Let us entertain you!
Today, the whole school were invited to watch some of our talented musicians in action. Year 4 showcased their skills on the ukulele. Having learnt a few simple chords and some basic strumming patterns, the children confidently played some popular tunes for us to enjoy. 
Across the year groups, we have a selection of children who are learning to play the guitar. This group of musicians also demonstrated their skills.
Well done all!
Walk to School Week competition update
For pupils who are completing the #WalktoSchoolWeek story this week, as school is closed tomorrow, the missing words for Thursday AND Friday can all be found on Friday in the usual locations. Happy Walking!
Remember to bring in your completed sheet on Friday to be entered in the prize draw for four £10 vouchers.
Big Pedal
Our involvement in the recent Sustrans Big Pedal initiative has been recognised in the latest Leeds City Council Influencing Travel Behaviour newsletter.
Thank you to all the schools who took part in The Big Pedal this year. An amazing 2299 schools across the country took part and 36 of them were from Leeds which is brilliant!
Well done to Moortown Primary School who came 38th out of 500 in the small school category!
It’s great to see such positive engagement in these active travel initiatives to ensure families have a healthy and active start to the day. Thank you to Moortown Living Street group for their support with our active travel initiatives.
Living and Learning: MoneySense
Over this week, we are holding MoneySense sessions for each class with support from volunteers from NatWest.
MoneySense is an impartial financial education programme that uses real-life experiences to help young people develop good money habits.
Catherine from NatWest, supported our ‘How we use money’ Year 1, 2 and 3 sessions yesterday and gave some great feedback.
Money Matters themed week – School Savings Club
As it is our Money Matters themed week, we are holding an information and paying in session tomorrow after school for the School Savings Club pupil accounts.
Jordan Francis, from Leeds Credit Union, will be available to give more details and hand out application forms for these pupil accounts. As there is not minimum deposit requirement, it is a great way for your child/children to learn the importance of money. Paying in sessions are held every half term.
As always, if you are unable to attend in person, please hand in any money to be paid in, to the office in a sealed envelope addressed to Mrs Tiffany.
Girls Golf Rocks
Would your child like to give golf a try?
Here’s details of a FREE local project targeting girls golf taking place in the half term break.
What makes a good sports leader?
Thank you to our current Year 6 Sports Leaders who have fulfilled this role for the past year. It’s now time to train up some new leaders to take over lunchtime physical activity sessions.
Year 5 were invited to sign up for the roles and we had some great applications.
Today, fifteen Year 5 pupils began their training to gain their Mini Leaders Award. As well as learning a variety of physical activities, the group worked on their communication, explanation and organisational skills. After their second training session on Friday, they will be ready to lead sessions to the rest of the school from next week.
Maths in the Sun!
What’s better than learning about equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages? Learning about equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages outside in the sunshine!
Y5 played a FDP loop game, where each card had an answer at the top above a question underneath. For example: “What is 3/4 as a percentage?” Whoever had ‘75%’ at the top of their card had to stand up and say the answer, followed by asking their question and so on until the loop was completed.
We played several times in order to beat our record time and to become even more familiar with equivalent FDPs! Challenge your child to tell you what 1/8 is as a percentage!
The next level up was trying to arrange ourselves into a correct loop and into a complete circle. We had to do this by talking to each other, discussing the right answers and deciding which order to stand in! It was tricky!
“It helped me because you had to find which version matched your own. You had to think about what question might get your answer as its answer,” said Will.
SolART System
In Art, we learnt how to change the shade of a colour. Challenge your child to explain how. We had a go at mixing colours ahead of painting our planets.
Next, we began painting our planets. We had to be careful and precise with our paintbrushes and Eve noted that we had to be resilient, too. “If you were mixing a colour and it wasn’t quite right, you had to keep going until you were happy with it,” she said.
Poppy said, “I used a dabbing movement to make it look like Mercury has a rocky surface.” Challenge your child to name the three other rocky planets in our solar system.
Later in the week, we will recreate each planet’s rotations and orbits around the sun.
Walk to school week
To celebrate Walk to School week, next week, we’re working with Moortown Living Streets to run a fun daily quiz to help get more feet on the street! It is also our Money Matters themed week so what a better way to travel to school for free!
We all know that reducing school gate traffic improves air quality and safety and by walking some or all of the way families benefit from a healthier and more pleasant start to the day.
During Walk to School Week, Living Streets Moortown will be hiding ten words along the routes to school. See your child’s entry form for more details.
Find them each day to fill in the blanks and complete the story – remember to take a pen or pencil! There are also some daily ACTIONS for you to try – see if you can do them all!
At the end of Walk to School Week, your child should hand their completed story in to their class teacher for a chance to WIN one of four £10 Love to Shop vouchers!
ISS Expert Interviews
In reading this week, Y5 became experts on the International Space Station using a webpage that told us 23 facts!
Next, we wrote a script where one person was the interviewer and the other was the expert.
We used our retrieval skills by reading the text and writing and answering questions to create an expert interview and showcase the facts we’d learnt.
Finally, we performed our interviews to the class.
