The Gates Primary SchoolYear 1/2- Robins: Blog items
Robins Class Home Learning - 24.4.20
Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 8:11am
Happy Friday Robins 😊
We have made it to the end of another busy week, well done you should be very proud of yourself. Today I thought I would include a picture of my two nephews, you hear about them so much I thought you might like to see them. The first picture is my 2 ½ year old nephew doing some foot painting yesterday he loves anything where he can explore. The second is my 4-month-old nephew, looking very adorable (I am quite biased as his Auntie). Although I am missing them lots my sister sends me regular updates and pictures of the boys which puts a big smile on my face.
Today’s home learning is as follows:
IXL
Maths – Year 2 – Time – W.13, W.14, W.15
English – Verbs – O.13, O.14, O.15
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.
Don’t forget to do your spelling test today and post the results in the class discussion.
Have a great day in the lovely sunshine everyone.
Miss Woodward 😊
Date: 23rd Apr 2020 @ 3:06pm
Some super learning going on today, I am just looking through IXL and read theory and I can't believe how many of you are going on. Try to make sure to do IXL Maths and English each day, I have noticed some of you are only doing one subject.
Special shoutout to Amelia for answering over 300 questions today - you are making great progress on your skills. A lot of you have been on for over an hour today as well. That is really impressive keep it up.
Owls and Robins have earned a new certificate today
Keep up the good work.
We have had some more instructions come through this is an example of Mia's hard work on Purple Mash
I can't wait to read some more. Well done!
Blog Update
One of you has been super busy making Chilli Con Carne (one of my favourites) and going on a long walk. Thank you for sharing!
Robins Class Home Learning - 23.4.20
Date: 23rd Apr 2020 @ 8:19am
Good Morning Robins 😊
I hope that you are all well and enjoying the week, I had some time out in the garden yesterday and then decided to give the guinea pigs a bath. We bought some special ‘small animal’ shampoo for them. I can tell you now Guinea Pigs do not like water, we had a lot of honking and nervous chatter. We found out if you let them grip onto your arm they were a little calmer. At least they are all smelling fresh now for a short while at least.
Today’s home learning is as follows:
IXL
Maths – Year 2 – Time – W.10, W.11, W.12
English – Verbs – O.10, O.11, O.12
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. Don’t forget your 5 readtheory comprehensions as well.
Phonics Online Tutorial – Phase 5 ‘ea’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af9E5o0o1TQ&t=1s
Have a great day everyone, missing you all lots.
Miss Woodward 😊
Robins Class Home Learning - 22.4.20
Date: 22nd Apr 2020 @ 8:13am
Happy Wednesday Robins 😊
I can’t believe that we are halfway through the week already, it is going so fast. It was great to see the blog updates yesterday some of you have been really busy. One of Robins class has learned to ride their bike and have ridden 28km this week already! Well done, it’s a super skill to learn, you should be very proud of yourself. She has also been busy planting seeds, I can't wait to see how they grow.
Chloe has been busy doing her topic homework and has made this really informative Olympic poster of where the Olympics have taken place the past few times. Well done Chloe!
Today’s home learning is as follows:
IXL
IXL has been renewed and should be back up and running to use at home. However, there is a change with your username and password.
Most of you have your new username now as your first and last name followed by 393, for example misswoodward393. However, a couple of you have your first name and last name followed by 421, for example misswoodward421. Your password will remain the same.
Maths – Year 2 – Time – W.7, W.8, W.9
English – Verbs – O.7, O.8, O.9
Special shoutouts
Lola B answered a ton of questions yesterday and I could see her skill really improve and Ire was on IXL for over 3 hours. Well done guys, great dedication. It is great to see so many of you on, in two days, as a class, you have answered over 7,000 questions already this week!
It would be great to see some more of you on readtheory this week, I would aim to do one a day, the expectation is that you do 5 each week. Harris, Lola T and Bea have already done that this week and Amelia, Isabelle, Zak and Emily are well on the way to it as well.
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.
Writing Task – see yesterday’s writing blog for details
Phonics Online Tutorial – Phase 5 ‘ie’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhkwtVFVqQI
Don’t forget to keep practising your spelling for this week seen in class discussion.
Have a great day everyone!
