Living and Learning: RSE
Over the last 3 weeks in Year 3, we have explored relationships and change.
We’ve discussed that we have relationships with lots of people. For example, our family, friends, people we meet through clubs, like leaders etc. These relationships should be happy and healthy. We talked about this might look like:
- We trust each other.
- We are kind to each other.
- We listen to each other.
- We try to help each other.
But what happens if this becomes unhappy and unhealthy? If you can’t resolve the problems between you in a respectful way, then you can ask a trusted adult to help!
Sometimes we might need a change and change can seem scary when it’s new. We looked at the different stages of human life and the class discussed how our lives change over time.
For example, when we are born, we have no responsibilities and our grown ups look after us constantly. As we grow older, we have more freedom and we realised that with freedom comes more responsibilities like cooking for yourself, having a job and learning to drive.
We decided that change is good because it takes us outside our comfort zone and lets us try new things!
Help at home by discussing a change that is coming up soon. How do you feeling about moving up to Year 4?
Skipping Festival Final!
Yesterday, Year 4 went to Morley to participate in the Leeds Skipping Festival Final and they did an absolutely incredible job! The teamwork and support they showed between one another was outstanding and they cheered each other on when some were feeling a bit nervous.
We won some medals on the individual skips and won gold for our whole class skip dance! Everybody did a fantastic job and it was a really fun day out.
I am super proud of all of Year 4 for trying their best and representing Moortown so brilliantly.
Zoom: Reception to Year 1 information meeting
As the weather becomes brighter and we near the end of the academic year you may be thinking about your child’s next steps as they journey into Year 1. Moving to Year 1 is perhaps a less significant change for children, and that’s because we’re a happy and healthy place to learn where we all know each other.
A zoom meeting for parent’s starts our transition process, here you will meet the Key Stage 1 staff and find out about the Year 1 curriculum.
The zoom meeting is on Monday 16 June at 6pm please follow the link that will be emailed to you.
The next step is for your child to spend some time in the Year 1 classrooms. They’ll meet the teachers and join in with the learning, they’ll get a taste of what it’s like to be in Year 1. The whole-school transition, later in July, completes the process, by spending a morning with their new class teacher.
This is a really exciting time of year, moving on and taking those next steps whilst continuing to strengthen the effective learning behaviours they have established in Reception.
Residential Day 3
What an amazing three days we’ve had!
It’s been new, exciting, fun, different, scary, hilarious and tiring! We’ve worked as a team, tried things we’ve never tried before, given it our all, laughed our heads off and come up against a tank of piranhas and lived to tell the tale.
It’s been a blast … Robin Wood 2025, over and out!
Residential Day 2
Design and Technology: Design Criteria
This half term, we are designers. Year 5 learnt about design criteria. Design criteria is ‘the precise features a product must have in order to be successful’. In the lesson, we looked at different items and created what we thought the design criteria would be.
Help at home: Discuss the key vocabulary for this half term.
Summer 2: Week 1
Ahoy, Me Hearties!
This week, we’ve been reading The Night Pirates by Peter Harris. This great book has inspired our learning in the areas of provision. We’ve been building pirate ships in the construction area, making up stories with the pirates, creating pirate hats and collecting treasure at the finger gym table.
Maths
This week, we introduced the Rekenreks to the children. We continued to practise our subitising skills by using our ‘fast eyes’ to subitise the beads on a Rekenrek. A Rekenrek allows the children to further develop their subitising skills as they explore the structure of small numbers.
We know to make sure all the beads are at the right-hand side of the rack. This is called the ‘ready position’. We then pause (think), place (one finger) and push (the beads) using the ‘one finger push’ method.
Poetry picnic
This week’s poem was called Monkey Babies. We discussed the rhythm of the poem and decided it had a ‘medium’ rhythm. We also could hear lots of rhyming words. See if you can hear the rhyming words when you watch it.
Group 1
Group 2
Super writing!
Every morning, we have a go at writing a caption or a sentence about an interesting picture. We’ve seen some amazing letter formation this week. Here’s some examples…
Help at home: Write a caption or sentence about this picture. You could bring your sentence into school or take a picture of it and send it to moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Tennis
Yesterday, the children amazed us with their fantastic listening skills during the tennis session. They were very enthusiastic when playing the heads, shoulders, knees and ball game at the start.
This half-term is super busy! Please make sure you make note of the key events happening in Summer 2.
Tennis
Today, Year 2 had a great tennis session with a coach from Roundhay Tennis. This weekend, Roundhay Tennis club are inviting children to attend their free ‘Family Fun Tennis Opens Days’.
Residential
We arrived at Dobroyd Castle after a very excited coach journey and since then it’s been full-on fun!
Today, we’ve taken part in climbing, the night line, archery, trapeze and team challenges alongside having some delicious food.
It’s been amazing to see everyone having so much fun, getting stuck into absolutely everything as well as tackling their own personal challenges in each activity.
Bring on tomorrow!
Reading: Performing Poetry
This week, we’ve been reading a poem called ‘Photograph’ by Roger Stevens.
Roger Stevens is a well-known British poet, author, and musician who has written extensively for children. He has published dozens of poetry collections, both as a solo writer and as an editor of anthologies that bring together poems from a range of voices.
Today, we performed the poem in groups! Here are the R2s:
– tone / emphasis
– vary the pace
– vary the volume
Here’s the photo I took
Last year on the beach
Dad, wearing the tie
I bought him for his birthday
Billy drinking lemonade
The straw up his nose
And Mum, huddled up in her coat
Against the seaside windNow Dad’s in France
And our beach is covered in concrete
And tangled barbed wire
And land mines
In case the Germans invadeBut on that day
We’d just made
The world’s grandest sandcastle
And watched the tide
Rush in
Filling the moat
Gradually washing
The sandcastle away
