Morningside NewsletterSpelling Bee A huge well done to all of the spelling bee finalists. All finalists were fantastic at learning their year group spelling words. Most year groups went to sudden death, which means they have to spell correctly the words from next year group. All...
A huge well done to all of the spelling bee finalists. All finalists were fantastic at learning their year group spelling words. Most year groups went to sudden death, which means they have to spell correctly the words from next year group. All spellers show resilience and confidence when attempting to spell the words. A massive congratulations to the winners.
Year 1 winner – Kiyan 1M
Year 2 winner – Mohamed 2S
Year 3 winner – Emiliano 3S
Year 4 winner – Tayyibah 4M
Year 5 winner – Keyaan 5S
Year 6 winner – Hamzah 6M
This term we see the return of the West African drumming and dance workshops which include; playing djembes, singing and dancing. They are working with year 2 and year 6.
The workshops provide children the chance to learn unique and diverse musical skills including West African drums and percussion, folk songs and dances. It provides students with the musicianship skills essential to succeed in learning to play an instrument, and helps to develop their love of music.
They will be performing a concert at the end of the term.
Last term, two children in 5S won a photo competition for the Wild City biodiversity competition. This meant our school progressed to the next stage of the competition working with Salters’ Institute EDible landscapes to create a new green space in our playground.
Last week, they went to Salters’ Institute to learn more about biodiversity which will support them with their playground designs of a green space that incorporates the 7 layers of a forest garden. They learnt all about soil and the biodiversity needed within soil and how this can affect the surrounding flora, fauna and fungi.
We can’t wait to see their designs and really hope they win so we can have their designs come to life.
This week year 5 and year 6 children participated in bike ability. Bike ability is a cycle training programme that helps children learn practical skills and understand how to cycle on today’s roads. The children loved the sessions each day and have definitely gained cycle confidence. They enjoyed learning bike skills in the playground and then applying these skills on the road.
Thank you to all the families who donated kitchen utensils this week for the playground. Next week we are asking for toys: dolls, prams (even full size old pushchairs), construction, games, puzzles. Please no soft toys.
Don’t forget to bring along your bingo card with your donation so you can get another stamp and be
Many thanks for your support
Please be reminded that all children should be at school by 9am. The gates open at 8:45am and then close promptly at 9.00am. Any latecomers will need to enter the school via the main office where parents will be asked to sign their child in and record the reason for being late.
If your child is late this means they have missed key information that will help them with their learning and help them progress.
Getting to school punctually and every day is an important part of the school day. It is your responsibility to ensure that your child attends school each day and is on time.
It’s fine to send your child to school with a minor cough, common cold or sore throat. But if they have a fever, keep them off school until the fever goes.
Encourage your child to throw away used tissues and to wash their hands regularly.
Moments matter, attendance counts.
Each week, we will share the class, who has the highest attendance. This week, we want to celebrate 2M, who achieved 98.7%. A huge well done and keep up the excellent work; it has a great impact on learning and progress. At the end of the half term, the class with the highest attendance will receive a special reward.
In Nursery, we have been practising our pencil grips and marking different marks with different tools. We have been making patterns with our fingers in the shaving cream, following patterns with fingers and using pencils to record our ideas in the continuous provision. ...
This week RS went to Forest School and had the best time splashing in muddy puddles. This week, our focus text is ‘Lost and Found’. We’ve enjoyed talking about journeys and making special sea creature play dough....
This week in writing, we have been practising our interviews with our talk partner. Each partner had preplanned questions and focused on following our talk partner guidelines, including answering in full sentences, projecting their voices and using eye contact. When forming our questions we needed......
This week, in writing we have been learning to write instructions. Taking inspiration from our class text, ‘Man on the Moon,’ we made a rocket to help us understand the sequence of instructions. In our writing we used command sentences with present tense verbs and......
In writing, we have been writing non-chronological reports based around our class reader, ‘The Wild Robot’. They know to include headings, subheadings and detailed paragraphs. In pairs, we looked at specific passages to pull information into our writing plans....
Year 4 had a fantastic day at the Science Museum. We learned lots of amazing new things. We were lucky enough to have some time exploring the museum before watching the wonder show. We watched a medley of experiments and demonstrations that are jam-packed with......
In reading this week, we are loving reading our class text, ’Who Let The Gods Out?’ By Mary Alice Evans. We love Virgo’s wit and think she is a fantastic character. The key vocabulary we are using this week are democracy, cautioning, reformed, gesture, inhabitants.......
This term in art, we are learning about textiles. They will be learning about different fabrics and stitches and their different functions for different purposes. This week we’ve been exploring target markets and designing our slippers, ready to begin making them for the next lesson....