Sk8Safe Skateboarding
Yesterday, we had a great skateboarding session with Sk8Safe. I was amazed with how quickly the children were jumping on the boards and rolling up and down the playground. It was brilliant.
The final Code Club of the year!
It was the final Code Club of the school year on Thursday and the Moortown Scratchers would like to say a huge thank you to Linda for running the club all year. It has been fantastic to see the children’s programming skills grow throughout the sessions and to see their ever increasingly creative projects blossom. Linda and I are very excited about Code Club next year and look forward to trying out some new ideas.
Water Safety
Andy, a lifeguard and swimming instructor, visited Year 3 this morning to chat to us about how to stay safe in and around water.
Tour de Pi!
What a brilliant weekend. I hope you all enjoyed your Tour de France experiences. If you missed it, here is our video with the time lapse footage recorded using a Raspberry Pi!
Inspired by the Tour de France?
What an amazing spectacle the Tour de France has been this weekend.
If you have been inspired to get on your bike then next week we are having a bike, scooter and walk to school week alongside our Staying Safe week.
Each day this golden lock will be placed on a random bike or scooter, in our storage area. If it is your bike or scooter you will be the lucky winner of a £20 voucher, kindly donated by the Chapel Allerton branch of Edinburgh bicycle cooperative.
On Wednesday, from 8:30am, Edinburgh bike cooperative will be visiting school for a Dr bike event. Children who bring their bike to school can have a free bike maintenance check to ensure their bike is in its best condition. Edinburgh bike cooperative will be with us all morning checking bikes and also providing bike maintenance sessions for Year 5 so they can maintain their own bikes.
Would you like to explore cycle routes across the city? Leeds City council have produced a series of local cycle maps. Additionally, Go:cycling offer a range of free cycling services.
04 July 2014
The homework this week is Practice Makes Perfect and is due in on Wednesday 9 July. I can write a recount about my Tour de France experience.
or
I can write a recount about something which happened at the weekend. The recount couldbe a letter, an email to the class (y3@moortown.leeds.sch.uk or y4@moortown.leeds.sch.uk), a storyboard.
04 July 2014
Following on from last week, this week’s spellings all contain the suffix ible. Can you think of anymore?
| 1. | horrible |
| 2. | terrible |
| 3. | possible |
| 4. | incredible |
| 5. | flexible |
| 6. | invincible |
| 7. | visible |
| 8. | divisible |
| 9. | responsible |
| 10. | edible |
Grand Depart Raspberry Pi Project
The countdown to the Tour de France is almost over and tomorrow the riders will be rolling past (well, almost past) our school! This morning, we’ve been getting ready for this once in a lifetime occasion by setting up a Raspberry Pi time lapse camera which will capture all of tomorrow’s events. We’ve had to use computational thinking, maths skills and programming skills to get our camera working. This was challenging as the Raspberry Pi wanted the information in milliseconds. This meant we had to convert 10 hours (the duration we wanted the time lapse to run for) into minutes, then seconds and then milliseconds – that’s 36,000,000 milliseconds in all! We then had the simpler task of deciding the length between each photo. We decided on 5 seconds (5,000 milliseconds). We’ve got Ava’s mum to thank for helping us with this project and also
Grace and Frankie’s family to thank for offering to put the camera up outside their house. Hopefully, we’ll get some great footage from the race!
04 July 2014
There are no spellings this week. This is because our days are so full of visitors and trips in aid of Safety Week next week.
04 July 2014
This week’s homework is Talk Time.
Should we take care of the seaside?
Millions of people go to our seasides each year. With so many people visiting, these beautiful areas often get damaged, polluted or left to fall into disrepair. Is it important that we look after the seaside (including the oceans) and why?
This is due Wednesday 9th July 2014.