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5 years ago
Posted on 15th May 2020 by

Photo request

Please email any photos you would like to be included in the Class 5 gallery to class5@bicton.shropshire.sch.uk before the end of today.

Have a lovely weekend!

5 years ago
Posted on 12th May 2020 by

URGENT SURVEY for Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6

We now have more guidance about what we will be expected to do from June 1st to enable a phased return for pupils to school. We know that we have been asked to open the school for Nursery, Reception, Year one and Year 6 to begin with but these year groups will not all start together on 1st June – these children may well have to attend some days and not others to allow us to keep numbers low.
As you can imagine, we have significant work to do regarding logistics, timetabling, staffing and risk assessments. Some of these measures will include: small numbers of children in classes, staggered start and finish times, using different members of staff and classrooms to space the children out.  Children of key workers will still be cared for in school alongside these year groups.

We urgently need to know whether parents of Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 intend to send their children back to school from 1st June or whether they feel it is unsafe to do so due to circumstances at home or school. Please complete the survey below to help us in our planning.

Phased reopening survey

Your responses, and the guidance we are awaiting from Shropshire Council, will support us in making a firmer plan and we will share this with you as soon as we can. Thank you for your support.

5 years ago
Posted on 11th May 2020 by

*Important News – 11.05.20*

Good afternoon everyone,
Following the Prime Minister’s announcement on Sunday evening, we are sure that you have many questions, as we do, that you would like clarifying.
We have not yet received any information to support us with this new plan to start a phased return for children in some year groups.   We expect to receive guidance from the Department for Education and the Local Authority very soon.
Please be assured that the safety of our children, staff and school community is our key priority. We will only begin a phased return when we feel it is safe to do so and following an extensive risk assessment process.
As always, we will keep you updated but, for now, please do not worry. We will continue to provide home learning for our children, keep in contact with you and continue to support each other during these difficult and uncertain times.
In the meantime, we will continue to provide childcare provision for our key workers at Bicton.
Take care
Mrs Johnson and staff
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5 years ago
Posted on 11th May 2020 by

Home learning- week commencing 11/5/20

Good morning,

Please find the home learning pack for this week.

Week 6- Home Learning

Please complete as many activities that suit you at home, these are just to give you some ideas about the kind of things we would be looking at in school. From the emails I have received, I can see lots of you are doing different things that fit in with your family eg cooking, riding your bikes, learning about the weather. This is super! So although you might not be managing to complete the activities I have set you are providing extra learning opportunities for your children. Well done to you all!

If you haven’t done so already please see the previous post about reading. I am hoping you will all have time to recommend a book to the rest of class 4.

Remember, I do love receiving your emails and hearing what you have been doing each week so please continue to email me at class4@bicton.shropshire.sch.uk

I hope you are all keeping safe and well,

Mrs Erasmus

5 years ago
Posted on 11th May 2020 by

Class 3 home learning WC 11.5.20

 

Good morning Class 3,

We hope you are all keeping well at home?  We also hope you had a lovely bank holiday weekend and VE Day celebrations? If you have any photos of what you did to celebrate we would love to see them. What a wonderful, sunny few days we have had – it has been so lovely to be in the garden and enjoying this weather.

We are aware that there have been some issues with accessing the Reading Planet website.  If you are having problems logging in or accessing the books please let us know and we can help you out.  The login details are as follows:

https://my.risingstars-uk.com/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fMyDynamicLearning.aspx

Here are the learning projects for this week:

Year 2    YEAR 2 – WC11.05.2020-THE-RAINFOREST

Year 3    YEAR 3 – WC-11.05.2020-THE-RAINFOREST

From this week (wc 11.5.20) the free White Rose Maths resources cannot be accessed online.  Class 3 will be on summer term, week 4 this week.  Please find the attached worksheets, answers and video links for each year group below.

