You will be very happy to know that there is no home learning for this week. Yay, I here you say! This week we would like you to spend time doing the things you love or to try something new. Get outside, get creative, get baking, relax or anything else you fancy doing. We have attached a grid with a few ideas, just in case you get stuck. We would love to see photos of what you get up too and we will put a selection of these up on the blog at the end of the half term week.
We are missing you all so much and are really proud of everything you have done so far. Keep smiling and stay positive!
The CSW Virtual School Games is an opportunity for pupils to engage in competition at home whilst still feeling part of their school team. All Competitions are open to pupils from KS1-KS4. Competitions will launch each Monday at 9:45am on Twitter (Danny Kingham @CGOCoventryWest) with entries closing at 1pm on Friday of the same week. You will have a week to practice and complete the challenges and enter the competitions through a Survey Monkey link. Results will be announced each Friday via the @ThinkActiveCSW Twitter page at 5pm. This week’s challenge is Cricket (see below)
Further information can be obtained from the Thinkactive website and results are recorded through Survey Monkey link (see below). Have a go at the Cricket challenge and remember to email some photographs of you taking part. Also remember to record and send your results by Friday 22nd May at 1pm by the latest.
Real PE at home includes an online programme which supports families to be active, play and learn together. It includes a programme specifically for children in Early Years and Key Stage 1 with 12 themes, 6 areas, over 250 activities and challenges and 1000s of hours of fun and activity. This programme is great for family play and fun.
For children in Key Stage 2, there are carefully selected personal best challenges, skills and games designed for the home and garden.
Daily and weekly
guidance is provided for both programmes in addition to an option to choose
your own themes and activities.
There are so
many benefits to being active, not only to our physical wellbeing but also to
our emotional and mental health, especially in such testing times for all of
us. We hope that the ideas help support you and your family to
stay fit and healthy in the coming months. Here are the details to access real
PE at
home:
It has been lovely to chat on Teams to those of you who have accessed it. Tomorrow (Tuesday 19th May) we will be chatting on the Year 2 Team because some teachers are in school.
We have also uploaded this week’s home learning powerpoints into the files tab on the class and year groups teams.
We are starting to have meetings with your new Secondary schools for September and would like you to be able to have some input. You have all had some questions emailed to you on your new school email accounts that we would like you to answer and send back to us if possible. We are speaking to Coundon Court tomorrow so ideally we would like them today (18th May) if you can. To access your email you can click the link below then go into Outlook from the Office page. You will need your email address and password we gave to your parents last week. We look forward to hearing from you and remember we are online on Teams every day from 10am-12pm
The amount of work that teacher’s received from their pupils last week was amazing; thank you to everyone for working so hard! It is lovely to see so many of you still challenging yourselves too. Last week’s STARS OF THE WEEK are: Eva G (2AD) for her brilliant recitation of The Owl and the Pussycat and a wonderful fairy garden. Scarlett P (2RM) for her fantastic moon poster and Stefan A (2AS) for completing a tremendous amount of work to a very high standard. Well done!
Hello Reception, can you believe we are in week 7 of Home schooling! We would like to say a massive well done to you all and your parents for trying so hard to keep up with your school work. We know you have all probably got questions to ask about the reopening of Reception on June 1st and are quite anxious. Mrs Ellis will be in touch with you all once a plan has been formulated as you can imagine it is a big undertaking and we have lots of issues to sort through. Just know that ultimately the choice is yours.
This week we would like you to continue with the Phonics, Maths and Curriculum work as you have done over the last few weeks. Miss Perrit and Mrs Gray have also asked us to pinpoint you in the direction of ‘Real P.E’ which is the scheme of work we were beginning to follow in school for our P.E lessons. If you would like to get involved in some fun P.E sessions then please read the attached file below.
Phonics will continue the format we used last week. We asked parents to let us know which format they preferred but only had a limited amount of responses so we are sticking with the online teaching videos as these seemed to be the favoured response.
Miss Jones and Mrs Johnson’s groups please follow ‘Learning to Blend’ 4th -8th May
Miss Plimmer’s, Miss Warsop’s and Mrs Hollingsworth’s Phonics Groups follow the Reception tab 4th – 8th May
Mrs Towner’s phonics group follow the Year 1 tab 4th -8th May
If there are any children in Mrs Towner’s Phonics group who require an extra challenge or feel they know the sounds that are been taught in the online videos then feel free to have a go at this Phase 5 activity booklet
Maths This week will be a range of activities following the story ‘Superworm’. We have included a link to the story if you haven’t got the book at home. We have seen some lovely photos of the different Maths activities and are so glad that you are enjoying them.
To link with some of the lovely Maths work you have been enjoying we are going to focus on Mini-beasts this week for our Curriculum learning. Get outside and see what mini-beasts you can find. If you go out on a daily walk have a look for as many different ones as you can. Coundon Wedge is a fantastic place to look for mini-beasts so if you haven’t been, maybe you could walk that way and go on a mini-beast hunt. We would have been going for a walk and a Brook paddle down at the wedge if we had been in school so maybe you could pop on your wellies and go and have a paddle in the shallow bit of the wedge and look for mini-beasts – make sure you do this safely though and with a grown up. We would love to see photos of your mini-beast hunt. Read the story below and have a go at the different activities.
We hope you have a wonderful week Reception. We have added another story read by one of the Reception team to microsoft teams for you to have a look at. The teachers phoned this week with your email and password details so if you would like to see the story then don’t forget to log in.
Have a wonderful week and don’t forget to keep in touch there are still a number of children that we have not heard from – class email addresses are below.
Some of you will know Mr Kingham from coming to sports competitions outside of school. He is our Coventry West School Games organiser. Him alongside other regional SGO’s have launched 4 weeks of virtual competitions. You will complete challenges and submit your results, in friendly competition with other children around Coventry. There are prizes and certificates for yourself and an opportunity to win some PE equipment for school the more children that participate. I can’t wait to hear from Mr Kingham how many of our Coundon pupils have been stepping up to the challenge! You can access full launch details from his twitter @SGOCoventryWest each Monday morning and that week’s competition will close on Friday.
This week’s virtual competition is Cricket skills.
Everything you need to know and the details of the challenge can be found in the document below. Good luck! Miss Perrett 🙂
