General Class Information
Weekly Timetable
Here are important things to remember each week:
Monday - New spellings will be sent home- green spelling books need to be in school today. Please learn these for a test on Friday. PE with Mr Cowling - children will need to come to school dressed for PE. Box A reading books will be changed.
Tuesday - Box B reading books will be changed
Wednesday - Homework will be due in. Box A reading books will be changed.
Thursday - Box B reading books will be changed.
Friday - Spelling test, new homework will be given out. PE with Mrs Gillett -children will need to come to school dressed for PE. All reading books that need changing will be changed for the weekend.
Here is our weekly timetable, we also do Phonics at the beginning of every English lesson and mental maths sessions straight after lunch for 15 minutes:
MEET THE TEAM!
This year these are the staff that will be working with your children either in class, or extra sessions in intervention groups:
MRS GILLETT MRS ANDERSON
MR COWLING (PE) SENORITA ANDREA (SPANISH)
MRS KENYON (MUSIC)
MRS BESTER (COMPUTING AND PSHCE)
HOMEWORK
Homework will be sent home on a Friday to be handed in by the following week. Homework will alternate between learning logs and English/maths homework. English and maths will focus on the week's learning and learning logs will have a focus around our topics or any special events which may be happening within our community or nationally.
We will still be sending home the traditional learning log books but we will also be replicating this homework on the Seesaw app. It is a choice whether you wish to complete the homework in the book or online. Every child has been given a QR code and can be accessed through the Seesaw CLASS app. This homework will be in addition to spellings. We may also send home some extra phonics work from time to time and later in the year we will begin to send home times tables to learn.
New spellings will be sent home on a Monday ready for our spelling test on a Friday. Our spelling words will link with the sounds we have learnt in phonics during that week. Please help your children to learn their spellings at home too. Also, please make sure you send the little green book back into school every Monday to allow the children to be able to write their new spellings into them, ready to practice at home! Each week, a new video will be updated to help your child practice their spellings at home in the Super Spellers playlist on my YouTube Channel 'Mrs G's Little Lessons', which can be found here:
Regular uploads to help you learn at home focusing on maths skills as well as reading skills will also be updated to my channel - why not have a go at some of these online little lessons too?
https://youtube.com/channel/UCTWM1mZ7HDSMu-hvF9YCivA
Online Learning Activities Spring term 1 2022
If you are off due school due to needing to self-isolate I will upload work here for you to complete whilst you are off if you are feeling well enough, Maths and English tasks will be uploaded weekly for you to try alongside a few of the activities from the Topic grid, Don't forget to also keep reading and you can practice your spellings too. I would love to see what you have been up to so please feel free to upload any work you do to Seesaw or send it to me via email.
Here are the current learning activities: Spring 1 Topic: An Island Home
Have a look at these worksheets, please try and do some Maths and English at the very minimum as well as keeping up with your reading. There are also some worksheets based on introducing you to islands, a powerpoint on Epiphany and some extra work too. If you do need any more work during this time, please don't hesitate to contact me and I will be able to organize some additional work for you.
Review your Geography skills based around the work we've done so far in class this year and try my brand new UK Mini Fluency Quiz on my YouTube channel here:
English work
This week, we are reading a book called How to FInd Gold by Vivianne Schwarz. Check out the story here and then have a go at some of the tasks based around the book this week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxWlWJUfMEo
Maths work Week 3-4
Revise some key elements of the maths we've done so far in Year 2 - don't forget to ask for help as and when you need it from a grown up!
Other subjects
| Name | |
|---|---|
| #Lesson Presentation Islands Everywhere!.ppt | Download |
| I would light a candle to pray that.....docx | Download |
| Island home KWL grid.docx | Download |
| t-re-272-ks1-epiphany-powerpoint_ver_4.pptx | Download |
| t2-t-72369-my-favourite-christmas-present-activity-sheet-english.pdf | Download |
| tp-g-103-locating-islands-differentiated-activity-sheets-differentiated-activity-sheets.pdf | Download |
School has also signed up to an educational website called Education City, where you can play lots of games and revise things you have already learnt in areas such as maths and English. Have a look here for you username and password, but please remember, you must only log in as you! Have fun! Logins for all websites such as Education City, Spag.com and Mymaths will be sent home in September.
Follow the link here:
https://www.educationcity.com/
Education City Log in details:
| Name | |
|---|---|
| year 1.pdf | Download |
Seesaw Class Login details
Seesaw login whole class QR code. If you are struggling to log on to Seesaw, try scanning this QR code and it should take you directly to our class page. Please email me if this doesn't work.
ONLINE LEARNING USEFUL WEBSITES AND LINKS 2021
Practice your phonics and have some fun? Why not visit this fabulous website:
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
Also check out this wonder Phonics Website which has lots of lessons and helpful videos to follow our sequence of teaching the Phonics Phases.
https://youtube.com/channel/UCP_FbjYUP_UtldV2K_-niWw
The BBC have launched 3 hours of daily school programmes, have a look if you want: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/genres/learning/primary/all
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z3tbwmn/articles/zykx6sg
Love Geography in general? Why not check out the GoJetters and write me a report or present it on Seesaw to show me what you have learnt:
Do you love Science? Check out this website and have a go at some of the materials experiments - I would love to see photographs or videos of your results!
Materials KS1 Experiments (science-sparks.com)
Love Music? Visit this website and have a go at this activity:
https://www.derbyshiremusichub.org.uk/get-involved/music-at-home/infant/1.asp
Want to do some extra work on your reading at home? Ask your parents to visit Reading Eggs and sign up for a free 30 day trial:
Coronavirus (COVID-19) - Free Access for 30 Days – Reading Eggs
Also, check out these websites for free ebooks if you want to do lots of extra reading:
Free eBook library – practise reading with phonics eBooks | Oxford Owl
School closures: free online learning resources | Oxford Owl
Need Help? Start Here (twinkl.co.uk)
5 to 8 | National Literacy Trust
You can also email me at: Ngillett@holytrinityce.rochdale.sch.uk
You can also continue to practice counting in 10s, 5s and 2s by visiting this website:
Multiplication and Division Games for KS1 Children (topmarks.co.uk)
There are also some multiplication practices and by the end of Y2, we need to know x10, x5, x2 and x3 facts off by heart, the best way to do is this practice, practice, practice and search for fun songs on YouTube that may help those number facts stick in your head.