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Date: 14th May 2020 @ 9:19pm
Star of the Week!
This week's Star of the Week is Chloe, I have been super impressed with your commitment to your home learning, I don't think that you have missed a day on IXL and you are consistently logging into readtheory and purple mash to complete your tasks! Your writing tasks are always to a good a standard and you can tell you have put so much effort in. Well done!
Robins Class - Home Learning 15.5.20
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 9:06pm
Happy Friday 
We've made it to the end of another week, well done! Are you still going out to clap for carers on a Thursday night? My street was the loudest it had been last night, it's really to feel part of the curriculum.
Chester Zoo live
Today I am attaching the link to watch Chester Zoo live - have any of you seen it, it is on most Friday's and is a great watch - the link will take you to the page that gives you the timetable (it is an all day event) to actually see the video's you can ask your grown-up to help you look on either youtube or Facebook for Chester Zoo live. The videos are available after as well, so if you catch one you can watch it later. I personally cannot wait for the Cheetah talk.
Today's home learning is as follows:
Your IXL passwords have expired, we have set up new usernames and passwords for you like we did last time, most of the usernames are your first name and last name followed by 507 for example, misswoodward507 however if this does not work you might have 462 at the end of your name e.g misswoodward462. Your password is the same.
IXL
Maths – Year 2 – Probability and Statistic - U.1, U.2
English – Word Meaning - W.2, W.3
Synonyms are words that have the same or a similar meaning e.g sad, unhappy, downcast
Antonyms are words that are opposite of each other e.g bad and good
Don’t forget there are 2Dos set on Purple Mash. Times Table Rockstars is also available too, it is great to see some of you improving your times tables knowledge. I’ve seen so many more of you on readtheory which is excellent. Keep aiming for one comprehension a day.
Remember to post your spelling test scores on your class discussion.
Writing Task
Some more great entries for the writing task this week, attached to the blog are photos of Ethan F and Hope creating their memory jars/boxes. Emily and Ruby have written some lovely letters to their future selves as well. Thank you so much for sharing really lovely to see!
Thanks everyone, have a great weekend!
Miss Woodward
Doves - 14th May - Learning Overview
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 4:54pm
Some more great work completed today! Well done Doves :)
Here is a summary of the work I've seen today:
LBQ:
SPAG - We had 22 out of 27 children complete their SPAG tasks.
MATHS- We had 21 out of 27 children complete their SPAG tasks.
Our numbers are dropping, please try to complete both your SPAG and Maths tasks.
Well done to the following children for full marks on their tasks:
Amber- SPAG - Task 1
Jessica S, Gracie, Nathan, Ellis, Akshay, Oliver, Emily and Amber - SPAG Task 2
Martha, Amber and Ellis- Maths - Task 1 - Miss F's Group
Leon- Maths - Task 2 - Mr S's Group
Parthiv, Jessica S, Amber, Akshay, Oscar, Olly, Ava, Leon and Nathan- Topic - Topic Quiz
I am so proud of the engagement, resilience and work ethic shown by ALL children who accessed their LBQ work.
Read Theory:
Well done to the following children: Akshay, Oscar, Olly, Oliver, Chloe, Ava and Leon for logging on and accessing your daily reading. Between the 7 of you, you have read 17 additional quizzes, collectively! Amazing work - Keep it up!
Special mention today to Oscar who read 5 quizzes today. Well Done!
Reading Solutions:
Well done to the following children for accessing Reading Solutions.
Amber (4), Ellis (4), Nathan (5), Noah (10) and Thomas (4)
Writing:
Well done to the following children: Oscar, Akshay, Martha and Leon for their Newspaper reports. I have loved reading them and I am super impressed with the quality of the writing.
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 4:52pm
Hi everyone,
Thanks to those who commented on who they thought the Throwback Thursday picture was.
Next time, it would be great for even more replies!
The Reveal:
This little person grew up to be....
