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17 June 2011

This week the children only have two spellings to learn!

it’s = it is

its = belongs to

At home, the children are expected to put the two different words into ten sentences.

For example:

It’s a lovely day today.

The cat licked its fur.

Bike Week 20 – 24 June

Next week is Bike Week.  Why not use our cycle rack and bike to school during this week?

Throughout the week each time you cycle to school you will be entered into a prize draw from Leeds City Council to win lots of cycling related prizes.  Let your class teacher know each time you come to school on your bike.

Year 5 and Year 6 have both recently had their cycling training and what a better way to put these new cycling skills into practice than to bike to school during Bike Week.

For more information about Bike Week visit www.bikeweek.org or www.leeds.gov.uk/bikeweek

For more information about cycling in Leeds visit www.leeds.gov.uk/cyclemaps

2011-2012 classes

Last year, I told you about four new teachers starting. The teachers we recruited went through a very rigorous process and I’m delighted to say that the four – Mr Redfearn, Mr Wilks, Mr Owen and Miss Hazell – have all had a fantastic year at Moortown Primary School.

There will be only a few small changes to teaching staff next year:

• I’m sure you’ll all be delighted to hear the news that Mrs Taylor is expecting her second child. She will be leaving us, probably around Autumn half-term, but will return, hopefully for September 2012 (and some visits sooner, we hope!). Mrs Taylor’s role in school, as Health Leader, will not be replaced in her absence by a new teacher.
• Mr Redfearn and Miss Hewson swap year groups – having taught Year 4 for three years, Miss Hewson wants to widen her experience; it’s good for the school to move teachers, too, so that they bring fresh ideas to the new age groups.

Here is a list of who’s teaching which year group for 2011-12:

Later this term, your child will spend some time getting to know his or her new teacher, teaching assistants and classroom. In the meantime, if you’ve got any questions, comments or concerns, as always please contact me.

Fantastic feedback

We regularly receive feedback from visitors into school – it’s always great to read what others think about our community.  For example, Gareth from Total Sports Coaching, recently complimented the school as one he always looks forward to visiting because all our pupils listen and behave so well.

Here’s feedback from Richard, a member of Leeds Healthy Schools and Wellbeing Service, following a recent visit:

Just a quick email – as you know I met with some children this afternoon to help plan their workshop at the Pupil Voice Showcase Event.  The planning meeting went really well and – as always – your pupils excelled themselves and amazed me with their creativity and general approach to the task at hand.

After the meeting the three of them gave me a little tour of the school which was great as I’ve never visited before – just wanted to say what I’m sure you knew already: ‘Wow! What a great school!’

17 June 2011

This week’s homework is Talk Time (with some recording) and is due in by Wednesday 22 June.

I can discuss health issues at my school.

I have worked with members of our Health Group (made up of our School Councillors) to create the homework for this week – a health questionnaire.

As part of the next level of our Healthy Schools status we are working on a number of targets relating to obesity and emotional health.

Your views and responses to the health questionnaire will help us to be an even happier and healthier school.

Please discuss the issues raised in the questionnaire at home and record your views on the questionnaire provided.  Return your completed forms to your class teacher.

We look forward to hearing your ideas and thoughts.

17 June 2011

This week’s spellings for Bananas and Oranges are words that end with s or es.

Apple’s words all have the sound aw. They will be tested on Friday 24 June.

17 June 2011

The spellings this week are all words that end in ‘ch’, ‘sh’ or ‘ss’ and take ‘es’ endings. For example, the plural of witch is witches.

Nouns and verbs practise numbers 1-8. Adjectives and adverbs practise 1-10.

1. church        churches

2. touch         touches

3. wash          washes

4. clash          clashes

5. class           classes

6. watch        watches

7. miss            misses

8. scratch       scratches

9. embarrass     embarrasses

10. approach     approaches

The spellings will be tested on Friday 24 June.

17 June 2011

This week we are again learning to spell WOW words and to use them in class in the correct context.

Children will be tested on them in class on Friday 24 June, and will be given points for using them correctly in written work and verbally in class.

Here are the WOW words for all groups to learn how to spell and how to use in context:

• aggressively
• cautiously
• stealthily
• destructively
• painstakingly
• fearlessly
• intensely
• delicately
• effortlessly
• noiselessly

17 June 2011

This week, we are learning to spell words with the ‘nk‘ sound.

These words will be tested on Friday 24 June 2011.

Soaking up the sun

Some friends just enjoying the sun!