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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!

Measuring Up!

As part of our Maths learning we tried to use anything we could find to measure length!  As you can see we used plastic counting pegs, cubes, dinosaurs and bears.  Predictions were made first and then we measured to see if we were accurate.   Marvellous measuring – learning about length!

Moortown In Bloom

A piece of land between Stonegate Road and Scothall Road has been prepared to be part of Moortown In Bloom.  We were asked to go and help with some of the planting in partnership with the Moortown Group.  Off we went on Monday morning; we were given high visual vests (very fetching!), gardening gloves and a spade.  Several holes were dug and plants were planted and the results will be evident in a few months when the flowers are blooming.  Nine pupils from Year 6 represented Moortown Primary School very well; they worked well as a team and dug holes very well!  Abdul and Sanna were demon diggers!!  Look out this week in the Yorkshire Evening Post as we may appear along with our plants!

SEAL statement 13 June

‘I can get better at my learning‘ is the SEAL statement for this week.  In some instances, ‘changes‘ may relate to a change in a child’s learning behaviour.  By focussing on and improving learning skills such as listening, concentration and communication, this in turn can help the child to get better at their learning.