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Industrial action

You will be aware that the headteachers’ union, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), has voted to take industrial action on Wednesday 30 November 2011. This means headteachers now join other public sector workers on strike on this day.

Teachers will also strike.  The vote of National Union of Teachers (NUT) members in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme in June covers all members in the schools balloted to take action on 30 November. They do not need to ballot again.

The industrial action in June meant Moortown Primary had to close.  A similar number of staff members, whether NAHT or NUT members, have decided to strike on 30 November.  Therefore, it is definite that Moortown Primary will close.

Tricky Words

This week, your child will start to bring some ‘Tricky Words’ home to learn. These are words that have have unusual or untaught phonemes and are ‘tricky’ to decode. Show your child the word and try to blend it as usual, discussing the letters that are ‘tricky’. For example, in the word ‘go’ the last letter does not represent the same sound as in the word dog. Keep looking at the words, use them in a sentence and point them out in their reading book. This week, the tricky words are ‘the‘ and ‘to‘.

Still measuring!

18 November 2011

The homework this week is creative and is due in on Wednesday 23 November.  This week has been national anti-bullying week; consequently, the homework is about bullying too:

I can give advice to a victim of bullying.

It is totally up to you how you give this advice. Some ideas are:

• a poster giving tips and advice
• a playscript between a victim of bullying and a person giving advice
• a storyboard or comic strip
• a picture story
• a poem

Bronwen’s visit to the Children’s Commissioner

You may be aware that one of our Year 6 pupils, Bronwen Grainger, recently took over the role of Children’s Commissioner, Maggie Atkinson, in London.  She has prepared this report of her day:

Report of day as Children’s Commissioner

On Friday 11th November 2011 (Take Over Day and Remembrance Day), at about 10:45, we arrived at Trafalgar Square and met some remarkably young soldiers who had just got back from Afghanistan. We also saw people who had got the licence to be able to drive a submarine plus we also found out that Maggie’s (Children’s Commissioner) husband had also had a career as a submarine driving and got his badge that had 2 dolphins to say he has an official licence. Before the 2 minutes silence, we listened to: the soldiers, a young girl who had an amazing voice and a few others.

Then quickly after that, the royal trumpet player played the tune that they play to wake up the soldiers. Then the 2 minutes started. After the silence, everybody who was there was invited to throw some poppy petals into one of the 2 fountains. Pretty much after that we left to have lunch in a nearby Starbucks. We then got in a taxi and got driven to the Royal Artillery Museum in Woolwich where we presented a nearby school called Fox Field Primary school a certificate saying that they had taken part in Take Over Day. We also got to try on some of the clothes they wear in the army in an assembly 2 soldiers performed.

When we got back to the Children’s Commissioner office we got presented with a certificate for taking part in Take Over day, which ended my day as being a Children’s Commissioner. Thank you to Maggie for letting me shadow her, I had a very interesting and enjoyable day.

General information

It was lovely to meet you all properly at Parents’ Evening. Thank you for taking a strong interest in your child’s learning. Many parents were keen to help even more at home. I hope the handwriting example has been helpful. Examples of what your child is expected to know by the end of Year 2 will be sent home shortly. Also, thank you for coming to see our assembly. I know the children loved showing you all what they have learned.

18 November 2011

This week’s spellings use ‘oa‘ to make a long ‘oh’ sound. Your child will be tested on Friday 25 November 2011.

• load
• road
• loaf
• soak
• boat
• coat
• float
• goat
• throat
• soap

Takeover Day

Recently, it was Takeover Day and there were some unusual goings ons…

Well done to Isra, Sarina, and Abdul-Ahad who also chose who would win our certificates in Friday assembly. They then wrote the certificates and handed them out in front of the whole school, explaining why they had won.

18 November 2011

Spelling Rule:

This week’s spellings are all describing with the suffix ‘ic’.

Class Assembly

Well done to the whole class for an excellent performance in our first school assembly of the year. To say we started practising on Monday, I think everyone did a fantastic job.

Thanks to all the parents, carers, grandparents, siblings who came to watch. It was great to see so many people there.