Welcome back!
I hope you’ve all had an enjoyable summer!
I’m Miss Hewson and this will be my fourth year here at Moortown Primary School. I have taught Year Four for the past three years so I’m looking forward to the new challenge of teaching the Year Two class. I’m sure that we have an exciting year ahead!
Many of you I will have met from teaching siblings of this class and I look forward to seeing you all again. For those of you that I don’t already know, I look forward to meeting you . Parents’ evening will be in October. In the meantime, if you have any questions please feel free to come see me anytime. Mrs Stewart will be our teaching assistant this year and is often available to answer queries too.
New SEAL statement and theme
As we start the new school year, our SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) theme focuses on New Beginnings and ‘I can make someone feel welcome‘ is the statement for this week.
New Beginnings
New beginnings allows children the opportunity to discuss and reflect on how they or others may feel in a new situation or setting. This SEAL theme offers children the opportunity to see themselves as valued individuals within a community, and to contribute to shaping a welcoming, safe and fair learning community for all.
The key areas of learning throughout this theme are empathy, self-awareness, social skills and motivation.
Through discrete SEAL lessons, circle times and across the curriculum, children will explore feelings of happiness and excitement, sadness, anxiety and fearfulness, while learning (and putting into practice) shared models for calming down and problem-solving.
New beginnings supports the development of a learning community in each classroom where all members feel that they belong. Class contracts, produced at the start of the year, allow children to contribute to how they feel they can achieve a safe and fair learning community.
Goodbye, Year 1
What an absolute fantastic year we have had! We have seen some amazing progress and the children have matured in so many ways.
We would like to say well done to Henry Crozier, our learner of the year! He has made so much progress in every area and his confidence has increased so much.
Linda, Simran, Allura, Brandon and Shahban made excellent progress in their writing and Yahya, Rayhaan, Harshitha and Jaskirat made brilliant progress in their reading. Our star in Maths was definitely Henry; he was a bit of a dark horse with his maths ability! Ethan, Oliver and Linda also made a lot of progress in Maths.
In other areas we saw a a lot of changes throughout the year; Oliver showed excellent attitude in our SEAL learning and Roshan became much more confident in her speaking and listening.
Well done to all the children for adapting to having two teachers; it can be tricky at times to get used to different styles of teaching but they all took it in their stride and enjoyed all learning.
Good luck in Year 2 – we’ll be still keeping an eye on you next door! Miss Hewson will have an excellent year with you, we’re sure. Have a good summer!
Year 2, Class of 2011
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It was our intention to give every child a DVD containing all of the videos from this year but unfortunately the school is unable to distribute them because for legal reasons. Check back next week for a slideshow of this year’s memorable photographs.
Goodbye, Year 2
Year 2 as a class have achieved many successes this year (such as the great progress in learning, the best attendance record and the fewest warnings) but we thought it important to mention those who have done exceptionally well and pushed themselves all year round in a few key areas.
Reading
Madison is reading the same books as Year 4 so a big well done to her. Sarina has made over two years of progress in a single year with her reading which is incredible. Finally, Alex has had a brilliant attitude towards reading and, as a result, his reading has improved immensely.
Writing
Ruqayyah’s writing has been very creative and a delight to read. Mikaeel’s, Abdul-Ahad’s and Amie’s writing has seen a marked improvement with all of them striving to become the best writers they can be.
Maths
Tyler’s confidence and performance in maths has soared, leading to some brilliant test results to finish the year off. Well done to Lucas, Finn and Abigail this year for showing that they can perform at a Year 3 level already!
Every child this year has shown a faultless attitude to learning and I am sure this will carry on into next year with Mr Wilks.
Goodbye, Year 3
Wow. That went quickly!
I can’t believe where the time has gone. It has been an absolutely brilliant year. The children have shown such an enthusiastic and mature attitude to their learning this year. They are a fun and caring bunch who always want to do their best. I couldn’t have asked for a better class in my first year at Moortown.
The children have all made good progress this year, but I’d like to single out a few people who have made exceptional progress. Jaspreet, Archie and Loraine stand out for the progress that they’ve made in writing. Amit and Sami have made brilliant progress in reading and Bevan and Harry Boulton have both made super progress in maths.
Every week I looked forward to marking the homework books. There are a few children who deserve a special mention for their brilliant and creative efforts this year: Jake, Harry B, Tom, Sara and Koujiro. Well done.
There have been countless highlights this year so I’ll just mention a few:
- The improvement in Neyah’s writing has been great and it has been fantastic to watch her grow in confidence.
- The visit to the National Railway Museum was a great trip and all the children really enjoyed it. None more so than Zaki, who revelled in giving me my own personal guided tour!