Miss Woodward 😊
Date: 21st Apr 2020 @ 4:13pm
We have had some super entries come in for your instruction based writing task, I thoroughly enjoyed reading the ones I have got so far and look forward to reading more. As predicted they did make me feel very hungry.
Ethan F wrote a super 'You will Need' list, Chloe numbered her instructions and used imperative verbs throughout the whole thing and Hope's instructions were really clear, I think I could make a wrap from these instructions. I have placed some screenshots from their instructions, some good WAGOLL's.
Date: 21st Apr 2020 @ 8:33am
With all the amount of time that we are spending online at the moment, it is important to remember just how we can stay safe online. I know all of you got really involved with this subject when we learnt about it in school but I have attached a few documents that you can read with your grown-ups to refresh your memory - a poster and a story about 'Smartie the Penguin'
Date: 21st Apr 2020 @ 8:23am
Writing Task - w/c 20.4.20
As mentioned in yesterday’s blog, teachers will now be setting up a writing task every Monday. This week we have set you an instruction based task created on Purple Mash, using the programme ‘2create a story’. You will be writing about ‘How to Make a Healthy Wrap’, your wraps turned out so well when you created them in school it would be great to see how much you remember about making them and what you included in yours. Maybe you could even recreate it at home. Can you remember how instructions should look?
If you can’t quite remember all the points about instruction writing, don’t worry. Here is a reminder to help you
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zhj9wmn
I hope that has refreshed your memory, an example of my first sentence to create my healthy wrap after my ‘You will need’ list might be
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I have attached a success criteria below to hopefully help you out, I can’t wait to see the instructions that you write. It might even inspire me to create some healthy wraps at home, I remember being extremely jealous of the ones that you came up with in class!
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Success Criteria – Instruction Writing |
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I have included a title |
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I have included a ‘You will need’ list |
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I have numbered my instructions |
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I have included imperative (bossy) verbs (put, place, cut) |
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I have included time openers (first, then, finally) |
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I have given clear instructions that can be understood to the reader |
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I have used capital letters and full stops |
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Robins Class Home Learning - 21.4.20
Date: 21st Apr 2020 @ 8:09am
Good Morning Robins 😊
How are you all? We are still having some excellent weather and apparently it is only to get better, so get the suncream out!
It is so nice to be back in a routine in the mornings I have tried to be more like Ruby and organise my day using a time table. Day 1 yesterday and it really helped make me more productive.
Today’s home learning is as follows:
IXL
IXL has been renewed and should be back up and running to use at home. However, there is a change with your username and password.
Most of you have your new username now as your first and last name followed by 393, for example misswoodward393. However, a couple of you have your first name and last name followed by 421, for example misswoodward421. Your password will remain the same.
Maths – Year 2 – Time – W.4, W.5, W.6
English – Verbs – O.4, O.5, O.6
Special shoutouts
Some of you answered over 200 questions yesterday! Special shoutouts to Leah, Amelia, Harris , Ruby and Chloe for this.
Don’t forget there are 2Dos set on Purple Mash and Read Theory has some reading comprehensions too. Times Table Rockstars is also available too, it is great to see some of you improving your times tables knowledge.
Phonics sessions, Year 1 this will be really aimed toward you so you can continue with your phonics learning but some of you in Year 2 could really benefit from this too!
Phonics Online Tutorial – Phase 5 ‘ou’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=668lZ86s4dM&t=137s
Don’t forget to keep practising your spelling for this week. I placed them on the class discussion yesterday.
You have also got your writing task to complete, I am going to post a separate blog with some more detail on that so keep your eyes peeled.
Have a great day everyone!
Miss Woodward 
Date: 20th Apr 2020 @ 1:20pm
Some super updates from chidren's blogs, it is so lovely to see what everyone is getting up to during this time. It puts the biggest smile on my face. I am glad to see more rainbows and a huge well done for continuing to carry on with the Joe Wicks workouts
Hope has been really busy at home, she is making some great progress on her topic homework web and wrote a lovely letter to the post lady to say thank you' which I am sure she really appreciated receiving. Thank you so much for sharing.
