5 years ago
Posted on 11th May 2020 by Admin

Home learning for week beginning 11.05.2020 – ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’

Hi Class 1 Children and Adults,

I hope you have all had a lovely Bank Holiday Weekend and managed to celebrate V.E. Day on Friday. Once again I have been pleased to see all your photos and videos showing what you have been doing. It really does put a big smile on my face when I open Tapestry and see your happy faces. So thank you adults for doing this, you can never post too many. Keep an eye out for Class 1, Gallery 2.

This week our home learning activities are based around the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ by Eric Carle, you will revisit healthy eating, look at life cycles and investigate symmetry.

A few parents have requested a timetable of when to teach what during the day, so I have put together a rough timetable that you can adopt or adapt to suit your needs. Any feedback is welcome and I am happy to answer questions, just drop me an email – class1@bicton.shropshire.sch.uk

I have put the phonics to later in the morning, as the teaching videos start to be added from 9.30am to 10.45am (depending on which set your child is on). Rosie does all the teaching for you, exactly as I would do in class. If your child has watched all the sound videos, then watch and do the activities for the Spelling Video (there is no need to watch both). A few parents have mentioned it works really well if you play the video through the T.V.

love,

Mrs Bowes x

5 years ago
Posted on 10th May 2020 by Admin

Reading Planet update

We are aware that some of you are having difficulty viewing /accessing the books assigned by teachers and, in some cases, it appears as though books haven’t been assigned when they have.

We can only apologise for this inconvenience – the issues are with the Reading Planet website and are beyond our control. Please continue to contact your child’s class teacher to report any issues and we thank you for your patience.

Mrs Johnson

5 years ago
Posted on 08th May 2020 by Admin

* Weekly news 8th May 2020 *

Hello everyone

I hope you have had a good week and enjoyed the return of the sunshine. It seems strange celebrating VE Day at home and it’s sad not being able to get together with all my family. I know you will be celebrating this special day in different ways whether it be putting up bunting, baking or watching the Queen’s speech and the other commemorative broadcasts on TV. Whatever you are doing, I hope you are keeping well and staying safe. I hope you have a lovely day and please feel free to email in any pictures of your day!

Home access to Sing Up

Sing Up, a singing website which we subscribe to in school, have created a Home area on their website which is totally free and accessible to parents and families. They are uploading videos and resources for children and their families to make the most of singing whilst at home. Click on this link www.singup.org/singupathome to visit their website.

Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi Foundation have launched a new, free Digital Making at Home initiative to support parents and young people with coding at home. You don’t need any coding experience to join in, and all of their resources and activities are free forever.

Every Monday, they release new themed code-along videos about projects designed for all levels of ability. They also provide support tutorials for parents who are interested in learning more about coding tools like Scratch and Python, and over 200 projects with step-by-step instructions that are accessible online at any time — all for free.

Sign up now to start receiving free activities suitable to your child’s age and ability straight to your inbox.

First News

We hope your child has enjoyed reading First News over the past couple of weeks and, if they haven’t had chance to, why not have a read of the latest editions below.

First News 01.05.20

First News VE Day Edition

And finally…

I’ve had a lovely week in school with our key workers’ children and other staff. We have been gardening, having some very competitive staff v children table-tennis battles (Miss Carr and Mr Andrews not me!), painting VE Day pebbles with Miss Stone and just generally looking after each other.

All was going well until Thursday morning when I decided to cycle to school rather than walk and, let’s just say, my short journey didn’t go as planned. I fell off my bike on the way to school and ended up at RSH with a fractured humerus. The NHS staff were absolutely amazing and really looked after me, even though they could have done without it with so much else to do.

My husband has been a star and has been taught how to blow-dry and straighten my hair this morning, much to our amusement!

So the next time I tell the children to be careful during a school holiday, and not to come back with any broken bones, I need to follow my own advice!

Take care everyone and stay safe.

Love Mrs Johnson x

5 years ago
Posted on 05th May 2020 by Admin

Home Learning Environment (HLE) activities for younger children

Please see attached 2 documents which have suggestions for home learning activities, this is produced by Shropshire Local Authority.

There are some lovely practical ideas that can be used with children as young as 3 months.

