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School Council election

In an assembly this week, our current school councillors told us what characteristics are needed to be an effective school councillor. These included being responsive, fair, confident, resilient, a good listener, have good suggestions and accept the views of others.

Following in-class election speeches this week, our School Council elections will take place tomorrow, Thursday, 09 February. All children have the opportunity to vote at our polling station using the following instructions.

Before voting, please read the following:

• Vote once for one person.
• Place one X only on this ballot paper beside the name of the candidate you have chosen.
• Do not write or mark anything else on the ballot paper; if you do, your paper will be invalid and your vote will not be counted.
• When you have marked the ballot paper, fold the paper and place it in the box provided.

Votes will be counted tomorrow and our new School Council will be announced at the end of the day. This will be made up of two children from each class with the highest number of votes.

Good luck to all our candidates.

Safer Internet Day

Today is Safer Internet Day.

As part of our learning about internet safety, we are reading Digiduck, a story about friendship and online safety, in our whole class guided reading.

Did Digiduck make the right decision?  Why?

The book also includes some key advice for parents.  Further information on online safety is available from our website.

Parents’ evenings

Thank you to everyone who came to the parents’ evening appointments over the last couple of days.

It was great to celebrate your child’s successes and suggest some ways to support their learning at home.

If there is anything you would like to discuss further, please let us know.

School Council elections

It’s time for children to consider if they would like to stand for election for our new School Council.  With two representatives from each class, chosen democratically by their peers, all children at Moortown Primary are encouraged to take an active part in pupil voice.

Elections for our new school council will take place next Thursday 09 February with our polling station and ballot boxes at the ready.  Candidates will have the opportunity to give their election speech to their class on Wednesday 08 February.

What makes a good school councillor has been considered by our current school council.

‘Communicating with others – pupils and adults.’
‘Having good listening skills to know what to contribute in meetings.’
‘Thinking of realistic ideas to suggest in meetings.’
‘Considering other people’s views even if you don’t agree with them.’

If your child would like to stand, please could you help them to prepare a speech.

Hints for their speech include:

What skills and abilities would a good school councillor have?
What are they particularly good at that would help them to be a great school councillor?
What do they think would make the school better? What could they do that people would really like?
Think of things that are realistic, maybe that they could do themselves, rather than having to ask other people to do?

Good luck to all children who decide to stand in the elections.

If you choose not to stand in the election then you should consider the importance of voting.

03 February 2017

This week’s spellings all have the ‘less’ or ‘ly’ suffixes.

Children should practise spelling these words in preparation for a test on Friday 10 February.

03 February 2017

For all children in Year 1 – Year 6, the homework this week is talk time and is due in on Wednesday 08 February. There are two options:

• I can prepare a speech (School Council elections).
• I know the importance of voting.

It’s time for children to consider if they would like to stand for election for our new School Council.  With two representatives from each class, chosen democratically by their peers, all children at Moortown Primary are encouraged to take an active part in pupil voice.

Elections for our new school council will take place on Thursday 09 February with our polling station and ballot boxes at the ready.  Candidates will have the opportunity to give their election speech to their class on Wednesday 08 February.

What makes a good school councillor has been considered by our current school council.

‘Communicating with others – pupils and adults.’
‘Having good listening skills to know what to contribute in meetings.’
‘Thinking of realistic ideas to suggest in meetings.’
‘Considering other people’s views even if you don’t agree with them.’

Hints for your speech include:

• What skills and abilities would a good school councillor have?
• What are you particularly good at that would help you to be a great school councillor?
• What do you think would make the school better?
• What could you do that people would really like?
• Think of things that are realistic, maybe that you could do yourself, rather than having to ask other people to do

Thank you to our current school councillors for all their ideas and contributions over the last year.  We hope you have enjoyed this role and responsibility.  You’re welcome to stand again for election.

Good luck to all children who decide to stand in the elections.

If you choose not to stand in the election then you should consider the importance of voting.

Viking homework

Year 4 has been invaded!

Following a creative homework, I can research the Vikings, the children have once again shown that they can come up with some fabulous ideas. From life-like longboats to quizzical quizzes, Year 4 have shown they have the lot! We even had a Viking tune played by one of the children. Here are just some of the examples which are on display in the classroom:

Marble run fun!

As part of our Time Travel – Entertainment topic, we’re designing, making and selling some fabulous marble runs. Working in groups of three, we put our heads together to create a plan for how we could construct a marble run out of wood. We had to think about how we could keep it simple enough to make, but complicated enough to be fun to play.

When our designs were finished, we decided to make prototypes out of Lego. This meant that we could figure out where our ideas were too complicated and what sort of measures of wood we’d need to cut. We all found it really helpful to make these prototypes and now we’re prepared to get the saws out and create in wood!

03 February 2017

This week’s homework is Creative and will be looked at on Thursday 09 February.

I can see area and perimeter all around me.

We’ve been brushing up on our area and perimeter knowledge this week so where can we see it in the world around us? As a class, we thought about some ideas for things we could do for this homework:

• Take photos of items around the house and measure it to work out the area and the perimeter.
• Go out and about and measure a field or garden (perhaps in steps rather than metres) to calculate its area and perimeter.
• Plan decorating a house, draw its floor plan and calculate how much it’ll cost for the carpets.
• Create a floor plan of our bedrooms and measure everything inside to place it onto our plan, drawn to scale.

Of course, if you can think of something else, we’ll look forward to seeing that too.

02 February 2017

This week, the root words all have suffixes: er, ing or est. All the root words end in e. When adding the suffixes, you have to first drop the e from the root word.
Children could be tested on any of the words.