Year 2

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5 years ago
Posted on 06th Jan 2021 by

Year 2 spelling activity – Wednesday 6th January

Hi all, today we are going to practise reading and spelling ‘le’ words.

First print and cut out the ‘le’ word cards that match your spellings (or make your own if you prefer).

le flashcards

Game 1: Lay all of the cards out on a table face down…no peeping! Take turns with another member of your family to pick up a card and read it. If you read it correctly first time you get to keep it, if not, put it back on the table and better luck next time. The winner is the person with the most cards at the end.

Optional Game 2: Print/make 2 sets of cards. Lay them in two separate groups face down on the table and play the ‘Pairs’ game – choose one card from each set, if they match and you can read them, then you get to keep them. If they don’t match you have to put them back on the table. Winner is the person with the most sets.

Activity 1: ‘Look, cover, write, check’ – ask an adult to show you one of the flashcards for 5 seconds, they then hide the card while you write the word. Now check. Are you right? If you made a mistake, then be the teacher and correct it.

Remember to have fun while you learn!

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5 years ago
Posted on 05th Jan 2021 by

Update 05.01.2021

 

Dear Parents/Carers,

We are delighted that our efforts to open today paid off with key worker children back in school loving learning. Staff also worked tremendously hard in making sure the online learning offer is as good as it can possibly be.

It is really important that both staff and parents do all they can to keep children engaged and learning. Staff are aware of the fact that many parents will be ‘home working’ and hence not have as much time as they would like or need to support children. Teachers are trying to make the learning as clear as they can to children in the hope they can manage to get on without the need for too much adult help whilst ensuring a quality provision.

We are keeping our Breakfast and After School Club open to support critical workers but have decided to postpone some clubs until a later date e.g. Crossbar clubs.

We have been inundated with requests for school places and this is becoming a real challenge to us due to teacher capacity and space. Ultimately, schools have closed to limit the potential to spread the virus. We are already close to our maximum capacity to operate safely. We do ask that you only request places if you are a Critical Key worker and that you have no other option in keeping your children at home. We are going to look at whether there are ways we can increase any capacity but in the end we will need to cap numbers and move forward in a safe way for everyone. We really hope you can support us in this.

The new booking form will be coming out soon please keep an eye out for it.

Kind regards

Miss Cook

5 years ago
Posted on 05th Jan 2021 by

Update 5.01.21

Good morning,

 

Many staff working in our school have children of their own and therefore can completely sympathise with you this morning. We know that the last minute decision by the Government will undoubtedly cause mass disruption on so many levels. Many schools have closed their doors today in order to plan for the forthcoming weeks. We worked very late into the night in order to be able to at least allow some of our critical, key workers access to school places for their children, so that they can go to work to support us all. As you know, it is so important that everyone supports each other over this difficult time.

 

We understand that some people may have missed the communication that we sent more or less immediately after the announcement last night and we will look at what further we can offer later on today after we have processed the applications we have already received.

 

Please help us by not turning up for school if you are in anyway unsure as to if your child qualifies for a place. We are only able to accept certain children as per the guidance and only children that we have received a form from at this point. A ‘lock down’ is a ‘lock down’, and we need to only have children in school whose parents really do qualify as key workers please. Please also only take up the place if you really need it e.g. shift work patterns may mean you can in fact safely keep you child at home. Please do not be offended if we ask for proof of key worker status and even ask for shift patterns so that we can plan accordingly.

 

School staff will be contacting parents of children who we believe qualify for places who have not yet been in touch. Please wait for communication from school and access the online learning offer for your child today.

 

If you are struggling with accessing the online offer, please contact either the office or your child’s teacher through their email contact.

 

Again, thank you for all of your support.

 

Miss Cook

Headteacher

5 years ago
Posted on 04th Jan 2021 by

Year 2 Home Learning Spring 1

Hello Year 2!

So it looks like we will be doing our learning from home again for a while but the good news is that we are already experts at this and you all did an amazing job last time! 😊

In Year 2, we will be continuing to use the website and Teams for home schooling.  We will also still be available on the email address newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk if you or your parents need to get in contact with us.

There will not be any live lessons today, as we are busy in school preparing for other work that we will be doing later this week.  However the Year 2 Team will be online at 11am to say hello to you all and for a quick catch up.  It would be great to see as many of you there as possible.  As before, you should receive an invite to this session however if not then you can ‘join’ the meeting through the Teams app.

