What a year it’s been! We congratulate RS for a terrific year. The boys have come so far and achieved so much this year. Well done to everyone for navigating daily live lessons and home learning in the spring. We wish all of you health and happiness for the summer holidays. We look forward to seeing you all when you start year 1.

On their last day the boys enjoyed a cupcake movie party with dancing games and then an afternoon picnic:

A huge well done to the boys (and parents) for all you have achieved this year.Thank you very much for your thoughtful words and generous gifts and for being so supportive throughout the year.

Have a wonderful summer!

Love from

Mrs Starkey and Mrs Aldridge 🙂

It is hard to believe that this week is the last full week of reception and the boys finish for the summer holidays next week! The boys have achieved so much this year.

Here are some of the things the boys got up to this week during their child initiated learning time:

 

The boys have enjoyed drawing more Rob Biddulph drawings including ‘Furry Purry’ and ‘Penguin Blue’ to go alongside their Sonic and ‘Gregosaurus’ pictures:

Homework

Literacy

Could the boys please work on the next set of tricky words:

why

who

any

saw

put

Start with making sure they can read the words and then use the technique of ‘look, cover and write’ to practise spelling.

For an extra challenge, they can choose one of the above words and write it in a sentence.

Maths

This week we have been recapping addition and subtraction. Please click on the link below and select addition or subtraction and select the different levels.

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Starkey and Mrs Aldridge 🙂

What a hot week it has been! The boys have been enjoying lots of drinks and being outside playing in the shade.

The boys have been painting beautiful Henri Rousseau pictures:

During Literacy they had some great ideas when writing speech and thought bubbles for characters in the recycling story ‘The Messy Magpie’:

During Maths, the boys have become 3D shape experts by going on a shape hunt and playing shape games where they have been naming shapes and describing shape properties, including faces, edges and corners.

The boys have continued to enjoy their music and drama virtual lessons:

The homework activities this week are as follows:

Literacy:

Please read and practise spelling the following ‘tricky words’:

all

you

one

old

Start with making sure they can read the words and then use the technique of ‘look, cover and write’ to practise spelling.

For an extra challenge, they can choose one of the above words and write it in a sentence.

Enjoy!

Maths:

Go on a shape hunt around your home or out and about. Please see if you can find the following shapes in real life and comment on the blog post if you find them and what they were:

Cube

Cuboid

Sphere

Cylinder

Pyramid

Cone

When you have found the shapes, count the corners, edges and faces.

Good luck shape hunting!

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Starkey and Mrs Aldridge 🙂

The boys have had a fun and happy week at school.

In phonics the boys have learnt some alternative spellings for digraphs and they have been doing well practising their handwriting.

For Understanding the World, there was much excitement when they made paper aeroplanes. They learnt about thrust and lift. Once they made their planes they wrote a set of instructions for how they made them.

In Maths the boys have been learning about place value looking at tens and ones. They have been doing really well broadening their understanding of numbers beyond 20.

Here are some of the things the boys got up to during ‘Explore and Learn’ time:

Homework:

Maths

For Maths homework this week, could you please use your laminated 100 square and pick some two digit numbers at random. Look at the first digit within the number and count out how many ‘tens’ it has using your fingers by counting aloud in tens. Next, look at the second digit to identify how many ‘ones’ there are and then count out how many ones there are using your fingers.

Literacy

For Literacy homework this week, could you please work on the first set of tricky words:

my

by

she

was

are

Start with making sure they can read the words and then use the technique of ‘look, cover and write’ to practise spelling.

For an extra challenge, you can choose one of the above words and write it in a sentence.

Have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Starkey and Mrs Aldridge 🙂

The boys have had an enjoyable second week and they are very familiar with their new routines

 

To end the week we loved sharing photos of our pets. They were all very cute!

 

In Maths the boys have been continuing to practise finding missing numbers. They have been solving addition number sentences with missing numbers.

In phonics the boys have continued to read and write two syllable words. They have also been reading and writing questions and answering the questions with ‘yes’ or ‘no’.

In Literacy they wrote lists about all the types of transport they have travelled in.

The Maths and Literacy homework tasks this week are as follows:

Maths

Play the number bonds to 10 game. Fire the balls to make a number bond!

https://www.mathplayground.com/number_bonds_10.html

Challenge:

Play number bonds to 20 game. Fire the balls to make a number bond!

https://www.mathplayground.com/number_bonds_20.html

Literacy

Could the boys please work on the second set of tricky words:

he

me

we

be

do

so

Start with making sure they can read the words and then use the technique of ‘look, cover and write’ to practise spelling.

