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4 years ago
Posted on 31st May 2020 by

Panda Class learning w/c 1st June 2020

I hope you had a good half term week.

In maths this week we are looking at halving quantities by sharing items into two equal groups. Children should share small quantities out fairly. Talk about unfair sharing, where one person has more/fewer.

Once children are confident with halving small quantities, they can explore sharing between 3 or 4 people. They will notice that there are sometimes leftovers and may come up with how to resolve this. Can you share the left overs?
Provide children with opportunities to share amounts around the home and garden.

The Doorbell Rang story book by Pat Hutchins puts sharing into context of everyday life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLx7Oxr5ZlU

Bean Thirteen is another story which shows sharing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqFKbdtbiMw
If you want to find the stories read by different people than the ones I’ve found, feel free.

Phonics – Ruth Miskin’s Read Write Inc is still online – I have put a link to the speed sounds which would be really good to revisit frequently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eh_RQ0Pkhg

In writing children could write a diary of what they have been doing recently.
Encourage children to:
• leave finger spaces between words
• use good ‘pincer’ pencil grip
• start with a capital and finish with a full stop.

Have a lovely week.
Mandy Turner

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4 years ago
Posted on 29th May 2020 by

Summer Term – Home Learning Timetable – Week 6 – Year 2

Dear Tigers,
hope you are all enjoying this sunny half-term!

Please find attached the timetable (with links) and files for week 6 of the Summer Term (week commencing on 1st June) for YEAR 2 only. The Year 1 equivalent documents have been published earlier today and can be found on my previous post.

Tiger Class – Summer Term – Week 6 – Learning-Project-UNDER-THE-SEA

Year 2 Timetable – Summer Term – Week 6

The White Rose Maths worksheets to accompany the videos will be published daily, as I will have to download this for you (those resources are no longer freely available).

All links and resources will also be published in our Class Dojo page, where I will be able to answer any queries.

Kind regards,
Mrs Crowe

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4 years ago
Posted on 17th May 2020 by

Summer Term – Home Learning Timetable – Week 5 – Year 1

Please find attached the timetable (with links) and files for week 5 of the Summer Term (week commencing on 18th May) for YEAR 1 only. The Year 2 equivalent documents have been published earlier today and can be found in my previous post.

Year 1 – Summer Term – week 5

Tiger Class – Week-7 -Learning-Project-KS1

The White Rose Maths worksheets to accompany the videos will be published daily, as I will have to download this for you (those resources are no longer freely available).

All links and resources will also be published in our Class Dojo page, where I will be able to answer any queries.
Kind regards,
Mrs Crowe

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4 years ago
Posted on 17th May 2020 by

Summer Term – Home Learning Timetable – Week 5 – Year 2

Please find attached the timetable (with links) and files for week 5 of the Summer Term (week commencing on 18th May) for YEAR 2 only. The Year 1 equivalent documents will be published later today.

Tiger Class – Week-6-Learning-Project-KS1
Year 2 – Summer Term – Week 4

The White Rose Maths worksheets to accompany the videos will be published daily, as I will have to download this for you (those resources are no longer freely available).

Year 2 – Summer Term – week 5

Tiger Class – Week-7 -Learning-Project-KS1

All links and resources will also be published in our Class Dojo page, where I will be able to answer any queries.
Kind regards,
Mrs Crowe

4 years ago
Posted on 17th May 2020 by

Panda Class Learning w/c 18th May 2020

Hi Pandas, I hope you are all well. I really enjoyed playing the ‘Guess the object’ game on our Zoom session on Friday and you were all amazing, asking brilliant questions. Well done!

Thank you for all of the communications over Class Dojo I really enjoy seeing what you have been up to. Last week saw some… very fast running, putting animals and their facts in to alphabetical order in excel, great maths work, lots of reading, gardening, bike riding, baking, a very sparkly blue spider in the spider game, some super writing and a poorly finger!

Following on from last week’s maths- her is a challenge! Still using the First, Then, Now strategy, try changing part of the number story to make it an unknown. This is a good activity to show how much understanding your child has of how the numbers change.
So, first there were 2 frogs on the log.
Then, some more frogs get on
Now there are 4 frogs.
How many frogs joined the group?
Alternatively, you could have an unknown amount at the start.

This week in maths we are looking at doubling. This can be doubling numbers, amounts in a group or doubling of patterns. Resources for doubling can be found below.

Nrich maths resource for doubling.
https://nrich.maths.org/content/id/12746/DoubleTrouble.pdf

BBC Numberblocks Series 2 Episode 9 – Double Trouble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bot83VxMLqM

Games and activities to support doubling:
Play a doubles game with 2 dice. Roll both dice and see if you get a double – if you do, you score 2 points. The winner is the first person to 10 points.
Make towers or rows with Lego. Can they build towers that are double the length or double the height?
Can they find items around the house or garden to make double patterns?
Play matching snap.

English – finding out about dinosaurs
Can you create a fact file about dinosaurs? Which is your favourite dinosaur? What is it called? What food did they eat? (start to include terminology such as carnivore, herbivore, omnivore) Where did they live? Did it fly? How big was it? Include any interesting facts that you can find!
An interesting fact about a T-Rex is that its tooth is the same size as a banana!! AMAZING!

