New Year Extended School Clubs

Clubs which will be going ahead in the new year:

Arts & Crafts (Full)
Netball
Lego (Full)
Orienteering
Gymnastics
Football

Clubs that have been cancelled due to lack of demand:

Creative Stitching
Volleyball

If you have sent a booking form into Moorhens or the Exteended School Clubs within the last 2 days of term, please see Mrs Conrad to make sure you have got a place within the club, as some last minute bookings have not been succesful due to a high demand in places

Four Oaks Learning Trust for Excellence

The governing bodies of all the schools working towards forming the Four Oaks Learning Trust for Excellence met at Coppice Primary School on Monday 10th January.

We can now publish the final report based on the consultation period that has taken place.

The document is available under the Cooperative Trust Section of our website or by clicking here.

Extended School Clubs Status

Clubs which may have to be cancelled:

Creative Stitching
Netball
Volleyball
Orienteering
Football

Clubs which are going ahead:
Arts & Crafts
Lego (Full)
Gymnastics

If you wish to book your child into one of these clubs, please book it as soon as possible. If we do not get enough numbers of children before Thursday, certain clubs will have to be cancelled.

Extended School Clubs for Next Term

The latest club information has gone up on the website today - click here to take a look at all the clubs on offer and to download the advance booking form to secure your places!

Latest Poll Results: School Houses

It's official - the majority of the blog readers over the last month have been from Ennis, with 29% of the vote!

A whopping 22% of the vote (nearly a quarter) was from outside school - either children in other school or other people just browsing. Click on the pie chart to see these interesting results in full size!

Our new poll is now live; with Christmas fast approaching, why not take a second to let us know what you're hoping for?

Moor Hall in the News - Solar Panels

Solar panels save Moor Hall Primary School £2,000-a-year  

The first two phases of the Energy Savers scheme have seen solar panels added to more than 1,300 homes and 20 other buildings across the city.

Birmingham City Council's Vicky Hewitson, Moor Hall Primary headteacher Andrew Steggall and Coun Brigid Jones inspect the new solar panels at the school.

New solar panels are set to save a Birmingham school more than £2,000-a-year – equivalent to the cost of powering more than 200 computers.

Moor Hall Primary School in Sutton Coldfield has fixed 160 solar panels to its roof as part of the Birmingham Energy Savers initiative.

The first two phases of the Energy Savers scheme have seen solar panels added to more than 1,300 homes and 20 other buildings across the city.

Moor Hall headteacher Andrew Steggal said: “It is extremely important that the children learn about being ‘eco friendly’.

‘‘In this way we can not only improve our efficiency as a school but, most importantly, encourage children to be proactive in sustaining the world they are growing up in,” he said.

In the third phase of Birmingham Energy Savers, which is set to be launched before Christmas, the council will work with Carillion Energy Services to deliver energy-saving projects to up to 60,000 homes and 1,000 other buildings by 2020.

Taken from The Birmingham Mail, 2nd November 2012

Four Oaks Learning Trust For Excellence

Following lengthy discussions we are proposing to become the first Primary Co-Operative Learning Trust in Birmingham. The Co-Operative Trust will consist of seven highly successful schools working together to inspire excellence in everything that we do and so further improve the education of the children across our family of schools.

During this consultation period, we would welcome your views on this matter.

Please click here to visit the page on the school website for further details.

UPDATE:
Please click here for a copy of our questionnaire, which we welcome you all to fill in and return to school!

Website Updates

A few new items have gone up on our website today!

A new school newsletter has been added, which details a lot of the latest goings on around school. Alongside this, the latest PA Minutes are now available from our Parents Association page, so you can catch up on what is being planned for the future at Moor Hall School.

Lastly, our Developments page has been updated to detail the exciting new gym equipment that has been installed over the half term break!

Extended School Clubs

Clubs going ahead next term are:

Arts & Crafts (full)
Netball Skills (places available)
Volleyball (places available)
French (places available)
Gymnastics (places available)
Lego (full)



Clubs cancelled next term:
Multi-Skills
ICT
Football

Extended School Clubs Updated

The new extended school clubs for next half term are now up on the website! Visit the Extended School Clubs webpage for details on what is on offer, and for the latest form to fill out to book your places.

