Y-Factor - Behind the Scenes Footage!

If you've been following the school blog, you'll know that Year 5 recently took part in the "Y-Factor", a competition in which Birmingham schools were tasked with writing and performing their own song all about road safety.

Out of the 40-odd schools that entered the competition, Moor Hall Primary did fantastically well in coming out in the top three and finishing the competition with the runner-up title. Huge congratulations go to Year 5 for their efforts, and many thanks to everyone who voted for Moor Hall Primary!

Loads of fun was had over the course of the Y-Factor, and to witness some of this watch the video below, which takes us behind the scenes on the day when Ed & Rachel from Heart FM came to visit!



Enjoy the video, leave a comment below, and have a very Merry Christmas!

Extended School Clubs for the Spring Term

The Extended School Clubs page on the website has now been updated with the latest club information for next term. The new advance booking form is also available online, so book your places now to avoid disappointment!


The complete list of clubs on offer next half-term are:

• Orienteering
• Netball
• ICT Club
• Volleyball
• Indoor Tennis
• Football

New choir songs on the website

All of this years Christmas songs have now been added to the choir page of the website so that you can learn them!

No fewer than 25 songs have been added - why not click here to take a look!

Mrs Gore's Adventure - the Video!

As we all know, Mrs Gore recently visited India along with some teachers from other schools in the Four Oaks Cluster.

She experienced some of the culture of India, saw the Golden Temple and watched the ceremony of the opening of the gates in Wagah - the border between India and Pakistan.

She also visited some of Moor Hall Primary's link schools - Saupin's School and Milennium School, where she watched performances by teachers on National Children's Day, and some superb presentations by children in lessons.

Watch the video below to see the highlights of Mrs Gore's adventure!

Latest Poll Results: Favourite Seasons

The latest poll results are in! (click the image for the larger version!)

We asked you what your favourite time of the year was. Unsurprisingly a whopping 45% of you preferred the hot weather of Summer.

Spring was also very popular with 30% of the votes, while autumn remains rather unpopular with a measley 10%.

Our new poll is now live - why not take a moment to tell us what your ideal Christmas present would be!

School Closure - November 30th

Dear Parents,

As you will be aware the combined teacher and school leadership trade unions will be taking industrial action on the Wednesday 30^th November.

The action (a one day strike) will result in class or whole school closures across the country.

Moor Hall School will be closed for all pupils on this day.

Please click here to download a copy of the letter that has been sent home with children.

Pudsey says "thank you" for all your donations!

A huge thankyou to all who took part and brought in their spare change for "Pennies For Pudsey" day last Friday.

With your help, we were able to raise £202.76 for Children in Need!

Thursday in India

I had a lovely day in school today. I saw art, science maths and EVS which is Environmental Studies. I also went to Baking Club and saw them make chocolate cake. The Internet is having problems tonight so this is short and sweet with no photos. This time tomorrow I'll be waiting for my flight to Dubai and then onto to final flight to Birmingham. I'm not sure how I'll cope with the cold and damp!

Wednesday in India

Another busy day in India, but at least the sun has been shining. I'm going to miss this lovely weather! The day was spent in school. I spent the morning with senior managers talking about our timetable at Moor Hall, and how we deliver lessons. The Head Teacher is AB Situ or AB Sir. He is quite a character and amongst other things owns a farm and wants to breed Bantom hens. The morning was very intense but really interesting. There is a huge contrast between the way we teach and the way the schools in Chandigarh teach. Sir was particularly interested in our differentiation and the way we taught subjects. In India the children have literacy, maths, Hindi, Science and P.E. every day. They have art twice per week along with ICT. The children go to school every other Saturday for half a day. School starts at 8.00 and they go home at 2.00. buses take the children home - almost to their door. If their parents work there is usually an adult - grand mother - at home when they get there. The children often have after school activities like sports or music lessons. They must pay extra for this. There is maths homeowork for them every day and other subjects take it in turns so there isn't an overload. All the classes have more than 30 chldren in them. the Y1 class had 43 and the Y2 class had 37. There is no classroom assistant. I saw some lovely lessons and the Y2 children acted out a play about Mahatma Gandhi. I have added a photograph of the young man who played that part. Mrs. Collins and Y5 so lovely to get your comments. Here are the answers to the questions you asked... 1. No I haven't been in a tuk tuk yet, ... not sure I will ... if you joined the traffic here you'd understand! 2. We are staying in a hotel quite close to all our schools. The beds are very comfortable. 3. I'm not sure how many children are in class 5 but will have a better idea tomorrow when I go and see them, and I promise to take a photograph of them for you all. The children are taught in English, and this can be aproblem for some children whose parents don't speak English at home. 4. Mr. Nek Chand did live amongst his recycled garden. the ceiling of his home is made from a pattern of stones. You can see this in the photograph I posted yesterday.

