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Staying safe themed week

Next week, we have another themed week in school.  Your child will be learning all about staying safe in lots of different situations, such as…

• Monday: water safety, e-safety
• Tuesday: safety whilst taking part in sports such as skateboarding and trampolining
• Wednesday: bike safety checks, first aid, safety at sea
• Thursday: school is closed due to industrial action
• Friday: road safety, drug education, how engineering can make buildings safe

(Not all children will participate in all the sessions – we can’t fit it all in!)

A few things for you to bear in mind:

On Monday, Y5 and Y6 parents are invited in to watch an e-safety performance.

Every day, we want children to be walking, cyycling and scooting to school – your chance to encourage good road safety skills as they do so.  Each day, a golden lock will be placed on a random bike or scooter.  The winner will get a £20 voucher to be spent at the Edinburgh Bicycle shop in Chapel Allerton.

On Friday at 2.30pm, it’s the PTA Summer Fair.  At the Summer Fair, there will be a stand run by the police about road safety.

And your challenge?  Make sure you encourage your child to stay safe, but in ways which mean they can still have freedom to be adventurous and independent!

Code Club

The ‘Moortown Scratchers’ talking about their projects in the last Code Club of the year. A big thank you to all the hard work, creativity and resilience you have shown this year. A massive thanks to Linda as well, who has run the club all year!

Tour de France

After going to have a look at the amazing bikes at the front of school…

Year 1 wanted to find out some more about the Tour de France.

• ‘Did the first race start in France?’
• ‘Why is it so long?’
• ‘What colours will the bikes be?’
• ‘How many people will be part of the Tour de France?’
• ‘Why are girls not allowed to ride?’
• ‘Who is taking part this year?’
• ‘Who won the Tour de France last year?’

So we decided we needed to ask the experts: Year 4.

Year 4 came to teach us lots of facts and information from their Tour de France topic.  They had even written quizzes and made leaflets for us to take home.  Thank you Year 4 – you were great, well-prepared teachers!

Seaside art attack

We are coming to the end of our seaside topic this week and to celebrate all of the work we have done we created our own seaside ‘art attack’ in the classroom today.

First, we decided what we might use to create the sea, sand and sky and then we thought about what extre things we could have on our picture and what we could use to create them.

Once we’d gathered everything we needed, we set to work. We worked really well as a team and all had some very creative ideas to come up with a very impressive finished product.

What do you think?

Oh we did like to be beside the seaside.

Year 1 and 2 donned their sunhats, sun-cream and flip-flops for a day on the beach last week and oh what fun we had!

Once we arrived, we set off on the long downhill trek to the beach and settled ourselves on the sand to have a play and eat our lunch.

Unfortunately, a particularly vicious seagull stole Mrs Maqbool’s sandwich!

After lunch, it was time to get ourselves wet and have a paddle. We all had a great splash around and then had a quick change as the tide was coming in.

Once we were all dry, we moved the other side of the beach where the tide wasn’t in yet and where the ice-cream van was parked. Everybody had an ice-cream with a flake. The most popular flavour was mint-choc-chip whilst the teachers favoured cinder toffee. Yum!

It was a beautiful day and we were all sad to have to leave the beach to climb up the hill to the coach again to head back home. I don’t know about Year 1, but Year 2 were surprisingly lively all the way back home. Hopefully, they were then tired out for bed at the end of the day.

27 June 2014

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect.

I can answers questions about a text.

Have a look at the text you have been given in your homework book. Read it carefully and then answer the questions on the sheet.

This homework is due on Wednesday 02 July 2014.

27 June 2014

This week’s spellings are all words with the suffix able.

Words with the suffix able are often incorrectly spelt with the suffix ible. A key to distinguishing between these two endings is that dropping able usually leaves a generally recognisable word, eg agreeable; dropping ible usually leaves a stem word, eg possible.

27 June 2014

This week’s homework is practice makes perfect.

Understanding what we read is essential and that is what we were thinking about in our English lesson today.  All of the children have a text in their homework books with some questions.  Read the text with your child and then look at the questions and see if they can find the answers in the text.  Sometimes the questions are multiple choice – they choose the correct answer; sometimes there is space for a written answer.

Please encourage your child to go back to the text and find the answers rather than just guess.

Homework is due to be handed in by Wednesday 02 July 2014.

27 June 2014

Here are this week’s spellings.  There will be a spelling test on Friday 04 July 2014.

Farewell to Nothing

Today, we said farewell to Nothing by having a celebration of the time he has spent with us.  There were party games and food and a chance for the children to say a message to Nothing before he left to return to his family.

• ‘Hope you have a nice time with your family.’
• ‘Hope your family look after you.’
• ‘I hope you have enjoyed visiting our school.’
• ‘I’m sorry that you are leaving.’

The children have thoroughly enjoyed the Nothing project and have shown great understanding and learning.

• ‘I know we don’t pick things up and eat them.’
• ‘We need a healthy diet.’
• ‘There are things we need and things we want.’
• ‘Don’t talk to strangers.’
• ‘All medicines are drugs but not all drugs are medicines.’

Thanks for coming to visit us, Nothing.