Morningside NewsletterBritish Science Week British Science Week is a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths that takes place between 8th-17th March. The theme this year is ‘Smashing Stereotypes,’ supporting children to challenge long standing stereotypes of scientists, with the aim of encouraging more people...
British Science Week is a ten-day celebration of science, technology, engineering and maths that takes place between 8th-17th March. The theme this year is ‘Smashing Stereotypes,’ supporting children to challenge long standing stereotypes of scientists, with the aim of encouraging more people from all backgrounds to see themselves as scientists.
Throughout this week each class carried out an exciting investigation. Ask your children what they observed.
EYFS: Changing apples. What will happen to the apple if we leave it for a week?
Year 1: What happens when you add water to skittles?
Year 2: Which habitat do our minibeasts prefer?
Year 3: What happens to white flowers when they are left in coloured water?
Year 4: Which material is best for keeping our hot chocolate warm?
Year 5: Which material is best for keeping our hot chocolate warm?
Year 6: How does my heart rate change throughout the day?
We were lucky enough to be offered the opportunity for Sav Akyuz (a local author and illustrator) to run an interactive reading workshop for year 2 and 3. He talked about the process behind writing and illustrating his two amazing picture books, ‘I am Bear’ and ‘Bear Moves’. Sav has recently become a Patron for the Primary Hackney Reading Champions, and our very own Reading Champions have been lucky enough to take part in two of his sessions already!
This term we are having a big focus on improving our school attendance. Attendance Matters and has a huge impact on your child’s attainment and progress.
Please read this information so you know if your child should be in school or not if you think they are ill. Should I keep my child off school?
Class of The Week: 1S 100%
Morningside Primary is working with Tender Education and Arts to become a Healthy Relationships Champion School!
RESET is their Healthy Relationships whole school approach, and they are supporting us to deliver
relationship education sessions throughout the school. They will also be supporting families with
more information on how to support their children to have healthy relationships with themselves and each other.
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To find out more about RE:SET, please visit www.tenderreset.org.uk
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Thank you to all families who donated items for our playground. It has made a real difference to our play offer and it is great seeing household items recycled and reused in a different way. The winners of the bingo card draw were:
Gunes 2S
Emiliano 3S
Yasmina 4S
Riley 2S
Ruya 2S
Please come and collect your prize from the office.
This week, the Sustainability Squad have launched the Big Plastic Count at Morningside. This week they have asked families to count out plastic waste and so they can tell the government how much is thrown away in the UK each week. On Monday, every child will bring home a Big Plastic Count tally sheet so that you can count the amount of plastic waste thrown away in your home. Please return these to school on Monday 18th March, so that we collect our results together. Together we can fight plastic pollution.
Thank you to all the children who dressed in red and brought in a coin donation for Red Nose day. All money raised will go to Comic Relief, which supports incredible projects and organisations that are making a difference for people across the UK and around the world. We raised £210. Thank you.
The children really enjoyed participating in the egg and spoon race today with red noses instead of eggs. Thank you to the school council for this brilliant idea.
Apex Holiday Club (HAF) is open for registration – At Daubeney Primary School
Please click on the link for the Holiday Club flyer.
The registration link can be found here https://forms.gle/jFdiorWex2WtHRxJ8
In science this week, we have been learning about how our heart rate changes throughout the day. We learnt that the heart (a muscle) pumps blood around the body by contracting and relaxing. A normal resting heart rate is between 60- 100 beats per minute......
This week, year 5 have been loving their science week investigation, which cup is best for keeping our hot chocolate warm? Firstly, we conducted a fair test to observe change over time as we wanted to see which cup kept our drink warmest. Using cups......
This week in reading, we practised our excellent partner reading skills. We are great at taking it in turns to read. We do this by reading a page each. When we find the answer to a question we stop reading and discuss why we think......
This week, we had an incredible trip to Hackney School of Food. We learnt how to make a delicious healthy meal. We all became mini chefs and used our cooking skills: chopping, grating, mixing, measuring and weighing, to create scrumptious baked bread and a healthy......
This week in maths, we have been practising adding two two-digit numbers in by partitioning the numbers, then adding the tens and the ones together to find the total....
This week in year 1, we have been practising our cutting and grating skills. We learnt three different ways to cut with a knife; the claw cut, fork secure and the bridge. Each cutting technique is used for a different purpose. The most important thing......
In Reception this week, we have continued to use our artistic skills to create some more lovely artwork. We were inspired by spring and the beautiful daffodils we can see in the parks and gardens. We looked closely at some daffodils and created our paintings....
This week in Nursery, we continue to learn the story, ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar.’ The children have enjoyed retelling the story and completing activities linked to the story. The best thing was welcoming our own furry friends. We have closely observed how they move and......
