I hope you’re all feeling excited and ready to go for our first day back to school on Monday. I am really excited to see you all and hear about all of the lovely things you have been up to!
Coming into school
Hopefully you have seen the post about the new way of coming into school. I know on the post it says about dropping children at the gate and encouraging the children to come to the classroom door independently, I just wanted to set your minds at ease about this. We will have several members of staff waiting on the playground to watch the children and help them into their classrooms so the children will not be walking across the playground by themselves. If you feel really unhappy about letting your children walk into school by themselves then that is fine! You are still very welcome to drop your children off at the classroom door by following the one way system.
If you do this a few times and feel that your child is feeling more confident about coming into school, then we would encourage you to drop them off at the playground and let the staff on the playground help them into their classroom.
Do whatever is right for your child, we are just working hard on trying to reduce the number of parents on site at the start of the school day.
Timetable
Room 4 will now have PE on a Monday and Forest School on a Thursday. The rest of the week they are to wear their school uniform.
If there are any queries about anything, then please feel free to send me an email – roberts.b@pontesbury.shropshire.sch.uk
To celebrate World Book Day we have made a silly video challenge for you!
Various members of staff have recorded a fun poem, each with a silly disguise – can you guess who they are?
Each member of the Pontesbury team who took part is listed below (and one member appears twice) – can you guess which video belongs to which member of staff?
Mrs Giles Mrs Travi Mr Boffey Mrs Smout
Miss Gwilliam Mrs Hilditch Mr Langford Miss Roberts
Today, is officially World Book Day! We invite you to celebrate books and authors and encourage you to find pleasure in reading today. Reading takeover begins!
Share a story live events have a World Book Day special for you at 10.30am. Live event
Some ideas to help you celebrate:
Make a reading den
Dress up as your favourite character
Design a bookmark or some bunting around the theme of your favourite book
Make some cookies or a cake inspired by a story you know
Recreate the front cover of your favourite book (display it in your window for our book hunt)
Make your own story book with illustrations or non-fiction book with lots of facts
Act out your favourite story or story scene.
Play the Guess Who? Game. For 2 or more players. One person thinks of a character and describes them, revealing one clue at a time and others have to guess who! Eg I skipped though a wood…I went to see my Grandma…I wear a red cape…I was nearly eaten by a wolf!
The authors and illustrators of the £1 books have some fantastic activities and challenges for you in their masterclasses. Choose the one you would like to take! Author Masterclasses
Whether you are a Paddington fan or a Harry Potter fan, there is an activity pack for everyone here on the World Book Day Website
There are lots of great book related quizzes here: Caboodle
You may have heard reports in the news that households of school age children and staff who work on school settings are now eligible for rapid lateral flow test kits to enable them to perform tests at home. Primary aged children are not required to be tested at this point, this is just for the adults in the household.
Test kits need to be collected from a special collection point in London Road, Shrewsbury. They can also be ordered online if you are unable to drive. The school have not been provided with test kits for distribution to parents.
Please see this Government post below for the latest information:
Good morning! I hope you are all managing to work as hard as you can in this last week of home learning. You can do it!
Morning activity
I’ve got a challenge for you today – can you use some of your construction toys and see if you can build a tower that’s taller than you? If you don’t have enough to make a tower that’s taller, what is the tallest tower you can make the same height as?
I hope you’ve all enjoyed learning about capacity so far this week – remember that means how full something is. Today we are going to be moving on and learning about weight – that means how heavy something is.
For your activity today I would like you to sort some of your toys out into a pile of toys that are heavy and a pile of toys that are light.
CHALLENGE – can you find anything in your house that is small but heavy, and anything that is big but light?
Afternoon activity
How are you all feeling about returning to school next week? I’m really excited about seeing you all, but I can understand if some of you are feeling nervous or unsure about coming back.
Grown ups – talk to your child about returning to school and listen to some of their worries, or what they are excited about. Then get your child to draw a picture of something that they are excited for – maybe some of the friends that they have missed or some of the activities they are excited to do again like Forest School or PE.
Story
I will be reading a story via teams at 2.30 today.
There will also be a bonus story session at 9.15 on Thursday for World Book Day. On Thursday – please get the children to pick their favourite book and bring it to the meeting for them to talk about.
Good morning everyone, I hope you all had a good day yesterday. Here’s what we will be doing today…
Morning activity
Have a go at one of the maths activity mats from below. There are about 15 on the document, so just choose one that you think you need to get a little bit better at! Please DO NOT do them all!!
For our capacity work today I would like you to get the tupperware containers back out please. Choose 2 or 3 that are a different size and then choose some items that you can fill them up with (Duplo, pasta, marbles, pencils etc.).
First, I want you to predict (that means guess) how many items it will take to fill up your container. Maybe write down your prediction somewhere. Then, fill your container up with the items that you selected, counting as you go.
