Friday, 26 October 2018

National Online Safety: Fortnite Song

With the holiday approaching, and as part of their #WakeUpWednesday campaign, National Online Safety has teamed up with MusicAlternative to launch a Fortnite online safety song.

The song encourages parents and carers to "stay switched on" to online dangers when their children are playing Fortnite.

Have a listen to the song below:

Wednesday, 17 October 2018

Moorhens Outdoor Play

We were lucky at Moorhens to  have the warm weather to still  play outdoors.


Playing house with the dolls and pushchairs 


Children also had fun making mud pies



 A little  fun and exercise on the bicycles 


Thursday, 11 October 2018

Cake Decorating at Moorhens

Just a few weeks back after half term and the children are enjoying  decorating cakes by adding icing and lots of  different toppings. A tasty treat to take home.






Thursday, 4 October 2018

Choir performing the songs for the 'Dementia Awareness' event

Please see the link below to download/listen to the recording of our choir singing the song for the 'Dementia Awareness' event. Andrew Clayton has written this song and combined the voices from the three choirs for this free download.

https://vox-ignis.bandcamp.com/

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


Tuesday, 2 October 2018

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 

School Council

We had our second School Council meeting today.

The Councillors used the sugar checker app to find out how much fat and sugar was in Mrs Hanlon's Club biscuit..! (Mrs H's lunch was mostly very healthy- except for a little treat!!)

Mr Winter

Thursday, 27 September 2018

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.

Tuesday, 25 September 2018

Expansion Update September 2018

I am pleased to be able to give you an update on the expansion works at school.

Main Block Expansion
I’m delighted to let you know that the main expansion of the school is progressing well and is due for completion by May 2019.  During the holidays scaffolding was put up and work undertaken to the kitchen extension.  The far end of the school hall was signed over to us and is now in use as a lovely new temporary classroom.  The modern, wooden external design will be replicated on the new block.

EYFS and Main Office Extension
Our reception children are already using the new exciting classrooms and we are hoping that the new extension to this area will be fully opened by early next week.  The wonderful outdoor area will be used by the EYFS children next week and final completion of this will take place over the October half term.

The new office/main entrance is progressing well and is a major improvement in the security of the site. Again, we hope this work will be completed during October half term.

Moorhens
The full expansion means that we are able to make improvements to our Moorhens provision.  Once the new block is handed over, Moorhens will have direct access to a quiet zone (our new library), a technology zone, an outdoor zone and the two chalets.  This is exciting because it will increase options for children who go to our extended school’s facility and means that Moorhens will be able to grow safely in a self-contained area of the school.

Playing Fields
The school playing field will ultimately return to a full grass area once Balfour Beatty leave the site.  The area which is presently used for Balfour’s vehicles and deliveries will return to grass.  We are now looking at ways that we can use the wildlife area for outdoor learning. 

Kind regards,
Andrew Steggall

Tuesday, 18 September 2018

School Council

Today we held the first meeting of the School Council for the academic year 2018/19.

The councillors have been elected by the children in each class and will meet twice a month with Mr Winter to make sure  the pupils' voice is heard in the running of our school.
The first topic under discussion is ' what is a healthy break time snack' . We will consider the type of snacks  the children should  be eating at break time.