Takeover day
The running of school today was taken over by… our very own children! Dinners were served by Year 4, Y5 children were in the school office and even assembly was taken over by Year 6 (what a good job they did!).
The class were successful in taking over registration, giving out book bags and homework, giving out ‘cool class tokens’ in assembly and dismissing the class for lunch. They did a great job and they showed how responsible and mature they were. Well done!
Taking the register 
Giving out ‘cool class tokens’
Taking the register
Takeover Day
Next Friday, 20 November, is Takeover Day.
What is Takeover Day?
It’s a national initiative organised each year by the Children’s Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield OBE. Takeover gives children and young people the chance to work with adults for the day and to be involved in decision-making processes. Children and young people benefit from the opportunity to experience the world of work and make their voices heard, while adults and organisations gain a fresh perspective on what they do.
Recently our School Council discussed how children could be involved in ‘taking over’ at school. Takeover activities will include school dinners (representatives from Year 4), the office (representatives from Year 5), assembly (representatives from Year 6) and KS2 tuck shop on 24 November (representatives from Year 2).
In addition there will be opportunities within class where children will takeover. For example, spelling/times table tests, parts of lessons, PE warm ups and guided reading.
Check our class news pages to see this in action.
Make a noise about bullying
Next week it is national anti-bullying week.
Our school definition has recently been reviewed by the School Council and remains unchanged.
‘Bullying is when you hurt someone, physically or emotionally, several times on purpose.’
This year the theme of the week is Make a noise about bullying and our children are familiar with another STOP message to address this, start telling other people.
Leeds Anti-Social Behaviour Team will once again deliver Show Racism the Red Card workshops across school and in class children will discuss these aspects of bullying:
- Our definition of bullying (above)
- Types of bullying – cyber-bullying and prejudice-based bullying related to gender, sexual orientation, race, religion and belief, special educational need and disability
- What to do if children experience bullying. The key message is to tell someone (start telling other people)
Bullying resources can be found at…
- http://www.childline.org.uk/explore/bullying/pages/bullying.aspx
- http://www.bullying.co.uk/advice-for-parents/
- http://www.youngminds.org.uk/for_parents/worried_about_your_child/bullying
Children tell us what they would do if they were bullied: ‘I would tell an adult, teacher or someone I trust.’
All classes have access to their class SEAL box or a whole school worry box where they can tell an adult any concerns about bullying or any other issues.
Lexia
I’m glad to see so many children using Lexia at home. There have been lots of certificates given out for their achievement so far. Some parents have informed me that it has requested a teacher e-mail in order to log in. Thanks for making me aware of this!
If asked for a teacher e-mail, please use: y1@moortown.leeds.sch.uk
(Please note that this email is not monitored and therefore is not a way to contact me.)
Thank you.
Top vegetable choices
If your child chooses school dinners, they are served two portions of vegetables or vegetables and a portion of salad with each meal. As we are all aware of the importance of eating vegetables, all children have been consulted on their favourite vegetables based on the vegetables that currently feature on the school dinner menu. The most popular choices will now feature more regularly on the menu.
We would also like your views on school dinners. Look out for the school dinner survey due to be sent out next week.
What’s cooking?
Lots of cooking skills were practised this afternoon with Mrs Taylor. The wraps looked delicious and very healthy! I’m sure your child can now be a great help in the kitchen!
Also, tomorrow is our class assembly. It would be great for you to see how hard the class have worked!
Our trip around the world!
On Friday, we took a (virtual) trip around the world! We located ports, fields, cities, beaches and mountains using Google Maps. We compared Scarborough to Cape Town in South Africa and spotted differences and similarities. However, the most exciting part of all had to be finding our school on the map. The class were so excited to find it and see how it looks from a birds-eye view! Why not let your child go on a virtual holiday at home using Google Maps? The quality of the aerial photos are brilliant and it’s very easy to use.
We’ve been busy building dens!
What a great morning we had today! I discovered that Year 1 are marvellous den-makers! They concentrated so hard on securing the tricky zip ties, worked fantastically in their teams and persevered despite the occasional collapse! After building the dens, the class enjoyed their milk inside them and then voted for their favourite. This activity fitted in well with our Holidays Big Topic as we are looking at camping holidays this week.
This afternoon, we began writing a recount of our time building dens using time openers (first, then, next, after that, finally etc). Support you child at home: Ask your child if they could tell you a recount of their morning making dens using some of these words.
Playground fun
More number bonds!
7 and 3 makes 10, shown on a ten frame. Make one of these at home to support your child to remember number bonds to ten… you could use coins instead of counters.
We can show this using a ‘part,part,whole’ picture.
We enjoyed working out how many pegs were hidden behind the board!Again – do this at home – all you need are ten clothes pegs and one coat hanger, then slide some pegs to one side, the rest to the other and then create a ‘number sentence’ like 4+6=10.