Arctic report
We’ve worked hard across Topic and Writing over the last three weeks. As part of our Explorers topic, we decided to find out all about the Arctic. We started off by thinking up questions we’d like answered about this area before sorting them into categories. This created the four subheadings for our report:
- Where and what is the Arctic?
- Its Exploration
- Indigenous Animals
- What does the future hold?
Then, we spent four lessons finding out and making notes. In one lesson, Miss Rushbrooke acted as the expert and taught us all about where and what the Arctic is and we made notes.
We also found out lots about ‘Its Exploration’ through reading; ‘Indigenous Animals’ through internet research (with lots of discussion about reliable sources); and ‘What does the future hold?’ by watching some information videos.
Once we’d gathered everything we needed, we put pen to paper to pass the information on in the form of a report. Here’s Ollie’s first paragraph:
Finally, (that’s right, we’re not done yet) we worked with a partner to thoroughly edit each other’s writing and there was some great teamwork going on.
Fantastic project from Year 6 which they’ve put huge amounts of effort into right from beginning to end.
School Council excitement
We listened to all of the school councillor candidates yesterday and there were many very impressive speeches.
Today, we entered the polling station first thing and voted for our chosen candidate. Mrs Weekes then added up all of the votes and our new Y6 school councillors were announced in assembly this afternoon. Very well done to Edward and Megan.
Preparing for Assembly
Year 6 are working in groups to prepare for our class assembly which is on Wednesday 1 November.
You’ll have to come along to see what it’s all about.
School Council elections
Our School Council elections will take place tomorrow, Thursday, 19 October. All children have the opportunity to vote at our polling station using the following instructions.
Before voting, please read the following:
- Vote once for one person.
- Place one X only on this ballot paper beside the name of the candidate you have chosen.
- Do not write or mark anything else on the ballot paper; if you do, your paper will be invalid and your vote will not be counted.
- When you have marked the ballot paper, fold the paper and place it in the box provided.
Votes will be counted tomorrow and our new School Council will be announced at the end of the day. This will be made up of two children from each class with the highest number of votes.
Good luck to all our candidates.
City of Leeds basketball
City of Leeds basketball club recently led a PE session for Year 5 and delivered our basketball after-school club in the summer term.
Here are details of their sessions available locally.
There is also a new girls-only session at Allerton High School on Monday evenings, 6pm – 7.30pm, ages 7 – 14 years. The first two sessions are free and then it is £5 pay to play.
Planning an exploration
After the half term holiday, Year 6 are going to Fountains Abbey. We’ve been learning about the human and physical features of this site and comparing them to Machu Picchu in Peru.
This year, the children are taking control of their trip. We spent the afternoon looking at maps of the site and the timings of the day so that the different groups could plan what they were going to do while we’re there.
We decided that giving each other jobs would be a good idea so each child has a role:
- map-reader
- photographer
- time-keeper
- visitor surveyor
- artist
It can be quite difficult to work in such a big group but the children did a good job discussing jobs and making sure each person was happy in the end.
Bonfire themed menu
Catering Agency, our school meal provider, will be running a special themed menu on Friday 03 November. Please contact the office, before Wednesday 18 October, if your child would like a school dinner on this day.
- Posh dogs in finger rolls or Vegetarian meatballs in finger rolls
- Curly fries
- BBQ baked beans
- Rocket lolly
- Fresh fruit and yogurt
Moortown vs Mill Field
Today, our U11 football team visited Mill Field Primary School. They played exceptionally well but unfortunately lost 2-1. Archie scored a wonder goal in the top corner to give Moortown hope but they narrowly missed out.
There were some brilliant individual performances and they all showed great teamwork skills throughout the game.
Exploring our local area
We had a great homework review today as the homework completed on exploring the local area was top notch. Archie created a great video of walking to school but with the camera around his dog’s neck; Edward presented a bird’s eye view of some local landmarks to us; Neive created a video of her exploration; and Ollie created a ‘guess where’ game for us to play.
Here are some more for you to see at home.
Photos of going to the shops
Lift-the-flap map with information about each area
Map with places labelled with pictures
A diary entry of a walk around the area
Some great quality spelling work this week, too, which was great to see, having discussed this as a class last week.
Sensational Semi-colons
This was our first lesson on how to use semi-colons in a list.
We had to place the semi-colons and commas correctly.
We worked in groups so that we could discuss our decisions and help each if needed.
Using ‘contributions tokens’ helps us to make sure that everyone is contributing equally to group discussions. (Ask us how this works.)
By the end of the lesson, most of us could change a sentence which just required commas for a list into one which needed semi-colons.
