Maths – Counting in 2s, 5s and 10s
Today in Maths, our wonderful Year 1s have been learning how to count in 2s, 5s and 10s. They worked really hard on this and even managed to count to 100 in all 3! They then took part in an activity where they had to write down the missing number between two others while counting in either 2s, 5s or 10s.
Well done Year 1 on another brilliant week (with Friday to come). Next week is the phonics screening check, carry on practising your brilliant reading at home.
Residential Day 1
Year 6 have had an absolutely brilliant first day. We have completed many different challenges and taken some safe risks!
Stay tuned for more photos tomorrow!
Year 2 skipping festival Thursday 11 June
Next week, we will be taking part in our skipping festival against other Year 2 classes.
All the children know their individual or group skill and we will be practising in our PE lessons before next week.
As we will be leaving straight after registration, the classroom will be open from 8:30am. Your child needs to come in their PE kit and have a packed lunch and water bottle.
If your child would like to buy a skipping rope to practise these skills at home, they are available in class for a subsidised cost of £3 per rope. We are subsidising the cost with the PE and Sport Premium as a way to encourage physical activity out of school.
Design and Technology – Textiles
This half term, our topic is DT – Textiles. We’ve revisited the design process and remembered that it’s a continuous cycle that designers use to improve their work until they are happy with the final product.
We have also been exploring our new vocabulary for this topic.
The children were very excited to discover that they will be sewing their own hand puppets! In our first practical lesson, we practised using a needle and thread to create an over stitch. We also talked about how to use a needle safely, as they can be sharp and how to handle equipment carefully.
Help at home: Practise sewing using an over stitch, you could also practise threading a needle and tying a knot.
Writing: revolting instructions
We’re starting our final half-term in Year 4 by writing instructions. We’ll be writing our own set of instructions on how to make a revolting salad and dressing.
purpose: to tell the reader how to do something
audience: an 8 year old cooking for their family at home
A set of instructions should be clear, easy to follow but with enough detail that you know exactly what you’re doing. Therefore, we began the week by reading an example of a good set of instructions and discussed its features. We’ll be using these when writing our own instructions in a couple of weeks.
- present tense
- imperative ‘bossy’ verbs (e.g. cut, slice, boil, mix, combine)
- adverbs (e.g. carefully, softly, gently)
- step-by-step order
- time connectives (e.g. first, after, then, meanwhile)
- list of equipment
Help at home: ask your child to write you a simple set of instructions for how to make a jam sandwich. Remember to use the R2s!
Writing – instruction
Instructions tell the reader how to do something.
Year 3 will be writing a set of instructions for a revolting salad recipe. We’ll be inspired by our food technology session where we’ll make a tasty salad. Then we can add in our own ideas like snozzcumbers and eyeballs!
Our R2s for our instructions are:
We’ve then explored different recipes to help us spot those R2s.
Help at home by finding and reading another set of instructions. It could be for a toy set, recipe or how to cross the road (Green Cross Code).
Cities and seasides
Living and Learning: Staying safe
Year 2 have enjoyed a busy week learning all about staying safe. This themed week forms part of our Living and Learning curriculum.
Leeds City Council road safety team came to teach us all about road safety and we went for a walk outside of school to practise The Green Cross Code:
THINK
STOP
LOOK
LISTEN
Visitors from Leeds Health and Wellbeing Team came to talk to us about hand hygiene and how to stay safe by not spreading harmful bacteria to others.
In our session with BMMA (British Military Martial Arts) we learnt how to stay safe while carrying out the different moves.
We learnt lots from Dogs Trust for how to stay safe around dogs. The 3Cs – check, call and count were things to remember before approaching a dog and keeping still like a statue or curling up like a tortoise is a response to getting unwanted attention from a dog.
Catering Leeds delivered a ‘germ warfare’ session about keeping hygienic. Look at the difference when we washed our hands!
Other learning included safety when riding a bike or scooter by wearing a helmet to protect our brain, checking our brakes and wearing something bright.
Congratulations to Ivy who was one of our active travel safety competition winners – well done!
It’s been such an enjoyable week and the children have engaged with the learning really responsibly.
Help at home: with the weather forecast looking warmer for half term, ask your child for some top tips for staying safe in the sun.
Safety week at Moortown
This week our wonderful Year 1s have had Safety Week. They have had a number of visitors this week: from the Police, to D:Side, to the British Military Martial Arts and more! The children all did really well and impressed us with their knowledge on how to stay safe in many different areas of life. Here are some of our favourite photos from the week:
Living and Learning: Staying Safe Week
This week we have had a themed week all about staying safe. We have has plenty of visitors into school to talk to us about different ways we can stay safe.
On Monday, we learnt about road safety and Dave from D:Side taught us all about the dangers of vapes and cigarettes.
On Tuesday, the Health and Wellbeing team from Leeds City Council taught all about how to keep ourselves protected from infection and how best to treat different illnesses.
On Wednesday, British Military Martial Arts helped us energise ourselves and the fire service spoke to us about fire safety.
To finish off the week, we had an assembly all about water safety run by the Canal and River Trust.
We have also learnt in class about level crossings, peer pressure, respecting boundaries and recognising harmful relationships.
The children have all been very respectful to all the visitors and spoken maturely about all the issues raised.
Help at home by discussing this week’s learning and considering how the children can stay safe at home.