New critical worker/vulnerable child form – Monday 8th – Thursday 11th February 2021

Please complete the form below if your child is eligible for a school place during the current school closure. All applications will be reviewed and considered once the form has closed at 9.00am on Thursday 4th February.

Please note that the filling in of this form does not guarantee you a place.

A member of school staff will contact you Friday afternoon to inform you if we can safely offer your child/ren a place.  If we are unable to, we will support you in directing you to the remote learning offer we have in place.

All school staff would like to thank you for your unwavering support in these testing times.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=2s8TOK9SpUy44yMVeXcKujfWR1zrUJ1JhQgacqv0-RBUQTdVVTZZS09XRDRRS0M1V0VFMFhIMFg5Ni4u

Google classroom

Just a reminder if you are trying to use google classroom, please use your child’s email address and password sent via evidence me.  You won’t be able to access the site using your own personal details.  However, I can tell that we have had plenty of families logging on successfully which is wonderful news.

Mrs L Curnow

Safer Internet Day- February 2021

Each year at Newdale, we take part in Safer Internet Day (SID). This year it will take place on Tuesday 9th February. Whether your child is learning from home or in school, they will engage in a series of activities throughout the day with the aim of learning key ways to keep themselves and others safe online.

Please click on the link below to view the full letter.

Safer Internet Day February 2021

Nursery online learning

Unfortunately, not all of the children will be able to attend nursery for the next few days and we would love to invite you to join us in google classroom.  Just pop over daily to see what is available for you to access.  Tomorrow we would love you to join us for a letters and sounds session available after 9.30 (if you log on before you won’t be able to access it).  This session can be reached any time after 9.30 in order for you to fit it around any other commitments you may have.  In addition, there is an end of day story available after 2.30.  This time the links are only going to be available on google classroom.  Do let us know if you have any issues and we will do our best to support you.  We have been told by our IT department that devices using older software may not be successful in playing the lessons, so you may want to see if you have more recent software installed.

Keep safe everyone and hope to see you all again soon.

Mrs L Curnow

Tuesday’s live lessons – for those who missed it!

We had two live lessons today, Science and Gymnastics.  If you missed either of them then you can catch up with the recordings here:

Science (9am)

https://telfordeducation.sharepoint.com/sites/Section_AN_TAW313/Shared%20Documents/General/Recordings/Live%20lessons%20-%20Year%202%20Science-20210202_090654-Meeting%20Recording.mp4

Gymnastics (10am)

https://telfordeducation.sharepoint.com/sites/Section_AN_TAW313/Shared%20Documents/General/Recordings/Live%20lessons%20-%20Year%202%20Literacy-20210202_100521-Meeting%20Recording.mp4

Please email your work to us at newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk or share your work on the homework blog.

There is no other work set for today.  As a treat for your hard work, there will be an online pantomime shown this afternoon beginning at 1.30pm.  You should have received the link to this via email.  Please note only one device per household should be used to access the online panto.  If you have any difficulties please contact us. We hope you enjoy it!

Many thanks,

The Year 2 Team

ART DAY MONDAY 8TH FEBRUARY

We are delighted to announce that on Monday 8th February we are holding an Art Day! This is for both the children in school and those who are learning from home.

Your class teachers will be posting the activities for you to access at home either on the website or via your Google Classroom this week so you will have plenty of time to get prepared (we have however, tried to think of ways to get creative without an abundance of resources. You will hopefully have most of the things you need already available at home.)

We have included a range of ideas such as laundry art, and pencil sketching amongst other things, so that you can simply choose the things that you like best. We have included things that your child should be able to do independently to provide you with some much needed time.

 

One idea that we would love for you to take part in is our ‘Handprint’ art, in which we are hoping to make a display of back in school. Details will be on your year group sheet. You can draw round and decorate your handprint in any way you like and with whatever you have, e.g pens, pencils, buttons, paper, bits of material, glitter etc.

We are aware that normally we would be holding our annual Grandparents’ tea-party at this time of year and that unfortunately not only can we not do this  at the moment, but for many of us, we are unable to see Grandparents’ currently. Therefore, we thought if you would like to and are able to, you might like to also create a Grandparent handprint to decorate. You could do this by asking them to send a handprint image of their hand digitally, or they could even draw round their hand and post it to you which you could decorate when quarantined. If this is something they can’t do, you can always draw your own version to represent their handprint.

One final suggestion, to keep the tradition going if at all possible, is to set up your own virtual tea-party with Grandparents’ at home. Have a cup of tea and a piece of cake together and just enjoy having a chat as we would have done if possible back in school. You could do this via a video call, or even a normal telephone call.

We would love to know how you get on.

    

 

Have a great day everybody and get creative!

 

Online Pantomime Information – Tuesday 2nd Feb!

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 via email tomorrow (the email address you usually send us your work via)

Many thanks,

The Year 2 Team

Year 2 Monday’s live lessons – for those who missed it!

We had two live lessons today, Maths and Literacy.  If you missed either of them then you can catch up with the recordings here:

Maths (9.30am)

https://telfordeducation.sharepoint.com/sites/Section_AN_TAW313/Shared%20Documents/General/Recordings/Live%20lessons%20-%20Year%202%20Maths-20210201_093904-Meeting%20Recording.mp4

Literacy (11am)

https://telfordeducation.sharepoint.com/sites/Section_AN_TAW313/Shared%20Documents/General/Recordings/Live%20lessons%20-%20Year%202%20Literacy-20210201_110547-Meeting%20Recording.mp4

Please email your work to us at newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk or share your work on the homework blog.

Many thanks,

The Year 2 Team

VIRTUAL PANTOMIME INFORMATION

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! :)