Busy Bees
Mrs Taylor and Mrs Freeman really enjoyed being able to catch up with lots of you over the phone last week. It was great to speak to the children and hear all about the different things you have all been up to.
Have a look at some of these photos to find out what your classmates have been doing at home.
Take a seat
In school, the children have been designing and constructing chairs. We looked at many different examples and enjoyed sketching some.
Doing design and technology, whilst social distancing, is tricky! However, the children were mature and followed the rules well.
The finished products!
Year 6 outcomes – a celebration
End of key stage 2 assessments (known as SATs) were cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Some children will undoubtedly have felt relief at not having to do these tests, while some pupils tell us they quite enjoy doing them. Similarly, some parents don’t place a lot of importance on the tests, while for others, they’re an important indicator of how well their child, and school, has done.
The data below represents what we predict would be the outcomes of those assessments. The data is a cause for celebration of the children’s great learning throughout their time at Moortown Primary. The outcomes would have been exceptionally high – a true reflection on the great attitudes to learning we’ve seen from these children.
For Reading, Maths, and Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling, our assessments stem from some trial tests that children did in the Autumn term and in February. The tests were all previous SAT tests and were done under test conditions. They were marked and graded based on the thresholds for that particular test. As a result, the assessments below are likely to provide an accurate indication of outcomes in the national assessments in May.
For Writing, the assessment stems from teacher assessment, as it would do for the outcomes in May. Year 6 teachers across Sphere Federation and beyond met at various times in the Autumn and Spring term to review their assessments for children’s writing. As a result, the teacher assessment for Writing is also likely to provide an accurate indication of end of year outcomes.
Attainment: expected standard
Expected standard is where a pupil’s scaled score is 100 or more. 94% of our pupils were on-track to achieve the expected standard in Reading, Writing and Maths, combined. As in recent years, this is securely above the national figure – we don’t have a national 2020 figure, but in 2019, the combined figure was 65%.
The proportions reaching national expectations for each subject, and for Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling, are all predicted to have been higher than the 2019 national:
- Reading: 94% meeting expected standards (2019 national: 73%)
- Writing: 97% meeting expected standards (2019 national: 78%)
- Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling: 100% meeting expected standards (2019 national: 78%)
- Maths: 97% meeting expected standards (2019 national: 79%)
Attainment: higher level
Greater depth standard is where a pupil’s scaled score is 110 or more. 32% of pupils were on-track to reach greater depth in Reading, Writing and Maths combined, which is three times higher than the 2019 national figure of 11%. the proportions for Reading and Writing were predicted to be very much higher than the 2019 figures:
- Reading: 68% meeting the higher level (2019 national: 27%)
- Writing: 55% meeting the higher level (2019 national: 20%)
- Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling: 84% meeting the higher level (2019 national: 55%)
- Maths: 55% meeting the higher level (2019 national: 27%)
Whilst we can’t be certain that these figures would match the outcomes of the real SATs in May, we’re confident they wouldn’t be far off – perhaps a little lower, but just as likely to be even a little higher. What we can be certain of is that our Year 6 children once again have enjoyed and achieved great things at our school – we’re very proud of them.
This week’s learning
It was lovely to talk to lots of you this week.
Keep sending photos of your learning-I love to see what you’ve all been up to.
12 June 2020:Home learning
Hello everyone. It’s Friday again!
I hope you have all enjoyed this week’s activities.
Phonics
Phonics activity:
How many objects can you spot? Write the words to match.
Literacy-storytime
Listen to the story
Spiderella by Julia Donaldson.
Watch a clip about minibeasts
Maths-measuring
How wide is your bed? How long is your bed?
This week we are looking at non-standard measuring. The key words we will be using are long, wide, more, less, the same.
For this activity we will not be using tape measures or rulers. Choose an object to measure with-this can be anything! You can use your feet, hands, tins of beans, spoons, pieces of paper…
Measure your bed. “How many…long is your bed?”
“How many…wide is your bed?”
Try again with different objects.
Draw around your foot and cut it out. Measure these objects with your foot.
Art
Have a lovely weekend!
11 June 2020:Home learning
Good morning!
Here are today’s activities.
Phonics
Practise phoneme igh at BBCBitesize
Words to read:
Handwriting
Let’s practise the letters e, f and s
Literacy
Can you write a sentence about the photo?
Maths
Today we are going to have a go at estimating. Estimating is when we roughly count the number of objects we can see.
Put some objects out in front of your child (you may
want to use a towel to cover them up until you are ready to reveal the objects). Give your child a few seconds to look at the objects and ask them to estimate how many they can see.
Take turns and continue to do this a few times changing the amount of objects each time. Ask questions e.g. is it more or less than last time? How do you know?
10 frames
Say how many spiders are on the 10 frames. Don’t count-use your subitising skills!
Celebrating Home Learning
I am still ever so proud of the sheer effort and determination you lot are putting into your home learning. It seems like it has been ages but you guys have shown me just how dedicated to your learning you are – it’s wonderful!
Below are some pictures of learning that have been sent to me.
See if you can find your own learning or work out who the other pieces of learning belong to!
Remember, keep sending me your work so I can send you stars and steps and well done again.
10 June 2020: Home learning
Hi everyone!
I hope you are having a good week. Keep sending me photos of your learning.
Here are today’s learning activities.
Phonics
Practise phoneme oa at BBC Bitesize
Practise writing the tricky words we have learnt.
Try using this look, say , cover and write sheet.
Phonics activity
Play ‘Musical Blending’
Write these words on separate scrap pieces of paper.
feet queen spin chip string pink rain train
Spread them out on the floor. Play some groovy tunes and dance away. When the music stops jump on a word and blend it. Keep going until you have read all of the words.
Literacy
Watch Incy Wincy spider. Can you hear the rhyming words? See if you can spot the digraph ai. Write the words with the digraph ai
Maths
Count to twenty and back again.
Draw your Incy Wincy maths stories.
Extra activity
Watch Charlie and Lola
You haven’t left yet!
Hello Year 6 (and parents / carers) – hope you are all ok and surviving these crazy times!
Just wanted to give you an update on the Y6 leavers’ hoodies. The design has been agreed, the logo has been embroidered (I’d like to say by me, but it wasn’t me), the order has been confirmed and they will be winding their way to Moortown very soon.
Once they have arrived, parents / carers will be informed and they will be available to be picked up from school. This is likely to be much nearer the end of term – anyway you can’t have a leaver’s hoody until you are leaving and you can’t get wash your hands of us yet – keep washing your hands though; it’s very important.
We’re really sorry that your last term is not what it should be and we know that you’re all missing each other – hopefully, we will manage to sort some way of seeing you before the end of the term.
Take care you lovely lot and stay happy and healthy!
09 June 2020: Home learning
Good morning!
Phonics
Sing an alphabet song
Let’s recap the phoneme oa
Words to write:
boat, goat, croak, night, bright
Phonics activity:
Write the oa and igh words.
Literacy
Story of the week: The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
Listen to the story.
Can you remember what animals were first, and then next?
Encourage your child to retell the story using appropriate language e.g First, the horse asked the spider…
Maths
Count to 20 and back again. Don’t forget 0!
Draw your spider stories.
Extra activity
