PE
In PE sessions, we’ve been working hard to improve our ball skills. We’ve been working individually and in pairs to throw, catch and pass a ball. The children are enjoying their PE sessions in Year One and have made great progress already!
Creating Sentences
In Year One, we’ve been busy combining our English and topic learning. The children were given an envelope of words and had to work together to put them in the correct order to form sentences. After this, the children used maps and atlases to write their own sentences.
Gardening
The children have shown a keen interest in our outside garden area.
As part of our maths learning this week, we counted the bulbs and planted them in rows of five.
We picked our ripe cherry tomatoes and shared them at snack time.
Cycle Leeds Learn to ride a bike sessions
These popular sessions are running locally in the half term holiday. Booking is essential for all sessions and can be done by clicking on the appropriate link below.
Children’s Beginners Learn to Ride Sessions
Tuesday 30th October and Thursday 1st November
At Carr Manor Community School (Secondary Phase)
Times: 9am, 10:30am and 12:30
For more information and to book:
https://childrencarrmanor.eventbrite.co.uk
Children’s Improvers – Skills, Circuits & Games!
Thursday 1st November – Carr Manor Community School (Secondary Phase)
Time: 14:00
For more information and to book:
https://childrenimproverscarrmanor.eventbrite.co.uk
Meet Henry
This week, the children have got to meet our class mascot, Henry.
Every Friday, Henry will get the chance to come and stay with someone in the class for the weekend. Don’t forget to bring him back to school on Monday.
He will also bring his diary so it would be great if you could write about what you have been doing with Henry and even add a picture. Then, we can tell the rest of the class all about his adventures.
He’s looking forward to having lots of fun with you!
Where in the world do your family live?
Learning the seven continents has been one of the Year 2 geography objectives in our Where in the world topic. We also had a discussion about where our families live around the world.
It was interesting to hear the different places the children talked about and who in their family lived there. If we weren’t sure which continent it was in, we used the atlas to check.
Let’s see what you can remember (one of our 8 Rs for learning):
- Whose family live in South America?
- Can you name one of the children whose family live in Asia?
- Can you name one of the countries in Europe that was mentioned?
- Why is zero the total for Antarctica?
Computing Around the World
This week, Year 5 have been practising using algorithms to achieve a goal.
To get warmed up, Year 5 had to write an algorithm to get Robot Miss Wilson 3000 out of the door. We discovered lots of bugs which produced some interesting collisions and humorous results that needed debugging.
We used a game board and had to direct a counter to visit all of the continents whilst avoiding the natural disasters. This time, pieces of code were given to make it a little easier and more consistent.
Our challenge was to use repetition and find the shortest, most efficient route.
Eve said: “The hardest bit was probably to remember all your steps before testing your algorithm.” Nice link to the 8Rs, Eve!
Ordering Numbers
Our first topic in maths has been place value. Year 5 practised saying numbers right up to one million! We used place value counters and grids to help us.
Next up, we had a go at making 5 digit numbers on our white boards, expressed in lots of different ways, before ordering ourselves into a giant Year 5 number line!
Topic maths
Last week, the children conducted a local survey around Moortown. Today, the class began to interpret the data and thought about how they could display it.
After looking at examples of bar charts, Year 4 created their own and added the data from the survey. An interesting fact from the survey was that no one thought was rubbish was an issue in our local area.
“That’s because we go litter picking, ” commented Musa.
Resilience and patience were put to the test this morning when the children were given some Ordnance Survey symbols to match. The symbols formed part of a jigsaw. This was quite a challenge but we were so impressed with the determination shown by the class to complete this task.
Well done to all!
Time Travel trip
To kick off the new topic, Time Travel, Year 3 enjoyed a trip visiting two museums in Hull – The Streetlife Museum of Transport as well as Hull and East Riding Museum.
The day started with the Streetlife Transport Museum. In the museum, there were transport artefacts dating back over 200 years old. The class were interested in the carriages that people used to drive before cars were revolutionised into what we are used to today. Have a look at the pictures below!
The class loved walking down the 1940’s high street. They thoroughly enjoyed going inside the traditional pharmacy and cooperative supermarket. They even managed to spot some products which are still on sale now.
There was a lot of interest with in the 1950’s ice-cream truck. Look at one of our brilliant drawings below.
After lunch, the Year 3s went on to the Hull and East Riding museum where we walked through an Iron Age village, entered a Roman bath house and looked at the stunning mosaics. Have a look at the pictures below.
My favourite part was…
- Billy stated: “I loved seeing the woolly mammoth.”
- Edris added: “Imagine if we were in the museum and the woolly mammoth came back to life!”
- Sasha pointed out: “The cave man’s clothes have come from a sheep – he would’ve made it himself!”
- James commented: “I loved the ride that showed us what it would have felt like to be pulled in a carriage by a horse.”
- Tanvi said: “I loved all of it!”