issue no: 12 16th december 2020 - moorlands school
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Issue No: 12 16th December 2020
Year 5 and Foxes enjoyed meeting their buddies before the Christmas holidays this week. Foxes had made some festive decorations for Year 5, and Year 5 had made a Christmas card for them. All children enjoyed seeing each other (socially distanced) before Christmas.
News from Music The Masked Singer Live Final got off to a fantastic start with the first group performing ‘I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday!’ The classes watching on Teams then had to vote for who they thought was the child behind the mask. Group 2 then sang ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’, with voting continuing to take place. Whilst Mrs Irwin received and counted all the votes, both year groups performed a masked dance before the results were announced. Sadly, Oliver, Lottie and Alex received the most votes so were out first. In 3rd place was Will, 2nd place was Matty and the winner of The Masked Singer 2020, with only 20 votes across the school, was Scarlett! Special mention must go to Jacob S and Georgie who were reserves and narrowly missed out on a place in the final. Well done to everyone and a big thank you to my colleagues who helped with the dances, voting, filming, music, mask designs and IT logistics!
House Football and Netball
Last Friday saw the first competitive sport Moorlands has been able to play since March and it was undertaken with such fantastic teamwork and support that it proved to be hugely successful. It is clear that the children have missed the opportunity to play competitive sport, and all that comes from being part of a team. Both the football and netball were hotly contested, with the U9 netball needing extra time to decide the winner between the strength of Palin and the skill of Sharman! The final results were: U9 Netball Palin, Sharman, Adams U9 football Palin, Sharman, Adams U11 Netball Adams, Palin, Sharman U11 Football Adams, Palin, Sharman The points will be added onto the end of year totals, going towards the House Cup. Well done to the House captains for organsing the teams and making sure that all of KS2 had the opportunity to represent their House. Year 1 and 2 had lots of fun on Wednesday morning making mince pies! They each had a turn rolling out the pastry and filling the pastry case with mincemeat.
Year 1 had brilliant fun this week designing and painting their own bauble! They all did a great job painting neatly and staying within the lines!
The Reception class elf ‘Eddie” has been making lots of mischief in our classroom, hiding in various places for the children to find. He has also brought us lots of important messages such as making sure we wash our hands!
The children have really enjoyed making up their own humorous words to the ’Twelve days of Christmas’ and we have been very busy practicing this song. We hope you have as much fun watching our Christmas video as we did in making it.
In between practicing our Christmas songs, the children have been busy reading Christmas stories, making Christmas tree decorations, writing cards for our buddies, wrapping presents, baking gingerbread biscuits and learning from festive themed maths games. We hope you like and use the annual calendar We are so proud of how the children have adapted to such a fun and busy time!
We hope you like your seasonal calendars for the new year, and the cards and crafts children have made!
Year 4 have enjoyed baking Christmas biscuits for their families and a very muddy walk in The Hollies!
Year 6 have done some excellent projects connected with their WWII project and presented their findings to each other this week.
NEWS FROM THE MSA Thank you to everyone who has helped in the MSA, contributed gifts, or time or taken part in our fundraisers this year. Your support has been appreciated and it has enabled us to give some festive treats to our Moorlands children. We hope you all have a fantastic Christmas and New Year and we will see you in 2021. Festive Wishes. The MSA. 100 CLUB Our December winner is…. number 37!! Congratulations to our lucky winner. The MSA will be in touch with regards to the £50 prize. The next draw will take place January 29th. Good luck, everyone. EASY FUNDRAISING – HELP US RAISE FUNDS FOR SCHOOL! If you’re Christmas shopping, make sure you use easyfundraising. Over 4,300 shops and sites will donate, so you can raise a FREE donation for Moorlands School Association - time to grab a bargain! It is simple and easy to use! Visit: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/moorlandssa/?utm_campaign=raise- more&utm_medium=whatsapp&utm_content=rm-bf20-w1 PRELOVED UNIFORM SHOP Our uniform shop is still OPEN but could all uniform queries be sent to Lara Harper (07775 001891 / [email protected]) who has offered to be our uniform shop liaison. Lara will be able to check if the items you require are in stock and organise payment and collection. Thank you Lara!
Don’t forget, as autumn arrives, we also have a supply of black gloves available for purchase (£2) in school reception along with a selection of hair accessories.
