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Swallows Blog 08.11.2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 9:25pm
Hello Everyone!
Welcome back to Swallows class blog.
Praise Book: Jayden B Top Table: Ella
What an amazing start to this half term we have had! Mrs Elson and I have been so impressed with the children's fantastic attitudes towards their learning. We have enjoyed our first Cricket PE lesson with Andy, learnt the first song from our Christmas production, had a fantastic History focus day and enjoyed a whole day of active Maths.
We are looking forward to another week of being busy little bee’s next week. Please take a look at what we will be learning below.
English
Our English work will continue to focus on the beautiful story ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ this week. Swallows will create and perform their own firework poems, sort information into subheading and write complex sentences using a range of conjunctions.
Maths
Our Maths work will focus on adding and subtracting two 2 digit numbers this week. We will continue to focus on our times tables during our arithmetic lesson’s.
Read Write Inc
Please check your child's diary to see which group they are currently working in. Please remember that the children sometimes need to repeat sounds/books in order to develop fluency and understanding. If you child has remained on the same colour reading book, this is not a problem. It just means that they need to really focus on using speedy Fred in their head to read at a faster pace.
Orange Group- Miss Gillam 5.11.2021
Playday
We can play!
Jam tarts
New sounds:
- ea – cup of tea
- oi – spoil the boy
- a_e – make a cake
- i_e – nice smile
Reading focus: We have been focusing on using Fred in our head to help us to become speedier readers this week. Remember to spot special friends, Fred talk and then read the word.
Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.
Yellow Group – Miss Gillam 5.11.2021
Grow your own radishes
The radish contest
plants
New sounds:
- ea – cup of tea
- oi – spoil the boy
- a_e – make a cake
- i_e – nice smile
Reading focus: We have been focusing on using Fred in our head to help us to become speedier readers this week. Remember to spot special friends, Fred talk and then read the word.
Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.
Blue Group– Mrs Elson 5.11.21
Jelly Bean
Small but deadly
Beastly Pet
New sounds:
- ea- cup of tea
- oi – spoil the boy
- a-e – make a cake
- I-e – nice smile
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: We are continuing to revisit our sounds and we have been looking at different ways of spelling the same in differently.
Pink Group – Mrs Esling 5.11.21
Scruffy Ted
Scruffy Ted gets lost
new sounds
- ea – cup of tea
- oi – spoil the boy
- a_e – make a cake
- i_e – nice smile
Reading focus: We have been focusing on using Fred in our head to help us to become speedier readers this week. Remember to spot special friends, Fred talk and then read the word.
Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of each speed sound card.
Grey Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 5.11.21
Wailing Winny’s Car Boot Sale
Dad Makes a Mistake
Amazing Caves
This week, we have started our new RWI spelling scheme and have focussed on spelling the or sound spelt a before 1 and ll
Practise reading and writing these words: tall, small, also, always, altogether, already
Reading focus: We have been focussing on reading with expression and using the punctuation marks to convey how the characters are feeling.
Homework
Reading
Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too. Please remember to record any reading in your blue reading diary.
Spellings
Throughout the Autumn term our spellings will be focused on the Year Two Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use your spelling whiteboard to help you to learn your spellings each week. We will write your child's score in their diary each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page from the previous week's page.
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Our next spelling quiz will be on Friday 12th November.
Maths Homework
Please have a go at learning your 10 x table this week. We have each child our Bronze times table challenge for this week. This involves learning the 10 x table in order. In addition to completing your written times table challenge, please log in to Times Tables Rock Stars. When you click into the TT Rock Stars home page, you need to select 'Garage' which is a single player game. This is where I can select specific tables for you to learn. I have set you a little 10 times table challenge for this week. Remember, when you see the division sign, it is asking you how many tens are in that number. Use your counting in 10s to help you J. Have fun choosing your rock star names and completing our special challenge
Our first times table quiz will be on Friday 12th November.
Nativity – Christmas with the Aliens
We look forward to sending our play scripts home with your child early next week. We are currently introducing parts in school this week before sending the scripts home for learning. Please use the script to learn any highlighted words that your child will need to learn by heart ready for our performances. Every child who wanted a speaking role has one.
Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ? Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Miss Gillam
Swallows Blog WB: 18.10.2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 14th Oct 2021 @ 9:21pm
Hello everyone and welcome back to Swallows weekly blog ?
Praise Book: Layla Top Table: Anya
I can’t quite believe we are looking ahead to the final week of the half term already. Please remember that school finishes for half term on Thursday 21st October as Friday 22nd is an INSET day.
We are looking forward to another week of super learning next week. Please take a look at what we will be learning below.
English
Our English work will continue to focus on the beautiful story ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ this week. We will write sentences to describe fireworks, write a character description for Plop and enjoy learning and performing Autumn poems.
Maths
Our Maths learning will continue to focus on addition and subjection next week. We will be continuing to add and subtract 10s and 1s and we will be adding a 2 digit number to a 1 digit number. Please continue to support your Swallow at home by adding and subtracting 10s and 1s from different starting points. A 100 square may help your Swallow with this if they are finding it tricky.
https://mathszone.co.uk/using-applying/puzzles-and-logic-problems/splat-square100-primary-games-3/
Read Write Inc
Blue Group - Miss Gillam 15.10.2021
The jar of oil
A second jar of oil
Our invisible planet
New sounds:
- ear – hear with your ear
- ure – sure it’s pure
- tion – pay attention, it’s a celebration
- tious – scrumptious delicious
Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning again this week, taking time to discuss the key events in the text. When becoming a speedy reader, it is important that we understand what we are reading. Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the RWI text to test your child’s understanding of what they have read. Perhaps you could record your answers and show me next week?
Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of the speed sound card.
Grey Group – Miss Gillam 15.10.2021
Wailing Winny’s car boot sale
Dad makes a mistake
Amazing caves
New sounds:
- ear – hear with your ear
- ure – sure it’s pure
- tion – pay attention, it’s a celebration
- tious – scrumptious delicious
Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning again this week, taking time to discuss the key events in the text. When becoming a speedy reader, it is important that we understand what we are reading. Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the RWI text to test your child’s understanding of what they have read. Perhaps you could record your answers and show me next week?
Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of the speed sound card.
Yellow Group – Mrs Elson 15.10.21
The gingerbread Man
A hungry Fox
Grab a snack
New sounds:
- tious– scrumptious and delicious
- ck- tick tock
- au- Paul the astronaut
- e-e Go Pete and Steve!
- kn- Knock knock who’s there?
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: We have been continuing to look at speedy reading and we have been practicing reading our green words by saying in our head; Special friends, Fred talk read the word. How many green words can you speed read now?
Orange Group – Mrs Southern 15.10.21
My sort of horse
Born on a farm
New sounds:
- ire – fire fire!
- ure – sure it’s pure
- tion – pay attention, it’s a celebration!
- tious/cious – Scrumptious delicious
Please continue to use your sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Do we understand what we have just read? Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the books to check your understanding.
Pink Group – Mrs Esling 15.10.21
Sanjay stays in bed
My holiday
new sounds
- Ire – fire, fire
- Are – care and share
- ure- sure it's pure
Reading focus: This week we have been focusing on punctuation and exploring how an exclamation mark in a sentence changes the way we say the word and encourages our use of expression in our reading.
Please continue to use your new sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. You will find the words on the back of the speed sound card.
Green Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 15.10.21
The web
Leggy
Practise our sounds of the week:
- ar – start the car
- or – shut the door
- air – That's not fair
- ir– whirl and twirl
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Keep practicing the red words to become a speedier reader. Remember, you can’t Fred a red! How many red words can you read in 30 seconds? Please use the red words written in the front of ‘The Web’ to play this game. You may end up reading the same word several times ?.
Homework
Reading – Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too. Please remember to record any reading in your blue reading diary.
Spellings – During the Autumn term our spellings will be focused on the Year Two Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use your spelling whiteboard to help you to learn your spellings each week. We will write your child's score in their diary next each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page from the previous week's page.
To make learning our spellings more fun, we created a special roll and spell game in school this week. Please use this game to learn your spellings at home this week. If you haven’t got a dice, please write the numbers 1-6 on pieces of paper and select a number as a lucky dip. You can then still enjoy the game. ?
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Roll and Spell |
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Write the word with your other hand |
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Write the word as fast as you can |
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Write the word with your eyes closed |
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Write the word in a fancy way |
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Write the word in capital letters and stick your tongue out |
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Write the word using tiny letters |
father find floor gold grass
Our next quiz will be on Thursday 21st October.
Maths
We look forward to sending home your first times table challenge next week. Please continue to focus on learning how to count in multiples of 2, 3, 5 and 10 this week. Can you complete a one minute challenge for each multiple? Eg. How any multiples of 2 can you write in 1 minute? Repeat with the 3s, 5s and 10s.
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24
Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ? Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Miss Gillam
Swallows Blog WB: 11.10.2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 7th Oct 2021 @ 10:09pm
Hello everyone and welcome back to Swallows weekly blog!
Another busy week of super learning for our very lovely Swallows Class. I am so proud of the hard-working and enthusiastic attitudes shown in our classroom every single day. Keep it up Swallows!
We are looking forward to another week of being busy little bee’s next week. Please take a look at what we will be learning below.
English
Our English work will focus on a brand new text this week. We will ask questions about animals, research facts and read other stories linking to the text. We will explore character and write a description of a very special journey. I wonder what our new text will be?
Maths
Our Maths learning will continue to focus on addition and subjection next week. We will be adding and subtracting 10s and 1s. To support your Swallow with this at home, it would be helpful to play games involving finding 10 more, 10 less, 1 more and 1 less than any given number to 100.
