Good afternoon boys and girls 🙂

I hope you and your family are all keeping well. The classroom is very strange and quiet without my room 4 gang – I’m missing you all lots!

Parents and Carers
I am aware this a very bizarre uncertain time and there may be many reasons why your child is unable to complete suggested learning tasks. Please do not worry about this and only do what you are able to. I understand that you may have concerns about the continuity of learning for your child. I would like to take this time to reassure you that at this stage in your child’s development play, over-learning and practical life skills are extremely important. I know that our children may be just as worried as we are at the moment. Their routine has drastically changed and they may just be realising the reality of what this means for them, such as not seeing their friends for quite a while. At the moment, it is important that they are happy and we look out for their mental well being (as well as your own!) so please do not force them to complete tasks and allow some time to readjust to this new way of learning. Don’t worry about them falling behind – every child is in the same boat and when we are back at school we will get them caught up.

A folder has been sent out which has a range of literacy and numeracy activities. Children can work through these in any order and at any pace for now. A suggested plan for an average day may be:

*2 Literacy activities
-reading or writing task from home learning folder
-spelling activity (see tabs at the top of this page for phonemes and common words)
* 15 minutes personal reading
*1 numeracy task
– task from home learning folder
– top maths marks games to encourage fast recall
*Exercise (outdoor games, online exercise ie GoNoodle or Joe Wicks)
*1 other activity (ICT, art, music etc)

Every day at 9am Joe Wicks is doing a PE session for 30 minutes. I have linked todays below.

I have sent home study ladder passwords. These are intended to be used a bit later on and for now the focus will be on the initial home learning pack – so please don’t worry about this at the moment.

On my previous post for children who were already self-isolating there are lots of suggested activities/websites. Please feel free to access these if and when you you’d like to.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Take care of yourselves, I’ll speak to you all soon!

Miss Laidlaw 🙂