5. They have a teacher of Hindi who comes into school every day. I watched a Y1 class playing a game to support their phonics activities. 6. I am very sorry to say that I haven't met a Bollywood star. However one of the schools has had Kangana Ranaut as a student along with Kapil Dev who used to play cricket. For those who are interested, I think we may visit the Chandigarh cricket ground on Friday before we go to the airport. 6. The Golden Temple was fantastic. We did go inside, thakfully it was arranged for us to go straight in and not queue up . We were taken inside and up the stairs to where the oldest book the Guru Granth Sahib is kept. This is a very spiritual book and we were able to see it. 7. Would I go back to India? Without a doubt! Mrs. Collins you would love it, I'm not sure I'm up to taking 30 children however, it took a great deal of time and effort sorting myself, Miss Kaur and Miss Wood out this time!! It's our last full day tomorrow. I'll add my final blog tomorrow before I arrive home safely on Saturday. Finally Y5 you will be pleased to hear that I have told everyone I meet to vote for your song. When is the closing date?

Tuesday in India

Another busy day. Miss Wood, Miss Kaur and I went to the DAV School today. We were welcomed by a group of army cadets. We went into the school and one of the students presented us with a garland of fresh flowers and we had a Puja ( a red spot on our foreheads as an expression of honour). We spent the day looking around the school and talking with students. We observed a maths lesson - very different to the ones at Moor Hall. We had our photographs taken and it seems we may appear in a newspaper tomorrow. Miss Wood is already famous and has had her photograph published! We saw some of the younger children who were also involved with a maths lesson - counting chicks, and very small children who were tired after lunch and having a rest. This afternoon we went to Rock Garden. It really didn't sound very exciting. However, I couldn't have been more wrong! The whole area has been created from recycled products like broken crockery, sacks of cement, old cooking pots. There were birds made from broken bangles and walls made from old plastic sockets embedded in concrete. It really is a fascinating way to use broken things. The gentleman who created it is called Nek Chand. He began building it as a result of the partition between India and Pakistan and the fact that he was left with nothing. We were invited to meet him. He kindly invited us into his home - which is in the Rock Garden. He has won a prestigious award and travelled all over the work to talk about his design. Finally today we were invited into the home of Nina Mimani who I have been emailing. Her mother-in-law had made samosas for us and then showed us how to make them. We then made our own and ate them. Yum!

Latest News and Children's Work!

We have several updates on the website this week.

First up we have a new newsletter - dated 14th November. This newsletter covers our recent goings on in school, including our entry into the Y-Factor competition and Pennies for Pudsey day on Friday. It also covers Mrs Gore's adventure to India with other staff from around the Four Oaks Cluster. You can read our latest newsletter on the news page of the school website, or by clicking here.

The second addition to the website today is some great artwork from Years 3 and 4. Both classes have been exploring the use of primary colours; Year 3 with art inspired by Sean Scully and Year 4 with repeat patterns. Year 3 have also been experimenting with blending using oil pastels!

Take a look at their yeargroup work pages to see their latest art:

• Year 3 Work
• Year 4 Work

Pennies for Pudsey Day

Friday 18th November is Children in Need Day, and we will be holding our annual

Pennies for Pudsey Day

We would like children to bring in as much loose change as possible.

All the money will be collected on Children in Need Day and banked, a certificate of thanks will be presented to the school later.

