Year 6 football heroes!
Our Year 6 football team have made a strong start to the new season.
Much improved on last year, the squad has displayed their talent against other local schools. With each player representing Moortown with pride, passion and (relentless) positivity – keep it up!
Their most recent outing, a very close 1-0 loss to neighbours Gledhow, was very impressive to watch. I’m certain our faithful supporters would agree!
Well done to all children who have represented our school so far this year and a huge thank you to the parents for your on-going support in transporting children to fixtures.
Den-building
Last week, Chris, ‘The Den Man’, came into school to challenge us to build strong waterproof shelters for our camping holiday. Both Chris and I were really impressed with the children’s teamwork and resilience. It was a tough challenge and the children had to solve problems on their own. They did brilliantly! Here are some pictures of the afternoon:
Creative homeworks
This week’s favourite creative homeworks….
Our trip around the world!
On Friday, we took a (virtual) trip around the world! We located ports, fields, cities, beaches and mountains using Google Maps. We compared Scarborough to Cape Town in South Africa and spotted differences and similarities. However, the most exciting part of all had to be finding our school on the map. The class were so excited to find it and see how it looks from a birds-eye view! Why not let your child go on a virtual holiday at home using Google Maps? The quality of the aerial photos are brilliant and it’s very easy to use.
Have you seen Leaf Man?
We have really enjoyed reading the book Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert.
After reading the story, Reception children went to look for Leaf Man around school.
We sorted leaves and learned their names.
The children have printed leaves, mixed autumn colours and made their own leaf people.
Where is Leaf Man?
What’s on the menu in Brazil?
As part of the whole school Holidays topic, Year 5 and 6 have been ‘visiting’ Brazil. Following some research about popular foods in this South American country, we’ve recreated our own Brazilian dish. This was taken from a recipe book donated by the Brazilian restaurant chain Cabana. There is even a branch in Leeds if you’d like to try some more traditional Brazilian dishes. Our dish was a vegetarian version of moqueca (fish stew).
Take a look at our food preparation and tasting. Ask your child what skills, equipment and ingredients we used. Maybe you’ll get chance to try this at home as it was a very popular dish.
Some of the words to describe the dish were: outstanding, delicious, mouth watering, healthy, impeccable and fantastic!
16 October 2015
The homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 21 October:
Should everybody be able to go on holiday?
Discuss reasons why people may not be able to go on holiday. Does your child think this is fair? Is a holiday a necessity or a luxury? How might someone feel if they can’t go on holiday?
There is much more to discuss than the above but I hope it acts as a starting point for your conversations. Why not get the whole family involved over dinner time, or ask opinions from relatives by calling or emailing them?
16 October 2015
Here are the spellings for this week:
16 October 2015
The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 21 October.
I can use commas in a list.
We’ve been practising using commas to mark items in a list. For this homework, I’d like children to write a couple of lists telling me what items they would pack to take on a holiday.
On Wednesday, we’ll then read the sentences and guess what type of holidays the children are going on. For example:
When I go on holiday, I need to remember to pack my helmet, gloves, t shirt, trainers, water bottle, sun cream, pump and my bike.
Will, Year 1
“Reading’s good. It helps you to learn brand new words.”
Will, Year 1