Oh I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside!
Fun was had by all on Wednesday when Years 1 and 2 went to Filey beach. The weather was on our side and the sun came out as we arrived. Lots of excitement was had paddling in the sea and making some fantastic sandcastles. Some children looked like they were leaving home as their bags were so full but they learnt the hard way when they had to carry them all day! There were lots of soggy clothes and tired children (and staff) but an enjoyable day was had by all.
Watch this space… photos to follow!
More on money week
The children were visited today by an Enterprise Expert, Tim Hall, who discussed the need for adverts to help sell a product.
We learnt that no matter what your product is, you need an advert to bring it to the attention of your audience… who will then, hopefully, buy your product.
Here is an advert made by the children to encourage the public to join ‘Workit’ – a new gym. Warning… it will tire you out just watching!
Young Apprentice!
Alan Sugar, watch out! We have been amazed by the business ideas created by Year 1. They are creative, unique and buzzing with enthusiasm. Some amazing efforts from all of the children made it really hard to vote for the most enterprising idea. The winning idea will be taken to the “Dragon’s Den” and the opportunity will be given for them to sell their idea. We will know who to stay in touch with in our retirement!
Here are some examples of the fabulous ideas. (The scans are quite faint; if you would like to see them in detail then please come and ask us.)
Designing bank notes
It’s Money Week at Moortown Primary. Our Y6 pupils visited the North East Leeds City Learning Centre (based beside Allerton Grange) to get creative with currency!
Eating Hardtack
Hardtack was a typical biscuit eaten by pirates. Whilst it didn’t taste too good, pirates chose to stock up because it lasted for months and months. Our Y3 friends baked some recently – here’s their reactions…
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Reception children get messy…
…and relax!
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.