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Maths/Phonics/Guided Reading Home Learning wb: 01.06

Hello everyone,

I hope you have all enjoyed your lovely, sunny half term week! Thankyou so much for all of your hard work and constant enthusiasm to your learning. I have attached the weeks learning for Phonics, Guided Reading and Maths.

Have fun, stay safe and keep smiling! We are missing you all so much.

Miss Masterson

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Back to School

As we get closer to a date for re-opening school, we wanted to explain to you how your child’s first day will be organised when they come. While we are not currently in a position to confirm, the proposed date for year one to start is Thursday 4th June – arriving between 8:45 and 9:15. We are really looking forward to seeing the children and welcoming them back to school.

All Year 1 children will enter and leave the school site via the Southbank Road gate. Staggered start and finish times are set to ensure social distancing rules are adhered to:

1 Red:  8.45 and 2.30, 1 Blue: 9.00 and 2.45, Yellow: 9.15 and 3.00

Children will come into school via Southbank Entrance based on the time that will be given to you depending on which bubble group your child will be in (phone calls will be made soon to share this information with you). There will be a member of staff at the gate to say, ‘Good Morning’ to the children and walk them down to the year one classrooms. Please note that parents will not be allowed onto the school site. The children will be reminded to keep their distance from the other children as they walk down to the classrooms. There will be markers to help your child to keep a safe distance.

The children will be working in one of the year one classrooms with around 8 or 9 other children and two adults. This will be their ‘bubble’ group (either 1Red, 1Blue or 1Yellow). The two adults will be either Mrs Davis / Mrs Gray and Mrs Wilson, Mrs Sweet and Mrs Gaffoor or Miss Bates and Miss Collier. The classrooms have been changed so that it supports us in keeping a distance between us. Here is a photo so you know what it will look like.  

You child will have their own table to work at and their own resource pack which will include a pencil, whiteboard and whiteboard pen, exercise book, among other resources. They will be able to put their school bag (with packed lunch) in the classroom and coat on the back of their chair. When they come in they will be asked to wash their hands – we will remind them that this is important to do this throughout the day. 

We will be completing a range of work that Mrs Davis, Mrs Gray and Miss Masterson have set, but will also be spending time outside in their ‘bubble’ group. When we have our morning and afternoon breaks this will be with their bubble group. They will have lots of space as break times will be staggered. Therefore, they will get to use the whole of the year one playground with their bubble group. At lunchtime there maybe two bubble groups out at once and we will be asking the children to stay to one half of the playground in their ‘bubble’ group. 

Each day we will also have an afternoon PE session (hopefully the weather says as nice as it has been) but you won’t need to worry about bringing in a PE kit. Alongside our learning we will also be doing craft activities too.

At the end of the day the teacher will walk their bubble group back to the Southbank entrance to meet parents and say goodbye to the children. 

Please remember that it is essential that your child comes to school at the time given to you for arrival so that you do not have to queue with other people. 

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Half Term WB 25.5.20

Hi Year One!

Next week is half term so your teachers will not be available on Teams and we also won’t be uploading any work to the Blog. I know we may well be seeing a lot of you from June 1st though so I’m looking forward to this!

If you want something to do over half term, I have a project idea for you. I came across the idea through a parent group that I am in. I have trialed it with families that live along my road and it was a huge success!

The idea is to create a ‘Zoo Trail’ around Coundon, so that when you are out for your daily exercise, it gives you something to look out for and hopefully you will have lots of fun doing it! All you need to do is choose one animal to research and create a display all about this animal outside your house in your front garden or on your driveway. I have added some pictures below for examples of what your display may look like. All that would be left to organise is a set date for all of Year One to put their displays outside. I’m sure all of your lovely parents will be able to help with this via the parent WhatsApp group.

Obviously the more people in the area that join in, the better! So why not invite neighbours with children to take part as well? You could create an invitation for a friend to take part or post a few flyers and put up a poster to let people know when and where it is happening.

I hope you have some fun with this, I know I did.

Missing you all so much, Mrs Gray x

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Well done to 1DG for their work during Summer Term Week 4!

We have loved seeing all of your English work based around Supertato! Well done to Florence, Gene, Maddie, Penny, Saba and Layla who have sent us some of their work this week! Next week is half term but if you would still like something to do, I’ve got a little project on here for you to complete.

Stay safe and keep smiling Year One!

Mrs Gray x

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Maths, Phonics and Guided Reading WB:18.05.20

Hello everyone!

It has been lovely chatting to some of you on Microsoft Teams. It’s really great to see what you have been getting up to! I have attached the weeks work for Maths, Phonics and Guided Reading.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Miss Masterson