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6 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

Phonics challenge

During the summer term (in normal times!) we are able to really challenge the older nursery children with their phonic (letters and sounds) knowledge as they have been working so hard all year.  The children usually know many of the 26 letter sounds by now (don’t worry if your child doesn’t every child is different).  At this point we stretch the children a little more using fun activities to try and read simple words.  As we are unable to do this at nursery at the moment we are hoping that you could try these out at home on a daily basis just for about 15-20 minutes a day.  The children usually love the games and it’s a great way to keep them entertained as well as learning.

My phonics challenge for  today can be found by googling phonics play on the internet.  Please then select the new version and input the current Username:march followed by the Password:home.  This takes you to lots of free games that in normal times schools are charged for but are kindly free during the lock down.  On the site I would like you to select the game Buried treasure at Phase 2 (this level is appropriate for the majority of the children going to school in September).  In this game the children have to drag coins with real words on them to the pirates’ treasure chest and drag the coins with fake words to the dustbin.  In order to help your child with this when you select which letter to use click on “revise all”.  Your child can then look at each letter on the coin saying their sounds out loud and then try to blend the sounds together to read the word.  This takes a bit of practise but we usually tap each sound on our arm as we read them and then stroke our arm as we blend them together.

Please have a go if you can and send in photo’s on the evidence me app.  More challenges to follow!

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6 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

School Update- Monday 20th April

Dear Parent/Carer,

I hope you all had a good Easter, despite the strange times we are living in at the moment.

I would love nothing more than to be writing to tell you of a reopening date, but alas, we are again bound by the rules of the Government in an extended lock down.

We are all hopeful that we will at some point return this academic year and really hope that we do, so that our Year 6 children can say their goodbyes, so that our new Reception children can get a taster of next year and of course so all of our other children can meet their new teacher and get to see their new classroom for next year. Fingers crossed…

I am very proud of all of the Newdale teams and how they have responded during this very difficult time. There is so much work going on behind the scenes and everyone is playing their part. The admin team have been battling with all sorts of issues around ordering vouchers and sorting out codes, the Pastoral team making sure all of our families are safe, our teaching team doing all they can to support online learning at home and the teaching assistant team volunteering and doing lots of preparation for this term and beyond.

We have and continue to remain open to the children of key workers. We were open all over Easter including Good Friday and Easter Monday, as we wanted to support the national drive to keep our key workers in work. The volunteers in school have been amazing. Despite anxiety around infection and the difficulties in social distancing with children, they are coming in and offering the best childcare possible in our hub. As ever, if you feel you qualify for provision then please email school or give us a ring (details on the website). If you have concerns about your children at home then we might be able to help with advice or signpost you to support, so please do get in touch.

I am trying really hard to see the positives and am very thankful that the weather has been very kind to us during this time. I am hoping children can get outside in gardens and enjoy their exercise sessions each day: I know I am!

I will update you when we know more, but in the meantime we thank you for your support with home online learning. It really will make a difference to the children when they finally return to us.

Kind regards and stay safe…

Miss Cook

 

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6 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

Year 1 Afternoon Project Ideas

Hi everyone,

I hope you have had a lovely first morning back at home school! Lots of you have already sent back some brilliant work on PurpleMash.

As Miss Hailey has already explained, each week will now have a theme and a teacher from Newdale will be setting afternoon work for the whole school, based on that subject. This week is Art week and I know lots of you will be excited to get started on some super art projects.

We have also put together some additional project ideas for Year 1, that you may like to have a go at in the afternoons, alongside the themed work for that week. Remember, these are just ideas – they do not all need to be completed, they are there for you to pick and choose the ones that take your fancy and are feasible for you and your family. In school, our topics in the Summer term would be the ‘Seaside’ and ‘Growing/ Planting’, so we have tried to create some projects based on these areas.

Afternoon Project Ideas Summer 1

We would love to see any of the afternoon projects get up to, on the homework blog. Remember, you can also contact us via the Year 1 email address if you would like to share any work or have any questions for us!

newdale.year1team@taw.org.uk

Any documents you may need for the above activities can be found here:

All About Me Brain Teasers

Seaside I Spy Game

Seaside Spot the Difference

Easy Diwali Curry Recipe

Rainbow Skewered Fruit

The Enormous Turnip Soup Recipe

Sketching Tutorials – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5XMF3Inoi8R9nSI8ChOsdQ

Have fun!

