Author: Mr Roundtree

Going on an adventure!

In literacy, we are looking at scripts. Each group has got their own script with a different adventure. Today, we looked at the setting description at the beginning and got ourselves into our starting positions.

 

Arctic Adventure

ALL THE ESKIMOS ARE TRAVELLING ON A SLEDGE WITH DOGS PULLING THEM. IT IS VERY COLD.

Antarctic Adventure

ALL THE EXPLORERS ARE STANDING IN THE COLD ON THE SOUTH POLE, LOOKING A BIT CONFUSED.

Indian Adventure

A GROUP OF CHILDREN ARE ON A SCHOOL TRIP NEAR THE INDIAN OCEAN. IT IS VERY HOT.

Pacific Adventure

FISHERMEN ARE STUCK ON AN ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN. IT IS VERY HOT AND THEY ARE ALL SITTING UNDER A TREE FOR SHADE.

Atlantic Adventure

ON A BOAT SAILING FROM ENGLAND TO AMERICA BUT THERE IS A BIG STORM THAT IS GETTING STRONGER. THE SAILORS ARE SCARED.

We’re looking forward to practising and performing the rest of the scene while we learn about the features of a play script.

Parents’ evening time slots

Here are the times allocated for parents’ evenings this week. Times have been given on a first come, first served basis in relation to preferred times.

Wednesday 12 February

3.30 Megan
3.40 Grace
3.50 Oliver
4.00 Elias
4.10 Aleena
4.20 Harry
4.30 Zeewa
4.40 Neive
4.50 Pippa
5.00 Abdullah
5.10 Umaimah
5.20 Pohnum
5.30 Nishaan
5.40 Sam
5.50 Nico
6.00 Daanyaal
6.10 Stanley
6.20 Noah
6.30 Brandon
6.40 Saleem

Thursday 13 February

3.30 Hibba
3.40 Owen
3.50 Edward
4.00 Matteo
4.10 Isobel
4.20 Enya
4.30 Archie
4.40 Zack
4.50 Pavan

Please come and see me if you cannot make your time slot so that alternative arrangements can be made.

“Run, run, as fast as you can!”

Having spent three weeks learning, acting out and writing about the Gingerbread Man, Year 2 decided to try and make our own. But did it come to life?

In groups, we seived, beat, stirred and kneaded until we had a rich, brown dough that smelt delicious! We then cut out our Gingerbread shapes and popped them into the oven – just like Granny!

   

 

The staff in the office were teased by the tempting scents that wafted in their direction and, with mouths watering, we took out our perfectly cooked Gingerbread. Don’t worry! It wasn’t running!

Here are our decorations.

   

 

 

 

07 February 2014

This week’s homework is creative so get those juices flowing!

I can find out about a hero from the past.

Before we all disappear for half term, we’ll learn about two real life heroes from the past. We’ll step into the life of Grace Darling, a young woman who saved 9 people after their ship crashed off the Northumbrian coast, and learn about Rosa Parks, who refused to give her seat up for a white person on a bus in Alabama, 1955.

We want to know what real life heroes in history you can find out about. Choose one and present everything you find out about them in the most creative way you can think of. Here are some ideas:

  • Write an autobiography as though you are that person.
  • Create an information leaflet on their life and what they did.
  • Draw a story board of their life and what they did.
  • Create a quiz and answer booklet to challenge your friends.
This homework will be due on Wednesday 12 February. Happy researching!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hero day

Friday 24 January saw Year 1 and 2 taken over by heroes! There were some absolutely fabulous hero costumes – from Batman and Thor, to Florence Nightingale, army officers and Amelia Earhart!

Throughout the day, our heroes took on many difficult and challenging tasks, rising to them all with courage, enthusiasm and skill!

In the morning, Year 2 designed their own symmetrical superhero capes in maths.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We used squares to help us on our first design and then moved on to creating symmetrical designs on plain capes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our second task was to turn ourselves into superheroes. We thought about what powers we might have, what our name would be and what our superhero costume would look like.

Finally, we created our own superhero cartoon about Moortown Man and his quest to defeat the evil Miss Brookerush to save Year 2! Here is the comic in the making…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stay tuned to see our finished comic appear in the next few days…

Janice Rush, our Chair of Governors

Our Chair of Governors, Janice Rush, has become a National Leader of Governance.

The Chair of Governors at Moortown Primary School, Janice Rush, has been chosen for a national role supporting other chairs of governors to improve governance and school performance.  She was one of only 100 governors to be appointed to the role of National Leader of Governance (NLG) in the latest recruitment round by the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL).

Successful candidates were invited to the National College’s learning and conference centre in Nottingham for a formal induction and training for the role.

National Leaders of Governance are highly effective chairs of governors who will use their skills and experience to support chairs of governors in schools and academies for a variety of reasons: the chair may be new, governors may want to focus more on school improvement, or need support in dealing with significant strategic challenges – for example becoming a federation or converting to academy status. They will provide coaching and can support their counterparts in a variety of different ways – for example in using data effectively to improve school performance or by providing more effective support and challenge for their headteacher.

Janice comments: “This is a fantastic opportunity to work with schools across Yorkshire and help drive improvements.”

The role builds on the success of the National College’s National and Local Leaders of Education (NLE or LLE) programme where headteachers use their proven success as school leaders to provide additional leadership capability in struggling schools. (David Roundtree supports other schools in the role of Local Leader of Education.) In some case, National Leaders of Governance may be deployed in partnership with a National or Local Leader of Education.

The overall number of National Leaders of Governance across the country is just over 260, although this will rise to about 300 by April 2014.

Charlie Taylor, Chief Executive of the National College for Teaching and Leadership, has said: “Governors are the people who appoint headteachers and hold them to account so they have an essential role to play as leaders in our schools. High quality governance is vital for improving school performance and it is great that Chairs of Governors like Janice are willing to step up and look beyond their own school in order to help others who will benefit from their support.”

For further information contact Janice: [email protected]

Marshmallow tower challenge!

This week’s R for learning is Resilience. We took on a challenge that would require us to be resilient to be successful.

Using only dried spaghetti and marshmallows, we were challenged to be the team to make the tallest tower! It was a very tricky task that had many of us stumped, but we kept trying. Here’s what we came up with…

We kept trying, even when we found it difficult, showing that we can be resilient! Here’s the winning tower: it came in at 43cm tall, with a 42cm tall close second!

 

10 January 2014

We’re kicking off with practice makes perfect this week, focusing on the skills we have learnt in our maths lessons.

I can use my number skills.

Work through the tasks in your homework book to partition, sort and round numbers. Remember what we’ve learnt this week!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back to school!

It’s nearly time for us all to pick up our book bags, brush off our red jumpers and head back to school!

Having had a very happy Christmas and exciting New Year, I’m looking forward to seeing all of Year 2 back in the classroom ready to continue the good learning they did in the Autumn term. See you all on Monday, enjoy the rest of the weekend and get plenty of sleep on Sunday night.