- The street dance performances that some of the class were involved in were really impressive. Much respect goes to Sami, who was the only boy in the group.
- We made alien hand puppets in DT during our space topic and it was great to see most of the children enjoying it although there were one or two who got into a bit of a mess – you know who you are!
- Harry Boulton and Zaki Qurayshi were great androids in the production – Harry’s android walk was a highlight!
- We’ve had some really interesting show and tell items this year. My favourite was when Yasmin brought in the shed skin of her brother’s snake!
- The blissful silence in the space dome!
- Holly nearly taking my head off with a fierce rounders shot!
Have a fantastic summer and a great year with Mr Redfearn in Year 4.
Goodbye, Reception!
What a fantastic year we have had in Reception. All the children have made excellent progress and have been a joy to teach. Their positive approach to their learning will ensure a smooth transition into Year One.
Thank you to everyone for all your cards, flowers, gifts and kind words. We are all looking forward to our meal out!
Have a great summer.
Goodbye, Year 6
What a lovely message from Miss Hazell! I totally agree – this class have been an asset to Moortown Primary! As a whole, they gel together brilliantly. Each child brings something different to the team and they are an absolute delight to teach. The production was amazing and the Leavers’ Assembly was hilarious. An excellent combination of good directing and naturally witty children. I wish all of the Year Six children a successful time in secondary school!
Miss Hewson
Goodbye, Year 4
I’d like to congratulate Year Four on a great year – the children have worked extremely hard. Throughout the year, I have seen a noticeable improvement in many of the children’s behaviour and attitude to learning. Some of the children have been exceptional from start to finish too which has paid off in their learning.
I’d like to say an extra well done in literacy to Sami and Lili who have both made double the amount of expected progress in a year! In maths, Lili, Rishitha, Faizaan, Meva, and Nevan have made great progress. A big well done to Grace, Henry, Max and Nevan who have also made brilliant progress in reading.
Some of my highlights of the year include:
- Swimming (especially the fun session!)
- The production at Easter
- The effort that the children put into both their class assemblies
- Working at the North East City Learning Centre to produce news reports
- Guided reading sessions (excellent discussions and thought-provoking questions from the children)
- Literacy lessons and the children’s enthusiasm to improve – particularly in The Labyrinth story writing unit.
- Mental maths – improved speed!
- The quality of artwork produced – I see some future artists!
Thank you to Mrs Bald, Mrs Edwards and Mrs Freeman for the invaluable support that they have provided this year also.
I wish all of the children a fun and successful year with Mr Owen in Year Five!
Wow! What a Year!
Wow! What a year!
This year has been memorable from beginning to end with loads of learning, so many highlights, successes and fun times.
All the children should be very proud of their achievements and progress this year in all their learning. Huge congratulations to Amana, Yutaro, Rosie, Arjun, Farhan, Max, Sean, Ben and Nahid for achieving straight Level 5s in Maths, Reading and Writing SATs. As you know every single child in the year group achieved Level 4 or 5 in the English and Maths tests. This is down to the positive attitude to learning that the children exhibit and how they, as a group of children, push themselves to be the best they can. They have been a pleasure to teach as they have been so keen, enthusiastic and committed to their learning. I would like to say a huge well done also to Jahmar, Simran, Sanna, Angel and Abdul who have made vast amounts of progress this year.
All the children who went on the residential to Dobroyd Castle have been given a DVD of photographs taken during the visit. If you came to the Leavers’ Assembly, you will have seen some of the photographs. Mr Roundtree and I had positive comment after positive comment from all the Robinwood group leaders about the children’s behaviour, attitude, enthusiasm and teamwork during our stay. I can honestly say the children were a credit to themselves and a credit to school. Millie, Bethany, Sally, Theo and Ellie were ‘stars’ with their unfailing effort and wholehearted endeavours to give everything a go, despite some of the activities being challenging and a little scary.
Another highlight of the year was the Year 5 and 6 production of Bugsy Malone. Ethan did a cracking job as Bugsy; Daniel and Shoaib were outstanding as the inept police officers; Karina was a heroic Baby Face; Hafsa danced beautifully; Isa was a fantastic Cagey Joe. The whole year group again gave everything 100% and learnt songs, scripts and dance routines with gusto. I think they should consider entering Britain’s got Talent next year!
The Leavers’ Assembly was another exemplary performance with bags of laughter and not a tear in sight. Chanda was very impressive with her confident and expressive public speaking, Raheem did an excellent Mr Roundtree impression and Jonathan was an inspiration with his wild and wacky dancing during our singing.
I’ve been a teacher for over twenty years and teaching this group of Year Sixers has been a joy and a pleasure. They are responsive, mature, hardworking and good fun. I wish them great success at secondary school.
They will be missed!