Here's a nice Thrive activity to do today if you get the chance. It's not essential but something to support your well-being if you have a few spare minutes.
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Hi Team CB, Please see the attached video Miss Garratt has created. It will give you some help in responding to activities I have posted on Seesaw. Hopefully, it might support you with completing activities and sending finished pieces back to me. Take care, Miss Baxter. Unsure how you want to remember your time in lockdown? Why not take a look at the following Time Capsule documents you could use to create a lasting memory of what life was like during this time?
Hi Team CB,
As we come to the end of another week I thought I would send you a message to say that I hope you are all well and taking care. I hope you are keeping yourselves busy with home learning, helping your parents out around the house but also taking some time for yourselves. Remember that in a time like this you need to make sure you are doing a balance of activities to keep your minds healthy. Your health and well-being is the most important thing. Like yourselves, I too have been very busy. As you will have noticed, I have been blogging lots of things on our class page for you to do and also making sure that Literacy at Park Street is running smoothly. As you know, I lead on that subject so I'm always busy looking for ways we can make Literacy brilliant! Some of you may have realised that I have been posting lots and lots of activities on our class page and may have found it quite difficult to keep up with all the work. That's okay! I would not expect you to get through everything I posted as I know I have blogged LOADS. However, I did want to make sure there was plenty on there and a range of subject areas for you to have a look at. My advice would be to try and have a go at a Maths and Literacy activity each day and then something that covers one or two other areas of the curriculum - just like we would do in school. As of Monday, I will do less blogging on the website as daily activities will be posted on Seesaw instead. This should be a lot more manageable for yourselves and it will help you to understand what I would like you to achieve on a daily basis. Of course, you are more than welcome to come back to our class blog if you would like to do some other activities that I have posted over the last couple of weeks but the tasks I would like you to complete each day will be posted on Seesaw. I hope this helps! Remember that tomorrow is Saturday and the start of the weekend so please take a break from school work, have some time to yourselves and spend some with your family. Family is the most important thing right now so please make the most of having your parents/carers/siblings around and do something fun together. Team CB, I hope you all have a lovely weekend. I am missing you all very much and I am looking forward to seeing you all soon. Thank you to all those who have kept in touch via the school email/twitter, it's been lovely to hear from you and has put a smile on my face. Take care of yourselves and family and stay safe. Thinking of you all and sending lots of love, Miss Baxter As a school, we are committed to ensuring your child gets the best possible education that we can offer. The current circumstances are proving to be a bit of a challenge for us all and we know that education is quite difficult at the moment whilst we are facing this pandemic. With this in mind, we have subscribed to the online platform ‘SeeSaw’. SeeSaw is a platform that allows teachers to set home learning for each child in their class. Over the next few days, you will be receiving an email (with an attachment of the document below) that provides you with more information about how Seesaw works and how we are going to use it as a school. You will also receive your child's log on details in this email. Please look out for this arriving in your inboxes. As of Monday 27th April 2020, all learning and activities will be placed on Seesaw and not on class blog pages. Although we will continue to post blogs regularly, we will not be using them to the extent that we have done over the past few weeks, Many thanks for your cooperation and understanding.
If you're finding that a detailed explanation of new Maths learning would support your child right now then NCETM have an excellent offer available. I want to bring your attention to some new videos that the team at NCETM/maths hubs have been putting together to support children learn maths at home. They are all planned and delivered by mastery specialists. They will be adding to them each week with 5 new videos per age phase per week. They all take on the mastery approach to learning and use digital images and animations, alongside the teacher talking to children in a video. Should these be something you wish to explore further, why not take a look.
