Year 1 (KS1)Our curriculum is based around the core elements of the National Curriculum, alongside the principles of BLP, SMSC and British Values. We want our children to grow into exceptional learners as well as exemplary members of society.
In this section you can find information about the curriculum being taught in Year 1, including an overview of the topics throughout the year as well as more detailed information about what is taught term by term. |
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Yearly Curriculum Overview.
We use the "Floppy's Phonics" scheme for the teaching and learning of phonics throughout Year 1, with particular focus on completing Phases 3, 4 & 5 knowledge and understanding. For further information, please follow this link.
To support the teaching of Reading we have fidelity to one scheme, provided by ORT, that has direct links with the phonics teaching and learning, and is designed to help children develop their phonic knowledge, comprehension and speaking & listening skills.
Alongside this, children read for pleasure regularly and also in guided sessions, where the focus is on developing the specific reading content domains.
We use the "Floppy's Phonics" scheme for the teaching and learning of phonics throughout Year 1, with particular focus on completing Phases 3, 4 & 5 knowledge and understanding. For further information, please follow this link.
To support the teaching of Reading we have fidelity to one scheme, provided by ORT, that has direct links with the phonics teaching and learning, and is designed to help children develop their phonic knowledge, comprehension and speaking & listening skills.
Alongside this, children read for pleasure regularly and also in guided sessions, where the focus is on developing the specific reading content domains.
School Closure Provision:
As we begin what would have been the Summer Term, we wanted to write and let you know some more information about how we intend to move forward with finding that all important balance of ‘home-learning’ and ‘being at home’.
We have spent some time working out how best to do this and the staff are now going to be updating the Class Pages on our school website with suggested tasks, activities, videos and/or links to learning every week. These will be available from the Monday morning and are for you to access and complete when, and as, it suits. We are conscious that many of you are trying to balance working from home with caring for your children and so have deliberately chosen not to propose a rigid timetable or expectations of when work should be done. This, hopefully, provides you with the flexibility to respond to your child/ren’s needs and wants, as well as fitting around your work, and will ensure that no-one feels pressured or anxious about how much or how little they are doing at home.
As we begin what would have been the Summer Term, we wanted to write and let you know some more information about how we intend to move forward with finding that all important balance of ‘home-learning’ and ‘being at home’.
We have spent some time working out how best to do this and the staff are now going to be updating the Class Pages on our school website with suggested tasks, activities, videos and/or links to learning every week. These will be available from the Monday morning and are for you to access and complete when, and as, it suits. We are conscious that many of you are trying to balance working from home with caring for your children and so have deliberately chosen not to propose a rigid timetable or expectations of when work should be done. This, hopefully, provides you with the flexibility to respond to your child/ren’s needs and wants, as well as fitting around your work, and will ensure that no-one feels pressured or anxious about how much or how little they are doing at home.
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06 & 13/07/2020
A message from Mrs Salmon & Mrs Barratt Hi Year 1, we hope that you are all well and continuing to keep safe? We can’t believe that we are now in the final two weeks of the Summer Term. The weeks have gone by so quickly, especially since some of the children have returned to school. We continue to miss those children who have not returned, and look forward to being reunited with you all hopefully in September. Well done to all of you for working so hard at home and staying so positive, we are so proud of you! This has been a challenging time for us all, keep up the good work everyone. Over the next two weeks we are going to focus on celebrating some of the wonderful things we have learned this year and begin to think about the transition into Year 2. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for being such a wonderful class to teach. It has been an absolute pleasure to teach you and watch you grow. We know our Year was sadly cut short, but we have loved having you in Year 1 and are so proud of what you have achieved over the year and in these challenging circumstances. We have thoroughly enjoyed looking at all the work you have completed online. Have a wonderful Summer everyone, keep smiling and, remember, we are thinking of you all. Mrs Salmon & Mrs Barratt x Click here to read our letter for the start of the Summer Term. |
Mrs Salmon
Mrs Barratt
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Two extra extra-special messages this week, in video form - click on the videos below to watch...
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YEAR 1 MESSAGE
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STAFF MESSAGE
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Year 1 Discussion Board/Blog
For the Discussion board, click on this link to go to the new page set up specifically for you to comment, ask questions and keep in touch with each other and Mrs Salmon and Mrs Barratt or you can access it directly from the menu bar at the top of the page, using the drop down menus.
Please remember our class rules and be respectful and use it in a positive way.
At this point, all comments will be checked and approved before appearing on the website.
For the Discussion board, click on this link to go to the new page set up specifically for you to comment, ask questions and keep in touch with each other and Mrs Salmon and Mrs Barratt or you can access it directly from the menu bar at the top of the page, using the drop down menus.
Please remember our class rules and be respectful and use it in a positive way.
At this point, all comments will be checked and approved before appearing on the website.
Weeks Sixteen & Seventeen (06 & 13/07/2020)
End of term
Throughout the past 4 weeks, since welcoming children back into school, staff have continued to provide learning activities/opportunities for all children working at home, despite also working full time in class with those in school. Further to the letter on the home page of the website, from Mrs Gaughan, we just wanted to re-itterate that, as we move into the last two weeks of the Summer term, the level of work provided via the website will be reduced to reflect the increase in workload for all staff working in school - this includes (but is not limited to) assessments, children's reports and preparations for the full return of all children in September. We know that you will understand this and thank you for your on-going support.
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Keep up the work on Purple Mash. We have put some new activities on for Maths, Science and History.
Please also feel free to use the email facility on Purple Mash if you would like another way of sending Mrs Barratt and me messages.
Existing programs are still on for you to have a go at. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
As always, keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
Please log on to Purple Mash to find a range of interactive Maths activities. They will focus on topics that we have covered this year including:
Additionally, there are some activities below for the children to complete including a blank board game template for the children to create their own Maths game. Can they think of some maths questions/challenges for each box? You could even write some instructions for your board game using the instructions template from the English work section.
English
Please log on to Purple Mash to find a range of interactive English activities. They will focus on topics that we have covered this year including:
Additionally, there are some activities below for the children to complete including:
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk.
Science
In school the children have been discussing their favourite topics in Science. They loved learning about the ‘Animal Kingdom’. Using the template below, we would like the children to choose any animal and create a fact file for their chosen animal.
Things to consider:
History & Geography
In school the children have been discussing their favourite topics in History and Geography. They decided that they have loved learning about ‘Toys from the past’ in History, and ‘Amazing Africa’ in Geography. We would like the children to use their knowledge of these topics and complete some research with their families to create a project or leaflet on either ‘Toys from the past’ or ‘Amazing Africa’. If you’re up for a challenge you could do both!
They can present their project anyway they wish:
Art
The children decided that their favourite topic in Art was based on the famous artist ‘Andy Goldsworthy’. Below are a range of activities for the children to choose and complete. We hope they enjoy them.Have a look at this PowerPoint ‘Drawing from Nature’ draw from observation some of the pictures from the PowerPoint and see if you can make any of the sculptures using items from your garden.
Transition
For our final week in school we are going to focus on some transition activities ready for the children to move into Year 2. We will be giving the children time to reflect on the year they have had in Year 1 and how they are feeling about their move into Year 2. There are a range of links and resources below for the children to look at and complete at home.
End of term
Throughout the past 4 weeks, since welcoming children back into school, staff have continued to provide learning activities/opportunities for all children working at home, despite also working full time in class with those in school. Further to the letter on the home page of the website, from Mrs Gaughan, we just wanted to re-itterate that, as we move into the last two weeks of the Summer term, the level of work provided via the website will be reduced to reflect the increase in workload for all staff working in school - this includes (but is not limited to) assessments, children's reports and preparations for the full return of all children in September. We know that you will understand this and thank you for your on-going support.
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Keep up the work on Purple Mash. We have put some new activities on for Maths, Science and History.
Please also feel free to use the email facility on Purple Mash if you would like another way of sending Mrs Barratt and me messages.
Existing programs are still on for you to have a go at. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
As always, keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
Please log on to Purple Mash to find a range of interactive Maths activities. They will focus on topics that we have covered this year including:
- Shape
- Time
- Addition
- Subtraction
- Measuring
- Position and Direction
Additionally, there are some activities below for the children to complete including a blank board game template for the children to create their own Maths game. Can they think of some maths questions/challenges for each box? You could even write some instructions for your board game using the instructions template from the English work section.
- Try revising your place value skills with this ‘Place Value and number booklet’
- Board game template
- Try revising your addition and subtraction skills with this ‘Addition and Subtraction skills booklet’
- Have a go at these Year 1 ‘Maths activity mat 1’ and ‘Maths activity mat 2’
English
Please log on to Purple Mash to find a range of interactive English activities. They will focus on topics that we have covered this year including:
- Traditional tales
- Non-fiction texts
- Spelling
- Handwriting
- Reading
Additionally, there are some activities below for the children to complete including:
- Practise reading your Phase 5 words with this game Phase 5 sentences snakes and ladders reading game
- Can you think of some fun explanations/stories for the pictures with these Year 1 creative writing frames
- Use this spelling mat to revise all the Year 1 Common Exception words colouring
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk.
Science
In school the children have been discussing their favourite topics in Science. They loved learning about the ‘Animal Kingdom’. Using the template below, we would like the children to choose any animal and create a fact file for their chosen animal.
Things to consider:
- What do they like to eat?
- Are they an omnivore, herbivore or carnivore?
- Do they have any special features such as camouflage?
- Which animal group are they from? (mammals, reptile birds.etc.)
History & Geography
In school the children have been discussing their favourite topics in History and Geography. They decided that they have loved learning about ‘Toys from the past’ in History, and ‘Amazing Africa’ in Geography. We would like the children to use their knowledge of these topics and complete some research with their families to create a project or leaflet on either ‘Toys from the past’ or ‘Amazing Africa’. If you’re up for a challenge you could do both!
They can present their project anyway they wish:
- Using arts and crafts from home
- This leaflet template
- Electronically on Word or by PowerPoint
- Using Purple Mash
- Choose a Victorian toy or toy from the past to research
- The differences between toys from Victorian times to today
- Early 20th Century toys
- Africa 10 top facts
- Compare life from your local area to a village in Africa
- All about Kenya
Art
The children decided that their favourite topic in Art was based on the famous artist ‘Andy Goldsworthy’. Below are a range of activities for the children to choose and complete. We hope they enjoy them.Have a look at this PowerPoint ‘Drawing from Nature’ draw from observation some of the pictures from the PowerPoint and see if you can make any of the sculptures using items from your garden.
Transition
For our final week in school we are going to focus on some transition activities ready for the children to move into Year 2. We will be giving the children time to reflect on the year they have had in Year 1 and how they are feeling about their move into Year 2. There are a range of links and resources below for the children to look at and complete at home.
Physical Development
Local schools have started competing in a virtual games challenge and we would really like our school to get involved. On the main school Home Page you will find a link to PE Provision. (It’s right at the top) Click on and register for the School Games.
This week we want you to get involved with the South Solihull Sports Partnership ‘Olyp-mix.’ The CSW Virtual Olymp-Mix starts Monday 29th June for 2 weeks (ending on Friday, 10th July).
Watch the CSW SGO launch video here - https://youtu.be/s-RSVM64l70
Click on the link below to find out what you have to do. Don't forget to go to www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CSWVirtualOlympics to enter your results.
This is your chance to compete against pupils from other local schools. It would be great to see you get involved. You don’t have to take photos, though you can if you want. Just click the survey monkey link on the last page to enter your results. To win you don’t have to get the highest scores – just the highest % of pupils entering. Come on George Fentham, you can do it!!!!