HLE Suggestions for Early Years Parents 3a

HLE Early Years Musical Activities (based on The Wheels on the Bus)

Mrs Bowes : class1@bicton.shropshire.sch.uk

Ms Stone: Nursery@bicton.shropshire.sch.uk

5 years ago
Posted on 04th May 2020 by Admin

Class 1 Gallery 1

Children in Class 1 have been very busy over the last few weeks. They may not be able to come to school as usual, but they have kept smiling as they learn and play at home.

5 years ago
Posted on 04th May 2020 by Admin

Class 3 home learning WC 4.5.20

Good morning Class 3,

We hope you are all well and have had a good weekend. It has been lovely to hear what you have been up to at home and seeing the work which you have been doing. Thank you to those of you that have registered for the Reading Planet books, what a great response we have had so far! If you haven’t registered so far please look at our last post with all the details. There were some technical problems with the website last week but all has been sorted now so you should be able to access these books now. Please let us know if you need any more help with this.

Here are the learning projects for this week:

WC-4.05.20_-YEAR 2-Learning-Project-SPORT

WC 4.5.20 – YEAR 3 – Learning-Project-SPORT

We hope to hear from you all soon – your messages really do make our day.

Mrs Thomas & Miss Moran

5 years ago
Posted on 04th May 2020 by Admin

Home Learning for week commencing 04.05.2020 – Night Pirate/Troll

Good Morning Class 1 children and Adults,

This week’s Learning plan is now in your Tapestry area. This week we have a bit of a Pirate theme (ahoy, me Class 1 mateys!).

The Night Pirates: Amazon.co.uk: Harris, Peter, Allwright, Deborah ... The Troll: Amazon.co.uk: Donaldson, Julia, Roberts, David: Books

I have also added some VE Day activities that you may like to do with your child.

Once again I have been amazed with all the posts of what you have been doing over the weeks, not just things from the Learning Plan, but other activities. So a big thank you to Mummies and Daddies for adding those.

Some of you have started to ride your bikes without stabilizers! Amazing, well done. There has been so many yummy foods cooked, including some very delicous looking donuts! I have been entertained with some awesome singing and dancing. There has been some fabulous art work, some created uising natural materials. Please do keep uploading those photos and videos. I will be making a Gallery to share some of your photos on here, so we can all catch up with our friends.

Have a good week,

Mrs Bowes 🙂

5 years ago
Posted on 04th May 2020 by Admin

Nursery Home learning Activities for week beginning 4th May 2020 – Stomp, Chomp, Big Roars! Here come the dinosuars!

Stomp, Chomp, Big Roars! Here come the dinosuars!

Hi Nursery Children and adults,

I hope you enjoyed some of ast weeks activities. Thank you to the Mummies and Daddies who have emailed me photos and updates on how their children are getting on. Do keep emailing and stay in touch – Nursery@bicton.shropshire.sch.uk

This week’s activities are all based around the story ‘Stomp, Chomp, Big Roars! Here come the dinosuars!’

Stomp, Chomp, Big Roars! Here Come the Dinosaurs!: Amazon.co.uk ...

Have fun!

Ms Stone x

Literacy

Watch and listen to me reading the story – don’t forget to join in!

Listen out for words that rhyme as I read the story.

Dinosaurs begin with the ‘d’ sound, can you look around your house and see if you can spot more things that also begin with the sound ‘d’

Turn your ‘d’ sound hunt into a game of eye spy!

If you have other Dinosaur books at home, share them with your adult, for example the Harry and the Dinosaur stories.

Maths

Put your dinosaurs in size order, which is the tallest? The smallest? The longest?

Sort your dinosaurs out into groups – spikey ones / tall ones /long ones / brown ones etc.

How many ways can you sort them? How many are in each group? Which group has the most / least dinsouars?

How many dinonsaurs can fit into a….. try different size containers, encorage your child to count as they place one more in (if you haven’t got dinosaurs use other small play animals). You can also count the dinosaurs back out. WHich container can hold the most? Least?

EAD:

Play the story

Stomp like a dinosaur – as you walk around the house or garden stomp like dinosaurs saying the rhymes as you go. Wearing big boots for this would be fun!

Sand play – if you have access to a sand pit / soil at home your child could re create pages from the book with their toy dinosaurs (or other small toys pretending to be dinosaurs).