Read Write Inc
Blue Group - Miss Gillam 8.10.2021
Our House
Greyhounds
Cool Houses
New sounds:
- Ire – fire fire
- Ew– chew the stew
- Oa – Goat in a boat
- Ai – snail in the rain
Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning this week, taking time to discuss the key events in the text. When becoming a speedy reader, it is important that we understand what we are reading. Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the RWI text to test your child’s understanding of what they have read. Perhaps you could record your answers and show me next week?
Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of the speed sound card.
Grey Group – Miss Gillam 8.10.2021
How silly!
Silly games
April Fool!
New sounds:
- Ire – fire fire
- Ew– chew the stew
- Oa – Goat in a boat
- Ai – snail in the rain
Reading focus: We have been focusing on reading for meaning this week, taking time to discuss the key events in the text. When becoming a speedy reader, it is important that we understand what we are reading. Please use the comprehension questions at the back of the RWI text to test your child’s understanding of what they have read. Perhaps you could record your answers and show me next week?
Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of the speed sound card.
Yellow Group – Mrs Elson 8.10.21
Lost
Which way is it ?
No way
New sounds:
- ew– chew the stew
- ear– hear with your ear
- ure- sure it'spure
- tion– it’s a celebration
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: We have been looking at speedy reading and we have been practicing reading our red words. You can’t Fred a red! These focus red words are found at the beginning of the book.
We have also been practising our speedy green words by saying; Special friends, Fred talk read the word.
Orange Group – Mrs Southern 08.10.21
Come on Margo
Dads and karts
New sounds:
- oa– goat in a boat
- ew– chew the stew
- ire – fire fire!
- ear – hear with your ear
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Trying to read using ‘Fred in our head’ instead of fed talking out loud.
Pink Group – Mrs Esling 08.10.21
Tab’s Kitten
Yap Yap
- new sounds
- ai- snail in the rain
- oa –goat in a boat
- ew – chew the stew
Reading focus: keep practicing the red words to become a speedier reader. Remember, you can’t Fred a red!
Please continue to use your new sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. You will find the words on the back of the speed sound card.
Green Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 08.10.21
Chips
Beth’s Chip Shop
Practise our sounds of the week:
- ee– what can you see?
- igh– fly high
- ow – blow the snow
- oo–look at a book
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: keep practicing the red words to become a speedier reader. Remember, you can’t Fred a red!
Homework
Reading – Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too. Please remember to record any reading in your blue reading diary.
Spellings – During the Autumn term our spellings will be focused on the Year Two Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use your spelling whiteboard to help you to learn your spellings each week. We will write your child's score in their diary next each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page from the previous week's page.
To make learning our spellings more fun, we created a special roll and spell game in school this week. Please use this game to learn your spellings at home this week. If you haven’t got a dice, please write the numbers 1-6 on pieces of paper and select a number as a lucky dip. You can then still enjoy the game. ?
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Roll and Spell |
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Write the word with your other hand |
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Write the word as fast as you can |
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Write the word with your eyes closed |
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Write the word in a fancy way |
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Write the word in capital letters and stick your tongue out |
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Write the word using tiny letters |
even every everybody eye fast
Maths - In preparation for learning our times tables, please continue to learn how to count in sequences of 2, 5, 10 and 3. Why not try making your own active counting game this week? Can you count in 5s while doing star jumps? Can you count in 10s while bouncing a ball?
Please remember that if you have any questions or queries, do not hesitate to get in contact ? Have a lovely weekend everyone!
Miss Gillam
Swallows Blog WB 04.10.2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 30th Sep 2021 @ 5:14pm
Hello Swallows families and welcome back to our weekly blog! We have had another wonderful week of super learning in Swallows Class and Miss Gillam and Mrs Elson have been so proud of us all.
Our fantastic attitudes towards our learning helped us to fill our recognition board once again this week, earning us a special class treat. Well done, Swallows!
We are looking forward to another week of being busy little bee’s next week. Please take a look at what we will be learning below.
English
In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our class text ‘Troll Swap’ by Leigh Hodgkinson. We will be sequencing ideas to create our own adventure stories. We will orally re-tell the story, create a story map and finally write a new and exciting story using our newly created characters. We will then focus on the skill of editing and improving our own work.
Maths
Our Maths learning will continue to focus on addition and subjection next week. We will be exploring number facts and fact families, comparing numbers, finding related facts and making number bonds to 100.
Read Write Inc
Blue Group - Miss Gillam 1.10.2021
King of the birds
The thirsty cow
Birds!
New sounds:
- ur – nurse with a purse
- er- a better letter
- ow – brown cow
- ai – snail in the rain
Reading focus: We have had a vocabulary focus in our RWI session’s this week. Can your Swallow share some of their favourite word choices from the text with you? Can they give you a definition to explain what the word means? Can they use the same word in a different spoken sentence?
Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of the speed sound card.
Grey Group – Miss Gillam 1.10.2021
Looking after a hamster
Bert the explorer
A pet or pest?
New sounds:
- ur – nurse with a purse
- er- a better letter
- ow – brown cow
- ai – snail in the rain
Reading focus: We have had a vocabulary focus in our RWI session’s this week. Can your Swallow share some of their favourite word choices from the text with you? Can they give you a definition to explain what the word means? Can they use the same word in a different spoken sentence?
Please continue to use your little sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. Remember, we are now focusing on being super speedy readers and need to be able to spot the special friends, Fred talk and read the word using Fred in our head as quickly as possible. You will find lots of words to read on the back of the speed sound card.
Yellow Group – Mrs Elson 1.10.21
Robin Hood
A big bag of cash
Bushcraft
New sounds:
er- better letter
ow – brown cow
ai- snail in the rain
oa - goat in a boat
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card. Can you find the special friends really quickly and then use Fred in your head to read the word. This really helps us read trickier words speedily.
Reading focus: We have been looking at our punctuation this week. Can you find any question marks and exclamation marks? The punctuation helps us with our reading and our understanding of the story.
Orange Group – Mrs Southern 01.10.21
Too much!
A bad mood
New sounds:
- ur - nurse with a purse
- er - a better letter
- ow - brown cow
- ai – snail in the rain
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Watching out for exclamation marks so that we can really emphasise the word or phrase.
Pink Group – Mrs Esling 01.10.2020
The dressing up box
Sam’s Bag
- New sounds
- ur – nurse with a purse
- er- a better letter
- ow – brown cow
Reading focus: Practise ‘Fred in your head’ so we can get speedy!
Please continue to use your new sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. You will find the words on the back of the speed sound card.
Green Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 01.10.21
Black Hat Bob
Red Hat Rob
New sounds:
- ir – whirl and twirl
- ou – shout it out
- oy – toy to enjoy
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Practise ‘Fred in your head’ so we can get speedy!
Homework
Reading – Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too.
Spellings – During the Autumn term our spellings will be focused on the Year Two Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use your spelling whiteboard to help you to learn your spellings each week. We will write your child's score in their diary next each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page from the previous week's page.
To make learning our spellings more fun, we created a special roll and spell game in school this week. Please use this game to learn your spellings at home this week. If you haven’t got a dice, please write the numbers 1-6 on pieces of paper and select a number as a lucky dip. You can then still enjoy the game. ?
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Roll and Spell |
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Write the word with your other hand |
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2 |
Write the word as fast as you can |
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3 |
Write the word with your eyes closed |
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Write the word in a fancy way |
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5 |
Write the word in capital letters and stick your tongue out |
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Write the word using tiny letters |
climb clothes could cold door
Maths - In preparation for learning our times tables, please continue to learn how to count in sequences of 2, 5, 10 and 3.
- Can you count in 5s four times?
- Can you count in 10s eight times?
- Can you count in 3s five times?
- Can you count in 2s eleven times?
Thank you for continuing to fill my day with smiles and laughter. I am so proud of the amazing attitudes you have all shown towards your learning once again this week. See you on Monday for another week of SUPER learning.
Miss Gillam
Swallows Blog - WB 27.09.2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 23rd Sep 2021 @ 9:53pm
Hello Swallows families and welcome to our weekly blog! We have had another super week of learning in Swallows Class ?
Mrs Elson and I continue to be proud of all our Swallows learners as they continue to try their best and work hard in their lessons. We have been super scientists, musicians, writers, mathematicians, problem solvers and much more this week.
Thank you so much for taking the time to enjoy sharing stories with your Swallow at home this week. The children will continue to bring home a Read Write Inc book, a book bag book and a bedtime story each week. This provides them with a variety of familiar, new and challenging texts to read. Bedtime storybooks are to be enjoyed with an adult. Reading TO the children ensures that they experience the magic of a story coming to life and have a purpose and love of reading.
English
In our English lessons next week, we will continue to explore our class text ‘Troll Swap’ by Leigh Hodgkinson. We will continue to explore character and write a diary in the role of Tabitha. We will focus on expanding our vocabulary, seeing if we can use exciting adjectives to add detail to our sentences.
Maths
Our Maths learning will focus on addition and subjection next week. We will be exploring number facts and fact families, comparing numbers and finding related facts.
Read Write Inc
Please see below for details of our new sounds and the texts we have been reading in our Read Write Inc groups this week. To support your child’s progress, it would help if they read and spelt words containing each sound at home.
Blue Group - Miss Gillam 24.9.2021
Hairy Fairy
A job for Hairy Fairy
It’s so hairy
New sounds:
- o-e Phone home
- u-e Huge brute
- aw Yawn at dawn
- are care and share
Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud and taking note of the punctuation when reading. What does the author want us to do when we get to a comma or a full stop?
