Virtual Open Day Video

At this time of year we would normally be offering open days for prospective parents to come and have a look around our school. In light of current restrictions, we are unable to offer these events this year. Instead we have produced a virtual open day video - we hope that this gives a good feel for our school! 

For a chance to meet our Senior Leadership Team, we have two online Teams sessions available as part of our Virtual Open Day offerings. Please click here to book yourself into a session. Please note that to allow us time to organise this, this form closes on Monday 30th November at 12pm (noon).  

A Message from Moor Hall

Watch this video message from the teachers and staff at Moor Hall School. We are missing you all so much!

Rotary Junior Community Award

We were delighted to welcome the Mayor of Sutton Coldfield to our school last week. He presented awards for all of the children who completed the Rotary award. We are very proud of you all. What an achievement! Photographs are available on our website under news/special events.

New Schools Join the Learning Trust for Excellence

As you are aware, our school is part of the Learning Trust for Excellence (LTE), a collaboration of 7 local schools who work together, share good practice and develop opportunities for our staff and children. Following the success of the Trust and the significant impact it has had on improving teaching and learning in our schools, it will be expanding to work with more schools in our community. The LTE is delighted to announce that the following local schools will be joining the Trust this summer:

Court Farm Primary

The Deanery Church of England Primary

Maney Hill Primary

Wylde Green Primary

The schools will engage in all the collaborative opportunities and activities for a year in the first instance. All the schools have worked together previously as part of the wider group of Sutton Coldfield primaries so we are very much looking forward to the exciting opportunities this expansion will bring, welcoming new colleagues and learning from each other.

Learning Trust for Excellence receives award for working together to deliver excellence in safeguarding practices across schools

We are delighted to announce that, as part of the Learning Trust for Excellence (LTE), we have been awarded a Leading Aspect Award for excellence in our safeguarding work which ensures our children are safe, secure and happy in everything they do. The Leading Aspect Award is a national award that identifies and celebrates leading practice in education.

Safeguarding is of paramount importance to schools and runs across all aspects of school life. The award recognises the quality of policies, practice and commitment to safeguarding shown by all involved in the Learning Trust for Excellence and acknowledges the significant impact of collaborative working on our schools. A range of people including teachers, parents, governors, pupils and Head teachers were interviewed as part of the verification process required in order to achieve the award.


Thank you to everybody who has been a part of this. We are so proud that the work we have done with the other schools and partners has had such a positive impact on us all, and most importantly our children.
The Learning Trust for Excellence has lots of exciting plans for 2018 so watch this space.

Poppies

In the last week on this half term we are going to to be decorating the School  Hall with poppies to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War One.
The children will be creating poppies at school but it would be fantastic if everyone in our school community contributed to the display.
Please everyone - (parents , grandparents, children, friends ) ,make a poppy!- or lots of poppies!
They can be drawn, sculpted, painted, collage or created in any way you like.
Bring them to school in the week before half term so the staff can create a giant display.
If there are any super artistic ad enthusiastic parents who would like to help please get intouch:)
Thank you

Tickets for the dementia awareness event at St. James Church - Thursday 4th October

Family members of children in the choir can register for free tickets for the dementia awareness event at St. James Church on Thursday 4th October, 12:30-14:00. Please see the link below if interested:

https://hopeforsuttonprojectlaunch.eventbrite.co.uk 

Dangerous Parking

Thousands of people view irresponsible parking on the Moor Hall Road Safety Facebook page. Dangerous parking poses a serious risk to our children, our families and our neighbours. THINK before you park.

Internet safety workshops

PSCO's will be in school tomorrow to deliver Internet safety workshops to KS2 classes. They  will be using CEOP video clips. We very much appreciate their involvement in school.

Moor Hall School Oral History Project

Moor Hall School Oral History Project

As you know History is an important part of the curriculum at school. The children enjoy the visitors and trips out which we use to engage the pupils in their learning.

I would like to add to this engagement by starting an oral history library of the memories of parents, grandparents and friends of the children who attend our school. I see it as a resource which teachers can use with pupils immediately to give greater perspective to how life has changed in the relatively recent past.

Adult participants can record or video short clips (no more than a minute) of themselves talking about specific subjects.

At the moment I suggest participants talking about subjects such as:

·       Moor Hall School (for past pupils or neighbours)

·       My School Life

·       Mere Green

·       Sutton Coldfield

·       Birmingham

·       Transport

·       My home – to include domestic items like telephones- how soon will it be before landlines are a thing of the past?!

·       Toys and games (what did we do before computers?!)

I would also love to get people talking about their memories of World War Two- does anyone know people who were evacuated?

This is not an exhaustive list, if you have any ideas please feel free to follow them up.

When you record your piece, it does not need to be scripted or formal. I would like every clip to start with the participant saying their month and year of their birth, this will add to the historical perspective.

I would like this to be an ongoing resource library which we can build up and  use for years to come.

In the first instance please send your video or audio clips into school via email to enquires@moorhall.bham.sch.uk so Mr Pittaway (our ICT technician)  and I can sort and store them safely. If you have any questions, comments or queries please come and discuss them with me.

Thank you in anticipation of your support for this exciting project.

Your sincerely

Roger Winter

Year 5 at the Schools' Challenge final

Yesterday, Year 5 had a fantastic time at Perry Barr Fire Station to take part in the 'Schools' Challenge' final! We have learnt lots of safety facts and had lots of fun!
Well done to Year 5! You have made everyone extremely proud!

Marble Run Competition

Lots of children entered our 'Marble Run' competition and we were very impressed with the entries. Everyone who entered did so with enthusiasm and had thought really carefully about how their marble run was going to work. Mrs Garrington and Mrs Menmuir judged them on Thursday and the winners will be announced this week.

Photographs will be added to our website under special events.

Arthur Terry SKITT

Today we welcome students from ATLP to see how we teach French across our school. Mrs Winter is leading the training. At Moor Hall we teach French to pupils in both KS1 and KS2. The children in Y1 sang a French song and our visitors really enjoyed listening to it.  @ALTP

Aircraft over Moor Hall this morning

It was unusual to spot a formation of four military aircraft fly over school this morning. We think they were F15's but do not know for sure!

This is an example of an F-15....

Christmas Concert at St James 7pm tonight

We are all looking forward to our special KS2 concert this evening. Please can children who have instruments arrive at the church from 6.30 ? All other children should arrive at 6.45 so that we can start at 7pm. The concert should last for just over an hour.

ONE DIRECTION at Moor Hall !!

Now we have your attention - please observe our voluntary one way system. ONE DIRECTION of traffic helps us make our school a safer place. The only incidents I am aware of over the past 11 years have been where parents have changed direction.

School Road Safety Week is 20th -25th November

Street Dance Team at Arthur Terry

Our Street Dance team gave an impressive performance at Arthur Terry School yesterday. A huge well done to everyone :)

Sainsburys' Lego Cards

We have been kindly donated these packs of Lego cards from Sainsburys. If you are interested in purchasing a pack they are presently on auction. Please contact Zoe or Kim.

Thank you Sainsburys!

Moorfest Success!

We made an amazing £3416.64 profit from Moorfest. This is a huge help to us at school. Sincere thanks go to the team who organised the event and worked so hard to ensure it was such a success.