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.