Mr Simpson :)
Well done to those who correctly guessed this. I will post another Throwback next Thursday so make sure you're ready!
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 4:33pm
We have had great fun in school making masks, nature pictures and enjoying sports outside in the sun!
Robins Class - Learning Overview 14.5.20
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 4:11pm
Readtheory
The children who have accessed their daily reading on readtheory today are Bea, Amelia, Emily, Chloe, Archie, Ethan F, Harris, Isabelle and Ethan S. Well done everyone!
IXL
The children who have accessed both their English and Maths tasks today are Alex, Amelia, Archie, Bea, Chloe, Emily, Ethan F, Ethan S, Harris, Hope, Lola B, Lola T, Ruby and Zara. Well done everyone!
Superstars
Most Questions
Mia has answered 404 questions today, wow Mia that is incredible.
Amelia has answered 230.
Lola answered 193
Well done!
Longest amount of time
Mia has been on for an incredible 3 hours 50 minutes today.
Amelia with 2 hours and 56 minutes
Ruby, Alex, Isabelle, Harris, Bea, Lola T, Ethan F and Emily were on for over an hour today.
Really well done guys!
IXL sent me a progress report from the last 30 days. Sharing what Robins and Owls have achieved, I am amazed at the amount of dedication some of you are showing in your home learning. Thank you!
Blog Updates
Attached to this post is one of you after a 7 mile Bike Ride! Well done, I hope your legs are not too tired after that. I think the pie was well deserved.
New IXL Log in details Woodpeckers
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 4:11pm
Hi Woodpeckers
Tomorrow our lod in details for IXL will expire.
To log in, your username will be:
firstnamelastname405 (mrslatham405)
qwerty
If you have any problems, please message me on the pupil blogs as you would if you were sharing work or asking a question and I will message you back.
I hope that you have all had a lovely day, I will message you all tomorrow with your learning for Friday and also the Start of the Week.
Mrs Latham :)
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 4:07pm
Star of the week was a really hard choice this week, you are all doing such wonderful home learning. I am so proud of you all. I have chosen Archie for always challenging himself and working super hard! Well done Archie!
Penguins 15th May Home Learning
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 3:59pm
Good morning penguins!
I can’t believe its Friday again, we have had another amazing week with our learning and I have loved reading some of the stories you have written, you are really trying hard with your writing.
You all seemed to be really enjoy the measuring yesterday! I love this video I got sent, great concentration and language! Well done!
I love some of the repeating pattern names you have been making on Purple Mash!
Maths
We are going to look at measuring again today. Using your steps can you count how long each room is. Start at one end and walk to the other keeping your feet close to each other?
Can you write the name of each room and how many feet long it was?
Which is the biggest room? Which is the smallest? How do you know?
Literacy
Ask your grownups to quiz you on your spellings this week.
Can you choose at least 2 of your spellings and put them into sentences using an adjective?
Your choice Friday. Can you choose a game to play that helps you practise the sounds you are not about?
Daily reminders:
- Oxford owl reading
- Purple Mash
Don’t forget to upload your pictures on the blog so I can see what you have been doing.
Have a great day!
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 11:42am
Good morning guys!
I hope you're making the most of th day, thank you to those that have already done your LBQ learning.
Some of you have struggled to access IXL and this is because you need a new login again.
Your new username will be: firstnamelastname405 / E.g. mrdean405
Your password has remained the same: qwerty
Your current username will expire today or tomorrow and you will need to use the details above to carry on using IXL.
Thank you for your patience.
Mr Dean
Kingfishers Home Learning 14th May
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 8:56am
Good morning again everyone,
Some excellent work submitted yesterday. I will make a video to go over any misconceptions later in the day. Mr Simpson and I have created a new challenge in school called the NON STOP CHALLENGE. I posted it onto the whole school blog yesterday and have set up a discussion feed for you to post your responses. I have nominated someone from this class so make sure you check it out to see who it is! You don't need tp have been nominated to complete the challenge, you can always try it yourself and then nominate your friends.