Parents Evening Autumn 2012

A newsletter detailing parents evening for this term is now available on the school website.

Click here to take a look - don't forget to fill out the attached form and return it to your class teachers!

Extended School & Moorhens Clubs

Moor Hall School will be closed on Thursday 15th November, therefore Moorhens and any Extended School clubs will not be going ahead for that day. Any parents who have booked clubs already for that day will be  refunded as soon as possible.

Cross Country

Good Morning,

Luckily we have had a clear night and the school field has dried up substantially, so Cross country practise will be going ahead this morning.
Please could I ask all children and parents to walk around the school to the field and not cut across the car park as staff are arriving at that time in the morning, and we don't want any accidents!
See you all at 8.20

Latest News from Around the School

We have just published a bumper batch of newsletters for this term to the school website.

To view the newsletters, click on the following links:

• School Newsletter (17th September 2012)
• Photo Consent Newsletter
• Library Consent Newsletter
• Year 1 Think-Tank Trip Newsletter

We have also updated the website with the latest diary dates. To see them click here.

Latest Poll Results: Summer Holidays

The question asked: What are you most looking forward to about the summer holidays?

The results were interesting - unsurprisingly going away on holiday was the favourite activity, with spending family time at home following in close second.

On the other hand, 10% of the vote was actually for doing chores and housework!

Click the pie-chart to see an enlarged version of the results, and feel free to leave a comment on why you voted the way you did.

In the meantime, why not have a go at our new poll -based around our new school houses!

LEGO Club

LEGO Club began again last week. Both KS1 & KS2 are involved. KS2 have planned a programme covering the next few weeks. The first week we thought about 'Inventions'.
This evening KS1 LEGO Club concentrated on making a small town community. Each of the 5 groups thought about a different aspect of what makes a small community. One group built a house, another built vehicles. Other groups considered a castle and shops. Finally, the last group decided that it was a seaside town and so made a harbour.

Brilliant ideas.
How will KS2 get on tomorrow when they think about Flags. Watch this space....

Inspire a generation

After a fantastic summer of watching the Olympics and now with the Paralympics on, I was wondering whether it has inspired you to take up any new sports? It has certainly got me moving more!

I would really like to collect pictures of pupils with awards you have won, sports you do in and out of school, as part of a school display board to show people how much we enjoy sports at Moor Hall School. They can be football pictures, pictures of medals or trophies you have won, any sports you do-take a picture and bring it into school.

So get taking pictures of just how active you are!

Welcome back to school!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful six weeks off, I know I have! I hope you're all rested and ready to work hard.
I would like to say a big hello and welcome to our new teachers Miss Lilly and Mrs Davey.

Moorhens Olympic Art Competition

Moorhens held an Olympic Art Competition during the summer term. We had 13 entries from both infants and juniors. The standards this term were really high and Miss Jones who was choosing the winners found it very hard to pick just one from each catagory.All who entered received a certificate and a chocolate medal. Well done to everyone who entered and congratulations to the two lucky winners.

 Infant Winner: Tamsin Russell yr 1

Junior Winner: Elizabeth Jones yr 3

Extended School Clubs

Multi-Sports will not going be going ahead next term due to lack of interest. All other Extended School Clubs will be going ahead as planned.

Moorhens wish everyone a dry, sunny holiday.

Extended School Clubs Updated

The extended school clubs page on the website has just been updated to include a run-down of all of next terms activities. Also on the page is the latest registration and booking forms - so start booking your places now!

Rotary Award 2012

Congratulations to the year 6 children who took part in the Junior Rotary Community Award!

Successful candidates were presented with a Rotary Badge and a colour illustrated encyclopaedia at Sutton
Coldfield Town Hall. The hard work and dedication of the candidates could be seen clearly in the wonderful
folders they completed.

Click here to see some pictures and a description written by some of the children.

