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3 years ago
Posted on 03rd Mar 2021 by

Panda class staff – update

Dear Pandas and panda parents,

We are so excited to have you all back on Monday in school. I just wanted to let you know that Mrs McGrath won’t be coming back as soon as we expected and you will still have Mrs Turner as your teacher for a few more weeks. Mrs McGrath is having an operation next week, then once she is fighting fit again, she will come back to Myddle, probably around Easter time.

We wish Mrs McGrath all the best for a speedy recovery.

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3 years ago
Posted on 02nd Mar 2021 by

Tiger Class – Home learning – Wednesday 3rd March

Wednesday is PE Day again! Although you should try to do some exercise most days, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays there are fitness videos provided by our PE coach, Mr Wright.

At 9am, there’s a whole federation worship with Mrs Williams, via Zoom.

Year 2 Tigers are invited to join Mrs Crowe in a Zoom call, at 9.30am for a briefing of the day’s lessons. At 10am, it’s Year 3 turn to catch-up with Mrs Crowe and be briefed about the day’s activities.

There’s another World Book Day special Assembly at 10.30am, on “Books that makes you LOL!”

All details for logging into our Zoom calls have been sent to parents via ClassDojo.

Today’s links to video lessons and tasks:

YEAR 2
Maths – Geometry: Properties of Shape – Sort 2D Shapes

Worksheet: Y2-Spring-Block-3-WO6-Sort-2D-shapes

English – The Eagle Who Thought He Was A Chicken: characters and problems – To write a problem of the story (Part 1)

Phonics – Sets 2 or 3 (I will advise parents individually – link to video lessons. Daily lessons will be live at 9.30am and available to watch for 24hrs)

YEAR 3
Maths – Measurement: Length and perimeter – Perimeter of a rectangle

Worksheet: Y3-Spring-Block-4-WO8-Calculate-perimeter

English – The Man on the Moon – Narrative Writing: To plan the build-up of a narrative

All Tigers
Geography – What is Antarctica like?

New spellings to be tested on Monday 8th March:

YEAR 2: Spelling – Adding -ing to words of one syllable. The last letter is doubled to keep the short vowel sound – Lesson 20

YEAR 3: Spelling – The l sound spelled -le at the end of words – Lesson 20

Weekly assignments for Maths Shed and Spelling Shed have been updated: www.edshed.com

3 years ago
Posted on 02nd Mar 2021 by

Panda Class Home Learning Wednesday 3rd March

Hi Pandas,

I hope you are having a good week.

Not long now until 8th March… I’m counting down the days!! I can’t wait to see you all.

Continue with Phonics as per the schedule.

Continue reading and enjoying those amazing books!

PE  With Joe Wicks or our own Mr Wright with TWWG ‘Move’ sessions on YouTube.

English  – All Pandas  Enjoy the story of Peace at Last by Jill Murphy.

 

After listening to the story encourage your child to say which parts of the story were their favourite parts and why they like them.  What happened to Mr Large? What was the problem? What were the noises?

Can you create a story map showing the different events that happen as Mr Large tries to get away from the noise to get some sleep.

Story-Map-Worksheets

I would choose Story Map B, from the one in the link.  Add the details from the story into the right areas, thinking carefully about what happened.

Encourage your child to retell the story from their story map – perhaps ‘reading’ it to a younger brother or sister or a favourite teddy.

Maths – All Pandas  (Year one,  continue with your Measures booklet, then have a go at these activities).Try estimating how long a minute lasts for.  Can you count to 60, does it take a minute?

What can you do in a minute? How many times can you write your name in a minute? Look at a clock, what time do you normally get up, eat breakfast, have lunch or get ready for bed?

Have a go at some of these activities to see how many you can do in a minute.

what-can-you-do-in-a-minute-activity-sheet

Mixing paint – Can explore what happens when you mix black and white paint together? Can you mix different shades of grey to paint an elephant with?

See if you can work out what colours would be created by mixing these colours together…

colour-mixing-sums-powerpoint

Can you find out some facts about elephants? Create a fact file for elephants.

You may want to try and draw an elephant of your own; then paint it.

How-to-Draw-an-Elephant-Activity-Sheet

As it is World Book Day tomorrow,  you might want to send me a picture of you and your favourite book. You might want to send me a video of you reading it!  If you’re feeling creative why not dress up as your favourite book character, or draw the character and decorate it.

I will be doing a Zoom session on Thursday at 1:30pm and I will read you one of my favourite books. I will send the link on Class Dojo.

Have a great Wednesday.

Mandy Turner

 

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3 years ago
Posted on 01st Mar 2021 by

Tiger Class – Home learning – Tuesday 2nd March

Year 2 Tigers are invited to join Mrs Crowe in a Zoom call, at 9.30am for a briefing of the day’s lessons. At 10am, it’s Year 3 turn to catch-up with Mrs Crowe and be briefed about the day’s activities.

