Children in Reception and KS1 at Moorfield regularly walk over to Buttercross Court in Newport to spend some time with the older members of our community.

Around once a month, the staff take a different group of children over to spend time with the residents.  We are not sure who likes it more, the children, the residents or the staff watching the fun that the children have!

This week they played Jenga, dominoes and draughts and were fascinated by the yoyo skills of one of the residents!

We are looking forward to the next visit already!

 

One of the most important jobs in Reception is to nurture a love of reading.

To this end, the children have been helping us to make new reading areas both inside and outside the classroom.

Inside, we have a reading garden with cushions and beanbags. The children are currently painting flowers which will also decorate the area.

Outdoors, we have our “Wild about Reading” Area – it is covered in camouflage and has  a bookcase made from a pallet to make it more exciting – take a look at the photographs!

The new areas are very popular and children are enjoying fiction and non-fiction books.

As well as encouraging children to read more, the new areas are also great for the their social development.  There is a noticeable impact during reading time when children have been sharing books with each other and talking about them with their friends.

Base 7 have been learning about humans and animals in Science this week.

They have been looking at the changing stages of the human lifecycle and animal lifecycle.

They have all drawn pictures representing ages of humans and talked about the differences between them.

They have looked at animals and can distinguish between an adult animal and a baby animal.

This morning they have been writing a list of questions that they have about animals and then later on they will be given a fact sheet to research and will identify if their questions can be answered using these.

We have included some photographs of some of the work they have done for you to look at.

As part of their Geography learning this term, Year 2 have been learning about the local area.
They have been learning to use maps and looking at differences between the town and the countryside.
Today, the Year 2 children went on a walk from Moorfield School to the Edgmond Hall Learning Centre.
Wearing wellies and carrying rucksacks, they walked through the town and then into the countryside looking at the environment around them.
Children stopped at several points so they could find where they were on the map, learning how to find North, South, East and West. They also looked at the landscape in the changing seasons.
The children were given an ordnance survey map and also a copy of an aerial map. When they got to Edgmond they worked together to see where they were in relation to their location and found places of interest such as the Wrekin and learned how to find where the town of Telford was. After lunch in a barn they started the muddy walk back to Moorfield and arrived back in time for playtime !

YEAR 2 BIG SING REHEARSALS

At Moorfield, we work together with TACT Schools Art Music Partnership to deliver our music curriculum.

As part of the music curriculum we deliver, children in Year 2 and Year 5 take part in a concert called “The Big Sing” each year.  This year the concerts will take place at The International Centre in Telford in March and soon we will be sending out more information to parents about how it will work and how you can buy tickets.

Staff from TACT have been coming into school and teaching children the songs which they will perform at the concert.

This week is Science week in Reception and children are learning about floating and sinking.

For this exercise they are using fruit, and children have been asked to make predictions of what will happen to a particular fruit and why.

They have been explaining what ‘sink’ and ‘float’ means and have been talking with other members of the class, demonstrating that they can use the words in the correct context.

They have told their friends what they think will happen to their fruit when it is dropped in the water and why think this will happen.

They have then moved on to test this by dropping their piece of fruit into a tub of water so that they can see what happens.

After children have done the testing, they have then tried to explain why they think it happened – and there have been some surprises!

There has also been a Maths link with this topic because children have shown that they can use mathematical vocabulary by talking to their group about the weight and the size of the fruit that they have picked.

We are making healthy wraps this morning. Soon we are going to taste them and write some evaluations. 

   
           

This week we have all worked very hard to design and make a maths game! We are testing them Ouse,vets this morning before we try them out in our Reception class this afternoon. 

   
     

As part of our Geography we are looking at some of the flavours and spices that are used in Indian cooking.

   
                 

This week is science week and we have started by making bug hotels!