Today's work:
1)Read theory
2) TT Rockstars
3) Look at Miss Fairhurst's Throwback Challenge on the main blog and guess who it is!
4) LBQ code - unh
Maths - finding the mean. I have created a video below to show you how to do this.
If the embed code does not work please use this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3U-pBTDC8E&t=5s
SPAG - Will be looking at prefixes/ root words and suffixes.
5) Writing task - If you are up to date with the daily task you will need to write your first draft and edit today. I have attaxched a checklist of features to include below.
7) Afternoon topic web work - I haven't received a lot of these recently. I will repost the topic webs for you again later today if you are struggling to find them.
Have a good day everyone. Stay busy, stay active and have a nice day.
Mr Horsley
Starlings Home Learning 14.5.20
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 8:38am
Good morning class!
It has been pleasing to see so many of you working hard this week, please keep it up!
Today is 'Throwback Thursday'! Please have a look at Miss. Fairhurst's blog to see a picture of one of the staff when they were young. Leave a comment behind and check in later today or tomorrow to find out if you were right!
Your LBQ code today is: mbi
Don't forget tomorrow is your deadline for all activities on the discussion pages.
I hope you're all staying safe!
Enjoy your day (once you have finished your work!)
All the best,
Mr Dean
Woodpeckers Home Learning 14.5.20
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 8:36am
Good Morning Woodpeckers!!
Super work yesterday Woodpeckers. I saw lots of newspapers and time capsule ideas.
Mrs Fairhurst will be posting her 'Throwback Thursday' picture on the blog. Which staff member do you think it is? Go to the whole school blog and find the post. Have a go and post on the comments section of the blog your ideas.
Here are today’s tasks Woodpeckers:
LBQ – Code asf (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the information given.
LBQ tasks will run until 5:30pm. Thanks to parent suggestion for this.
Maths is about counting back through zero into negative numbers. If you get stuck, a numberline can help.
Reading
Everyday I set you a reading task on LBQ. Over the week, complete one other task on Read Theory too.
Other Tasks
Take a look on the discussion blogs for this week’s tasks 😊
Remember the Pupil verification code 956789
Eagles - 14th May - Home Learning
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 8:19am
Good morning Eagles!
Throwback Thursday - Guess Who!
Today is Thursday which means there will be another 'Throwback Thursday - Guess Who' posted to the Whole School blog page (School Website > School blogs > School Blog).
Make sure you have a look and cast your guess as to who you think the little person grew up to be! I can't wait to see your responses.
How to do this:
1. Click on the Title - Throwback Thursday Guess Who
2. Scroll down to the bottom.
3. Click on the link 'Pupil Login'.
4. Type in your username and password.
5. Start Guessing!
Today's Home Learning:
Reading Solutions - 1 comprehension minimum per day
English - wox
Maths & Topic - hgv
Writing/Spellings – Make sure to check the discussions: Writing - Newspaper Report and Spellings - -tion, -sion, -ssion and -cian. Remember these are both due in on Friday. (How to access this: School Website, Pupil Login, Username and Password, Verification Code – 956789-, discussions). If you are not sure what your username and password is 1. Check School Spider OR 2. Contact the School Office.
SPAG Support - Task 1:
Miss Fairhurst has created the video below to support you with SPAG Task 1 looking at using semi-colons, colons and dashes between clauses.
Take care,
Mr Simpson
Throwback Thursday - GUESS WHO!
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 8:06am
Good Morning everyone!
It's time for our weekly Throwback Thursday – GUESS WHO!
Remember, your job – simple! Guess who the little person grew up to be. The member of staff can be anyone working in school: Office, Teaching Assistant, Teacher. It could even be a member of staff who is currently off at the minute! (so, make sure you switch your brains on).