Below is an example for the ‘Dinosaur fact file’:
‘A diplodocus is my favourite dinosaur – it eats plants, so it is an herbivore. It has a very long neck to reach high up into the trees and has a very long tail. It weighed 12 tonnes which is as much as a large truck.’

Use pictures from the internet and drawings copied from books. Label the parts. Add extra interesting facts. Use text boxes and speech bubbles.

Enjoy the dinosaur links below:

Harry and the Bucketful of Dinosaurs story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTjQeCspMkY
The Prehistoric Animal Brigade-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bENtOFR66YY&vl=en-GB Can you copy the dinosaur actions?
The Dinosaur Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0FOZ0-VpcU

Reading – Lots of reading and listening to stories being read.

Phonics – Ruth Miskin’s Read Write Inc phonics is now extending the home learning until 12th June. There is a full schedule on their You Tube channel. They have also added several poetry activities for Reception age children.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ

Something completely different…
Live broadcasting from the National Aquarium
https://aqua.org/Experience/live

Have fun and stay safe
Mandy Turner

4 years ago
Posted on 15th May 2020 by

Proposed re-opening of the school – Draft plan

Dear parents and carers,

I know you must all be wondering what the next step will be for our schools to help you plan your own routines at home. There has been a huge amount of speculation, followed by so many documents from the DFE and LA. There are many more updates and documents on their way next week. We do not want to make plans only to have to undo them, so what I propose is a draft plan which we will adapt once we have all the advice and guidance. We need to audit all the staff and survey the parents properly to ascertain attendance numbers in the first instance.
We plan to take the return to school as safely as possible.  Our local authority have asked us to create teaching groups of 8-10 pupils, integrating them slowly, beginning with the youngest. These groups would not be able to mix with any other during their time in school.
We plan to begin with Nursery and Reception children, mornings only for the first week. If this is manageable, we will integrate year one, mornings only the following week. This will then be reviewed and depending on numbers of children in school and staff available, we may be able to introduce year 6. Potentially we need three teaching spaces for each year group, so it really is not possible to say yet. Our teaching days will be Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
We will still look after the children of key workers in a separate room in the school so that there is no cross-contamination. This will still be 5 days a week 8:30 until 4:30
The rest of the school will be closed on Wednesdays to allow for teachers PPA and for a deep clean of the school.
We are in talks with the Corbet about transition days for our year 6 on their premises as well, so please don’t panic that we won’t see our year 6 again. It is just hopefully useful to know that year 6s may not return to school until end of June at the earliest.
Teachers will continue to provide home-learning activities for the children at home, and this will be the same work that they complete with the children in school. The teachers will have chance to respond on Wednesdays or on some afternoons if they are not looking after keyworkers children.
We will pass on firm dates and details as soon as we are able to do so.  Thank you for your patience and understanding.
4 years ago
Posted on 11th May 2020 by

Phased return to school

Dear parents and carers,
Following the Prime Ministers announcement yesterday evening I’m sure you have many questions, as we do, that you would like clarifying. We found out the same information at the same time as you, so as you can imagine we have spent this morning trying to get some clarity.  I have met virtually with the headteachers from the other local primary schools and we will work closely on the next stage together. I will also be speaking to the Corbet to discuss year 6 transition. 
At the moment we will continue to provide provision for our Key Workers as we are at the moment. We have not yet received any information to support us with this new plan to start a phased return for some of the year groups. We expect to receive information from the Department for Education and the Local Authority very soon.
Please be assured that the safety of our children, staff and school community is the key priority and we will only begin a phased return when we are 100% prepared.
As always, we will keep you updated but for now please do not worry. We will continue to provide online learning for our children, keep in contact with you and continue to support each other during these difficult and uncertain times.
Many thanks for your patience.
4 years ago
Posted on 11th May 2020 by

Snow Leopards 11th May 2020

Hello Snow Leopards,
I hope everyone is keeping well and you all had an enjoyable weekend celebrating VE Day on Friday. I had afternoon tea and cake in the sunshine!
Let me know if you did anything special to celebrate.

I understand that staying at home is challenging, especially for parents working from home too, but I hope everyone continues to keep busy and enjoy this time with your children. Please remember I’m here if anyone needs anything.

Please continue to refer to the links I posted in last weeks letter as they provide really important and fun activities to keep your little Snow Leopards busy!

A few other ideas for this week:
https://domesticsuperhero.com/best-homemade-playdough-recipe/
Dough gym is a fun activity which helps to strengthen and develop your fine and gross motor skills, balance and hand-eye co-ordination. ‘Dough Disco’ – YouTube, makes dough gym lots more fun! 

https://www.sophiesnursery.com/nature-walk-activity/
Have a go at Sophie’s colour hunt. A great way for children to observe their surroundings, recognise and learn their colours! 

I look forward to catching up with you all this week. 

Jodie 

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4 years ago
Posted on 10th May 2020 by

Summer Term – Home Learning Timetable – Week 4 – Year 2

Please find attached the timetable (with links) and files for week 4 of the Summer Term (week commencing on 11th May) for YEAR 2 only. The Year 1 equivalent documents were published earlier today and can be found on my previous post.

Tiger Class – Week-6-Learning-Project-KS1

Year 2 – Summer Term – Week 4

The White Rose Maths worksheets to accompany the videos will be published daily, as I will have to download this for you (those resources are no longer freely available).

All links and resources will also be published in our Class Dojo page, where I will be able to answer any queries.
Kind regards,
Mrs Crowe