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Time Travel Houses and Homes

Year 2 launched straight into their new topic, Time Travel Houses and Homes, by talking a walk around the local area to see what houses are like today.

We spotted lots of different types of houses and noticed what was the same and what was different.  Ask your child what is the difference between detached, semi-detached, terraced houses and bungalows.

After looking at what houses are like today, we will be going back in time to find out about houses in the past.

Take a look at what we found and maybe you might see some of the houses on your way to school.

Moortown International(!) Primary School #2

So… in this school year, we’ve had great feedback and thanks from Canada and, very recently, from Thailand. You don’t have to have a child attend Moortown to benefit from the learning resources in our Learn More section!

And now… Somerset! OK – maybe not international, but great feedback all the same:

I lead literacy at [a school in] Somerset. I have looked at the documents on your website and would love to have a chat with someone who coordinates writing assessments in your school.
The ARE expectations documents for parents you produced are brilliant. I would be interested to know how you came up with the exemplification for each year group and whether you use those same documents to assess writing.

Please would you be able to put me in touch with your literacy lead teacher or the head teacher for a quick chat? This would be extremely helpful when setting up new systems for our school.

The ‘ARE expectations document’ refers to the age-related expectations we created for each year group in Reading, Writing, Maths and Science and the Foundation Subjects, all to be found on the Expectations page. We created these by taking National Curriculum, which sets out what teachers need to teach and what children are expected to learn, expectations and breaking them down into more manageable year groups. They expectations can be a really useful basis to know how you might support your child at home.

Lib Fest

Leeds libraries are stamping out the shhh during February!

Phonics mornings

Don’t forget to attend our phonics mornings this week.

You’ll be able to see how the children are progressing and find out how you can help to support them at home.

These sessions will be held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9am.

See you there!

Learning to tell the time and other maths

The children are enjoying the new clock in the home corner and are teaching each other how to tell the time!

This week we have been learning about estimating.

The children had to estimate the number of bears that could can fit inside Ewan’s shoe.

Lots of children accurately guessed 9!

Then they had a go at guessing how many bears my boot would hold!

13 January 2017

Moortown International(!) Primary School

You may know that our website is used in Canada (news article, Saturday, November 05, 2016).

Now, we’ve had an email to thank us all the way from Thailand!

Please forward my thanks to the author of your pdf document “Phonics and Graphemes”. I am using parts of it to teach ESL Phonetics here at Ubon Ratchathani Rajabhat University. It is concise, valuable and sincerely appreciated.

I of course give credit to your fine school in its dissemination.

Again, thank you.

The document in question is a guide to phonics and graphemes, or the sounds and letters that help us to read and write.

13 January 2016

For the next two weeks, we will focus on the ‘ably’ and ‘ibly’ word endings. To help them learn when to use the correct ending, children should complete the following activity by Thursday 20 January.

Earlier in the year, we learnt about the able and ible word endings and identified some rules and conventions to help us spell these words correctly. Children should reflect on this learning and investigate the following questions:

• True or false…all words that end in ‘able’ can be changed to end in ‘ably’?
• True or false…all words that end in ‘ible’ can be changed to end in ‘ibly’?
• Can you spot a pattern, rule or convention when changing words to end in ‘ably’ or ‘ibly’?
• Is it always, sometimes or never true that words ending in ‘ably’ or ‘ibly’ are adverbs? Prove it.

13 January 2017

Spelling worksheet due in Thursday 19 January 2017.

This week, to help with spelling, children have been given a worksheet concentrating on the ‘ness’ and ‘ful’ suffixes. Your child will have a spelling test on Friday 20 January based on the spellings they learned last week for homework.

13 January 2017

This week’s homework is creative and is due in on Thursday 19 January 2017.

I can show what I have learned during our ‘What’s the Matter?’ topic, when we concentrated on rocks and soils. 

For this homework, I’d like children to reflect on their learning from the past two weeks and show off what they have learned. Your child could:

• give an overview of what they have learned about the three different types of rocks and their properties
• show how different rocks are formed
• take photos of different rocks
• be a scientist and conduct a science investigation

I look forward to seeing all the children’s wonderful ideas and creations.