Amazing artwork
Today, the children in school learnt all about Amelia Mary Earhart. She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. 
After lots of discussion about Amelia’s heroic adventures, we had a go at drawing some pictures of her in an aircraft.
I’m sure you will agree that the sketches are superb!
Well done, Ewan, Bridget, Harman, Vedant, Shameeska, Jodie and Sam.
Happy Easter and farewell Year Three
Hi Year Three,
I hope you’re all having a wonderful bank holiday Friday. I’ve spent this week in school with some children so their families can continue to work. We’ve had lots of fun and have even painted a giant rainbow!
This week is my last week as your Year Three teacher. I’ve been thinking of you all lots and while it’s been a little bit sad not to have a proper goodbye I’ve been happy just knowing that you’re all safe at home with your families.
I hope you’re not giving your ‘new teachers’ a hard time at home and maybe even teaching them a thing or two! We’ve learnt so much together and I have no doubt that when school is back open you will continue to be your amazing selves and continue all your hard work.
We’ve had such a fun year and I’m going to miss you all lots. Here are some of my highlights. Enjoy!
Happy Easter, Year Three.
Home learning heros!
Wow, Year Three. Another week of home learning ticked off. I can’t believe how hard you’ve all worked. You’re absolutely rocking your home learning! Here are a few of your highlights so far:
Great job, Year Three. Keep it up!
Arrangements for Year 3 learning
As you all know, Miss Clifford leaves Moortown Primary at the end of this term. Unfortunately, Miss Clifford had to self-isolate in the last week that we were open so Mr Owen taught Year 3 for the last few days.
It is important that you know that Miss Clifford is still the Year 3 class teacher until the end of the Easter holidays, 19 April. Please make sure any communication about home learning is directed to her email address: graceclifford@spherefederation.org
The summer term starts on 20 April.
If we re-open in summer term, the class teacher will be Mr Ben Freeman. If we’re still closed, please direct any communications to Mr Owen’s email address: davidowen@spherefederation.org
This may seem confusing. The reason for this is that because Mr Freeman hasn’t worked at Moortown, he doesn’t know the children well enough to be able to respond to emails about the home learning. As a more experienced teacher who knows the class, we’d like Mr Owen to be the point of contact.
If you’ve any questions, please raise them with Mrs Weekes: headofmoortown@spherefederation.org
We all hope you’re staying happy and healthy.
Homework Review
Wow what a week, Year Three! Despite what’s going on you’ve absolutely shone with your home learning and homework. You’re all absolute superstars! Here’s a snapshot of your brilliant homeworks:
Rizwan
Lily
Gabriel H
Shasmeen
Bridget
Ewan
Remember, I’m available on email at: graceclifford@spherefederation.org if you have any questions about home learning during the week. Please limit this to one email per day, per child. Please also feel free to include any work that you’re proud of for our class news page. I absolutely love seeing how you’re doing.
The Y3,4 Easter production
Current government guidance around the coronavirus outbreak is clear that schools should remain open. However, there is a possibility that schools may close at some point.
If schools were to close, children would miss out on valuable learning time with their teacher. (We have plans in place to provide some home learning in the event of school closures, but this won’t be the same as children coming to school to learn with their teacher.)
Because we prioritise learning, we want to ensure children are benefitting from as much time as possible in the classroom.
Based on this reason, we’ve decided to cancel the Y3,4 Easter production. This is because the production involves quite a lot of time in rehearsals. Whilst this can be a useful time for children to develop wider skills, we want to prioritise learning in the class – just in case later on learning in the class is missed.
We’re continuing to follow government guidance. This decision is not due speculation about bans on mass-gatherings, for example.
Living and Learning: body image parent and carer guide
Our focus in Living and Learning, for the rest of this half term, is body image.
What is body image?
Body image describes our idea of how our body looks and how we think it is perceived by others. This can include our thoughts and feelings about our height, weight, shape, skin colour, and our appearance and attractiveness more broadly.
This parent and carer guide has been designed to give practical ideas to support your child in building their emotional resilience in this area.
Living and Learning: manners
Our manners focus this week, in Living and Learning, is all about covering our mouth to prevent the spread of germs.
You’re just about to sneeze or cough but, oh dear, you don’t have a tissue. What should you do? Cover your mouth and nose with your hands? Surely that’s what polite people do.
But hold it! If you sneeze or cough into your hands (and then fail to wash your hands straight away), you’ll only be spreading colds and flu germs on everything you touch.
And that’s because germs (as long as they stay moist) can live for HOURS on hard surfaces such as tables, phones and door handles. And not just on objects – everybody you touch will be contaminated, too.
And of course, vice versa – if somebody else has sneezed or coughed on their hands, they’re leaving a germ-trail for you to pick up.
So what’s it best to do?
Here it is in action.
World Book Day themed menu
Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu on Thursday 5th March. Please contact the office, in the next few days, if your child would like a school dinner on this day (no action needed if your child normally has a school meal on this day).
New school dinner menu
Our new spring/summer school meal menu, starting after February half term, is now available on our Meals page. It continues to follow a three week cycle.
The menu has been created in liaison with Catering Leeds to ensure it meets the School Food Standards. We have also incorporated feedback from our school cook, pupils and parents/carers. We will continue to offer a meat free day every week. This will be every Tuesday.
Pupils will continue to make their daily food choices at the start of the day to ensure they receive their first choice of main meal.
If you would like a paper copy of the menu, please ask at the office.
Remember, children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 continue to receive free school meals and we encourage pupils to take up this offer. For families in other year groups, please check if you are eligible to receive free school meals for your child/children.
We welcome feedback on the school dinner menu from pupils and parents/carers.