Please continue to use your new sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. You will find the words on the back of the speed sound card.
Grey Group – Miss Gillam 24.9.2021
I dare you
Men on the moon
Nancy Roman’s space telescope
New sounds:
- o-e Phone home
- u-e Huge brute
- aw Yawn at dawn
- are care and share
Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud and taking note of the punctuation when reading. What does the author want us to do when we get to a comma or a full stop?
Please continue to use your new sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. You will find the words on the back of the speed sound card.
Yellow Group – Mrs Elson 24.09.21
Tom Thumb
Stuck in fog
Bugs
New sounds:
I-e nice smile
- o-e- phone home
- aw– yawn at dawn
- are-care and share
ur – nurse with a purse
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Using our knowledge of red words to become super speedy readers. Remember, you don’t Fred a red! We also focused on reading punctuation to help with our story telling voice.
Orange Group – Mrs Southern 24.09.21
Follow me
Can you see me?
New sounds:
- o-e phone home
- u-e huge brute
- aw yawn at dawn
- are care and share
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Attempting to ‘Fred in our head’ more when reading a story.
Pink Group – Mrs Esling 24.09.2021
In the sun
Rags
New sounds:
- o-e Phone home
- u-eHuge brute
- aw Yawn at dawn
- are care and share
Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud and taking note of the punctuation when reading. What does the author want us to do when we get to a comma or a full stop?
Please continue to use your new sounds book to read words containing each of our new sounds for this week. You will find the words on the back of the speed sound card.
Green Group – Mrs Judge / Mrs Hoskins 24.09.21
The Spell
A Witch’s Lunch
New sounds:
- oo– poo at the zoo
- oo– look at a book
- ar– start the car
- or – shut the door
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Using our red Fred words to become a speedier reader. To read and notice punctuation to help with our story telling voice.
Homework
Reading – Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too.
Spellings – During the Autumn term our spellings will be focused on the Year Two Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use your spelling whiteboard to help you to learn your spellings each week. We will write your child's score in their diary next each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page from the previous week's page.
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Maths - In preparation for learning our times tables, please continue to learn how to count in sequences of 2, 5, 10 and 3. Here is a link to the ‘Super Mover’ times table videos that Swallows loved watching in school this week. Please use these videos to learn your tables this week.
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-5-times-table/zhbm47h
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-10-times-table-with-webster-the-spider/zm32cqt
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-2-times-table-with-bridget-the-lioness/zrrx92p
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-maths-the-3-times-table/z6sw382
Thank you for continuing to fill my day with smiles and laughter. I am so proud of the fantastic attitudes you have all shown towards your learning once again this week. See you on Monday for another week of SUPER learning.
Miss Gillam
Swallows Blog WB 20.09.2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 16th Sep 2021 @ 5:50pm
Friday 17th September 2021
Hello and welcome back to Swallows class blog!
Swallows have had yet another wonderful week of super learning, making Mrs Elson and Miss Gillam proud every single day. We loved designing and describing our own trolls in our Writing lessons, using playdough to explore materials in Science, playing a new song on the ukulele in our Music lesson and much much more! We are such busy, SUPER learners.
Thank you so much for taking the time to enjoy sharing stories with your Swallow at home this week. The children will continue to bring home a Read Write Inc book, a book bag book and a bedtime story each week. This provides them with a variety of familiar, new and challenging texts to read. Bedtime story books are to be enjoyed with an adult. Reading TO the children ensures that they experience the magic of a story coming to life and have a purpose and love of reading.
Read Write Inc
Please see below for details of our new sounds and the texts we have been reading in our Read Write Inc groups this week. To support your child’s progress, it would help if they read and spelt words containing each sound at home.
Blue Group - Miss Gillam
The Poor Goose
A horse on Dartmoor
Running contests
New sounds:
- ea- cup of tea
- oi – spoil the boy
- a-e- Make a cake
- i-e nice smile
Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud.
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Grey Group – Miss Gillam
The lion’s paw
King Midas
The Romans
New sounds:
- ea- cup of tea
- oi – spoil the boy
- a-e- Make a cake
- i-e nice smile
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud.
Yellow Group – Mrs Elson
Off Sick
Miss Smith is ill
What happens to your sandwich
New sounds:
u-e huge brute
- ea- cup of tea and ee – what can you see
- oi– spoil the boy
- a-e- Make a cake
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Using our Fred talk when reading unfamiliar words and not just having a guess. Fred in our heads helps us to be more fluent readers.
Orange Group – Mrs Southern
I think I want to be a bee
A vet’s week
New sounds:
- ea- cup of tea
- oi – spoil the boy
- a-e- Make a cake
- i-e nice smile
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud.
Pink Group – Mrs Esling
Tab the cat
Pip the parrot
New sounds:
- ea- cup of tea
- oi – spoil the boy
- a-e- Make a cake
- i-e nice smile
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud.
Green Group – Mrs Judge
My Dog Ned
Pat, the Vet
New sounds:
- ay – may I play
- ee– what can you see
- Igh– fly high
- ow – blow the snow
Please use your new sounds book to read new words containing each sound on the back of the speed sound card.
Reading focus: Using an exciting, expressive reading voice to bring the story to life while reading aloud.
Next week
Maths – Our Maths work will continue to focus on place value next week. We will compare and order numbers to 100 and count in multiples of 2, 5, 10 and 3. Having a little count at home will prepare you for this!
English – Our English work will continue to focus on the wonderful story ‘Troll Swap’ this week. We will explore character, write letters and write our own diary entries.
Read Write Inc – Swallows we continue with their Read Write Inc learning this week, focusing on a brand new story. They will bring home new books each Friday. We look forward to completing our first spelling quiz tomorrow too!
Homework
Reading – Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. Please remember the importance of your child listening to YOU read during this time too.
Spellings – During the Autumn term our spellings will be focused on the Year Two Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use your spelling whiteboard to help you to learn your spellings each week. We will write your child's score in their diary next each week. This will be written next to the spellings they have been tested on that day. This will be on the page from the previous week's page.
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Maths - In preparation for learning our times tables, please continue to learn how to count in sequences of 2, 5, 10 and 3. Here is a link to a lovely counting rap to help you. Enjoy ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2NYeVU-Me4
Thank you for continuing to fill my day with smiles and laughter. I am so proud of the fantastic attitudes you have all shown towards your learning this week. See you on Monday for another week of SUPER learning.
Miss Gillam
Swallows WB: 13.9.21, by Miss Gillam
Date: 9th Sep 2021 @ 11:28pm
Welcome to Swallows Class Blog
Miss Gillam and Mrs Elson have been so impressed with how kind, calm and hard-working Swallows have been this week. Swallows have been ready, respectful and safe and even managed to fill their class recognition board this week. We have enjoyed learning our new class routines and had lots of fun exploring our focus Christian Value for this half term, friendship. We have enjoyed starting our new writing and reading focus texts this week, begun our maths focus on place value and completed our Read Write Inc assessments. We are now in brand new groups, ready to get started with learning new sounds next week. We also enjoyed our first PE and Music lessons with Mr Ault and Dan this week.
Next week:
English – We will continue to explore our exciting new text ‘Troll Swap by Leigh Hodgkinson next week, making links to other familiar troll stories. We will write character descriptions and write letters to Timothy and Tabitha’s grandparents.
Our Read Write Inc group work will begin next week. We will learn a new sound each day which will be shared in homework diaries each week.
Maths – In Maths we will be focusing on the place value of numbers to 100. We will represent, compare and order numbers.
Swallows will enjoy a weekly ukulele lesson with Dan each Thursday afternoon until October half term.
Homework
Reading – Please spend 10 – 20 minutes reading each day. This can be a combination of Read Write Inc and bedtime story books. Please remember the importance of your child listening to you read during this time too.
Spellings – During the Autumn term our spellings will be focused on the Year Two Common Exception words. These are words that the children will come across frequently in both their reading and writing. We will complete a spelling quiz in class every Friday. Please use the spelling whiteboard in your child’s bag to help them to learn their spellings each week.
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Maths - Please spend some time learning how to count in sequences of 2, 5 and 10 this week.
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
We look forward to getting to know you over the coming weeks. Please don’t hesitate to contact us via the office if you would like to discuss anything about your child. Have a wonderful weekend and see you next week.
Miss Gillam and Mrs Elson
Swallows 5/7/21, by Miss Gillam
Date: 5th Jul 2021 @ 6:48am
Good morning and welcome back to Swallows class blog,
Swallows have been working so hard once again this week and Miss Gillam is so proud of them all. We wrote exciting recounts of our school trip to Delamere, finished our Multiplication unit in Maths, found out about how the human body changes as it gets older in Science and learnt about the life of Florence Nightingale. Swallows desperately wanted to watch the video of her life story again. Please see the link below.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/true-stories-florence-nightingale/z68fcqt
Homework
- Times Tables Rockstars
- Reading – Can we beat our raffle tickle record this week?
You will find a sticker in your diary explaining which reading books you will be taking home for the last few weeks of term. Please aim for at least 3 reads each week. - Spellings – please continue to learn the Year Two Common Exception words for this week. You will find our ‘Look Cover Write Check’ activity in your child’s diary for this week. Our next quiz will be on Friday 9th July.
Swallows are looking forward to their transition morning with Mrs Rice and Mrs Brennan next week. We will be completing lots of lovely activities and spending time getting to know our new teachers for next year.
PE will be on Friday this week with both Mr Russell and Mr Ault.
I hope that you enjoyed reading your child’s report this week. Please remember to book a telephone appointment if you have any questions or anything you would like to discuss further.
