Spelling
This week in our spelling sessions, we have looked at homophones. Homophones are words that have the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling, for example new and knew.
The children practised these words by using the activity ‘doodle words’.
Help at home: You can find other activities to help practise spellings at home in our Super Spelling Strategies Guide on the school website.
Living and Learning: Rules
In Living and Learning this week, we looked at the school rules and why they are important. We had a discussion where children were able to share their opinion on which rule they thought was the most important.
“I think being safe is the most important because if we aren’t making safe choices we can’t follow the other rules either.”
“I think all three are equally important. They make sure we are happy and healthy in school.”
We then discussed how we can show the rules are being followed in school. For example, we can show we are respectful by using our manners or we can show we are ready by having eyes on the speaker.
We also discussed our school’s Acceptable Use Agreement for their use of the internet in school. This document has been sent home with your child this week; please sign and return them ASAP.
Help at home: Discuss what rules you have at home and compare them with the school’s rules. Are they similar? Are they different?
Welcome!
Welcome back after the summer holiday. We hope you had a happy and healthy summer. It has been great to see so many happy faces back in school. The children have settled really well in their first week and are adapting to new routines and classrooms.
This week, we will send the children home with a reading book and a new reading record book. It is really beneficial that your child reads at home daily – it improves fluency and increases the enjoyment of reading. The children can record what they’ve read at home in the reading records. We will also set a task for them to complete at home. Please ask your child what their task is for their homework and actively encourage them to think about the presentation of their work in the journals and the importance of neat handwriting and accurate use of punctuation.
Thank you to all the children who have come to school in the correct uniform and PE kits this week. If you are unsure of the uniform, please click the link to see what is required.
Important Dates
PE – Monday and Thursday
Spelling test – Friday
Library – Tuesday
We are looking forward to a successful year!
Moortown Oscars 2025
Thank you so much for a fantastic year. We wrapped it up in style with a great party last night. Awards were given, dances were performed and songs were screamed!
We wish every child the very best for their future and we know they’ll go on to do great things.
Moortown will miss them dearly.
Miss Wilson, Mrs Charlesworth and Miss Kidd
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DT: Eggy crash tests
The time has come to see whether our cracking karts will protect Eggy or see him scrambled!
Our teamwork has been eggcellent but now our brains are fried. Good luck, Eggy. We hope our engineering has been no yolk.
Did every Eggy survive?
DT: Eggy Karts
Y6 have been busy working on their Eggy Karts.
We are following a design criteria:
- sturdy
- durable
- mobile
- protects Eggy
- aesthetically pleasing
We’ve used saws, clamps, bench hooks and glue. Later in the week, we’ll test them to see if they really do protect Eggy from getting scrambled.
Help at home by asking how your child stayed safe in these lessons.
They look great so far!
We’ll Meet Again…
A huge, HUGE well done to everyone in Year 5 and 6 for three truly incredible performances of this summer’s production, We’ll Meet Again.
Everyone stepped up to their role, whatever it was, with passion, pride and commitment.
Thank you for your support, whether that was supplying a costume or practising the songs endlessly at home. We really appreciate it and know that it made the production what it was.
We had some excellent acting, impressive singing and standout props. It was a performance that will hopefully stay with the children for the rest of their lives.
Being Healthy themed week
This week, we’ve had an action-packed schedule all about being healthy.
We’ve taken part in mixed martial arts…
We’ve created posters to warn others about early signs of physical illness…
We’ve completed a short course about allergies from St John Ambulance Service…
And looked at personal health including dental hygiene and handwashing…
We’ve taken part in a skipping school and performed for the rest of the school with some awesome skills…
We’ve considered our healthy choices all week…
We welcomed the Road Safety Team who gave us a great assembly and we took part in some pedestrian training…
We’ve played some basketball with Leeds City Basketball…
We’ve learnt about viruses, bacteria, fungi and antibiotics…
… along with so many more!
Help at home by asking your child what healthy choices you make at home.
Drop Down Morning
On Friday, it was Topic Drop Down Morning. Year 5 and 6 joined together for these sessions: History, Geography and Art.
In History, we recapped our knowledge about the Stone Age to Iron Age and Ancient Egypt. The children had to match the significant element to the time period.
To finish off the lesson, Year 5 and 6 needed to decide which civilisation was the most advanced and why.
Help at home: Which time period do you think was the most advanced? Give 3 reasons why.
In Geography, we looked back at out climate change unit. The children needed to match key vocabulary to their definitions.
We then read a kids guide to climate change. The children had to create retrieval questions for their partner to answer.
In our final session of the morning, Year 5 and 6 revisited their art learning – looking specifically at visual and tactile elements. Small groups were given an element each and they had to draw or write something to represent their given word.
Help at home: Can you name all 9 elements?
They then had to match significant artists to their artwork. To finish the lesson, they described the artwork using the visual and tactile elements.
Living and Learning: RSE
This week, we’ve been learning about Relationships and Sex Education.
Here’s what some Y6s had to say about our unit of learning:
“It was a little weird but also interesting at the same time.”
“I thought it was interesting and I enjoyed the learning like how to look after a baby.”
“I quite enjoyed it because it explained how all of us are here at this moment!”
“It was a little uncomfortable at times but it was really interesting.”
During and after each session, we always had opportunities to ask questions, as long as they followed the rules, and we discussed some of them at the end of the lesson or at the start of the next. It was a great way to feel safe and heard.
Here are some snippets of our learning. We covered topics such as conception, pregnancy and consent (which of course can be seen in a variety of scenarios).