Year 2 Worksheets:  Lesson 1 Add and subtract 10s 2019 Lesson 2 Add 2-digit numbers (2) 2019 Lesson 3 Subtract 2-digit numbers (2) 2019 Lesson 4 Bonds to 100 (tens and ones) 2019

Answers: Lesson 1 answers Lesson-2-Answers Lesson-3-Answers Lesson-4-Answers

Video links: Video links Year-2-Week-4

Year 3 Worksheets: Lesson 1 The 4 and 8 times-tables 2019 Lesson 2 Multiply 2-digits by 1-digit (2) 2019 Lesson 3 Divide 2-digits by 1-digit (2) 2019 Lesson 4 Scaling 2019

Answers: Lesson 1 Answers The 4 and 8 times-tables 2019 Lesson 2 Answers Multiply 2-digits by 1-digit (2) 2019 Lesson 3 Answers Divide 2-digits by 1-digit (2) 2019 Lesson 4 Answers Scaling 2019

Video links: Video links Year-3-Week-4

We hope you have a great week and please do keep emailing us and telling us what you have been doing, what work you have done, photos, etc as we really love to hear from you.

Take care,

Mrs Thomas & Miss Moran

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5 years ago
Posted on 11th May 2020 by

Home Learning wb 11.05.20

Good morning Class 5!

I hope you’ve all had a super bank holiday weekend and are well-rested ready for another week of home school.

Thank you so much to everyone who has emailed this week – it’s great to keep in touch at this strange time.  I would like to create a photo gallery of things that you have been doing at home so if you’d like your photo on the website, email it to me before next Friday (15.05.20) so I can put it together.

Thank you to those of you who have managed to create your account with Reading Planet.  We have had some real problems with it this week and I’m unable to access my account at the moment so can’t assign any more books.  I know some people have had trouble accessing the books I have already assigned as well.  I have contacted Reading Planet and I am hoping this will be resolved quickly.  I will update via email when the problems have been rectified.

Here is your home learning for this week.

Class 5 Week 5 Learning Project

Any questions or problems, please let me know.

Have a great week!

Miss Carr

5 years ago
Posted on 11th May 2020 by

Home learning activities week beginning 11.05.2020

Hi Nursery Children and adults,

I hope you are all well and enjoyed the lovely weather last week.  This week I have 2 videos for you – Dear Zoo and The Hello song from Mrs Tan.

Thank you adults who have emailed me over the week, I have loved seeing all the children’s photos, videos and hearing your news.  If you haven’t been in touch yet, my email is – Nursery@bicton.shropshire.sch.uk

Ms Stone x

These two activity books contain plenty of activities for your child to do:

Dear-Zoo-activity-pack

Dear zoo activities 2

Literacy

Listen to me read the story and join in!

 

Make your own puppets or use your own small world animals to retell the story.

Maths

What animal did the child get first? Second?  Third etc?  What animal did the child get last?

How many animals were sent to the child?  (use your puppets/or small world animals for your child to count).

Which animal was the tallest? The smallest?

 

EAD

Baking:

Add animal faces onto cupcakes.

titled image (and shown) Zoo Animal Cupcakes

Here is a simple cupcake recipe:

INGREDIENTS

  • 125g butter softened/margarine
  • 125g caster sugar
  • 125g self raising flour
  • 2 large eggs, beaten
  • 1tsp vanilla extract

INSTRUCTIONS

  1. Preheat oven to 180C/gas mark 4.
  2. Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl.
  3. Stir in the beaten eggs and vanilla extract.
  4. Sift in the self raising flour and mix until just combined. Take care not to overmix.
  5. Transfer the mixture into cupcake cases, filling half way.
  6. Bake in oven for 20 minutes.
  7. When the cupcakes are ready they will have risen and be a golden brown colour. If in doubt, check they are cooked though by inserting a metal skewer/cocktail stick and checking if it comes out dry.
  8. When the cupcakes have cooled down on a wire rack, you can decorate them.

Music

Watch the Hello song from Mrs Tan 

Watch this musical version of the story

Sing – along to these animals songs

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Learn these animal songs with your child

Make animal masks and puppets:

Zoo animals crafts and activities for toddlers

 

PD

 

PSED

The child described the camel as ‘too grumpy’.  Do you ever get grumpy?  What makes you grumpy?  What to you to help you not feel grumpy?

 

 

5 years ago
Posted on 11th May 2020 by

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

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