Local schools have started competing in a virtual games challenge and we would really like our school to get involved. On the main school Home Page you will find a link to PE Provision. (It’s right at the top) Click on and register for the School Games.
This week we want you to get involved with the South Solihull Sports Partnership ‘Olyp-mix.’ The CSW Virtual Olymp-Mix starts Monday 29th June for 2 weeks (ending on Friday, 10th July).
Watch the CSW SGO launch video here - https://youtu.be/s-RSVM64l70
Click on the link below to find out what you have to do. Don't forget to go to www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CSWVirtualOlympics to enter your results.
This is your chance to compete against pupils from other local schools. It would be great to see you get involved. You don’t have to take photos, though you can if you want. Just click the survey monkey link on the last page to enter your results. To win you don’t have to get the highest scores – just the highest % of pupils entering. Come on George Fentham, you can do it!!!!
Week Fifteen (29/06/2020)
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Keep up the work on Purple Mash. We have put some new activities on for Maths, Science and History.
Please also feel free to use the email facility on Purple Mash if you would like another way of sending Mrs Barratt and me messages.
Existing programs are still on for you to have a go at. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
As always, keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
This week we are revisiting and learning about position and direction. We have set out the work below like last week to help you organise your days. Please remember that you can do any of the activities. We give you a guide as to what to do but you will know your child and they may want to be challenged further.
Monday – Today we will be focusing on the language left, right, up and down, forwards and backwards to describe the position of something. This PowerPoint will help you. Monday PPT.pptx
Activities to all have a go at:
Monday Describe-routes all groups.pdf
Monday Where’s Wally Game all groups.doc
Individual activity
Monday Red Group activity.doc
Monday Yellow and Green group.doc
Monday Follow the steps Orange and Blue.docx
Tuesday – Today we will be continuing to describe position, direction and movement. This PowerPoint will help with today’s activities Tuesday PPT.pptx
Individual activity:
Tuesday Describe-position.pdf Red group 1 star, yellow and green group 2 stars and orange and blue, 3 stars. The final page is a challenge that you might like to have a go at
Wednesday – Today we are focusing on describing in more detail, using key vocabulary, the position of different objects. See PowerPoint. Wednesday powerpoint.pptx
All children to complete Wednesday Activity.docx
Thursday – In today’s lesson the children will continue to describe the position of objects in relation to each other. Each day the vocabulary is increasing and discussion on the language to use is developing. See PowerPoint Thursday PPT.pptx
Activities to complete are:
Thursday Red Group.doc
Thursday yellow and green group.doc
Thursday Orange and blue group.doc
Friday – Today we will be exploring turns made by shapes and objects. They will use language such as full, half, quarter and three quarter turns to describe how the shapes have moved. See PowerPoint Friday PPT.pptx
Individual activity:
Friday Describe-turns.pdf Red group 1 star, yellow and green group 2 stars and orange and blue, 3 stars. The final page is a challenge that you might like to have a go at.
English
For English this week, we have listed the activities by days again, in case you want to have more of a structure for when to complete them.
Monday
Today we are recapping on the conjunction ‘and’ and how it helps us to join two sentences together, making our sentences longer. Monday using-and-to-join-words-and-clauses-warmup-powerpoint.ppt
Theo's party and sheet using and differentiated.pdf These are differentiated sheet called Theo’s party. There are a range of activities such as joining and matching sentences with ‘and’. There are some challenges at the bottom of the sheet for you to try if you are zooming!
Tuesday
Today we are focusing on ‘singular’ and ‘plural’ words. e.g. one boy, two boys, one girl, two girls. Can you hear the ‘s’ at the end of these words? This PowerPoint will help explain adding s and es to make plural.ppt
Activities to choose and complete – Animal Plurals s.pdf and/or Animal Plurals s and es.pdf
Wednesday
Handwriting and spelling activity Year 1 and 2 spelling word lists Please note, this week we are only focusing on the 7th and 8th pages of this document, the words are I, You, Go, So, By, My, Here, Where, There, Love)
Extension: Compose a sentence for each of the 10 words. Remember capital letters and full stops, finger spaces and handwriting. It is important to remember to check through each sentence to check it makes sense.
Thursday
Today we are going to revise the different punctuation marks that we already know or have seen and focus on question marks. Please look at the punctuation PowerPoint which has a range of activities to complete. question marks.ppt
Activities to complete, choose your own level:
Activity Sheet Asking Questions differentiated.pdf
Go to BBC Bitesize to learn more about question marks:
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8x6cj6/articles/zcm3qhv
Friday
Today we will be reading the story ‘The best dress ever’ this is an interactive PowerPoint with lots of comprehension questions. Share this with your family and see how many questions you can answer. After reading the story have a go at one of the following:
• Draw a picture of your favourite part and write in 3 full sentences why you enjoyed the story.
• Create a character profile of your favourite character.
• Create a new ending for the story
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk.
Art
As we have been looking at old and new toys in History, we thought you might like to have a go at making some paper toys of your own. Below are 4 PDF documents that give clear instructions on how to make a number of different toys made out of paper. Two of the PDF files are slides to talk you through and two PDF’s are the sheets to print and make. There are a lot of sheets, so you might want to just choose one toy to make before printing everything! You made need help from an adult. You may want to make them all! It is entirely up to you. We thought it would be a little bit of fun for you all to try. We would love to see some pictures. You can email the school with your pictures, for us to see.
Creating Paper Toys Slide1.pdf
Creating Paper Toys Work1.pdf
Creating Paper Toys Slide2.pdf
Creating Paper Toys Work2.pdf
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Keep up the work on Purple Mash. We have put some new activities on for Maths, Science and History.
Please also feel free to use the email facility on Purple Mash if you would like another way of sending Mrs Barratt and me messages.
Existing programs are still on for you to have a go at. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
As always, keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
This week we are revisiting and learning about position and direction. We have set out the work below like last week to help you organise your days. Please remember that you can do any of the activities. We give you a guide as to what to do but you will know your child and they may want to be challenged further.
Monday – Today we will be focusing on the language left, right, up and down, forwards and backwards to describe the position of something. This PowerPoint will help you. Monday PPT.pptx
Activities to all have a go at:
Monday Describe-routes all groups.pdf
Monday Where’s Wally Game all groups.doc
Individual activity
Monday Red Group activity.doc
Monday Yellow and Green group.doc
Monday Follow the steps Orange and Blue.docx
Tuesday – Today we will be continuing to describe position, direction and movement. This PowerPoint will help with today’s activities Tuesday PPT.pptx
Individual activity:
Tuesday Describe-position.pdf Red group 1 star, yellow and green group 2 stars and orange and blue, 3 stars. The final page is a challenge that you might like to have a go at
Wednesday – Today we are focusing on describing in more detail, using key vocabulary, the position of different objects. See PowerPoint. Wednesday powerpoint.pptx
All children to complete Wednesday Activity.docx
Thursday – In today’s lesson the children will continue to describe the position of objects in relation to each other. Each day the vocabulary is increasing and discussion on the language to use is developing. See PowerPoint Thursday PPT.pptx
Activities to complete are:
Thursday Red Group.doc
Thursday yellow and green group.doc
Thursday Orange and blue group.doc
Friday – Today we will be exploring turns made by shapes and objects. They will use language such as full, half, quarter and three quarter turns to describe how the shapes have moved. See PowerPoint Friday PPT.pptx
Individual activity:
Friday Describe-turns.pdf Red group 1 star, yellow and green group 2 stars and orange and blue, 3 stars. The final page is a challenge that you might like to have a go at.
English
For English this week, we have listed the activities by days again, in case you want to have more of a structure for when to complete them.
Monday
Today we are recapping on the conjunction ‘and’ and how it helps us to join two sentences together, making our sentences longer. Monday using-and-to-join-words-and-clauses-warmup-powerpoint.ppt
Theo's party and sheet using and differentiated.pdf These are differentiated sheet called Theo’s party. There are a range of activities such as joining and matching sentences with ‘and’. There are some challenges at the bottom of the sheet for you to try if you are zooming!
Tuesday
Today we are focusing on ‘singular’ and ‘plural’ words. e.g. one boy, two boys, one girl, two girls. Can you hear the ‘s’ at the end of these words? This PowerPoint will help explain adding s and es to make plural.ppt
Activities to choose and complete – Animal Plurals s.pdf and/or Animal Plurals s and es.pdf
Wednesday
Handwriting and spelling activity Year 1 and 2 spelling word lists Please note, this week we are only focusing on the 7th and 8th pages of this document, the words are I, You, Go, So, By, My, Here, Where, There, Love)
Extension: Compose a sentence for each of the 10 words. Remember capital letters and full stops, finger spaces and handwriting. It is important to remember to check through each sentence to check it makes sense.
Thursday
Today we are going to revise the different punctuation marks that we already know or have seen and focus on question marks. Please look at the punctuation PowerPoint which has a range of activities to complete. question marks.ppt
Activities to complete, choose your own level:
Activity Sheet Asking Questions differentiated.pdf
Go to BBC Bitesize to learn more about question marks:
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8x6cj6/articles/zcm3qhv
Friday
Today we will be reading the story ‘The best dress ever’ this is an interactive PowerPoint with lots of comprehension questions. Share this with your family and see how many questions you can answer. After reading the story have a go at one of the following:
• Draw a picture of your favourite part and write in 3 full sentences why you enjoyed the story.
• Create a character profile of your favourite character.
• Create a new ending for the story
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk.
Art
As we have been looking at old and new toys in History, we thought you might like to have a go at making some paper toys of your own. Below are 4 PDF documents that give clear instructions on how to make a number of different toys made out of paper. Two of the PDF files are slides to talk you through and two PDF’s are the sheets to print and make. There are a lot of sheets, so you might want to just choose one toy to make before printing everything! You made need help from an adult. You may want to make them all! It is entirely up to you. We thought it would be a little bit of fun for you all to try. We would love to see some pictures. You can email the school with your pictures, for us to see.
Creating Paper Toys Slide1.pdf
Creating Paper Toys Work1.pdf
Creating Paper Toys Slide2.pdf
Creating Paper Toys Work2.pdf
PE
Local schools have started competing in a virtual games challenge and we would really like our school to get involved. On the main school Home Page you will find a link to PE Provision. (It’s right at the top) Click on and register for the School Games.
This week we want you to get involved with the South Solihull Sports Partnership ‘Olyp-mix.’ The CSW Virtual Olymp-Mix starts Monday 29th June.
Watch the CSW SGO launch video here - https://youtu.be/s-RSVM64l70
Click on the link below to find out what you have to do. Don't forget to go to www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CSWVirtualOlympics to enter your results.
This is your chance to compete against pupils from other local schools. It would be great to see you get involved. You don’t have to take photos, though you can if you want. Just click the survey monkey link on the last page to enter your results. To win you don’t have to get the highest scores – just the highest % of pupils entering. Come on George Fentham, you can do it!!!!
Local schools have started competing in a virtual games challenge and we would really like our school to get involved. On the main school Home Page you will find a link to PE Provision. (It’s right at the top) Click on and register for the School Games.
This week we want you to get involved with the South Solihull Sports Partnership ‘Olyp-mix.’ The CSW Virtual Olymp-Mix starts Monday 29th June.
Watch the CSW SGO launch video here - https://youtu.be/s-RSVM64l70
Click on the link below to find out what you have to do. Don't forget to go to www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CSWVirtualOlympics to enter your results.
This is your chance to compete against pupils from other local schools. It would be great to see you get involved. You don’t have to take photos, though you can if you want. Just click the survey monkey link on the last page to enter your results. To win you don’t have to get the highest scores – just the highest % of pupils entering. Come on George Fentham, you can do it!!!!