Robins Class Home Learning - 20.4.20
Date: 20th Apr 2020 @ 8:12am
Good Morning my little Robins I hope you have all had a lovely weekend and are ready for the week ahead😊
I haven’t done much this weekend, but it has been nice to relax, I tried out Yoga for the first time in a while though as I had some back trouble last week and I feel much more relaxed because of it. What have you been up to? We had another beautiful day yesterday, I love when the sun is shining it makes me feel so much more productive and really brightens my mood.
Today’s home learning is:
IXL
IXL has been renewed and should be back up and running to use at home. However, there is a change with your username and password.
Most of you have your new username now as your first and last name followed by 393, for example misswoodward393. However, a couple of you have your first name and last name followed by 421, for example misswoodward421. Your password will remain the same.
Maths – Year 2 – Time – W.1, W.2, W.3
English – Verbs – O.1, O.2, O.3
Special shoutouts
Well done to Ruby, Chloe and Ire who last week completed over 500 questions. Super work guys keep it up!
Also we earned a new certificate
Don’t forget there are 2Dos set on Purple Mash and Read Theory has some reading comprehensions too. Times Table Rockstars is also available too, it is great to see some of you improving your times tables knowledge.
Phonics sessions, Year 1 this will be really aimed toward you so you can continue with your phonics learning but some of you in Year 2 could really benefit from this too!
Phonics Online Tutorial – Phase 5 ‘ay’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSo25jhnoII&t=392s
We are starting a new way of looking at spellings. If you log onto your own pupil blog, you will see a discussion that I have set. Here you will find 10 spellings for the week. Please practise them this week and then get your grown-up to test you on Friday. Then you can respond to the discussion with your score. I’m sure you’ll all do a wonderful job if you practise as much as you do when we’re usually in school.
Writing
We are also starting a new way of looking at writing, this week we would like you to go on Purple Mash '2create a story' and write instructions for 'How to make a healthy wrap'. You all did so well at making your wrap at school, so it would be great to see exactly what you all put in the wraps. I look forward to seeing the results!
Super Science
The link below will send you to a great Science/Computing website that shows you how to do some great experiments, such as making lava lamps at home or the basics of computer coding. It’s definitely worth a look and it would be great to see if you recreate anything at home on the pupil blogs.
Have a great day everyone!
Miss Woodward 😊
Mrs Lenagan's Online Phonics Tutorials
Date: 19th Apr 2020 @ 11:05pm
Mrs. Lenagan’s Phonics Tutorials
There will now be 4 online tutorials per week, covering 4 different sounds from Phase 5 which is what the children were working on in school before the closure. These are designed to be active sessions for children join in with, similar to what they did in school. The children only need a piece of paper, a pen/pencil and a grown-up to sit next to them for support. The role of the adult is to check for correct letter formation (cursive print), support with segmenting and blending of words and support the sentence application at the end. All of which will all be explained and guided throughout. Each week, spellings will be set for year 1 children based on the sounds learned and will include the common exception words (full lists of CEW can be found on class pages on the blog).
Search: Phase 5 'ay' Mrs Lenagan
Or follow the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSo25jhnoII&t=266s
Please feel free to leave a comment, blog any work on School Spider and re-watch as many times as necessary, until the children know and can use the sounds. There are also explanations of online follow up games that can be used on tablets, phones and computers to apply the learning from the tutorial.
There will be a new link on class blogs Monday to Thursday for the latest tutorial.
Robins Class Home Learning 17.4.20
Date: 17th Apr 2020 @ 9:16am
Good Morning Robins and Happy Friday 😊
I hope that you are all keeping well. The weather was beautiful yesterday so I am hoping for another sunny day today ready to explore my local area again. This week I have started doing Joe Wicks workouts with my friends using the zoom app, it has been brilliant and really kept me motivated to keep going. I am ready for another one today, I found yesterday quite hard, are you still doing it?
It was brilliant to see so many of you access IXL yesterday after the new username changes, as a class we’ve already completed 2,641 questions which is amazing! Keep up the good work.
Today’s home learning is:
IXL
IXL has been renewed and should be back up and running to use at home. However, there is a change with your username and password.
Most of you have your new username now as your first and last name followed by 393, for example misswoodward393. However, a couple of you have your first name and last name followed by 421, for example misswoodward421. Your password will remain the same.
