Morningside NewsletterOdd Sock Day Odd Socks Day marks the start of Anti-Bullying Week. Odd Socks Day is an annual event that encourages the children to wear mismatched socks as a way of celebrating diversity and promoting inclusion. It's an opportunity for the children to express themselves,...
Odd Socks Day marks the start of Anti-Bullying Week. Odd Socks Day is an annual event that encourages the children to wear mismatched socks as a way of celebrating diversity and promoting inclusion. It’s an opportunity for the children to express themselves, celebrate their individuality and remind us that we are all unique.
On Monday 13th November, we are asking all children to come into school in odd socks.
BBC Children in Need is back on Friday 17th November 2023. To fundraise money for Children in Need, we are asking children to come into school in their pyjamas on Friday 17th of November and bring along a donation of £1. By being involved we will be making a huge difference to the children and young people who need us most.
A huge congratulation to Diarnie and Ayesha (5S) on their photography submission for the Wild City biodiversity competition. The Salters’ Institute judging panel were really impressed with the creativity of the images and how they related to biodiversity. This now means that our school is one of five schools competing in the next round of the competition. If we win the school will work with Edible landscapes to create a new green space in our playground. 5S will be involved in the next stage of the competition in which they will be designing a green space that incorporates the 7 layers of a forest garden. We can’t wait to see their designs.
Thank you to all the parents who joined us for Playtime Family Friday. This was an excellent opportunity for us to share what playtimes are like at Morningside.
Today the children ate a special Diwali lunch: biryani (chicken or veg), vegetable samosas and gajar halwa. They all agreed it was delicious.
Happy Diwali to all our families.
We have a lot of lost jumpers, coats, hats, scarves and bags in the front office. All of it is unnamed. Please come and have a look if your child is missing any items of clothing. Please can you label all items of clothing with your child’s name, so they can be returned to your child.
Raffle Tickets will be on sale from Friday 1st December from the school office. We are still seeking donations from local businesses. If you know anyone who may be able to donate a voucher or prize, please speak or email the school office. We are thrilled to have received a donation of scooter accessories from Micro Scooters. Renowned for revolutionising the school run, Micro Scooters make getting from A-B quicker, cleaner, greener, healthier, and more fun. We have 10 helmet, character head and bottle holder sets to give away in the raffle, each worth £40.
Please note that we do not authorise holidays in term time under any circumstances. Parents & carers need to ensure that they do not book holidays or flights before term ends or after term has begun. Please check the website for our school term dates.
Each week, we will share the class, who has the highest attendance. This week, we want to celebrate 6S, who achieved 99.5%. 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.
This week in Nursery, the children have been making simple marks with twigs and leaves. They have been copying patterns to help them develop their writing skills. They have also been solving puzzles; thinking carefully about matching different shapes to inset boards. ...
Reception children have been busy this week creating beautiful firework inspired artwork and exploring materials. They drew themselves at a firework display and wrote letters and words to describe how they sound. Pop! Fizz! They loved exploring ice and observing the changes throughout the day....
This week in maths we have been practising our counting skills. We have been learning the importance of one to one correspondence and been learning strategies to make sure we only count the objects once. We then moved onto counting pictorial objects and thought about......
Year 2 have an exciting new book, ‘Lazy Lion,’ by Mwenye Hadithi, to inspire their writing over the next few weeks. This week they have been immersing themselves in their new text. They have listened to the story several times and retold the main events......
This week in maths, year 4 have been learning about perimeter. They know perimeter is the distance around the edge of a shape. In pairs the children investigated which leaves had the greatest perimeter. They used a piece of string to measure around the edge......
In geography this week, children have been using a variety of sources including maps and satellite photos to identify the key features of a river. The children know and can label the source, mouth, bed, meander, course, tributary, delta and floodplain. Year 5 also knows......
In year 6, they have been taking inspiration from their class text, ‘Goodnight Mister Tom,’ to help them write a 5 plot-point narrative based on being evacuated from the city to the countryside because of the Blitz. To help prepare them for their writing they......