Good afternoon. I am sorry to hear that there are a large number of Covid cases in our class. On a personal level I know that lots of the children will miss interaction with their class mates whilst they are isolating.

I will be returning to school on Monday morning.

To try to help with the isolation any child that is off next week will be able to join the class live through teams meetings. This may be to join lessons or just to say hi. I appreciate that some children may feel too unwell to complete the work. I have sent all children a link to their emails.

To access their emails they need to go to office365 and then sign in. Their email is something like First name.Surname@ppce.co.uk       They have their passwords. If they have forgotten these then parents can email me on Monday for them (they are in school and I can’t get them before). They can also download MicrosoftTeams so it will come up as a calendar.

I have attached the timetable for next week. For the majority of the lessons there are then hyperlinks to either resources or to the lesson plan.

For maths we are looking at telling the time and solving time problems. If your child doesn’t complete this then please make sure they can tell the time. You could ask questions such as How long until lunchtime?

For English, we are starting a new class book called Because of Mr Terupt. It is about a new teacher joining a school. It is told through the viewpoints of 7 different children all of whom have something special about them. The children will be able to read this at Because of Mr Terupt. During the week we will be looking at how this is set out. It would be good if the children could go through the characters and write a description about each of them. Choose a different character a day.

This work is a suggestion as I know some children will be feeling too poorly to tackle the work. The children can also read and practise their times tables. If you click on the tab at the top of the page and go to information you will see a link to edplace. This is an excellent site for children to work on their maths and English skills.

I hope the week goes quickly for the children and I will start seeing more of them return to school.

If you have any questions then please get in touch at Nigel.Morris@ppce.co.uk

I have missed seeing the children.