Miss Gillam
Swallows 25.6.21, by Miss Gillam
Date: 24th Jun 2021 @ 4:50pm
Swallows Weekly Blog – 24.6.21
Hello Swallows and welcome back to our class blog.
We have had another fantastic week of learning in Swallows class this week. We enjoyed our first trip of the year to Delamere forest. We played games, built dens, sat in hammocks, splashed through streams and even did a little bit of yoga in the forest. Swallows represented our school brilliantly and made many magical memories together. I wonder if your Swallow could teach you how to play the river bank game, show you how to spot woodland habitats or take you on a journey to the most beautiful stream.
Swallows enjoyed showing what they know in our Summer term quizzes this week. We are looking forward to our class sports day tomorrow. Please remember to come to school wearing your PE uniform and trainers.
Please see your diary for this week’s spellings. Our next quiz will be on Friday 2nd July 2021.
- Clothes
- Only
- Who
- Any
- Water
- Again
- Both
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Read Write Inc Revisit Set 3 Teach ear - Hear with your ear are – Care and share |
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Grey |
Yellow |
Orange |
Blue |
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The ice and snow book |
Fun at the fair |
Jim’s house in 1874 |
Save the Whale |
Please look out for a sticker informing you of your new Read Write Inc group in your diary next week.
Thank you for another amazing week in Swallows class, I am so proud of you all. Wishing you all a lovely, happy and safe weekend. I am SO excited for sports day tomorrow!
With lots of love from
Miss Gillam
Swallows WB 18.6.21, by Miss Gillam
Date: 17th Jun 2021 @ 4:45pm
Swallows Weekly Blog – 18.6.21
Hello Swallows and welcome back to our class blog.
Wow! What a busy week we have had!
Thank you so much for persevering with our tricky spellings this week. I am amazed by how many of you chose to use our new and exciting vocabulary in your writing this week. Focusing on spelling topic based vocabulary often gives the children the confidence to use more adventurous word choices independently in their writing. I am very proud of you all for writing such amazing adventure stories.
Our Maths learning focused on multiplication this week. We made and described arrays and represented equal groups using both pictures and objects. Please continue to use Times Tables Rock Stars to learn your times tables.
Our reading focused on clarifying vocabulary and inferring meaning this week. We answered comprehension style questions and used the text to explain how we know we are right. Please encourage your Swallow to refer to the text when answering questions about what they are reading at home.
Please see your diary for this week’s spellings. Our next quiz will be on Friday 25th June 2021.
- Everybody
- Should
- Could
- Would
- Sky
- Dry
- Terrify
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Read Write Inc Revisit Set 3 Teach /ire/ /ew/ |
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Grey |
Yellow |
Orange |
Blue |
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The Stone Age |
Do we have to keep it? |
Come on Margo |
Jade’s Party |
TRIP
Swallows class will visit Delamere Forest on Monday 21st June. We will be going on a forest walk to explore habitats and build dens. We will splash in the stream, hug a tree and enjoy team games in the beautiful forest setting.
Please ensure that you are in school for 8:30 on Monday morning. We will return at approximately 4pm.
The children need to wear old clothes including tracksuit bottoms to protect their legs, wellies and a waterproof coat. Please also ensure that you apply sun cream before coming to school in the morning.
The children can bring their own lunch in a named carrier bag which can be disposed of when finished. No packed lunch bags or boxes please. Mrs Macey will prepare pre-ordered school lunch bags which contain a small drink. It is important that the children bring an additional, named water bottle to drink throughout the day.
Wishing you all a lovely, happy and safe weekend. I am SO excited for Monday!
With lots of love from
Miss Gillam
Swallows Weekly Blog - Friday 23rd April 2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 23rd Apr 2021 @ 8:15am
Swallows Weekly Blog
Swallows Weekly Blog - 19.3.21, by Miss Gillam
Date: 18th Mar 2021 @ 9:05pm
Hello SUPER Swallows!
Welcome back to our weekly blog.
Thank you so much for working so hard once again this week. Mrs Elson and I are so proud of every single one of you.
Reading
We have loved starting whole class, shared reading lessons again this week. We are completing 3 whole class reading session’s each week now in addition to our Read Write Inc learning. We are reading the interesting book ‘Above and Below’ by Hakako Clulow.
Our new Read Write Inc sounds are /ea/- cup of tea, /oi/ - spoil the boy and /a_e/ - make a cake.
Spelling
Our Read Write Inc Spelling lessons have focused on the or sound spelt a before l and ll.
Here are our spellings for this week. You will also find a copy of these spellings in your reading diary.
Writing
In writing we have been exploring our class text ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’. We enjoyed changing adjectives into adverbs and used them to describe how owls and fireworks move. We also learnt how to use commas to list adjectives in a description of the characters from the story.
Maths
Our Maths work was focused on subtraction this week. We solved lots of tricky problems using number lines, Dienes and the column method to help us. We also learnt how to use the Bar Model to help us to solve missing number problems.
Art
In Art, we have been looking at the artist Sue Newham and analysing her use of colour and line. Next week we will use her artwork as inspiration for our own piece of art which will be displayed around school.
Homework
Please encourage your child to read and practice their spellings for 5-10 minutes each day. Please remember to sign your child’s diary each time they read and let us know what page they are up to.
Our PE days this half term are Thursday and Friday. Your child should come to school in their PE kit on these days. Please remember to only send your child in laces if they can tie them independently.
Have a lovely weekend everyone!
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me via the school admin email address or telephone.
Miss Gillam
Swallows Blog - Thursday 11th March 2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 11th Mar 2021 @ 10:04pm
Hello everyone!
Welcome back to our weekly blog. You will find our homework tasks, class announcements and learning overview here each week.
Swallows have had a wonderful first week back in school. Mrs Elson and I have loved having a classroom full of smiles and giggles again. We could not be prouder of the enthusiastic, SUPER learners that you all are.
Curriculum
We have been celebrating National Science Week this week with a focus on ‘innovation’. We learnt about how crayons are made and all about the Crayola inventors Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith. We learnt about the Mars ‘Perseverance’ Rover mission and designed our own Mars Rover. We investigated the best material to make a parachute for a teddy and designed our very own machines from recycled materials.
In worship, we have been celebrating being back together and learnt all about the 17 ‘Global Goals’. We also enjoyed listening to a lovely ‘Open the Book’ story called ‘Bread meat and stinky feet’.
We completed our Read, Write, Inc assessments this week so a sticker will be put into diaries with information about our new groups and learning focus.
Our writing work has focused on punctuation this week. We have been writing sentences using capital letters, full stops, commas and question marks. We are looking forward to starting a new unit of work focusing on the beautiful story ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ next week.
Our Maths lessons have focused on addition and subtraction this week. We also had lots of fun completing our 4-a-day challenge each day. Next week, we will focus our Maths learning on exchanging and adding three one digit numbers.
Reminders:
- Please ensure that your book bag is in school every day.
- We now have PE on Thursday and Friday.
- Until the Easter break, you can choose whether your child wears either their school uniform or their PE uniform (school t-shirt, school jumper/school hoody, plain black or navy joggers/leggings, trainers) as long as it follows our school uniform policy. Children may wear trainers every day during this time as long as they are able to independently tie their laces or wear Velcro trainers.
Homework
Please encourage your child to read and practice their spellings/times tables for 5-10 minutes each day. We have put your Times Tables Rock Stars login details in your diary this week.
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Our quiz will be on Friday 25th March 2021.
Thank you all for your continued support and as always, if there is anything you would like to discuss with me, please don’t hesitate to phone or email via our admin team.
Miss Gillam
Swallows - Friday 5th March 2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 4th Mar 2021 @ 8:19pm
Friday 5th March 2021
Happy Friday everyone.
Here we are again at the end of another hard working week. You are all amazing and we are just so proud of how much enthusiasm and hard work you are putting into your school jobs.
Well done superstars- we couldn’t be more proud of the amazing children we have at Lostock Gralam and don’t forget to tell your adults that we think they are superheroes too.
Worship
Click on the link for Mrs Powell’s worship today: https://youtu.be/MTgdJpAbcc4
Science
Can you describe what lives in a rainforest habitat?
Please see the PowerPoint attached below for today’s science lesson. Here is the link to our Oak Academy lesson with the lovely Miss Simkin. I have also attached an optional worksheet for you.
Reflect and return to school task:
Today we would like you to just reflect on the last 8 weeks of remote learning and to think ahead to your return to school. There are some lovely activities below to help you to do this. You might want to print them from the attachment, or you might want to create your own doodles in your own style. You might choose to use colour to your work too.
If you want, you could play this lovely relaxing music whilst you create your ideas today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2UEqBdU7go&list=RD-j2uKUK5P10&index=2
This next activity might help you to zone in on your feelings and share your thoughts about Lockdown.
We are so excited about welcoming you back to school on Monday. Our name labels are on the tables and our 5 a day challenge is ready to go. We also have some brand new, pencil case sized feelings scales for you to use throughout the school day.
Have a lovely weekend and see you VERY soon!
Love from Miss Gillam and Mrs Elson xxxx
Swallows - Thursday 4th March 2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 4th Mar 2021 @ 7:00am
Good morning super Swallows!
Please see our task list and PowerPoint presentations below to see what your home learning tasks are for today. Please also remember to take a few moments to look at the class discussion page each day where I will be available to ‘chat’ to you about the work that I have set for that day. You can just pop on there to say hi or tell have a little chat with your friends. The children can type in their own messages. It is a lovely, safe way of us staying in touch.
