Oui, bien sûr!
An exciting new French project for Year 4 children will be starting this week.
A teacher of English from a school in the Champagne region of northern France contacted Moortown Primary to see if we could write back to the 30 children in one of their classes so they could practise their English writing skills.
We replied, “Oui, bien sûr!”
We have received 30 wonderful postcards from the children from their village school in Grauves, and Year 4 will be individually responding to each child. We’ll reply first of all to their questions in English and then, to put our skills to the test, we’ll be replying with one or two of our own.
As-tu des frères ou des soeurs? par exemple.
It’s a great way to bring our French learning to life and the teacher, Monsieur Jérôme Eyffred, has sent us some pictures of their beautiful setting, library, classroom and even classwork so we can compare notes! Already we know the school has 130 pupils, five classes (Year 2 to Year 6) and only one interactive whiteboard – it’s a relatively new concept in France, says Jérôme.
We’ll keep up the correspondence until the end of this term and provide any further updates on this new partnership between Moortown and Grauves.
Creating a mood
Tomorrow is the final SAT of the week: long writing.
Today in class we have been discussing how to create a mood ready for the writing tomorrow.
Here are some mood words that the children might want to create WOW words and phrases about. This will help them in creating a mood and interesting their audience with their writing tomorrow.
- relief
- worry
- anger
- mystery
- shock
- excitement
Who said exercise was boring?
As part of our PE we went into the front playground to use the equipment. Our muscles got a good work out; there was lots of climbing, jumping and hanging around! Look at these two children strengthening their arm muscles and showing great balance and what an amazing leap from another!
Times tables
Starting this Friday (18 May), we will be having weekly times table tests. This will help prepare the children for the weekly times table tests that they will have in Year 3 and beyond. There will be ten questions and it will be a mixture of the 2, 5 and 10 times table. The children that know these well will be extended with the 3 times table too.
What is a ‘split digraph’?
This week your child may come home with more unfamiliar vocabulary to do with their phonics learning. A ‘split digraph’ is simply a long vowel sound that has been split as in the words make, lake, shake, like and bike. You might remember how this used to be referred to: ‘magic e’. That term is no longer used as it may be confusing. The ‘e’ is not magic – it’s doing a job.
Enjoy your ‘split digraphs’!
Abandon Ship
A few days ago, Year 3 and Year 4 received this letter:
Dear Year 3 & 4,
I be writing this here diary whilst I be gettin’ attacked from the east by those scallywags, employed by the ‘onourable Queen Elizabeth to do away with us. I don’t ‘ave much time left and I be worrying ’bout me treasure y’see. I thinks I can swim ashore but I won’t be able to carry me treasure which weighs a massive 1kg. I as got sum wood, stone and other bits and pieces but don’t have a clue what to do. ‘Elp us if ye can and make me something that help float me treasure back to shore.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be coming up with some ideas and building a device that can float the treasure back to shore. Hopefully, this pirate will let us share some of his booty if we manage to help him!
SATs Week Timetable
This is the timetable for SATs week, which starts on Monday 14 May.
Tests will take place in the morning. Please make sure children are on time as test will start promptly.
- Monday 14 May: English reading test.
- Tuesday 15 May: English writing test (shorter task) and spelling test.
- Wednesday 16: May Mental Mathematics test Mathematics Test A.
- Thursday 17: May Mathematics Test B.
- Friday 18: May English writing test – longer task.
Tuesday 22 May: Level 6 tests in Mathematics – for those children who have done Tough Stuff Maths.
Strictly Year 4 Dancing
Year 4 have choreographed some of their own dance routines in PE.
httpv://youtu.be/QmVe-xeFb4U
Moortown’s Got Talent Winner
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I4ub1Ij4qw
Magical Maths in Reception
This week we have been learning doubling and halving- a year 1 objective! Great learning by everyone especially Isobel, Stanley, Oliver and Enya.
