Please note that I am posting work online for any Year 1s who are unable to attend school at the moment. This is not extra work! It is for those who have been asked to self-isolate following NHS advice.
You will find the posts under ‘classes’ and then ‘Room 5’.
This afternoon Room 5 came to play in Room 4’s new garden area. It only seemed fair since they were the ones who helped tidy it all up, watched it being built but then missed out on the time to play in it!
They were beautifully behaved (obviously!) and it was a big treat for Miss Roberts to spend some time with them again too.
Dear parents
I am amending my post yesterday to change the wording of the bullet point relating to home learning.
I am sure the thought of all support from staff for home learning ceasing has caused understandable worry, especially for those in pupils in years 2,3,4 and 5. I can assure that, whilst home learning support may change due to staff having to work more in school, you will continue to receive regular support from staff; some of you will see no change at all. Trying to plan for the implementation of the Government request for the 1st June does not mean the abandonment of all Y2,3,4 and 5 pupils: I simply will not let that happen.
Please do not hesitate to contact me with any concerns or comments as we re-open for more children and year groups over the coming weeks and months.
Kind regards
Mr Langford
Subsequent to the Prime Minister’s announcement on Sunday for schools to start preparing for the return of reception, year 1 and year 6 children from June 1st, senior leaders, staff and governors have spent a considerable amount of time and thought as to how to facilitate this request safely.
One of the key factors in determining how we potentially organise provision on the 1st June is pupil numbers. Parents and guardians of pupils in reception, year 1 and year 6 will therefore shortly be receiving a text asking whether or not you will be sending you child to school on June 1st, if we were to open to YR,1 and 6. If you receive a text, please reply with a simple yes or no.
Factors to consider when deciding on your response:
Please rest assured that my overriding intention, which will be the bedrock of all decisions made, is to ensure that every possible precaution is taken to ensure all staff and pupils remain safe as we look to re-open our school when lockdown rules are eased.
The announcement on Sunday has necessitated the need to ask for reception, year 1 and year 6 families to inform us of their decision whether or not to send their children to school on June 1st. I will be asking for the views of the wider school population when we look to open our doors for more year groups in the future.
I am fully aware of the gravity of the decisions we will be making over the next few weeks: schools are vital institutions which underpin the fabric of their communities. Please rest assured that I, senior leaders and governors, will continue to strive to balance the needs of all our community whilst ensuring the safety of all during this terrible pandemic.
Thank you for your continued support, especially for staff providing home, school learning and for staff providing support for the children of our key workers. It really is appreciated.
Kind regards and stay safe
Mr Langford
Hi everyone,
On a Thursday afternoon, we have reading skills for 20 minutes, computing and then the daily mile. Here are details of activities:
Reading Skills: can you find examples of instructions in books or online? What are the instructions for? How do you know? Do the instructions have the features they should do, such as a title, ‘what you need’ box, bullet points and clear, bossy steps? Can you find any time connectives (first, then etc) or are there numbers instead?
Computing: we were going to look at programming and revising directions. The following website has a lovely activity which involves giving commands to a wolf to follow a course. It may look confusing at first, but if you click on ‘examples’ you will probably be able to see how it works. It is also quite similar to the Bee-Bot software which we use and works in the same sort of way. I have noticed that on the website, you can also make rather lovely pictograms and bar charts which is something we have been working on recently. Feel free to have fun with those options too!
https://www.j2e.com/jit5#turtle
Teacher Input
The next step of programming could be to introduce directions as a means to meet an objective. You may want to link this lesson to a PE lesson on directions (left, right, forwards and backwards plus jump and squat) as the children can pretend to be robots following your instructions or they could work in pairs and direct each other. It is a good opportunity to remind pupils of their left and right.
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Pupil Activity 1
Pupils can put their direction skills to the test by using the Simple Mode of the Turtle section of Junior Infant tools. Using the arrows to move the Wolf to each house develops their use of directions before they start programming a sequence in one go. Show the video to pupils to introduce the activity. Once the pupils have successfully demonstrated a trail moving through the houses, they could move on the space template and desert adventure. Please note, for lower ability you may want to ask pupils to start at desert adventure because the horse only needs to get to the water. |
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Pupil Activity 2
The step from using directions to writing a program means pupils link directions together to reach an object and predict what will happen. Then execute them as one whole sequence rather than one step at a time. This is a particularly tricky step for many children to make as they can struggle to keep in their head the movements that need to be made before executing the program. Show the pupils this video tutorial, which demonstrates using the Advanced mode of Junior Infant tools. Again pupils can also do the same on the space and desert templates. |
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Pupil Activity 3
This video demonstrates to pupils how to program the drawing of a square by sequencing the commands in the correct order. Once the pupils have successfully programmed a square, they could try a rectangle or letter of their name. For lower ability pupils, they could try using the simple section first to draw a square before moving on to the advanced section. |
Follow the link to gain access to the fabulous ‘Wind in the Willows’ musical. Super easy to sign up. I saw this screened at Theatre Severn a couple of years ago and loved it! Suitable for all ages.
The following website provides free eBooks for primary school children so you can carry on reading! This scheme does not match the one we use in school too well, but if you click on ‘age’ and then ‘5-6’, you should be guided to suitable books. Most children in the class will be fine with these. If too hard, try the year group option below and if you need harder, try 7-8 (Accelerated Reader children probably use 7-8).
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/
Morning Room 5 and parents!
Here are some activities for you to do this morning. Firstly, some links to websites that we use in Room 5, starting with a very popular ‘Wake Up, Shake Up’ routine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwKUv0L3xtc
Here is the link to Cosmic Kids, where we get all our yoga and ‘peace out’ activities. The ‘candle of concentration’ is one of my favourites. There are loads of great activities for deep breathing and reducing anxiety, which may prove very useful during this unusual time: https://www.cosmickids.com/category/watch/
Our normal morning timetable throughout the week goes like this:
8.45-9.00: Practise spellings (the same sheet as the one the children bring home) Remember about ‘Squeebles’!