Maths – Year 2 – Counting and Number Patterns - A.21, A.22, A.28
English – Long Vowels - H.4, H.5, H.7
Don’t forget there are 2Dos set on Purple Mash and Read Theory has some reading comprehensions too. Times Table Rockstars is also available too, it is great to see some of you improving your times tables knowledge.
Also final point (I promise)
I know some parents have been asking about suitable reading books, Oxford Owl, the company that we use for our home reader books have made a number of books available online whilst schools are closed. Please follow the link below.
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/
Children can then choose which book band colour they are on using the ‘levels’ tab. I know most of you are on blue, green or orange if that helps.
The click on ‘book band’.
Parents, you may need to sign up to the website to access some of the books.
This is a great opportunity for children to continue their reading journey with books that are age and topic appropriate.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend. Stay safe.
Miss Woodward 😊
Robins Class Home Learning 16.4.20
Date: 16th Apr 2020 @ 8:36am
Good Morning my little Robins,
I hope you are all well and keeping busy, some of your parents said you were looking forward to getting back into
routine this week, I must admit I am too. How have you all been? I have been exploring my local area for my daily
exercise this week, I ended up finding some beautiful woods to explore, they were by a little stream and there were some ducks living there, so it’s definitely a place I will be exploring more of.
Today’s home learning is:
IXL
IXL has been renewed and should be back up and running to use at home. However, there is a change with your
username and password.
Most of you have your new username now as your first and last name followed by 393, for example misswoodward393.
However, a couple of you have your first name and last name followed by 421, for example misswoodward421. Your password will remain the same.
Maths – Year 2 – Counting and Number Patterns - A.11, A.13, A.14
English – Long Vowels - H.1, H.2, H.3
Don’t forget there are 2Dos set on Purple Mash and Read Theory has some reading comprehensions too. Times Table Rockstars is also available too, it is great to see some of you improving your times tables knowledge.
Keep up the good work.
Have a wonderful day everyone.
Miss Woodward
Robins Class Home Learning 15.4.20
Date: 15th Apr 2020 @ 4:21pm
Good Morning Robins,
I hope you have had a fantastic Easter break and are now feeling well rested. It was so lovely to speak to your parents over the Easter Holidays and I was even lucky enough to speak to some of you which I must admit put a big smile on my face. Please update me with how you are getting on and anything you got up to over the holidays!
Did any of you have an Easter Egg Hunt?
I had a lovely break, resting, relaxing and spending lots of time in the garden, although I am yet to plant anything. We have been very lucky with the weather this holiday! I went on a walk this weekend and counted the rainbows in the windows I managed to count 12 in total!
Have a lovely day and stay safe.
Today’s home learning is:
IXL
Maths – Year 2 – Counting and Number Patterns - A.4, A.6, A.7
English – Rhyming - B.1, B.2, B.3
Don’t forget there are 2Dos set on Purple Mash and Read Theory has some reading comprehensions too.
You have done a super job on IXL so far – we’ve received a certificate for answering 40,000 questions now, so
impressive!
Have a wonderful day everyone.
Miss Woodward
Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 6:17pm
Well, that is the end of a very strange week and the start of the Easter holidays. It's not the way we expected to end but I've loved keeping in touch with some of you this week.
Here's the current progress from IXL, so many questions answered!
And a special shout out to Amelia, Chloe and Lola T, I think you three win for most questions answered in IXL this week, along with most texts read on readtheory. I won't be setting any work over the Easter holidays but feel free to keep blogging and letting me know what you're up to. I will be checking regularly and commenting where possible. Please continue to read as well, let me know about any new books that you are reading!
It has been so good to see you blogging this week, here's a couple of pictures that made me smile today.
Have a great break, let's hope the sun keeps shining!
Robins Class. Home learning 27th March 2020
Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 8:23am
Good Morning Robins,
What a fabulous week we have had weather-wise. We made it to Friday I am pleased to see how well some of you have adapted to your home learning, I am very proud of how quickly you have embraced the change!
I'm really enjoying reading new books at the moment, I started a new one last night and it already has me hooked, with this in mind it would be great to see some more people using readtheory. Are any of you reading new books?
Last night, half my street came out to clap/support the NHS for the work that they are currently doing, it was a very moving moment. Did you join in with the clap? I'd love to hear about it if you did.
