School News

The new football team have won their very first match with four pupils that have never had a match before. Mrs Edwards, who runs the school football team, was very proud for the whole team, as you would imagine, Elouise stated "It was very tough but the most important thing is we had fun. We still have a lot of training to do since the next teams will be even harder than this!"

Rose said "I think we had a very good game because we won our first match and if we carry on like this we can win a lot more." All of the football team are very exited to get to there next football match. Mrs Edwards got the teem into a competition and they are all very exited and Mrs Edwards said that she would get the hole teem a Happy Meal each out of her money.

Elouise

To celebrate national poetry day, Moorlands did multiple activity's such as poetry post, where years 5 and 6 posted poems that they wrote to houses around Belton. We also had an assembly were many people read poems out loud that they made themselves and students in Owls class read some poems at the end of the day.

Ella said  "Posting my poem to a local man who was really nice to me was great fun." Harry added "Reading poems at lunch was the highlight of my day." Hollie said "Everyone that did their  poem in assembly was very brave and confident everyone was safe crossing the road and sensible" Rose stated "I loved poetry day because I got to read my excellent poem in assembly and  I got star of the week for it."

Harry

Head pupils (Harry and Skylar) were head teachers  last Wednesday. The pair got to go in non-school uniform and during assembly they got to choose the great eight in our singing assembly and also interviewed the students thoughts about the singing. Later they worked around the school looking at children's behaviour. They even got to choose what lunch they had  if it was school food or not.

Mr Siddles said "It was a really good chance for the junior leadership team to have a say in how the school is run."

Sam

Have you heard? Starting from after half term there will be a new Catering Company. Don't worry, Patsy will be moving to the new Company so she will still be with Moorlands. Here at MooMail we have some favourites: Cheese And Bean Lasagne, Margherita Pizza and Macaroni Cheese. Mr Freeman Stated " I am very exited about the Catering Company I'm hoping we get bigger options and more choice" Mrs Warner said "We are looking forward to tasting lots of new food."

Elouise

Every Thursday at a lunchtime we are doing dog training! This is where Lily(the school dog) gets trained to high five, sit, stay, roll and paw! Head teacher, Mr Freeman, hosts this club (since he owns Lily).

To make Lily sit, you have to point your finger upwards (pointing to the ceiling) and say 'Lily, sit'. To get her to lay down, you bring your finger down to point to the ground and say 'Lily, down'. Elouise exclaimed "Dog training is very nice and we are having lots of fun trying to get Lilly to do lots of tricks. We are  having hard times trying to get Lilly to do some tricks she has forgotten." 

Lily is very good at following commands.... most of the time!

Harry

At Moorlands we had the travelling book fair come to our school! Did you know that the author Dav Pilkley ,who writes the series Dog Man, was the best selling author of the week! Mr Biddle ,one of our teachers at Moorlands school, quoted "I love hosting the book fair every year and this year was just so successful. We're hosting another Book Fair next September so I am looking forward to it. We raised just over £200.00 and sold £500.00 worth of books!"

Ella

Author Dominique Valente ,recognised  for making the  book series Starfell, came to Moorlands Primary Academy to tell us about her brand new book Witchspark! If the children had permission from their parents they could even buy Dominique's book with a additional signature for  only £5.99! You can find Dominique's book in Waterstones for £8.99. Here are some views of some children who got her book .

Hollie said "It was very nice meeting the author it was also very nice getting her book Witchspark and reading it, it is very good so far." Ella also added " I loved meeting Dominique she was so nice when I got my book and just a lovely person overall. I haven't started the book yet but I am sure it will be great!"

Ella

Moorlands and fellow Ark member, Peterhouse, are doing a joint singing assembly. The song we are singing is ironically called "sing" by Gary Barlow(a member of British band Take That) & the Commonwealth band, featuring Military Wives. The event will take place on Wednesday 23rd October and it will be accessed via a Zoom call. More about the song is that it was made for Queen Elizabeth II diamond jubilee and it featured a lyric from one person from each country in the Commonwealth showing that everybody has a chance to sing and use their voice. We are doing the song for black history month

Sam

We went to graphic novel club and asked some year 4 students what they liked about about Graphic  novel club. Felicity said "I like that we get to draw and make our own comics, overall I love reading."

Guy commented "There's loads of activities and its really fun!"

the children are creating their own comics between the times of 3:10 to 4:00, Alice has been creating a comic called capybaras in space, and Guy a book called unicorn cooking contest. We also interviewed the teacher at graphic novel club, Mr Biddle.

We asked him to see if he would continue it next term, here's what he said "I will continue it next term if everyone enjoys and still wants it."

Harry

Year 4 are learning to swim with the school. Lots of Year 4 children enjoyed it but we could only have a comment, not 1,000! Lukas stated "Its fun when you get into the water. It's very cold but when you move about it gets warmer. Last time we learned how to dive into the water and we've learned how to use our legs in front crawl. We also learned how to use our arms a little bit." We are very proud to be swimming with The Phoenix.

Elouise

On the day before  half term  Moorlands had a rock star day. Mr Freeman said "TT Rockstars day was a great success."

Rock star day is a chance for the whole school to focus on their times tables using TT RockStars. Mr Siddles led a whole school assembly with live battles between staff and children.

Sam

The day before half term at Moorlands we hosted our first ever Halloween disco! At 4:15 until 5:15 it was for ks1 and at 5:30 until 7:00 was the ks2 disco. Sam commented "I liked that they played trending TikTok songs" Whereas Lily-Joy quoted, "I Iiked the colouful lights." 

