Well done those of you who have completed the first week’s official Blog Work! We hope it was easy to follow. A special well done to Penny who was the first pupil to contact us by email and she even sent us a photo!
Looks like she was working really hard on her Guided Reading task. Thanks for contacting us Penny and Mum!
We have also had some lovely non-chronological reports sent in by Ayla, Florence, Gene, Penny, Layla and Jacob!
A couple of awesome invertebrate homes, which I bet the bugs are loving!
And some gorgeous Paul Klee inspired art work by Maddie and Zaidan. Well done!
One of the main skills we learn during our Guided Reading sessions at school is how to use our inference and deduction skills. In order to answer inference based questions, the children will need to draw on things such as picture clues, facial expressions and key vocabulary within the text. I have found a very useful, fun PowerPoint that explores these skills. I have attached it onto the post, just click the link and open the file. This is one that spurs on conversation about the text and allows the children to understand it at a much deeper level.
Hello Everyone! I hope you have all had a lovely Easter break. I have attached the first weeks worth of Maths and Phonics home learning. I have tried my very best to keep it as resource free as possible. Please record working out in books where applicable and have fun with it!
Hi all, what strange and uncertain times we are all living in. To get you through the next week I have created a PowerPoint for you with various tasks to complete each day. Some of the slides have hyperlinks to web pages and other slides just require you to read directly from them and work into your exercise books at home.
This lovely website will give you an insite into the school’s dog and what she is up to. She also has lots of ideas of positive, creative activities you may like to do during these times
Winnie getting some loving snuggles from her human, Mrs Cheshire
Dear Parent/Carer, We know these times have certainly not been planned for and for some, these extra weeks off with the children will be quite a challenge and may seem overwhelming and inconvenient but we all have a part to play to ensure this virus doesn’t claim too many lives as well as ensuring that our children continue to learn.
We have included some of our home learning pack on our blog but don’t rush to get through it as there are more important things to think about during this time.
Please remember, you do not have to recreate a school in your home, let the children learn in an environment that is best for them. That may be sat on the sofa, on a bean bag, lying on their tummies on the floor, snuggled under a blanket (particularly lovely for reading), outside if the weather is nice etc. If they want to sit at a table, then of course, this is fine too!
Here are some really basic things you could do during this time:
READ: Try to at least read every day. Read to your children and read with your children and listen to them read. Read comics, picture books, newspapers, recipes, books that you enjoyed as a child and even listen to audiobooks!
PLAY: Play board games, card games, play hide and seek, play ball games in the garden (even if it’s just bouncing a tennis sized ball off a wall). Play on the wii if you have one, play with lego, playdoh and any other toys that are sat gathering dust. Teach your child how to do a word search or a cross word.
ENJOY: Enjoy the chance to slow down the pace instead of rushing the kids to school, clubs, parties etc. Go to bed a little later and enjoy looking at the stars together. Get up a little later and enjoy a fuller breakfast as a family. Enjoy planting things in the garden together and take the time to nurture any plants that are already there. Enjoy digging in the garden to see what creatures you can find and what types of flowers you can see.
DRAW, COLOUR and MAKE: You can spend some time drawing the bugs that you find together and the plants that you see and then colour them the colours that they are or create new species by changing their colours about. Make paper chains, snowflakes, chatterboxes and any other craft that they like the look of. You could build dens and obstacle courses and set up a ‘shop’ in your home. Use wool to make friendship bands or learn to make a pom pom.
COOK: Get your child involved in helping to make breakfast, lunch and dinner. Even if it’s as simple as buttering their own bread and helping to peel and chop any veggies! Make homemade soups using the vegetables they have helped to chop. Bake bread, cakes, biscuits. Let the children help with the weighing out and measuring of any ingredients.
TALK: When all of this is done; talk about it all, write a diary together about what you have done each day. Think of this time as a chance to let your children catch up on all of the things that the busy school day do not allow time for. This is the learning that takes place outside of classrooms and outside of a jam packed curriculum.
Stay safe in these strange times… You’ve got this!
On Monday 23rd September 2019, Year One kicked off their topic ‘Poles apart’. We were very lucky to have a polar explorer visit our school.They tried on Polar kit, made polar bear masks and explored blubber gloves in science!