Week Fourteen (22/06/2020)
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Keep up the work on Purple Mash. We have put some new activities on for Maths, Science and History.
Please also feel free to use the email facility on Purple Mash if you would like another way of sending Mrs Barratt and me messages.
Existing programs are still on for you to have a go at. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
As always, keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
PE
Local schools have started competing in a virtual games challenge and we would really like our school to get involved. On the main school Home Page you will find a link to PE Provision. (It’s right at the top) Click on and register for the School Games.
It is GEORGE FENTHAM VIRTUAL SPORTS DAY week. Make sure you click onto the main PE provision page to find out how to get involved. We are going to have a school competition and send out certificates to the class that completes the most challenges. So come on Year 1, let's win the George Fentham Virtual Sports Day!!!!
Maths
This week we will be focusing on counting in 10’s and finding 10 more and 10 less than a number.
Here is a useful PowerPoint that will support the teaching of this for the week ahead:
10 more and 10 less PowerPoint
1.
Firstly, we will be finding 10 more than any number to 100. We would like you to look at a 100 square. Use the 100 square to count in 2’s from any given number up to 100. Practise counting back in 2’s from 100. Repeat this for counting in 5’s and 10’s. Last week we were counting in multiples of 10’s. This week we are still going to be counting in 10’s, but thinking about what is 10 more than any number up to 20, 50 or 100.
Show Youtube clip but stop at 2 minutes 33 seconds as the first part is just looking at adding 10 more.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2O8uhq5lLg
Then please complete the following activity, remember to choose your colour math’s group:
Red Group : 10 more activity
Yellow and Green Group: 10 more activity
Orange and Blue Group: 10 more activity
2.
In our second lesson of the week we will be focusing on finding 10 less than any number to 100. Show 100-square. Remind children that they can find 10 more than any number using the 100-square. Explain that it is just as easy to work out 10 less.
Repeat as yesterday but counting 10 less and moving above the number on the hundred square to show 10 less.
Show YouTube clip from 2.33 and finding 10 less. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2O8uhq5lLg
Red Group : 10 less activity
Yellow and Green Group: 10 less activity
Orange and Blue Group: 10 less activity
3.
In our third lesson of the week we will be focusing on finding 10 more and 10 less than any 2-digit number. Begin the session with looking at 100-sqaure. Remind the children about what they have done so far this week. How do we find 10 more? How do we find 10 less? Choose a 2-digit number on the 100-square, can they find 10 more and 10 less? Repeat until children are confident. Remind the children of the PowerPoint from the start of the week. Then complete the activities below:
Red, Yellow and Green Group: 10 more and 10 less (Red Group focus on page 1)
Orange and Blue Group: 10 more and 10 less
4.
Finally, we will be looking at finding missing numbers in the 10’s number sequence. Recap on previous lessons counting 10 more and 10 less. Show how counting in 10’s can be shown in different ways. Show the top marks online game:
www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering
Then complete the following activities:
Red Group: Missing numbers
Yellow and Green Group: Missing numbers
Orange and Blue Group: Missing numbers
5.
In addition, please continue to log on to Purple Mash to find a range of online Maths activities linked to our topics for this week: counting in 10’s and finding 10 more and 10 less than a number.
English
This week in English we are going to continue focusing on our key skills and ‘Traditional tales’.
1.
To start our week, we will continue to practise handwriting and spelling skills. We will be continuing with the booklet we have been working through over the past 2 weeks. This week we would like the children to focus on pages 5 and 6 of the booklet.
Extension: Compose a sentence for each of the 10 words. Remember capital letters and full stops, finger spaces and handwriting. It is important to remember to check through each sentence to check it makes sense.
Handwriting and Spelling document (pages 5 and 6 only)
2.
Then we will be reading the story of ‘Formidable Sid’ this is an e-book. Share this with your family and have a go at the comprehension questions together. You can record these on the sheet or discuss them with your family.
Formidable Sid – E-book
Formidable Sid Comprehension
3.
We will then be recapping the features of ‘Traditional Tales’ Please share the PowerPoint below and discuss the questions together with your family. Once you have read the PowerPoint have a go at completing the ‘Features of Traditional Tales’ activity. Remember to find your work group.
Features of Traditional Tale’s – PowerPoint
Features of Traditional tale’s activity
4.
To end the week, we will be reading the Traditional tale ‘Billy Goats Gruff’. Share the PowerPoint story with your family. Discuss the characters and talk about where the story is set. What other story settings can you think of? There are then two activities to complete below:
The troll character description
Describe the story setting.
5.
In addition, please continue to log on to Purple Mash to find a range of online English activities linked to our topics for this week.
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk.
Science
Today we are going to revise animal groups. We will be identifying and naming a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Share the PowerPoint on animal groups and classification. Talk through each animal group and why they belong to that group.
Which group do we belong to and why?
Using the information from the PowerPoint to help you, complete the activities below, remember to find your work group:
Animal groups activity
Animal Groups PowerPoint
History
This week in school we are focusing on Popular Early 20th Century Toys: Explain that these toys are the original version of the toys they play with today; this was when they were first made. Are any of them familiar? Discuss the questions on the slide. Click on each box on the timeline to read through the information about each toy.
Popular Early 20th Century Toys PowerPoint
Comparison: Show children a teddy from today. How does your teddy compare to the old one? What is similar about them? What is different? Why? Children then use the Toy Comparison Activity Sheet to complete the relevant activity. Can children identify similarities and differences?
Toy Comparison Activity sheet
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Keep up the work on Purple Mash. We have put some new activities on for Maths, Science and History.
Please also feel free to use the email facility on Purple Mash if you would like another way of sending Mrs Barratt and me messages.
Existing programs are still on for you to have a go at. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
As always, keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
PE
Local schools have started competing in a virtual games challenge and we would really like our school to get involved. On the main school Home Page you will find a link to PE Provision. (It’s right at the top) Click on and register for the School Games.
It is GEORGE FENTHAM VIRTUAL SPORTS DAY week. Make sure you click onto the main PE provision page to find out how to get involved. We are going to have a school competition and send out certificates to the class that completes the most challenges. So come on Year 1, let's win the George Fentham Virtual Sports Day!!!!
Maths
This week we will be focusing on counting in 10’s and finding 10 more and 10 less than a number.
Here is a useful PowerPoint that will support the teaching of this for the week ahead:
10 more and 10 less PowerPoint
1.
Firstly, we will be finding 10 more than any number to 100. We would like you to look at a 100 square. Use the 100 square to count in 2’s from any given number up to 100. Practise counting back in 2’s from 100. Repeat this for counting in 5’s and 10’s. Last week we were counting in multiples of 10’s. This week we are still going to be counting in 10’s, but thinking about what is 10 more than any number up to 20, 50 or 100.
Show Youtube clip but stop at 2 minutes 33 seconds as the first part is just looking at adding 10 more.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2O8uhq5lLg
Then please complete the following activity, remember to choose your colour math’s group:
Red Group : 10 more activity
Yellow and Green Group: 10 more activity
Orange and Blue Group: 10 more activity
2.
In our second lesson of the week we will be focusing on finding 10 less than any number to 100. Show 100-square. Remind children that they can find 10 more than any number using the 100-square. Explain that it is just as easy to work out 10 less.
Repeat as yesterday but counting 10 less and moving above the number on the hundred square to show 10 less.
Show YouTube clip from 2.33 and finding 10 less. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2O8uhq5lLg
Red Group : 10 less activity
Yellow and Green Group: 10 less activity
Orange and Blue Group: 10 less activity
3.
In our third lesson of the week we will be focusing on finding 10 more and 10 less than any 2-digit number. Begin the session with looking at 100-sqaure. Remind the children about what they have done so far this week. How do we find 10 more? How do we find 10 less? Choose a 2-digit number on the 100-square, can they find 10 more and 10 less? Repeat until children are confident. Remind the children of the PowerPoint from the start of the week. Then complete the activities below:
Red, Yellow and Green Group: 10 more and 10 less (Red Group focus on page 1)
Orange and Blue Group: 10 more and 10 less
4.
Finally, we will be looking at finding missing numbers in the 10’s number sequence. Recap on previous lessons counting 10 more and 10 less. Show how counting in 10’s can be shown in different ways. Show the top marks online game:
www.topmarks.co.uk/ordering-and-sequencing/caterpillar-ordering
Then complete the following activities:
Red Group: Missing numbers
Yellow and Green Group: Missing numbers
Orange and Blue Group: Missing numbers
5.
In addition, please continue to log on to Purple Mash to find a range of online Maths activities linked to our topics for this week: counting in 10’s and finding 10 more and 10 less than a number.
English
This week in English we are going to continue focusing on our key skills and ‘Traditional tales’.
1.
To start our week, we will continue to practise handwriting and spelling skills. We will be continuing with the booklet we have been working through over the past 2 weeks. This week we would like the children to focus on pages 5 and 6 of the booklet.
Extension: Compose a sentence for each of the 10 words. Remember capital letters and full stops, finger spaces and handwriting. It is important to remember to check through each sentence to check it makes sense.
Handwriting and Spelling document (pages 5 and 6 only)
2.
Then we will be reading the story of ‘Formidable Sid’ this is an e-book. Share this with your family and have a go at the comprehension questions together. You can record these on the sheet or discuss them with your family.
Formidable Sid – E-book
Formidable Sid Comprehension
3.
We will then be recapping the features of ‘Traditional Tales’ Please share the PowerPoint below and discuss the questions together with your family. Once you have read the PowerPoint have a go at completing the ‘Features of Traditional Tales’ activity. Remember to find your work group.
Features of Traditional Tale’s – PowerPoint
Features of Traditional tale’s activity
4.
To end the week, we will be reading the Traditional tale ‘Billy Goats Gruff’. Share the PowerPoint story with your family. Discuss the characters and talk about where the story is set. What other story settings can you think of? There are then two activities to complete below:
The troll character description
Describe the story setting.
5.
In addition, please continue to log on to Purple Mash to find a range of online English activities linked to our topics for this week.
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk.
Science
Today we are going to revise animal groups. We will be identifying and naming a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Share the PowerPoint on animal groups and classification. Talk through each animal group and why they belong to that group.
Which group do we belong to and why?
Using the information from the PowerPoint to help you, complete the activities below, remember to find your work group:
Animal groups activity
Animal Groups PowerPoint
History
This week in school we are focusing on Popular Early 20th Century Toys: Explain that these toys are the original version of the toys they play with today; this was when they were first made. Are any of them familiar? Discuss the questions on the slide. Click on each box on the timeline to read through the information about each toy.
Popular Early 20th Century Toys PowerPoint
Comparison: Show children a teddy from today. How does your teddy compare to the old one? What is similar about them? What is different? Why? Children then use the Toy Comparison Activity Sheet to complete the relevant activity. Can children identify similarities and differences?
Toy Comparison Activity sheet
Week Thirteen (15/06/2020)
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Keep up the work on Purple Mash. We have put some new activities on for Maths, Science and History.
Please also feel free to use the email facility on Purple Mash if you would like another way of sending Mrs Barratt and me messages.
Existing programs are still on for you to have a go at. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
As always, keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
This week we are recapping on odd and even numbers and learning how to count in 2s, 5s and 10s confidently.
We have listed below what we will be focusing on each day, in school. This may help you to organise your days as to when you want to do the activities.