We would like to thank the Friends of Moorlands for organising this for us. We are looking forward to the next one.

Harry

On Monday the 11th of November as a school Ks1 and Ks2 all came into church with Rosie and Anika to have time for us all to respect and remember the soldiers who fought in World War one and two. Alfie in year 6  said "I think it was good because there were two very fun songs." Whereas Miss Parker said "I think remembrance day is very important that we remember who fought for us." As we had the assembly round about 6 different children read out poems, and names of the men who sadly died for our country.

Throughout the day the school also did activities like doing the two minute silence at 11 O'clock to link with the tradition over half the globe always do.

Ella

Today we had Pudsey visit at our school. This is because tomorrow is Children in Need day which raises money to help vulnerable children across the UK. 

Ella in Year 6 said " I loved it because Pudsey was funny in the class when we were doing maths"

Mrs Davis said " The reason that I love Pudsey day is because I love that   Pudsey is very fluffy and cute"

Pudsey was silly during people's lessons that they were doing and he tried to carry people out of their lessons. He stole people's things but gave them back to that person later . Throughout the day people were talking about Pudsey and said how much fun they had when he came to  visit their classroom .

Hollie

To celebrate children in need day we had a non-school uniform day and did some fun activities and in Owls class we watched some videos about children who need extra help. Alfie said "I liked it because we got to help children in need" . Also Rose said "We got to dress up and celebrate people in need."

Lily

 On the 15th of  November 2024 we had a Michael Rosen day.  The day was a day of poetry, stories and creativity to celebrate 50 years since Michael’s first book.

Sam says 'learning about his story and how he grew up was fun' and Mrs Harrison said "I love  Michael Rosen, he is my favourite poet and he made me laugh."

Lily

Moorlands had their very first safari day on Tuesday. Lots of people dressed up as animals and Mr freeman said that he had never seen so many leopard print in his life! Hollie quoted "I loved safari day because we got to learn about animals." Ella said "It was very exciting to get the giraffe and I loved to see everyone dress up." In the afternoon we drew lots of patterns!

It was a great success and we managed to raise lots of money.

                                          -Elouise

The friends of Moorlands bought a very special gift for the school - a Go Go Safari Giraffe! Mrs Murrison arranged this for us (as her favourite animal is a giraffe as she is in charge of art at the school. 

The idea of having our giraffe is that we will create our best artworks and paint them to it. In the summer holidays next year there will be a trail where everyone can come and see our own  giraffe! Once the trail is finished Go Go safari will give the giraffe back to us and we can keep it forever! Everyone is buzzing about it including Elouise, she said " It was extremely good. I enjoyed it!"

                                                    -Ella

Christmas Takes over in the school . The trees are being put up in the classrooms and the decorations are being hung (especially in Eagles class!). Our giraffe has a Christmas hat and the plays are being practised.

Our big news is that Deer class is now Reindeer class and Owls class are now known as Snowy Owls!!

-Hollie

On Friday the whole Ark had a Freddo Friday which is where you get a Freddo if you have 100% attendance that week. Freddo Friday will be repeated this week for those wonderful people. Some of the people who got 100% attendance that week were: "I loved having the freddo I think this new thing is really good and maybe it'll make more people come into school!"-Ella. "I really like that we're now doing freddo Friday because we get chocolate and chocolate is yummy!"-Hollie. "Yay ,chocolate!"-Sam 

-Elouise

Today ( Thursday 12th December 2024 ) we had  school Christmas Dinner. The hall was decorated in lots of Christmas decorations and the teachers were serving the children their Christmas dinner. We had lots of Christmas music playing whilst the children were eating. They had so much fun having Christmas Dinner. A big thank you needs to go to Patsy and her team for cooking a wonderful meal. Ella said 'It was even better than last year's'.

-Hollie

On the 4-6 December 2024 Moorlands had a Christmas Workshops with Rosie and Anneka at All Saints church Belton. We went to the prayer space and had the choice of lots of different things. One of the choices were making paper chains and on them you would write places you thought were safe and comforting and the names of your family and friends. You would change stations after 15-30 mins. The next station was the arts and crafts. We were making a poster that said hope on it to hang on the wall. The next station was the story space were Anneka read everyone the Christmas story.

The final station was singing we were singing a song called: It Was On A Starry Night. At the end we all sung the it together and it went really well.

-Elouise

On Thursday 12th of December 2024 schools around the UK have a Christmas jumper day. This involves the children coming to school wearing a Christmas jumper instead of a school jumper,cardigan or PE hoodie. Almost all of the school wore their most festive jumpers that they own. This tradition also took place in other schools. Best of all.... All the teachers wore Christmas jumpers too! I mean for the students it was a bit strange but for the teachers, well why wouldn't they want to spread some Christmas cheer?

-Ella

On the 6th of December the whole school (even ladybirds) had a day where we only made Christmas decorations! In Snowy owls class they made reefs and Christmas cards whearas in Otters class they made Christmas jars decorated like Christmas trees! We  had 4 sessions throughout the day, and all the classes were busy with parent helpers who gave very positive feedback about how fun it was to have an oppoutunity to come into school and do activities with there children.

On Friday 6th of December we had a Christmas fair in the PE hall after school. There were lots of games to play at the Christmas fair. It was a great success and raised lots of money for the school. Everyone was so delighted to be there, they had lots of fun. We had lots of stalls including teddy bear raffle and Lilly joy said " It was so fun i got 2 candy canes.