At 10.30am, there’s a special World Book Day Assembly with author David Walliams. Home learners (especially Year 3) are encouraged to register for it via the link https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/join-david-walliams-for-his-amaaaaazing-assembly-for-world-book-day/

At 2pm, there is the spelling test for Year 3 this week, via Zoom.
All details for logging into our Zoom calls have been sent to parents via ClassDojo.

Today’s links to video lessons and tasks:

YEAR 2

Worksheet: Y2-Spring-Block-3-WO-Lines-of-symmetry-draw-the-whole

YEAR 3

  • Maths – Measurement (Length and perimeter) – There are two video lessons today, but just one worksheet.

Video lesson 1: What is perimeter?

Video lesson 2: Measure perimeter

Worksheet: Y3-Spring-Block-4-WO7-Measure-perimeter

I have cancelled the English lesson for Year 3, as we had feedback that children were finding it too confusing. Since Year 3s have extra Maths and a WBD Assembly already, they can use the extra time to pratise the spellings for this afternoon’s test.

All Tigers

New spellings will be published to Spelling Shed during the day tomorrow, as we are still having technical difficulties with the site this afternoon.

Don’t forget to read everyday. If you need other books at the relevant level, please send me a message, or access a variety of e-books on the Oxford Owl e-book library. Please have a look at our main Class page for many other free resources you might find useful.

3 years ago
Posted on 01st Mar 2021 by

Rapid lateral flow testing for households and bubbles of school pupils and staff

Rapid lateral flow testing for households and bubbles of school pupils and staff

On Sunday 28 February, the Department of Health and Social Care announced that from Monday 1 March, households with primary school, secondary school and college age children, including childcare and support bubbles, can test themselves twice every week at home as schools return from Monday 8 March. Households, childcare and support bubbles of primary, secondary and college staff can also be tested. Twice-weekly testing will also be offered to adults working in the wider school community, including bus drivers and after school club leaders. The twice-weekly test kits can be accessed:

  • via employers if they offer testing to employees
  • at a local test site
  • by collecting a home test kit from a test site
  • by ordering a home test kit online

Schools should not give test kits to parents, carers or household members and should not order more test kits for this purpose. Letters containing advice on where to access testing will be made available for schools to share with parents and staff shortly.

This guidance provides information on who can be tested and how you can get a test.

3 years ago
Posted on 01st Mar 2021 by

Snow Leopards – World Book Day

World Book Day

Snow Leopards.

To celebrate World Book Day this year I thought we would focus on the story

‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ By Judith Kerr

If you do not have this book you can find an interactive copy on YouTube. Encourage your child to listen carefully to the story, talk about the story once it has finished to see if your child can recall what happened.

Please, continue to read this story throughout the week and join us with some fun Tiger themed activities!
http://worldbookday.com – Has lots of stories and resources for you to use.
This is where some of our activities have come from.

~ Draw a picture of your own Tiger tea party on this bordered paper. (link below)
Tiger Tea page border

~ Use the word mat to notice familiar pictures/words from the book. See if your child can retell the stories using the word mat to prompt them. (link below)
Tiger Tea Word Mat

~ If the Tiger ate everything out of your house, what would you buy? (link below)
Draw your food on the shopping list
Shopping List

~ Have your very own tea party – invite some of your soft toys along
Take photos for us to see!

~ What was your favourite part of the story?
Parents if you could write down their favourite part and send it across via Dojo

~ Lastly, ‘If a teacher came for tea’ – if myself or Fran came for tea what would you feed us! Draw our feast on the plates (link below)
If a Teacher came for Tea

We hope you will join us and enjoy the story ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’. Let us see what you have been up to on Dojo, we look forward to seeing it.

Jodie

 

 

 

 

3 years ago
Posted on 01st Mar 2021 by

Panda Class Home Learning Tuesday 2nd March

Hello,

I hope you are all well.

Phonics – Keep going you’re doing a great job!

Maths – Year 1 continue with your Mass booklet.

Reception – Try this home learning challenge.

eyfs-maths-compare-mass-home-learning-challenges

 

English – All Pandas

We’ve had a letter Panda Class….

 

Dear Panda Class,

 

 I am the Evil Pea and I have been causing trouble with all of the other vegetables!  I’m going to rule the world and turn it green!

 

 I’ve heard you are trying to rescue the carrot, and set it free from the ice.  You will not be able to get the carrot out as I am the Evil Pea and I have frozen it solid!

 

 I am green and I am mean!

 

 From the Evil Pea!  

Don’t mess with me!

Today’s mission (or later in the week…) Panda Class is to set carrot free from the ice! And prove Evil Pea wrong! (Grown ups, if you didn’t manage to freeze a carrot in advance, or perhaps tape one down somewhere at home).

