Class Assembly – Internet safety and personal information.
Well done Year 1! After another great week, our wonderful Year 1s have performed their class assembly. Our class assembly was on being safe on the internet. The children showcased their learning from Safer Internet Day on stage for this class assembly. After weeks of practise they all came together to give us a great performance. Well done Year 1!
What is internet safety?
Internet safety consists of many different things. To name a few; thinking before clicking and posting, to treat strangers with respect, to be cautious online with others and to never share personal information online. Personal information consists of our full name, our date of birth, our home / school address and our photos online.
Once again Year 1 well done on another great week and I hope you have a great rest over the weekend. (You all deserve it!)
World Book Day – Well done Year 1
Another wonderful day with our Year 1s at Moortown. Today is World Book Day which means we’ve had a day of reading, sharing and creating stories. The Year 1s came in with some amazing costumes: we had princesses, super heroes, ballerinas and we even found Wally!
We started off our day with a really fun and educational workshop from The British Library. The Year 1s learnt all about story telling and how to create them. They looked at retelling The Three Little Pigs by adding their own adjectives and by using prosody. They did so well with this and got to act as the three little pigs and even made Mr Volpe the Big Bad Wolf (which was popular).
Have a look for yourself at some of our great costumes:
Well done Year 1 and happy World Book Day!
Maths: First, Then and Now addition stories.
Our wonderful Year 1s are back and ready to go.
They have had a great first week, settling straight back into the swing of things. Over the week they have learnt about computing, maths and have even started a new story called Nothing by Mick Inkpen.
Although, they have learnt so much this week, one lesson in particular stood out, and that was maths. In our maths lessons this week the Year 1s have been learning about First, Then and Now stories, so we took them outside to practise and show their own addition stories. We had some great stories with some really imaginative ideas. Look below to see a photo of one of the Year 1s stories.
Living and Learning – Safer Internet Day.
On Tuesday of this week we had our Safer internet day, Year 1 learnt about four main areas of online safety (plus lots of other online safety tips too).
- I know that there are sometimes age restrictions online.
- I know that passwords are important.
- I know that some things online may not be true.
- I know that I shouldn’t share personal information online.
We also welcomed Dave from d:side last week to support this learning last week.
We’ve had lots of discussions about staying safe online. We read the book Chicken Clicking by Tony Ross. In the story a chick gets access to the farmer’s computer and makes a chick friend online. He goes to meet his new friend in the woods… I’ll let your children tell you what happens next.
The children shared some great ideas giving Chicken Clicking some superb advice about how he should have acted differently.
Finally, well done for another great half term Year 1! Have a lovely break.
Basketball half term holiday camps
There are the last remaining places available on these half term City of Leeds Basketball Club holiday camps held locally at Allerton High School.
School dinner menu
After February half term, we start our new menu which runs to the end of the year. It can be viewed here. Please review this with your child to help with their selection at the start of the day. We continue to offer meat free Mondays.
The cost of a school meal is:
- children in Reception, Years 1 and 2: this is free because of universal infant free school meals
- children in Years 3, 4, 5 and 6: £3.05 for children in Years 3 to 6
Payment should be paid in advance on the Arbor app. We’re happy to accept payment for the week, month, half term or term. We prefer two weeks’ notice to change lunch arrangements.
All children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 receive free school meals. If your child is in Year 3 to Year 6, and you are on benefits or a low income, your child may be eligible for free school meals.
Some people like to choose a mix of school dinners and packed lunch for their child – that’s absolutely fine, as long as it’s a the same pattern of school dinners and packed lunches every week. Just let office staff know which days you’d like to opt in for a school meal in the week, and which days you’d prefer to provide your child with a packed lunch.
We continue to gather feedback from children on our school meals.
If you have any feedback, please do get in touch.
Topic: A trip to Abbey House Museum.
As another week comes towards its end, our wonderful Year 1s have had another great one. Today our Year 1s and 2s went on a school trip to Abbey House Museum. This was to carry on their learning and deepen their understanding around their History topic; Toys. They took part in a workshop where they looked at different toys from the past and the present to see the differences between them and how they have changed over time.
They also got to take a step back in time and walk along the cobbled streets of Abbey House Museum to gain an understanding of what life looked like back in the late 1800s. Some of them even had the opportunity to experience what life was like in a prison cell in the late 19th century!
Well done on another great school trip Year 1!
Living and Learning: I know the importance of the emergency services.
As we move onto another week of our half term let’s have a look at our previous Living and Learning statement from last week; I know the importance of the emergency services. Our wonderful Year 1s worked really hard on their understanding of the importance of the emergency services. They shared some great ideas and questions around our statement. One question that stood out was “Can we call them at any time (of the day)?”. This was one of many great questions our Year 1s had during last week’s L&L session.
Well done Year 1!
Reading: The Tiger Who Came to Tea
This week in school our wonderful Year 1s have been reading The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr. They were tasked to think of some questions to ask each character from our story, around information they would like to find out that isn’t told in the story. They did an amazing job on this and the children came up with some great questions. Our favourite question is in the picture attached below.
One more week done, well done Year 1!
Maths- A shape hunt. (And a big thank you.)
Our Year 1s are having another lovely week in school showing off their maths skills. This week we took the children outside to go on a shape hunt. They went around the green finding different 2D shapes, then they noted down the shape, firstly by drawing it, then the name of the shape, by writing it, and the quantity of that shape, by counting each one. They did really well in this activity and followed our school rules of being, respectful, ready and safe.
As well as welcoming our Year 1s back over the last 2 weeks we have had our wonderful Mrs Boyle return too. She was unable to receive and thank you all for her lovely cards and presents before we broke up so she has asked to add this in: “I am blown away with all of your generosity. Thank you very much and I hope you all had a lovely (and restful) break.”