Thanks, Steve Gosling ( Dad of Emily, Y6)

Monday in India

Do you have an analogue watch? If you turn it upside down you will see the time in India. So it is currently 12.20 a.m. here and 18.50 pm with you! Today was a busy school day. The whole school celebrated Children's Day. This is a day given to children by Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru because he loved children. He is known as the Architect of Modern India and was the first Prime Minister following Independence. It is held on his birthday. He was educated at Oxford and is Mrs. Indira Gandi's father. On this day the teachers entertain the children in all kinds of ways. Some schools close for half a day (in the afternoon). There are races and competitions. In Saupin's School the children held races against the teachers and also a three legged race. Mrs. Glare would have loved the part where the Aero-modelling Club launched their model plane round and round the recreation ground. First one hawk (sorry but not sure which sort) then another hovered above watching the plane. I was glad they didn't swoop! I met the Founder of Saupin's School today. Mrs. Saupin Ma'am. The children call the teachers by their first name and to show respect add ma'am at the end (or sir if it's a man), so the teachers are Nina Ma'am or Jasmin Ma'am. I wonder how our teachers would feel about it? The children make party hats and can win prizes. We also went to the Millennium School where the teachers - ladies and gentlemen danced a traditional Punjabi folk dance. The children were very excited and tried to guess who their teacher was because they were dressed in traditional dress. We went shopping this evening too in the local area Sector 17 and Sector 22. Mr. Winter, we are about 5 minutes from the cricket ground where the semi final of world cup was held. I will ask the children the questions as soon as I get the opportunity. Tomorrow is another early start - up at 6.00 am - hmmm not sure 5 hours sleep is enough!

We have the Y-Factor - Please Support Us!

The Y-Factor is about everyone understanding WHY we need to cross our roads safely and HOW to do that.

Moor Hall Primary are extremely proud to be one of the three Y-Factor finalists! Ed and Rachel from Heart FM came into school early in November to talk to the children of Year 5 about their entry. They also brought a professional film crew with them, who shot the children performing their song. The video is now up on the Y-Factor website - why not take a look!

Please show your support by visiting the Y-Factor website and casting a vote for Moor Hall Primary School!

http://www.yfactor.org.uk/

You can visit this link as many times as you want to keep voting - Ed and Rachel even encourage you to do this! Remember to tell all of your family and friends so they can vote too! 

Voting will close on Friday 9 December 2011 and the winners will be announced on the Y-Factor web-site on Monday 12 December 2011.

Sunday in Amritsar

We finally arrived in Chandigarh on 12th November at 17.30. We were greeted by representatives from our schools with lovely flowers. We spent the evening with the Principle of Saupin's School and his colleague who I have been in touch with. Her name is Nina Mimani. By the time we went to bed we had been awake for about 33 hours!
It was a very early start today at 4.45 a.m. in order to visit first Jallianwala Bagh (which means Fire Place). It is the place a massacre took place in 1919. Then on to The Golden Temple in Amritsar. It was quite an experience. The number of people who visit on a Sunday is unbelievable. They queue for hours to get inside. What was more unbelievable was that we were taken through without queuing. It was fabulous.

We were then taken to the Pakistan border at Wagah which is named after a village near-by. A ceremony takes place here each day, where the border is opened for 30 minutes. People are able to watch. We were given seats right at the front. We were also able to meet up with our other two colleagues who are staying outside Chandigarh.

We arrived back very late and it is now 12.40 a.m. and I need some sleep.

School tomorrow.

I'll add more tomorrow to let you know how I got on.

Class 4 & 5 is there anything you would like to me to ask the children you've written to when I meet them? Add it as a comment at the bottom of this page.

In the photos you can see us leaving at Birningham Airport in Friday, The crowds at the golden ?Temple - taken from the top of the tower, myself and Miss Wood at the Golden Temple and me touching a part of Pakistan with my finger!

Mrs. Gore in India

Global School Partnerships

Tomorrow I am going to India as a representative of Moor Hall School. The funding is through the British Council and the objective is to develop further the partnership we have with Saupin's School in Chandigarh which is the Punjab - North India.

I am going with 4 other teachers all from local Four Oaks schools and we return next Saturday 19th November. I arrive on Saturday 12th November at 16.30 (it will be about 11.00 a.m. in Birmingham).Follow my Blogging and look at the photographs. I hope to be able add some posts from about Monday onwards - when I'll be working in the school itself.

Mrs. Gore

Easyfundraising for Christmas?

As Christmas approaches it is a great time of year to start using http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/.