Monday – Have a look at the PowerPoint on odd and even numbers. Odd Todd and Even Steven.pptx
This is an optional video to watch explaining odd and even numbers in more detail for those that are still unsure. https://youtu.be/3iQqmmG8wQQ
Activity Sheet Gone Fishing.pdf – Red and Yellow groups to complete the sheet with 1 star. Green and Orange groups to complete the sheet with 2 stars and Blue group to complete the sheet with 3 stars. Remember that you can have a go at the next sheet up if you fancy a challenge.
Challenge activity - Challenge.pdf
Tuesday
Today we are counting in 2s. This PowerPoint will help you to understand. Counting in Twos.pptx
Activity Sheet Jumping in Twos.pdf – Red and Yellow groups to complete the sheet with 1 star. Green and Orange groups to complete the sheet with 2 stars and Blue group to complete the sheet with 3 stars. Remember that you can have a go at the next sheet up if you fancy a challenge.
Challenge activity – Challenge1.pdf
Wednesday
Today we are counting in 5s. This Powerpoint will help you. Follow it through and complete the activities as you go. Little Red.pptx
Activity Sheet Find the Way to Grandma's.pdf – Red and Yellow groups to complete the sheet with 1 star. Green and Orange groups to complete the sheet with 2 stars and Blue group to complete the sheet with 3 stars. Remember that you can have a go at the next sheet up if you fancy a challenge.
Challenge activity – Challenge2.pdf
Activity Sheet Crack the Code.pd
Pack the Basket Activity.pdf
Thursday
Today is about counting in 10s. This PowerPoints will help you. Steps of Ten.ppt
Activity Sheet Missing Numbers.pdf – Red and Yellow groups to complete the sheet with 1 star. Green and Orange groups to complete the sheet with 2 stars and Blue group to complete the sheet with 3 stars. Remember that you can have a go at the next sheet up if you fancy a challenge.
Challenge activity – Challenge3.pdf
Towers of Ten Cards.pdf Play in pairs with the cards face down. Take it in turns to choose a card.
You can choose to count up or back from that number in steps of ten. If you get it right, you can keep the card. The child with the most cards wins the game.
Friday
Activities to consolidate this week’s learning:
Simple 2 5 10 word problems.doc
Draw a picture.docx
counting-in-2s-and-tens.docx
counting in 2s 5s and 10s activity sheet.pdf
English
For English this week, we have listed the activities by days again, in case you want to have more of a structure for when to complete them.
Monday
Today we are recapping on what a verb is and how to use it in a sentence. This verb PowerPoint Monday Verbs Powerpoint.ppt has an activity for the children to complete, finding the verb.
Go to BBC Bitesize to learn more about verbs:
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrqqtfr/articles/zpxhdxs
Activity - Monday- Using Verbs differentiated sheet.pdf Giraffes and Lions to complete the sheet with 1 star, Elephants and cheetahs to complete the sheet with 2 stars and Meerkats to complete the sheet with 3 stars.
Tuesday
Today we are going to practise adding the suffix –ed to words. Please go through the PowerPoint Suffixes -ed.ppt first and complete activities.
Activities to complete –
Giraffes Activity Sheet Do We Need ed giraffes.pdf
Lions and Elephants Activity Sheet Sorting ed Sounds - lions and elephants.pdf
Cheetahs and Meerkats Activity Sheet Adding -ed cheetahs and meerkats.pdf
Wednesday
Handwriting and spelling activity Year 1 and 2 spelling word lists.pdf (Please note, this week we are only focusing on the third and fourth pages of this document, the words are Be He She Me We No Come Some One Once)
Extension: Compose a sentence for each of the 10 words. Remember capital letters and full stops, finger spaces and handwriting. It is important to remember to check through each sentence to check it makes sense.
Thursday
Today we will be reading the story ‘Knights and Dragons Unite’ this is an interactive PowerPoint with lots of comprehension questions. Share this with your family and see how many questions you can answer.
knights and dragons.pptx
Friday
Today we are going to revise adjectives. Please look at the adjectives PowerPoint which has a range of activities to complete. Friday Adjectives powerpoint.ppt
Go to BBC Bitesize to learn more about adjectives:
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrqqtfr/articles/zy2r6yc
Activities to complete:
Adjectives Comprehension Giraffes.pdf
Adjective Alphabet lions and elephants.pdf
Adding Adjectives to Expand Noun Phrases cheetahs and meerkats.pdf
Extension activity: Select an Adjective Word Cards extra activity.pdf
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk .
D & T
In Design and Technology this term, we would have been making our very own pizzas. However, as we all know, this cannot happen unfortunately. BUT, you might want to experiment at home with favourite toppings, types of bases for your pizza and finally make your own, with the guidance from your parents.
Optional – Use this activity sheet to explore the different toppings that you might find on a pizza. Which is your favourite? Pizza toppings.docx
Use this activity sheet to taste different types of breads and choose which one is suitable for your pizza. bread tasting.doc
This sheet will help you to design your very own pizza. Pizza design.doc
Can you have a go at making your own pizza and eating it? Perhaps you could take a picture and send it to school email or use the email system on Purple Mash to upload a picture for us to see.
PE
Local schools have started competing in a virtual games challenge and we would really like our school to get involved. On the main school Home Page you will find a link to PE Provision. (It’s right at the top) Click on and register for the School Games.
This week’s virtual games challenge is BASKETBALL and we would really like you to get involved. This link BASKETBALL CHALLENGE shows you what to do and how to enter. You will also find this information on the PE Provision during COVID 19 page at the top of the main school home page.
Come on you can do it! We’d love to see your name on the weekly championship table!!!
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Keep up the work on Purple Mash. We have put some new activities on for Maths, Science and History.
Please also feel free to use the email facility on Purple Mash if you would like another way of sending Mrs Barratt and me messages.
Existing programs are still on for you to have a go at. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
As always, keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
This week we are recapping on odd and even numbers and learning how to count in 2s, 5s and 10s confidently.
We have listed below what we will be focusing on each day, in school. This may help you to organise your days as to when you want to do the activities.
Monday – Have a look at the PowerPoint on odd and even numbers. Odd Todd and Even Steven.pptx
This is an optional video to watch explaining odd and even numbers in more detail for those that are still unsure. https://youtu.be/3iQqmmG8wQQ
Activity Sheet Gone Fishing.pdf – Red and Yellow groups to complete the sheet with 1 star. Green and Orange groups to complete the sheet with 2 stars and Blue group to complete the sheet with 3 stars. Remember that you can have a go at the next sheet up if you fancy a challenge.
Challenge activity - Challenge.pdf
Tuesday
Today we are counting in 2s. This PowerPoint will help you to understand. Counting in Twos.pptx
Activity Sheet Jumping in Twos.pdf – Red and Yellow groups to complete the sheet with 1 star. Green and Orange groups to complete the sheet with 2 stars and Blue group to complete the sheet with 3 stars. Remember that you can have a go at the next sheet up if you fancy a challenge.
Challenge activity – Challenge1.pdf
Wednesday
Today we are counting in 5s. This Powerpoint will help you. Follow it through and complete the activities as you go. Little Red.pptx
Activity Sheet Find the Way to Grandma's.pdf – Red and Yellow groups to complete the sheet with 1 star. Green and Orange groups to complete the sheet with 2 stars and Blue group to complete the sheet with 3 stars. Remember that you can have a go at the next sheet up if you fancy a challenge.
Challenge activity – Challenge2.pdf
Activity Sheet Crack the Code.pd
Pack the Basket Activity.pdf
Thursday
Today is about counting in 10s. This PowerPoints will help you. Steps of Ten.ppt
Activity Sheet Missing Numbers.pdf – Red and Yellow groups to complete the sheet with 1 star. Green and Orange groups to complete the sheet with 2 stars and Blue group to complete the sheet with 3 stars. Remember that you can have a go at the next sheet up if you fancy a challenge.
Challenge activity – Challenge3.pdf
Towers of Ten Cards.pdf Play in pairs with the cards face down. Take it in turns to choose a card.
You can choose to count up or back from that number in steps of ten. If you get it right, you can keep the card. The child with the most cards wins the game.
Friday
Activities to consolidate this week’s learning:
Simple 2 5 10 word problems.doc
Draw a picture.docx
counting-in-2s-and-tens.docx
counting in 2s 5s and 10s activity sheet.pdf
English
For English this week, we have listed the activities by days again, in case you want to have more of a structure for when to complete them.
Monday
Today we are recapping on what a verb is and how to use it in a sentence. This verb PowerPoint Monday Verbs Powerpoint.ppt has an activity for the children to complete, finding the verb.
Go to BBC Bitesize to learn more about verbs:
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrqqtfr/articles/zpxhdxs
Activity - Monday- Using Verbs differentiated sheet.pdf Giraffes and Lions to complete the sheet with 1 star, Elephants and cheetahs to complete the sheet with 2 stars and Meerkats to complete the sheet with 3 stars.
Tuesday
Today we are going to practise adding the suffix –ed to words. Please go through the PowerPoint Suffixes -ed.ppt first and complete activities.
Activities to complete –
Giraffes Activity Sheet Do We Need ed giraffes.pdf
Lions and Elephants Activity Sheet Sorting ed Sounds - lions and elephants.pdf
Cheetahs and Meerkats Activity Sheet Adding -ed cheetahs and meerkats.pdf
Wednesday
Handwriting and spelling activity Year 1 and 2 spelling word lists.pdf (Please note, this week we are only focusing on the third and fourth pages of this document, the words are Be He She Me We No Come Some One Once)
Extension: Compose a sentence for each of the 10 words. Remember capital letters and full stops, finger spaces and handwriting. It is important to remember to check through each sentence to check it makes sense.
Thursday
Today we will be reading the story ‘Knights and Dragons Unite’ this is an interactive PowerPoint with lots of comprehension questions. Share this with your family and see how many questions you can answer.
knights and dragons.pptx
Friday
Today we are going to revise adjectives. Please look at the adjectives PowerPoint which has a range of activities to complete. Friday Adjectives powerpoint.ppt
Go to BBC Bitesize to learn more about adjectives:
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrqqtfr/articles/zy2r6yc
Activities to complete:
Adjectives Comprehension Giraffes.pdf
Adjective Alphabet lions and elephants.pdf
Adding Adjectives to Expand Noun Phrases cheetahs and meerkats.pdf
Extension activity: Select an Adjective Word Cards extra activity.pdf
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk .
D & T
In Design and Technology this term, we would have been making our very own pizzas. However, as we all know, this cannot happen unfortunately. BUT, you might want to experiment at home with favourite toppings, types of bases for your pizza and finally make your own, with the guidance from your parents.
Optional – Use this activity sheet to explore the different toppings that you might find on a pizza. Which is your favourite? Pizza toppings.docx
Use this activity sheet to taste different types of breads and choose which one is suitable for your pizza. bread tasting.doc
This sheet will help you to design your very own pizza. Pizza design.doc
Can you have a go at making your own pizza and eating it? Perhaps you could take a picture and send it to school email or use the email system on Purple Mash to upload a picture for us to see.
PE
Local schools have started competing in a virtual games challenge and we would really like our school to get involved. On the main school Home Page you will find a link to PE Provision. (It’s right at the top) Click on and register for the School Games.
This week’s virtual games challenge is BASKETBALL and we would really like you to get involved. This link BASKETBALL CHALLENGE shows you what to do and how to enter. You will also find this information on the PE Provision during COVID 19 page at the top of the main school home page.
Come on you can do it! We’d love to see your name on the weekly championship table!!!
Week Twelve (08/06/2020)
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Purple Mash this week has a couple of new ‘2dos’. There is one called ‘Fractonio’s pizzeria, all about fractions and ‘A-fish-metric’ which helps with your mental maths.
