Poetry Basket: Popcorn
This week’s poem is called Popcorn.
Two of the words we’ve been focussing on are sizzling and shake.
Spring 2: Week 2
We’ve had a wonderful day we’ve had celebrating World Book Day. Our classroom was full of wonderful book characters. Here’s some photos of the children enjoying the World Book Day challenges.
Thank you to all the parents/carers who came to our stay and learn session this afternoon. It was lovely to see our classroom so busy!
This week, we continued exploring our topic ‘Let Go’ and read the story The Hundred Decker Rocket. The story is about a girl called Ivy who sets off on a mission to space and meets some very messy aliens along the way. When her rocket breaks down, the aliens work together to fix it and each add their own deck.
The children enjoyed using their imaginations to design their own rocket decks and write a sentence about their creation.
Phonics
This week, the children have reviewed air, er and longer words that contain double letters.
Write these words on paper and ask your child to underline the double letters before reading.
hammer shimmer cannot chatter muffin
Help at home: Tricky words are really tricky! We’ve previously introduced a few fun games you can play at home to practice tricky words. Here’s another you could try.
Tricky word password
Write different tricky words on paper and stick them next to different doors around the house. Each time your child enters or leaves a room they must press and say the tricky word password.
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This we’ve been learning about the Hindu festival of Holi, the festival of colours. We explored four special colours and what they represent: yellow for knowledge and learning, blue to represent the gods, red for love, and green for nature and the start of spring. The children had lots of fun celebrating by getting messy and using their hands to create a bright, colourful piece of art.
Maths
This week, the children continued to develop their counting skills and their understanding that counting helps us find out how many there are. They practised the counting sequence and revisited the idea that the last number counted tells the total. The children also worked on counting out a set number of objects from a larger group and explored counting beyond 20, noticing the repeating number patterns. They reinforced the correct order of numbers to 10 and learned that each number is one more than the one before.
Yesterday, the children were challenged to work with a partner to create a staircase pattern using 11 towers of 5, thinking carefully about ‘5 and a bit’ when building their staircase.
Reading: World Book Day
World Book Day is a celebration to promote the enjoyment of books and reading. Today has been filled with lots of opportunities to read and talk about books.
We started the day with a whole school World Book day assembly.
Then, the children had chance to share the books they like to read.
Next, we did some paired reading with Year 5. The children thoroughly enjoyed sharing their books from home and reading to each other.
After that, we took part in a Once Upon a Time British Library workshop with Sarah. We retold the familiar story of the three little pigs using our voices, bodies and lots of great vocabulary. Then, using the four parts of a story (characters, setting, problem and solution), we created a new story.
This afternoon, we explored a book called Wild Book Day where lots of different book characters come to life together.
We used the Authorfy website to learn about a new author, Matty Long, who wrote Croaky. We followed instructions for how to illustrate the character of Croaky.
Finally, we reflected on the books we have read so far in Year 2 and voted for our favourite.
What a fantastic day we’ve had! Keep enjoying lots of books at home daily.
World Book Day 2026!
Today is World Book Day! World Book Day is a celebration to promote the enjoyment of books and reading. Today has been filled with lots of opportunities to read and talk about books.
I asked the children to bring in their favourite books. We each shared our book and the reason why it’s our favourite…
Lots of our reasons were to do with funny stories, adventure or learning new facts!
We also had Mrs Charlesworth visit us and share her favourite books with us. The room was very calm and quiet – the perfect environment for reading! Help at home by finding or setting up a cosy place to sit and read. Is it warm? Are you in bed? Are you with someone else while you read?
We swapped with Year 6 and discussed our books with them too. We learnt about some new books that we might like to read in the future. Here’s some of us in action…
Finally, we took part in a live lesson on BBC. We heard loads of great recommendations from other children and schools.
What a fantastic day! Make sure your child reads everyday to improve their fluency and understanding.
