Year 6 Class News

School meal menu

Posted on Thursday 30 June 2016 by Mrs Taylor

Our school meal menu is changing! Catering Leeds, our school meal provider, have produced the new Autumn term menu.  It follows a three week cycle and will be displayed on our dining room window. This is a good way to make your child aware of what the daily meals are.

Following pupil consultation about their favourite vegetables, we have amended the vegetable selection to incorporate these choices.

School meals continue to be free for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2.  If your child is in Key Stage 2, please check for eligibility for free school meals.

If your child would like to start having school dinners, please inform the office.  A combination of packed lunches and school dinners is also available.

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Talk Time Homework Review

Posted on Wednesday 29 June 2016 by Mr Catherall

Last week, Year 6 were set a Talk Time homework about how people they know use maths every day. We reflected on this as a class and it was fascinating for us to discover that maths is everywhere. Here are some quotes from our discussion:

  • “When you are paying for parking it sometimes says ‘exact change only’. This means you need to estimate (or calculate) how long you will be there for and how much this will cost. You then need to count accurately to ensure you don’t waste any money.” – Jennifer
  • My dad needs to calculate the cost of materials before factoring in a margin for profit!” – Simran
  • My parents need to ensure they calculate the cost of VAT accurately so that they make enough money in the restaurant!” – Linda
  • My uncle needs to accurately calculate any profits or losses that his business makes!” – Yahya

Football Carousel 

Posted on Wednesday 29 June 2016 by Mr Catherall

Once again, Year 6 have enjoyed a lesson with the Leeds United coaches. They have been sweating, breathing heavily and have been exercising until they dropped. One of our year 6 members said: “It was fun but hard work.”

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Linda Benkreira 

Yorkshire Primary PE and Sport Premium Awards 2016

Posted on Monday 27 June 2016 by Mrs Taylor

At the Yorkshire PE and Sport Premium Awards 2016 this afternoon, hosted by Olympic bronze medallist Steve Parry, we received our award for West Yorkshire winners in the Broader Sporting Experience category.

‘Your application fulfilled criteria, sustainability and creating a measurable impact on pupils.’

Find out more about how we invest our PE Premium.

Our pupils who attended, nominated by staff for their dedication to school sport, were a great credit to the school.

‘I feel proud to be from Moortown Primary School.’

‘I am proud that Moortown won this award.’

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School Library

Posted on Friday 24 June 2016 by Mr Catherall

We’re always trying to promote a love of reading in school – especially in Year 6!

Today, we all went to the library to change our books. We scoured the shelves (which look great), chose a new book, sat down, chilled out and, most importantly, read!

We now all have a library book to be enjoying at home – including me!


You can help at home by:

  • Encouraging your child to read their library book (and other books) at home
  • Discussing your child’s book with them
  • Talking about reading in general
  • Reading with them and ask questions.

Hotshots total

Posted on Thursday 23 June 2016 by Mrs Taylor

Thanks to your generous sponsorship, we have raised £635.20 from our Hotshots event during the Money Matters themed week.  The money will be split between our current school charities, Yorkshire Air Ambulance and Leeds Mind.

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Money from our other fundraising event from the themed week, our penny trail, is still being counted!

 

EU referendum

Posted on Thursday 23 June 2016 by Mr Catherall

Whilst the real referendum takes place across the country today, we held our own mini-referendum in Year 6 yesterday. Combining learning from the previous day with learning from last week’s homework, the children took part in a debate against each other.

There were three debates in total, all focusing on five key areas of the debate: immigration; the economy; pay and taxes; the cost of being in the EU; and terrorism and security.

All of the debates were of a high quality; we definitely have some budding politicians in our class. It was great to see how children could articulate their responses whilst remaining respectful to the opposite side.

Here are some action shots:


Afterwards, we voted. The results were:

Remain – 22

Leave – 7

So, according to Year 6, Britain should remain a member of the European Union.

Homework Review 22.06.16

Posted on Wednesday 22 June 2016 by Mr Catherall

As always, our responses to our creative homework (I can show what I know about the EU referendum) were brilliant this week. Who knew they had such an interest in politics? We had quizzes, PowerPoint presentations, persuasive letters, information leaflets and even a home-made ballot box with voting slips. It was great to see how proud the children were to show off their homework and it was obvious that efforts had been made to impress each other – keep it up – I love homework! 

Here are some of our favourites:

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PS Some children might notice the variety of the punctuation in this post; it is one of our new writing targets. I’ve managed to use a colon, a semi colon, a dash, a comma, a question mark and even a few full stops! (And an exclamation mark.) 

Leeds United Football Training 

Posted on Wednesday 22 June 2016 by Mr Catherall

This afternoon, the Y6 children have enjoyed an amazing lesson by Leeds United. Starting with the amusing warm up and then followed by an immensely enjoyable lesson.

Clearly having fun!
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Linda Benkreira

World History topic

Posted on Monday 20 June 2016 by Mr Catherall

This week marks the beginning of our latest topic: World History. In this topic, children will be learning about one of three civilisations: Benin, Ancient Islamic and Maya.

Today, we had a ‘taster’ session of each civilisation and found out lots of things we never knew:

  • Did you know that the Mayans may have invented basketball?
  • Or, did you know that the Ancient Islamic Civilisation were inventing machines that may have helped humans to fly thousands of years before the Wright brothers?

Children will now complete an independent research task to create a fact-filled project board about a civilisation of their choice whilst focusing on skills related to the foundation subject age-related expectations for Year 5 and Year 6.

It might look something like this:

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You could help at home by:

  • asking your child to think about the pros and cons for researching each civilisation
  • spending time researching their chosen civilisation with them (using a range of reliable sources – not just Google!)
  • encouraging them to carry out independent research
  • discussing the importance of using reliable (and appropriate) sources when researching