ChildLine
The ChildLine Schools Service has recently visited children in Years 5 and 6 to provide them with key messages about keeping safe. It can be beneficial for these messages to be reinforced at home. The NSPCC has developed some guides for all parents of primary school aged children to speak to your child about keeping safe – called the Underwear rule.
Find guides to the Underwear Rule to help you have simple conversations about keeping safe from abuse.
You can speak to an advisor for further advice or request a hard-copy guide for parents and carers by phoning the NSPCC Helpline on 0808 800 5000.
Read more advice on keeping your child safe.
Gymnastics
Year 4, 5, and 6 have been working with gym coaches, Jane and Charlotte, from Temple Newsam gymnastics club. This initiative is part of our investment of the PE government funding to up-skill class teachers in their teaching of gymnastics and provide high quality gymnastic sessions for our pupils.
For any children who want to develop their gymnastics skills further, Jane and Charlotte run after-school classes at their gym centres, Barwick village hall and Temple Moor high school.
Match report
Gledhow vs Moortown Year 5 football team match report by Lennox
We played Gledhow Primary School. I think we were the better side as the wingers, Archie, Sam and Bailey, ran the show. They crossed the ball on countless opportunities to the strikers. I hit the post twice with two left footed shots. The defenders were great when they cleared the ball and used their strength against their attackers. Unfortunately we lost 4-0 but we played much better than before.
Team Tactics
We’ve had a great half term in PE improving our basketball skills – Mr Catherall has been very impressed. This week we played whole games and even started thinking about team tactics to improve our game, Here’s our huddle.
Gearing up for the Gallery
Having produced so much art this half term, we’re preparing our final piece to go on display in our open art gallery in the week beginning 10th November 2014. Our final piece will be using a technique called pointillism. This is where you create a picture using lots and lots and lots of tiny dots. It takes lots of skill, patience and determination so we had a practice this week.
First, we decided which paintings were pointillism and which were not.
Then we practised using pointillism ourselves.
We had a go using three different media to find out which would be most effective for our final piece. We used paint, felt tip pens and coloured pencils. The coloured pencils took the longest, felt tip looked quite effective, but, we most enjoyed using the paint and cotton wool buds.
It’s half-term…
…so there’s no specific homework this week, apart from ensuring your child spends at least 20 minutes each day reading and 5-10 minutes learning their number bonds / times tables.
Enjoy your October break. If you stay in Leeds, check out all the activities the museums and art galleries have on offer.
Royal Armouries
We’re busy learning at the Royal Armouries today! Have a look at the photos:
Maths workshop
Thanks to all of you who visited us this afternoon for another learning workshop so that you can support your child’s learning at home – this week, the theme was maths.
- “Another useful session, particularly for practical ideas on how to explain maths concepts at home.”
- “Very beneficial – the right amount of information squeezed into the right amount of time.”
- “Great to have some fresh ideas on how to help at home.”
- “Well explained in parent-friendly language – it’s always useful to have a re-cap on what is being taught.”
If you didn’t manage to make it, or if you have any more questions, comments or concerns, please do speak with your child’s teacher or come and see Mrs Weekes or Mr Roundtree.
Finally: many of you wanted calculation methods explained in more detail. Look out for our Moortown Methods video, coming soon!
Applying for a place at secondary school
The deadline for applying for Y7 places for next year is 31 October 2014 and Leeds on-line application system will close at midnight on that date for secondary applications (the on-line system will remain open for primary applications). Alternatively, you might prefer to apply via a paper form and hand your completed forms into school for us to forward to the Admissions Team.
Amy Vernon from the Choice Advice Service can support you if you’re struggling with the application process. Email choice.advice@leeds.gov.uk or call 0113 3951183.
Offer day is 02 March this year. Parents who apply on-line will receive an email with their offer any time from midnight onwards. Parents who apply on a paper form will have their offer posted to them 2nd class on 02 March so may not receive this until later in the week.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Recount of our day written by Noorpreet
On Wednesday, we went for a school trip. First, we went on the coach. There were lots of sculptures. It was a large park. We also had lunch and we had fun at a fountain. There was a sculpture called Family of Man. Also, ten seated figures. We even learnt about artists and sculptures and there was lots of grass. Some of the sculptures were strange or some of them were real. It was so good because we made our own sculptures. Ours was so tall and even though it was raining, it was fantastic.
Here are some pictures from our day.
We made our own sculptures in the afternoon like real artists!
