School Closure Newsletter. Day 1: Monday 23 rd March 2020 Daily message from the Leadership team. Message for children from Mr Green. Good Morning girls and boys. Well, doesn’t it seem funny to be hearing from me like this rather than at the gate, on the playground or in assembly. Each day, your teachers will be setting you some things to do at home so that you can keep on learning while school is closed...please try to keep up with this so that your learning is still on track for when school starts again. You also might want to research an area of special interest to you; perhaps you could become an expert on volcanoes, or maybe dinosaurs, or comic-book artists, or perhaps breeds of dog or of ponies (or other equids.) Whatever you do keep notes in the book that you’ve taken home so that you can bring it back to school and tell us all about it in a few weeks’ time. You know that we have a school where the children have excellent behaviour. We’re not perfect, but I know that you try your best and are very good. I ask you to keep that up when you’re at home too, for your parents. When there are things to help then do please be helpful. Toys still need to be tidied away and bedtime is still bedtime. It’s still a school day even if you’re learning from home. Staying healthy is important too. Handwashing is still super important to make sure that you don’t get this virus. Stay away from the park, and they’ll be no playing with friends for now, but you can phone them or video chat with them. It’s also important to stay fit and healthy so do play in the garden and get exercise. Your teachers will give you ideas about this too. (By the way... Do you remember the assembly where I was challenged to learn to skip with a skipping rope to 100 without a break? I learned to do it! Now that we can’t really go out much, I’m doing that again... 100 a day every day!) Have a good day and I’ll write some more tomorrow. Best wishes and bye for now, Mr Green Message for parents, carers and grandparents from Simon Green, Head teacher. We’re in the midst of the beginning of a massive national effort to defeat COVID19. This “storm” will pass and your children will be back at school, and for now I’d be grateful if you would support your children to engage with the learning that the teachers set. For now, the best thing that we can do is combine handwashing and hygiene with effective social distancing. The safest place for your child to be is at home! Key Workers. Do not send your children to school unless there is absolutely no other choice! This week, we are providing (in school) for the children of Key Workers; but ONLY IF there is no other possible way that the children can be looked after at home. This really should be a last resort. Anyone coming to school will find it much harder to maintain the social distancing needed to stop the spread of the disease and if your child does not need to be in school then they really should be at home- I just can’t stress this enough. Avoid large and small gatherings. Avoid gatherings with friends and family. This is the best way to keep your child healthy, to keep everyone in your house healthy, and to protect the Key Workers upon whom we depend. The fewer children in school, then the better the country can defeat this. Please understand that sending children to school puts us all at risk and puts the fight against COVID19 at risk. Everyone- finally, I’d also like to thank you all for you calm and encouraging support over many years, and especially over the past week. This has been a difficult time for all of us and your support has been invaluable. Best wishes, Simon Green
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School Closure Newsletter. Day 1: Monday 23rd March 2020
Daily message from the Leadership team.
Message for children from Mr Green.
Good Morning girls and boys. Well, doesn’t it seem funny to be hearing from me like this rather than at the gate, on
the playground or in assembly. Each day, your teachers will be setting you some things to do at home so that you can
keep on learning while school is closed...please try to keep up with this so that your learning is still on track for when
school starts again. You also might want to research an area of special interest to you; perhaps you could become an
expert on volcanoes, or maybe dinosaurs, or comic-book artists, or perhaps breeds of dog or of ponies (or other
equids.) Whatever you do keep notes in the book that you’ve taken home so that you can bring it back to school and
tell us all about it in a few weeks’ time.
You know that we have a school where the children have excellent behaviour. We’re not perfect, but I know that you
try your best and are very good. I ask you to keep that up when you’re at home too, for your parents. When there
are things to help then do please be helpful. Toys still need to be tidied away and bedtime is still bedtime. It’s still a
school day even if you’re learning from home.
Staying healthy is important too. Handwashing is still super important to make sure that you don’t get this virus.
Stay away from the park, and they’ll be no playing with friends for now, but you can phone them or video chat with
them. It’s also important to stay fit and healthy so do play in the garden and get exercise. Your teachers will give you
ideas about this too. (By the way... Do you remember the assembly where I was challenged to learn to skip with a
skipping rope to 100 without a break? I learned to do it! Now that we can’t really go out much, I’m doing that
again... 100 a day every day!)
Have a good day and I’ll write some more tomorrow.
Best wishes and bye for now, Mr Green
Message for parents, carers and grandparents from Simon Green, Head teacher.
We’re in the midst of the beginning of a massive national effort to defeat COVID19. This “storm” will pass and
your children will be back at school, and for now I’d be grateful if you would support your children to engage with
the learning that the teachers set. For now, the best thing that we can do is combine handwashing and hygiene
with effective social distancing. The safest place for your child to be is at home!
Key Workers. Do not send your children to school unless there is absolutely no other choice! This week, we are
providing (in school) for the children of Key Workers; but ONLY IF there is no other possible way that the children
can be looked after at home. This really should be a last resort. Anyone coming to school will find it much harder
to maintain the social distancing needed to stop the spread of the disease and if your child does not need to be in
school then they really should be at home- I just can’t stress this enough. Avoid large and small gatherings. Avoid
gatherings with friends and family. This is the best way to keep your child healthy, to keep everyone in your house
healthy, and to protect the Key Workers upon whom we depend. The fewer children in school, then the better
the country can defeat this. Please understand that sending children to school puts us all at risk and puts the fight
against COVID19 at risk.
Everyone- finally, I’d also like to thank you all for you calm and encouraging support over many years, and
especially over the past week. This has been a difficult time for all of us and your support has been invaluable.
Best wishes,
Simon Green
Daily message from the Office team.