Easyfundraising is a directory of over 2000 of the UK’s best known retailers including Argos, Amazon, NEXT, Debenhams, John Lewis, Boots, The Entertainer, Toys R Us, HMV, Comet, Virgin Holidays and even Ebay! Just use the links on the easyfundraising site whenever you shop online and, at no extra cost to you, the PA will receive a free donation of up to 15% from every purchase you make. You still shop directly with each retailer as you would normally, but simply by using the links from the easyfundraising website first, each purchase will generate a cashback donation for the school. It really is that simple! It’s completely FREE to register and you won’t pay a penny more for your shopping - in fact you can even SAVE MONEY as many retailers offer discounts, special offers and even 'e-vouchers' exclusive to easyfundraising.By shopping through this directory, you won't spend any more than you usually would, but at the same time you will be earning money for Moor Hall Primary School.

For more information on Easyfundraising and a step-by-step guide to using it, see the PA's newsletter here.

Four Oaks Cluster Schools in the News

Moor Hall pupils (and others from the Four Oaks Cluster) attended an event held at the Arthur Terry School just before the half-term holidays. During the event, MP Andrew Mitchell was questioned by the children, with issues ranging from what his job was like to environmental issues and student fees!

Click on the image above to see the full size scan of the article that appeared in last weeks Sutton Observer (dated November 4th 2011).

Holiday Poll Results

Why not have a look at the results of our most recent poll on what you did over the holidays?

Shopping, watching TV and using the computer seem to be popular activities. Quite a few of you were also doing chores - what a shame!

Click on the pie chart to see a larger version of the results, and feel free to have a go at our new poll!

Latest Newsletter added to the website

A newsletter, dated October 21st has just gone live on the website.

This newsletter went out to parents just before the holidays, and covers Miss Guest's new baby boy, parent governor appointments, clubs, job vacancy information among other things.

You can read this newsletter by clicking here.

Poll results in!

Our first blog poll has come to an end, and the results show that most people are comfortable with using the school blog - this is good to hear! Click on the pie-chart to see an enlarged version with the final results.

For those of you that voted for it being difficult to navigate, we welcome your comments and suggestions. Feel free to click on the comment button below and leave your thoughts.

Also, to try to make things a bit easier, we are now adding a pages link bar at the top of the blog underneath the banner. On this, you will find Home, Sort Posts and Help links.

Home - this will take you back to the frontpage of the blog, with all the latest blog posts.
Sort Posts - this is a new way to search for the content you want, by simply clicking on a link to see related items.
Help - any time you need it, you can click on this link to get some quick instructions on using the blog.
Have a great holiday - and don't forget to have a go at the new poll which is now live!

Extended School Clubs (Nov-Dec)

All clubs will be going ahead for next term (Nov-Dec), however, there are still places avilable for mini-games for years 1 and 2, Tag-Rugby for years 4, 5 and 6 and Glee for years 1-6. Booking forms are available to download from the school web site, the school office or Moorhens.

Glee Show

The children from Glee club showed parents, teachers and children how well they could sing, act and dance, as they done their rendition of the X Factor. Both an infant and junior child sang a cappella to an inspired audience. The whole cast sang and danced their way through their performance to a rapturous applaus at the end. Well done to Anita, Kerry and all the children of the Glee club .

Year 1 paint some fantastic self-portraits!

In Art recently, class 1 have been painting self-portraits.They have looked at famous self-portraits and used them for inspiration. They also designed the backgrounds for their self-portraits by thinking about their own personalities.

To the right is a sample of their work - to see the complete class set visit the Year 1 Work page on the website.

Fantastic work Class 1!

Moor Hall News

The latest school newsletter has just been published on the school website. You can grab a copy by clicking on the newspaper, or by visiting the school news webpage for a complete list of recent newsletters.

This latest newsletter covers details next terms Extended School Clubs, the new infant gazebo, the latest diary dates and much more.

Extended School Club Update

Monday Club - Zumba:

Zumba has been changed to street dancing with Caroline Wilson due to the Zumba instructor cancelling at the last minute. This club is now full, but if you wish to cancel due to the changes, please get in touch with me (Mrs Conrad),straight away.

Tuesday Club - Mini-Games, Wednesday Club - Tag-Rugby and Thursday Club - Glee:

We still have plenty of places left for these clubs, however if we do not get enough children booked in, they may have to be cancelled.