Create a plan of action – write notes to explain how you are going to free carrot.  How will you do it, what will you need? How will carrot be feeling? You could make a poster out of your plan.

Then, when you’ve set carrot free, write a letter back to the Evil Pea and tell him what you have managed to do! Explain that you have your own super powers; one of which is being helpful!

Good luck with your mission!

Enjoy this story about a Run away Pea! Its done through drama!

Have a lovely day.

Mandy Turner

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3 years ago
Posted on 28th Feb 2021 by

Tiger Class – Home learning – Monday 1st March

Last week of blended learning, Tigers!

We are getting ready to welcome everyone back to School next week! We can’t wait to see you all together again.Parent-teacher phone consultations are being offered this week and the time slots can be booked via the website.

As usual, Mrs Williams will be leading a whole Federation worship on Zoom, at 9am. Details on how to join us will be published on our Class Dojo (to keep it private).

Following on from that, Year 2 Tigers are invited to join Mrs Crowe in a Zoom call, at 9.30am for a briefing of the day’s lessons. At 10am, it’s Year 3 turn to catch-up with Mrs Crowe and be briefed about the day’s activities.
At 11.15am, the Phonics Orange Group will have their weekly lesson on Zoom, with Mrs Rohr.
At 2pm, Year 2 will have their weekly spelling test on Zooom. 
All Zoom calls details will be published in our “Class Story” on ClassDojo.
Our PE Coach (Mr Wright) is publishing 30 mins long fitness lessons on their You Tube channel. There will be new lessons on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This would be a great alternative to our usual PE sessions during lockdown, particularly when the weather is not suitable for outdoor exercise. The Wright Way Group Coaching

Today’s links to video lessons and tasks:

YEAR 2

Worksheet: Y2-Spring-Block-3-WO5-Lines-of-symmetry

YEAR 3

Worksheet: Y3-Spring-Block-4-WO6-Subtract-lengths

All Tigers

Exercise diary: Exercise Diary

Weekly assignments for Maths Shed and Spelling Shed are live on www.edshed.com

3 years ago
Posted on 26th Feb 2021 by

Panda Class Home Learning Monday 1st March

Hi Pandas,

March already…where did February go?

The plan for today

Worship via Zoom, with Mrs Williams – link as before on Class Dojo.

Phonics – as per the Ruth Miskin Live Lessons schedule.

Reading – Lots of reading…

Maths – Year 1 Mass and Measures Home Learning Booklet.

Work through your booklet this week, practically where possible, and go at your own pace.

Mass and measures home booklet year 1

Reception – Looking at measuring and comparing weight/mass. If possible try and work practically with items around the home.

eyfs-maths-mastery-weight-home-learning-challenge

English – All Pandas. As this week sees the return of World Book Day, I thought we’d have some fun with a few favourite texts and activities.

Enjoy the story of Supertato!

Your task is to recreate ( I can’t wait to find a potato and get busy bringing him to life!) or draw Supertato and then….create/write  a character profile for him. Think about what he looks like; describe him using carefully chosen words. What are his super hero qualities? – Go back to the story as many times as you need to to remind you. Write your character profile neatly in your books or if you prefer make a poster out of it and decorate it with the other veg around the edge.

Use this template if you haven’t made your own.

Supertato Outfit Cut-Outs

Special request.…If grown ups can freeze a carrot in a bag/Tupperware of water please? Ready for another activity tomorrow.  Sneak preview… Evil Pea has frozen the carrot and we have to rescue it by thinking about how to remove the ice…

More of that tomorrow…

For our return to school, can you complete the ‘End of Lockdown’ sheet so we can find out a bit more about it.

Back to school feelings jigsaw ks1

Many thanks,

Mandy Turner

 

 

3 years ago
Posted on 25th Feb 2021 by

Panda Class Home Learning Friday 26th February

Hi Pandas,

Friday already!  Where did the week go?

Here are a few thoughts for today.

Don’t forget 11 am today is our Zoom session with Road Safety Ray – the link went out via Class Dojo – let me know if you need it again. Have you got your questions ready?

Spend today catching up with those tasks that you didn’t manage to complete in the week.

If the weather is kind, enjoy a nice walk and look for signs of Spring. Here is a bird spotting checklist.

spring-birds-hunt-activity

You may want to spend more time creating your Kandinsky style artwork – the ones I’ve seen look amazing! You are all so talented.

Can I request that you bring your Kandinsky style artwork in to school when we return? I would like to make a large display featuring all of the children’s artwork – it will look amazing!

I have attached a letter with a few notes and reminders, for our return to school on 8th March.  How many big sleeps is it now…?

Panda letter March 21 PDF

Have a great day.

Mandy Turner