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6 years ago
Posted on 22nd Apr 2020 by

Nursery Activities Wednesday 22nd April

Good morning nursery, it is Wednesday already!

The sun is shining and I can hear those birds singing this morning, what a wonderful sound!

Here are today’s suggested activities for you:

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Leaf Rubbing

Have a lovely day, take care and keep smiling.

The Nursery Team

6 years ago
Posted on 21st Apr 2020 by

Tuesday phonics challenge

I hope that you and your child enjoyed yesterday’s phonics challenge.

When we have our letters and sounds time in nursery we spend part of that time learning the actions for each letter sound and write some of them on a daily basis.  Your challenge today is to look at the fantastic resources posted on April 20th by Mrs Giordano on the website that show the correct formation for each letter and how to do the accompanying action.  I would then like you to encourage your child to write their name looking carefully at each letter.  If they are very confident please help them to write their surname too.  Of course, if they are really enjoying this they could write other names within the family.  Do let us know how they get on by sending in photographs on evidence me.  Have fun and happy writing!

 

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6 years ago
Posted on 21st Apr 2020 by

Nursery Activities Tuesday 21st April

Good morning nursery, our team are smiling at all the wonderful photos that we are receiving through Evidence Me. You are all doing such a fabulous job!

Here are today’s suggested activities, we hope you are enjoying them.

Stay safe and enjoy the sunshine.

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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

 

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

Phonics learning

I have uploaded the following phonics flash cards that we use to support your child’s literary learning process that goes along side the sign language actions for each picture.

In learning these we teach the letters sound not it’s given name first. For example we teach; a for apple 🍎 not A for ape 🦍 the part of learning the letter names comes later when we start looking at phase 3, two letters one sound and tricky words. These I will upload for our older ones that were just starting this to support their sentence writing and reading. 👂🏻✍🏼

Mrs Giordano

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6 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by

Welcome back

Good morning and welcome back after a well deserved break from homeschooling.

All the team here at Newdale hope that you have had a eggcellent Easter with lots of yummy treats.

Well from looking at all of your wonderful observations you have sent in from Mighty Oaks children’s parents, you have done just that!

Once again wow and thank you, it’s honestly so nice to see you still learning but more importantly having fun and staying safe ❤️🌈 I’ve had lots of pleasure looking through and seeing your amazing activities and planned lessons for learning. Some fabulous ideas very creative, well done all.

Please show your children the following pictures so that they can see their friends having fun too. We look forward to seeing more and please don’t think that your efforts go unnoticed. All of your child’s (key workers) teachers look through them and then they will go in your child’s learning journey folders to support their progress.

Please if you have any difficulties in uploading or you are not sure on how, contact me on shelley.giordano@taw.org.uk I will try my best to help you or send you in the right direction of the ict tech team that can.

Once again thank you 😊 and remember there is no pressure on you to turn your home into a school packed with lessons, what’s important to us all here is that you are safe, well and that your children are having fun.

If in any way you are having difficulties or struggling mentally /or you are just not sure on how to support your child through this difficult time, PLEASE DO NOT hesitate to contact the school and there the office staff will put you on to our pastoral team to help, many of you know Miss Pugh ( Paula) who is part of this team. This is always done privately and stays confidential.

Stay safe and stay at home 🌈

Mrs Giordano

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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