Great feedback about Moortown
There were some visitors in school on Monday talking to Year 5 and 6 about opening a University Technical College in the area, specialising in digital careers. They were very impressed by all our pupils and staff but particularly with the children they worked with. Here is some of their feedback:
“From the moment of arrival and being buzzed through the front gate and signed in, to our escort to the classroom, the level of professionalism would not have been out of place in a professional office environment. The whole class’s willingness to engage with two strangers, their enthusiasm and excitement and their well posed, pertinent and erudite questions are a credit to you, the teaching staff and the students themselves.”
Fantastic feedback – well done to all involved.
Transport Museum
We had a brilliant day today at The Streetlife Museum of Transport and The East Riding Museum in Hull. We started our day with a science workshop linked to friction and forces. Year 3 had to think about what forces are used to move different items.
As we walked around The Streetlife Museum we saw a variety of old fashioned transport: Victorian carriages, trams, railways, cars, horses, bicycles, boats and much more.
We also enjoyed exploring The East Riding Museum. The museum took us on a journey through time which linked really well with our history topic.
Here are some photos of the great things we saw…
Transport Museum
Today, we enjoyed a trip to The Streetlife Museum of Transport in Hull. Such a variety of old-fashioned transport was on display. We enjoyed looking at Victorian carriages, trams, railways, cars, horses, bicycles, boats and much more. Year 4 also had a science workshop linked to friction and forces. After putting on our white lab coats and a pair of goggles, we were ready for action. The children took part in quite a few experiments, all of which demonstrated forces and friction in action.
Across from the transport museum, there is another place of interest: The East Riding Museum.
This took us on a journey through time, beginning with a life-size mammoth and then continuing on through various time periods.
We learnt some fantastic facts, had great fun and thoroughly enjoyed the day.
Take a look at some highlights of the trip.
Our new SEAL theme – Getting On
For this half term, our SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) theme Getting On covers four main aspects:
- developing the social skills of friendship
- working well together in a group
- managing anger
- resolving conflict
A key resource for children to refer to during this theme, and at other times, is Peaceful Problem Solving. This encourages children to sort out their own problems. You may wish to talk through this with your child(ren).
When group work takes place in school, some questions for children to consider are:
- Did everyone take turns?
- Did everyone listen to what other people thought?
- Did each person have chance to tell the group what they thought?
- If people had different ideas could the group reach a compromise?
The key areas of learning throughout this theme are empathy, managing feelings and social skills.
We start our weekly SEAL statements with a focus on manners, I don’t interrupt (with my mouth or with my hand).
Meet our new School Council
Congratulations to our new school councillors who were elected by their class in our whole school elections. Their first meeting will be held after half term.
An eighth continent…?
Our age-related expectations set out what children in each year group should know by the end of the year. The expectations are based on the National Curriculum.
In Geography, for Year 2, one of the expectations is to name the seven continents of the world and find them using an atlas, map or globe.
This might need to be changed based on a story in today’s news!
Healthy muffins
During the week, Year 4 have enjoyed a bit of baking. The children used skills such as chopping, grating, mixing, measuring and peeling. To make our muffins healthy lunchbox snacks, we added carrot, apple and cinnamon. Lots of fun was had by all and there were no arguments as to who was doing the washing up!
Our learning so far…
We are half way through our Time Travel Houses and Homes topic and currently we’ve reached the Tudor time in our travel back in time. So far we have learnt about houses at the present time, houses in Victorian and Tudor times and about a particular event in history – The Great Fire of London. This was a definite favourite so far!
After the half term, we will continue to travel back in time to the Norman period in history – think moats, battlements and defences.
Our final learning will be about the early types of houses (Celts and Iron Age). On Friday 24 February, we will visit Herd Farm to visit a reconstructed Iron Age farmstead. We wouldn’t expect that to be up the road!
Hopefully you will have all heard the lovely news that Emily Grace Wilks was born on Monday. Congratulations to Mr Wilks and his wife.
Hope you all have a restful half-term and we’ll see you back at school on Monday 20 February.
School Council election
Well done to all children who gave very confident, well-prepared speeches to the class this morning. The election proved to be very exciting in Year 2 as following our initial vote at the ‘polling station’, three children ended up with the same number of votes – Leo, Harris and Maya.
This meant a re-vote was needed. Again the voting was very close with just one vote in it.
Congratulations to Maya and Harris who have taken over as our new school councillors from Albie and Sakina. Commiserations to Leo – it really was so close.
We hope children who weren’t successful this year will try for the role again in Year 3.
Tag rugby at Allerton Grange
As part of our PE links with Allerton Grange, Year 4 children have been invited to take part in some after-school tag rugby training leading to a local school’s competition.
If you haven’t already returned the permission form, please hand it in at the office or ask for another copy if needed.