This half term, we have introduced a Foundation Subjects Club which you can dip in and out of in the afternoons and take part in as many as you like. I have attached all the details and links. I have also attached all the Worship details for the week so they are all in one place.
Maths - Can you make equal groups by sharing? (Part 2)
We are continuing to focus our learning on division this week. Please see the talking Power point video linked below.
Here is the link to the White Rose video mentioned in the PowerPoint. You may want to use this link if you have any problems with sound today.
Times Tables
Please use Times Tables Rock Stars to continue to learn your 2,5 and 10 x table. If you would like your child's log in details, please contact the school office via the admin address and they will email them across to you.
Alternatively, you could sing and dance along to the BBC timetables videos or play hit the button.
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
- https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-5-times-table/zhbm47h
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-10-times-table-with-webster-the-spider/zm32cqt
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-2-times-table-with-bridget-the-lioness/zrrx92p
Writing - Can you read and spell alternative /ee/ sounds? Please see the talking PowerPoint video linked below. I have recorded the instructions so just click play and then pause when it is time to complete an activity.
Reading
Please spend some time reading either the school book you took home with you or a book you have been reading at home each day. Please also remember to use our Oxford Owl website to access reading books online. There are lots of new books on here.
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=&age_group=age%204-7&series=&level=¤t_page=school_ebooks
Username: starlings1 (from the last lockdown)
Password: Home
If you get an adult to sign your reading diary each time you read, you will still be able to collect your raffle tickets when we are back in school.
It is our second book club today so please have your book recommendations ready.
As a World Book Day treat, I have attached a special reading activity to the end of our Maths PowerPoint today. I wonder what you will find in your reading books today? I can’t want to celebrate World Book Day together when we are back in school.
Read Write Inc
Instructions for how to find your RWI learning for today can be found on our English PowerPoint. Here is the link to the Read Write Inc home page on YouTube. It might help to add this as a favourite so that you can quickly find your Read Write Inc learning each day. Please remember that the website updates at 9:30 each day. You may notice that the sounds will start to repeat soon. The children revisit sounds many times when we are teaching Read Write Inc in school. We want to encourage fluency. We want the children to be able to read a text containing each sound at speed, without the need to Fred Talk. In order to achieve this, the children need to see each sound several times. Please continue to focus on the spelling, red word and hold a sentence videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ
Spellings
It’s quiz time! Please test yourself on the words below. Let me know how many you spell correctly on School Spider today.
Everybody because even children great
Worship
We now have all of this week’s worships in one place. Please see the weekly worship page attached at the bottom of our blog post today.
PE – Dance along to ‘The Best Day of my Life’ with the Kidz Bop Kids!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNog54ovi8Q
Clubs
Have a look at the attached list where you will find the links to our video PowerPoints for this week. I have been in charge of our Craft club again this week J.
Have a brilliant day of home learning Swallows and don’t forget to let me know how you are getting on with your today on School Spider. I will see you at 9:20 for our Zoom call this morning. Don’t forget to bring a book!
Have a fabulous Thursday everyone.
Love from Miss Gillam
Swallows - Wednesday 3rd March 2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 6:44am
Wednesday 3rd March 2021
Good morning super Swallows!
Please see our task list and PowerPoint presentations below to see what your home learning tasks are for today. Please also remember to take a few moments to look at the class discussion page each day where I will be available to ‘chat’ to you about the work that I have set for that day. You can just pop on there to say hi or tell have a little chat with your friends. The children can type in their own messages. It is a lovely, safe way of us staying in touch.
This half term, we have introduced a Foundation Subjects Club which you can dip in and out of in the afternoons and take part in as many as you like. I have attached all the details and links. I have also attached all the Worship details for the week so they are all in one place.
Maths - Can you make equal groups by sharing?
We are continuing to focus our learning on multiplication this week. Please see the talking Power point video linked below.
Here is the link to the White Rose video mentioned in the PowerPoint. You may want to use this link if you have any problems with sound today.
Times Tables
Please use Times Tables Rock Stars to continue to learn your 2,5 and 10 x table. If you would like your child's log in details, please contact the school office via the admin address and they will email them across to you.
Alternatively, you could sing and dance along to the BBC timetables videos or play hit the button.
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
- https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-5-times-table/zhbm47h
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-10-times-table-with-webster-the-spider/zm32cqt
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-2-times-table-with-bridget-the-lioness/zrrx92p
Writing - Can you read and spell alternative /ai/ sounds? Please see the talking PowerPoint video linked below. I have recorded the instructions so just click play and then pause when it is time to complete an activity.
Reading
Please spend some time reading either the school book you took home with you or a book you have been reading at home each day. Please also remember to use our Oxford Owl website to access reading books online. There are lots of new books on here.
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=&age_group=age%204-7&series=&level=¤t_page=school_ebooks
Username: starlings1 (from the last lockdown)
Password: Home
If you get an adult to sign your reading diary each time you read, you will still be able to collect your raffle tickets when we are back in school.
We will have our second book club on Zoom on Thursday this week so please have your recommendations ready.
Read Write Inc
Instructions for how to find your RWI learning for today can be found on our English PowerPoint. Here is the link to the Read Write Inc home page on YouTube. It might help to add this as a favourite so that you can quickly find your Read Write Inc learning each day. Please remember that the website updates at 9:30 each day. You may notice that the sounds will start to repeat soon. The children revisit sounds many times when we are teaching Read Write Inc in school. We want to encourage fluency. We want the children to be able to read a text containing each sound at speed, without the need to Fred Talk. In order to achieve this, the children need to see each sound several times. Please continue to focus on the spelling, red word and hold a sentence videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ
Spellings
Our spellings will be on our English PowerPoint today. Please use your spelling whiteboard and roll and spell game to help you to learn them. Maybe you could complete one of our outdoor spelling activities today?
Everybody because even children great
- Thursday 4th March 2021
Worship
We now have all of this week’s worships in one place. Please see the weekly worship page attached at the bottom of our blog post today.
PE – Have some fun at the Cosmic Yoga DISCO Party:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VdtT0vQUY
Clubs
Have a look at the attached list where you will find the links to our video PowerPoints for this week. I have been in charge of our Craft club again this week J.
Have a brilliant day of home learning Swallows and don’t forget to let me know how you are getting on with your learning today on School Spider. I will see you at 9:20 for our Zoom call this morning.
Have a wonderful Wednesday everyone.
Love from Miss Gillam
Swallows - Tuesday 2nd March 2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 7:18pm
Good morning super Swallows!
Please see our task list and PowerPoint presentations below to see what your home learning tasks are for today. Please also remember to take a few moments to look at the class discussion page each day where I will be available to ‘chat’ to you about the work that I have set for that day. You can just pop on there to say hi or tell have a little chat with your friends. The children can type in their own messages. It is a lovely, safe way of us staying in touch.
This half term, we have introduced a Foundation Subjects Club which you can dip in and out of in the afternoons and take part in as many as you like. I have attached all the details and links. I have also attached all the Worship details for the week so they are all in one place.
Maths - Can you solve problems involving the 10 times table?
We are continuing to focus our learning on multiplication this week. Please see the talking Power point video linked below.
Here is the link to the White Rose video mentioned in the PowerPoint. You may want to use this link if you have any problems with sound today.
Times Tables
Please use Times Tables Rock Stars to continue to learn your 2,5 and 10 x table. If you would like your child's log in details, please contact the school office via the admin address and they will email them across to you.
Alternatively, you could sing and dance along to the BBC timetables videos or play hit the button.
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
- https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-5-times-table/zhbm47h
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-10-times-table-with-webster-the-spider/zm32cqt
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks1-maths-the-2-times-table-with-bridget-the-lioness/zrrx92p
Writing - Can you use adjectives to describe a lost toy?
Please see the talking PowerPoint video linked below. I have recorded the instructions so just click play and then pause when it is time to complete an activity.
Reading
Please spend some time reading either the school book you took home with you or a book you have been reading at home each day. Please also remember to use our Oxford Owl website to access reading books online. There are lots of new books on here.
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=&age_group=age%204-7&series=&level=¤t_page=school_ebooks
Username: starlings1 (from the last lockdown)
Password: Home
If you get an adult to sign your reading diary each time you read, you will still be able to collect your raffle tickets when we are back in school.
We will have our second book club on Zoom on Thursday this week so please have your recommendations ready.
Read Write Inc
Instructions for how to find your RWI learning for today can be found on our English PowerPoint. Here is the link to the Read Write Inc home page on YouTube. It might help to add this as a favourite so that you can quickly find your Read Write Inc learning each day. Please remember that the website updates at 9:30 each day. You may notice that the sounds will start to repeat soon. The children revisit sounds many times when we are teaching Read Write Inc in school. We want to encourage fluency. We want the children to be able to read a text containing each sound at speed, without the need to Fred Talk. In order to achieve this, the children need to see each sound several times. Please continue to focus on the spelling, red word and hold a sentence videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ
Spellings
Our spellings will be on our English PowerPoint today. Please use your spelling whiteboard and roll and spell game to help you to learn them. Our quiz will be on Friday this week.
Everybody because even children great
- Thursday 4th March 2021
Worship
We now have all of this week’s worships in one place. Please see the weekly worship page attached at the bottom of our blog post today.
PE –
Get yourself moving today with Kidzbop ‘Cheerleader’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT9-QyzuK4A
Clubs
Have a look at the attached list where you will find the links to our video PowerPoints for this week. I have been in charge of our Craft club again this week J.
Have a brilliant day of home learning Swallows and don’t forget to let me know how you are getting on with your learning today on School Spider. I will see you at 9:20 for our Zoom call this morning.