Kate/ Yvonne write here please
Archive: Guidance written on 14 03 2020
Notes to teaching staff. In the event of a COVID 19 school closure you will need to continue to work. I hope this will
be at school, but it may be from home if UK Government guidance specifies it. We will work within normal teaching
hours. It is important that your children continue to learn. Please do not work evenings and weekends- you also need
to look after your physical and mental health
You will need to support parents by providing daily ideas that enable the children’s learning journey to continue. This
might be worksheets or weblinks or tasks etc. Think carefully- not everyone will have a printer- avoid teaching jargon
that might make it hard for parents to know what you mean- tread a careful line between open ended and specific
activities. It is important that this is meaningful support, so do put thought and effort into enabling parents to
continue the delivery of our school curriculum (rather than another curriculum.)
This should be updated by 17:00 every day (and stored on Sharepoint) and Kate or Yvonne will publish it by email and
website at 09:30 the following day. Any messages from parents will be forwarded to you by 11:00 each day. Please
reply direct to the parent with a cc to Kate, but keep email to a necessary minimum.
Finally- if you are sick and unable to do this then please call in sick as usual.
Notes to parents. This is uncharted territory for us, and we will put every effort into providing guidance that helps
you to help your children to continue their learning. If you have any questions, then please email them to
Daily message from Year 2… to continue learning at home we suggest
Start everyday with some reading and discuss what you have read together. Phonics: Today you will learn to spell ‘wr’(makes a 'r' sound) words. Have a go completing these words. I've done the first one for you: wr + ap = wrap wr + iggle = wr + estler = wr + ist = wr + ite = wr + itten Wr + ote = wr + ong = wr + eck = Read all the words with your child. Ensure they are clear about meaning and have written the words down correctly. English. Today you will learn: all about the discovery that Christopher Columbus made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThZj9TEMwgE Watch the video about Christopher Columbus. Discuss the interesting points of the video and try to answer these questions in your English book:
1. Why is Columbus famous? 2. How many days did the crew sail for? 3. Where were they trying to go? 4. Which continents did they actually reach? 5. List some food that they brought back. 6. List some things (nouns) that they took over to them?
Challenge: Use a page in your English book to do the following: Columbus fact file. Create an information sheet/fact file which includes some of the facts that you have learnt about Columbus. You can add pictures and colours once you're finished. Maths: We will use this week to revise our multiplication unit of work. This was completed before Christmas and it would benefit the class to go over the important aspects of this unit again. Please revise counting in jumps of 2. Use http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/funkyMummy/index.html to practise the 2 times table. In your maths book you could draw groups of objects which come in 2s e.g. socks, gloves, shoes, glasses and write the matching calculations next to it. There’s an example below…
2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8 is also 2x 4 = 8
Challenge: Use the 2 times table to do some doubling. Doubles song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jOzhiACB68 help your child to see that double 3 is the same as 3 x 2, double 4 is the same as 4 x 2 etc. Computing Today you are going to play a programming game in your house! Key words: Algorithm = instructions Debug = to fix a problem Help your child to stand by the door and decide where you want to go. They can only travel in straight lines and can turn left or right. Draw or write an algorithm (a list of instructions) to tell someone how to cross the room. Here's an example: start by the door, walk forward 5 steps, turn left, walk forward 3 steps, turn left, walk forward 2 steps. Are you by the sofa? If they end up in the wrong place then you need to debug (fix the problem) by changing your algorithm. Once you've done this you could program someone to walk
in a square shape.... or try even more complicated shapes or letters. If your child wishes to continue this then they could use a teddy and move it around as they write their new algorithms. Physical movement: We've done this Zumba video in one of our dance lessons. The children loved it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP0wgVhUC9w You could dance from start to end, then play it again and play musical statues or musical bumps to get your child moving!
Fluency - Practice your 3, 4 and 8 multiplication tables for 20 minutes on https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button or https://www.mathschase.com/
If you cannot get online, use your multiplication table from your maths books and ask an adult to test you.
Guided Reading - Spend 20 minutes reading a book of your choice to an adult either in one go or 4 lots of 5 minutes
during the day.
Indoor PE – Play an active game in your house or garden or use the links below.
Complete the Joe Wicks Workout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LPrhI0v-
Daily message from Year 6… to continue learning at home we suggest
Good Morning ladies and gentlemen of Year Six!
Are ready to learn … I hope nobody is still in their pyjamas??
Reading and Writing
Read, research and make notes about Charles Darwin at this site -https://www.discoveringgalapagos.org.uk/discover/human-history/charles-darwin/voyage-beagle/
It is the link that we used in school to make the maps of Darwin’s journey on the green paper. Go to the evolution
tab to continue to research his journey and his exploration of the Galapagos Islands. Use your notes to write two
diary entries. One before Darwin sets sail and another when he is on the Galapagos Islands. The diary
entries should show how Darwin is feeling, what he sees, hears and most importantly what he discovers.
Include Darwin’s drawings and observations. Make sure you label the drawings.
Maths
Complete the first revision test in the CPG booklet. The tests are a really good way of revising everything
that we have learned this year. If you are stuck or unsure, you could use your revision books or go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z826n39
Problem of the day. Day 15 - click on this link and download a problem related to fractions. https://whiterosemaths.com/resources/classroom-resources/problems/
All of these sites are good to help you revise: www.topmarks.co.uk has games on addition and
subtraction, multiplication and division, place value, fractions and decimals. You will also find hit the
button here – it is excellent to help you remain fluent in lots of areas of maths. Those of you that like
dancing and need to practise times tables try this site…. https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers
Spelling - Practise your half termly spellings. Remember to use a range of strategies; you can also practise
online by using https://spellingframe.co.uk . Spring term 2 spellings:
symbol system temperature thorough committee environment government communicate