Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Schools re-opening for all children - March 8th

  Tue 23 Feb 2021

  Dear Families,

   

  Following the announcement from the Prime Minister this week, we are really looking forward to welcoming your child back on Monday 8^th March. We will continue to stagger the children in, so start and finish times will be the same and we will continue to keep the children in their class bubbles.

   

  Please see below for a reminder of drop off and collection times:

  Year group	Drop off/pick up location	Drop off time	Pick up time
  Nursery - AM	Children enter via Wotton Road side gate and exit via Yr 1 doors into the main playground.	8:45	11:45
  Nursery - PM	Children arrive and enter via main playground – via main gate and enter the school through the Yr 1 doors. Children will exit via the Wotton Road side gate.	12:30	3:30
  Reception - Moon	Wotton Road side gate entrance. Parents wait on R footprints and do not enter premises	8:55	3:20
  Reception - Sun	Wotton Road side gate entrance. Parents wait on R footprints and do not enter premises	9:00	3:25
  Year 1	Front playground – via main gate. Parents wait on phase 1 footprints and do not enter premises	8:55	3:30
  Year 2	Front playground – via main gate. Parents wait on phase 1 footprints and do not enter premises.	9:00	3:35
  Year 3	Front playground – via main gate. Parents wait on phase 1 footprints and do not enter premises.	9:05	3:40
  Year 4	Via gate leading to green playground. Parents wait on footprints and do not enter premises.	9:05	3:40
  Year 5	Via gate leading to green playground. Parents wait on footprints and do not enter premises.	9:00	3:35
  Year 6	Via gate leading to green playground. Parents wait on footprints and do not enter premises.	8:55	3:30

   

  As restrictions continue to ease, to ensure that everyone is kept safe, we will revisit and adapt our risk assessment. We are hoping that after Easter, if infection rates continue to decrease,  we can open a breakfast and an after school provision to support working families.

   

  More than anything, we want everyone to be back in school and making the most of our exciting learning opportunities. We need to be safe in our approach and we ask you to also consider the health and safety of our school community by continuing wearing a mask at drop off and collection and keeping a distance from other families.

   

  On return to school, we would like to support our children’s wellbing and mental health by giving each class a plant bed to nurture and look after. The aim is to grow vegetables and herbs with the children, which they will be able to use in the summer term as part of their DT food curriculum. If you are able to, please send in a packet of seeds with your child when they return on the 8^th March. Seeds can be bought in supermarkets and Poundland.

   

  Thank you for you continued support and understanding during this time.

   

  Yours sincerely,

   

  Kate Bass

• Maths home learning changes

  Tue 23 Feb 2021

  Changes to Maths home learning 

   

  Our families have been sent a letter explaining the changes to the home learning for Maths. 

  Year 1 and 2 will now be using NumBots: play.numbots.com

  Year 1 as of April 1st 2021

  Year 2 as of Thursday 4th March 2021

  Years 3-6 will be using Times Tables Rock Stars: play.ttrockstars.com

  As of Thursday 4th March 2021

  For more information, please see the Maths page here. 

• Mora Photography Competition

  Fri 12 Feb 2021

  Dear Families,

   

  We have such a creative bunch of children at Mora Primary School, so we have decided to hold our very first Photography Competition. Every child can take part – Nursery to Year 6!

   

  The children need to take a photo to match one of the categories below. You can enter more than photo from more than one category.

   

  Deadline: Friday 26th February 2021

   

  A panel of judges will then choose their favourite photos from each category.

  Send your photo/s to admin@mora.brent.sch.uk or upload it to the files section of Microsoft Teams.

   

  Label the picture with your child’s name and the category you are entering. By entering the competition, you agree to the photos being shared on the Mora Primary School website. We look forward to seeing your wonderful photos very soon!

  

• Supporting our families

  Fri 12 Feb 2021
  All families of Mora Primary School are invited to come to the front playground between 2pm and 3pm today (Friday 12th February) to pick up a food box. Due to some very generous donations, we have plenty to go around. Food boxes may contain pasta, pasta sauce, tinned vegetables, cereal, snacks, toiletries etc.  We look forward to seeing you. 

• Children's Mental Health Week 2021

  Mon 01 Feb 2021

  This week is Children's Mental Health Week 2021.

   

  The theme of this year's Children’s Mental Health Week is Express Yourself. Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts, or ideas, through creativity. This could be through art, music, writing and poetry, dance and drama, photography and film, and doing activities that make you feel good. How do you express yourself?

   

  You can see how the staff at Mora Primary School express themselves by watching our video here!

  Can you show us how you express yourself by uploading a short video to the Files section of Microsoft Teams for your teacher to see?