06 January 2012
As some of you may already be aware, Moortown Primary School is linked with a school in Durban, South Africa called Shallcross Primary. This partnership allows us to share our learning. This week’s Creative homework hopes to introduce the children in Durban to our local area.
I can draw what I see outside my window.
Encourage your child to include a lot of detail and spend some time doing this as some of best ones will be sent to the children at Shallcross Primary in South Africa.
06 January 2012
This week’s spellings are all words that include the contraction n’t.
| LO: Include the contraction n’t. | |
| don’t | do not |
| won’t | will not |
| doesn’t | does not |
| couldn’t | could not |
| wouldn’t | would not |
| didn’t | did not |
| aren’t | are not |
| isn’t | is not |
06 January 2012
To spell words with the ‘ea’ sound.
The words will be tested on Friday 13 January.
| beads |
| pea |
| meat |
| seal |
| leaf |
| beach |
| tea |
| cream |
06 January 2012
This week, the spellings are all words which use apostrophes to shorten or contract two words into one word.
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1. |
do not |
don’t |
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2. |
can not |
can’t |
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3. |
is not |
isn’t |
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4. |
does not |
doesn’t |
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5. |
will not |
won’t |
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6. |
I have |
I’ve |
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7. |
I will |
I’ll |
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8. |
it is |
it’s |
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9. |
I will |
I’ll |
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10. |
there is |
there’s |
The spellings will be tested on Friday 13 January.
Welcome back!
I hope you’ve had an enjoyable break. I’m pleased to say that the children have returned to school refreshed and ready to learn! You can help your child at home this term in the following ways:
- Practising the 2, 5 and 10 times table.
- Doubling and halving numbers (you could show this by using coins or other objects).
- Encouraging your child to use ‘because’ to explain their answers about books that they have read.
- Handwriting – you can download our handwriting guide here
Parents’ Evening will be in February so I look forward to seeing you all again then.
06 January 2012
This week’s homework is creative. It’s due in on Wednesday 11 January 2012.
I can find different materials around the house.
Remember, all objects are made of a type of material (wood, glass, pottery, metal).
06 January 2012
This week’s spellings begin with ‘th’. Your child will be tested on Friday 13 January 2012.
- three
- throat
- throne
- thigh
- thin
- thing
- thick
- throw
- threw
- think
Star Wars Anti-bullying
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWY5FSBI_Ic&feature=youtu.be
An example of one of our brilliant anti-bullying homeworks
06 January 2012
Your homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 11 January 2012.
I can produce a piece of work for our Snowbound display.
Create a piece of work about snow, ice or being snowbound. Your work could be:
- Art work about snow or ice
- Collage or a collection of snow vocabulary – in other languages, too, perhaps
- Poetry
- Recounts or reports of snowy days
- Weather forecasts
- Your own idea
For this homework activity, your efforts should not go in your homework book. It should be bright, colourful, attractive and ready to be put up on display.
Our new SEAL theme is…
Rights and Responsibilities
SEAL stands for Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning. This is a national scheme that promotes self-awareness, managing feelings, empathy, social skills and motivation.
At Moortown Primary, we’re dedicated to the value of SEAL in promoting a happy and healthy place to learn. However, we’re always thinking about other ways to meet our children’s needs and interests. That’s one of the reasons we choose to sometimes break away from the national SEAL themes to do something different.
This half term, we’ll think about our rights and responsibilities and, importantly, that if we have rights, we also have responsibilities. We last taught this in Spring term 2010 and it was very successful. For example, children said:
- We have the right to resources; we have the responsibility to look after them.
- We have the right to have money; we have the responsibility to earn it.
- We have the right to live in a clean and tidy city; we have the responsibility to not drop litter.
- We have the right to food; we have the responsibility to make healthy choices.
- We have the right to play sports; we have the responsibility to follow the rules.
As you can see, some important messages are promoted. Each week this half-term, we’ll concentrate on a different area:
- Week beginning 03 January: being healthy
- Week beginning 09 January: community and making a positive contribution
- Week beginning 16 January: learning
- Week beginning 23 January: jobs and money
- Week beginning 30 January: staying safe
- Week beginning 06 February: general
Perhaps you can support your child’s learning by discussing and promoting rights and responsibilities at home, too.