Mrs Taylor, Author at Moortown Primary School, Leeds

Does your child have a School Saving Club account?

Dates for the diary for paying in sessions this year.

If so, here are the paying in dates for this year (one each half term).

Thursday 13 October 2016 3.15-3.45pm
Thursday 08 December 2016 3.15-3.45pm
Thursday 02 February 2017 3.15-3.45pm
Thursday 23 March 2017 3.15-3.45pm
Thursday 18 May 2017 3.15-3.45pm
Thursday 13 July 2017 3.15-3.45pm

Children must be accompanied to the sessions.

If you can’t attend the dates, you can bring money to the office in a sealed envelope marked School Saving Club for the attention of Miss Hale.

Also, it’s not too late to open a School Saving Club account. Please ask at the office for an application form. account2

As an added incentive for children moving to Year 3, their account will be credited with £10 once opened.

What healthy changes are you making?

‘I had water in my packed lunch box.’ ‘I had porridge instead of Cheerios.’

Last week, our SEAL statement was I can make a healthy change.

It was great to hear all the changes that children were making and also encouraging their family to take part in.

Here are some examples from Year 3.

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Children were also encouraged to travel to and from school on foot, by bike or scooter. The class with the most healthy changes and sustainable journeys were Year 5 with over 200 counters!

Here are some suggested healthy changes for over the holidays.

Try tennis for free – these sessions continue monthly during the summer and are held locally at Roundhay Park tennis courts.
Local leisure centres offer a range of holiday activities.
Maybe you took part in the recent Sky Ride event and want to know how to maintain your bike? Halfords are running free bike maintenance sessions.
The Little Gym is now open locally at the Moor Allerton Centre offering classes and summer camps.
The Change4Life Sugar Smart app allows you to check levels of sugar in foods. How much sugar is in your snack? Is it time for a change?
Change4Life and Disney have teamed up again with a 10 Minute Shake Up summer adventure, inspired by Disney Pixar’s Finding Dory.

We hope you have a happy and healthy active break.

School Saving Club

Our next paying in session for children who have opened a School Saving Club account is this week: Wednesday 20 July 3.15pm.

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It’s not too late to open an account. Please ask at the office for an application form.

Sports day Tuesday 19 July

Preparations are under way for this year’s sports day to be held on Tuesday at Roundhegians Rugby Club.

Preparations are under way for this year’s sports day to be held on Tuesday at Roundhegians Rugby Club. Access to Roundhegians will be the pedestrian entrance off High Moor Avenue.

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Please note: this year, we’ve swapped the morning and afternoon so that KS2 children compete from 9.30am whilst YR and KS1 start at 1.15pm. The format will remain the same with various races and also field events for KS2. Medals will be awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd and all children will be rewarded for taking part.

Another change is that children should come to school in their PE kit and they will stay in their kit all day. This includes, if possible, their team t-shirt – blue, red, green or white. If your child doesn’t have a t-shirt in their team colour they should wear their normal PE kit and they will be given a bib matching their team.

They will also need their water bottle, a hat and sun cream applied before school.

We look forward to seeing you there to support.

£117.77 = lots of pennies!

Remember all the pennies collected by each class during the recent Money Matters themed week?

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They were then used to create a penny trail in our playground.

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After lots of counting (thank you to Mrs Russell), our total amount raised is £117.77.

Thank you for all your contributions. The total will now be split between our two school charities.

15 July 2016

This week’s whole school homework involves completing the pupil health questionnaire sent home with your child/children.

I can share my views about health.

This annual questionnaire helps us to find out pupil views on some of our key health issues at school. Please support your child to complete the health questionnaire by discussing these issues.

The questionnaire should be returned to your class teacher by Wednesday 20 July.

Mindful morning

Year 2 finished the morning with a mindfulness finger sticks exercise which required a lot of concentration, trust and cooperation. Why not try some other mindfulness exercises.

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Olympic themed menu

To celebrate the forthcoming Olympics, Catering Agency will be running a special themed menu for school dinners on Monday 18 July. Please contact the office if your child would like a school dinner on this day.

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Swimming awards

Well done to our Year 3 class who are coming to the end of their swimming lessons as part of our PE curriculum.

It’s been great to see how the children have developed in skills and confidence over the year with an amazing 60% achieving 25m. This is the requirement for the end of Key Stage 2.

There will be plenty of awards to be given out following our final swim session next week.

Don’t forget Leeds Let’s Get Active offer free swimming sessions at local leisure centres to keep working on those swimming skills over the Summer holidays.

What healthy changes can you make?

Download the Change4Life SugarSmart app, have an extra portion of fruit and vegetables and scoot to school are some of the suggestions to make a healthy change.

As part of our SEAL theme of Changes, the SEAL statement next week is I can make a healthy change.

During the week, children will be encouraged to make a healthy change. This could be physically or emotionally and may include:

being active after school rather than being on a computer
having water with a packed lunch rather than a sugary drink
having a water bottle at school
taking part in a Sports Leader session at lunchtime
bringing a piece of fruit for KS2 playtime and Year 3 swimming
dealing with a problem in a positive way
going to bed earlier

Here are some suggestions that have been made this week.

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Another healthy change may be travelling to school in a sustainable way – walking, scooting and biking.

Each class will be recording their healthy changes with a reward for the class with the most changes. All journeys to and from school by foot, bike and scooter can also be counted.

At the end of the week, the whole school homework will be our annual pupil health questionnaire, this should be returned to your child’s class teacher by Wednesday 20 July.

Change4life, whose aim is ‘to motivate and support millions more people to make and sustain changes that will improve their health’, also provides lots of ideas.

We look forward to hearing all about your healthy changes.