Dear parents and carers,

Teachers across the school are doing an amazing job of planning high quality work for your children to complete whilst at home (and for those in school).

As you are aware, the government has set very clear guidance regarding the amount of time which should be spent by children on schoolwork.

The amount of remote education should be a minimum of:

• key stage 1: 3 hours a day
• key stage 2: 4 hours a day

We have ensured that a wide range of subjects are covered within this time and are particularly mindful of the need to ensure children have time away from screens.

 That said, we remain keen to stress how vitally important it is that your child is reading every single day; and while at home, we have provided online resources to facilitate this.

In Reception we are using Oxford Owl. Your child can then select and read the books according to the coloured band that they would normally choose from at school. If you need a reminder of which coloured band they normally choose from, then please ask.

In addition to this, we set weekly reading challenges! We hope you are enjoying these. We love to see the results of your challenges that you have been sending in. We have also been posting storytimes. This is because we love to have a storyime in Reception everyday. We ask that you please build a storytime into your daily routine, perhaps at bedtime to keep the love of reading alive.

World Book Day 2021

 Next month on the 4^th March is the annual celebration of reading across the country!

As we expect to still be in a lockdown situation, Newdale would like to introduce an Alice in Wonderland whole school theme. We hope that by having one theme, this will support families who have children in multiple year groups.

More information will follow, but we would encourage dressing up for those who enjoy this and of course a mad hatter’s tea party of your own! We understand going out to buy a costume may be a challenge at the moment, so encourage you to get creative and put something together of your own at home just for fun. We will  be having a ‘hat’ theme so even just making a hat for the event to get into the spirit!

 Kind regards, 

The Year Reception team

Home Schooling Art Day 2021

You will have received the message about Art Day on Monday. For those children in school that day, we will also be doing the activities. I have attached the sheet of activities for you to see what we are doing.
Please can I draw your attention to the handprint art activity. For this children are welcome to bring in their Grandparents handprint, which as outlined on the sheet could be passed onto you virtually or through the post. We will need to quarantine these before we decorate. If you can’t receive a handprint then we can make our own representation. If you don’t have a grandparent, then this could be for some other special person you are missing at the moment.
As we won’t be able to hold our annual tea-party this year in school,  then after school you may also choose to take part in the suggested virtual tea-party too.
Thank you everybody. We can’t wait to get creative!

Hello Reception,

Hopefully you have seen the message with exciting news about our Virtual Pantomime treat tomorrow on our Google Classroom page.

Here is some information about the panto tomorrow. Please read this information carefully!
There are 300 ‘tickets’ for our panto showing tomorrow afternoon.
Only one device per household is permitted to log into teams using this link, so please use the most appropriate device for your family to watch. If you attempt to log in on more than one device, this will stop other families from accessing their ticket and being able to see the showing.
Once all 300 ‘tickets’ have been allocated, no further admissions into the showing are allowed.
The panto is performed via Microsoft Teams, so please make sure that your device is able to support this.  If you do not currently have access to Teams, please download this for free by following this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/microsoft-teams/download-app The company who are performing the panto are in charge of the technical side of the showing and will be hosting the meeting.
We will send you the link and more information tomorrow 😊

The link that we send tomorrow for the Pantomime will be sent via Google Classroom only, as we can not post this publicly via the website. Please ensure you look out for this information on the Reception Google Class Page tomorrow.

We can’t wait! :)

For those children who are still coming into school, could you please now come to school on a Monday in warm outdoor clothes with normal footwear. Then please bring wellies and a waterproof top layer in a separate carrier to put on for the session.

Thank you.

The Reception Team

Morning Reception,

We hope you have managed to access your new Google Classroom and the work set in there for today. Please do let us know if you have any issues and we will try to help.

At 10:45 we will have our first Google Meeting.

To access this please log in to your google classroom. Once logged in,  enter Miss Hailey, Mrs Evans and Mrs Sturrock’s virtual room that looks like this:

When in the classroom you can join by clicking the meet link at the given time, found in the green box under the classroom name:

When you have joined, please make sure your mute button is on to avoid echoing and also to take turns to speak. You can do this by raising your hand (just like you would in class) using the hand button at the bottom of the screen.

We look forward to seeing you soon.

The Reception Team.

Here is a copy of the parent guide for Google Classrooms. Work has been assigned on there for today. Thank you.

Google classroom information for parents