Reception Photos of Home Learning 22nd May 2020

We hope that you have all enjoyed your learning this week. You have made us all so proud, with all of your home learning. Please remember to say a big “Thank you” to all of your parents for all of their help. They are doing an amazing job!

You have sent me lots of photos and I have made them into a little movie for you. I hope that you like it.

I hope that you all have a lovely half term rest and you are ready for more learning after the break. Don’t forget to look out for the Health and Happiness activities during the second week of the half term.

Keep smiling and being kind to each other at home.

Take care and stay safe

Miss Brisco and the Reception Team

There's always a chance to grow in any situation - Week Beginning 18th May 2020

Good morning. I hope that you all enjoy the work that Miss Bassett has set you for this week. Please keep sending me your photos to:

l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Last week I did quite a bit of learning too - I was learning all about how to make movies out of your pictures, so this week I’m going to be putting the photos on at the end of the week having made them into a movie for you. Please send me you photos as normal - I’ll just save them until the end of the week and then I will make the movie available on Friday.

Enjoy your learning and have a lovely week.

Reception Photos from Learning at Home Week Beginning 11th May 2020

Hi Reception.

I hope that you are all well and enjoying your learning. Don’t forget to keep smiling and being kind to each other. How can you be a Bobby Bee or a Roger Robin this week?

Here are your Learning from Home photos for this week. I hope that you enjoy looking at them and maybe get some inspiration for your own Learning from Home as well.

Take care and stay safe

Miss Brisco xx

Don’t forget I am now putting photos on the class blog page. Please email them to me at:

l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

Reception Photos for the week beginning 4th May

Hello Reception

It is lovely to have heard from some of you already with photos and news of what you are getting up to.

As promised I will be putting your photos on the class page for everyone to see, please email them to me at:

l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk

I hope that you are all enjoying the lovely lessons that Miss Bassett has prepared for you.

Keep smiling and helping everyone at home.

Take care and stay safe Miss Brisco xx

"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members."

I really do not know how to begin when writing this blog. Firstly, I want to say how much of gift it has been to teach your children during their first year at school. Watching them grow and achieve new skills is just the greatest gift! I cannot tell you all of the many memories that I will hold of your children... when they have burst with excitement, happiness and pride when achieving something for the first time! Although this year hasn’t ended as we would have hoped, it has been such a special year!

From the moment we began learning from home, I have been so in awe of you all, your determination to support your children by making sure that, despite this strange time, they feel happy, safe and excited to learn! I feel so grateful to be a part of such a positive community and can only thank each one of you for helping to create this!

Today marks the start of my maternity leave but this does not mean that I will no longer be checking in on the children and seeing how they are getting on. I hope that they continue to enjoy the coming activities that I have planned!

Miss Brisco will be continuing to upload the new photos that you send of your children. Her email address is: l.brisco@ourladystarofthesea.lancs.sch.uk. Should learning from home be continuing after the half term, Miss Brisco will also be continuing to plan new activities for you to complete at home… I know that she is very excited to support the Reception children!

Finally, I must say a huge thank you for the very thoughtful email I received, with all of the children and the sweetest message! I am so touched and find myself in tears each time I look at their smiling faces!

You will all continue to be in my prayers and thoughts. Keep safe and well!

All my love,

Miss Bassett xx

"Family is the anchor that holds us through life's storms..."

And so we reach the end of another, very successful week learning at home.  As always, it has been wonderful to see the photo’s roll in each week! Each child’s face so full of pride and happiness with what they have learnt at home. I once again must say a big thank you for being so supportive with the learning set each week!

I have had so many emails explaining how the children are being just like our schools all important learning characters, particularly ‘Don’t give up Sadie spiders’ and ‘Enjoy learning Bobby bees’.

I wish you all a wonderful weekend at home, enjoying the sunshine that is forecast!

Take care,

Miss Bassett x

Friday's home learning photos!

Thank you once again for taking the time to email me your daily round ups and photos. Seeing the children’s smiles, shows how much of a great job you are all doing. This week has led to so many new skills being achieved, seeing their writing and reading progress, developing maths skills, baking, painting, learning to ride a bike, and even a first tooth falling out!

I hope that you enjoy looking through this weeks photos as much as I have! it is just wonderful to see their excitement and glee as they have reached new goals.

Have a great weekend,

Miss Bassett

Happy Easter everyone!

Today brings us to the Easter holidays! I want to say a huge thank you to all for supporting your child's learning from home so well! They all seem to be having such a great time and I can see from the pictures that you keep sending me, how they are improving so many skills through practical and creative activities. I think you are all wonderful!

To the children, I am so proud of each and everyone of you! You are making your families so proud of you and impressed with what brilliant learners you have become. You are all Bobby bees, Cooper crabs, Sadie spiders and all of our other special learning characters. Keep up the great work Reception. Remember to keep helping Mummy and Daddy, I know how much they are all enjoying this extra special time with you all.

Your fabulous monsters:

During the Easter holidays I won’t be posting any learning from home activities as you all deserve a rest and to celebrate this special time without adding more work into the mix. However, if you are looking for activities to carry out during the coming week, there will be a new blog on Sunday, to share lots of Easter ideas that the lovely Mrs Gregan has put together. All of the activities are creative, which I know you will love!

I am wishing you all a lovely Easter holiday, filled with lots of rest, family time, and prayers from home.

I will be thinking and praying for you all,

All my love,

Miss Bassett

"I find my happiness where the sun shines"

What beautiful weather we have been blessed with this week. It could not have been more perfect! I would like to say a huge thank you for making me up to date on your learning at home through humorous daily round ups, and such lovely photos, receiving these has been the highlight to my days.