Please also feel free to use the email facility on Purple Mash if you would like another way of sending Mrs Barratt and me messages.
Existing programs are still on for you to have a go at. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
As always, keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
This week we will be focusing on place value activities such as, ordering numbers using our place value knowledge, finding more and less than a number and counting on and back in 10’s.
Firstly, we would like you to share our PDF slides on ‘finding more and less than a number’ with your family. There are lots of practical activities for you to complete on there. Once you have finished, select your activity below:
Red and Yellow Group More and Less
Green Group More and Less
Orange and Blue Group More and Less
We will also be looking at ordering numbers. We would like you to share our PDF slides on ‘ordering numbers’ with your family. There are lots of practical activities for you to complete on there. Once you have finished, select your activity below:
Red and Yellow Group – Ordering numbers
Green Group – Ordering numbers
Orange Group – Ordering numbers
Blue Group – Ordering numbers
Please log on to Purple mash to find a range of online interactive games to complete, supporting: place value, ordering numbers using our place value knowledge, finding more and less than a number and counting on and back in 10’s.
English
This week in English we are going to be focusing on our key skills. We will be starting off practising our handwriting and spelling. Please click on the link below for the handwriting and spelling activity. If you finish, you can ask your family to test you on your spellings or write some sentences using the spellings.
Handwriting and spelling activity (Please note, this week we are only focusing on the first two pages of this document)
We will also be revising capital letters and full stops. Have a look at the PowerPoint with your family as revision. There are also some activities to do on the PowerPoint. Find your group below and click on the activity.
Capital letters and full stops PowerPoint
Giraffes activity (Complete the sentence and add a full stop in the correct place)
Lions and Elephants activity
Cheetahs and Meerkats Activity
In addition, we will be looking at the story ‘The tale of two feathers’ this is an interactive e-book with lots of comprehension questions. Share this with your family and see how many questions you can answer.
‘The tale of two feathers’
Finally, we will end our week by writing a recount about some of our experiences at home in lockdown. We are going to choose a friend or family member to write a letter to, recounting some of the things we have done over the lockdown period. Please see the template below.
Recount writing
We have set on Purple Mash some handwriting tutorials, spelling activities and sentence work and reading for you to complete too.
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk .
Jigsaw
This week in school we are having a focus week on our emotional and social wellbeing using our ‘Jigsaw lessons’.
Jigsaw Jack is missing all of the Year 1 children terribly! We will be thinking about things that may make us sad, worried or anxious and things that make us feel happy and excited. We know that over the past couple of months’ life has been very different and we have had to adapt. Remember to have active hope, this will not be forever. We have added some of the activities that we will be completing in school for you to do at home with your family. Click on the links below: Sometimes it is nice to take some time to reflect, we will be having some reflection time in school. This is when we will play some calm music and think about things that may make us sad, worried or anxious and things that make us feel happy and excited. You can do this at home with your family too!
Science
This week we have set you a science activity on Purple Mash called ‘Plants and Animals’. We would like you to create your own fact file on plants and animals using the pictures to help you. Think about some of the wonderful things we learned about last half term such as:
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Purple Mash this week has a couple of new ‘2dos’. There is one called ‘Fractonio’s pizzeria, all about fractions and ‘A-fish-metric’ which helps with your mental maths.
Please also feel free to use the email facility on Purple Mash if you would like another way of sending Mrs Barratt and me messages.
Existing programs are still on for you to have a go at. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
As always, keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
This week we will be focusing on place value activities such as, ordering numbers using our place value knowledge, finding more and less than a number and counting on and back in 10’s.
Firstly, we would like you to share our PDF slides on ‘finding more and less than a number’ with your family. There are lots of practical activities for you to complete on there. Once you have finished, select your activity below:
Red and Yellow Group More and Less
Green Group More and Less
Orange and Blue Group More and Less
We will also be looking at ordering numbers. We would like you to share our PDF slides on ‘ordering numbers’ with your family. There are lots of practical activities for you to complete on there. Once you have finished, select your activity below:
Red and Yellow Group – Ordering numbers
Green Group – Ordering numbers
Orange Group – Ordering numbers
Blue Group – Ordering numbers
Please log on to Purple mash to find a range of online interactive games to complete, supporting: place value, ordering numbers using our place value knowledge, finding more and less than a number and counting on and back in 10’s.
English
This week in English we are going to be focusing on our key skills. We will be starting off practising our handwriting and spelling. Please click on the link below for the handwriting and spelling activity. If you finish, you can ask your family to test you on your spellings or write some sentences using the spellings.
Handwriting and spelling activity (Please note, this week we are only focusing on the first two pages of this document)
We will also be revising capital letters and full stops. Have a look at the PowerPoint with your family as revision. There are also some activities to do on the PowerPoint. Find your group below and click on the activity.
Capital letters and full stops PowerPoint
Giraffes activity (Complete the sentence and add a full stop in the correct place)
Lions and Elephants activity
Cheetahs and Meerkats Activity
In addition, we will be looking at the story ‘The tale of two feathers’ this is an interactive e-book with lots of comprehension questions. Share this with your family and see how many questions you can answer.
‘The tale of two feathers’
Finally, we will end our week by writing a recount about some of our experiences at home in lockdown. We are going to choose a friend or family member to write a letter to, recounting some of the things we have done over the lockdown period. Please see the template below.
Recount writing
We have set on Purple Mash some handwriting tutorials, spelling activities and sentence work and reading for you to complete too.
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk .
Jigsaw
This week in school we are having a focus week on our emotional and social wellbeing using our ‘Jigsaw lessons’.
Jigsaw Jack is missing all of the Year 1 children terribly! We will be thinking about things that may make us sad, worried or anxious and things that make us feel happy and excited. We know that over the past couple of months’ life has been very different and we have had to adapt. Remember to have active hope, this will not be forever. We have added some of the activities that we will be completing in school for you to do at home with your family. Click on the links below: Sometimes it is nice to take some time to reflect, we will be having some reflection time in school. This is when we will play some calm music and think about things that may make us sad, worried or anxious and things that make us feel happy and excited. You can do this at home with your family too!
Science
This week we have set you a science activity on Purple Mash called ‘Plants and Animals’. We would like you to create your own fact file on plants and animals using the pictures to help you. Think about some of the wonderful things we learned about last half term such as:
- Animals groups: Mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, insects
- Food groups: Herbivores, carnivores and omnivores.
Week Eleven (01/06/2020)
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Purple Mash this week has a couple of new ‘2dos’. There is one called ‘Fractonio’s pizzeria, all about fractions and ‘A-fish-metric’ which helps with your mental maths.
Please also feel free to use the email facility on Purple Mash if you would like another way of sending Mrs Barratt and me messages.
Existing programs are still on for you to have a go at. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
As always, keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
This week we are learning about fractions. Fractions of shapes and of amounts.
Here is a YouTube clip that explains a half and a quarter of shapes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnfIzE7PnC0
This PowerPoint Looking at halves and quarters of shapes will also help you to understand about halves and quarters of shapes.
If you can, print out this worksheet Practice showing a half and a quarter of each shape and cut the shapes out. Have fun folding the shapes into halves and quarters. Next, cut them into halves and quarters and have a go at colouring each segment in, sticking them onto a piece of paper, to create a pattern or a picture.
All groups can have a go at this activity Sort the fractions cut and stick activity sorting the different shapes that have a half, a quarter or a whole shaded.
Once you feel confident with finding a half and a quarter of simple shapes, have a look at these two YouTube clips that shows you how to work out fractions of amounts.
This clip shows you how to find a half of an amount
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Jvi97snfQ
and this clip shows you how to find a quarter of an amount.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwIdiD9d1OY
This PowerPoint also shows you how to find fractions of amounts.
Introduction-to-fractions-of-amounts-powerpoint
Red Group: Fractions 1
Yellow and Green group: Fractions 2
Orange and blue group: Fractions 3
Challenge: Challenge
As a little extra, you might like to watch this Number Jack’s video all about sharing between 2, 3 and 4 people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C44WxGkJlCg
English
This week the traditional tale that we are looking at is The Enormous Turnip.
Use the PowerPoint/audio book The-Enormous-Turnip-Audio-Book to help you read the story, if you don’t have a copy, or use this YouTube clip - www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGMpVrkm99I
Please remember that you can do as little or as much as you want to do with the following activities. Please don’t worry if you find them tricky.
Continue to read at home, you are all so brilliant at it and remember to practise your phonics.
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk .
Art
In Art this week we are going to link our colour mixing knowledge with drawing a turnip, from the story ‘The Enormous Turnip.
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Purple Mash this week has a couple of new ‘2dos’. There is one called ‘Fractonio’s pizzeria, all about fractions and ‘A-fish-metric’ which helps with your mental maths.
Please also feel free to use the email facility on Purple Mash if you would like another way of sending Mrs Barratt and me messages.
Existing programs are still on for you to have a go at. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
As always, keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
This week we are learning about fractions. Fractions of shapes and of amounts.
Here is a YouTube clip that explains a half and a quarter of shapes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnfIzE7PnC0
This PowerPoint Looking at halves and quarters of shapes will also help you to understand about halves and quarters of shapes.
If you can, print out this worksheet Practice showing a half and a quarter of each shape and cut the shapes out. Have fun folding the shapes into halves and quarters. Next, cut them into halves and quarters and have a go at colouring each segment in, sticking them onto a piece of paper, to create a pattern or a picture.
All groups can have a go at this activity Sort the fractions cut and stick activity sorting the different shapes that have a half, a quarter or a whole shaded.
Once you feel confident with finding a half and a quarter of simple shapes, have a look at these two YouTube clips that shows you how to work out fractions of amounts.
This clip shows you how to find a half of an amount
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Jvi97snfQ
and this clip shows you how to find a quarter of an amount.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwIdiD9d1OY
This PowerPoint also shows you how to find fractions of amounts.
Introduction-to-fractions-of-amounts-powerpoint
Red Group: Fractions 1
Yellow and Green group: Fractions 2
Orange and blue group: Fractions 3
Challenge: Challenge
As a little extra, you might like to watch this Number Jack’s video all about sharing between 2, 3 and 4 people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C44WxGkJlCg
English
This week the traditional tale that we are looking at is The Enormous Turnip.
Use the PowerPoint/audio book The-Enormous-Turnip-Audio-Book to help you read the story, if you don’t have a copy, or use this YouTube clip - www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGMpVrkm99I
Please remember that you can do as little or as much as you want to do with the following activities. Please don’t worry if you find them tricky.
- Have a go at completing the differentiated reading comprehensions sheets. The-enormous-turnip-traditional-tales-differentiated-reading-comprehension Monday and Tuesday’s guided reading group to complete the sheet with 3 stars. Wednesday and Thursday 2 stars and Friday’s group, 1 star. Ask an adult to help you read the passage and go through the questions with you if you get stuck
- Handwriting practise: Using the comprehension sheets, have a go at copying a paragraph of the story. Remember to use finger spaces, sit your letters on the line and make sure you form each letter correctly. This video clip shows you the correct way to write your letters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SpnV0pZ-gM and you can practice on this sheet here Letter-Formation-Alphabet-Handwriting-Sheet-Lowercase
- Phonics: Turnip has the phoneme ‘ur’ in it. How many words can you think of that have ‘ur’ in? How many ur words can you think of
- A couple of fun activities to try: The-Enormous-Turnip-Wordsearch and The-Enormous-Turnip-Spot-the-Difference
Continue to read at home, you are all so brilliant at it and remember to practise your phonics.
