The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Last week we used different materials to build bridges and retold the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Why not ask your child to tell you their favourite part of the story?
Sound
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been focussing on sound as a part of our big topic. Last week, we focussed on changing sounds. The children got to experiment making lots of different sounds at different volumes, using different instruments. We discovered that the harder you hit, blow, shake and pluck an instrument, the louder the sound.
Spotting Patterns
Then, we found out what happens to a sound as we move away from it. During the test, we kept the sound the same volume and moved back one metre each time until we stopped hearing it. The children recognised that the further we moved away from the sound, the quieter it gets. We all stopped hearing the sound at 12 metres.
Three measly beans ….
Years 3 and 4 are almost there with the preparations for the production next week. The children have impressed us all with, learning lines, acting skills and superb singing. You are in for a treat! 
There are 2 performances next week.
Tuesday 2pm and Wednesday 6pm (please can children arrive back at school for 5.30pm.)
Be ready for a little audience participation! 
Living and Learning
Living and Learning this week has been linked to body image. The statement for the week was: I recognise my talents.
We have previously discussed what body image is and have touched on size, shape and appearance.
Today we looked at some images of children and talked about beauty. The class sorted the images into two groups: beautiful and not beautiful. The majority of children thought that everyone was beautiful.
Leah said- “Everyone is beautiful in their own way. Yes you might have one leg or spots or be bigger than your friend but you are still beautiful.”
We then sorted the images into healthy and unhealthy. Many pupils believed that having a birthmark or spots meant that you must be unhealthy. We talked about this and discussed how body image isn’t always linked to health.
We then moved on to discussing if being ‘thin’ makes you healthy, if being ‘beautiful’ makes you healthy and what we can do to keep ourselves healthy.
It was a very thought provoking session with lots of Year 3s confident to share their feelings and opinions. Well done Year 3.
Creating sculptures
Year 6 got their hands dirty this week to start adding modroc to their sculptures. First, they read about how to use modroc correctly before diving straight in.
Stay tuned for our final pieces.
Moortown’s Got Talent!
The final of Moortown’s Got Talent was a great success last night with all of our finalists doing a fantastic doing (despite a few technical hitches).
Well done to everybody who took part and to all of those who auditioned. We are very pleased to announce our two runners up: Juho and Kian. Juho showed us some fantastic martial arts and Kian identified the flags of 100 different countries!
And, the one you’ve all been waiting for, our winner! A huge congratulations to Isla, Bridget and Eleanor. They treated us to singing que sera sera along with some dancing. Well done!
Year 1 and 2 invite you to our ‘pop up art gallery’
Next Monday, 25 March, we look forward to welcoming you to our ‘pop up art gallery’ to celebrate learning from our Katie and… art based topic.
Please arrive from 2:40pm. The gallery will be open after school too in case you can’t make the earlier time.
Working together
After listening to the story, Jack and the Beanstalk, some of the children headed straight for the technology table and started to create a model relating to the story. The group worked together to share ideas and select the appropriate resources needed for the task.
We need to make the beanstalk tall.
I think this card can be the castle door.
I will help you to cut that out.
The beanstalk needs to be tall and strong.
What can we use for the clouds in the sky?
When the model was complete, we put it on display for everyone to see.
Just one week until Big Pedal starts
It’s just one week to the return of the Big Pedal.
We’re looking forward to taking part in Sustrans Big Pedal 2019, the UK’s largest inter-school cycling and scooting challenge, that inspires pupils, staff and parents to choose two (or three) wheels for their journey to school. We would love everyone to be involved.
For the first time, walking (and park and stride) will be counted alongside cycling and scooting. This year’s Big Pedal will run for five days, from 25th March to 29th March.
On each day, schools compete to see who can get as many of their pupils, staff and parents cycling or scooting to school then our results will determine our final position in the national league table.
To help parents prepare, Sustrans has developed a handy free guide packed with advice, games and challenges to help with having a hassle-free cycle, walk or scoot to school.
Rewind…
… to Easter!
Yesterday, Y5 walked to Moortown Baptist Church to learnt all about this Christian celebration. Challenge your child to explain what eggs symbolise for Christians?
We did some group activities…
… and also watched some short clips and a play!
We even got to design a plant pots to house our very own flowers!
We had a great morning learning about a (potentially) different religion and faith to our own.