Life themed Yoga
Year 4 enjoyed their Life-themed yoga this afternoon which included some animal-based poses along with some relaxation time. Thank you to Rachel of Yoga Stories.
Quick Sticks
Fifteen children (and several adults) set off from Moortown Primary early on the morning of Friday 26 February as part of forty teams competing in the Quick Sticks hockey competition at the Sportspark Weetwood. Fifteen hockey players (and several other adults…) returned. A fast-paced day of teamwork and good sportsmanship, with plenty of goals scored, leads us to look forward to the next Quick Sticks event!
We also look forward to working with Leeds Hockey Club back at school.
Thank you to all parents who helped with transport for this event.
School councillors
Here’s our new school councillors designing a new display for class.
Yoga
This afternoon, we’ve been stretching and relaxing in a yoga class. We’ve made animal and plant poses from all around the world. We’ve talked about our bodies and what they need, different types of animals and their habitats, pollution and even deforestation.
Book Fair
Today, we all went to the book fair and enjoyed listening to stories, exploring books and choosing our own to take home and keep! We particularly enjoyed listening to This Book Just Ate My Dog! by Richard Byrne.
The class really enjoyed choosing their own book and eagerly began reading them when we came back to class! You can help your child by continuing to read with them and to them at home. Let them know that you’re a reader, too. Spread the enthusiasm!
Book Fair
We’ve just visited the book fair. We had a story read to us about a messy monster called Jumblebum who lives in the bedrooms of untidy children. We’ve all chosen our books and are now back in class reading them.
Library
Sorry that we haven’t been able to change the library books. The library is currently being improved, with loads of new books thanks to the PTA. This means that it’s not in use until after next week. Please can you bring in your child’s current library book and we’ll get new ones as soon as possible.
This week
Maths
We’ve been looking at column subtraction in Maths this week. Check out the calculation policy for more information.
English
In English we’ve been looking at narratives. We’ve discussed using DAD paragraphs (dialogue action or description) to keep a reader interested in the stories we’ve been writing. We have used this video as a stimulus. Why not ask your child to retell the story once they have re-watched it?
Assembly
Thank you to everyone who came to see our class assembly. We had a great time putting it together!
PE
This half-term, we will be doing football with a coach from Leeds United. Here are a few images from our first session.
Life
As part of our Life Big Topic, we had a yoga session this week. Can you identify the animals that inspired these poses?
Library Books
Sorry that we haven’t been able to change the library books. The library is currently being improved and is out of bounds until after next week. Please can you bring in your child’s current library book and we’ll get new ones as soon as possible.
A great week back
A big thank you to Year 5 who have all come back after the half term ready and raring to go.
In English, we’ve enjoyed performing, learning, reading and writing poetry this week. As it turns out, lots of us are natural performers or great a getting creative with the pen.
In Maths, we’ve explored decimals and we’ll continue this learning next week by focussing on money.
We all really enjoyed PE this week, particularly returning to our work with the Leeds Beckett students. Grace and Aleena were awarded with this week’s ‘Wow work’ for their great efforts marking each other during a game of basketball. Both of them were exhausted by the end of the lesson.
Next week, we’ve got World Book Day on Thursday where children are invited to come dressed as a character from a book and to bring in their favourite book from home.