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Community links

This week is Community Week. In one lesson, we talked about the different communities that we belong to. We talked about how other children in the class might belong to the same community. At the end of the lesson, we talked about how we can make links between the communities. One child held a ball of wool and threw it to a person who was in the same community as them whilst keeping hold of the start of the ball of wool. This person then said the name of another community they belong to and threw it to someone else who belongs to that community. Soon enough, everyone was holding the wool and we’d created a spiders web of linked communities and children.

Professional footballer visits Moortown!

On Monday, we were privileged to welcome an actual, real life professional footballer into our classroom! Carla Cantrell currently plays for Lincoln and has previously played for Leeds United. She has even played for England! Carla talked to us about what it is like being a professional footballer and the challenges and sacrifices she has to make.

It was really interesting to find out how different it is being a female professional footballer compared to a male professional footballer. For example, Carla has to work all day and then go to training for three hours after work! Wayne Rooney doesn’t know how lucky he is!

Water Aid

This morning, we had a visit from Gary who works for one of our school charities, Water Aid. We learnt that Water Aid is an international charity which helps people from many different countries who don’t have easy access to clean, fresh drinking water. We also learnt about how we have been helping Water Aid help our global community.

Water Aid

This morning, we had a visit from Gary who works for one of our school charities, Water Aid. We learnt that Water Aid is an international charity which helps people from many different countries who don’t have easy access to clean, fresh drinking water. We also learnt about how we have been helping Water Aid help our global community.

It’s Community Week!

This week, we have another themed week at Moortown Primary.  Community Week is the second themed week of the year, following the popular Brain Week in the Autumn term.

Community Week will run along three themes:

Learning about communities

Your child will think about community along four broad objectives:

To know what community is: your child will think about what ‘community’ means, how it feels to belong to a community, and the various ‘scales’ of community, such as local, national and global.

To know what family is and know that families are different: we all know families are made up in different ways, from mum, dad and two children to single parent families and extended families; amongst other things, your child will think about reasons for families being different and how it might feel to belong to a different family.

To know who contributes to communities and how: we’ll think about who contributes to communities and how, referring back to the different ‘scales’ of commmunity, from local to global.

To be aware of who might feel vulnerable in a community and that we all might feel vulnerable at some point: your child will think about different individuals and groups in society who might not feel fully as if they belong, or who might not feel properly safe; individuals or groups which your child will consider will vary depending on age, but might include elderly, those with mental health issues and minority ethnic groups; issues such as sexism, homophobia and Islamophobia might be covered.

Learning about countries

One of the most popular aspects of our themed weeks is when classes mix up, so Reception children learn alongside Year 6 children and everyone in between.  This is obviously especially important in Community Week – highlighting Moortown Primary as a learning community.  Over the course of the week, groups will visit each teacher, from Mrs Burke to Mrs Hazell, learning about a specific country:

• Germany
• Peru
• Ethiopia
• New Zealand
• Canada
• Antartica
• Thailand

Children will be issued a ‘passport’ to complete as they visit each country, learning about language, climate, currency and other facts.

Special events and visitors

Alongside all the learning, we’re looking forward to some visits! Representatives from our current charities, Dogs’ Trust and Water Aid, will visit, as will a group called KidzAware (who promote equality ) and Carla Cantrell from Leeds United Ladies Football Club.

The climax of Community Week is on Friday afternoon.  PTA – a big part of the school community – invite you to our Community Fair.  We all hope to see you there!

Farm photos

28 April 2013

For the last few weeks of spellings, we will revisit three familiar spelling rules. This week’s spellings combine two of these rules:

double-up for short vowel sounds

and

drop the e for ing

All of the spellings double-up because of short vowel sounds. As for the second rule (drop the e for ing), because the route word of these spellings all have le on the end, when an ing is added the e is dropped.

For example,

wriggle with an ing added becomes wriggling and the e is dropped.

28 June 2013

This week’s spellings are words with a silent k. 

This means the k is not said out loud when we blend or read the word;  k and the next letter are a special grapheme which work together so they make one phoneme: a ‘nnn’ sound.

• knuckle
• knee
• knit
• knickers
• knob
• knife
• knight
• knock
• knot
• kneel

28 June 2013

For the last few weeks of spellings, we will be revisiting three familiar spelling rules. This week’s spellings combine two of these rules:

double-up for short vowel sounds

and

drop the e for ing

All of the spellings double-up because of short vowel sounds. As for the second rule (drop the e for ing), because the route word of these spellings all have le on the end, when an ing is added the e is dropped.

For example,

wriggle with an ing added becomes wriggling and the e is dropped.

28 June 2013

This week’s whole school homework is a Talk Time one, and it also involves completing the pupil health questionnaire sent home with your child today.

I can give my opinions on health issues.

Emotional health and obesity are the two main health targets we are focussing on to further our healthy schools status and the questions are linked to these areas.  They include:

• Are you happy at school?
• What do you enjoy most about playtimes and lunchtimes?

Please support your child to complete the health questionnaire in order to find out their views on some of our key health issues at school.

Completed questionnaires to be returned by Wednesday 03 July.