Lots of love from
Miss Gillam
Swallows - Monday 1st March 2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 28th Feb 2021 @ 6:55pm
Good morning super Swallows!
I hope you all had a lovely, restful weekend and you are ready for our final week of home learning.
Please see our task list and PowerPoint presentations below to see what your home learning tasks are for today. Please also remember to take a few moments to look at the class discussion page each day where I will be available to ‘chat’ to you about the work that I have set for that day. You can just pop on there to say hi or tell have a little chat with your friends. The children can type in their own messages. It is a lovely, safe way of us staying in touch.
This half term, we have introduced a Foundation Subjects Club which you can dip in and out of in the afternoons and take part in as many as you like. I have attached all the details and links. I have also attached all the Worship details for the week so they are all in one place.
Maths - Can you solve problems involving the 5 times table?
We are continuing to focus our learning on multiplication this week. Please see the talking Power point video linked below.
Here is the link to the White Rose video mentioned in the PowerPoint. You may want to use this link if you have any problems with sound today.
Times Tables
Please use Times Tables Rock Stars to continue to learn your 2,5 and 10 x table. If you would like your child's log in details, please contact the school office via the admin address and they will email them across to you.
Alternatively, you could play ‘Hit the Button’ or ‘Maths Fishing’.
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
- https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication
Writing - Can you write instructions?
Please see the talking PowerPoint video linked below. I have recorded the instructions so just click play and then pause when it is time to complete an activity.
Reading
Please spend some time reading either the school book you took home with you or a book you have been reading at home each day. Please also remember to use our Oxford Owl website to access reading books online. There are lots of new books on here.
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=&age_group=age%204-7&series=&level=¤t_page=school_ebooks
Username: starlings1 (from the last lockdown)
Password: Home
If you get an adult to sign your reading diary each time you read, you will still be able to collect your raffle tickets when we are back in school.
We will have our second book club on Zoom this week so please have your recommendations ready.
Read Write Inc
Instructions for how to find your RWI learning for today can be found on our English PowerPoint. Here is the link to the Read Write Inc home page on YouTube. It might help to add this as a favourite so that you can quickly find your Read Write Inc learning each day. Please remember that the website updates at 9:30 each day. You may notice that the sounds will start to repeat soon. The children revisit sounds many times when we are teaching Read Write Inc in school. We want to encourage fluency. We want the children to be able to read a text containing each sound at speed, without the need to Fred Talk. In order to achieve this, the children need to see each sound several times. Please continue to focus on the spelling, red word and hold a sentence videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ
Spellings
Our sparkly new spellings will be on our English PowerPoint today. Please use your spelling whiteboard and roll and spell game to help you to learn them. Our quiz will be on Friday this week.
Everybody because even children great
- Thursday 4th March 2021
Worship
We now have all of this week’s worships in one place. Please see the weekly worship page attached below.
Please click the link to Mr Cliff’s worship today:
PE –
Please complete a Disney dance challenge today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUSgKSgS4-E&t=75s
Clubs
Have a look at the attached list where you will find the links to our video PowerPoints for this week. I have been in charge of our Craft club again this week J.
Have a brilliant day of home learning Swallows and don’t forget to let me know how you are getting on with your learning today on School Spider. I will see you at 9:20 for our Zoom call this morning.
Lots of love from
Miss Gillam
Swallows - Friday 26th February 2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 26th Feb 2021 @ 6:58am
Good morning SUPER Swallows. Welcome back to our blog.
Please see our task list and PowerPoint presentations below to see what your home learning tasks are for today. Please also remember to take a few moments to look at the class discussion page each day where I will be available to ‘chat’ to you about the work that I have set for that day. You can just pop on there to say hi or tell have a little chat with your friends. The children can type in their own messages. It is a lovely, safe way of us staying in touch.
This half term, we have introduced a Foundation Subjects Club which you can dip in and out of in the afternoons and take part in as many as you like. I have attached all the details and links. I have also attached all the Worship details for the week so they are all in one place.
Maths - Can you solve problems involving the 2 x table? Can you explain the rule for multiplying by 2?
We are continuing to focus our learning on multiplication this week. Please see the talking Power point video linked below.
Here is the link to the White Rose video mentioned in the PowerPoint. You may want to use this link if you have any problems with sound today.
Times Tables
Please use Times Tables Rock Stars to continue to learn your 2,5 and 10 x table. If you would like your child's log in details, please contact the school office via the admin address and they will email them across to you.
Alternatively, you could play ‘Hit the Button’ or ‘Maths Fishing’.
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
- https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples
Science – Can you describe what lives in a desert habitat?
Please see the talking PowerPoint video linked below. I have recorded the instructions so just click play and then pause when it is time to complete an activity.
Read Write Inc
Instructions for how to find your RWI learning for today can be found on our English PowerPoint. Here is the link to the Read Write Inc home page on YouTube. It might help to add this as a favourite so that you can quickly find your Read Write Inc learning each day. Please remember that the website updates at 9:30 each day. You may notice that the sounds will start to repeat soon. The children revisit sounds many times when we are teaching Read Write Inc in school. We want to encourage fluency. We want the children to be able to read a text containing each sound at speed, without the need to Fred Talk. In order to achieve this, the children need to see each sound several times. Please continue to focus on the spelling, red word and hold a sentence videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ
Spellings
It is time for our spelling quiz! Please quiz yourself on this week’s spellings. Let me know how many ticks you get on School Spider today. It would help if you continued to learn any spellings that you are still finding tricky.
half money Mr Mrs parents
Worship
We now have all of this week’s worships in one place. Please see the weekly worship page attached below.
Here is a link to our Story Time video with Mrs Powell.
PE
Fitness Challenge
It is a 5-a-day kind of day. Please spend some time completing some of our time to chill and workout videos.
Home Access Username - LGPS97
Home Access Password - LosGr9
Eco
You may remember before half term, Mrs Brennan asked for your help with our Eco campaign. You were all fantastic at making posters, designing logos and making projects out of plastic bottles. However, she still needs your help!
We still need as many children as possible to complete the following 2 tasks:
- Task 1: Carry out a 2-day single use plastic audit at home
- Task 2: Interview an older person to ask them about their thoughts on if the amount of litter is increasing?
There are templates attached to today’s blog to help you to complete these remaining tasks. If you could then bring your completed audits and interviews into school or email to admin that would be amazing and would really help towards our Eco-Schools Campaign.
Clubs
Our clubs are starting this week. Have a look at the attached list where you will find the links to our video PowerPoints. I have been in charge of our Craft club this week J.
Have a brilliant day Swallows and don’t forget to let me know how you are getting on with your learning today on School Spider. For those who added their homework to SchoolSpider yesterday, I added voice recorded feedback so I hope you received this. I will be doing this again today so please upload your learning to our homework section of SchoolSpider once you have completed it. I will then send you a special message. I will see you at 9:20 for our Zoom call this morning.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Lots of love from
Miss Gillam
Swallows - Thursday 25th February 2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 24th Feb 2021 @ 3:10pm
Good morning SUPER Swallows. Welcome back to our blog.
Please see our task list and PowerPoint presentations below to see what your home learning tasks are for today. Please also remember to take a few moments to look at the class discussion page each day where I will be available to ‘chat’ to you about the work that I have set for that day. You can just pop on there to say hi or tell have a little chat with your friends. The children can type in their own messages. It is a lovely, safe way of us staying in touch.
This half term, we have introduced a Foundation Subjects Club which you can dip in and out of in the afternoons and take part in as many as you like. I have attached all the details and links. I have also attached all the Worship details for the week so they are all in one place.
Maths - Can you make doubles?
We are continuing to focus our learning on multiplication this week. Please see the talking Power point video linked below.
Here is the link to the White Rose video mentioned in the PowerPoint. You may want to use this link if you have any problems with sound today.
Times Tables
Please use Times Tables Rock Stars to continue to learn your 2,5 and 10 x table. If you would like your child's log in details, please contact the school office via the admin address and they will email them across to you.
Alternatively, you could play ‘Hit the Button’ or ‘Maths Fishing’.
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
- https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples
Writing - Can you write a letter to a family member of friend to find out more about their toys?
Can you use the conjunctions because/when to extend your sentences?
Please see the talking PowerPoint video linked below. I have recorded the instructions so just click play and then pause when it is time to complete an activity.
I have also attached a brilliant board game for you to print out and play. Can you change the tense of each verb? Will you win the race?
Did you enjoy our book club yesterday? I loved seeing some of your favourite books. We will have another book sharing zoom next Wednesday.
Please spend some time reading either the school book you took home with you or a book you have been reading at home each day. Please also remember to use our Oxford Owl website to access reading books online. There are lots of new books on here.
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=&age_group=age%204-7&series=&level=¤t_page=school_ebooks
Username: starlings1 (from the last lockdown)
Password: Home
If you get an adult to sign your reading diary each time you read, you will still be able to collect your raffle tickets when we are back in school.
Read Write Inc
Instructions for how to find your RWI learning for today can be found on our English PowerPoint. Here is the link to the Read Write Inc home page on YouTube. It might help to add this as a favourite so that you can quickly find your Read Write Inc learning each day. Please remember that the website updates at 9:30 each day. You may notice that the sounds will start to repeat soon. The children revisit sounds many times when we are teaching Read Write Inc in school. We want to encourage fluency. We want the children to be able to read a text containing each sound at speed, without the need to Fred Talk. In order to achieve this, the children need to see each sound several times. Please continue to focus on the spelling, red word and hold a sentence videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ
Spellings
Our spellings will be on our English PowerPoint today. Please use your spelling whiteboard and roll and spell game to help you to learn them. Our quiz will be on Friday this week.
half money Mr Mrs parents
It is our Friday spelling quiz tomorrow!