Water play – the toy dinosaurs can join your child in the bath and dive in as if diving into a swamp while you repeat some of the rhymes again.

or give your Dinisaurs a bath!

DINOSAUR BATH - A quick and easy sensory activity; toddler activity; preschool activity; indoor activity; car wash activity; rainy day activity; sensory bin activity from Busy Toddler

Make a dinosaur puppet
You can make a simple dinosaur puppet with your child from a fairly long sock. Felt would be ideal for eyes, teeth and spines but you could use other materials such as buttons for eyes and coloured cellophane for spines. Watch the vi deo for more ideas.
If you make a pair of dinosaur sock puppets they could be the ‘best of friends!’

Create a junk model dinsoaur (or dinosaurs!)

Junk model dinosaurs | Dinosaur projects, Dinosaur crafts, Diy ... A colourful Triceratops model made from an egg box and a shoe box ...

Toilet roll and egg box Giraffe and Dinosaur!! | constructions ... Painted-cardboard-Dinosaur-T-Rex | Dinosaur crafts preschool ...

Make a Dinosaur footprint track

Outdoor ideas – find a space, or even better somewhere with a gentle slope, so that your child can roll like a dinosaur. Play dinosaur hide and seek.

SIng and move with Mother Goose’s Dinosaur Stomp Song:

Dinosaur Stomp – Mother Goose Club

Do some Cosmic Yoga with Tiny the T-Rex

or a 5 minute Dinosuar Disco!

5 years ago
Posted on 01st May 2020 by Admin

Weekly news 1st May

Hello everyone

I hope you have had a good week despite the frequent showers!

I hope the children have been enjoying doing the activities uploaded to the website every Monday morning and if they haven’t had chance please don’t worry. The health and wellbeing of our families and staff is what is important and we just want you all to stay safe and well. If your child wants to email any photos of their work to show us what they have been doing or just drop us an email to say ‘hello’ we would love to hear from them!

Year 5/6 brass – home access to Charanga/Yumu

Mr Alridge (our Year 5/6 brass teacher) is able to create individual pupil accounts for the online music platform (Charanga/Yumu) that he uses in our brass lessons. This will enable children to access the same music covered in lessons, as well as explore new material. If you are interested, please email him on the details below.

Reuben.Alldridge585@shropshiremusicservice.org.uk

Update from Schools Library Service

Schools Library Service – update on home learning support

Have a nice weekend and stay safe.

Mrs Johnson x

5 years ago
Posted on 29th Apr 2020 by Admin

Home Learning Environment (HLE) information for Younger Children

Suggestions for EY parents to support with home learning environments

Please see attached some suggestions to support Early Years parents with their home learning environments, produced by Shropshire Local Authority.

There are lots of lovely practical ideas and activities, starting with children as young as 3 months.

HLE Suggestions for Early Years Parents 1

HLE Suggestions for Early Years Parents 2

Mrs Bowes ; class1@bicton.shropshire.sch.uk

Ms Stone : Nursery@bicton.shropshire.sch.uk

Acorns

Willow

Birch

Maple

Oak

Admin

Home learning for week beginning 11.05.2020 – ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’

Reading Planet update

* Weekly news 8th May 2020 *

Home Learning Environment (HLE) activities for younger children

Class 1 Gallery 1

Class 3 home learning WC 4.5.20

Home Learning for week commencing 04.05.2020 – Night Pirate/Troll

Nursery Home learning Activities for week beginning 4th May 2020 – Stomp, Chomp, Big Roars! Here come the dinosuars!

Maths

EAD:

Play the story

Stomp like a dinosaur – as you walk around the house or garden stomp like dinosaurs saying the rhymes as you go. Wearing big boots for this would be fun!

Sand play – if you have access to a sand pit / soil at home your child could re create pages from the book with their toy dinosaurs (or other small toys pretending to be dinosaurs).

Water play – the toy dinosaurs can join your child in the bath and dive in as if diving into a swamp while you repeat some of the rhymes again.

Outdoor ideas – find a space, or even better somewhere with a gentle slope, so that your child can roll like a dinosaur. Play dinosaur hide and seek.

Dinosaur Stomp – Mother Goose Club

Weekly news 1st May

Home Learning Environment (HLE) information for Younger Children