World Book Day – Well done Year 1
Another wonderful day with our Year 1s at Moortown. Today is World Book Day which means we’ve had a day of reading, sharing and creating stories. The Year 1s came in with some amazing costumes: we had princesses, super heroes, ballerinas and we even found Wally!
We started off our day with a really fun and educational workshop from The British Library. The Year 1s learnt all about story telling and how to create them. They looked at retelling The Three Little Pigs by adding their own adjectives and by using prosody. They did so well with this and got to act as the three little pigs and even made Mr Volpe the Big Bad Wolf (which was popular).
Have a look for yourself at some of our great costumes:
Well done Year 1 and happy World Book Day!
World Book Day!
Today is World Book Day and we started off the day with an assembly lead by Mr Wilks where we got to hear from teachers about their favourite books.
Help at home: Talk about the best environment to read in. Where is a good place to read? Is it better to read on your own or with someone? What time is a good time to read?
We had a busy morning. It was jam-packed with loads of reading and enjoying books. We completed some activities about our favourite characters.
Year 6 did some paired reading with Year 3. The children were absolutely fantastic. They thoroughly enjoyed sharing their books from home and reading to each other.
As you can see, lots of the children enjoy Lottie Brooks’ books, Percy Jackson and Dork Diaries.
Help at home: Read everyday with your child for at least 20 minutes.
World Book Day!
Today was World Book Day and we had a fantastic day celebrating all things reading! The theme for this year was reading for pleasure. We want all our children to develop a love and a passion for reading and we discussed lots of different ways we can encourage this.
We started the day by doing a class swap with Reception. Your children each paired up with a child from Reception to share their love of reading. It was lovely to watch them read together and share their favourite books with each other. It was also a great opportunity for Year 4 to demonstrate their oracy (speaking and listening) skills as they made sure they were reading with prosody and clarity. We were all wowed by Reception’s incredible reading!
We then joined the BBC World Book Day live lesson where we discussed reading for pleasure and sharing how we like to read.
We also had time for your children to discuss their favourite books and favourite characters with their peers and share with the class what they’d dressed up as. Everybody looked amazing!
Overall, we had a fantastic day in Year 4 and look forward to the Book Fair coming 16th-18th March to spend our £1 book tokens!
Help at home: read daily with your children to continue developing their love of reading as well as their fluency.
World Book Day!
After a particularly busy week for Year 5, it was lovely to celebrate World Book Day together! We started of the day with an assembly lead by Mr Wilks where we got to hear from teachers about their favourite book.
After Wake Up Shake Up we went to Year 2 to do some shared reading. The children were very kind and read wonderfully with their Year 2 partner.
After break, we took part in the BBC live lesson which was all about finding our reading vibe. Do you like adventurous books, funny books, fact books?
In between these times, we talked about the books we have enjoyed as well as listened to teachers share their favourite books. We also completed some activities on Authorfy and explored new and exciting authors.
Help at home by sharing your favourite book and talking to your children about what they love about reading!
Reception parent/carer survey
If you’re a parent of a child in Reception, please complete this short survey.
At Moortown Primary, we’re always trying to keep getting better and better. Your views help us to do that. The survey will only take a few minutes to complete and you’ve got until Wednesday 18 March to complete. (If you’d like us to follow-up any of your responses with you, we can only do this if you leave your name.)
We can’t guarantee to meet the needs and wants of every parent / carer, but we do assure you that we consider all the points raised and aim to act on specific points that are raised by many, or a useful idea raised by just a few.
Previously, based on your feedback, for example, we alternated the days Stay and Learns were held – to give all parents an opportunity to attend.
Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey. We’re looking forward to reading your views.
World Book Day Thursday 5th March
Tomorrow is World Book Day and we are looking forward to a day celebrating and enjoying reading.
As part of World Book Day, the children are invited to bring in a favourite book to share with the class. This maybe linked to the character they are dressed as or a different book.
We’re looking forward to a reading filled day!