Year 6 Class News

Safe travel to school

Posted on Friday 19 May 2017 by Mrs Taylor

During our Staying Safe themed week, children are encouraged to test out their learning of being safe in their local environment by travelling to school by scooter, bike or on foot. Children will be learning about road safety and the safe use of scooters and bikes as part of their learning during the week.

Plan a safe route to school, keep safe by wearing a safety helmet if biking or scooting, keep safe in the busy school grounds and safely store your scooters in the scooter pods and bikes in the storage area by Year 3 and 4.

If you do bike to school, Edinburgh Bicycle Co-operative will be running a Dr Bike event, from 8:30am on Tuesday 23 May, in the main playground.  Bring along your bike for a free bike safety check (parents and carers too!).

All children who bike, scoot or walk to school during the themed week should complete the slips (available in class) each day and post them in their class tube to be in the draw for 7 x £10 Love2Shop vouchers.

 

Staying Safe – how you can get involved

Posted on Friday 19 May 2017 by Mrs Taylor

Our next themed week, Staying Safe, starts on Monday.

We hope you can attend our parent information sessions to support your child in their learning.

Tuesday 23 May 2.10pm-3.10pm

O2 and NSPCC online safety workshop (open to all parents), The Space

This hour-long workshop will help parents and carers understand their child’s online world and build confidence to have those important conversations that can help keep children safe online.

Wednesday 24 May 3.15pm-3.45pm

d:side informal information session (open to all parents), The Space

A d:side representative will be available to provide information about your child’s drug education learning during the themed week and answer any other related enquiries.

Thursday 25 May 2.40pm

e-safety drama show back (parents of Year 5 and 6), the hall

Following e-safety drama workshops led by One Day Creative, parents are invited to come and watch the children present their learning from the day.

 

 

A great week back after SATs

Posted on Friday 19 May 2017 by Mr Roundtree

Just a quick thank you to Year 6 for coming back after SATs ready to continue learning. The children have had a fantastic week, following instructions straight away and being proactive in their learning. I hope to see this continue into their next and final half term at Moortown Primary.

Next week is Safety Week: don’t forget to come on foot, cycle or scoot and – of course – travel safely.

The children will find out their parts for the Year 5/6 production on Monday so we’re also looking forward to getting rehearsals underway next week, too – squeezing them in around the many wonderful thing Mrs Taylor has organised for the themed week.

School Saving Club

Posted on Friday 12 May 2017 by Mrs Taylor

The next School Saving Club paying in date is 18 May 2017 at 3.15-3.45pm.

If you’re unable to attend in person, please hand in any money to be deposited to the office in a sealed envelope addressed to Miss Hale.

For your information, the final paying in dates for this year is:

13 July 2017 3.15-3.45pm

If your child would like to open account, please ask at the office.

After-school club availability

Posted on Wednesday 10 May 2017 by Mrs Taylor

After-school clubs are proving popular this term but we do have some limited places left on the following clubs.

Monday

  • Change4life Rec, Y1, Y2, Y3
  • Basketball Y4, Y5, Y6
  • Code Club Y4, Y5, Y6

Tuesday

  • Cricket Y4, Y5, Y6
  • Animation Y4, Y5, Y6

Please contact the office as soon as possible if your child would like to take part in any of these clubs, starting next week.

Staying Safe

Posted on Wednesday 10 May 2017 by Mrs Taylor

Our next whole school themed week, based around Staying Safe, will be taking place from Monday 22 May 2017.  The key message is how to be safe in a range of situations.  A variety of events and visitors are planned to help us deliver this key aspect of education.

Events during the week will include e-safety drama workshops for all classes, NSPCC Speak Out, a stay safe assembly and workshops, Leeds City Council road safety and scooter training, water safety sessions with Canal and River Trust, bike maintenance with Edinburgh Bicycle Co-operative and d:side, delivering drug education.  Some of the events require parental permission and these letters will be sent out separately.  There are also three specific parent sessions during the week.

Tuesday 23 May 2.10-3.10pm O2 and NSPCC online safety workshop (open to all parents)

This hour-long workshop will help parents and carers understand their child’s online world and build confidence to have those important conversations that can help keep children safe online.

Wednesday 24 May 3.15-3.45pm d:side informal information session (open to all parents)

A d:side representative will be available to provide information about your child’s drug education learning during the themed week and answer any other related enquiries.

Thursday 25 May 2.40pm e-safety drama show back (parents of Year 5 and 6)

Following e-safety drama workshops led by One Day Creative, parents are invited to come and watch the children present their learning from the day.

Following the success of the recent Big Pedal promotion and as we will be covering bike, scooter and road safety during the week, we shall be holding a whole school walk/bike/scoot to school initiative.  Children are encouraged to travel to school in a sustainable way, keeping safe along the way, and if they do, they should complete the slip at the bottom of a letter to be sent home for a chance to win one of five £10 Love2Shop vouchers.  We hope you will support this initiative in helping children make a healthy start to their day and also helping towards reducing congestion at our gates.  Even by parking further away from school, your child could then to do the final part of their journey by foot, bike or scooter.  Bike and scooter storage facilities are available beside the Year 3 and 4 classrooms.

Edinburgh Bicycle Co-operative will be running a Dr Bike event in the playground on Tuesday 23 May.  From 8:30am, you will be able to bring along your bike for a free bike safety check.

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

Finally, if your job involves an aspect of safety and you can support our Staying Safe themed week by coming into school, please contact the school office or your child’s class teacher directly to arrange this.

Have a great holiday!

Posted on Friday 31 March 2017 by Mr Roundtree

Just a quick note to say have a great holiday. Make sure that the children have a good rest but also dip in and out of some learning to keep them fresh for when they return in two weeks time. We’ve all done revision timetables which keep us doing little bits but make sure we’ve got time for resting, too.

See you in two weeks (and one day).

A brainy visitor

Posted on Friday 31 March 2017 by Mr Roundtree

We had a visit from a scientist this week and learnt all about our brains. We had lots of questions and now know about the different parts of our brains, how neurons and receptors work and why we sometimes make conscious decisions and sometimes react reflexively.

First, we looked at different parts of the brain.

We even looked at real brains: a snail’s, a mouse’s and a rat’s.

Then we created a human model of how our receptors (buttons on our skins), which send messages down neurons to our brains and back.

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We can see things from other people’s point of view.

Posted on Friday 31 March 2017 by Mr Roundtree

This week’s Creative homework was great as usual.

I can see things from other people’s point of view.

Here are some examples of what we came up with and, as always, we enjoyed looking at each other’s and writing a comment to say what we thought about  it.

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Great effort, Year 6. Keep it up.

Parent topic review

Posted on Friday 31 March 2017 by Mr Roundtree

At the end of our Time Travel topic, we invited parents in to see what we’d been doing in our topic lessons for the last eight weeks. I handed the job over to the children and they created iMovies which took our visiting parents on a journey through the things we’d learnt and particularly enjoyed in class.

There were some really great movies and the children explained very confidently and clearly our learning to the parents who visited.

We enjoyed watching each other’s work, too.