Thank you once again for all your home education support - I know it can't be easy but you're doing a great job to support your children to ensure they don't have to catch up too much when, hopefully, we get back to school soon. Please keep in touch with me if you are having any problems - most people have got the hang of Google classroom now but I'm happy to meet online to demonstrate editing work or handing in work. I would like all work handed in via Google classroom if possible. However continue using Class Dojo for messages.
I will schedule a meeting for Monday for any children who would like another demonstration of editing and handing in work - look out for this on the timetable and feel free to join your child to watch the demonstration. A few children joined the Zoom PE lesson from home on Friday - it was a really good workout and I joined in at the back of the hall and we all really enjoyed it. Hopefully more children will join us next Friday at 9am. I'm looking forward to reading the first draft of children's stories this weekend - we heard a few snippets on Friday in our end of day meeting and they are sounding very promising. Children will have more time next week to complete, edit and improve these first drafts. Hope you all have a great weekend - see you back here Monday! Well, we are one week into remote learning and I am really impressed with the amount of engagement and the huge steps children (and parents) have made in using technology to enable learning to continue. I miss seeing all the children on a daily basis but our regular Google Meetings are the next best thing. I'd like to eventually get to the position where all work is returned via Google Classroom so we will keep demonstrating this in meetings so that more children learn how to do this. I am pleased to say that children are using Google classroom responsibly. You may see slight changes in the way I present work on Google Classroom while I learn the best way to use it. I hope this will make things simpler rather than confuse children. Please encourage children to message me if they need help with the work. We can meet in a Google meeting and I can go through things with them. I may start scheduling these meetings and requesting children to attend. I will continue to prioritise Maths and English but will also offer access to learning across the wider curriculum throughout the week. Children can dip into what they want to in these afternoon sessions as well as getting outside for fresh air and exercise. We will also be offering PE lessons via Zoom from next week from our Saint's Coach. We will continue to meet each morning (time TBC) and then again for 'story time' at 3pm next week. I hope you have a restful weekend.
🥱🥱🥱 Friday 18th December 2020
Well that's it for 2020! I think the children went home very excited today (sorry) and they have had a fun day today. They have worked really hard this term so they all deserve a rest and a very happy Christmas. If they do get bored over the next two weeks, they could write a poem of hope for the trust poetry competition (see the newsletter they brought home earlier this week) or have a look at this website: https://www.cgpbooks.co.uk/resources/cgp-s-free-online-10-minute-tests?utm_source=CGP+News&utm_campaign=573b21ed98-2129-Sch.+Primary+Xmas+Catch-up+12-20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6a059762a7-573b21ed98-192112793 For some free online quizzing. There is no compulsory homework set for the holiday. This term: Covid, hand sanitiser, bubbles, fractions, WW2, earthquakes, Christmas, bikeability, remembrance, steadyhandgame, positivity, friendship, year six, running, playing, learning, sats, reading miles, reading planets, Google classroom, breezy classroom, hats, tree, hope, happiness. Hello everyone, hope you are enjoying your weekend. I think I have told the story of this week in pictures below - it's been a busy week! We have another busy week coming up with projects to finish and shows to watch. We will be making our Christingles at school and will have a lighted procession which we will film and send to you. On Friday, our last day of term, children can bring in games to play but not electronic devices please. Have a great weekend. 🎄🎄🎄 Hello everyone and happy festive Friday. The children had a well deserved treat this afternoon, making Christmas decorations and decorating the classroom while Christmas tunes played along with a sneaky chocolate! They all tried extremely hard in their assessments throughout the week and the difference in their focus and attitude is amazing. I'm so impressed with every one of them. We have started a new science unit on electricity and on Thursday we modelled an electric circuit with the children acting as electrons and a jug of water representing the cell/battery. We have planned an electricity investigation which the children will be carrying out on Monday. The children have completed some impressive explanation writing all about natural disasters and next week our English focus will be a bit more cheery! (Christmas poetry) We also have a special treat for the children on Wednesday morning which will take them back to their learning on World War 2. Homework is from the maths revision book (page 40,42 and 44) and workbook (page 34 and 35) They have all chosen ten new spellings and have a copy of Ryan's word search which he made using words from our geography topic. Have a great weekend 🎄🎄🎄