Friday Club - Football:

As usual, the football club has been doing really well. We only have one more place available, so if you need that place for your child, you need to book it quickly.

Website Updates this Week

This week we have a few updates on the website.

First up, the newest files are now up for choir members to learn their words. The newest songs added are:

• Janie Mama
• Hey, Mister Miller
• Gospel Medley

You can access these files by visiting our choir webpage.

Secondly, we have the latest school dinner menus, taking us right up to April. You can download these files from our school meals page.

The third item to be added is a uniform-buying survey. Over the summer, the company we use for providing our school uniforms has changed hands. To quote the accompanying newsletter: 

"We wish to have a full picture of the experience parents have when ordering uniform from the yourschooluniform.com website. Please can you fill in the attached survey form with any comments you wish to make, both good and bad, and return it to the school office before we break up for half term."

So if you have bought uniform using the company during or since the summer, we would greatly appreciate your feedback - click here to open the form, and return to the school office when completed.

Lastly, a couple of tweaks to the website - we have now added Diary Dates and the School Blog to the side menu so that they're even easier to find!

Update Summary:

• Choir Resources
• School Dinner Menus
• Uniform Feedback
• Diary Dates
• The School Blog

Hector's World - Internet Safety

This week ICT Club have been learning about Internet Safety.

They have enjoyed spending some time exploring "Hector's World", a cybersafety initiative designed to help young people learn about safe online practices and digital citizenship. Why not click on the Hector's World logo opposite to visit and take a look for yourself?


We also discussed Hector's World Safety Button, which helps to protect you when you're on the computer:

"After you have installed the Button, a Hector's World character will swim in the top right-hand corner of your computer screen.
If you see something that makes you feel confused or scared when you are using the computer, you can click on Hector (or one of his friends) to cover the screen while you get some help."

Hector's World Safety Button can be downloaded from this website, or by clicking on Hector below.

ICT Club Create Their Own Comics

In ICT Club, we have been looking at different ways to create our own comic strips.

One of the ways we have done this is to use a site called MakeBeliefsComix. Below are some examples of our work - hopefully we will have more to come!
Click on the comic to view it full size:


"Animal People" by Oliver.



"The Vampire" by Isaac.

Please leave us a comment below to let us know what you think!

Newsletters, Newsletters, Newsletters!

A load of newsletters have just hit the website today. Make sure you catch up with all news from Moor Hall Primary School!

First up we have the latest school newsletter, dated October 3rd 2011. The newsletter discusses our new school pavilion, issues around road safety, free school meals and the Harvest Festival. Click here to catch up on all the details.

Secondly, we have the parents evening letter for this term. You can print this off and return the form to book your sessions. Click here to read the letter.

Lastly, we have a "Be Bright, Be Safe" newsletter. This letter includes a form to return to school to book your children in to have a hot and tasty school lunch and receive a reflective sticker. Click here to read it and to book your place!

New Year, New Diary Dates!

The diary dates page on the website has just been updated with this terms most important events.

Make sure you're not missing a thing by clicking on the Post-it® note to view the list!

Latest School Newsletter

The latest school newsletter has just been added to the news page of the website. It contains information on Year 6 secondary school preference forms, Prospective Reception parents open sessions, support for KS2 children, information on the Four Oaks Cluster Fair and more!

You can read it by clicking on the image, or here.

School Blog Updates

Today, a few new things have been added to the blog.

The first one you'll probably have noticed immediately - a new poll element has been added to the side bar on the right. This will be updated with new questions regularly - sometimes these will be serious (and we appreciate the feedback), but sometimes they'll just be for fun. So come back regularly and have your say!

Secondly, I have included the ability to search the blog  - and the school website too! Can't find the information you want using the labels or the archive? No problem - just search for it! This feature won't interrupt your reading in any way as it has been deliberately placed out of the way for when you need it - right at the bottom of the page! Why not give it a go?

Don't forget, if you're unsure of how to do anything on the blog - you can always take a look at our How to Use the School Blog page on our website!

Moorhens Competition - The Primary Apprentice

Before the summer holidays you may remember that Moorhens ran a competition over a two week period where groups of children could create their own video advert for a chocolate bar or sweet.

