Mrs Taylor, Author at Moortown Primary School, Leeds

Netball after-school club

High 5 netball club will move to a Tuesday evening after the Easter holiday for four more sessions, until our main Summer term after-school programme starts (week commencing 16 May).

Children who currently attend the club on a Thursday, and also any new members, are welcome to attend. Please return the permission slip sent home this week.

This continues to be a free club subsidised by part of our PE Premium.

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Year 1 food technologists

Can your child recall some of the skills used in our savoury scone recipe today?

We’ve also learnt how to get ready to cook and about different ingredients and equipment used in a kitchen.

Hope they enjoyed their scone as an after-school snack.

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Eatwell guide

Public Health England have launched a new Eatwell Guide. This relates to the Eatwell Plate, a key resource used in school, to show how much of what you eat overall should come from each food group.

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After school snack

Our savoury scones, using cheese, sweetcorn, carrot and courgette, went down a treat as an after school snack today.

Ask your child:

How do we get ready to cook?
What equipment did we use?
What were the ingredients?

Here are some of the skills we used – can they remember any others?

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How are you feeling?

Mindmate is a new website available to support young people’s emotional health in Leeds.

Across school, we’ve been trialling the use of colours to represent children’s emotions. Children are then encouraged to think whether this is a blocker or driver for their learning.

‘I feel blue because I am calm.’
‘I feel red because I had a fall out at lunchtime.’
‘I feel orange because I am excited to celebrate my brother’s birthday.’

Here is a new website to support young people’s emotional wellbeing in Leeds.

‘If you’re a young person, MindMate can help you understand the way you’re feeling and find the right advice and support. If you’re a parent, carer or professional, MindMate can help you support a young person you know.’

mindmate Children are also encouraged to speak with an adult, friend or use our class SEAL boxes to share any worries.

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Leeds Youth Council

All young people aged 10-18 in Leeds can now join the Leeds Youth Council (LYC).
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Eat, digest, do!

As part of the Science in school workshops led by Leeds University students, Year 5 and 6 took part in an interactive session all about the digestive system.

This included learning about what happens to food inside our body, the different parts and functions of the alimentary canal, what makes your tummy rumble and how far your food has to travel from one end to the other… A great addition to our current Life topic!

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Thank you to Miss Mathias for providing this informative session.

‘I learnt how long the small intestine is – child is 5m and adult is 6-7m.’
‘I learnt how food gets through your body.’
‘I learnt what things are called in the digestive system and what everything does.’
‘I have learnt that your digestive system has lots of different parts.’

KidsHealth website provides a summary of what we learnt.

Leeds Let’s Get Sugar Swapping!

Get involved in this Leeds challenge. This might include making simple sugar swaps at breakfast, after-school, with drinks and puddings.

Following the introduction of the Change4life Sugar Smart App, the Leeds Sugar Smart Challenge has been launched to ask families, schools and other organisations to share the amount of sugar they have saved by making sugar smart swaps. The Change4Life website has lots of information to help you to look for sugar on food labels if you are unable to access the app.

Leeds Sugar Smart Challenge features a city totalizer to record the number of sugar cubes saved, with prizes available at random to top swappers.