Year 1 Class News

Celebrating our goals!

Posted on Wednesday 25 May 2011 by

Goal!
Goal!

Well done to all our children for taking part in the sponsored Hot Shots event, raising money to help victims of the earthquake in Japan as part of My Community themed week.

Please return money raised as soon as you can – at the latest the first Friday after half-term.

Thanks.

More success at Moortown!

Posted on Wednesday 18 May 2011 by Mr Roundtree

The Quality Mark is a recognition that some schools choose to work towards to help them monitor what they do for their learners and to celebrate successes within school.  Because Ofsted chose not to inspect our school this year due to our continued good provision, we welcome feedback from other external bodies.  This year, therefore, we decided to be re-assessed for the Quality Mark.

The re-assessment visit happened on Monday 16 May 2011.  I’m delighted to say we’ve yet again been recognised for the great teaching and learning at Moortown.  Here are some extracts of the visiting assessor’s report:

“The assessor felt that this was one of the most impressive visits he has ever made in nine years of visiting Quality Mark schools. David, the head, has lots of plans – he needs no points of action or areas to develop suggested from us. It was a privilege to visit.”

“Since the monitoring visit, the school has accomplished an impressive amount of progress.”

The school has radically reshaped the intervention programme it operates with pupils… It has put into action what many other schools are now realising – that the huge weight of strategies that have been recommended to schools over the past ten years are of limited effectiveness unless they are tailored to exactly what the pupil needs at the time that s/he needs it.”

Classrooms all show consistency of approach in teaching – learning objectives visible, use of speaking and listening partners, learning walls for each class…  Consistency in marking of writing is assured through a detailed and very clear marking policy.  The Year 6 pupils who showed the assessor around school were at pains to draw his attention to these features and kept up a running commentary of how pupils learn (including telling the assessor that in the Reception class it’s ‘learning through play, you know!’).”

Moortown has successfully devised and implemented a curriculum and teaching methodology that involves pupils in their own learning, is rigorous and demanding whilst at the same time makes learning an enjoyable experience for pupils.”

Thanks to the dedication and support of staff, parents / carers and children, I know we do a fantastic job at Moortown.  It’s great to know that visitors to school are struck by this great work, too.

I’m grateful to the five parents who spoke with the Quality Mark assessor, and to the two Y6 pupils who provided a tour of the school.

We are amazing authors!

Posted on Tuesday 17 May 2011 by Mrs Weekes

As part of our Literacy learning we have been reading lots of traditional tales.  We have been learning about characters, good and bad, and investigating lots of different plots and settings.  Last week we did a “Big Write” where we had to have a go at writing our own traditional tales; here are a couple of our stories showing how much learning we have done.  Check out our story language and punctuation!  Look at how our handwriting has improved.

scan0001scan0002We are very proud of our story writing.   Mrs Weekes and Mrs Maver are amazed at the improvements we have made.

Enjoy reading our traditional tales!

Light and Dark

Posted on Sunday 24 April 2011 by

For the next few weeks, our mini-topic is all about Light and Dark.

Here are some examples of what we’ll be learning in class:

  • To be able to know that light is essential for seeing things.
  • To be able to recognise that there are many sources of light and they vary in brightness.
  • To know that shiny objects need a light source if they are to shine and that shiny objects are not light sources.
  • To be able to suggest how to find out about where a reflective strip will shine brightly.
  • To investigate shadows.

Have a look at the following websites to support learning at home:

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/…/science_5_6.shtml

www.firstschoolyears.com/science/light/light.html


What is Learning?

Posted on Wednesday 23 March 2011 by Mrs Weekes

learning 002This week Year 1 have been thinking about the word “learning.”  They were asked to think about different questions:

  • What is learning?
  • How do we learn best?
  • How do you go about learning something new?
  • How do you know you have learned something new?

They are working really well together and came up with some great ideas about learning!

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Red Nose Day

Posted on Sunday 20 March 2011 by

The circus
The circus
Circus animals.
Circus animals.
The Ringmaster
The Ringmaster

Super Sports at Allerton Grange

Posted on Wednesday 09 March 2011 by Mrs Weekes

allerton grange 003We had a fantastic morning at Allerton Grange High School on Wednesday. After a breezy walk to the school the children were taught by some Year 10 pupils.  They had planned some great activities including general fitness, ball skills and dance.  We then walked back to Moortown helped along by the wind!  Thank you to the pupils and staff at Allerton Grange and thank you to the Year 1 children who were brilliant representatives of Moortown Primary.

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Well done!

Posted on Saturday 05 March 2011 by

Congratulations to Archie and Isabella for their election to the school council. I’m sure they’ll do a great job.

Also, well done to all the other children who stood in the election. I was very impressed with all the candidates’ presentations.

Don’t forget the class assembly on Thursday at 2.45pm.


We can write super sentences!

Posted on Tuesday 15 February 2011 by Mrs Weekes

We have been learning even more about sentences.  We all know that a sentence needs:

  • to make sense
  • a full stop at the end
  • a capital letter at the beginning

Now we are even adding a conjunction.  A conjunction is a word that joins two sentences together.  We have been learning to use “but”, “and” and “because”.

Look at our super sentences!

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Circus Time

Posted on Saturday 29 January 2011 by

Where should the big top go ?During this term the Year 1 children are investigating the theme of the Circus through maths, literacy, art, music, and drama.

At the moment, we are working with The Blahs Theatre Company developing our drama skills. We are in the early stages of preparing to hold our own circus, a flea circus! This is being linked to our Literacy work on Fantasy.

Have a look at the children hard at work developing their ideas.

A drama lesson
A drama lesson


Can you ride a unicycle ?
Can you ride a unicycle ?