Here’s the picture you’re guessing at today:
To have your guess (staff and children!), make sure you add a comment as to who you think this is
Reminder of how do to this:
1. Click on the Title - Throwback Thursday Guess Who
2. Scroll down to the bottom.
3. Click on the link 'Pupil Login'.
4. Type in your username and password.
5. Start Guessing!
I will reveal who it is by the end of today (P.S. Its only me – Miss Fairhurst- who knows the answer).
Happy Guessing
Puffins 14.05.20 Home learning
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 7:37am
Good morning Puffins!
Hope you have had a good week so far. We have done lots of fun activities this week and we made some new rainbows for our window! Has anyone been creative this week? Let me know on the pupil blogs.
Special Mentions
Super special mentions to Jacob, for working hard practising his spellings at home, and designing and writing his own book, Wow! Also, a big well done to Jack who has made his own hopes and wishes jar, it looks fantastic!
Today's Learning
IXL:
Maths Year 1 X8, X9, X11
English Year 2 M9, W2, W3
ixl usernames and passwords are changing today, the usernames all follow the same pattern firstnamelastname507 and password: qwe
Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory
Writing task (see separate blog post)
Purple Mash
Today there is no phonics video, so use this time to practise your spellings and watch the phonics videos from this week! There is a video attached to help to learn your spellings.
Enjoy your day
Miss Thompson and Mrs Lenagan
Swallows 14th May 2020 - Home Learning
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 7:28am
Good Morning Swallows!!!
Many thanks to you all who have been keeping up with some of their afternoon tasks. This is a fantastic example! Take care and have a smashing day in the sunshine! Can’t wait to see what you produce with your wonderful skills in spelling and writing later on this week Swallows!
Here are today’s learning tasks:
LBQ – Code: rmk (all lowercase)
There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the feedback – remember it is ok to get it wrong, as long as you give the feedback a go Swallows. How else do we learn?
Similar task to yesterday – Remember the ‘TENNIS BALL’ method we talked about so long ago now. What happens each time? Multiply the ones column first, then TENS then Hundreds (if any). Some outstanding results yesterday with first time answering, keep this up!
Spelling/ Writing / Afternoon Task
Check out the discussion blog on your school spider logins – Some of you are masters at this now! Here you will find the weekly spellings, writing and afternoon task for this week. Are back to our topic of volcanoes as a theme and I hope you could all join in with these tasks as well as you have been doing recently.
Throwback Thursday –
A new one this as of last week. Each Thursday, Miss Fairhurst will post on the SCHOOL BLOG (main blog page) a photograph of someone in school. Could be a teacher or pupil, with a ‘throwback’ theme. These pictures are classics of childhood years so see if you can recognise who it is, then leave a blog post by logging in using your school spider sign-in!
REMEMBER: Pupil verification code is 956789
Ciao bella, take care today!
Mr P 🌈🌈🌈
Nursery Home Learning 14th May
Date: 13th May 2020 @ 10:21pm
Good morning Penguins,
Take a look at some of the fantastic work you’ve been doing this week. I am so so proud of you all!
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I am also really enjoying looking through all of your pictures on Purple Mash and Mini Mash. You are all very busy bees.
Here are today’s new challenges:
Challenge one
Can you design and make a new chair for Baby Bear?
This can be made by junk modeling, drawn on paper, or even on Purple Mash
Challenge two
Please also complete activities on Purple Mash, Mini Mash, IXL or PhonicsPlay
Have a great day,
Miss Altham
Doves - 14th May - Home Learning
Date: 13th May 2020 @ 10:17pm
Good morning Lovelies!
Throwback Thursday - Guess Who!
Today is Thursday which means there will be another 'Throwback Thursday - Guess Who' posted to the Whole School blog page (School Website > School blogs > School Blog).
Make sure you have a look and cast your guess as to who you think the little person grew up to be! I can't wait to see your responses.
How to do this:
1. Click on the Title - Throwback Thursday Guess Who
2. Scroll down to the bottom.
3. Click on the link 'Pupil Login'.
4. Type in your username and password.
5. Start Guessing!
Today's Home Learning:
Reading Solutions / Read Theory (Y5)- Please ensure you are accessing this.
