More Football Success:     On Wednesday 13^th November, the football team played a friendly match against Henley Green Primary School. Max (the captain) managed to score two early goals and it finished a very comfortable 6:0. Our goalkeeper (Ezekiel) did brilliantly to keep a clean sheet. Well done Moat House!

Racing Driver Interview:   On Wednesday 13^th November, we were visited by a real life racing driver – Kevin Hansen from Veloce. Eight of our children (Munirah, Marafi, Milosz, Joshua (Year 6), Maci, Jan (Year 5), Marley J and Michal (Year 4) had the amazing opportunity to meet Kevin and ask him questions about his life and career. This was all captured on film and will be published on their You Tube channel. The children thoroughly enjoyed the experience and were fantastic representatives for Moat House.

Children in Need: Thank you to everyone who participated in helping to raise money for Children in Need by coming to school wearing their pyjamas on Friday 15^th November, in exchange for £1 or purchasing merchandise.

Anti-Bullying Week:         Anti-Bullying Week is an annual UK event, which aims to raise awareness of bullying of children and young people, in schools and elsewhere, and to highlight ways of preventing and responding to it. The theme this year is "Choose Respect" and the importance of treating people how we would like to be treated ourselves. We started our week (on 12^th November) with 'Odd Socks Day' and continued to discuss the difference between unkind behaviour and bullying. The children were reminded that bullying is intentional repeated acts, which target the same individual. 

4NL’s Class Assembly:      Thank you to 4NL who shared a very appropriate assembly on Friday 8^th November, all about Remembrance. They shared artwork, sang a song and read poems that they had written themselves. It was wonderful for us all to be reminded about this important commemoration to remember those who lost their lives in past and current wars. Thank you 4NL.

Football Success: On Wednesday 6^th November, the Moat House football team competed in their first match of the Harry Shaw Cup tournament against Joseph Cash Primary School. Moat House played extremely well and kept possession by passing the ball around. By half time, the score was 0:3 to us and we were looking very comfortable. The final score was 3:8 – four goals each for Bradley and Max. What a great start to the tournament! Reported by Ezekiel and Jamal.

Black History Month:         Thank you to everyone who has supported us celebrating the end of Black History Month by dressing in black (resilience), red (love), yellow (optimism) and justice/fairness (green = greenery/nature). There were many children also dressed in traditional clothing and it was wonderful to see so many cultures reflected throughout the school on Thursday 24^th October.

Read Write Inc:   Thank you to those parents who came in to school to learn about how we teach our children to read. On Wednesday 16^th October, the expert Caroline Carter from Read Write Inc spoke to Reception parents about the principles of the scheme. On Thursday 24^th October, our Year 1 parents were informed about the statutory phonics screening test, which will happen in June and they were able to watch Read Write Inc in action with their own children. We hope it was helpful and hope that you can support your children with their reading at home, as a result. Here is a link for useful resources that you could purchase to support your child: https://www.amazon.co.uk/read-write-inc/s?k=read+write+inc

Dodgeball:          On Wednesday 23^rd October, a group of Year 5 children were selected to take part in a values-based dodgeball competition at the AT7 centre. When they arrived, they were given the name of 'Moat house Giants'. There were nineteen teams from different schools across the city of which Moat house Giants competed against four of them. After they had finished a game, the children shook hands with the opposing team and then scored the opposition based on the following values: teamwork, honesty and respect. At the end of the morning there was a presentation where all children were awarded with a certificate for taking part. Moat House Giants demonstrated great team work, respect and honesty during each game! The children enjoyed every minute of it with smiles on their faces and were great ambassadors for Moat House! Thank you and well done to Hishaam, Yekta, Zuzanna, Laila, Kian, Del'Fariah, Maimuna and Olivia for representing our school!

Football Winners: Moat House welcomed St Patrick’s football team on Wednesday 16^th October and they played their first football match of the season. The match started with both teams passing well and causing each other problems. The deadlock was opened by Bradley with a smart finish and was quickly followed by two goals from Max. Another Bradley finish made it 4:0 at halftime. Bradley and Max both completed their hat tricks in the second half with Alex chipping in with a couple of goals.  Final score 8:0 - what a great start to the season!

Dodgeball Success:           On Wednesday 16^th October, a group of seven Year 4 children attended a values based dodgeball competition at the AT7 Centre. When they arrived, they were given a team name which was 'Moat House Tigers'. There were a total of nineteen different teams at the competition and each school played against four different teams. After playing against a team, the children scored the opposition based on the following values: teamwork, honesty and respect. At the end of the morning, there was a presentation with a medal ceremony for the top three scoring teams. Amazingly, the Moat House Tigers came third place and each child was presented with a certificate and a bronze medal! The children were incredible ambassadors for Moat House Primary School and demonstrated our own school values throughout the whole competition. Well done to Jaffary, Shreenav, Mercedes, Leo M, Cole, Omniya and Sofia for this amazing achievement! 

6ST’s Class Assembly:   We enjoyed a wonderful assembly on Friday 11^th October, based on the class novel that 6ST have been reading entitled “The Nowhere Emporium.” The children shared how the shop in the story is magical and can travel through time with lots of interesting and exciting characters. The children can’t wait to find out how the story unfolds and they ended their assembly with a very catchy song based on the 1980s song Abracadabra. Thanks 6ST – we really enjoyed your assembly!

Attendance Rewards: To encourage our children to engage with attending school every day, we are currently holding a contest whereby the year group classes are in competition with each other to earn money. Each week, the class with the highest attendance in the year group earns £1. In addition, if a class achieves 100% they will earn £5. This school year, 3ML have already had a week where they achieved 100% attendance, so their money pot is the highest in the school at the moment. Let’s see which class will be the next to achieve 100% attendance! Towards the end of the year, the children will discuss with their teachers how to spend the total amount of prize money. Good luck!

Fundraising: As a result of our Macmillan Coffee Morning, as well as the break time cake sales, we managed to raise a grand total of £529.05. Thank you very much for all your support in raising money for this fantastic charity.