Thank you to all parents for your continued donations. If anyone has any unwanted items including bags, sports kits and waterproof overalls, please leave them at reception, clearly marked for the attention of the MSA team.
JOIN THE MSA…… We always need new volunteers to join us, bring new ideas and just get involved. We promise we don’t ask too much of anyone – our team members do as much or as little as works for them – the only requirement is that everyone enjoys themselves! Our team has grown over the past few years from under 10 to just under 30. If you would like to get involved in the fun, then just send us a text or email on the contact details below.
Contact: Nikie (07921129623) or Ola (07427 633588) / [email protected]
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Please complete your booking as soon as possible. The links will close at 4pm on 31.12.20
The Links for Spring Term 1 Extra-Curricular Clubs have been emailed out.
Please make sure that you make your club selections before 31st December 2020.
Mon 4th Staff INSET Day
Tues 5th 8.30am Spring Term begins (breakfast club and late class available)
Weds 6th Clubs Start Bushcraft Year 5
Tues 12th am WGS Entrance Exam @ Moorlands
pm WGS Entrance Interviews @ Moorlands
Weds 13th Bushcraft Year 6
Sat 16th HLC Entrance Exams
Weds 20th Bushcraft Year 4
Sat 23rd Open morning for prospective parents - by appointment
Tues 26th Giggleswick Entrance Exams @ Moorlands
Weds 27th Bushcraft Year 3
The deadline for renewing your childcare code for Spring
Term is 31st December 2020
PE Partner Wednesday after school club Football for Year 5 and 6 will start again in January. All sessions are delivered and planned by qualified coaches and the emphasis is on having fun and developing individual skills through games and drills. The club is every Wednesday starts 4pm – 5pm, see all dates below. Starts Wednesday 6th January, then 13th, 20th and 27th January, 3rd, 10th and 24th February, 3rd, 10, 17th and 24th March. To book please visit our website at: https://pepartner.coordinate.cloud/event/90119
in a savoury tomato sauce
Quorn Balls
and onion gravy
Bakewell Tart
Millionaires Shortbread
Flapjack
Creamed Potatoes, sliced
carrots and gravy
Chocolate Chip Cookie
Macaroni Cheese Pasta in Tomato and Basil sauce with Sweetcorn
Iced Buns
Assorted Desserts
Year 5 and Foxes enjoyed meeting their buddies before the Christmas holidays this week. Foxes had made some festive decorations for Year 5, and Year 5 had made a Christmas card for them. All children enjoyed seeing each other (socially distanced) before Christmas.
News from Music The Masked Singer Live Final got off to a fantastic start with the first group performing ‘I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday!’ The classes watching on Teams then had to vote for who they thought was the child behind the mask. Group 2 then sang ‘All I Want for Christmas Is You’, with voting continuing to take place. Whilst Mrs Irwin received and counted all the votes, both year groups performed a masked dance before the results were announced. Sadly, Oliver, Lottie and Alex received the most votes so were out first. In 3rd place was Will, 2nd place was Matty and the winner of The Masked Singer 2020, with only 20 votes across the school, was Scarlett! Special mention must go to Jacob S and Georgie who were reserves and narrowly missed out on a place in the final. Well done to everyone and a big thank you to my colleagues who helped with the dances, voting, filming, music, mask designs and IT logistics!
House Football and Netball
Last Friday saw the first competitive sport Moorlands has been able to play since March and it was undertaken with such fantastic teamwork and support that it proved to be hugely successful. It is clear that the children have missed the opportunity to play competitive sport, and all that comes from being part of a team. Both the football and netball were hotly contested, with the U9 netball needing extra time to decide the winner between the strength of Palin and the skill of Sharman! The final results were: U9 Netball Palin, Sharman, Adams U9 football Palin, Sharman, Adams U11 Netball Adams, Palin, Sharman U11 Football Adams, Palin, Sharman The points will be added onto the end of year totals, going towards the House Cup. Well done to the House captains for organsing the teams and making sure that all of KS2 had the opportunity to represent their House. Year 1 and 2 had lots of fun on Wednesday morning making mince pies! They each had a turn rolling out the pastry and filling the pastry case with mincemeat.
Year 1 had brilliant fun this week designing and painting their own bauble! They all did a great job painting neatly and staying within the lines!
The Reception class elf ‘Eddie” has been making lots of mischief in our classroom, hiding in various places for the children to find. He has also brought us lots of important messages such as making sure we wash our hands!