English - wox
Maths - hgv
Writing/Spellings – Make sure to check the discussions: Writing - Newspaper Report and Spellings - -tion, -sion, -ssion and -cian. Remember these are both due in on Friday. (How to access this: School Website, Pupil Login, Username and Password, Verification Code – 956789-, discussions). If you are not sure what your username and password is 1. Check School Spider OR 2. Contact the School Office.
SPAG Support - Task 1:
I have attached a video below to support you with SPAG Task 1 looking at using semi-colons, colons and dashes between clauses.
Keep safe!
Miss Fairhurst
Date: 13th May 2020 @ 10:07pm
Good morning my little pickles!
I hope you all had a good Wednesday! I was busy with work and then I did a Zoom exercise class so now my muscles are a little sore!
You've all done some wonderful work on IXL this week! Well done to these children who answered more than 400 questions:
Ava
Rosie
Jazmin
Jack
Oliver
Isabelle
And well done to these superstars who answered more than 500 questions this week!
Ethan
Lucy
Tristan
Felix
Keiji
Eli
Junior
Max P
Imogen
Today's home learning is:
IXL - Maths - Two Dimensional Shapes - N3, N4, N5
IXL - English - Rhyming - B2, B3, B4
There are 2Dos set on Purple Mash and reading comprehensions on Read Theory.
Some of you have been busy yesterday. We had some more hope jars being made:
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One person made a pet care centre out of lego:
Make sure you check out this week's Throwback Thursday picture on the main school blog - try and guess which staff member's childhood picture is shown!
Have a wonderful Thursday Owl Class!
Miss Whalley
Penguins 14th May Home Learning
Date: 13th May 2020 @ 9:38pm
Good morning penguins!
There was some great learning again yesterday, I am so impressed with how much your writing has progressed. Wyatt produced an amazing piece of writing this week and he tried really hard with his letters. Madeline, Erin and Archie are also working super hard on their writing, well done!
One penguin posted a really lovely idea I wanted to share with you: a hope and dreams jar. She thought about all the things she wants to do and places she wants to visit when lockdown is over, I think I am going to create one of these. Maybe you could too?
Maths
We are going to leave numbers for this week now and look at measures today. Can you find at least 4 containers and fill them up with different amounts of water?
Now can you put them in order? Which one is full, which one has the least in? Try and use the language of full, half full, empty to describe what you have done.
Challenge: Can you find anything else in your house or garden to put into order? Can you use the correct language to describe the objects?
Literacy
Have a read or watch of The Three Billy Goats Gruff story again. We are going to write about the solution today (and my video is working today!) Can you write at least 2 sentences about the solution in the story?
Challenge: Can you use the story language to end your story? If you put all your sentences together from this week and draw some pictures to go with it, you have written your own story of the 3 Billy Goats Gruff!
Post them on the blog so I can see them!
Let’s remind ourselves of our tricky words. Can you play tricky word flash cards? How many can you read? Once you’ve done this choose one other game to play.
Daily reminders:
- Oxford owl reading
- Purple Mash
- Spellings
Don’t forget to upload your pictures on the blog so I can see what you have been doing.
Have a great day!
Robins Class - Home Learning 14.5.20
Date: 13th May 2020 @ 8:37pm
Wow, Thursday already!
I haven’t quite got round to my baking but I did make chicken fajitas last night, can you remember which country this food comes from? I am enjoying creating more recipes in the kitchen, so far I have made lasagnas – meat and vegetarian, fish cakes and some different pasta sauces. However, I do not like the cleaning up that comes with it!
Today's home learning is as follows:
Your IXL passwords are due to expire shortly, we have set up new usernames and passwords for you like we did last time, most of the usernames are your first name and last name followed by 507 for example, misswoodward507 however if this does not work you might have 462 at the end of your name e.g misswoodward462.. Your password is the same.