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk .
Art
In Art this week we are going to link our colour mixing knowledge with drawing a turnip, from the story ‘The Enormous Turnip.
- Either on your own, or with the help of an adult, draw a picture of a turnip. Look carefully at the picture of the turnip in the videos or on the comprehension sheets. Talk about the colours that are used and how they merge together. Which colours could you mix together to make purple and green?
- As an extension, you could use the drawing program on Purple Mash to draw a turnip too and perhaps the different characters in the story.
Week Ten - Half Term (25/05/2020)
It has been an incredibly hard couple of months for everyone, in whatever capacity, therefore we are not setting any directed work or activities for you over what would have been the half term break. This is a conscious decision to enable you, your parents and the staff to stop, take a break, relax, regroup and refresh before we begin again at the start of June, in whatever format that may take, based on the latest Government guidance.
If you would like to carry on and complete some activities during this time, please scroll back and do some of the activities set previously if you didn't manage them at the time, or you can use some of the wonderful online resources that we signposted for you right at the start of this period - these links are all at the bottom of this page. There is also educational provision being offered through:
- JIGSAW PSHE: A link to the 'Calm Me' audio file that we would use within the classroom to support the children with Mindfulness.
- BBC Bitesize: A range of different resources, lessons and activities aimed at specific age ranges.
- Department for Education recommended online provision list.
- Oak National Academy: An online portal providing virtual lessons (DfE recommended).
- Robin Hood Academy: An academy in our region providing a range of online learning resources and projects.
From Monday, 1st June we will resume posting online resources to support you, and your child/ren, with 'Home Learning', however the format this takes will begin to evolve from that point onwards, to reflect our increasing 'in-school' provision.
Have a good week.
It has been an incredibly hard couple of months for everyone, in whatever capacity, therefore we are not setting any directed work or activities for you over what would have been the half term break. This is a conscious decision to enable you, your parents and the staff to stop, take a break, relax, regroup and refresh before we begin again at the start of June, in whatever format that may take, based on the latest Government guidance.
If you would like to carry on and complete some activities during this time, please scroll back and do some of the activities set previously if you didn't manage them at the time, or you can use some of the wonderful online resources that we signposted for you right at the start of this period - these links are all at the bottom of this page. There is also educational provision being offered through:
- JIGSAW PSHE: A link to the 'Calm Me' audio file that we would use within the classroom to support the children with Mindfulness.
- BBC Bitesize: A range of different resources, lessons and activities aimed at specific age ranges.
- Department for Education recommended online provision list.
- Oak National Academy: An online portal providing virtual lessons (DfE recommended).
- Robin Hood Academy: An academy in our region providing a range of online learning resources and projects.
From Monday, 1st June we will resume posting online resources to support you, and your child/ren, with 'Home Learning', however the format this takes will begin to evolve from that point onwards, to reflect our increasing 'in-school' provision.
Have a good week.
Week Nine (18/05/2020)
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Log in to Purple Mash and you will see a range of suggested '2dos', linked to different topic areas. Try a different one every day or do a few at once. Existing programs are still on for you to have a go at. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
Keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
In Maths this week, we are going to focus on: recognising, naming, and knowing the value of coins 1p–£2 .To support you with this, there is a PowerPoint we would like you to share with your family (Recognising and naming the value of coins).
There are lots of practical activities and games on here to support you with recognising and naming the value of coins that you can play at home. Once you have shared the PowerPoint with your family, you can then complete the activities below. Please select your maths colour group:
Red Group: Recognising and naming coins
Yellow and Green Group: Recognising and naming coins
Orange and Blue Group: Recognising and naming coins
Fancy a challenge? Below are some challenge activities if you are an expert at coin recognition. Try the money word problems or finding the total of different coins:
Money word problems
Finding the total
Here are some useful links to support you further with coin recognition:
BBC Bitesize have lots of helpful clips and videos : www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zp8dmp3/resources/1
Remember to also logon to Purple Mash, where we have set more maths tasks to support your learning on recognising and naming coins, as well as number skills revision.
English
Last week you completed some super work on ‘The Gingerbread man’, so this week we are going to continue our learning on traditional tales and learn about ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. First, we would like you to read the story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ by clicking on the link and reading the PowerPoint. We would like you to practise your writing skills by writing a letter pretending to be Jack, to your mother, explaining that you're trapped in the giant’s castle!! Use this letter template to help you, there is some extra guidance on there to support you with your writing.
There are also a range of writing and reading activities below for you to complete all about ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, but remember your focus this week is your letter writing. These are some extra tasks for you to complete, if you complete your letter and want a challenge:
Try Jack and the Beanstalk reading comprehension
Jack and the Beanstalk writing skills
We have also set a Purple Mash task for you to complete, where you can re-tell the story and draw pictures to match.
Remember to keep up your reading skills by reading a range of different books at home.
Remember to use www.phonicsplay.co.uk as well as our phonics link to support your phonics at home too.
Continue to read at home, you are all so brilliant at it and remember to practise your phonics.
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk .
History
This week we are going to continue our learning in History on our toy topic. I would like you to read the Victorian toys PowerPoint. Look at the timeline of how toys have changed over time. Talk about the similarities and differences between the toys from today and Victorian times with your family. Then I would like you to create a poster about one of these Victorian toys:
Zoetrope
Hoop and Stick
Quoits
Victorian Doll
You will need to research your chosen toy with your family to find out information about how it worked and who would have played with it in Victorian times.
Happy investigating Year 1 Historians!
Science
This week we are going to continue our super work on ‘Plants and Growing’ We are going to be exploring the different parts of a plant. Firstly, we would like you to have a look at this PowerPoint on ‘The parts of a plant’ Then we would like you to open the activity below and find your animal group. Once you have found your group, have a go at labelling the parts of a plant.
‘Labelling parts of a plant’
Once you have completed this activity, have a look in your garden or when you are out on a walk for some plants, can you see the different parts of the plant you have been learning about? Ask you family first if you can pick one, then you can look closely at the different parts of plant, can you sketch these?
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Log in to Purple Mash and you will see a range of suggested '2dos', linked to different topic areas. Try a different one every day or do a few at once. Existing programs are still on for you to have a go at. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
Keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
In Maths this week, we are going to focus on: recognising, naming, and knowing the value of coins 1p–£2 .To support you with this, there is a PowerPoint we would like you to share with your family (Recognising and naming the value of coins).
There are lots of practical activities and games on here to support you with recognising and naming the value of coins that you can play at home. Once you have shared the PowerPoint with your family, you can then complete the activities below. Please select your maths colour group:
Red Group: Recognising and naming coins
Yellow and Green Group: Recognising and naming coins
Orange and Blue Group: Recognising and naming coins
Fancy a challenge? Below are some challenge activities if you are an expert at coin recognition. Try the money word problems or finding the total of different coins:
Money word problems
Finding the total
Here are some useful links to support you further with coin recognition:
BBC Bitesize have lots of helpful clips and videos : www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zp8dmp3/resources/1
Remember to also logon to Purple Mash, where we have set more maths tasks to support your learning on recognising and naming coins, as well as number skills revision.
English
Last week you completed some super work on ‘The Gingerbread man’, so this week we are going to continue our learning on traditional tales and learn about ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. First, we would like you to read the story of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ by clicking on the link and reading the PowerPoint. We would like you to practise your writing skills by writing a letter pretending to be Jack, to your mother, explaining that you're trapped in the giant’s castle!! Use this letter template to help you, there is some extra guidance on there to support you with your writing.
There are also a range of writing and reading activities below for you to complete all about ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’, but remember your focus this week is your letter writing. These are some extra tasks for you to complete, if you complete your letter and want a challenge:
Try Jack and the Beanstalk reading comprehension
Jack and the Beanstalk writing skills
We have also set a Purple Mash task for you to complete, where you can re-tell the story and draw pictures to match.
Remember to keep up your reading skills by reading a range of different books at home.
Remember to use www.phonicsplay.co.uk as well as our phonics link to support your phonics at home too.
Continue to read at home, you are all so brilliant at it and remember to practise your phonics.
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk .
History
This week we are going to continue our learning in History on our toy topic. I would like you to read the Victorian toys PowerPoint. Look at the timeline of how toys have changed over time. Talk about the similarities and differences between the toys from today and Victorian times with your family. Then I would like you to create a poster about one of these Victorian toys:
Zoetrope
Hoop and Stick
Quoits
Victorian Doll
You will need to research your chosen toy with your family to find out information about how it worked and who would have played with it in Victorian times.
Happy investigating Year 1 Historians!
Science
This week we are going to continue our super work on ‘Plants and Growing’ We are going to be exploring the different parts of a plant. Firstly, we would like you to have a look at this PowerPoint on ‘The parts of a plant’ Then we would like you to open the activity below and find your animal group. Once you have found your group, have a go at labelling the parts of a plant.
‘Labelling parts of a plant’
Once you have completed this activity, have a look in your garden or when you are out on a walk for some plants, can you see the different parts of the plant you have been learning about? Ask you family first if you can pick one, then you can look closely at the different parts of plant, can you sketch these?
Week Eight (11/05/2020)
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
This week on Purple Mash, in the '2dos', we have put 2 programs linked to creating your own bar graphs 2count and 2graph. From the results of the weighing activity, in Maths this week, perhaps you could use the 2graph program to record your findings or play around with record different information. Existing programs are still on for you to have a go at. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
Keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
This week we are learning about measurement and in particular ‘weighing’. If we were in school, we would have used balancing scales to measure the weight of different objects against non-standard units such as plastic counting cubes. At home, perhaps you could use dried pasta instead.
Click on this link https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/ to take you to the White Rose ‘home learning’ website. Close the red box with ‘Summer Term – Week 3 (w/c 4th May)’ on it and you will see the red box with ‘Week 1’ on it. Click on this and it will take you to 3 lessons on weight and mass. Lesson 1 - Introduce weight and mass, Lesson 2 - Measure mass and Lesson 3 - Compare mass. Each lesson has a video and an activity that you can have a go at.
This PowerPoint may also be helpful: Comparing weight.pptx
These two online games ask you to think about which object is heavier or lighter.
www.turtlediary.com/game/heavy-and-light.html
www.lcfclubs.com/lcf-maths/flash04/z04-games/z04-heavier-and-lighter.asp
For all Maths groups – This worksheet Heavy and light sorting activity.pdf is a great activity to help develop your BLP skill ‘Making Links’. Think about the weight of each picture/object. E.g. Imagine an elephant and then a feather. Which one, making links with what you already know, is the heaviest?
For all Maths groups – Have a go at measuring different objects, if you can, and completing this worksheet heavier or lighter .doc
For all Maths groups – If you don’t have access to any scales perhaps you could have a go at this worksheet Lightest to heaviest.doc
Extension – challenge
Blue group and anyone else who is up for a challenge. Have a go at completing these word problems involving weight. Ask your parents to help you read them and work together to solve the answers. Weight challenge word problems.pdf
English
This week the traditional tale that we are looking at is The Gingerbread Man.
Use the PowerPoint to help you read the story if you don’t have a copy. The Gingerbread Man Story.ppt
Please remember that you can do as little or as much as you want to do with the following activities. Please don’t worry if you find them tricky.
Continue to read at home, you are all so brilliant at it and remember to practise your phonics.
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk .
Art
In Art this week we are looking at colour. Vincent Van Gogh really focused on colour in his paintings. He looked at how colours can make us feel warm and happy but also make us feel cold and sad. What colours come to mind when you think of something hot? If you were cold, what colours would you think of?
