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.
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.