School Council elections
Our School Council elections will take place tomorrow, Thursday, 19 October. All children have the opportunity to vote at our polling station using the following instructions.
Before voting, please read the following:
- Vote once for one person.
- Place one X only on this ballot paper beside the name of the candidate you have chosen.
- Do not write or mark anything else on the ballot paper; if you do, your paper will be invalid and your vote will not be counted.
- When you have marked the ballot paper, fold the paper and place it in the box provided.
Votes will be counted tomorrow and our new School Council will be announced at the end of the day. This will be made up of two children from each class with the highest number of votes.
Good luck to all our candidates.
Bonfire themed menu
Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu on Friday 03 November. Please contact the office, before Wednesday 18 October, if your child would like a school dinner on this day.
- Posh dogs in finger rolls or Vegetarian meatballs in finger rolls
- Curly fries
- BBQ baked beans
- Rocket lolly
- Fresh fruit and yogurt
School Council Elections
With two representatives from each class, chosen democratically by their peers, all children at Moortown Primary are encouraged to take an active part in pupil voice.
It’s time for children to consider if they would like to stand for election for our new School Council.
Elections will take place on Thursday 19 October with our polling station and ballot boxes at the ready. Candidates will have the opportunity to give their election speech to their class on Wednesday 18 October or Thursday 19 October.
If your child would like to be a school councillor, please help them to prepare a short speech.
What makes a good school councillor has been considered by our current school council.
- ‘use all the 8 Rs for learning’
- ‘be respectful’
- ‘help others’
- ‘be a good speaker and listener (to members of your class and in the meetings)’
- ‘tell the truth’
- ‘be confident with your ideas’
- ‘accept the views of others even if you don’t agree’
- ‘be friendly and approachable’
- ‘make good choices in class and around school’
Hints for your speech include:
- What skills and abilities would a good school councillor have?
- What are you particularly good at that would help you to be a great school councillor?
- What do you think would make the school better?
- What could you do that people would really like?
- Think of things that are realistic, maybe that you could do yourself, rather than having to ask other people to do
Good luck to all children who decide to stand in the elections.
Stay and Play!
Stay and Play
There will be no Relax and Read this week. Instead, you’re invited to stay for a Communication, Language and Literacy session. You will join your child to retell and make up stories and play games to help develop their speaking and listening skills.
See you there!
Phonics
Thanks to everyone who attended our ‘Early Reading’ workshop last week.
We will begin phase 2 of Letters and Sounds this week. Phase 2 involves learning phonemes to read and write simple words.
During this phase children will learn their first 19 phonemes:
- Set 1: s a t p
- Set 2: i n m d
- Set 3: g o c k
- Set 4: ck (as in duck) e u r
- Set 5: h b l f ff (as in puff) ll (as in hill) ss (as in hiss)
They will use these phonemes to read and spell simple “consonant-vowel-consonant” (CVC) words: sat, tap, dig, duck, rug, puff, hill, hiss
All these words contain 3 phonemes.
Blending
Children need to be able to hear the separate sounds in a word and then blend them together to say the whole word.
Segmenting
Children need to be able to hear a whole word and say every sound that they hear.
If you have any questions, please ask!
Storytelling
This week the children enjoyed writing and performing their own version of ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, who do you see?’
Please ask your child to show you their book, ‘Reception, Reception, who can you see?’ next time you are in the classroom.
Early Learning Workshop
- Have you ever wondered what a phoneme is?
- Do you know how to split a digraph?
Make sure you come along to our Early Reading Workshop on Tuesday 03 October at 6pm.
Find out how we teach phonics and reading and how you can support your child at home.
See you there!
School Savings Club dates for paying in
The School Savings Club paying in sessions for this year are at 3.15-3.45pm on the following dates (the penultimate Thursday of each half term).
- 12 October
- 07 December
- 01 February
- 22 March
- 17 May
- 12 July
If you’re unable to attend in person, please hand in any money to be deposited to the office in a sealed envelope addressed to Mrs Tiffany.
Information will shortly be sent home about the accounts and if your child would like to open account, please enquire at the office. There is an extra incentive for pupils in Year 3 as Leeds City Council will add £10 to your child’s account.
Maths in Reception
What is two?
In order to give children a deeper understanding of number we are investigating small numbers in our maths learning. This week, we’ll focus on the number 2 and what ‘two’ means.
Here are some ideas to help your child understand the ‘twoness of two’:
- Explore body parts which come in pairs, eyes, legs, nostrils etc
- Look at 2 x 1p, look at 2p, a £2 coin
- Cut fruit in half: one apple, 2 pieces of apple.
- Look at pairs of shoes, socks and boots