To keep you busy before and after this meeting, we have set a few pieces of work for you to be doing.

Spellings

The spelling rule for this week is the ‘le ending’.  Your spellings can be found here

le ending spellings.

Please practise writing them out and you could even try putting them into sentences.  ✍️

PE

Usually we would have gymnastics on a Tuesday morning so you can choose which PE activity you would like to do for today.  You could do this Joe Wicks workout https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LPrhI0v-w or Cosmic kids yoga ‘Popcorn and the pirate’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_0P5grVoyg

Optional extension activity – can you research and then create a poster about a famous gymnast? You could choose Max Whitlock, Beth Tweddle or Simone Biles.

New Year Task

Can you answer the questions in these balloons? You could even have a go at drawing the balloons and stars yourself.

From Wednesday live lessons will take place each day, one at 9.30am and the other at 11am.  If you are unable to attend the live sessions, a recording of the lesson will always be available afterwards.  Worksheets and any further instructions will be shared via the website.

We are hoping that our online learning for the next couple of weeks will run the same way that it did during our lockdown in December.

If you have any questions please email us on newdale.year2team@taw.org.uk

Many thanks,

Miss Newport and Miss Jones 😊 😊

 

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5 years ago
Posted on 18th Dec 2020 by

Star of the Week- KS1

Aria-Rose from Miss McCullagh’s class- for always having a positive attitude at school and for being a kind and considerate friend.

Marco from Mrs Plimmer’s class- for going up a band in his reading book!

Demi from Miss Newport’s class- for always following the SMART code and for being a good friend.

Grace from Miss Broadhurst’s class- for always following the SMART code and being kind to other children

Lilly from Miss Jones’- for being an absolute star in all areas of her learning and beyond! You are a credit to your family 😊

 

5 years ago
Posted on 18th Dec 2020 by

Last letter of 2020

 

Dear Parents/Carers,

 

We would firstly like to thank you for all of the support we have had over this tricky period. It has not been easy and despite our best efforts, we have had to deal with a very small number of cases in school this term. Our number of cases is relatively few in comparison to many other schools and we know that our partnership working with you, the Health Protection Hub, the Local Authority along with our strict procedures have helped to keep this figure so low.

 

Should your child(ren) develop symptoms or have a positive test on either Friday 18th, Saturday 19th or Sunday 20th December then you MUST let us know. Could you please do this by using the following email address newdale.primary@taw.org.uk, this will be monitored over that period by two members of staff who remain on call or alternatively calling the school office on 01952 387720.  The school number will be diverted until 6.00pm on 24th December.  Please only call this number to report symptoms or a positive test and not for general enquiries.

 

If your child(ren) develops symptoms or tests positive outside of this time period (Monday 21st December onwards) then please use the NHS Track and Trace system and you do not need to let us know, unless they are continuing to self-isolate once we return on 5th  January. This is because it will have been longer than 48 hours since they were in school and will therefore, not affect any other staff or students. Please note as of Monday 14th December, the isolation period is only 10 days.

 

Thank you for your continued support with this and I sincerely hope it will not be needed for any family over the festive period. I hope you all have a well-earned rest and have the opportunity to spend it with loved ones.

 

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of the staff at Newdale primary School and Nursery. We look forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday 5th January 2021.

 

Miss Cook

5 years ago
Posted on 17th Dec 2020 by

Winter Free School Meal Vouchers

All vouchers have been sent by the council by email a week ago today, the only exceptions being the ones that have come directly to the school that we have sent home today.

 

If you have not received a voucher for a child that receives FSM,  please email the winterfunding.grant@telford.gov.uk  giving your name, the child/children’s names you haven’t had the voucher for and the home address.

 

If you have not applied for free school meals and your child receives them under the universal Free School Meal offer, where by all reception and year one students get a hot meal each day, you will need to head to www.telford.gov.uk/FSM and make an online application. Eligibility can be checked and if you qualify they will be notified and can issue the voucher.

 

If you have any problems redeeming the voucher this is the number you will need to contact  0344 693 9901

 

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5 years ago
Posted on 17th Dec 2020 by

T&W message from Santa

Telford & Wrekin Council have had a special video produced for the children of Telford and Wrekin. It’s a message from Santa himself and we thought you might wish to share this with your classes or perhaps in any emails you send out to parents.

You can view the video on YouTube here https://youtu.be/fgtCkyIcpIk

We hope this brings some joy to those who see it. Please share with everyone you can.