Children can go out in the garden as a break from their schoolwork, especially as the weather is so nice at the moment.
At the weekend Harry was helping his Mum and Dad clear the leaves on the patio.
We think that Mrs Harvey would be very proud because in the Autumn it is a job that she battles with every day!
Well done Harry!
The Gripton family are having a routine school day today. They started the morning with the Joe Wicks workout.
Joe Wicks is a personal trainer who has become famous with his workout videos.
He has pledged to do daily PE lessons for children via his Youtube channel and is determined to keep the country moving whilst the schools are closed.
This morning 800,000 children joined in and it is a great way for children start the day whilst Mrs Harvey is out of reach.
Just search Joe Wicks PE lessons on Youtube for more information.
Every Friday, Year 5 do Fitness with Mrs Harvey. All the classes have a fitness session with her and we will blog more of these over the coming weeks.
Year 5 children run either 7, 11 or 14 laps building up over time. 7 equates to a mile, 11 to a mile and a half and 14 to two miles.
Records are kept in the classroom and all the children aim to have run a half marathon or a marathon by the end of the school year.
All the children love their fitness sessions with Mrs Harvey and she has her own unique way of making fitness fun!
We will keep you posted with their progress!
In PE today, Base 2 have been learning gymnastics.
Working with a partner in a small group, using floor and mats, they have been creating and performing a sequence of at least 8 elements. e.g a combination of asymmetrical shapes and balances with symmetrical rolling and jumping actions.
The sequence should include changes of direction and level and incorporate mirroring and matching shapes and balances.
I watched for a while and some of the ideas were really creative. Sadly my photography is not so – some of my “action” photos are lacking in clarity, but hopefully you will get the idea of what the children have been working on!
The KS2 children have taken part in a Virtual Reality day today.
Base 1 were the first children to take part and used the headsets to learn about the respiratory system.
Back in class they followed up the demonstration by learning how oxygen travels through the body. They have done this by creating comic strips.
At the end of the lesson they should be able to:
This afternoon the children in Base 1 have been learning about understanding texture in a piece of music.
They have used a graphic score and a soundscape to describe an African Thunderstorm.
They were so pleased with it, they came round and asked me to add it to the blog.
Unfortunately, the video won’t load but it is on Twitter for you to see.
We love it and hope you do too!
Skellig is a children’s novel by the British author David Almond, published in 1998.
Currently, Year 5 and 6 are using Skellig as their whole class text and some of the English tasks are based around this.
Today’s task for Base 2 is inference.
What is inference?
An inference is any step in logic that allows someone to reach a conclusion based on evidence or reasoning.
It is similar to a conclusion or a deduction.
Inferences are very important when reading a story or text andis a good reading comprehension skill.
When we make inferences while reading, we are using evidence provided by the author to draw our own logical conclusions.
Since publication, Skellig has been printed in several editions, each with differing designs on the cover.
Today, children are looking at the different book covers and using inference skills to see how a book cover can help you predict what will happen in a story.
They are working in groups to look at what is appealing, what is interesting and what the cover might tell you about the book.
Today in Maths, Base 1 have been looking at the properties of 3D shapes.
They have been working together in groups to describe the properties of a 3D shape and will also learn how to identify parallel and perpendicular faces/edges.
Some 3D shapes, like cubes and pyramids, can be opened or unfolded along their edges to create a flat shape. The net of a 3D shape is what it looks like if it is opened out flat. A net can be folded to make a 3D shape.
The children will be learning more about this later on today.
If you want to help your children with this topic, there is help on BBC Bitesize
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zt7xk2p/articles/z247tv4
YEAR 5 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.
For our last day in York, we split into two groups and visited the Jorvik and Digg Museums.
Jorvik is a Viking Centre and stands on the site where archaeologists revealed the houses, workshops and backyards of the Viking age city of Jorvik as it stood nearly 1000 years ago . We went on a ride around the museum which showed how the Vikings would have lived. We also looked at a collection of Viking artefacts and children were fascinated by some fossilised poo! Not the nicest of things but one of the most talked about items in the museum!
We also visited Dig. This is linked with the Jorvik centre and aims to show children the fun side of archaeology. They get the chance to “dig” up some artefacts and then take part in a workshop where they get to hold items from actual archaeological digs including pottery, bones and antlers while learning what the artefacts tell us about the lives of people who used them .
The children really enjoyed these interactive experiences and it was a fun way to spend the morning .
Then after one final walk down the river bank and a bit of lunch, we boarded the coach and headed back to Newport with a singalong to “The Greatest Showman” to top it all off ! 
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