The Invisible String

This is a lovely comforting story for all of us who are missing people we love:  maybe grandparents, friends, family, teachers (and pupils!).

Story time with Mr Jones

With all the rain outside today, we thought this might be the perfect opportunity to brighten you day with a story read by Mr. Jones.  If you liked the story or were impressed with Mr. Jones storytelling then write a comment below to let us know you've listened!

Monday 27th April

Hello everybody in Year 1.  We hope you had a lovely weekend and enjoyed the sunshine.

Has anybody been inspired by Miss Curme to go outside and do some star gazing? Mrs Probert was and managed to see some planets and satellites in the night sky, very exciting.

This week for our home learning there are some more measuring activities in Maths and in English we are thinking about features of a book and the characters in different stories.

WOW!

We know that you are doing amazing work at home Year 1, well done!

This week Mrs Probert, Miss Oliver and Miss Curme have enjoyed finding out more about the things you are doing and we loved looking at the photos you have sent us.  You have fantastic ideas including making your own Jack and the Beanstalk quiz, designing your own PE course, baking and using your imagination to build Lego models

These are just some of the pictures of your brilliant work!



Year 2 Update

Hi Year 2!

We have had a great week in Year 2 with Mrs Slater and Miss Croud! We have written special post cards to our teachers and LSAs because we miss them and Miss Croud has promised to deliver them. We have also made some colourful decorations for the kitchen garden with the help of Mr Allcroft! 

Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to another fun week!

Story time with Miss Curme

Listen to Miss Curme read How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers. The Year 1 team miss their classes and hope they enjoy seeing a familiar face. Enjoy!

Story time with Miss Watts

Listen to Miss Watts read Giraffes Can't Dance written by Giles Andreae. The Year 2 team miss their classes and hope they enjoy seeing a familiar face. Enjoy!

Year 1 Stargazing

Good afternoon Year 1,

Just an update from Miss Curme, this week I have decided to become a Stargazer and I thought you might want to hear a little bit about it and maybe even join in if you get the chance.
I have been looking at different events that are happening in the sky at night at the moment and have found out some amazing things.

SpaceX have sent lots of satellites into space and you may be lucky enough to see the ‘Starlink’ formation in the sky from your gardens all this week. They travel across the sky between 9pm and 10pm (which is really late) so this may be too late for you to stay up. However, you can find pictures of this on the internet and video clips on Youtube if you can’t see this for yourselves.

On Tuesday night, there was also a meteor shower happening, it was very late at night but I wonder if there are some meteor shower clips that you could find on the internet with your grown up.
I have found some amazing stargazing things to do on the cbeebies website. You could find out what it is like to be an astronaut or use stargazing maps to spot different groups of stars.

There are quizzes and games to play as well! https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/shows/stargazing

There are some clips on BBC teach – Little stargazing. https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/little-stargazing/zdys92p

Here is some more information about the night sky and star constellations. https://stfc.ukri.org/files/educational-publications/hands-on-universe-ks1/

Can you find your own ‘star pictures’ in the sky?

Can you draw some star pictures with pencils, pens, paints or even chalks?

Could you take some photographs of the moon?

You could make your very own ‘moon diary’ and notice how the way we see the moon changes over the month.

I would love to hear what you have found out when you come back to school!

Hello Everyone!

We hope you had a lovely Easter break and you are enjoying your new home learning tasks.

Miss Croud and Mrs Slater have been teaching Year 2 this week and we have all been enjoying the sunshine together. We have had a busy week so far! We started our new topic ‘On Safari’ and have read ‘Meerkat Mail’ by Emily Gravett. We loved the story and it inspired us to research meerkats and create our very own fact file. We really wish we could have our own real class meerkats! In maths we have learned about rotational language and used this to direct a teddy bear around the maps we created.  

We have practised our catching and throwing in PE and Miss Croud joined in with us too! We all had lots of fun.

Year 1

Tuesday 21st April

Hello everybody in Year 1.

  We hope you are all having fun learning at home and have your new 

 'home learning' packs now.

This week try to do some different activities from the packs each day as well as having fun playing with your own toys and trying to enjoy the sunshine whilst it is here.

