Message from the Executive Headteacher
 
What a week! There has been fantastic learning in evidence with a noticeable literary theme across our schools.
 
Creating a culture of reading for enjoyment is something that we are passionate about, and our children demonstrated their love of books in abundance this week. Dressing up for World Book Day was a lot of fun and there was clearly a lot of thought contributed to the ideas on show. Thanks to everyone for getting involved. We hope that this enabled you to have some interesting discussions about your favourite books at home.
 
For us, in many ways, every day is World Book Day, and we are excited to use opportunities such as this week as an emblem of our love of books. To keep the momentum going, we encourage daily reading (to and with) children. Little and often is the best way!
 
It’s been another week where we’ve been able to see our young athletes in action. Our Girls’ Football teams performed brilliantly on Wednesday at the Marches and then our Cross-Country teams were back again to enjoy running in the mud on Thursday. A very well done to all involved.
 
All of the events of this week have been in keeping with our value of focus – Courage. Embracing new and challenging experiences is what we do!
 
Have a great weekend.  
 
Mr Carl Rogers
Executive Headteacher
  
Morda                                                                     
This has been a fantastic sport, space and reading filled week at Morda !
 
The week started with Roses (Years 4 and 5) visiting the Marches School for a fab morning of Science, Food Tech and Art activities. The children travelled to the far reaches of the galaxy in the amazing planetarium; they took part in the ‘Tea Cake Challenge‘ and designed, made and ate a scrumptious desert and did some beautiful mixed media art. Everyone enjoyed the session and a taste of life at secondary school.
 
Tuesday was International Mars Day. Classes joined live steamed lessons from UK Space Education Office and the European and UK Space Agency. Children listened to interviews with Tim Peak, found out about Astronaut training and the on-going Mars mission.
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On Wednesday, a team of our Year 5/6 girls took part in an interschool football; tournament. They played really well and were a credit to the school! Go Girls!

Thursday was a fabulous, fun-filled World Book Day. Children and staff looked amazing, dressed as favourite book characters and were able to talk about the books they loved and why. Cruella Deville (aka Mrs Helen Jones!) organised a great assembly where everyone had a chance to show off their costumes. Check out our Facebook pages for some fantastic photos. In class, children joined the BBC World Book Day online lesson and some classes also joined Scholastic author book events. At the end of the day, there was a brilliant used book sale organised by Mrs Jones and some Year 6 children. Children went away with literally armfuls of books and we raised some funds for the Shamrocks class ‘STARBOOKS Reading Challenge’.
On Thursday, we also said a fond farewell to the lovely Mrs Ellis our Office Manager. We said goodbye in our special Morda fashion with a song and the famous ‘Morda Arch’. We wish Mrs Ellis all the very best in her new post. We will miss her!
Have a super weekend, especially all the mums. We hope your children spoil you!
Mrs Helen Chapman
Head of School                         

Message from the Executive Headteacher
 
Another courageous week of learning in our schools!
 
We’re all enjoying this shared value of ‘Courage’, which to us means we embrace new and challenging experiences.
 
Discussions this week have been to encourage getting out of our comfort zones to do something new. Quite often, when we think of courageous acts, something physical comes to mind. Overcoming a fear of heights, for example.
 
These acts clearly do take courage, but so do smaller acts that aren’t so clear and obvious. Having the courage to ask a new friend to play, or to admit that you are wrong, or to ask for help, are all things that we should value as part of an exploration of this value of focus.
 
I hope that you’re able to find some time to discuss this at home this weekend.   
 
Elsewhere this week, I had the pleasure of joining Bluebells class, at Morda, on their visit to Xplore. Playing the role of bus driver, it was a pleasure to observe the conduct of our children and the excellent manners that they demonstrated.
 
Being polite and having good manners are a focus for us in our schools this half term and it’s particularly noticeable that, when out in the community, our children consistently receive praise for their politeness and good manners.
 
Well done everyone! Let’s keep up the good work!
 
Next Thursday is World Book Day, with lots of reading-themed fun in our schools. We aim to make this manageable for parents and I’d like to remind that dressing up for the day is supposed to be fun, optional and inexpensive. Please don’t feel the need to go out and buy new costumes especially for the day. 
 
Enjoy the weekend.
 
Mr Carl Rogers
Executive Headteacher
  
​Morda                                                                     
Understanding money in the real world is an important skill to learn at a young age. This week a team from Xplore Wrexham came in to help our children learn more about money and the importance of budgeting and saving. All classes took part in fun, interactive sessions: playing games to help them to recognise money, learn how to save money and understand how a building society and bank accounts work. They also talked about earning money - maybe by doing some chores at home!!
 
On Tuesday, Bluebells Class visited Xplore, the scientific discovery centre in Wrexham. They had a lovely time learning how things worked and having lots of hands-on experiences. The class took part in a space workshop and fired rockets to space, looked at the materials needed for spacesuits and life in space. All of the children were very well behaved and had a great time. Thank you to the parent helpers who accompanied the children.
 
All the classes have a geography focus this half term and children have been doing lots of map work in their geography lessons. It has been great to see how knowledge of mapping develops through the school, from using simple drawn local maps and plans, to using globes and atlases, to finding information from political, physical, topographic and climate maps to using detailed aerial photographs and Ordinance Survey maps.
 
The Shamrocks class have been learning about the mountains of the world. In their Mantle of the Expert lesson, they became a Mountain Rescue Team and rushed to help a climber who had become injured on the mountainside. Check out the class blog for the full, exciting, dramatic story! The Shamrocks pupils have also produced excellent information texts about mountains.
 
Our school council presidents have been busy thinking of ways to improve playtimes. They have ordered new play equipment from money raised on our Sleep Week Pyjama Day. They also plan to organise a ‘Morda’s Got Talent’ competition in the summer term. Watch out for more information!
 
Have a great weekend.
 
Mrs Helen Chapman
Head of School