Food Technology: summer garden salad
Today, Year 3 made a summer garden salad! The children prepared the ingredients, assembled the salad and ate almost all of it.
We used the bridge and claw cutting skills to cut up all the vegetables. The bridge was best for the new potatoes and the cherry tomatoes. The claw was more suitable for the gem lettuce leaves and cucumber.
The carrot was grated to keep it fine and we boiled the new potatoes until they were soft!
We stayed safe by using these skills and taking our time.
After we assembled all of the vegetables, we whisked together the oil and vinegar for the dressing.
Everyone tried it and the majority of us loved it! The dressing made it flavoursome and we liked the colours of all the ingredients.
Help by making it again at home! The recipe has been sent home with the children. Can you add something new? Could you try a different dressing?
Year 2 skipping festival
Today, the day had finally come. It was the event we had been building up to after all our skipping practicing – the Year 2 Skipping Festival!
Jodi, Chris and Adele welcomed us and the other five schools to the event at Armley Leisure Centre. First of all, there was a skipping warm up for everyone before the individual skippers did their events. The children were so encouraging and supportive to their class mates and every child tried their best and performed amazingly well.
Next, it was time for the group events. The children worked so well together in their teams and once again, we were so proud of what they have achieved. Even in the last few days, we have seen some of the children mastering these new skills.
Finally, it was time for the results. Sadly, we weren’t the winning school but we were so pleased to have received so many awards.
The children have been so resilient, responsible with their practising, determined and have definitely believed in themselves (even when it has been hard learning new skills) and we are very proud of them all.
I enjoyed the skipping festival because we got to do more skipping and try new skills.
I enjoyed the skipping festival because I liked waiting to hear who had won the certificates.
I thought skipping was hard and sometimes I got stuck but that is ok.
I liked the skipping festival because at the start of the year I thought I couldn’t do the skipping but then I discovered that I could skip all along.
I liked it because I improved my skipping skills.
I liked the skills we learnt and my favourite is backwards hop and swop.
Production: The Amazing Adventures of Superstan!
This week, we have been practising our brilliant production. The children have been acting, singing and will soon be dancing!
Please make sure you bring your costumes and props outlined – in this week’s letter – to school no later than Wednesday 24th June, in a named plastic bag. If you don’t have any of the items listed for your role, please let an adult in Year 5 or Year 6 know before the 24th.
Keep practising your lines at home and get into the character you are portraying!
Thanks everyone!
Skipping Festival Final!
Yesterday, Year 4 went to Morley to participate in the Leeds Skipping Festival Final and they did an absolutely incredible job! We’re all so proud of them. The determination, passion, teamwork and support they showed between one another was outstanding. They cheered each other on when some were feeling a bit nervous and celebrated all the super skippers.
We won some medals on the individual skips and for our whole class skip dance! Everybody did a fantastic job and it was a really fun day out.
I’m super proud of all of Year 4 for trying their best and representing Moortown so brilliantly.
Maths – Time
We’ve been really busy learning how to tell the time! We’ve looked at which hand on a clock is the minute hand (the longer one) and which is the hour hand (the shorter one). We’re starting to recognise o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to and we’re even beginning to tell the time to the nearest 5 minutes. We’ve been using clocks to practise telling the time in a hands-on way, which the children have really enjoyed. We’re so impressed with how well they’re picking up this new skill!
Help at home – please keep practising telling the time as much as you can using a clock with hands.
Residential Day 3
What a fantastic three days we’ve had!
I can safely say that the Year 6 team has never felt so proud of all of your children. We have watched them laugh, work as a team, communicate well, enjoy being off screen-time and most importantly have fun.
Help at home: Discuss the best parts, the least favourite parts, the scariest parts and the funniest parts of the trip. Additionally, make sure your child is well rested this weekend and ready for Monday!
It’s been a blast … Robin Wood 2026, over and out!
Poetry Basket: Monkey babies
This week’s poem is called Monkey babies
We’ve been focussing on the words swamp (ground where water collects), lurking (staying in a place quietly, like hiding) and breeze (a soft and gentle wind).
Summer 2: Week 1
This week, we’ve started exploring The Night Pirates by Peter Harris. Using our story map, we’ve enjoyed retelling the story with actions and expression. We’ve heard some fantastic pirate impressions!
The story has inspired lots of learning across our provision. We’ve been building pirate ships in the construction area, creating pirate adventures, collecting treasure at the finger gym table and reading lost tricky word keys.
On Tuesday, we thought about what type of pirate we would be and what we might look like. Check out our amazing pirate pictures.
We’re looking forward to continuing our pirate adventure next week.
Maths
This week, we introduced the children to Rekenreks. We continued to develop our subitising skills by using our “fast eyes” to quickly identify the number of beads shown. Rekenreks help children explore the structure of small numbers and build confidence in recognising quantities without counting.
We learnt that all of the beads should start on the right-hand side. This is known as the ‘ready position’. The children practised using the ‘pause (think), place (one finger), push (the beads)’ method. We always make sure we’re only using one finger when carefully pushing the beads.
Phonics
Now that we’ve reached the final half-term, we’ll be revisiting and consolidating all of our phonics learning in preparation for Year 1. Please keep your red phonics books at home and continue to use them regularly.
Important dates
- Learning Journey drop-ins – Monday 15th & Tuesday 16th June at 3.15pm
- Our class assembly – Wednesday 17th June at 2.40pm
- Class photo day – Thursday 18th June
- School trip – Friday 19th June
- Zoom: Reception to Year 1 information meeting – Monday 22nd June at 6pm
- Sports Day – Tuesday 30th June at 1.30pm
What have we learnt in Geography?
This week, we finished our Geography topic – explorers. As a chance for your children to show off all they’ve learnt throughout this topic, they created a poster filled with their knowledge. I was so impressed with these – it’s clear they’ve loved this topic!
Help at home: ask your child their top three facts they’ve learnt in this topic.
Residential Day 2
Day 2 at Robinwood has been even bigger and better. The children have displayed brilliant teamwork, resilience and determination. The have pushed themselves out of their comfort zones and achieved things they didn’t think they could do.
It has been another unforgettable day full of adventure, laughter and memories. The children have been amazing from start to finish and are now thoroughly tired after all the excitement. We have a feeling tonight’s sleep will be very well deserved! It will be very sad to leave tomorrow but they are all very excited to see their adults and having a full night’s sleep in their own bed!