You could also try the new online activities available from Oak National Academy.

https://www.thenational.academy/ 

There are lessons about measuring which links to our Home Learning this week

Also you could try https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons

Easter Week 2

Hello Everyone!

I wanted to let you all know what we've been up to at school during the second week of the Easter holidays. Well done to all of you for staying at home and doing lots of different learning activities as well as having some fun I hope! All of the teachers at school are missing you lots! 

Miss Jones, Miss Hyde, Miss Oliver, Mrs Bartram and Mrs Smith have been doing lots of different activities with the children this week. We have been doing Easter egg hunts and even planted some sweetcorn and runner beans. We have been making sure that we water them everyday to help them to grow. We also did some singing practise with Mrs Smith which was really fun. On Tuesday we made a tiny campfire and toasted marshmellows to make s'mores with the science teacher from the senior school. I have attached a photo for you to look at.

Take good care everyone! 

Year 1

Hello Year 1, we hope you all enjoyed your Easter and were lucky enough to have some Easter eggs!

Whilst you have been at home the dinosaur has been out and about in the school grounds looking for signs of spring. 

Take a look at the photos and see how many signs of spring you can spot. Can you name any of the plants and flowers?

 

 

 

 

 

 

This year we have been thinking about which areas in the school  make a good shelter for the dinosaur.  He needs to be safe, have water and food.  Which of the photos do you think show the best place for the dinosaur to live?  Where do you think he is camouflaged best, why?

Can you find signs of spring by looking through your window or whilst you are outside?

Next week you will be sent your first Home Learning activities.  Below are the ICT links we have included in the pack if you want to start to look at these already. 

 Remember if you find a good idea yourself you could share this with a friend.

https://spellingframe.co.uk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

https://whiterosemaths.com/

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/covid19-school-closures

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/free-home-learning-packs/

From the Year 1 Team

Easter Holiday Week 1

Hello Everyone!

We thought it would be a nice idea for us to share what we've been doing over the first week of the Easter holiday! First, we wanted to say a massive well done to everyone for all the hard work you've done at home over the last few weeks. We know it's a really strange time for everyone, but you're doing amazingly well!

Mr Jones, Ms Cooper, Miss Croud and Mrs Vaughan have been at school this week, making the most of the sunshine and completing some fun activities with the children. We've been playing games, building dens, finding Easter eggs and even painting something special to show our appreciation for the NHS workers. Each day, the children have painted a different colour of the rainbow on large pieces of paper. Once they had finished, we  put them all together to make one, beautiful picture, that we have displayed outside of Early Years. Here is a picture for you to have a look at!



We hope you have a great Easter weekend!

Year 2 Update from Year 2 Teachers

Hello Year 2!



We wanted to post a quick update to share what we’ve been doing over the past few weeks at school. All of the Year 2 teachers are missing you all very much and it’s been extremely strange being at school without you all there with us. We are sure that you’ve all been working hard at home and having lots of fun.



During the first week, Mr Jones and the children spent a lot of time out in the garden helping Mr Allcroft. We did some planting, watering and even decorated the garden. We painted flowers, made butterflies and hung bees from the shelter! We used all of these activities to help us with some writing too. We created stories about bees, wrote letters and we made sets of instructions on how to plant sunflower seeds so the other children could follow them and have as much fun as we did.

During the second week, Miss Jones and Miss Davis helped the children to tell the time to the nearest five minutes. They also used the symbols for greater than, less than an equal to order different amounts of time. In English the children created their very own superheroes with unique costumes and powers and wrote all about them. The children really enjoyed playing board games like scrabble and monopoly to practice spelling and maths skills.



Challenge

Why don’t you try and make something that would look great in a garden? It could be a butterfly or a bee, just like we did. It could be another insect or even a garden gnome!  Once you have made it, write some instructions on how you did it. Remember, your instructions should include: Title, introduction, ‘You will need’ and your steps. Give it a go!



You could also create your very own superheroes – think about their secret identity, their costume and their superpowers! You could then write your own descriptive paragraph to tell someone else all about them!



We also made sure we didn’t miss listening to David Walliams telling us stories from his ‘Worlds Worst Children’ book. You can also listen to him if you click on this link:



David Walliams is reading a story every day for 30 days. Listen, or catch up, here: https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/



















We hope that you are all staying safe and hope you have a good holiday!



Year 2 Team