Here is a colour wheel that shows all the different colours that go together. Can you complete your own colour wheel? The colour wheel.docx
Next, have a go at working out which colours, when mixed together, create new colours? Colour mixing.docx
Now try the Colour Mixing song.
Here are two pictures of Van Goghs’ flowers. hot and cold.docx One picture depicts warm colours and the other cold colours. Have a go at drawing your own warm and cold pictures of some flowers in a vase or colour in the two pictures, of Van Gogh’s flowers, that I have attached here. Van Gogh colouring.docx
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
This week on Purple Mash, in the '2dos', we have put 2 programs linked to creating your own bar graphs 2count and 2graph. From the results of the weighing activity, in Maths this week, perhaps you could use the 2graph program to record your findings or play around with record different information. Existing programs are still on for you to have a go at. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
Keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
This week we are learning about measurement and in particular ‘weighing’. If we were in school, we would have used balancing scales to measure the weight of different objects against non-standard units such as plastic counting cubes. At home, perhaps you could use dried pasta instead.
Click on this link https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-1/ to take you to the White Rose ‘home learning’ website. Close the red box with ‘Summer Term – Week 3 (w/c 4th May)’ on it and you will see the red box with ‘Week 1’ on it. Click on this and it will take you to 3 lessons on weight and mass. Lesson 1 - Introduce weight and mass, Lesson 2 - Measure mass and Lesson 3 - Compare mass. Each lesson has a video and an activity that you can have a go at.
This PowerPoint may also be helpful: Comparing weight.pptx
These two online games ask you to think about which object is heavier or lighter.
www.turtlediary.com/game/heavy-and-light.html
www.lcfclubs.com/lcf-maths/flash04/z04-games/z04-heavier-and-lighter.asp
For all Maths groups – This worksheet Heavy and light sorting activity.pdf is a great activity to help develop your BLP skill ‘Making Links’. Think about the weight of each picture/object. E.g. Imagine an elephant and then a feather. Which one, making links with what you already know, is the heaviest?
For all Maths groups – Have a go at measuring different objects, if you can, and completing this worksheet heavier or lighter .doc
For all Maths groups – If you don’t have access to any scales perhaps you could have a go at this worksheet Lightest to heaviest.doc
Extension – challenge
Blue group and anyone else who is up for a challenge. Have a go at completing these word problems involving weight. Ask your parents to help you read them and work together to solve the answers. Weight challenge word problems.pdf
English
This week the traditional tale that we are looking at is The Gingerbread Man.
Use the PowerPoint to help you read the story if you don’t have a copy. The Gingerbread Man Story.ppt
Please remember that you can do as little or as much as you want to do with the following activities. Please don’t worry if you find them tricky.
- Watch this YouTube song ‘The Gingerbread Man description song’. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxNBGM5QKP4
- It is a very catch song that describes what he looks like. Using words from the video, and your own ideas, draw a picture of the Gingerbread man and write a description about him. Remember to think of exciting and imaginative adjectives. Giraffes and Lions group to complete the wanted poster. Wanted poster.docx Elephants, Cheetahs and Meerkats to complete the lost poster. Lost poster.docx
- Imagine that you are the author of ‘The Gingerbread Man’, and you decide to change the ending, so that the fox doesn’t eat him! What would you choose to happen instead? Have a go at completing the story here Change the ending.doc
- Have a go at completing the word search The Gingerbread Man Wordsearch.pdf
- You might like to have a go at baking some gingerbread men! Here is a recipe for you to try: Gingerbread People Recipe.pdf
- There are also a couple of activities on Purple Mash that you can have a go at. They are in the ‘2Dos’ section: Missing Gingerbread Man, Retell The Gingerbread Man Story and design your own Gingerbread Man.
Continue to read at home, you are all so brilliant at it and remember to practise your phonics.
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk .
Art
In Art this week we are looking at colour. Vincent Van Gogh really focused on colour in his paintings. He looked at how colours can make us feel warm and happy but also make us feel cold and sad. What colours come to mind when you think of something hot? If you were cold, what colours would you think of?
Here is a colour wheel that shows all the different colours that go together. Can you complete your own colour wheel? The colour wheel.docx
Next, have a go at working out which colours, when mixed together, create new colours? Colour mixing.docx
Now try the Colour Mixing song.
Here are two pictures of Van Goghs’ flowers. hot and cold.docx One picture depicts warm colours and the other cold colours. Have a go at drawing your own warm and cold pictures of some flowers in a vase or colour in the two pictures, of Van Gogh’s flowers, that I have attached here. Van Gogh colouring.docx
Week Seven (04/05/2020)
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Continue to log in to Purple Mash and you will see a range of suggested '2dos', linked to different topic areas. Try a different one every day or do a few at once. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
Keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
This week we would like you to have a go at ‘Adding 3 small numbers’.
I have added a PowerPoint (PowerPoint Lesson – Adding 3 numbers) to support you with this. Please look at this first with your family before you start the activity, as there are lots of strategies and guidance to help and support you. There are also some fun practical starter activities for you to complete on the PowerPoint. Once you have looked at this, please select your maths colour group to complete the activity on:
‘Adding 3 small numbers’ - Red
‘Adding 3 small numbers’ - Yellow & Green
‘Adding 3 small numbers’ - Blue & Orange
Here are some other useful links to support you:
English
This week we will continue our learning all about ‘Traditional Tales’. I know that you have been busy learning about ‘Hansel and Gretel’. We would like you to continue your work on this Traditional Tale. Using the template, we would like you to design a new sweet cottage and use adjectives (describing words) to describe it. There is some guidance on your sheet to help you further.
Please look at the PowerPoint (Adjectives and Sentence structure) with your family before you start your activity, as a reminder of what we are looking for in your writing, and some information about adjectives. Remember there is also a link to the story if you need reminding from last weeks work set.
In addition, it is important to keep practising your handwriting at home. We have attached a handwriting book which will also support you with spelling common exception words. You can continue this over the next few weeks, please do not worry if you do not complete it all this week.
Finally, we have added some more fun English skills activities for you to complete on Purple Mash.
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk .
History
This week we will be continuing our super work on ‘Toys’.
We would like you to have a look at the PowerPoint ‘Old and New Toys’ with your family. It is so interesting to see how Toys have changed over time. You can discuss with your family which of the old toys you like best and why you think they are so different from toys today? Maybe you could call your grandparents or family members of an older generation and ask them about the Toys they used to play with.
We would like you to complete a fun sorting activity. Cut the pictures out and sort them into the correct column.
Happy investigating Year 1 Historians!
Science
This week we will be continuing learning all about ‘Plants and Growing’. You will be learning all about ‘Common Wild Plants’. Share the ‘Common Wild Plant PowerPoint’ with your family and talk about all the interesting names the plants have, why do you think they have been given these names? Can you try and find these plants in your garden or on your daily walk? Then, using the template, see if you can sketch and identify as many ‘Common Wild Plants’ as possible. Happy plant hunting!
Online Safety
The current situation means that we find ourselves all spending much more time accessing and/or using online platforms and resources in order to do our job, or to support our children with their 'home learning'. This creates additional worries around Online Safety and so we just wanted to point you in the right direction for guidance and advice when it comes to ensuring that both you, and your children, are as safe as can be.
The government has this week released information about keeping children safe online, which you can read here.
The supplementary guidance, specific to 'what you can do to stay safe online', can be read here.
We would also signpost you to our Online Safety page, which has a wealth of information on it. Click here.
Remember - You CAN do any of the activities from previous weeks as well, if you didn't get chance.
General
Continue to log in to Purple Mash and you will see a range of suggested '2dos', linked to different topic areas. Try a different one every day or do a few at once. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
Keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Don't forget that there are also some great resources, including daily lessons, on BBC Bitesize now - Click here - as well as on the new Oak National Academy website - Click here.
Maths
This week we would like you to have a go at ‘Adding 3 small numbers’.
I have added a PowerPoint (PowerPoint Lesson – Adding 3 numbers) to support you with this. Please look at this first with your family before you start the activity, as there are lots of strategies and guidance to help and support you. There are also some fun practical starter activities for you to complete on the PowerPoint. Once you have looked at this, please select your maths colour group to complete the activity on:
‘Adding 3 small numbers’ - Red
‘Adding 3 small numbers’ - Yellow & Green
‘Adding 3 small numbers’ - Blue & Orange
Here are some other useful links to support you:
- www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zf9d2hv Guidance on adding 3 numbers by counting on.
- www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0184zb2 Guidance on adding 3 numbers using number bonds.
English
This week we will continue our learning all about ‘Traditional Tales’. I know that you have been busy learning about ‘Hansel and Gretel’. We would like you to continue your work on this Traditional Tale. Using the template, we would like you to design a new sweet cottage and use adjectives (describing words) to describe it. There is some guidance on your sheet to help you further.
Please look at the PowerPoint (Adjectives and Sentence structure) with your family before you start your activity, as a reminder of what we are looking for in your writing, and some information about adjectives. Remember there is also a link to the story if you need reminding from last weeks work set.
In addition, it is important to keep practising your handwriting at home. We have attached a handwriting book which will also support you with spelling common exception words. You can continue this over the next few weeks, please do not worry if you do not complete it all this week.
Finally, we have added some more fun English skills activities for you to complete on Purple Mash.
Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Just a reminder: Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk .
History
This week we will be continuing our super work on ‘Toys’.
We would like you to have a look at the PowerPoint ‘Old and New Toys’ with your family. It is so interesting to see how Toys have changed over time. You can discuss with your family which of the old toys you like best and why you think they are so different from toys today? Maybe you could call your grandparents or family members of an older generation and ask them about the Toys they used to play with.
We would like you to complete a fun sorting activity. Cut the pictures out and sort them into the correct column.
Happy investigating Year 1 Historians!
Science
This week we will be continuing learning all about ‘Plants and Growing’. You will be learning all about ‘Common Wild Plants’. Share the ‘Common Wild Plant PowerPoint’ with your family and talk about all the interesting names the plants have, why do you think they have been given these names? Can you try and find these plants in your garden or on your daily walk? Then, using the template, see if you can sketch and identify as many ‘Common Wild Plants’ as possible. Happy plant hunting!
Week Six (27/04/2020)
General
Continue to log in to Purple Mash and you will see a range of suggested '2dos', linked to different topic areas. Try a different one every day or do a few at once. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
Keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Maths
This week we would like you to think about the place value of numbers. So, if you had the number 17, you would be able to say that it has 1 ten and 7 ones (or sometimes known as units), 27 would have 2 tens and 7 ones. Understanding place value helps you to then add and subtract really big numbers!
We have put a couple of activities on Purple Mash to complete.
These video clips below will help you to understand place value.
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zbc87ty
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z7yb9j6
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8sfr82/articles/zw4g2nb
This video clip is more challenging and looks at really big numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsjqtfr/articles/z9w3g82
Perhaps you might like to play a couple of place value games:
www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/mobile/index.html
Start by practising the numbers with just tens and ones (units) in and then move onto HTU
www.topmarks.co.uk/place-value/place-value-charts
Here is a set of worksheets on place value to complete. Each sheet is colour coded for your Maths group. Place Value worksheet doc
English
This week the traditional tale that we are looking at is Hansel and Gretel. Use the Powerpoint to help you read the story if you don’t have a copy.
Please remember that you can do as little or as much as you want to do with the following activities. Please don’t worry if you find them tricky.
