for reading.
We wondered about who might live in the abandoned house and whether we’d like to go there ourselves. It was a unanimous NO!
Then we thought about who might live in this house and what sort of questions we might want to ask that person. Here are some of our ideas…
After writing a diary entry as the old man; a letter to a real person who lives on a dump; a description of the final forest; and a poem… we made our very own Tin Forest!
Keep visiting our news feed for weekly updates on the forest and how it is growing and thank you to those of you who contributed to our tin tree trunks.
This week’s homework is creative and is due on Wednesday 21 January.
What can you make out of the rubbish (recycling) you produce in your home?
Look around the house at the things you’re throwing away and think about what you could make out of them. The old man made a forest out of tin – think about useful, attractive and magical things you could make.
This homework is creative so you could decide to actually make an item and take a picture or bring it into school or you might want to design something in your homework book (especially if you’ve got an idea as big as the forest the old man made).
Following this morning’s classroom visits, here are some of the comments from parents.
Thank you to the parents who visited us this morning. Each parent watched the teaching and learning in two classes (30 minutes each), then discussed what they’d seen with Mrs Weekes and me. The feedback was really positive and very useful. Here are some of the comments:
Parents raised some points for us to consider:
Samba is our current mini-topic (mini-topics usually last just two weeks). It was great to see so many children have such good rhythm and timing whilst learning about Samba music. The children enjoyed making their own music as part of a Samba band, although I think Mrs O’Malley will be pleased when the noise is over!
The whole-school Big Topic starts Monday 19 January: Time Travel. We’re learning all about medicine through the ages. To kick start our journey through time, we’ll embark on a history workshop followed by a visit to the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds. From early medical breakthroughs to scientific advancements, this topic will have your child exploring the life of a patient in 1861 to present day and beyond. Beware…things could get a little gory!
Encourage your child to talk about and research topic subjects at home. Talk to grandparents and others about what they know. Take a trip to the local library, or research on the internet.