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Thursday 8 May 2025 Alexandra Strick and Steve Antony visit Moorlands Key Stage 1 and Year 3 had a great time yesterday when they were visited by the author Alexandra Strick and the illustrator Steve Antony. They enjoyed listening to and joining in with their new book 'We Can' as well as thinking about ways we can make our world a great place to be! Copies of their books are available in the library for all of the children to enjoy.
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Monday 10 March 2025 Spoon Winners Well done to everyone who entered a spoon in our wooden spoon characters for World Book Day competition! We were blown away by the number and quality of the entries. Thank you to all of the children and parents who took part. A special well done to our overall winners!
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Wednesday 12 February 2025 Jenny McLachlan visits KS2 The children had a wonderful dragonny time today when the author of the Land of Roar books, Jenny McLachlan visited the school. They enjoyed acting out going into the Land of Roar, finding out which house they would be in dragon school, designing their own dragons, learning magic spells and meeting some of the dragons of Roar. They even got a sneak peak of Jenny's new book, The Riders of Roar. At the end of the day, lots of children met Jenny to get their brand new books signed!
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Monday 22 July 2024 Y6 Leavers Disco The discos were amazing - all of the children had so much fun and were so well behaved! Our Year 6 children have done Moorlands proud and we will miss every single one of them. Good luck in your new schools!
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Monday 22 July 2024 Tiny Dogs visit Moorlands! Year 1, 2 and 3 had a fantastic time meeting author illustrator Rose Lihou to hear all about her new series of books 'Tiny Dogs'. The children loved joining in with the draw-along session and had some great questions for the author!
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Tuesday 16 July 2024 Year 1 and 2 visit Wellington Country Park Year 1 and 2 had a fantastic day enjoying the sunshine, visiting the animals and playing in the beautiful Wellington Country Park.
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Tuesday 2 July 2024 Justin Somper - author visit Years 4, 5 and 6 had an afternoon of pirates awesomeness this afternoon when we were lucky enough to be visited by Justin Somper all the way from Australia! He was launching his new book series The Pirate Academy. We were all so proud of their amazing behaviour and fantastic questions. Some children were also lucky enough to get their own copies of the books signed by Justin! Remember, we've also got our pirate ship design competition where you can win a copy of one of Justin's books.
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Friday 15 December 2023 Mrs Jo Jacobs On Friday 8th December 2023, a much-loved member of our school community, Mrs Jo Jacobs passed away after fighting illness. After over 20 years working in our school she is going to be hugely missed by our staff, the children and the families she has worked with.
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Monday 24 April 2023 Year 3 trip to the Lookout Year 3 had a great trip to the Lookout Discovery Centre in Bracknell, learning lots about Science, enjoying a great workshop and having super fun building dens in the woods!
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Thursday 30 March 2023 KS1 storytime KS1 really enjoyed having a visit from the Get Reading Reading group to share the top 4 picture books nominated for the Children's Book Awards this week. They have loved reading and voting on lots of books over the year so far!
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Friday 9 December 2022 Avon Tyrell Day 4 and disco
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Tuesday 29 November 2022 Phonics Workshop A huge thank you to the parents who joined us today for our phonics workshop. The children loved having you visit their classes to see phonics in action! If you have any questions about phonics, please feel free to email Mrs Lettington: at slettington@moorlands.reading.sch.uk
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Friday 11 November 2022 Harvest Festival A huge thank you and a massive well done for all of your generous contributions to our harvest festival!
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Thursday 10 November 2022 Choir at the Hexagon Our Moorlands choir did us proud at the Hexagon. The children sang their hearts out, their behaviour was amazing and we couldn't be prouder! Well done to all of the children involved - you are all superstars!
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Sunday 16 October 2022 Art club We've been having great fun designing and making our clay dragon eyes in art club! Check again next week to see the finished items!