Guided Reading
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 24th March.
How to train your dragon: up to chapter 15/page 191.
Rooftoppers: up to chapter 21/page 212.
The London Eye Mystery: up to chapter 27/page 213.
Extra Time: up to chapter 35/page 166.
Kensuke’s Kingdom: finish the book.
Active Travel
Next week sees the start of Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel walking, scooting and cycling challenge. It inspires pupils to make active journeys to school, improve air quality in their neighbourhood and discover how these changes benefit their world.
Join us to take part in this challenge by walking, scooting, biking or park and stride from Marks and Spencers to school from Monday 20th March – Friday 31st March.
As part of this active travel event, we will be hosting a bike register session on Tuesday 21st March. Pupils, parents and family are invited to bring along their bikes to be registered at this bike security marking event at school.
Girls Dynamos Cricket
Staying safe online
As a follow up to the recent Safer Internet Day, PCSO Louise delivered an assembly for all classes to reinforce the key online safety messages.
Help at home by asking your child/children how the 4Cs relate to them when they are online.
Food Technology – Bruschetta!
This morning, Year 4 have been cooking and making Bruschetta. We were so impressed with their knowledge and skills at each stage of the recipe.
The main skill we were practising was chopping with a knife. The two different techniques that we used were the bridge and the claw. We used the bridge to safely and securely cut the tomatoes into big chunks. We used the claw to dice the tomatoes and basil up into smaller pieces.
We then used a garlic crusher to squeeze the garlic into our tomato and basil mixture. It’s safe to say the room smelt very strong!
The final challenge was to spoon the mixture onto the sliced and toasted baguette without making a mess and then to dig in… some of them gave it a 10/10!
A big well done to everyone for being sensible and engaged with the learning!
Guided reading
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 17th March.
How to train your dragon: up to chapter 10/page 117.
Rooftoppers: up to chapter 15/page 127.
The London Eye Mystery: up to chapter 18/page 140.
Extra Time: up to chapter 26/page 117.
Kensuke’s Kingdom: up to chapter 8/page 117.
Scooter Safety Training
Today, Year 3 braved the wind and rain and ventured out to Moortown Park to do some scooting!
We learnt lots about how to scoot safely. This included learning about how to cross the road with our scooters and how to scoot past driveways.
Help at home by asking your child how they cross the road safely with their scooters.
Snow day!
Year 3 had a brilliant afternoon playing in the back playground last Friday. It was a snow day to remember and here are a few pictures to prove it!
Snow Day!
Friday was a slightly different day to normal as it was a snow day!
After school started at 10:30am, we got on with the usual: spellings, rehearsals and reading.
At 2:30, Mrs Weekes kindly let us go outside and play in the untouched snow! We even had a class snowman competition. Year 4s was definitely the most creative!
Spring 2: Week 3
As always, it’s been a very busy (cold!) week in the Reception classroom. From making ramps in the construction area to creating our own junk-model vehicles, we’ve had another fun-filled transport week.
Literacy
This week, we continued our transport theme by reading The Hundred Decker Bus by Mike Smith.
After reading the story, we created our own Moortown bus. We had some fab ideas: a deck with a ice cream shop, a chocolate factory deck and a deck with a gym to keep us strong! Our bus doesn’t have one hundred decks (31 to be precise) but there is one deck created by each member of Reception.
Click here to view our bus.
DT
This week, the creative area has been a very popular area. We’ve had lots of fun joining materials to create junk-model vehicles.
Science
In the construction area, we’ve been making ramps and watching how far the vehicles travel.
PE
This week, we continued to learn all about throwing at a target. We practised aiming at targets of different heights and distances. At the end of our sessions, we applied our throwing skills when playing partner games.
Snow, snow, snow!
This afternoon, we had lots of fun in the snow. We enjoyed making snow angels and snow people.
Reminders
- York Railway Museum – Friday 24 March
We are really looking forward to our first school trip! - Reception parents’ coffee morning
Monday 27 March – 9.00am-10.00am - Learning Journey Drop In’s
Monday 27th March – 3.15pm – 3.45pmTuesday 28th March – 9.00am – 9.30am & 3.15pm – 3.45pmThursday 30th March – 9.00am – 9.30am