The John Wesley Church of England & Methodist
Voluntary Aided Primary School
Flourishing in F.A.I.T.H. (Family, All Included, Thriving & Healthy)
Compassion'The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich to love' Psalm 145
Forgiveness 'Be kind & compassionate to one another, forgiving each other' Ephesians 4:32
Love'Love is patient and kind...Love never gives up' 1 Corinthians 13:4
Koinonia'Do all that you can live in peace with everyone' Romans 12:18
Wisdom'Wise men & women are always learning, always listening' Proverb 18:15
Service'There is more happiness giving than receiving' Acts 20:35
Hazel
Welcome to the Summer Term.
We hope you are all well and managing to get out in the fresh air as much as possible. Below you will find a variety of ideas for remote learning from your child's teacher. Please use these ideas when you think it is right for your family, don't stress about schoolwork. In September, we can get your children back on track. Right now what we can't do anything about is how your children are feeling. So please share your calm, strength, laughter and love with your children. Your children are exactly where they need to be at the moment.
Please phone the school office if there is anything we can help you with on 01233 614660 or email on office@john-wesley.org.uk
Seesaw/Education City/Purple Mash isn't working, what shall we do?
As all schools across the country are closed and are being told to teach remotely, the strain put on educational website has increased massively. As a result, lots of the educational websites we have suggested are not working as well as they should.
You can avoid the bottleneck times by accessing the learning at less busy times of the day. The busiest times of the day for these websites tends to be in the morning, so try in the afternoon or early evening.
If you cannot access any of the websites we are using, don't worry. We do not expect the work to be done if you can't get to it!
However, if you are in need of a few ideas, here's some activities you could try in the mean time:
Reading
- Read a book you haven't read before. (Oxford Owls has some good free books to read online!)
- Read and follow some instructions.
- Put your books in alphabetical order.
- Rank your story books from most to least favourite.
- Choose a word or a sound to hunt for - how many times can you find it?
- Read to your toys - they love books as well.
- Lots more ideas on this page
Writing
- Keep a diary every day. This is a really good way to get your feelings out and can be a really good piece of history. We are living through a major historical event!
- Make up a story about one of your favourite characters from a book or a film.
- Draw and write your own comic book.
- Write the lyrics to your favourite song, but change them a little bit!
- Use big chalks to practise writing on the pavement.
- Use different writing tools, like felt pens, crayons, chalk or paint to write with.
- Lots more ideas here
Maths
- Play Countdown. Can you make a target number using only random numbers?
- Counting - How many toys do you own?
- Sorting - Can you sort your toys into groups, based upon certain criteria (i.e. soft, fluffy, metal, plastic)
- Sorting - Can you order toys from largest to smallest? Heaviest to lightest?
- Find and write down all objects with numbers on them in the house. How many do you have?
- Measure and record the length of a bean plant as the days go on.
- Bake a cake
- How many small containers of water fit into one large container?
Other
Build a den from blankets and pillows. Use it as a reading area.
Make something using real tools. (With supervision!)
Make a treasure hunt around the house.
Look online for lots more ideas!
Remote Learning For Parents and Carers and Children, Too!
As we have never really been in a situation like this before, it is important to remember that we are all learning how to learn from home.
Before you dive head-first into your teacher’s activities, take a moment to read some top tips about learning from home.
FOR CHILDREN:
- Get yourself ‘ready for school’ before you start your home learning. Have breakfast, get washed and dressed to tell your brain it is ‘work time'.
- Make a special place for work. It could be a den, a desk or a quiet room. It is important that you can concentrate.
- READ! READ! READ! READ! Read something, anything, everyday! Reading is good for the soul, and is amazing for your brain. You can read books, papers, magazines, comics, instructions. There are loads of free books online you can read!
FOR PARENTS AND CARERS:
Learning will not just happen because of these activities. Learning is curiosity about the world. Foster curiosity by asking questions and being genuinely interested in the answers. Ask ‘why?’ a lot! A love of learning is more important than whether a work sheet has been done.
Environments that foster learning are calm. No one learns well under pressure. If you or your children are finding the task tricky, take a break and come back to it. If they really cannot get their head around it, try it in another way. Ideally, these activities should be as practical as possible.
These activities will not take as long as they do at school, because there are less children and less time for the teacher to explain things. If you have finished for the day, go in the garden, play some imaginative games, create a den, construct some crafts, make some art! Share these with us!
Welcome to the Spring Term
This term we will be exploring the seasons and the world!
We will be using our Connect Learning question “Where in the world would you like to live and why?” to learn more about our unique and quite wonderful home planet, Earth. We will be learning about the differences in weather across the world, as well as the differences in the seasons at home in the UK.
In our globalised world, we feel it is very important that our children experience as many different kinds of cultures as possible, in order to foster understanding and empathy, in line with our school’s Christian values. Speak to your children about your own culture and traditions to allow them to share these values with others! We would love to hear about the different ways that people live and compare them to our own!
There are lots of fantastic books to read this term on both topics, and importantly, the list is not exhaustive. Please bring in books from home you think we would like to read and feel free to suggest some more to us!
Weather
Rosie’s Hat – Julia Donaldson
Winter Poems - Various
Stick Man – Julia Donaldson
One Winter’s Day – Christina Butler
Geography
Flat Stanley –Jeff Brown
Meerkat Mail – Emily Gravett
Here We Are – Oliver Jeffers
The Snail and the Whale – Julia Donaldson
Year 1 Documents
Year 1 Spelling & Home Learning
Websites to help support your child’s learning
This list is not exhaustive, but these (mostly) free websites can help to continue to develop skills at home. Please let the class teacher know if you have found a good website we could add to our list!
GENERAL
Games for various subjects:https://www.ictgames.com/
Help for home learning: http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/
CBeebies: https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Scratch Jr (programming): https://www.scratchjr.org/
Hour Of code: https://hourofcode.com/uk/learn
ENGLISH
Purple Mash (School Login Required) https://www.purplemash.com/login/
Education City (School Login Required) https://www.educationcity.com/
PHONICS
Letters and Sounds:http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/
MATHS
Maths games:https://www.topmarks.co.uk/
Maths Playground: https://www.mathplayground.com/
Number Bonds:https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
CONNECTED LEARNING
British Antarctic Survey: https://www.bas.ac.uk/
Google Maps: https://www.google.com/maps
Google Earth: https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/
National Geographic Kids: http://www.natgeokids.com/uk/