Today's learning is as follows:
IXL
Maths - Year 2 - G.1, G.2, H.2
English - Year 2 - U.3, S.1, S.2
Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory
Times Tables Rockstars
Purple Mash
Have a weekend everyone, stay safe 
Miss Woodward
Date: 26th Mar 2020 @ 9:25pm
Last night, after such great weather, the International Space Station flew over! Did anybody see it? Could you blog about this? Maybe add some photographs or a video? Here's my video below.
https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/tracking_map.cfm
Date: 26th Mar 2020 @ 5:08pm
I am so pleased to see some of you blogging from home, it's great to see what some of you have been up to this week.
One of Robins class, doing there IXL Maths work in bed, it's the best place if you ask me.
I've loved seeing Ethan's rainbow, it has put a smile on my face, as I'm sure it has done to everyone who walks past it.
Keep blogging guys!
Date: 26th Mar 2020 @ 3:55pm
I'm seeing some fantastic Aztec patterns created in Purple Mash as part of our Mexican learning. I think some of these patterns would make a great design for a new rug!
Robins Class. Home learning 26th March 2020
Date: 26th Mar 2020 @ 8:24am
Good morning Robins,
Another beautiful morning to wake up to, I spent some time yesterday in the garden with the Guinea Pigs, I tried to get them to join in with Joe Wicks workout but they were more interested in the grass! I have heard about rainbows being drawn and placed in the window, have you created any? I would love to take a look if you have!
Today's learning is as follows:
IXL
Maths - Year 2 - A.10, A.24, A.25
English - Year 1- M.2, M.4, N.2
Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory
Times Tables Rockstars
Purple Mash
Have a great day everyone, stay safe
Miss Woodward
Date: 25th Mar 2020 @ 2:05pm
It's great to see some children exploring the work set on Purple Mash, I loved looking at how the trees change during each season!
Robins Class. Home learning 25th March 2020
Date: 25th Mar 2020 @ 8:27am
Good morning Robins,
The sun is shining again so I hope you are spending lots of time in your garden if you can. We are nearly halfway through the week and you are doing so well! Have you been doing Joe Wicks workouts? I've managed to squeeze mine in this morning. Remember to comment and blog pictures of your home learning :)
Today's learning is as follows:
IXL
Maths - Year 2 - A.16, A.17, A.19
English - Year 2- D.2, D.4, F.16
Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory
Times Tables Rockstars
Purple Mash
Have a great day everyone!
Miss Woodward :)
Robins Class. Home learning 24th March 2020
Date: 23rd Mar 2020 @ 8:30pm
Good Morning Robins,
It was good to see quite a few of you accessing the websites yesterday. I plan to start the morning off the same as yesterday, with a Joe Wicks workout, I joined in yesterday and hope to continue this. Let me know if you're joining in as well! Keep up the good work, I can't wait to see how you are getting on.
David Walliams is also releasing a free audio book every day, for the next 30 days. Some of you have told me just how much you enjoy his stories. I'll add the link onto the Robins Home Page as well :)
https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/
Today's learning is as follows:
IXL
Maths - Year 2 - J.1, J.7, J.8
English - Year 2- L.5, L.6, L.11
Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory
Times Tables Rockstars
Purple Mash
Have a great day everyone!
Miss Woodward :)
Date: 23rd Mar 2020 @ 8:02am
Just because we're not in school doesn't mean we can't come up with some fantastic creations for past and future topics, here is some ideas to help you out. Please share what you've done, we look forward to seeing them! Just click on a web to enlarge it.
Robins Class Home Learning 23rd March
Date: 23rd Mar 2020 @ 7:11am
Good Morning Robins,
I hope you have all had a lovely weekend, and managed to celebrate Mother's Day! My mum loved her card that we made in class. I would love to hear how you are getting on so as mentioned on Friday keep me updated, with comments/pictures on the blog. I was on times table rockstars yesterday and noticed quite a few children were on last week which is excellent to see! Keep up the good work!
Today's learning is as follows:
IXL
Maths - Year 2 - K.3, K.5, V.3
English - Year 1 - L.1, L.3, L.4
Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory
Times Tables Rockstars
Purple Mash
Have a great day everyone!
Miss Woodward :)