Extension
If you want to practise your writing: Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk
Art
In Art this term we are going to be drawing and painting some beautiful flowers. We are going to be learning all about a famous artist called Vincent Van Gogh. He painted lots of colourful flowers. You can learn a little bit about Vincent Van Gogh by watching the following YouTube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lGEvm1Lve0
Vincent Van Gogh painted a vase with some daisies and poppies in. Use your imagination to complete the missing part of the picture in this worksheet: daisies and poppies sheet doc
Another activity that you could have a go at is to go outside, if possible, and draw some colourful flowers. Flowers make Mrs Barratt and me happy and we are sure they will make you happy too.
General
Continue to log in to Purple Mash and you will see a range of suggested '2dos', linked to different topic areas. Try a different one every day or do a few at once. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
Keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Maths
This week we would like you to think about the place value of numbers. So, if you had the number 17, you would be able to say that it has 1 ten and 7 ones (or sometimes known as units), 27 would have 2 tens and 7 ones. Understanding place value helps you to then add and subtract really big numbers!
We have put a couple of activities on Purple Mash to complete.
These video clips below will help you to understand place value.
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zbc87ty
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z7yb9j6
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8sfr82/articles/zw4g2nb
This video clip is more challenging and looks at really big numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsjqtfr/articles/z9w3g82
Perhaps you might like to play a couple of place value games:
www.ictgames.com/sharkNumbers/mobile/index.html
Start by practising the numbers with just tens and ones (units) in and then move onto HTU
www.topmarks.co.uk/place-value/place-value-charts
Here is a set of worksheets on place value to complete. Each sheet is colour coded for your Maths group. Place Value worksheet doc
English
This week the traditional tale that we are looking at is Hansel and Gretel. Use the Powerpoint to help you read the story if you don’t have a copy.
Please remember that you can do as little or as much as you want to do with the following activities. Please don’t worry if you find them tricky.
- Have a go at completing the work sheet on sequencing the story.
- Comprehension – Monday and Tuesday’s guided reading group complete the activity with 3 stars at the bottom of the sheet; Wednesday and Thursday complete the activity with 2 stars at the bottom, and Friday complete the sheet with 1 star.
- Have a go at completing the word search.
- Here is a sheet where you can draw your own Gingerbread house. What sweets would you use to make the roof and front door?
Extension
If you want to practise your writing: Phonics
The Department for Education have announced that, as of this week, they will be providing daily 'phonics' lessons online. These lessons will be hosted by a range of TV personalities and 'celebrities' and will focus on specific sounds.
Please click here to read our accompanying document, explaining how this will work, where to find the resources and how the 'phonics' programme is broken down by Year Group.
As well as the information, and links, to the regular weekly 'Phonic' resources detailed above, we will continue to provide additional resources, specific to what we would have been learning in school, below each week:
Reading is super important, remember to read as much as you can at home! Continue practising your phonics using your work packs and the website www.phonicsplay.co.uk
Art
In Art this term we are going to be drawing and painting some beautiful flowers. We are going to be learning all about a famous artist called Vincent Van Gogh. He painted lots of colourful flowers. You can learn a little bit about Vincent Van Gogh by watching the following YouTube clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lGEvm1Lve0
Vincent Van Gogh painted a vase with some daisies and poppies in. Use your imagination to complete the missing part of the picture in this worksheet: daisies and poppies sheet doc
Another activity that you could have a go at is to go outside, if possible, and draw some colourful flowers. Flowers make Mrs Barratt and me happy and we are sure they will make you happy too.
Week Five (20/04/2020)
General
Log in to Purple Mash and you will see a range of suggested '2dos', linked to different topic areas. Try a different one every day or do a few at once. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
Keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Maths
This week we would like you to use number facts to add 1-digit numbers to 2-digit numbers. First to support you with this, we would like you to recap your number bond facts. Here are some ideas to support you with this:
Once you have revised your number fact knowledge, using a number line or 100 square, practise adding 1 digit numbers to 2 digit numbers. You could even make your own number line or 100 square to help you. We have included 3 worksheets for you to complete. Look for your colour maths group to find the activity suited to you. Click here to download.
English
This term we are learning all about ‘Traditional Tales’. Can you find any ‘Traditional Tales’ at home to read? Here is a list of ‘Traditional Tales’ that you may have at home:
This week we would like you to read the story of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Do not worry if you haven’t got a copy, we have included a PowerPoint of the story for you to read at home.
Then using the worksheet included, we would like you to create a character profile for Little Red Riding Hood and/or the Big Bad Wolf. There are lots of ideas to support you with this on the sheet.
History
This half term in History we have a really exciting new topic … ‘Toys’.
Over the next few weeks we will be learning about toys, both old and new. To start our topic, we would like you to choose your favourite toy and create an information page about it. You can do this using the template provided, or you can present your work using any form you wish. Then we would like you to investigate whether your chosen toy was around in Victorian times or whether they had anything similar. Happy investigating Year 1 Historians!
Science
This half term we will be learning all about ‘Plants and Growing’ this is a great opportunity for you to get into the garden, or if it is safe to do so, go on a daily walk to have a look at the plants and flowers that grow in your local area. Using the PowerPoint included, we would like you to think about what a seed needs to grow. Create a poster using pictures and labels about what a seed needs to grow - use the template or create your own. You could even ask your family if they have any spare seeds and you could have a go at growing something at home.
General
Log in to Purple Mash and you will see a range of suggested '2dos', linked to different topic areas. Try a different one every day or do a few at once. www.purplemash.com/sch/george-b92
Keep practising your times tables, using TT Rockstars. (We are aware that this is an area that we haven’t covered much of yet in school, so please do not worry if your child finds this challenging. Please continue to concentrate on counting in 2’s,5’s and 10’s and we will support them with this when they return to school)
https://play.ttrockstars.com/
Maths
This week we would like you to use number facts to add 1-digit numbers to 2-digit numbers. First to support you with this, we would like you to recap your number bond facts. Here are some ideas to support you with this:
- Use snap cubes (or Lego bricks) in two different colours. Build a tower of bricks using as many different combinations of the same 2 colours as possible to make 10. If your child is confident, move on to number bonds to 20 and 100. Can they spot any patterns?
- Number bond Bingo to play with your family – Number Bond Bingo Game Board
- Ultimate Number Bond Challenge - For those of you that are up for a challenge, click here 😊
- Online Number Bond Game- http://mathszone.co.uk/number-facts/number-bonds-to-10/save_the_whale-2-ict-games/ Also see PurpleMash for interactive maths games.
- Number Facts Word Problems (Challenge/Extension) - Adding 1 digit to 2 digit numbers.
Once you have revised your number fact knowledge, using a number line or 100 square, practise adding 1 digit numbers to 2 digit numbers. You could even make your own number line or 100 square to help you. We have included 3 worksheets for you to complete. Look for your colour maths group to find the activity suited to you. Click here to download.
English
This term we are learning all about ‘Traditional Tales’. Can you find any ‘Traditional Tales’ at home to read? Here is a list of ‘Traditional Tales’ that you may have at home:
- Cinderella
- The Three Little Pigs
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- Jack and the Beanstalk
This week we would like you to read the story of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Do not worry if you haven’t got a copy, we have included a PowerPoint of the story for you to read at home.
Then using the worksheet included, we would like you to create a character profile for Little Red Riding Hood and/or the Big Bad Wolf. There are lots of ideas to support you with this on the sheet.
History
This half term in History we have a really exciting new topic … ‘Toys’.
Over the next few weeks we will be learning about toys, both old and new. To start our topic, we would like you to choose your favourite toy and create an information page about it. You can do this using the template provided, or you can present your work using any form you wish. Then we would like you to investigate whether your chosen toy was around in Victorian times or whether they had anything similar. Happy investigating Year 1 Historians!
Science
This half term we will be learning all about ‘Plants and Growing’ this is a great opportunity for you to get into the garden, or if it is safe to do so, go on a daily walk to have a look at the plants and flowers that grow in your local area. Using the PowerPoint included, we would like you to think about what a seed needs to grow. Create a poster using pictures and labels about what a seed needs to grow - use the template or create your own. You could even ask your family if they have any spare seeds and you could have a go at growing something at home.
Weeks Three & Four (06 & 13/04/2020)
Easter Holiday.
Easter Holiday.
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Click on the image to open the LEGO 30 Day challenge. It's a great way to get your child involved in a practical, fun, creative activity every day that they won't see as work. You could create a montage of all of your designs to show to your friends, family or teachers once we are able to see everyone again. |
Weeks One & Two (23 & 30/03/2020)
Complete the activities and tasks contained within the home-learning pack sent home wc 16/03/2020.
Complete the activities and tasks contained within the home-learning pack sent home wc 16/03/2020.
Links to KS1 specific activities/games
Suggested Reading List - Year 1 (Also look on the Year 2 page for more challenging texts)
KS1 Reluctant Readers
A range of educational resources - www.topmarks.co.uk
A range of activities, covering different topics - www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/z3g4d2p
A range of activities, covering different topics - www.crickweb.co.uk/Key-Stage-1.html
Maths Skills - https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-1
English Skills - https://uk.ixl.com/ela/year-1
A range of games, puzzles and activities - www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies
Links to Phonics clips (to support teaching)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU2vWZKS7rY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3S5sJw7MfI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR_IgfIgz10
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdNfaLbexBM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ0TFfp7woQ
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_swbNvAklcw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkCfS-VFOdk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtoLlnpp-wA
www.phonicsplay.co.uk/InteractiveResources.htm
Educational Companies offering free access to their resources:
A list of educational companies offering free access to their software - https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/135609/list-of-education-companies-offering-free-subscriptions/
Twinkl- https://www.twinkl.co.uk/blog/how-to-utilise-twinkl-during-the-coronavirus-shutdown-a-guide-for-schools
TTS Home Learning Activity Booklets - https://www.tts-group.co.uk/home+learning+activities.html
Classroom Secrets - https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/home-online-learning/
Teacher’s Pet - https://tpet.co.uk/latest-resources/
Tutortastic - www.tutortastic.co.uk/blog/homelearning
Phonicsplay - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
The Body Coach (Daily PE Workouts) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
12 Museums/Art Galleries Virtual Tours A set of museums that are offering their virtual tours for free, allowing you/your children to visit without leaving home - https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/museums-galleries/museums-with-virtual-tours
As well as the structured/guided learning provided, or downloaded, there are many things you could do with, or get your child to do. Click on the link below for some ideas.
https://parentzone.org.uk/article/10-ways-safely-entertain-your-kids-home?utm_source=Parent+Zone+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d7c5afa46e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_13_05_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1ee27d9000-d7c5afa46e-179516521
A list of educational companies offering free access to their software - https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/135609/list-of-education-companies-offering-free-subscriptions/
Twinkl- https://www.twinkl.co.uk/blog/how-to-utilise-twinkl-during-the-coronavirus-shutdown-a-guide-for-schools
TTS Home Learning Activity Booklets - https://www.tts-group.co.uk/home+learning+activities.html
Classroom Secrets - https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/home-online-learning/
Teacher’s Pet - https://tpet.co.uk/latest-resources/
Tutortastic - www.tutortastic.co.uk/blog/homelearning
Phonicsplay - https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
The Body Coach (Daily PE Workouts) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
12 Museums/Art Galleries Virtual Tours A set of museums that are offering their virtual tours for free, allowing you/your children to visit without leaving home - https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/museums-galleries/museums-with-virtual-tours
As well as the structured/guided learning provided, or downloaded, there are many things you could do with, or get your child to do. Click on the link below for some ideas.
https://parentzone.org.uk/article/10-ways-safely-entertain-your-kids-home?utm_source=Parent+Zone+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d7c5afa46e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_13_05_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1ee27d9000-d7c5afa46e-179516521