9.00 – 9.05: Wake Up, Shake Up
9.05 – 10.00: Maths
10.00 – 10.15: Assembly. Our theme for this half term is stewardship and looking after our world and each other.
10.15 – 11.00: English
11.00 – 11.15: Phonics/Letters and Sounds – use phonics play Phase 5
11.15 – 11.30: Break
11.30 – 11.40: Mindfulness (we use Cosmic Kids for ‘peace out’)
11.40 – 12.25: a foundation subject such as art & design, geography, computing, music, PE
12.30: Lunch
You may wish to try and keep to this kind of routine.
So, for today, here is what you can be doing:
Maths: Find the missing number in the number sentences. You can also have a go at the number patterns sheet below.
Using a number line would really help with this: https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/7c/cc/t-n-2440-numbers-0-to-20-number-line-_ver_1.pdf?__token__=exp=1584605205~acl=%2Fresource%2F7c%2Fcc%2Ft-n-2440-numbers-0-to-20-number-line-_ver_1.pdf%2A~hmac=f733d25fb7ed0026519face1b61e9abb3f90039c60d2b23505d0659bf5e9a007
English: Can you instruct a grown up to do something? It could be going from one room to another, or fetching something. Give them one step at a time to follow. Remember to keep instructions short and bossy! Your first instruction may be something like: Stand up.
Phonics: Use the flashcards to practise all Phase 5 graphemes. Then look at the ‘investigating alternative spellings’ under Phase 5c. Have a go at ‘oo’. Look at the phoneme spotter story first. See what words you can find with an ‘oo’ sound and then try the ‘word sort’ game that follows.
PE: We have been refining our African animals dance, with small groups doing different moves. This was starting to look really good. Play the video and show your adult how well you can perform each of the animal moves! Remember to be absolutely ready to start each move and see if you can remember the sequence! You may have to keep pausing the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7l5oUWE73g
You could have fun making an animal mask to go with the dance.
Have a good morning everyone. I will post later with afternoon activities as I have to do the school run right now!
Please feel free to email me, and I would love to hear from the children too! I have spoken to a couple about having a go at emailing. My email address is: Garcia.H@pontesbury.shropshire.sch.uk
Hope to hear from you,
Mrs Garcia x
Hi to everyone at home,
Tomorrow we will be using the laptops to write our own set of instructions. You may remember we had a quick look at this last week, and so you should (hopefully!) have some idea how to do it.
If you follow the link below, work through the activities in the ‘main session’ section. You can order the different steps and you can also write your own instructions using your computer keyboard.
http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/lists_and_instructions/eng/Introduction/default.htm
Lots of us whizzed through subtraction today, so we moved on to subtraction on a number line:
T-N-2990A-Subtraction-From-10-Numberline-Worksheet-Editable
Here is a link to a fabulous game we enjoy playing a lot in class. It’s great for practising number bonds to 10 (which are really important in Year 1) and we have also had a go at the ‘doubles’ game:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Practising the spellings at the back of the yellow spelling folder is also an excellent thing to do. The following app is brilliant for learning spellings and is the best app I’ve found which helps with this. It costs a few pounds and requires an iPad or similar, but is well worth it. Revising any of the spelling patterns that we have had in words throughout Year 1 would be very useful: https://keystagefun.co.uk/literacy-apps/squeebles-spelling-test/
Thinking of you all,
Mrs Garcia x
Hello Room 5 (Year 1) parents,
In the event that your child is off school as a result of being unwell and having to ‘self isolate’, I will post details of work here on the school website. Wherever possible, I will upload the sheets themselves.
We subscribe to a website called ‘Phonics Play’ which we use a lot in our phonics sessions at school. The details to access this site are as follows:
Username: PPS1, password: apple
This week we are looking at all alternatives for the ‘ee’ sound (phoneme). If you click on the ‘Phase 5’ tab and then 5c, you will find ‘investigating alternative spellings for ee’. We have had a go at this activity today, finding words with ‘ee’ sounds and sorting them according to spelling. Your children will recognise most of the games on this website, and any of the Phase 5 games are great to play for revision! If you go to the ‘teachers’ tab, you can also print off some of the activities.
In Geography we have been talking about Nelson Mandela and recapping the events in his life using this website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zjkj382/articles/zj3p8xs
The children then wrote sentences including some of the learnt facts.
Below are details and links to English and Maths work:
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In science we are going to be looking at habitats and why certain animals live in different ones.T-T-10399-Living-Things-and-their-Habitats-Habitats-Lesson-Teaching-Pack
Hopefully there’s enough here to keep you busy for a while!
Stay safe and see you soon,
Mrs Garcia
Another fabulous performance by our lovely Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 pupils! Thank you so much to all the children for learning all those songs and words, you were brilliant!
There are a few seats still available for Thursday afternoon’s performance if you haven’t managed to come and watch the Nativity yet – don’t miss out, it’s really lovely!
(Feel free to save these photos for your own memories, but we ask that you do not post them on any social media sites. There are parents who have specifically requested that their children do not appear on there and we need to respect their wishes. Some children are allowed to appear in this private ‘parents area’, but have not been blanked out for use elsewhere. Thank you for your understanding).
Pontesbury C.E. Primary School
Bogey Lane,
Pontesbury,
Shropshire.
SY5 0TF
Tel: 01743 790226
Headteacher: Mr Tom Lowrie-Herz
School Business Manager: Mrs Sara Andrew
