World Book Day
Today, we did a book-based scavenger hunt. The children were given certain things to find in books such as a frog, a tree or a happy ending. It was really good fun and showed us how fantastic and varied books are. We discovered that many of the things to find could be found in both fact and fiction books!
Fun in the snow!
We had a fantastic time playing in the snow! Some of the children worked together as a team to build Frosty the snowman, although he seems to have disappeared…
Book Fair
Today, we all went to the book fair and enjoyed listening to stories, exploring books and choosing our own to take home and keep! We particularly enjoyed listening to This Book Just Ate My Dog! by Richard Byrne.
The class really enjoyed choosing their own book and eagerly began reading them when we came back to class! You can help your child by continuing to read with them and to them at home. Let them know that you’re a reader, too. Spread the enthusiasm!
Library
Sorry that we haven’t been able to change the library books. The library is currently being improved, with loads of new books thanks to the PTA. This means that it’s not in use until after next week. Please can you bring in your child’s current library book and we’ll get new ones as soon as possible.
World Book Day menu
World Book Day is celebrated on 03 March and during that week (Wednesday 02 March) we will be having a World Book Day Roald Dahl menu for school dinners.
Our next SEAL theme – Getting on
For this half term, our SEAL theme Getting On covers four main aspects:
- developing the social skills of friendship
- working well together in a group
- managing anger
- resolving conflict
A key resource for children to refer to during this theme, and at other times, is Peaceful Problem Solving. This is a useful resource to encourage children to sort out their own problems. You may wish to talk through this with your child(ren).
When group work takes place in school, some questions for children to consider are:
- Did everyone take turns?
- Did everyone listen to what other people thought?
- Did each person have chance to tell the group what they thought?
- If people had different ideas could the group reach a compromise?
The key areas of learning throughout this theme are empathy, managing feelings and social skills.
We start our weekly SEAL statements with a focus on manners, I don’t interrupt (with my mouth or with my hand).
Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile comes to Leeds
The Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile is back – and it’s coming to Leeds.
Yorkshire Sport Foundation will host a Sainsbury’s Sport Relief Mile on Sunday 20 March.
Setting off from Woodhouse Moor, the Yorkshire Sport Foundation Leeds Mile event offers a 1 mile, 3 mile or 6 mile route.
School Council elections
It’s was a busy morning at the Moortown Primary School polling station with all classes taking part in our School Council elections. We’ve had a record number of children choosing to stand as candidates including the majority of the current School Council. Candidates prepared and delivered some great speeches to their class earlier this week in preparation for the election.
With a number of very close results, the winning candidates were announced in our assembly this afternoon.
Well done to our new school councillors – we are sure you will represent your class well.
The first meeting will be held after the half term on 01 March and one of the initial decisions to be made will be how we can support Sport Relief.
Measuring lengths
We did lots of measuring lengths today! At the moment, we’re measuring using objects such as cubes, paper clips and straws. So we may say that the green strip of paper below is about 6 paper clips long. Standard units will be introduced in Year 2.
We took our shoes off, drew around our feet and measured how long they were too!
#shareaheart Safer Internet Day
We were discussing and writing about how we can make the internet safer and happier. We know what our personal information is and why we need to keep this private. We know what to do if we come across something we don’t like on the internet and we know how to treat others when interacting on the internet.
