Food Technology: Tomato Sauce
This morning, Year 6 made a tomato sauce base for pasta.
We worked in small groups to prepare the ingredients and then cook them. We made sure that we washed our hands and wore our aprons for hygiene reasons.
We used the bridge cutting method and the claw cutting method to cut up our vegetables. These methods are the safest way to cut food as they help us from hurting ourselves!
We cooked some pasta alongside our sauce so we could try it!
Help at home: Try the recipe yourselves.
Science and Media Museum
Today, Year 3 and 4 visited the Science and Media Museum in Bradford.
There were loads of interactive stations that taught us about sound, music, gaming and photography. We explored these areas by reading the information and testing the machines.
We also had a workshop that taught us more about sound, how it travels and how it can be manipulated. We changed the pitch, speed (tempo) and added sound effects!
Help at home by trying to add sound effects to your favourite film ending using objects from home. Could you use tupperware for horse hooves or hand clicking and clapping for rain?
DT – Hand puppets
This week our wonderful Year 1s have finished their hand puppets!
They have worked really hard, following the design process down to every detail. They have spent this half term designing, making and soon to be evaluating their very own hand puppets.
See below some examples of their hard work. 
DT – Design and Technology
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been busy planning and making our hand puppets. We tried really hard to use an over-stitch or a running stitch to join the two pieces together. Once we’d done that, we had lots of fun choosing colourful felt to make our puppets bright and exciting!
We remembered to use the scissors safely when cutting our felt. We’re so proud of our finished puppets!
Next week, we’ll talk about what we liked and what we might change and then we’ll bring our puppets home to show you. Well done, Year 2!
Football Festival
Some girls from Y3 and Y4 took part in a football festival today at Boston Spa Academy.
First, we took part in lots of fun games and drills to get our bodies warm and our feet used to football! We worked on things like passing, dribbling and communication.
After lunch, we played a mini tournament! It was really exciting to put our skills into practice against other schools.
Risk-taking, being ready and responsible weren’t the only 8Rs we were showcasing – we also had to be very resilient because it was extremely windy!
We represented Moortown by being polite, listening well and most importantly having lots of fun.
Performance Poetry!
Year 4 have been reading a poem recently called ‘Sky In The Pie’ by Roger McGough.
We picked out the tricky vocabulary and discussed the meanings…
- delicate hues – soft colours
- Tate – art gallery in London
- heaped – piled on
- cosmos – the universe or outer space
We spent some time preparing and performing the poem! What makes a good performance?
- using expression
- adding actions
- intonation & pace
- eye contact and body language
- voice projection
Help at home: by performing this different poem by Roger McGough (https://50ba64cf42aa5ce33ed5ffd3ca44503c-11586.sites.k-hosting.co.uk/moortown/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Sound-collector-poem.pdf)
Poetry Basket: Five little peas
This week’s poem is called Five little peas.
We’ve been focussing on the words pea pod (part of the pea) and pressed (pushed).
Science: an EGGcellent experiment
In Science, Y4 have been looking at teeth. It’s really important that we look after our teeth because if we don’t, they can decay.
Sugar creates a sticky substance, called plaque, which can build on your teeth and become a home for bacteria. This bacteria can lead to tooth decay. The protective layer of the teeth (the enamel) can wear away.
Certain food or drinks that are high in sugar or acid can damage our teeth and we must have them in moderation. To explore the effects of different liquids on our teeth, we conducted an EGGciting experiment.
We used the following drinks in our experiment:
Coke, vinegar, orange juice and water.
We conducted an observation over time to see the effects of these drinks on our teeth. However, instead of using real teeth for this experiment, we used eggs! An egg shell contains calcium – the same mineral that is found in our enamel (the protective layer on our teeth).
After leaving our eggs for 2 days, we removed them from their liquid and observed the changes.
The effects of these drinks were clear to see!
- The coke stained the eggshell brown.
- The orange juice decayed the outer layer of the egg shell.
- The vinegar caused the egg to grow in size and become bouncy and translucent.
- The water had no effect.
What we can take away from this learning is that sugary or acidic food and drink can be harmful to our enamel. We should always brush our teeth twice a day, visit the dentist regularly and cut down on the amount of sugar we have to protect our teeth.
Help at home: try this experiment again at home but use different liquids to see their effect!
Wanted: Photos
As the end of this school year is approaching, the children have asked to include their baby photos in their leavers’ assembly. Please can you email in a baby photo of your child ASAP, if they wish to join in.
Sports day 2026
We had a great sports day this week with Year 2 helping in the morning and competing in the afternoon. Everyone tried so hard and encouraged each other. We are very proud of all the children’s efforts.
I fell over when I did my race but I got back up.
Red team didn’t win. It’s fine. Maybe we will win next year.
I enjoyed it because we did fun races with our friends.
In the relay race, everyone was determined because they wanted to win.
What I liked about sports day was that I had fun for the whole day!