The children have really enjoyed making up their own humorous words to the ’Twelve days of Christmas’ and we have been very busy practicing this song. We hope you have as much fun watching our Christmas video as we did in making it.
In between practicing our Christmas songs, the children have been busy reading Christmas stories, making Christmas tree decorations, writing cards for our buddies, wrapping presents, baking gingerbread biscuits and learning from festive themed maths games. We hope you like and use the annual calendar We are so proud of how the children have adapted to such a fun and busy time!
We hope you like your seasonal calendars for the new year, and the cards and crafts children have made!
Year 4 have enjoyed baking Christmas biscuits for their families and a very muddy walk in The Hollies!
Year 6 have done some excellent projects connected with their WWII project and presented their findings to each other this week.
NEWS FROM THE MSA Thank you to everyone who has helped in the MSA, contributed gifts, or time or taken part in our fundraisers this year. Your support has been appreciated and it has enabled us to give some festive treats to our Moorlands children. We hope you all have a fantastic Christmas and New Year and we will see you in 2021. Festive Wishes. The MSA. 100 CLUB Our December winner is…. number 37!! Congratulations to our lucky winner. The MSA will be in touch with regards to the £50 prize. The next draw will take place January 29th. Good luck, everyone. EASY FUNDRAISING – HELP US RAISE FUNDS FOR SCHOOL! If you’re Christmas shopping, make sure you use easyfundraising. Over 4,300 shops and sites will donate, so you can raise a FREE donation for Moorlands School Association - time to grab a bargain! It is simple and easy to use! Visit: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/moorlandssa/?utm_campaign=raise- more&utm_medium=whatsapp&utm_content=rm-bf20-w1 PRELOVED UNIFORM SHOP Our uniform shop is still OPEN but could all uniform queries be sent to Lara Harper (07775 001891 / [email protected]) who has offered to be our uniform shop liaison. Lara will be able to check if the items you require are in stock and organise payment and collection. Thank you Lara!
Don’t forget, as autumn arrives, we also have a supply of black gloves available for purchase (£2) in school reception along with a selection of hair accessories.
Thank you to all parents for your continued donations. If anyone has any unwanted items including bags, sports kits and waterproof overalls, please leave them at reception, clearly marked for the attention of the MSA team.
JOIN THE MSA…… We always need new volunteers to join us, bring new ideas and just get involved. We promise we don’t ask too much of anyone – our team members do as much or as little as works for them – the only requirement is that everyone enjoys themselves! Our team has grown over the past few years from under 10 to just under 30. If you would like to get involved in the fun, then just send us a text or email on the contact details below.
Contact: Nikie (07921129623) or Ola (07427 633588) / [email protected]
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Please complete your booking as soon as possible. The links will close at 4pm on 31.12.20
The Links for Spring Term 1 Extra-Curricular Clubs have been emailed out.
Please make sure that you make your club selections before 31st December 2020.
Mon 4th Staff INSET Day
Tues 5th 8.30am Spring Term begins (breakfast club and late class available)
Weds 6th Clubs Start Bushcraft Year 5
Tues 12th am WGS Entrance Exam @ Moorlands
pm WGS Entrance Interviews @ Moorlands
Weds 13th Bushcraft Year 6
Sat 16th HLC Entrance Exams
Weds 20th Bushcraft Year 4
Sat 23rd Open morning for prospective parents - by appointment
Tues 26th Giggleswick Entrance Exams @ Moorlands
Weds 27th Bushcraft Year 3
The deadline for renewing your childcare code for Spring
Term is 31st December 2020
PE Partner Wednesday after school club Football for Year 5 and 6 will start again in January. All sessions are delivered and planned by qualified coaches and the emphasis is on having fun and developing individual skills through games and drills. The club is every Wednesday starts 4pm – 5pm, see all dates below. Starts Wednesday 6th January, then 13th, 20th and 27th January, 3rd, 10th and 24th February, 3rd, 10, 17th and 24th March. To book please visit our website at: https://pepartner.coordinate.cloud/event/90119
in a savoury tomato sauce
Quorn Balls
and onion gravy
Bakewell Tart
Millionaires Shortbread
Flapjack
Creamed Potatoes, sliced
carrots and gravy
Chocolate Chip Cookie
Macaroni Cheese Pasta in Tomato and Basil sauce with Sweetcorn
Iced Buns
Assorted Desserts