Hello everyone - isn't it cold! 🥶🥶🥶
We have had another busy week. We have been writing about Earthquakes and other natural disasters in English and Geography. We had a livestreamed assembly about the Houses of Parliament and an assembly from Mr Weldon. He reminded us that Advent is just around the corner. I wonder if any children can remember the meaning of 'Advent'. We have continued to improve our fluency and reasoning about fractions. On Monday afternoon OCRA will be at school to hold a Cross Country challenge for all of Key Stage 2. Please send children to school in their PE Kits and with a spare pair of shoes as they may get their PE trainers wet running on the field. Next week is assessment week across the school. Year 6 will be doing past SATs papers. For homework I have asked them to use their revision study guides and question books to revise any areas they feel they need to. I hope you can support them with this. I've attached the timetable so you know which test is which day. I have also set another small challenge for homework and that is to see if they can access our Google Classroom from home. They have instructions for this and if they are able to they should send me a (polite!) message. Don't worry if they don't have a device to use or if you don't have internet access. It is just a little experiment to see how many children would be able use this in the event of a bubble or individual lockdown. We have had a really positive week and the children have been working really hard and rising to the challenge of Year 6 - Well done everyone. Have a great weekend - Stay safe and warm!! It's been a busy week and I can't believe it's the weekend already. The children really enjoyed bikeability and have all passed the level 2 qualification which makes them safer cyclists on the road. We have been celebrating anti-bullying week and we are all united against bullying. We supported this by wearing odd socks today. We have voted for our house captains: Creedy - Daisy and Matthew; Dart-Tyler and Nicola; Okement-Ryan and Elizabeth; Tommy and Chloe. They will be responsible for collecting house points from each class every week and hopefully they will be able to carry out more responsibilities later next year. The children have homework set from the English and Maths revision books and have their usual ten personal spellings to learn. Don't forget about the global reading miles - they're worth lots of Dojo points and nuggets for the class not to mention the benefit of reading more. Some children have started a new challenge of The Reading Planets which means they have to read lots of different genres. On the subject of Dojo points, I was delighted to award the first Gold Awards this week to Bill and Imogen. Well Done! 🏅Have a great weekend everyone. 😊
It's the end of another busy week - I can't believe how quickly the time flies - well we are having a lot of fun!!! We have been learning more about earthquakes and tsunamis this week and locating famous earthquakes that have happened around the world. This meant brushing up on our geographical knowledge of continents, countries and oceans. This is a good thing to keep talking about at home as it always surprises me when children don't know which continent they live in! 🥴
We are writing more formal texts now and beginning to write explanations. During this English teaching sequence, I will be expecting children to proof read their own writing and to redraft their work to improve it. In maths, we have moved on to fractions and have this week covered equivalent fractions, simplifying fractions and improper fractions and mixed number. Their homework is focussed on consolidating these skills. The children should sleep well tonight as Mr Ansell once more put them through their paces in PE. I have given all the children 4 books from which I will set revision and homework weekly from now on. The study guides(red and purple) will need to be returned at the end of the year but the white question books are for them to keep. This week I have asked them to read page 36 and 37 in the maths study guide and complete pages 29 and 30 in the maths question book. They also have ten personal spellings to learn and I also expect them to read every day as usual. The topic homework is ongoing. As you know next week is bikeability. They must bring their bike and helmet on Monday and can leave it here until Thursday if they wish. Children should wear warm clothes and suitable shoes for riding bikes but wear their school jumpers. Children who are not doing bikeability will be working in class with me as normal. Have a great weekend. 🎉🎉🎉 |
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