Reading records!
Here are some great reading record activities that have been completed recently…
Each week, the children are given one activity to complete in their reading records. This activity shows us at school that they’ve been reading at home!
Even though the children do the same activity, they all are very different e.g. different vocabulary, different stories, fiction, non-fiction.
If you’re ever unsure what do, please ask or choose one of them yourself!
The comment section is a chance to say how your child has read that week and if they have enjoyed it or not.
Help at home by listening to your child reading and leaving a comment about how they got on after!
Topic – Art
Our Art Topic has been made up of two parts: art history and art skills.
Our art skills learning is building up to creating a collage inspired by the architecture we’ve been exploring. We’ve been looking at buildings by our chosen architects: Zaha Hadid and Christopher Wren.
To create our collages, we’re using lots of different skills…
- tracing
- observational drawing
- collage
and media…
- carbon paper
- different background materials
- pencils, pens
The media might be different colours like primary, secondary or complementary colours! 
We’re using a lot of line and shape when creating our art. We also might use shade to show darkness and shadows.
Help at home by spotting what shapes you can see on or as part of the architecture you see!
How to write a set of instructions
Year 3 have planned, written and edited their writing this week – a set of instructions.
A set of instructions tells the reader how to do something.
They had the freedom to choose what they wanted to write their instructions for:
- How to spend a day without technology
- How to fly a magic carpet
- How to control a giant robot
- How to survive a day at sea
We needed to include bossy (imperative) verbs, time connectives and adverbs to help give detail the reader.
We also acted out each scenario to see what we might need and to generate ideas!
Here’s some of our writing.
Help at home: Can you spot the verbs, time connectives and adverbs?
Maths – column addition
Year 3 have recently learnt how to add two numbers using column addition. Column addition is a great method for when we aren’t able to use reasoning and mental maths to help us add numbers together.
Top tips:
- Use HTO to help you line up your numbers.
- Use one digit per box to keep it neat and tidy.
- Always start adding from the smallest value column!
This is what your working out might look like if each column adds up to 9 or less.
We have then learnt what to do if a column totals 10 or more! We use these facts to help us:
10 ones = 1 ten
10 tens = 1 hundred
We must exchange the 10 ones for 1 ten and mark it underneath our answer box and do the same for 10 tens exchanged for 1 hundred.
Here’s some of our work!
Help at home by practising this method. Can you add two 3-digit numbers using column addition?
North East Leeds cross country
** UPDATE ** Eight of our runners have qualified for the Leeds cross country final – congratulations!
Today, thirty of our Key Stage 2 children took part in the Leeds North East School Games Cross Country festival at Roundhay High School attended by twenty nine schools.
We had a great start from our Year 3 runners with three children coming in the top 15 including an amazing third and fifth place! Then, an effortless first place by one of our Year 4 runners was a great achievement. After that, we saw some excellent efforts and determination from the rest of the children throughout the afternoon with great support and encouragement from the other pupils.
Well done to all the children who took part and represented the school. We are sure there will be some qualifiers for the next race, the Leeds final. Watch this space!
Thank you to the parents who came along to help and support at this event.
If you’re child would like to take part in cross country, have a look at our physical activity guide for details of local running clubs and junior Park Runs.
Some of the children who took part, are regular runners at the Leeds Schools Sports Association Saturday morning cross country races. Details will shortly be sent out for the next race on Saturday 14th December.
Living and Learning: online safety
This week, our Living and Learning focus has been about online safety and in particular spotting adverts online.
First of all, we thought about what an advert is and what a pop up is.
Adverts can be everywhere online and they can often be misleading.
They can pop-up on our screens, ask us to input personal information and even say things that are too good to be true!
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If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is! They’re businesses that are trying to make money.
We came up with a list of top tips to use when thinking about adverts online:
- Don’t click on adverts or pop-ups.
- Keep your personal information safe.
- Talk to a trusted adult if you see something inappropriate or you’re unsure what to do.
Help at home: Talk about what you would do if this popped up on your screen?
Food Technology: egg pot!
Today, Year 3 made an egg pot! The children prepared all the ingredients, cooked it in the microwave and ate almost all of it.
We used the bridge cutting skills to cut up all the tomatoes. The bridge was best for these because they are small and were a bit slippery after washing them!
We used the microwave to heat up the tomatoes and beans. We cooked them in 1 minute bursts. Then, after we cracked the egg into the jug, we microwaved it for a further 2 minutes to make sure the egg had cooked through. We could tell when it was done by seeing if the white of the egg was opaque (not see through).
We stayed safe by concentrating and taking our time.
Everyone tried it and the majority of us loved it! The beans were our favourite part.
Help by making it again at home! The recipe has been sent home with the children. Can you add something new? Could you try putting it on toast?
Road Safety – Seatbelts!
Today, Year 3 were visited by Leeds City Council to talk to us about road safety. There are lots of things to remember to keep us safe around the road but today was specifically about seat belts!
Seatbelts are one of the main things that can keep us safe while in the car. They keep us from getting more seriously hurt if there were to be an accident.
We watched a ball fly across the room with no belt and then with a belt. When it had a belt, it was safe and held to its seat. We repeated this again but with a model car and dummies and we saw that they were more hurt when they weren’t wearing their seatbelts.
Help at home by checking that your child knows how to put on their own seatbelt! How fast can you put it on? Can you do it in less than 10, 5, 1 seconds?
Remember: HIP, HIP, SHOULDER
Anti-Bullying Day!
This week is Anti-Bullying Week and at Moortown, we are celebrating it with Anti-Bullying Day today.
It is a special week and day to encourage everyone to take a stand against bullying all year round.
We’ve been wearing odd socks to celebrate diversity, acceptance and including everyone! We want to respect everyone, regardless of their differences. Respect means to treat others how we would like to be treated; with kindness.
Our definition of bullying is…
Bullying can be verbal, physical, emotional or online (cyber-bullying).
We have lots of things we can do to help ourselves or others if we notice bullying:
- Talk to a trusted adult.
- Share with friends.
- Call Childline on 0800 1111.
- Write a worry in the worry box.
- Email stayingsafe@spherefederation.org
We took part in a live lesson on CBBC that taught us how deal with disagreements, falling outs and bullying.
Saturday cross country runners
Well done to all our KS2 pupils who took part in the second Leeds Schools Sports Association cross country race at Cardinal Heenan on Saturday morning.
All the children ran brilliantly and improved their race positions from last time.
Thank you to parents who supported at the event.
There are two more races this season and information will be sent about these nearer the time. Please note there is a new registration system this year with all children being registered prior to their first race to take part.