Have another look at your prediction – were you right? At the end, which container could you fit the most items in? Which could you fit the least items in?
Afternoon activity
Today I would like you match up the pictures of the animals to their babies using the sheet below. Can you think of the name for each of the animal babies? (e.g. a baby dog is a puppy, a baby bird is a chick).
If you are feeling SUPER brainy today, you could even label each of the pictures after you have matched them. Even if you only do the first sound that you can hear for each picture – then that’s enough to get your brains working hard!
This week we will be joining in with the World Book Day celebrations on Thursday. There are a few activities going on throughout this week that you may want to access and join in with from home.
Our first is our Virtual Book Fair that we launched last week. You can find a range of titles for each year group and you are also able to email Louise to request any particular books that are not listed as she may be able to supply them too. Each sale will help to provide free books to school and also helps to support local independent bookshops. There is also a section called ‘Donate a book to school’ where each class teacher has put together a wishlist for their classroom should anyone wish to donate a book.
The second thing we would like to challenge everyone to take part in is a book hunt. Throughout this week we would like you to choose one of your favourite books and make some sort of picture or model to represent that book. It could be a picture of something from the book, a model you have made from Lego or recycled materials, one of your teddies dressed at a character, however creative you’d like to be. When you have made your picture or model we would like you to display them in your window on Thursday so if any children from our school community are out for a walk they can look out for and spot as many book pictures as they can. (If you struggle to make something you could just put your favourite book in your window for others to spot.) We’d love to see a photo of whatever you create and do let us know how many book windows you spot!
Bournville BookFest for Schools has some wonderful activities taking place all week. Here’s author and illustrator Nick Sharrat to explain more.
Check out this link to see the programme for the week, a new video will be added each day at 9am. Year 3 – Look out for Steven Butler and Seven Lenton on Wednesday the author and illustrator of The Nothing to See Here Hotel – one of our favourites so far this year. You will also see videos from Michael Rosen and Benjamin Zephaniah, Katherine Rundell, Tom Palmer and the Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell.
Take a look inside the World Book Day books here All children will receive their World Book Day token on Monday 8th March.
You may also like to visit the virtual libraries below. These are wonderful resources created by @eenalol on twitter and author of ‘A little but a lot blog’ alittlebutalot.com. Each contain links to you tube videos of the authors reading either their full books or a chapter or two to entice you. If you find a book you like the sound of it may be in our book fair.
Good morning everyone, I hope you have all had a lovely weekend. This is the last week of learning at home before you all come back into school next week – I am SO excited to see you all! One more week, you can do it!
Morning activity
Have a go on the activity below this morning. Please have a go on the ordering activity and then select the level that suits you best. For most people that will be either forwards 1-10 or backwards 10-1, but some of you will be able to work with numbers up to 20. Just make sure that you don’t select a level that’s too easy!
Over the next couple of days we are going to learn about capacity, this means how full something is. Today I would like you to have a little look at all the containers that you have in your house this might be tupperware, washing up bowls, cups etc. Can you put them in order from the container that holds the most to the container that holds the least.
Have a look at your smallest container, if you filled this up with water, how many containers full would it take to fill up your biggest container? Have a go and find out!
Then can you show your grown up that you know what full means by filling a container up? Can you show them you know what half full means? And empty?
Finally – can you select the cup that you think would be best for making your favourite drink.Why have you selected that one?
Afternoon activity
It is our PE day today. Have a go at the yoga below, or get outside and get some fresh air instead.
You’ll need to skip to about 6 minutes in before the yoga activity starts.
It’s Friday – we made it! Well done everyone. I’ve kept things nice and easy for today because I know we are all getting very tired now! Here’s what we will be up to.
Morning activity
Have a go at the colour by phoneme sheet below. There are two pictures so just choose the one which you would like to have a go at.
We have been so busy with all the adding that we’ve been doing this week! I hope you are starting to feel more confident with the different strategies that we can use to work out addition problems now. To test all the skills you’ve learnt this week, have a go at this quiz on Cbeebies. Count the Numberblocks on the screen to help you.
Then have a go at the sheet below. You will need to colour in the number 9 Numberblock in as many different ways as you can and complete the addition number sentences below each one. There are a few different sheets, so just print off the one you need.
I’ve got a fun activity for you this afternoon, and I’m really looking forward to having a go at this myself with the children in school. As we have started learning about animals this week, I wondered if you might like to make an animal handprint. There are some ideas below to get you started, or you can get creative choose your own idea!
I would LOVE to make a display with all of your animal handprints, so once you’ve done yours, could you please keep it safe and bring it into school with you once we come back? Then we can put them all up on the wall and admire everyone’s art! I’m looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Have a brilliant day everyone and I hope you all have a really restful weekend.