Here’s the link to the main hub for them: https://www.ncetm.org.uk/resources/54454?utm_source=NCETM%20Newsletters&utm_campaign=4a4d6a8df7-primary-round-up-april-2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_13f8d631f4-4a4d6a8df7-222526285 If you haven't looked already, STEM is fabulous resource which supports children to develop their science, technology, engineering and maths skills. I have included the link below which points you in the direction of some fantastic activities which can be done at home. These activities are easy-to-resource and provide children with the stimulus to talk about the world around them. https://www.stem.org.uk/home-learning/primary In addition, they have also attached some fantastic Science experiments you could try to keep your mind astounded at the way things work. Why not try a few? Perhaps you could email your investigation results through to us at [email protected]
To support with handwriting practice at home, please see the image below with the letter formation that we teach. I have also attached the handwriting sheets that we use in school our sheet is code (HW4):
We know that it can sometimes be difficult to encourage handwriting practice but here are some things parents/carers could do with children to incorporate handwriting into daily activities:
1. Shopping Lists This is a great task that can be adapted depending on the age of your child. Younger children could draw the items, older children can write down the names or just add one or two items if they can’t manage the whole list. 2. To-do lists Ask your child to write down a daily “to do” list. This could include making breakfast, what they are going to do for daily learning and evening routines. This promotes independence and also makes them think about their own tasks. You could get them to write down all the things they have to do in the morning before they begin their school work and include pictures. For example get dressed, brush my teeth, have breakfast etc. They can then put this in their bedroom as a reminder! 3. Cards/postcards Ask your child to write a postcard to a friend and encourage them to write about something they have learnt over the past few weeks. Younger children who haven't yet learnt letter formation can draw pictures instead, this will still help them develop the fine motor skills needed for writing. 4. Journal Over the next couple of weeks, ask your child to create a journal or scrap book where they record their activities. They could take/draw pictures, and stick them in their journal while adding notes. It may be too much to write every day, depending on your child's age, but they could do it at the end of the week and write about the best things that happened. 5. Book or film review Have a look at book or film reviews online and suggest your child writes one of their own. Ask them to describe what the book or film was about, what they particularly liked about it and what they didn't like. Finally ask them to score the book or film out of 5. 6. Letters to the past. Why not get involved yourself? Write a short note to your child and encourage them to write back. It's also a good idea to keep the same note going back and forth, folding each time so that they have to open the message for added excitement. 7. Best ever menu Ask your child to write down a menu of all their favourite foods. What would be their dream lunch or dinner? Encourage them to write it down and decorate their menu. Alternatively, they could write a menu with what they are having for lunch or dinner that day. Life and parenting can be challenging in normal situations. The situation we find ourselves in currently is far from normal. We have put together a number of useful links and documents, as well as advice on how to deal with some difficult situations you might find ourselves in. Please take a look at the information below and do not hesitate to contact school if you would like any additional information regarding these topics or anything else you need advice and support about - if we cannot help, we will know who can.
A message from Miss Clementson our History Lead:
The Spring term is our History Term at Wombwell Park Street and each class loved their history topic. It was so inspiring to see such a passion for history throughout school and see how much was achieved. It's a shame that we had to cut the term short, however there are plenty of ways we can make sure History is still studied whilst we're not in school. With this in mind, here are some links for you to use for learning at home. There is a wealth of information on the internet to inspire young minds so please take time to visit each site and look at the different topics. The history overview is on the main history page of the website so you can see the objectives for each year group but please feel free to explore all topics and immerse yourself in the subject! All websites will need careful monitoring from parents due to some topic content and links to other sites so please be mindful of this. https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/history/ This site has a wealth of information about a range of topics. It shows key artefacts and uses good key vocabulary for each topic. There is also a quiz to take part in when you have read about your favourite topic. https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/shows/horrible-histories Horrible Histories is a fantastic way to learn about history with a bit of humour too! There are lots of different activities and links to watch clips and episodes of the show. There are songs and quizzes and it covers a wide range of historical topics. https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/category/discover/history/ National Geographic Kids covers a range of topics including Ancient Greece, the Titanic, the Vikings and famous people such as Rosa Parks. A brilliant site for learning about your favourite history topics. https://www.youtube.com/user/EnglishHeritageFilm This YouTube channel teaches about cooking in the past. Mrs Crocombe teaches you how to cook through videos and it would be lovely to try this as a family! The cucumber ice cream looks interesting! There are also other videos including links to English Heritage places to visit and fashion tutorials. https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/teaching-resources/ You may need to click on the correct key stage for learning activities and information on this site as some are aimed at Secondary school children. There are also some videos to watch and recipes to try. http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/history/index.html This website includes topics from the Celts right up to modern day history. There are many key questions and facts to learn and key vocabulary is explained well. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/forkids/ This site is split into sections so you can learn about World History or focus on different countries within the United Kingdom. You can learn about different era's and famous people. Clicking on British History will open a lot of topics. There are also daily history lessons with links to videos. The BBC website has lots of information although is down at the minute so I will add the key stage links separately when it is back up and running. |
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