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Super Sports at Allerton Grange

We had a fantastic morning at Allerton Grange High School on Wednesday. After a breezy walk to the school the children were taught by some Year 10 pupils.  They had planned some great activities including general fitness, ball skills and dance.  We then walked back to Moortown helped along by the wind!  Thank you to the pupils and staff at Allerton Grange and thank you to the Year 1 children who were brilliant representatives of Moortown Primary.

We really are happy and healthy!

At Moortown, we pride ourselves on being a happy and healthy place to learn. We monitor this closely to make sure that it’s not just an empty slogan but a true picture of life in our community.

For the past three years, one of our classes has been taking part in a short survey (‘Me and My School’) which looks at responses in relation to emotional difficulties, behavioural difficulties and school climate. The results help us to ensure our provision best suits the needs of our children – and we receive vouchers to spend on play equipment, too!

There is strong evidence that there is a higher proportion of pupils with low anger and aggression scores at Moortown Primary School than participating pupils both nationally and locally. The school climate is rated better at Moortown Primary School than schools nationally and locally. The emotional difficulty scores of pupils at Moortown are lower.

As well as Moortown, 181 other schools across England took part. A total of 20 schools in Leeds completed the ‘Me and My School’ questionnaire. Children responded to a series of statements, answering ‘Never’, ‘Sometimes’ or ‘Always’.

SEAL statement 07 March

For this week our SEAL statement is ‘I can respond to difficult situations in a positive way.‘

The mouse character in the Good to be me SEAL assembly last week responded to a difficult situation by recognising her gift and releasing the animals.  She believed in herself.

Maths

Try this activity at home to help your child with understanding addition and partitioning:

Spot the difference

Draw a row of six coloured spots.

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• In turn, one player closes his/her eyes.
• The other player hides some of the spots with a sheet of paper.
• The first player says how many spots are hidden.
• Try with other numbers of spots.
• Show your child how to count on.

Reading Activities

Here are some ideas when reading with your child:

1. Introduce the book.

2. Look at the front cover illustration and ask your child to predict what the book is about.

3. Ask questions eg “What can we see on the front cover?”

4. Look through the book at the illustrations.

5. Read the blurb – the description on the back of most books.

6. Ask questions about the text as you read.

7. Explain unfamiliar vocabulary and new words.

8. Ask your child to find words in the text and discuss them.

Other questions and prompts you might use are:

• Show me where you start reading.
• Show me how you point to the words as you read.
• Point to a capital letter.
• Point to a full stop.
• Can you find a word that starts with___?
• Can you see any speech bubbles / exclamation marks?
• Can you find a long word on the page and count the syllables?

Well done!

Congratulations to Archie and Isabella for their election to the school council. I’m sure they’ll do a great job.

Also, well done to all the other children who stood in the election. I was very impressed with all the candidates’ presentations.

Don’t forget the class assembly on Thursday at 2.45pm.

04 March 2011

The spellings for this week are all adverbs that we might use when writing stories in literacy.

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

If anyone thinks of another wow adverb, they can write this at the end of the test on Friday for an extra mark!

1.  sadly

2. scarily

3. happily

4. quickly

5. fiercely

6. friendly

7. excitedly

8. nervously

9. cautiously

10. anxiously

Spellings will be tested on Friday 11 February. Good luck!

04 March 2011

The homework this week is a talk time homework and is due in on Wednesday 9 March.

I think spending billions of pounds on space exploration is a waste of money. Do you agree?

Children can choose to agree or disagree with the statement – as long as they have reasons to back up their opinion.

Try to encourage the children to use words like:

• However…
• Although…
• On the other hand…
• I understand your point, but I think that…
• Conversely…
• Another reason is…

I’ll look forward to hearing your views on this next week!

04 March 2011

The homework this week is ‘Talk time’ and is due in Wednesday 09 March.

I can talk about why I should feel ‘good to be me’.

In keeping with this half-term’s SEAL theme of being ‘good to be me’, your child should discuss all the ways that they should feel good about themselves.

They should also talk about why their friends should feel good about themselves.

04 March 2011

This week’s spellings for Bananas and Oranges all start with ‘th‘.

Apples have some words that end with ‘ent’.

They will be tested on Friday 11 March.