Worship
We now have all of this week’s worships in one place. Please see the weekly worship page attached below. Perhaps you could sing and sign to ‘This Little Light of Mine’ today?
PE
Fitness Challenge
Can you complete some teddy challenges in your active time today? All you need is some teddy bears and a clear space that you can jump in.
Clubs
Our clubs are starting this week. Have a look at the attached list where you will find the links to our video PowerPoints. I have been in charge of our Craft club this week J.
Have a brilliant day Swallows and don’t forget to let me know how you are getting on with your learning today on School Spider. For those who added their homework to SchoolSpider yesterday, I added voice recorded feedback so I hope you received this. I will be doing this again today so please upload your learning to our homework section of SchoolSpider once you have completed it. I will then send you a special message. I will see you at 9:20 for our Zoom call this morning.
Lots of love from
Miss Gillam
Swallows - Wednesday 24th Feb 2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 23rd Feb 2021 @ 5:17pm
Good morning SUPER Swallows. Welcome back to our blog.
Please see our task list and PowerPoint presentations below to see what your home learning tasks are for today. Please also remember to take a few moments to look at the class discussion page each day where I will be available to ‘chat’ to you about the work that I have set for that day. You can just pop on there to say hi or tell have a little chat with your friends. The children can type in their own messages. It is a lovely, safe way of us staying in touch.
This half term, we have introduced a Foundation Subjects Club which you can dip in and out of in the afternoons and take part in as many as you like. I have attached all the details and links. I have also attached all the Worship details for the week so they are all in one place.
Maths - Can you use arrays?
We are continuing to focus our learning on multiplication this week. Please see the talking Power point video linked below.
Here is the link to the White Rose video mentioned in the PowerPoint. You may want to use this link if you have any problems with sound today.
Times Tables
Please use Times Tables Rock Stars to continue to learn your 2,5 and 10 x table. If you would like your child's log in details, please contact the school office via the admin address and they will email them across to you.
Alternatively, you could play ‘Hit the Button’ or ‘Maths Fishing’.
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
- https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples
Writing - Can you ask questions about toys from the past?
Please see the talking PowerPoint video linked below. I have recorded the instructions so just click play and then pause when it is time to complete an activity.
I have also attached a brilliant board game for you to print out and play. Can you change the tense of each verb? Will you win the race?
Reading
It is our book club today everyone! Please remember to bring your favourite book to our Zoom call this morning.
Challenge: Can you find any non-fiction (information) books at home? Perhaps you could share an exciting new fact with your friends in our class discussion today.
Please spend some time reading either the school book you took home with you or a book you have been reading at home each day. Please also remember to use our Oxford Owl website to access reading books online. There are lots of new books on here.
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=&age_group=age%204-7&series=&level=¤t_page=school_ebooks
Username: starlings1 (from the last lockdown)
Password: Home
If you get an adult to sign your reading diary each time you read, you will still be able to collect your raffle tickets when we are back in school.
Read Write Inc
Instructions for how to find your RWI learning for today can be found on our English PowerPoint. Here is the link to the Read Write Inc home page on YouTube. It might help to add this as a favourite so that you can quickly find your Read Write Inc learning each day. Please remember that the website updates at 9:30 each day. You may notice that the sounds will start to repeat soon. The children revisit sounds many times when we are teaching Read Write Inc in school. We want to encourage fluency. We want the children to be able to read a text containing each sound at speed, without the need to Fred Talk. In order to achieve this, the children need to see each sound several times. Please continue to focus on the spelling, red word and hold a sentence videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ
Spellings
Our spellings will be on our English PowerPoint today. Please use your spelling whiteboard and roll and spell game to help you to learn them. Our quiz will be on Friday this week.
half money Mr Mrs parents
- Friday 26th February 2021
Story
Can you spot our surprise story on our English PowerPoint today? To celebrate our first ever book club, I thought I would treat you all to a new and exciting version of my very favourite story.
Worship
We now have all of this week’s worships in one place. Please see the weekly worship page attached below.
PE
Fitness Challenge
Have some fun dancing along to ‘Waka Waka’ from Just Dance today. I think you are going to like this one Swallows!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVfgTw_W_JY&t=2s
Clubs
Our clubs are starting this week. Have a look at the attached list where you will find the links to our video PowerPoints. I have been in charge of our Craft club this week J.
Have a brilliant day Swallows and don’t forget to let me know how you are getting on with your learning today on School Spider. For those who added their homework to SchoolSpider yesterday, I added voice recorded feedback so I hope you received this. I will be doing this again today so please upload your learning to our homework section of SchoolSpider once you have completed it. I will then send you a special message. I will see you at 9:20 for our Zoom call this morning. Please have a book to share with your friends as a recommended read at the end if you would like to.
Lots of love from
Miss Gillam
Swallows - Tuesday 23rd February 2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 22nd Feb 2021 @ 2:33pm
Good morning SUPER Swallows. Welcome back to our blog.
Please see our task list and PowerPoint presentations below to see what your home learning tasks are for today. Please also remember to take a few moments to look at the class discussion page each day where I will be available to ‘chat’ to you about the work that I have set for that day. You can just pop on there to say hi or tell have a little chat with your friends. The children can type in their own messages. It is a lovely, safe way of us staying in touch.
This half term, we have introduced a Foundation Subjects Club which you can dip in and out of in the afternoons and take part in as many as you like. I have attached all the details and links. I have also attached all the Worship details for the week so they are all in one place.
Maths - Can you use the ‘x’ symbol? Can you represent multiplication sentences using pictures?
We are continuing to focus our learning on multiplication this week. Please see the talking Power point video linked below.
Here is the link to the White Rose video mentioned in the PowerPoint. You may want to use this link if you have any problems with sound today.
Times Tables
Please use Times Tables Rock Stars to continue to learn your 2,5 and 10 x table. If you would like your child's log in details, please contact the school office via the admin address and they will email them across to you.
Alternatively, you could play ‘Hit the Button’ or ‘Maths Fishing’.
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
- https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/times-tables/coconut-multiples
Writing - Can you write sentences to describe the toys in the text using the correct verb tense?
Please see the talking PowerPoint video linked below. I have recorded the instructions so just click play and then pause when it is time to complete an activity.
Reading
Challenge: Can you find any non-fiction (information) books at home? Perhaps you could share an exciting new fact with your friends in our class discussion today.
Please spend some time reading either the school book you took home with you or a book you have been reading at home each day. Please also remember to use our Oxford Owl website to access reading books online. There are lots of new books on here.
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=&age_group=age%204-7&series=&level=¤t_page=school_ebooks
Username: starlings1 (from the last lockdown)
Password: Home
If you get an adult to sign your reading diary each time you read, you will still be able to collect your raffle tickets when we are back in school.
We will have our own book club on Zoom on Wednesday this week. Please have your recommendations ready. Maybe you could bring your favourite book to show at the end of our Zoom call?
Read Write Inc
Instructions for how to find your RWI learning for today can be found on our English PowerPoint. Here is the link to the Read Write Inc home page on YouTube. It might help to add this as a favourite so that you can quickly find your Read Write Inc learning each day. Please remember that the website updates at 9:30 each day. You may notice that the sounds will start to repeat soon. The children revisit sounds many times when we are teaching Read Write Inc in school. We want to encourage fluency. We want the children to be able to read a text containing each sound at speed, without the need to Fred Talk. In order to achieve this, the children need to see each sound several times. Please continue to focus on the spelling, red word and hold a sentence videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ
Spellings
Our sparkly new spellings will be on our English PowerPoint today. Please use your spelling whiteboard and roll and spell game to help you to learn them. Our quiz will be on Friday this week.
half money Mr Mrs parents
- Friday 26th February 2021
Story
Please have a listen to the next chapter of our beautiful story ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’. You will find the audio at the end of our English PowerPoint. I will read a little bit of the story to you here each day.
Worship
We now have all of this week’s worships in one place. Please see the weekly worship page attached below.
PE
Fitness Challenge
Get yourself moving today with Jump Start Jonny and ‘Everything is Awesome:
https://www.jumpstartjonny.co.uk/free-stuff
Clubs
Our clubs are starting this week. Have a look at the attached list where you will find the links to our video PowerPoints. I have been in charge of our Craft club this week J.
Have a brilliant day Swallows and don’t forget to let me know how you are getting on with your learning today on School Spider. I will see you at 9:20 for our Zoom call this morning. Please have a piece of work that you are proud of ready to share with your friends at the end if you would like to.
Lots of love from
Miss Gillam
Swallows - Monday 22nd February 2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 21st Feb 2021 @ 5:19pm
Good morning super Swallows!
Welcome back!
I hope you all had a lovely, restful break and you are ready for your first busy day of home learning this week. I am excited to hear all of your news on our Zoom call this morning where we can do some show and tell. I’ll also be available for a ‘chat’ on the School Spider Class Discussion and Homework page today.
We are getting straight back into the swing of things this morning. I would like you to complete each activity on our task list for me today.
This half term, we have introduced a Foundation Subjects Club which you can dip in and out of in the afternoons and take part in as many as you like. I have attached all the details and links. I have also attached all the Worship details for the week so they are all in one place.
Maths - Can you use the ‘x’ symbol?
We are continuing to focus our learning on multiplication this week. Please see the talking Power point video linked below.