We had twelve children enter the competition, which were mainly in groups of two. The videos were shown to the entire school, and then each child voted on their favourite. One particular group of children were leading the way until the final class came in with their results. These results changed the lead of the competition and we finally had a winning group - announced in assembly as Advert 7.


The winning design was a Mario style chocolate bar called Mario Marshmallow Munch Melties.

Well done to all the children who entered and congratulations to the winning group!

Watch all of the adverts on the video below:

Extended School Clubs

We still have places for the following clubs:

Hockey
ICT
Multi-Sports
Glee

Make sure you send in your booking forms A.S.A.P to get the full benefit from these clubs.

Year 2 Sing About Their Community

Year 2 have been learning about their community this term, and to tie in with this, Mr Watts helped them to create their own song all about the things they see and places they know.

Why not watch the video below to learn what Year 2 know about their community?



Feel free to leave a comment below!

Extended School Club Situation

There are only two more days left until the end of term to send in your club booking forms. At present, there are only 3 clubs definitely going ahead , (Bird Club, Netball & ICT). If we cannot get the numbers of children we need for other clubs, they may have to be cancelled.

Year 3 - Living In Sutton

Year 3 have recently been studying Sutton Coldfield and the area that they live in. As part of this topic, Mr Watts helped the class write their own song about living in Sutton.

In class, Year 3 brainstormed ideas of the features and places to visit in Sutton, and then with the help of Mr Watts put them together into a song, titled "I Live in Sutton".

After a few practices, the class knew the song off by heart - we decided it would be nice to record it for everyone to enjoy!



Feel free to leave a comment on the video below!

Year 2 Go "Over the Rainbow"

Recently, Mr Watts has been working with several classes to create their own songs.

Inbetween writing their own songs, Year 2 have really enjoyed singing a few existing ones - one of their favourites being "Over the Rainbow".

Watch the video below to see the Moor Hall version!



Feel free to leave a comment below!

Year 4 Keyboard Concert

Year 4 parents don't forget...
The children in Year 4 will be performing and showing off their keyboard skills this Thursday afternoon at 1.45.

Air Ambulance Mufti Day this Friday

There will be a mufti day on Friday 15th July to support the Midlands Air Ambulance.

Over the course of the school year children, parents and friends of the school have already managed to raise more than £1500. It would be fantastic to have one final push to see how close we can get to our £2000 target.

Many of you will know that recently donated money was stolen from the Air Ambulance headquarters in an armed raid. The raid occurred on the day our donations had been deposited. Fortunately the thieves did not take the Moor Hall donations but a great deal of other money was taken and the staff were very shaken by the experience.

May I remind you that the Air Ambulance charity is completely reliant on public donations. It cost £25 for every minute the helicopter is in the air- so every penny really does count.

I would ask that everyone in school brings in £1 to wear mufti clothes. There will also be a collection of loose change from each class so we can try to fill the huge coke bottle.

Thank you for your support.

Mr Winter

Ladybirds class get to grips with ICT!

Ladybirds have been getting to grips with some ICT kit recently, by using Tuff-Cams to film each other and Easi-Speak microphones to record some interviews.

Every child in reception got to film something, and below is a great video montage of the footage they took, along with the audio interviews. I think everyone will agree that they did a great job using the equipment!

A big well done to all Ladybirds children for doing a brilliant job with these films, and also thanks to Mrs Gore for editing together the clips for us to watch and enjoy!

Apologies

A mistake has been made in the dates for the Extended School clubs. The school term from September to October is 7 weeks, but the Extended school clubs are for 6 weeks only.


Monday clubs - 5th Sept - 10th Oct

Tuesday clubs - 6th Sept - 11th Oct

Wednesday clubs - 7th Sept - 12th Oct

Thursday clubs - 8th Sept - 13th Oct


All clubs will be finished by 13th October.

If you wish to have a new booking form with the correct dates, you can either download one from the web-site [as of Monday 11th July] or pick one up from Moorhens or the office.

Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Indian Visitors May 2011 Video

Moor Hall Primary is proud to be tied with schools around the world - this year for example, class 4 have been writing to their penpals at Saupins School in India.

