Robin and the Sherwood Hoodies
Rehearsals for our Year 5 and 6 production are now in full swing – well done to all those who have learnt their lines!
As of today, all children are aware of what they need for their costumes. Please could they bring their complete costumes, in a plastic bag with their name on, into school tomorrow.
On Friday, we have our dress rehearsal in front of the school. With this in mind, it is crucial that all children know all of their lines (and the lines that come before theirs). Knowing lines will help them to focus on fine-tuning their performance.
Some Year 6 children were not in school today (Eid Mubarak to those celebrating!); for their costumes they need:
- Lanas: all black
- Linda: opposite to Jenny
- Ibrahim: all black
- Shahban: white polo top, plain shorts
- Ahmed: all black
Thank you!
School meal menu
Our school meal menu is changing! Catering Leeds, our school meal provider, have produced the new Autumn term menu. It follows a three week cycle and will be displayed on our dining room window. This is a good way to make your child aware of what the daily meals are.
Following pupil consultation about their favourite vegetables, we have amended the vegetable selection to incorporate these choices.
School meals continue to be free for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. If your child is in Key Stage 2, please check for eligibility for free school meals.
If your child would like to start having school dinners, please inform the office. A combination of packed lunches and school dinners is also available.
Gangsta Granny
I am still waiting for more entries to the ‘Gangsta Granny’ competition. You must be mad if you don’t want to see this on stage – get those entries handed in, persuading me to give you a ticket.
As a generous offer, I am going to let you have until 04 July to get those entries to me.
I can’t wait to go – hope I can take you with me!
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.’
Football Olympics @ Wigton Moor
Some of our Year 5 class had a great time playing in the Olympic Football Festival today.
Things didn’t always go our way but everyone remained positive, focused and resilient.
It was great to see high levels of sportsmanship and respect from our children throughout the day – well done!
The highlight came in our last match as we swept aside the opposition 4-0 and the sun broke through the clouds!
Here’s some action shots:
Miss Hale, team manager for the day, summed up our efforts: “We fought valiantly throughout and spirits remained high. Despite some tough opposition, we still managed to win our final game. The sun even came out, too!”
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!
World History topic
This week marks the beginning of our latest topic: World History. In this topic, children will be learning about one of three civilisations: Benin, Ancient Islamic and Maya.
Today, we had a ‘taster’ session of each civilisation and found out lots of things we never knew:
- Did you know that the Mayans may have invented basketball?
- Or, did you know that the Ancient Islamic Civilisation were inventing machines that may have helped humans to fly thousands of years before the Wright brothers?
Children will now complete an independent research task to create a fact-filled project board about a civilisation of their choice whilst focusing on skills related to the foundation subject age-related expectations for Year 5 and Year 6.
It might look something like this:
You could help at home by:
- asking your child to think about the pros and cons for researching each civilisation
- spending time researching their chosen civilisation with them (using a range of reliable sources – not just Google!)
- encouraging them to carry out independent research
- discussing the importance of using reliable (and appropriate) sources when researching
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.
What is peer pressure?
As part of our RSE learning, we talked about peer pressure and used our ever-improving dramatic skills. We discussed what peer pressure is, when it might happen, different ways it can happen and how we might deal with it.
In groups, we then acted out scenarios in which somebody is being put under pressure by their peers but in all sorts of different ways.
EU. Are you in or are you out?
We’ve had a heated couple of lessons over the last two days exploring the key issues that are central to the most topical question in Britain right now:
Should Britain remain in the European Union?
We started off by making sure we all knew what the EU was and what the referendum was all about before discussing five key issues: immigration, terrorism and security, jobs and employment, economy and the cost of being in the EU. In groups, we found out more about the remain and leave opinions on these matters and started developing our own opinions.
The following day, we decided which side we’d like to debate on (and interestingly had a 50:50 split) and prepared our group for a debate.
We’re all seasoned debaters now so we took to the stage like naturals to argue it out with our opposition and convince the audience to vote like us.
Then, having learnt about both sides ourselves and debated our hearts out, we gave our final vote.
