Creative Homework
We enjoyed our homework review today because there were some fantastically creative pieces to share.
Here are some of our favourites:
This week’s standard of homework was brilliant to see – keep it up, Year 6.
Vertices? Edges? Faces?
As part of our maths learning about shape, we’ve been investigating the properties of 3D shapes to help us to sort shapes. This could include the number of faces; number of vertices; number of edges; name of the shapes; curved or straight faces or shapes of the faces.
Here are some of the ways we sorted the shapes. Ask your child if they can you think of a 3D shape that is not in the groups and say where it would go. Can they explain why?
Living and Learning – body image guide for parents and carers
Our focus in Living and Learning, for the rest of this half term, is body image.
What is body image?
Body image describes our idea of how our body looks and how we think it is perceived by others. This can include our thoughts and feelings about our height, weight, shape, skin colour, and our appearance and attractiveness more broadly.
This parent and carer guide has been designed to give practical ideas to support your child in building their emotional resilience in this area.
Great competitors
Well done to pupils who have represented school recently in sporting competitions.
Congratulations to our Year 3 qualifier in the West Yorkshire cross country final. She ran a fantastic race at the event at Temple Newsam.
In wet conditions last Friday, our Year 5/6 hockey team competed in the Leeds Quick Sticks competition. Well done to all the children involved.
Thank you to parents and carers who supported these events by transporting the children.
Why is travelling actively to school important?
Sustrans have recently published this article about the importance of travelling actively to school.
With just two weeks to go, Sustrans Big Pedal, is one way we will be encouraging active journeys this term alongside our year round Living Streets WOW sustainable travel initiative where the children record how they travel to school on our daily travel tracker.
Sustrans Big Pedal is 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.
You might also be interested in a current bike promotion from our local Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative branch.
EasyPeasy app
By now you should have been receiving weekly text messages with game ideas to support your child’s learning.
We hope you have enjoyed playing these games.
We would love to hear about your child’s experience with these games.
You can comment on the video on the EasyPeasy app or email us at moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Phonics
Thank you for attending our Phonics Mornings this week- we had record attendance!
We hope you found the sessions useful in showing how we teach phonics and how you can support your child at home.
Below are sentences taken from ‘Letters and sounds’ which your child should be able to write independently using their phonic knowledge.
Mark and Carl got wet in the rain.
The farmer gets up at six in the morning.
Jill has fair hair but Jack has dark hair.
Jim has seven silver coins.
I can hear an owl hoot at night.
Nan is sitting in the rocking-chair.
Bow down to the king and queen.
Gurdeep had a chat with his dad.
I can see a pair of boots on the mat.
It has been hot this year.
Don’t forget to let us know about the writing and reading your child is doing at home.
moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Writing
Today, we were lucky enough to have a visitor from the Leeds Playhouse.
We used alliteration to jazz up our names to introduce ourselves. We met: Kind Klara, Joyful James and Awesome Amrit to name a few!
We then played a game which involved plotting where we live in the mountain range. We shared something that we could see out of our windows and build a whole imaginary community.
Just like in our class novel, we met a firework maker, called Lalchand, who has lost his daughter Lila.
We did lots of role play as these characters. We shared what we thought our character would be thinking and feeling at key points of the story. This is something that you can do at home when reading to support your child.
We came up with an action plan To help Lachand. All adventurers need a well-packed bag. Ours included:
- Binoculars
- Compass
- Bottle
- Pillow
- Blanket
- Packed lunch
- Bandages
- Spare shoes
- Some fireworks (Golden Sneezes)
- Some water
- A torch
We were ready to head off into the jungle on our adventure to find Lila.
We used our torches to find the entrance of the Fire-Fiend at Mount Mirapi.
We saw:
Black rocks crumbling – Billy
An alligator snapping at us – Lewis
Black ash on the ground of the cave – Evie
A yellow monkey rummaging around inside the cave – Ashton
We then made some notes to inspire our writing based on what we could see, hear, touch, taste and feel.
Edris:
Saahir:
Tanvi:
Then, Lila finally met the fire-fiend inside Mount Miripi.
She discovered that she needed to have three things to offer the fire-fiend. These things you cannot touch. We thought these things could be: determination, courage, love, happiness or ambition.
Since this drama workshop, we have gone on to write Haiku poems and setting drescriptions. Have a look at some of our Cinquain poem work below.
Cinquain poems have a specific syllable pattern. Can your child remember this and explain it to you?
Practice Sculptures
Leading toward our modroc sculptures we’ll be making as part of our art learning, we practised creating the main shape using newspaper and masking tape this afternoon.
Sometimes is was frustrating and other times is was surprisingly successful.
These models will help us focus on the main shape of our model when we start using wire to create the base for our modroc.
The story so far…………….
Last week, for their homework, the children were asked to present a summary of our class novel so far. Today, we celebrated each other’s work and made comments in their books. Below are just a few examples of some of the fantastic creations.
