Class News

Living and Learning: physical activity

During health week, we talked about the benefits of physical activity on our health. We learned that there is a link between physical health and academic success.

We then talked about how we can make sure we get 60 minutes of physical activity everyday. We split it into 30minutes at home and 30 minutes at school. We had lots of different ideas and made a poster showing how we can achieve the 60 goal.

At home, talk to your child about physical activity and help them to get their 30minutes each day!

Living and Learning: Physical Health Skipping into summer

Year 1 have thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the Skipping into summer project this year with Jodi and Chris from Skipping School.

While Jodi and Chris haven’t been able to come into school to deliver skipping skills sessions, we’ve enjoyed their online tutorials.

At the end of our Being Healthy themed week, we celebrated our skipping skills by sharing them with Year 2. It was great to see how the children have improved their coordination to perform some amazing skipping techniques.

Then, we had a ‘surprise’ visitor – Jodi came to see our super skipping skills!

Just wanted to say another big thank you for inviting me into school this morning. It was such a joy to see all those smiley faces 🙂 The skill level for that age group, especially your Year 1s, was AMAZING! Being able to speed bounce, side swing and even backwards cross over in Year 1 is just incredible! And then to have them bouncing in the big rope in groups to finish things off at play time was so lovely.

Thank you for taking part in the project and keeping skipping with us.

Monday 19 July 2021: Home learning

Good morning, everyone.

I hope you had a great weekend!

Here are today’s activities.

Phonics

Write the ‘ow’ words.

Maths

Estimate the number of sweets in the jars and then count them to check.

Here is today’s story.

Don’t forget to draw a picture and write a sentence for Mr McGriffiths.

Tell him something interesting about yourself.

Design and Technology

This half term, Year 2 have been designing many different free standing structures. 

Each lesson, we have been given a design brief explaining what our design and technology task would be that day.

We then followed the design process: evaluate, design, make and evaluate for each of these structures.

The first structure we made was a strong and stable wall for Humpty Dumpty. We discovered that interlocking bricks were more stable than single-file bricks.

The second structure we made was a swing using frame structures. We learnt how triangles are the strongest shape and used this information to help us design our swings.

Finally, this week we built a stable, freestanding structure for Humpty Dumpty’s garden.. We learnt how to join structures together to ensure that they wouldn’t fall over.

Multi-sport summer camps

Multi-sport summer camps

Living and Learning Being healthy week: Sports day stars

A huge well done to the Year 1 children today at their first Moortown Primary sports day.

It was quite an adventure to go to Roundhegians for their races and they all tried their best in every event.

We are very proud of them all and hope they sleep well tonight!

Friday 16 July 2021:Home learning

Good morning!

I hope you are enjoying the sunshine and your home learning.

Today would have been our ‘Skip into Summer’ challenge. If you have a skipping rope at home why don’t you complete the challenge at home.

Here is the link to the video. You will find lots of tips and ideas for skipping here.

Here are today’s home learning activities.

Phonics

Write the ‘oi’ words.

Handwriting

Practise writing some curly caterpillar letters.

Maths

1. Grab a handful of objects. How many do you have? Ask someone else to grab a handful too.

If your friend has more than you, how many could they have?

If your friend has fewer than you, how many could they have?

Use a number track to talk about which numbers are smaller and which are greater.

2. Gather together some of your favourite toys. Make a tent or use a box to hide them in.

Create your own number stories by adding and removing toys.

Meet  your new teacher.

Here is today’s story.

Home learning heroes

Just because Y6 are distanced, it doesn’t mean we haven’t been producing the same excellent quality writing as we would in school.

This week, we’ve been writing persuasive letters. Challenge your child to explain the audience and purpose for this text type.

First, we planned out our letter and even had to do some research on our chosen topic (which was whatever we were passionate about) and then we wrote, using existing examples as templates, before editing.

Check out these awesome examples. I’m persuaded by all of them!

Daisy

Emily

Pollyanna

Phoebe

Priya

Alishbah

Leo

Thursday 15 July 2021: Home learning

We are so sad we are not in school again, but we are looking forward to seeing you all on Zoom and back at school next week.

Here are some activities linked with today’s learning.

Phonics

Can you write the ‘ur’ words?

Seaside missing sounds

Can you complete these words?

Maths

Sing 10 in a bed.

Sing a rhyme that counts backwards, such as 10 in a bed or 10 green bottles.

Use ten toys to act out the rhyme ’10 in a bed’.

Make some number cards and order them from 10 counting backwards to 1.

Listen to today’s story.