Colours of the World

For the last couple of days we at Moor Hall School have had the privilege to borrow an Olympic torch. Some of the children (as well as staff) paid £1 to have their photograph taken with it. The money made is being given to St. Giles Hospice. Yesterday - despite the rain, all the children carried a flag representing many of the countries taking part in the Olympics.Mrs. Clewer was honorary Torch bearer. We walked all around the Junior playground and ended in the Infant playground where we were joined by the children from Ducklings Nursery. They had made their own Olympic torches which they held up proudly. We sang the National Anthem. The sun actually shone as we sang!

Olympic Torch Relay at Moor Hall Primary

With the Olympics right around the corner, ten year 6 children got together to run their own mini-relay with a real Olympic torch.
They started out at Moor Hall School, and persevered through the rain to get to Coppice Primary, where they passed the 'flame' on to the next torch. The rain certainly didn't dampen their spirits!


Some new photos have been added to the events page of our website for this - click here to see them.

Summer Ball - A Big Success

Last Friday's PA Summer Ball was a fantastic success, with several great prizes auctioned off!

One of these was a ride in an 8 seater limo, generously provided by Finishing Touch Cars. Many thanks to them for this donation!

Summer Fair Pictures!

There was loads of fun to be had at this years Summer Fair - we have uploaded a batch of photos of the day to our website, so click on the image above (or here) to view them!

Latest Poll Results: Favourite Outdoor Activity

The latest poll results are in, and we now know which activities Moor Hall blog readers enjoy doing outside the most. As you can see on the chart (click to enlarge), swimming and cycling were firm favourites, with sports almost as popular. Poor old gardening got no votes at all!

There were a few who picked other - if you were one of these, why not leave us a comment below to let us know what your favourite activity is?

The latest poll is also now up - why not look to the right to let us know what you're most looking forward to about the summer holidays?

KS1 Lego Club

Our new Lego club began yesterday. Mrs. Russell introduced the children to the club and talked about how we hope it will run. The children discussed possible themes for building Lego models and also the Golden Rules within the club.

The children have made models which you can see below.

I wonder how well KS2 will do tonight!

Welcome to our visitors from India.

Our visitors arrived in Birmingham on Sunday morning at 8.00a.m. They had been travelling for 24 hours! Their hotel room wasn't ready so they visited my house for a cup of tea and to freshen up.
Then we went for an early lunch. After that they said they'd like to go into the Bullring in Birmingham.
Off we went for some retail therapy.
They were pleased to check into their hotel at 3.30 pm.

Yesterday, delegates representing four schools from the Punjab in northern India visited Moor Hall School.
The children did a fantastic job by welcoming them with music. The delegates were very impessed by the singing and playing - especially the younger children who played the violin.

Many thanks to all the staff who worked so hard with the children to make our assembly a success.

The assembly was followed by a  tour of the school. They said the art work around school was impressive and it has given them lots of ideas to take home with them.

They left Moor Hall School at 12.30 for lunch hosted by Mrs. Allen at Whitehouse Common School and to meet The Lord Mayor and his wife the Lady Mayoress.  Again the children welcomed them all and enjoyed singing and dancing for them.

We are delighted that Mrs. Gagan Bedi will be spending the rest of the week in school with us here at Moor Hall. She is from Saupin's School. This is the school I spent time in during my visit to India and is our Global Partnership link school. Gagun will be spending time in each class. The children will be considering environmental issues and how we can further develop our links together. 

Extended School Clubs

All clubs this term are going ahead.

Clubs status:

Zumba KS2 (places available)
Infant Lego (full)
Mini Olympics ( few places left)
Junior Lego (full)
Spanish (places available)
Cricket (places available)
Tennis (places available)
Hockey ( places available)

If you wish to book a place within a club, send in your booking forms to Mrs Conrad at Moorhens.

Queen's Diamond Jubilee Display

Have a look at our fantastic Queen's Diamond Jubilee art display, contributed to by every single yeargroup in the school! Huge thanks to Mrs Glare for co-ordinating this work - what a brilliant result!


Click here to view the interactive wide-angle picture on our website.