IXL
Maths – Year 2 – Measurement - R.10, R.11, R.12
English – Nouns - N.3, N.4
Don’t forget there are 2Dos set on Purple Mash. Times Table Rockstars is also available too, it is great to see some of you improving your times tables knowledge. I’ve seen so many more of you on readtheory which is excellent. Keep aiming for one comprehension a day.
Remember the writing task as well, remember to blog your finished product.
Attached to this blog is a letter to Bea's future self, well done Bea, thank you for sharing, I really love reading these letters and seeing the hopes for the future jars.
Throwback Thursday!
I don't know if you saw last Thursday but each week Miss Fairhurst will be posting a childhood picture from one of our members of staff, it could be anyone in our school. It would be great if you could look at the discussion post and add your own guess, to do this click
Reminder of how do to this:
1. Click on the Title - Throwback Thursday Guess Who
2. Scroll down to the bottom.
3. Click on the link 'Pupil Login'.
4. Type in your username and password.
5. Start Guessing!
Phonics
There is no new sound today, instead, we are going to give you time to practice spellings for tomorrow, I have attached a different video to help you with the split diagraphs as they can be quite tricky!
Have a fabulous day everyone!
Miss Woodward
Date: 13th May 2020 @ 4:35pm
We have had a lovely day in school today. We used different tools and techniques to create some clay models. Aren't they fab?
Woodpeckers - Star Day 13.5.20
Date: 13th May 2020 @ 4:33pm
Hi Woodpeckers,
I hope that you have all had a good day today and that you have managed to get some fresh air. I’ve been for a lovely walk.
LBQ Shout Outs
Some great work going on today on LBQ and I am seeing lots of you completing the tasks and working really hard. If you completed all 3 tasks today, please give yourself 10 house points. I am writing down all these house points so that I don’t forget!
Special shout outs to Morgan, Clayton, Oliver B-S, Amber, Lyndon, Archie, Aoife, Brandon and Luca ...great work and lots of effort and resilience to get them completed.
More shout outs to Kate, Lucy, Ellie, Jasmine, Oliver B, Rebecca, Henry, Millie, Emelia, Heidi, Kaitlyn and Abigail for constant, daily effort and hard work.
I’ve noticed on LBQ that quite a few children who were signing on and completing LBQ tasks a couple of weeks ago, are no longer completing them everyday or are logging on and only completing 2 or 3 questions. The LBQ tasks are the main activities to keep our learning going so please can we all make sure that we are completing them everyday.
Here are some shares …
Look at this fantastic idea from Oliver. We are all missing things right now. Write them on a piece of paper and place them in a jar. Once we have more freedom to do the things we enjoy again, pick them out one at a time and enjoy what is on the paper.
Here is Jasmine’s time capsule container which she has decorated ready to use.
Here is another time capsule ready to go:
Abigail, this is a fantastic newspaper. I love the handwriting too!
And another super newspaper Henry. I love the use of colour.
And well done to Kate. Another fantastic article.
Well done Woodpeckers. I am super proud. Keep up the good work.
Mrs Latham.
Robins Class - Learning Overview 13.5.20
Date: 13th May 2020 @ 4:20pm
Readtheory
The children who have accessed their daily reading on readtheory today are Lola B, Bea, Zara, Chloe, Archie, Harris and Isabelle. Well done everyone!
IXL
The children who have accessed both their English and Maths tasks today are Alex, Amelia, Archie, Bea, Chloe, Emily, Ethan F, Ethan S, Harris, Harry, Hope, Ire, Macie and Zara. Well done everyone!
Superstars
Most Questions
Haleema has answered 313 questions today, wow Haleema that is incredible.
Harris has answered 242.
Emily answered 198.
Well done!
Longest amount of time
Amelia, Harris, Haleema, Chloe, Emily and Hope were on for over an hour today.
PurpleMash
Some more budding weather reporters today, I am really enjoying reading these.
Hope you have all had a great day!
Miss Woodward
