Road Safety
Yesterday, Year 4 had a visitor from Leeds City Council to deliver road safety training. We had a really insightful lesson all about road safety and sustainable travel before heading out to do some practical training. They were really impressed with how many of us travel sustainably to school. We had walkers, runners, cyclists, scooterists and even skippers!
It was also a very hot day so we made sure we were being safe in the sun by wearing our hats and having sun cream on.
Green Cross Code:
- Think – find a safe place to cross.
- Stop – take a 30cm step back from the road.
- Look – right then left and then all around.
- Listen – listen closely for all vehicles (especially quiet ones like electric cars).
Help at home: ask your children to explain the Green Cross Code. When you are crossing roads together, make sure you are all following the Green Cross Code.
Summer 2: Week 6
It’s hard to believe that this is the penultimate web post of the year!
This week, the children have thoroughly enjoyed making the most of our provision areas with their friends. They’ve been busy exploring, creating, building, role-playing and collaborating together.
On Tuesday, the children spent some time reflecting on their favourite memories from their Reception year. They used their phonics knowledge to write independent sentences about a special moment they enjoyed.
Here’s a selection of their fantastic writing:
Phonics
This week, we consolidated all of our Phase 4 phonics learning. The progress the children have made throughout the year has been truly remarkable.
Help at home: Over the holidays, it would be really helpful to continue practising blending and segmenting skills.
Have a happy and healthy weekend!
Science and Media Museum!
Yesterday, Year 3 and 4 visited the Science and Media Museum in Bradford.
There were loads of interactive stations that taught us about sound, music, gaming and photography. We explored these areas by reading the information and testing the machines.
We also had a workshop that taught us more about sound, how it travels and how it can be manipulated. We changed the pitch, speed (tempo) and added sound effects! Here are some photos of us enjoying ourselves:
Help at home: try to add sound effects to your favourite film ending using objects from home. Could you use tupperware for horse hooves or hand clicking and clapping for rain?
Y5/6 Production of the Amazing Adventures of Superstan!
I have been incredibly impressed and proud of the performances of all the Year 5 children at the production this week! Everyone has worked really hard to make the performance as excellent as it was on Tuesday and Wednesday night! Whether they have been acting, singing or making props every single child has shown dedication and the result was superb. I really hope that they enjoyed as much as all the staff at school did!
Well done to you all and I can’t wait to see you all in next year’s production as Year 6s!
Scientists: we are Biologists!
In our science unit, we are biologists. Biology is the study of living things.
In this week’s lesson, we dissected a flower called Alstroemeria. We labelled the different parts and discussed which of them make up the male and female reproductive systems.
Help at home: Label the different parts of the flower.
Food Technology: Tomato Sauce
This morning, Year 6 made a tomato sauce base for pasta.
We worked in small groups to prepare the ingredients and then cook them. We made sure that we washed our hands and wore our aprons for hygiene reasons.
We used the bridge cutting method and the claw cutting method to cut up our vegetables. These methods are the safest way to cut food as they help us from hurting ourselves!
We cooked some pasta alongside our sauce so we could try it!
Help at home: Try the recipe yourselves.
Science and Media Museum
Today, Year 3 and 4 visited the Science and Media Museum in Bradford.
There were loads of interactive stations that taught us about sound, music, gaming and photography. We explored these areas by reading the information and testing the machines.
We also had a workshop that taught us more about sound, how it travels and how it can be manipulated. We changed the pitch, speed (tempo) and added sound effects!
Help at home by trying to add sound effects to your favourite film ending using objects from home. Could you use tupperware for horse hooves or hand clicking and clapping for rain?
DT – Hand puppets
This week our wonderful Year 1s have finished their hand puppets!
They have worked really hard, following the design process down to every detail. They have spent this half term designing, making and soon to be evaluating their very own hand puppets.
See below some examples of their hard work. 
DT – Design and Technology
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been busy planning and making our hand puppets. We tried really hard to use an over-stitch or a running stitch to join the two pieces together. Once we’d done that, we had lots of fun choosing colourful felt to make our puppets bright and exciting!
We remembered to use the scissors safely when cutting our felt. We’re so proud of our finished puppets!
Next week, we’ll talk about what we liked and what we might change and then we’ll bring our puppets home to show you. Well done, Year 2!
Football Festival
Some girls from Y3 and Y4 took part in a football festival today at Boston Spa Academy.
First, we took part in lots of fun games and drills to get our bodies warm and our feet used to football! We worked on things like passing, dribbling and communication.
After lunch, we played a mini tournament! It was really exciting to put our skills into practice against other schools.
Risk-taking, being ready and responsible weren’t the only 8Rs we were showcasing – we also had to be very resilient because it was extremely windy!
We represented Moortown by being polite, listening well and most importantly having lots of fun.
