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It’s Christmas…

I would like to say thank you for your support over the last year – it’s extremely appreciated.

We are a small and caring community and we are enormously proud of what we do here.  Our aim is to always be a happy and healthy place to learn because we passionately believe that the best way to educate children is to start from this foundation stone.

Over the last few years, Moortown Primary has continued to improve significantly, all due to the great efforts of the staff, pupils, governors and parents / carers:

• our teachers deliver fun, effective lessons that encourage active, independent learning
• our support staff help meet specific pupils’ needs in a timely and conscientious way
• our pupils get on well with each other and are enthusiastic and motivated
• our governors are supportive and challenging
• and you… Thank you for all of the support during PTA events, and for the kind compliments and constructive criticisms.

In 2013, we’ll continue to make sure the teaching and learning at Moortown Primary is the best you could wish for.

On behalf of our whole team, we wish you a very Happy Christmas, together with a successful and Happy New Year.

It’s Christmas…

…so enjoy the break.

We don’t give homework or spellings and tables to learn during holidays.  Instead, we hope you all enjoy the break and spend some fabulously festive family time, whether it’s playing board games, enjoying a book or two or simply relaxing in front of the telly for a treat.

Carol singing

This morning, we sang our hearts out at Marks and Spencer’s. The weather was awful but it wasn’t a match for our Christmas spirit!

Thanks to all the parents and family who came to watch and sing along!

Paper chain competition

Today, the class have had to work cooperatively in teams to try to produce the longest paper chain. There were lots of enterprise skills on show as children assigned themselves specific roles and divided them into sub-teams.

The winning team were the Snakes who managed to make a paper chain that was five and a half metres in length!

Happy Christmas!

A very busy term is coming to an end.  Thank you for your support with the Christmas performance; the children worked really hard practising lines and songs and without your help this wouldn’t happen.

It has been a long and tiring term but what a successful one.  All of the children have made an excellent start to Year 1 and we have seen changes in them all since September. Here are some examples of fantastic progress:

• Nico, Owen and Oliver have impressed us with their maths skills
• Abi has settled really well and has made lots of new friends
• Zak and Neive have tried really hard to make positive choices and have shown they have a real sense of humour
• Brandon has shown excellent learning behaviour
• Sam is coming into school every day with a smile on his face

The transition from Foundation Stage to Year 1 is a big change but the children have taken it in their stride with very few hiccups and have had a very successful term in Year 1.

We hope you have a relaxing break over Christmas and we will see you in the New Year ready for even more learning!

Happy Christmas.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We have reached the end of the children’s first, very busy, exciting term at Moortown Primary School!  All of the children are settled and happy and are making excellent progress in all areas of their learning and development.

These are just some of the ways the children have impressed us this term:

• Isaac, Manpreet, Noorpreet and Sachpreet are blending and reading brilliantly
• Dylan and Isaiah have been keen to learn by always listening and trying
• Kai, Pia, Grace and Gabby have made excellent choices all term and shown they know how to learn
• Filip has impressed us by overcoming his shyness to communicate more confidently with children and adults
• Ishaan, Farai, Josh and Ismail have been constructing amazing buildings and models
• Nicky and Lori have taught us a lot about trucks
• Thomas, Albert and Ethan have shown great imagination in their play and story-telling
• Lewis and Phoebe have shown amazing creativity with their pattern-making and drawings
• Alex and Ripley have wowed us with their maths
• Ben, Martha, Humairah and Mia have been great members of the class by being kind and helpful to adults and other children
• Karam has been polite and caring
• Theo has made us laugh with his great sense of humour.

We hope all the children are back to full strength and ready to enjoy the last week of term and the Christmas party.

Have a great break and see you next year!

14 December 2012

The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 19 December.

I can show what I have learnt about time.

We’ve been learning to tell the time and find time intervals this week so the children are tasked with showing me what they have learnt!

They could:

• Create a game.
• Make a clock and ask and answer some questions.
• Use a timetable (TV magazine, bus timetable) to ask and answer some questions.
• Match a time in words to a clock showing the same time.

14 December 2012

This week, the final homework of 2012 is practice makes perfect.

As the Key Stage 1 production is approaching, the homework this week is to practise and prepare:

• the words to the songs (these are in your child’s Homework Book)
• individual parts (practise projecting your voice!)

Don’t forget: Monday is dress rehearsal so we need all costumes in school.

Public performances are on Tuesday and Wednesday, 2.15pm – donations to Dogs Trust (one of our school charities).  See you there!

14 December 2012

This week’s spellings are contractions: words which use apostrophes to shorten or contract two words into one word. I’ve noticed that children are struggling to read these words and/or write them correctly.

Just noticed that I’ve listed I’ll twice. Sorry!

14 December 2012

Our spellings this week are all homophones. That’s when two or more words sound the same but are spelt differently. All children have the same ones this week.

The individual words aren’t too tricky but the real challenge is being able to use them at the correct time. Year 4 therefore need to practise using the right homophone in sentences, which is how they will be tested.