For an extra challenge, they can choose one of the above words and write it in a sentence.

In Understanding the World, the boys have learnt about how aeroplanes fly. They also learnt about space and the solar system.

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Starkey and Mrs Aldridge 🙂

It has been wonderful to welcome the boys back after many weeks of home schooling; there have been lots of smile! The boys have quickly picked up the new routines and arrangements and they have been listening really well.

This week in phonics we have been learning about two syllable words, which the boys have been reading and writing. In Literacy we wrote endings to a story.

For Literacy homework this week, could the boys please work on the first set of tricky words:

the

to

I

no

go

into

Start with making sure your son can read the words and then use the technique of ‘look, cover and write’ to practise spelling.

For an extra challenge, they can choose one of the above words and write it in a sentence.

Playing outside:

In Maths we learnt about missing numbers.  Please comment your answers on the blog post by clicking on the heart on the left hand side of this post. 

 Please fill in the missing numbers:

2, 4, _, 8, _, 12.

 

5, 10, _, 20, _, 30

 

10, 20, 30, _, 50, 60, _, 80.

 

5 + _ = 9

 

7 + _ = 10

 

10 + _ = 12

 

_ + 2 = 10

 

_ + 5 = 15

We also practised estimating outside:

   

In Understanding the World we learnt about friction using vehicles, a ramp and different materials:

 

In Art we had fun colour mixing!

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Starkey and Mrs Aldridge 🙂

 

Well done to everyone for a whole half term of live lessons incorporated within your home schooling. This half term has illustrated the boys’ resilience and various other ‘learning powers’.

In preparation for if/when you may be returning to School, please see the image below of the stationery pot shown during this mornings registration. This pot may also come in handy for use at home. Suggestions for this are gardening pots, yoghurt pots, other pots or a recycled plastic cup. Please decorate your pot however you would like!

Here are a selection of pictures from this week:

Congratulations to Mylo for becoming this half term’s Superlearner!

I hope you all have a well deserved restful and enjoyable half term!

Mrs Starkey 🙂

 

 

 

Your hats and hair looked great during show and tell today!

Well done to everyone for another week of home schooling and live lessons. The boys (and grown ups!) are showing the ‘Learning Power’ of ‘resilience’ like ‘Terry the Tortoise’ by adapting to new challenges and a new way of working. There has been lots of independent learning and numerous skills involved.

Recycling:

 

I hope you have enjoyed spending some time outside this week. Here are some of the beautiful examples of your outdoor work using natural materials, inspired by Andy Goldsworthy:

Zain-Amor created Mr Robotnik:

 

A reminder of some of the online games played this week:

Literacy:

Dragon’s Den, Buried treasure and sentence substitution: https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Maths:

100 square, to help with counting to in 2s, 5s and 10s: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares

Understanding the World:

Recycling game

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/go/resource/tg-ga-59-twinkl-green-week-junk-jumble-recycling-game

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Starkey 🙂

A big well done for working hard during another week of live lessons. It has been great to hear you answering questions and to see all of your beautiful work.

I hope you have enjoyed the arts and crafts this week. Here are some of the super things that you have been making after the lessons:

Online games for you to play:

Phonics:
https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/list/phonics-games-phase-4

https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Maths:
Money shop game that was played this week: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

100 squares, to help with counting in 2s, 5s and 10s:

https://www.primarygames.co.uk/pg2/splat/splatsq100.html

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares

 

Have fun celebrating VE day and enjoy the bank holiday weekend.

Mrs Starkey 🙂

We have come to the end of our first full week of Live lessons. It has been lovely speaking to you all. I hope that this has helped the boys feel more connected, as I know that they are missing school and each other.
Well done everyone, you have worked very hard, whilst staying positive and enthusiastic. I loved seeing your work on camera today and also all the emails I have received.

We have gone through many activities and games this week during our lessons, I thought it might be helpful to send some links you can play at home.The links are also on the lesson plans from this week:
Phonics:
Recap digraphs game: https://www.phonicsbloom.com/uk/game/list/phonics-games-phase-4

Buried treasure reading words game: https://new.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/4

Maths:
Hit the button, number bonds game: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

100 square, to help with counting to 100 and back: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares

Remember, you now have your Numbots login which is a fun Maths website.

 I wish you all a relaxing and enjoyable weekend!

Mrs Starkey 🙂