Creating sculptures
Year 6 got their hands dirty this week to start adding modroc to their sculptures. First, they read about how to use modroc correctly before diving straight in.
Stay tuned for our final pieces.
Moortown’s Got Talent!
The final of Moortown’s Got Talent was a great success last night with all of our finalists doing a fantastic doing (despite a few technical hitches).
Well done to everybody who took part and to all of those who auditioned. We are very pleased to announce our two runners up: Juho and Kian. Juho showed us some fantastic martial arts and Kian identified the flags of 100 different countries!
And, the one you’ve all been waiting for, our winner! A huge congratulations to Isla, Bridget and Eleanor. They treated us to singing que sera sera along with some dancing. Well done!
Just one week until Big Pedal starts
It’s just one week to the return of the Big Pedal.
We’re looking forward to taking part in Sustrans Big Pedal 2019, the UK’s largest inter-school cycling and scooting challenge, that inspires pupils, staff and parents to choose two (or three) wheels for their journey to school. We would love everyone to be involved.
For the first time, walking (and park and stride) will be counted alongside cycling and scooting. This year’s Big Pedal will run for five days, from 25th March to 29th March.
On each day, schools compete to see who can get as many of their pupils, staff and parents cycling or scooting to school then our results will determine our final position in the national league table.
To help parents prepare, Sustrans has developed a handy free guide packed with advice, games and challenges to help with having a hassle-free cycle, walk or scoot to school.
Help! We need your junk!
Mrs Bharath is Junk Modelling on Hobby Half Day this Friday.
If you have any clean empty boxes, tubes, cartons, plastic bottles lying around at home please drop them in at the Year 1 classroom by Thursday.
Thank you!
Cycling opportunities
Here are details of local cycling events due to be held in the Easter holiday.
Beginners Learn to Ride Sessions (FREE)
For non-riders aged 5 years and above
Tuesday 2nd April, Thursday 4th April and Tuesday 9th April – limited availability
At Carr Manor Community School (Secondary Phase)
Times: 9:30am, 10:45am, 12:30pm and 13:45pm (Tues 2nd only)
Improvers Cycling Session (FREE)
For ‘new’ riders aged 5 years and above
Thursday 4th April
At Carr Manor Community School (Secondary Phase)
Time: 13:45pm
The Brownlee Centre will also be hosting a pop up school holiday ride.
Living and Learning: Hate Crime
Year 6 were a very respectful, reflective group during our visit from ‘Real Friends’ today who performed some interactive drama all about Hate Crime. The group was made up of adults who had experienced hate crime themselves at some point in life. A hate crime is when a person commits a crime that is motivated by prejudice.
We heard Olivia’s story and suggested ways that issues around what she’d experienced in her life could be dealt with if we saw something similar. Olivia has autism and she’d been bullied throughout her school career and into her adult life.
After the drama, we worked with the group to create freeze frames which displayed our emotions clearly. Can you guess what situations the different groups were asked to re-create.
All of Year 6 really enjoyed the workshop and had some brilliant comments about what they’d learnt, the message it was sending and how powerful an experience it had been.
Painting in Maths
I had a class of very puzzled children when they walked into their Maths lesson on Wednesday to find paints and paintbrushes out.
I tasked the children with creating orange which they all did confidently until I then said I wanted us all to create the same orange. This led to a lengthy debate on how we could do this and, without them even realising it, the whole class were using the sort of language we use when we work with ratios.
By the end of the lesson, we were all creating different colours, noting down the ratio of paint colours used in order to ensure somebody else could create the same colour as us. Linking this to how a company like Dulux can create the same colour paint over and over again in all sorts of different volumes, helped us understand how ratios are used in real life contexts.
School Savings Club paying in dates
Please note a change of day for the remaining School Savings Club paying in dates.
If your child has a School Savings Club account, we hold paying in sessions on the penultimate week of every half term.
Thursday 18 October 2018 3.15-3.45pm
Thursday 13 December 2018 3.15-3.45pm
Thursday 07 February 2019 3.15-3.45pm
Wednesday 20 March 2019 3.15-3.45pm
Wednesday 15 May 2019 3.15-3.45pm
Wednesday 10 July 2019 3.15-3.45pm
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.
If you would like your child to open an account, please enquire at the office. Pupils in Year 3 can still take advantage of the £10 incentive offer.
Spelling Practice
As there are lots of difficult words on the Year 5/6 spelling list, spelling practice is essential. Here are two good examples from our class this week.
Kai has practised the words, noting down the words he found difficult and exactly which part he was unsure of. This is a good example of really reflective spelling practice.
Amrit was really creative with his practice which will help the spellings move to his long term memory, particularly if there’s a story to go with the cartoon.
Creative Homework
We enjoyed our homework review today because there were some fantastically creative pieces to share.
Here are some of our favourites:
This week’s standard of homework was brilliant to see – keep it up, Year 6.