Year 6 Class News

Living and Learning: Staying safe themed week 18 May

Our next whole school themed week, based around Staying Safe, will be taking place from Monday 18 May 2026.  The key message is how to be safe in a range of situations – at home, at school, online and in the environment.

A variety of events and visitors are planned to help us deliver this key aspect of education including road safety (Leeds City Council); water safety (Canal and River Trust and RNLI); fire safety (West Yorkshire Fire Service); first aid; safety in our community (PCSOs), martial arts (BMMA) and drug education (d:side). Some of the events require parental permission and these letters have been sent out separately.

There are also some opportunities for parents and carers, from all year groups, to get involved in the week.

Thursday 14 May from 8:30am West Yorkshire Police bike register event

Pupils are invited to bring along their bikes to be registered at this bike security marking event at school. Registering your bike helps police and retailers identify and verify the legitimate owner of bikes that have been stolen or are being resold.

Tuesday 19 May 3pm – 3:30pm d:side drug education drop in information session (playground)

A representative from d:side, a health education provider, will be available to discuss details of your child’s drug education learning in the themed week.

The themed week is a good opportunity to continue to think about healthy, active and safe ways to travel to school.  Children are encouraged to travel to school in a sustainable way, keeping safe along the way.

For a chance to win one of three £10 vouchers, we’d love to see their active travel staying safe photos, maybe using a traffic crossing or wearing their bike helmet (send photos to moortownoffice@spherefederation.org). Photos should be sent by 10am on Thursday 21 May and winners will be announced on the same day.

Due to the rising costs of visitors to school, this year, we are requesting a voluntary contribution of £2 per pupil to go towards paying for visitors. This can be made on Arbor. Thank you for your support with this.

Finally, can you help? Does your job involve an aspect of safety?  If you are able to support our Staying Safe themed week by coming into school to speak to the children, please contact me via the office or your child’s class teacher.

We will keep you up to date about events during the week on the class news pages on our website.

Thank you for your support to keep Moortown a happy, healthy and safe school.

SATs Breakfast Club

Living and Learning: Being safe

We took part in the NSPCC Speak out Stay Safe online assembly.

During the assembly, it highlighted children’s rights and gave the clear message of ‘Speak out, Stay safe’. The children were confident at identifying who their own trusted adults are and felt comfortable that they could ask for help.

We also heard about Childline – ask your child to show you the way to remember the number.

To follow up this learning, we welcomed staff from NSPCC to deliver a ‘Speak Out Stay Safe’ workshop. They were very impressed with the children’s learning and understanding.

Help at home: Discuss who your child would speak to if they needed help and/or visit the Childline website, which has age-appropriate advice for primary school children on topics such as bullying. It also has games and other interactive tools.

PE: Basketball

This half term our PE unit is basketball. We had our first lessons where we practised our throwing and catching skills whilst in a game setting. Then, we had our ‘fitness for’ session where the children went round to different stations to practise different skills: high knees, star jumps, burpees, etc. These sessions help us understand how fit basketball players need to be. Did you know most basketballers run about 5km during a 48 minute game (most players play for an average of 30 minutes)?

Help at home: Can you name all of the different types of passes?

Reading: Retrieval Race

In today’s lesson, Year 6 competed in a retrieval race. They were split up into teams and had to run to read through a text and then return to their group to recall all they had read. A key tip for retrieving is to scan the text for key words.

Help at home: What can your child remember about the Amazon Rainforest?

Summer term after-school clubs

Rhinos Rugbees

Girls cricket

FREE GIRLS CRICKET TASTER SESSION

Old Leodiensians’ Cricket Club is excited to offer a FREE Girls-Only Cricket Taster Session at the club. Whether your daughter has never picked up a bat or is a budding superstar our girls cricket sessions are designed for all abilities. We have opportunities for all ages at the club, this session will be aimed at girls aged 8-13 years old.

Event Details

• Date: Thursday 30th April 2026

• Time: 5:15 pm – 6:15pm

• Location: Old Leodiensians Cricket Club

• Cost: FREE

Please see link below and poster for more information…

https://forms.gle/MzmzrA8EaMXFTgUS9

Food technology: Egg-cellent Omelette

Today, Year 6 made eggs-quisite omelettes.

We worked in small groups to prepare the ingredients and then cook them. We made sure that we washed our hands and wore our aprons for hygiene reasons.

We used the bridge cutting method and the claw cutting method to cut up our tomatoes. These methods are the safest way to cut food as they help us from hurting ourselves! We also grated cheese and whisked our eggs.

The recipe for the absolutely cracking omelette was sent home with your child, if they wish to make it at home too.

Leeds Rhinos Foundation Netball Camps

Easter and May half term Netball camps (open to boys and girls) are on sale and are taking place in Leeds, Wakefield, Harrogate, Pudsey and Sheffield. The camps cost £30 per day and run from 10am – 3pm.

Full details and how to book can be found here.