Living and Learning: Fire Safety
Year 5 had some firefighters come in to talk to us about fire safety. We discussed how to keep safe before and if there is an event of a fire:
before
- keep the doors closed for all rooms before you go to bed at night
- do not charge electrical devices overnight or on a soft surface
- keep your keys for the front door in a safe place between the bedroom and door (in case you need to leave quickly)
- turn electrical items off at the switch not just on standby
if there is a fire
- ring 999 and ask for the fire service
- if stuck in your room, shout for your adults or help from out the window
- do not jump out a window unless absolutely necessary
We were then able to go and take a look at the fire engine and even squirt some water from the hose!
Help at home: Discuss the safe route out of your house in case there is a fire. Check your smoke alarms regularly.
Leeds Rhinos healthy lifestyle assembly and ticket offer
This week, we welcomed Luke from Leeds Rhinos to deliver a healthy lifestyle assembly.
We thought about different aspects of keeping a healthy lifestyle including food and nutrition, sleep, exercise, hydration and hygiene.
Luke also spoke about the ticket offer available for families for one of the upcoming Leeds Rhinos home games.
As part of our partnership, and as a reward for all the great work that the children have been doing this year, Leeds Rhinos would like to offer children and their families an amazing opportunity to attend a match at AMT Headingley Stadium (LS6 3BR) at a special discounted schools rate.
Date – Saturday 22nd March 2025
Kick off – 5:30pm
Opposition – Wigan Warriors
Standing tickets can be booked now through the school via School Gateway. Please note that tickets will be on sale until 10am on Tuesday 18th March.
Guided Reading Week 1
Here are the target pages for this week’s guided reading. These need to be read by Friday 7th March.
Extra Time: up to chapter 5/page 20.
Flood and Fang: up to chapter 4/page 57.
Rooftoppers: up to chapter 4/page 28.
The Girl of Ink and Stars: up to chapter 6/page 45.
Kensuke’s Kingdom: up to chapter 2/page 17.
Guided Reading Information
Year 5 have been given their guided reading books.
The class have been divided into groups and each group has been given a book to read at home. This will last for this half term.
During our Book Club sessions each Friday, each group will discuss what they have read so far and share their reading record activities related to their book. This will be a fantastic opportunity for the children to explore characters and storylines more than they might do normally!
Every Friday during Book Club, each group will be given a new page to read to for the next Friday. This information will be posted every week on our class news.
What to remember:
- Your child has a book that they need to read every week (up to a chosen point marked with a post-it note).
- The reading record activity needs to be completed using their new book.
- A comment from a grown up needs to be written in their reading record.
- Group reading books and reading records need to be brought in every Friday.
Help at home: listen to your child read their new book and ask questions about the book to help prepare them for class discussions.
I look forward to hearing the children’s discussions next week!
North East Youth Summit 2025
Today, the Year 5 and 6 junior leaders visited the Leeds Civic Hall to attend the North East Youth Summit. It was a great day where the children had the opportunity to meet and hear from councillors, ask questions and give their say when thinking about things we would like to change and improve about our local area.
We suggested our ideas for activities that we would love to see in our locality. Here were our choices.
We were in a room with lots of other junior leaders from around our locality so it was great to meet them as well!
We discussed climate change in the official chambers where the MPs and Leeds’ Mayor meet to discuss their plans.
Maths: Division
In Maths this week, we have been looking at short division. We have been using the bus stop method to do this.
To start off we learnt how to divide with no exchanges.
We then moved on to learn how to divide 3-digit numbers by a 1-digit number which contained exchanges.
The next step was 4-digit numbers with exchanges.
And the final one was 4-digit numbers divided by a 1-digit number, that not only had exchanges but also a remainder.
Help at home: Have a discussion with your child about the problem below.
PE: Rugby
This half term, our PE unit is rugby. We will be practising lots of different skills: catching, passing/throwing, evading a defender, tackling an attacker and kicking.
We learnt in our first lesson this week how to pass with accuracy. You need to see the target, pass and then point. The pointing helps to direct the ball towards the target more easily.
Help at home: What do you already know about rugby? Is there any specific words to help us with our learning?
Leeds Beckett tennis
This week, Nic and Sky, tennis coaches from Beckett Sport Juniors, came to deliver a tennis themed assembly.
Here are the details of a special offer they are offering for Moortown pupils.
Writing: Co-ordinating and sub-ordinating conjunctions.
Year 5 have recapped their knowledge of co-ordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
They ran and jumped across the playground. (2 verbs)
He is a blue and purple monster. (2 adjectives)
She was very scary and incredibly effective. (2 phrases)
We need to take action on climate change but we are still burning too many fossil fuels. (2 main clauses)
We can use the acronym ‘FANBOYS’ to help use remember the most common co-ordinating conjunctions.
Subordinating conjunctions connect a main clause (a complete thought) with a subordinate clause (an idea that needs more information to make sense).
The Earth is getting warmer because of human activities.
We must act now if we want to avoid further damage.
We can use the acronym ‘ISAWAWABUB’ to help use remember the most common co-ordinating conjunctions.
Year 5 had a treasure hunt to help consolidate this knowledge. There was grammar style questions hidden around the room for the children to find and answer.
Help at home: Can your child name all the subordinating conjunctions using ‘ISAWAWABUB’?
Maths: Column multiplication
In Maths, we have recently been looking at column multiplication. Year 5 started off by recapping Year 4 learning with 3-digit numbers times by 1-digit numbers. We know have learnt how to multiply 4-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers!
In this lesson, the children used their knowledge to play a game of connect 4.
Help at home: Practise multiplying 4-digit numbers by 2-digit numbers. Why not create your numbers by rolling a dice or using a random number generator? Ask your child to talk your through each step.