A special visitor!
Today, Year 1 had a special visitor come into class. Our local councillor, Mahalia France Mir, came to talk to us about the letters we sent to her before half term. She was very impressed with our writing and our arguments for improving safety around the shops near school. She explained what her job entails and how she helps the local community solve problems. We asked some great questions!
This followed on from our trip to the shops with the police last Tuesday to hand out warning tickets to local drivers. We are very proud of ourselves for making a difference in our locality.
Well done Year 1!
Putting our views across
Today, Councillor Mahalia France-Mir came into school to hear about the concerns the children had about litter in our locality.
The children clearly put across their views about the litter they had seen as part of a local walk during our geography ‘streets around our school’ topic.
Councillor Mahalia was very interested to hear from the children. We were pleased to hear she is going put forward their views with the hope that a recycling bin will be added to Moortown Park and for some of the existing bins to be moved to better positions.
The children felt proud to have their views heard and fingers crossed some actions will be taken to help improve our local area.
Calling all Greek gods and goddesses!
Spring 2: Week 4
Maths
This week, we consolidated our understanding of the composition of numbers by investigating the numbers within 7. We investigated the whole number using the part–part–whole model, e.g. 5 is a part. 2 is a part. 7 is the whole.
A key focus was partitioning 7 (splitting it into parts) and thinking about the missing part. We used cubes and Numicon to explore this.
Phonics
This week, we continued to read and write longer words including words ending in -ing.
Help at home: Can your child use their phonemes fingers to write these words: looking, marching, farming, waiting, morning, winking, singing.
Every morning, after doing their morning jobs, the children do a morning activity. This week, they’ve been writing sentences about interesting pictures. We’ve been very impressed with their independent writing!
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On Tuesday, we learnt about another spring festival called Vaisakhi. Sikhs celebrate Vaisakhi. It usually takes place each year on either the 13th or the 14th of April. After watching some videos about how Sikhs prepare and celebrate Vaisakhi, we created some saffron (orange) kites, as saffron or orange play a large part in Vaisakhi celebrations.
Next week, we’ll be learning about Eid and how this festival is celebrated.
Outdoor fun!
Reminders
- School trip – Friday 24 March
- Reception coffee morning – Monday 27 March – 9am – 10am
- Learning journey drop ins – Monday 27, Tuesday 28 and Thursday 30 March
- Every Monday, we share photos from home. If your child has any new interests or has a ‘WOW’ moment at home, please email moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org.
We love to share these moments!
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.