Best wishes,

Year 1 team 🙂🙂🙂🙂

6 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

Start of term

I hope that you’ve all had a good Easter and I wish that we were all back together for the start of term as we usually would be.  Thank you to everyone who has sent in photographs of their child’s activities at home using the evidence me app, we do love seeing what you are all up to.  Please keep checking out the website for lots of ideas for activities at home. I am hoping to get in touch with you all individually by phone over the course of the next few days for a catch up.  Please let me know how things are going and what you would like support with in these rather unusual times.

Hope to speak to you all soon

Lisa Curnow

Nursery  Teacher

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6 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

Guidance from Government Website

Please click on the below link for information regarding helping your primary school children to continue their education during this time.

We hope you find this link helpful.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/help-primary-school-children-continue-their-education-during-coronavirus-covid-19?utm_source=b0838257-848b-4d77-b72f-37767d087fd1&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate&fbclid=IwAR3BzlwQ19y3QhtIfY81FeygBYAphvG_cXwvyi2aluk0Uyu_UZWz12SnUyE

 

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6 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

Year 6- work for the week beginning 20/4/20

Hi Year 6

We hope you had an enjoyable Easter break and ate plenty of chocolate eggs!
Your work this week is on Purple Mash. Mrs Thomas and I have set you all a number of tasks: there is a fast 10 for each day and some literacy based activities which we will add to every day, so try to keep on top of this work. In addition to this, please continue to use Read Theory and TTRS.

As a school, we have decided to run subject themed weeks for you to have a go at in the afternoons and this week is Art. Please see Miss Hailey’s post below for a range of activities you can complete. Please upload your pieces on to the school blog because we’d love to see them!

If you are unable to use Purple Mash and would prefer for Mrs T or I to send you some paper based work electronically, please email us and we will send some work over.

Have fun!

Miss C and Mrs T

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6 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

Nursery Activities Monday 20th April

Good morning nursery and welcome back!
We hope you have made the most of your time at home and enjoyed some much needed sunshine (we hope the sun continues to shine for us). The nursery team are so proud of you all.

Over the next few weeks, nursery will coincide with our school and focus on themed activity weeks that have been introduced. This week will be ‘Art week’ and first up today is Minibeasts. Please see attached for the daily activities.

As always, these are only suggested activities and can be adapted to suit your family.

We will also be putting together some extra support for our letters and sounds activities shortly.

Take care and enjoy your day.

Monday 20th April Activity

Minibeast Hunt

Minibeast Pictures

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6 years ago
Posted on 19th Apr 2020 by

Year 1 Maths – Monday 20th April

Hi everyone!

We hope you have had a lovely, restful couple of weeks over Easter. We have loved seeing some of the fun, Easter projects that you have been busy completing and we are sure you are eager to get back to your home learning now 🙂

Our focus in Maths this week is going to be telling the time and today we are going to begin by learning o’clock times.

Monday 20th April Maths Activities

Today’s lesson asks you to warm up your maths brain with an active maths challenge. Some of you may have started to have a go at some of these challenges over Easter, so perhaps you could choose 1 or 2 more to have a go at today!

Here is an example of what Activity 3 might look like….we can’t wait to see all of your super work on PurpleMash 🙂

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6 years ago
Posted on 19th Apr 2020 by

Home Schooling Literacy Monday 20th April 2020

Hello Year 1. We were so lucky to have a beautiful, warm Easter holidays. We have planned some nice things for you to kick-start your final term in Year 1.

We sent spellings out on the last day before the holidays. Please practise these today, ready for your test on Friday. You could turn this into the 4-in-a-row style game attached below either by printing or on paper.  ing suffix 4 in a row game

As part of our new Science growing theme, we are beginning the new story of ‘The Enormous Turnip’. In Y1 it is important to learn and recite familiar tales in order. Please read the story to your child and encourage them to join in with the repetitive familiar parts.

When you have finished the story, see if your child can order the story. They could do this by acting out the story (We would love to see pictures of this) or they could make their own character puppets either by drawing their own puppets and cutting them out or using the templates provided if you have a printer.

Can they repeat all the words? Can they introduce new characters in order?

Here is a copy of the story and resources you may need.

The Enormous Turnip Story PowerPoint

The-Enormous-Turnip-Stick-Puppets

We are looking forward to seeing your Literacy work today.

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6 years ago
Posted on 19th Apr 2020 by

Welcome Back Year 1!

Hello Year 1. We hope you had a good Easter break!

We are starting some new topics for the Summer Term. Attached below is the overview of what we would normally cover in class during this term. We will try and tailor home schooling tasks as closely as possible to cover these areas until schools reopen.

Year 1 Curriculum Overview Summer 2020

We look forward to hearing from you all soon and seeing your amazing work.

The Year 1 Team.