Here is the link to the White Rose video mentioned in the PowerPoint. You may want to use this link if you have any problems with sound today.
Times Tables
Please use Times Tables Rock Stars to continue to learn your 2,5 and 10 x table. If you would like your child's log in details, please contact the school office via the admin address and they will email them across to you.
Alternatively, you could play ‘Hit the Button’ or ‘Maths Fishing’.
- https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
- https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/306/Maths-Fishing-Multiplication
Writing - Can you read and answer questions about the text?
Please see the talking PowerPoint video linked below. I have recorded the instructions so just click play and then pause when it is time to complete an activity.
Reading
Please spend some time reading either the school book you took home with you or a book you have been reading at home each day. Please also remember to use our Oxford Owl website to access reading books online. There are lots of new books on here.
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=&age_group=age%204-7&series=&level=¤t_page=school_ebooks
Username: starlings1 (from the last lockdown)
Password: Home
If you get an adult to sign your reading diary each time you read, you will still be able to collect your raffle tickets when we are back in school.
We will have our own book club on Zoom this week so please have your recommendations ready.
Read Write Inc
Instructions for how to find your RWI learning for today can be found on our English PowerPoint. Here is the link to the Read Write Inc home page on YouTube. It might help to add this as a favourite so that you can quickly find your Read Write Inc learning each day. Please remember that the website updates at 9:30 each day. You may notice that the sounds will start to repeat soon. The children revisit sounds many times when we are teaching Read Write Inc in school. We want to encourage fluency. We want the children to be able to read a text containing each sound at speed, without the need to Fred Talk. In order to achieve this, the children need to see each sound several times. Please continue to focus on the spelling, red word and hold a sentence videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ
Spellings
Our sparkly new spellings will be on our English PowerPoint today. Please use your spelling whiteboard and roll and spell game to help you to learn them. Our quiz will be on Friday this week.
half money Mr Mrs parents
- Friday 26th February 2021
Story
Please have a listen to the next chapter of our beautiful story ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’. You will find the audio at the end of our English PowerPoint. I will read a little bit of the story to you here each day.
Worship
We now have all of this week’s worships in one place. Please see the weekly worship page attached below.
Please click the link to Mrs Powell’s worship today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c69EUY9_tY&feature=youtu.be
PE – I wonder if you can make up your own circuit today Swallows. Choose six different exercises and number them 1-6. Roll a dice (or write 1-6 on some small pieces of paper and pick them out of a pot)
Whichever number you roll or pull out of the pot, do the exercise for 30 seconds.
Clubs
Our clubs are starting this week. Have a look at the attached list where you will find the links to our video PowerPoints. I have been in charge of our Craft club this week J.
Have a brilliant first day back to home learning Swallows and don’t forget to let me know how you are getting on with your learning today on School Spider. I will see you at 9:20 for our Zoom call this morning.
Lots of love from
Miss Gillam
Swallows - Friday 12th February 2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 6:27pm
Friday 12th February
Hello everyone. We think you have worked so hard with your remote learning this half term so as a little treat and a big thank you here are some lovely activities for you to choose from today. You do not need to complete all of these activities. Just choose the ones which look the most fun to you.
We would like you to start with Mrs Powell’s worship then complete your Science lesson.
Then the choice is yours! Perhaps these will give you some nice ideas to do over the half term holiday too.
Worship
Please click on the link for Mrs Powell’s worship today. Mrs Powell has two lovely stories to share with you today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuv5szIn6AI&feature=youtu.be
Science
Please click here for the link to today’s science lesson.
Please click here for the link to a video of all of the teachers explaining the fun activities below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNh6KS0A38E
Den Building
Build a den either inside (or even outdoors if we are lucky enough to have a warm, dry day) You could use blankets, sheets, cushions, old boxes, chairs. Could you put your teddy bear in there and a book?
Draw with Rob
http://www.robbiddulph.com/draw-with-rob
Outdoor Scavenger Hunt
While you are out on your daily walk, why not look out for the following things and tick them off when you see them. There is a large copy of the sheet attached to the blog.
Puppet show
•Make up your own story to act out or you could use one of your favourite stories instead
•Make your own puppet characters – these could be sock, stick or finger puppets
•You could even make your own puppet theatre out of a cereal box
•Perform your story using your puppets for your family
Obstacle course
You don’t need any fancy equipment. Just get creative with the things you have already got at home or in your garden. E.g.
- Balance a potato on a spoon
- Balance a cushion on your head
- Jump over a skipping rope/piece of string, pair of tights
- Use rolled up socks as cones and run in and out of them
- Keepie uppies with rolled up socks
Lego building challenge
How many of these objects could you make using your Lego?
Don’t worry if you don’t have any Lego, could you make these using different materials that you could find around your house e.g. Empty toilet roll holders, cereal boxes, plastic bottles etc.
Make A Glitter Jar
Have some fun creating your very own glitter jar – fill it with water and whatever you have around the house then shake it and let your mind calm as you watch everything float to the bottom.
Art – Can you make your own view finder?
Are you feeling creative and outdoorsy today? Why not have a go at creating your own view finder with Miss Gillam today. Use your view finder to help you to bite off a measurable chunk of a landscape to draw. This can be anywhere from your back yard to your garden or even the view from your balcony. All you will need is a piece of paper, a pencil and some string. Don’t forget to share your masterpiece with your family, our school Twitter page and in your next class Zoom call.
Maths 
Let’s make our walk today a little more interesting, time to play ‘Walking Bingo!’
Visit https://www.template.net/design-templates/free-printable-bingo-card/
And print off a bingo card to take with you on your next walk. Search for the numbers on your card on houses, signs, bus stops....If you find a number on you card, you can cross it off. I wonder if you can get a line or even a full house?
Or, perhaps you could make your own number pavement trail using chalk?
Build a structure using marshmallows and spaghetti
Art
Can you create your own ‘Bottle Moment’? This is a lovely, creative drawing competition.
Story - ‘One Hundred Steps’ by Sir Captain Tom Moore
This is a beautiful story written by Captain Sir Tom Moore, who we remember for raising money for charity in the run-up to his 100th birthday during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an important message of resilience and optimism, just when we need it most. It’s a book about adventure, family, hope and what we can achieve when we work together. This will help to remind us of Sir Tom, who sadly passed away last week, and of the kindness and courage we require in these unprecedented times. Please follow the link to ‘One Hundred Steps’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgZZ1SbOSxM&t=2s
Have fun and Happy Half Term
Love from the whole Lostock Gralam Team xxx
Swallows - Thursday 11th Feb 2021, by Miss Gillam
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 7:46am
Thursday 11th February 2021
Good morning and welcome back to Swallows class blog.
Please see our task list and PowerPoint presentations below to see what your home learning tasks are for today. Please also remember to take a few moments to look at the class discussion page each day where I will be available to ‘chat’ to you about the work that I have set for that day. You can just pop on there to say hi or tell have a little chat with your friends. The children can type in their own messages. It is a lovely, safe way of us staying in touch.
Maths – Can you add equal groups?
We are continuing to focus our learning on multiplication this week. Please see the talking Power point video linked below.
Here is the link to the White Rose video mentioned in the PowerPoint. You may want to use this link if you have any problems with sound today.
Times Tables
Please use Times Tables Rock Stars to continue to learn your 2 x table. If you would like your child's log in details, please contact the school office via the admin address and they will email them across to you.
Alternatively, you could have a go our Titanium Times Tables Challenge which is attached to our blog today. You have 6 minutes to complete it. Good Luck!
Writing
Can you understand the vocabulary and features used in the text?
Please see the talking PowerPoint video linked below. I have recorded the instructions so just click play and then pause when it is time to complete an activity.
Reading
Please spend some time reading either the school book you took home with you or a book you have been reading at home each day. Please also remember to use our Oxford Owl website to access reading books online. Here you can access Read Write Inc and other story books at your level.
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home
- https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-pupils/pupil-home?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=&age_group=age%204-7&series=&level=¤t_page=school_ebooks
Username: starlings1 (from the last lockdown)
Password: Home
If you get an adult to sign your reading diary each time you read, you will still be able to collect your raffle tickets when we are back in school.
Read Write Inc
Instructions for how to find your RWI learning for today can be found on our English PowerPoint. Here is the link to the Read Write Inc home page on YouTube. It might help to add this as a favourite so that you can quickly find your Read Write Inc learning each day. Please remember that the website updates at 9:30 each day. You may notice that the sounds will start to repeat soon. The children revisit sounds many times when we are teaching Read Write Inc in school. We want to encourage fluency. We want the children to be able to read a text containing each sound at speed, without the need to Fred Talk. In order to achieve this, the children need to see each sound several times. Please continue to focus on the spelling, red word and hold a sentence videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ
Spellings
Our spellings will be on our English PowerPoint each day. Please use your spelling whiteboard and roll and spell game to help you to learn them. Our quiz will be on Thursday this week.
clothes busy people
water again
Story
Please have a listen to the next chapter of our beautiful story ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’. You will find the audio at the end of our English PowerPoint. I will read a little bit of the story to you here each day.
Worship
Today’s hymn is ‘Behold our God’. The link to the video is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njYcTmkq3EE
PE –
Have a go at this Star Wars themed Cosmic Kids Yoga activity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coC0eUSm-pc
Good luck with today’s tasks and don’t forget to let me know how you are getting on with your learning today on School Spider. I will see you at 9:20 for our Zoom call this morning. We have a birthday to celebrate today! Please have a piece of work that you are proud of ready to share with your friends at the end if you would like to.
Lots of love from
Miss Gillam