Back in May, we had the privilege of having three visitors from India arrive at our school. We welcomed Ms. Meenakshi Ahlawat (Sacred Souls' School), Ms. Jaspal Gill (Bawa-Lalvani Public School), and Ms. Lalita Nandel (DAV Model School) into our school and held an assembly for them.

Our special guests told the children about life at their schools in India, and then our pupils played musical instruments and sang for them.

Watch the video below to see some highlights of the day!



Feel free to leave a comment below telling us what you thought of the day!

Bronze Wildlife Action Award

Several children from Bird Club have been awarded the Bronze Wildlife Action Award, recognising them for "carrying out special tasks to improve the environment for birds, wildlife and people".

In the picture above we can see Martin Fisher from the RSPB, alongside all the children who won the award, in an assembly where they were presented their certificates.

A big congratulations to these children for achieving this award. Everyone at school is extremely proud of you - especially Mrs Glare!

(click images for larger versions!)

School Newsletter - 28th June 2011

The latest school newsletter has now been added to the website. Click here to read it!

Mr Winter Climbs The Pyramid - The Music Video!

Here's a bit of fun. You may remember Year 4 at Moor Hall recently wrote their own song based on the Egyptian topic they had been studying.

Well, you can now enjoy the "music video" of the song - click below to watch!



Feel free to leave a comment below if you like the video!

Great Midlands "Fun" Run

Well it wasn't "fun"!!!!!!
Mr Winter ran and he is paying for it now!!
Mrs Glare and Mrs Wigley walked the route and feel fine!

It was a great help having so many people cheering me on during the run. Thank you very much
Thank you so much to those people who have sponsored us already.
If you would like to donate to the air ambulance please give your money to Mr Winter or Mrs Glare.
Or you could follow this link to donate:

http://www.justgiving.com/Roger-Winter

Thank you again.
Mr Winter

Bird Club Walk

In the week before the half term holiday, Bird Club went for a walk around the newly opened R.S.P.B. Middleton Bird Reserve.

We have added a new item to the events page of the website - take a look to see some photos of the children, the birds they saw, and the certificate of appreciation they received afterwards.

Club Update for next term

All clubs will go ahead next term except Fit-Kids - this has been cancelled due to lack of interest.
The new term for clubs will start on Monday 6th June and will continue for 6 weeks only, finishing on Thursday 14th July.

ICT Club - Some More Work!

Here are a few more videos created during ICT Club this half-term.

By Antonina and Ella-Mae:


By Sophie:


By Jemima:

Moorhens - Primary Apprentices

You may have heard about the Apprentice on BBC1. Well, at Moorhens we are going to have the “Primary Apprentices”, where we will have teams of children trying to be “Apprentices”, rather than one single Apprentice.

It will be over a 2 week period (Mon 13th – Fri 24th June). Teams will be of mixed ages, so as to give everyone a chance to participate. If you wish to join a team you have to attend at least 4 afternoons at Moorhens within those 2 weeks in June, to make it workable. We will have at least 2 teams, depending on how many children wish to take part.

Each team will have to come up with the idea of a new chocolate bar or sweet. They will have to design a wrapper, give it a name, a price and tell us what shop you can buy it from.
Each team will have a video recorder. They will have to make an advertisement about their new chocolate bar or sweet. They can act, sing dance, and dress up or whatever they wish to do to advertise their product.

After each advertisement has finished, it will be edited if need be and then shown to the whole school for them to vote which advertisement is their favourite.

All participants will receive certificates and the team which wins will receive a small prize.
If you wish be a Primary Apprentice and join one of the teams, book now for Moorhens between these dates. You have approximately three weeks to get your ideas together.

 Good Luck!

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Massive Newsletter Update!

No less than 5 new documents have just gone live on our website this morning. So click below to catch up on the latest from Moor Hall Primary!

The complete list is as follows:

• Japanese Tsunami Appeal Letter
• School Newsletter (May 2011)
• Dinner Money Newsletter (May 2011)
• Updated School Meal Menus (June 2011)
• Moorhens Primary Apprentices  

Club Updates

Bird Club - Full
Tennis - Full

Spanish and Fit-Kids - not much demand at the moment. If numbers do not rise, these clubs may have to be cancelled.

ICT and Tag-Rugby - we just need a couple of children to make these clubs go ahead.

Bird Club, Gymnastics, Rounders and Tennis will be going ahead.

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