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Latest Poll Results: Favourite School Subjects

We asked which school subject was your favourite from a list - readers of Moor Hall's blog have spoken and selected art as the clear winner, taking more than half of the vote.  Maths and PE also proved to be a popular choice.

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Obviously we can't say if most of the votes came from pupils or parents, but there are clearly some creative people out there! Feel free to leave a comment below telling us why you picked the subject you did.

While you're at it, why not have a go at our new poll on the right and tell us which children's authors you have enjoyed the books of? You can pick multiple answers so tick as many as you want!

KS1 Sports Day in Two Minutes!

What a great week! Both KS2 on Monday and KS1 on Tuesday enjoyed some fantastic sunny weather while they took part in their Sports Day events.

Why not watch the video below to watch the 'speedy' version of KS1's sports day; a couple of hours condensed down into a couple of minutes!

Latest Poll Results: Pets

We asked if you had any pets and the results were quite interesting! It seems we have some animal lovers here at Moor Hall with a whopping 94% of people either already having or wanting one or more pets.

Click on the pie chart to see a large version and examine the breakdown!

Look for more polls coming up soon!

Gandalf and his Staff !

What a fun day!

World Book Day

It was lovely to be at school today with all the teachers and children dressed as their favourite  book character.
We took lots of photos and I thought you'd like to see a few snaps.
Who can you spot?

We will add some more images soon!!!!

Thank you to everyone who helped to make our World Book Day such a success.

Latest Poll Results: Christmas Presents

Christmas has been and gone, and we can now reveal the results of what everyone wanted for Christmas. Click on the pie chart to view it full-size!

It seems a lot of our blog readers have a sweet tooth, as chocolate and sweets (alongside Music CDs/MP3s) came out as the favoured gifts. Books however were the least popular present this year.

Some of you picked 'other' - feel free to leave a comment below and let us know what else you were hoping for for Christmas, and also what you did end up getting!

Also have a go at our new poll - it's all about pets!

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?

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!

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?

Latest Poll Results: Favourite Book Genres

Another poll has ended today, and by the looks we got some very varied results. The question was "What are you favourite types of books?" From the graph we can see that fantasy and comedy are the strongest genres, followed up by horror.

Why not have a go at our new poll on the right - now that the weather is getting warmer (or should be!), we want to know what your favourite summer activity is!

Moor Hall Mix - Watch it Now!

Remember recently we posted about a new show that we were creating in ICT Club called Moor Hall Mix?

Well we managed to get all of our recording done last term, and the show is now complete and ready to watch. Have a look:

Moor Hall Mix.... Coming Soon

In ICT Club we have been very busy planning our new show, Moor Hall Mix. We won't reveal any details about the show just yet, but stay tuned for more information over the coming weeks!

So far this half term we have used mind mapping tools to brainstorm our ideas and word processing tools to write our scripts. We have also dabbled with some image editing programs to create some logo ideas for Moor Hall Mix.

Soon we will be recording our show and if all goes well, Moor Hall Mix will be available to watch on the school website and here on the blog! Keep an eye on the blog for future updates!

Latest Poll Results: TV programmes

The latest poll results are in, and we now know what type of television programming Moor Hall blog readers enjoy most. As we can see from the pie-chart, drama and comedy are firm favourites. Surprisingly, sport got no votes at all!

As it was World Book Day last week, why not have a go at our latest poll on the right to let us know what your favourite type of book is?

Blogging made easy!

It's official, for today only Feb29th.net has opened its doors to everyone, whether a pupil, a teacher, a parent or someone completely unrelated to education!

The aim of Feb29th.net is to get everyone blogging, without any hassles such as signing in or using complicated interfaces. You can blog about whatever you want; perhaps you'd like to say what you'll be doing or have been doing today? Maybe just talk about what you think of Moor Hall Primary School? You could even talk about your hobbies, your pets, or even make up your own story!

Remember that your thoughts and opinions will be read all over the world, so make sure you think carefully about what you write!

Feel free to post in the comments below if you have added something to Feb29th.net. Hve fun blogging!

Who Likes Wordsearches?

In ICT Club for the last few weeks we have been exploring different activities. One of these activities has been creating our own wordsearches.

Why not have a go at the wordsearch below, designed by Sebby? Click on the first letter of the word, then the last to 'find' the word:

Why not create your own wordsearches by visiting http://www.wordsearchmaker.net/?

Feel free to paste the link to your wordsearch in the comments below to share it with us!

ICT Club Create Talking Avatars!

In Moor Hall ICT Club, we have been creating talking avatars using Voki and our Easi-Speak microphones. See some of our examples below:











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Latest Poll Results: Ideal Christmas Present

Click on the pie chart to the left to see the large version of what the Moor Hall Primary community wanted for Christmas this year. Books and videogames were top of the wishlist, closely followed by dolls or action figures and DVDs.

Hopefully everyone got what they wanted!

The latest poll has also now gone live - check the column on the right to answer a new poll about your favourite type of television programme.

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!

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!