Yorkshire Primary PE and Sport Premium Awards 2016
At the Yorkshire PE and Sport Premium Awards 2016 this afternoon, hosted by Olympic bronze medallist Steve Parry, we received our award for West Yorkshire winners in the Broader Sporting Experience category.
‘Your application fulfilled criteria, sustainability and creating a measurable impact on pupils.’
Find out more about how we invest our PE Premium.
Our pupils who attended, nominated by staff for their dedication to school sport, were a great credit to the school.
‘I feel proud to be from Moortown Primary School.’
‘I am proud that Moortown won this award.’
Hotshots total
Thanks to your generous sponsorship, we have raised £635.20 from our Hotshots event during the Money Matters themed week. The money will be split between our current school charities, Yorkshire Air Ambulance and Leeds Mind.
Money from our other fundraising event from the themed week, our penny trail, is still being counted!
Researching Ancient Egypt
Today, using key word searches and our scanning and skimming skills, we have been researching some different areas of Ancient Egyptian life.
School Saving Accounts
Our next paying in session for children with School Saving Accounts is this week.
- Wednesday 22 June 3.15pm
You’re welcome to accompany your child to pay in their money. If you can’t come, or maybe your child is at an after-school club, you can bring money to the office in a sealed envelope marked ‘School Saving Account’ with your child’s paying in card and this will be deposited into their account.
Also, it’s not too late to open an account. Please ask at the office for an application form.
The next paying in session this term is Wednesday 20 July 3.15pm.
We’ve bin archaeologists!
Today in class, we time travelled to the future and discovered some strange black objects full of unusual artefacts. We had to decide what these strange things were and what they showed us about the past.
This was a chance for us to practise our interpreting evidence skills and will come in handy when we start investigating Ancient Egypt.
Rio Challenge
This week, we have launched skills drills Rio Challenge. Linked to the upcoming Rio Olympics, pupils can attempt a series of ten timed sports drills based around core skills from different Olympic events. These include hockey, gymnastics, rugby and athletics.
Children can be part of this online competition against their peers and other schools and we will be uploading times for the quickest drills.
The drills will be carried out in PE lessons and at lunchtime. You could even have a go at home.
Rio challenge drills are led by Sports Leaders at lunchtime.
Year 3 sound learning
This week, our mini topic has been hearing. We’ve been studying how sound is made and how we are able to hear it.
We put some oats onto a drum to help us observe the vibrations creating the sound. We also walked around school looking for sources of sound and identifying what might be vibrating.
Here are some quotes we wrote this morning about sound:
“This week, we have been learning that sound can travel through air (gas), water (liquid) and walls (solids).”
“We were also listening to some interesting sounds outside and around school.”
“When you speak, your vocal chords vibrate and these vibrations vibrate the air around them. This allows them to travel through the air to people’s ears.”
“If you hit a drum lightly the vibrations will be smaller and if you hit a drum harder the vibrations will be bigger. The bigger the vibration the louder the sound.”
Brownlee Foundation triathlon
Well done to some of our Year 3 and 4 pupils who were part of 950 children competing in the Brownlee Foundation triathlon at John Smeaton Leisure Centre. This event has been hosted in preparation for the World Triathlon Series held in Leeds this weekend. These children can be inspired to know that all three of the 2016 Mens Tri Olympic Team not only train in Leeds, but were born here too.
- ‘I really liked the triathlon because it makes you fit and it was really fun.’
- ‘I was really nervous at the start but I loved it. It was challenging.’
- ‘I really enjoyed it and I would like to do it again.’
- ‘It was great fun because it gave you chance to practise different sports.’
- ‘I loved it because of the excitement of it.’
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Rocket seeds
Our rocket seed experiment came to an end on the last Friday before half-term when we completed our final measurement. We’ve now submitted the results to the Principia mission and they’ll add what we found to the results of all the other schools taking place.
Having looked at the information we’ve gathered, which do you think are the seeds from space?
When all of the data has been collated, the agency will be in touch with us to let us know what they found out and finally tell us which seeds are which!
Euro 2016 themed menu
To celebrate UEFA’s European Football Championship 2016, Catering Agency will be running a special themed menu on Tuesday 21 June. Please contact the office if your child would like a school dinner on this day.
