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Tuckshop 01.10.13

As there will be no tuck shop tomorrow, children who have prepaid for their portion(s) of fruit will be able to carry this over into the first week of the Spring term.

Funky Fingers!

Reception had fun developing their fine motor skills this week.  Fine motor activities are essential to help your child develop the skills needed for good handwriting. Why don’t you try some of these activities at home?

• use padlocks and keys – how quickly can your child unlock them?
• clothes pegs – how many can your child peg around a box in one minute?
• how many small beads can (s)he pick up in one minute using tweezers?
• mix pasta and dried peas – can your child separate them using tweezers?
• how many bubble wrap bubbles can (s)he pop?

Don’t forget that gross motor skills such as climbing, carrying, pulling and pushing are important too!

Get set for a new park run

A new free weekly 2km run at Roundhay Park has been set up after a £1500 grant was provided by local councillors.  The Roundhay Junior Park Run will take place every Sunday morning and is open to children aged between four and fourteen.  Parkrun is a worldwide organisation which sets up and manages free weekly timed runs in parkland surroundings.  Fancy a go yourself…?  There is also a weekly 5km run every Saturday at 9am.

Feel the benefits of being active in Leeds

Leeds Let’s Get Active is a programme of free activities from October to December 2013. Free gym and swim sessions will be available across all Leeds City Council leisure centres from 30 September 2013. Other activities such as walking and running as well as family-based activities are also available at locations in the city. You can now register online  to find out more information on what is available, where and when on the Leeds Let’s Get Active activity programme.

With free swim and gym at Scott Hall leisure centre and health walks at Meanwood there is plenty on offer in the local area.

How high can you jump?

Amazing star jumps in our gym lesson this week.

Marvellous measures

A week’s learning about measures ended with lots of measuring of arms, legs and heads.  As part of the big topic, Doctor Doctor, measurements of our bodies were compared.  Measuring length can be done using non-standard units and standard units.  The week was started by measuring with paperclips, dinosaurs and highlighters, then home-made tape measures were used to practise the actual concept of using a tape and then the standard units of centimetres and metres were introduced.

• How many centimetres in a metre?    
• Who had the biggest hand span? 
• How do you measure a hand span?

…all questions that you can ask Year 1.

27 September 2013

The homework this week is practice makes perfect and is due in on Wednesday 02 October.

I can show that I know my number bonds.

Good number bond knowledge is really important  and is something that you should be practising with your child at home. This week, all the children have a sheet stuck into their homework book which they need to complete.

A WEEE bit of good news…

First: forgive the pun which I couldn’t resist, having grown up in Scotland.

In the last academic year, 2012-13, a total of 5.5 tonnes of WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) was collected across the 30 schools that host a WEEE bank which is an average of 184.3kg per school.  The total for our school was 195kg – it’s great to be above the average, despite being a small school.

Without WEEE banks, it’s likely that the items would have been disposed of in landfill and all the various metals, plastic etc from which they are made would have been lost and not recycled. So it’s excellent news for the environment and a great achievement by schools. Thank you all for your support with this.

In this period after the summer holidays it’s likely that you and your friends and families will have extra bits of WEEE to dispose of as games consoles, phones, computers etc are upgraded, and broken toys and electrical items discarded. £500, £300 and £200 cash rewards are available again (but just for this term) for schools that collect the most WEEE.

The WEEE banks will be emptied just before the end of term.

Some more data… In 2012-13, the highest performing school collected 567 kg and the lowest performing school collected 39kg. The average was 184.3kg. At Moortown Primary, the following amounts were collected in 2012-13:

• Autumn Term 2012: 40kg
• Spring Term 2013: 95kg
• Summer Term 2013: 60kg
• Total: 195kg

27 September 2013

This week, the spellings are all words where you have to drop the y for an i when adding ly. This is one of three key spelling rules which we will be revisiting throughout the year.

In the list below, the words change from being adjectives (words which describe a noun – in this case, a person for example eg a grumpy waiter) to adverbs (words which describe a verb eg to smile sneakily, to reply angrily).

27 September 2013

This week’s homework is creative homework.  Please make sure it is handed in by Wednesday 02 October 2013. 

I can show how I can look after my body.

This homework is to encourage the children to think about what they can do to ensure that their body is as healthy as possible.  This will then lead into their learning next week.