Next week the learning from home will follow a similar pattern. I have heard many positive comments about how much your children are enjoying Purple mash and Sum Dog. I have made sure that we utilise this enjoyment along with getting up and active.

I am wishing you all a wonderful weekend together, take care of one another and stay safe. Remember that I am always just an email away should you have any queries.

Take care and thinking of you all,

Miss Bassett

Home learning update for Reception.

I hope that you have all enjoyed today’s challenges!

From tomorrow onward, our daily home learning challenges will be found on the @Learning from home’ tab found along the right hand side of the Reception page.

Thank you. I hope that you are all okay and enjoying this extra family time.

Miss Bassett

Monday March 23rd - Using Sumdog while we learn from home/school

Helping you to learn maths at home with SUM DOG

Follow the instructions, log on and play!

Dear children welcome to our online learning community. We will be helping you to keep learning every day!

We have subscribed every child in the school to the interactive maths website “SUM DOG.COM”. To get started I have made a little on screen instruction video below. You will need your username and password. The passwords for each class are to be found below :

Reception Sumdog Passwords

Year 1 Sumdog Passwords

Year 2 Sumdog Passwords

Year 3 Sumdog Passwords

Year 4 Sumdog Passwords

Year 5 Sumdog Passwords

Year 6 Sumdog Passwords

Websites to visit while learning at home

Purple mash: www.purplemash.com

On purple mash I will be setting tasks for the children to complete each week. These will be found in the “to do” tab at the top of the page.

Poissonrouge: https://www.poissonrouge.com/login/en

Login details:

login: corona2020
password: corona2020

This is a great website that has a wide range of computer activities that will build not only your child’s computer skills but also many other areas of their curriculum.

Youtube: www.youtube.com

PE—Below you find find links to exercise videos that the children have loved in reception

PE with Joe Wicks - Please see Joe Wicks youtube channel for a daily PE challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz0go1pTda8

Let’s get fit—Count to 100 by Jack Heartman (Links to maths)

Just dance—There are a range of different dances for the children to exercise to. I’m sure you have already been listening to the classes current favourite: One direction!

5 a day fitness—These videos also expose the children to different languages such as French and Spanish

Go Noodle—This is a new fitness programme that links to many math and literacy concepts through fun dances and memory challenges.

Maths

Numberblocks—This is a favourite of mine. There are so many clever links within each episode. It is certainly a quality watch which will greatly support your child’s maths learning.

English

Geraldine the Giraffe– This is a great channel for phonic sound practise. But be careful it is not the videos called Mr Thorne. Those episodes are more for adults as opposed to the children.

Ruth Miskin - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ This channel is great to help you as parents understand phonics. Ruth will be uploading lessons each day whilst schools are currently closed.

Alpha blocks—Again this is a great website to help children and there reading. It is particularly good to support sound blending.

"Wherever there is change, and wherever there is uncertainty, there is opportunity..."

I would like to say a big thank you for your understanding this week, and I hope that you all keep safe and follow any new advice that we are given over the coming weeks. I have really missed seeing the children this week and I know that Miss Neves, Mrs Malley and I will really miss the children over the next few weeks. I will be uploading daily activities that you and your child can do at home to keep learning, whilst school is no longer open. Please keep visiting our class page to see the daily activities. Along with this, the Reception children are coming home with one book. We ask that you put any work from the directed activities and any extra activities that you think show off some of your home learning inside. We will be able to share these when we are back together as a class once again. Thank you!

I will also be uploading a list with your child’s login details for Purple mash, this is a great website and computer programme that we use across school. Please use this website to help develop your child’s IT skills.

Certificates:

This week we have two Roger Robins who have been very helpful and kind this week.

Co-operative Roger Robin Joseph for… your super effort to be kind and polite this week Joseph! Miss Neves has been so impressed by your kind words towards others. You have also been trying very hard in your learning and concentrating very carefully. We are so proud Joseph! Keep up the great work.

Co-operative Roger Robin Henry for… being so thoughtful around the classroom and always offering your help to others, including your teachers! You are such a polite boy Henry and are not only very helpful, but you have also made such a great learning partner during activities. Well done!

We hope that, during this very unusual time, you all keep healthy and happy.

All our love,

Miss Bassett, Miss Neves and Mrs Malley

"Kindness is a gift that everyone can afford to give."

It was wonderful to see you all on Wednesday evening to discuss your child’s learning and progress so far this year. I would like to say a huge thank you for always being so open and trusting with your child’s learning in school. It really has such a positive impact on their happiness and progress!

Certificates

Keep improving Isabella insect Toby for… trying so hard each and every day Toby! It was fantastic to see you in PE this week. Your throwing and catching skills have improved so much! Seeing your beaming smile as you practised was just brilliant. Well done Toby, we are so proud of you and your hard work and effort.

Keep improving Isabella insect Louis for… working so hard to improve your reading and writing Louis. We are so impressed with your wonderful effort during Read Write Inc Louis. You are always so enthusiastic to have a go. It was wonderful to see your happiness on Thursday when you noticed that your handwriting had become much neater, particularly the tricky ‘s’ letter. Well done Louis!

At the end of last week, we received a lovely letter from Goldilocks, who sent us her story of the day she went into the three bears cottage. This week we have created a story map and the children have been busy working in pairs and little teams to create the most wonderful puppet shows! In RE we have listened to the story of Zacchaeus. The children were outraged at the start of the bible story, when they heard how greedy he was. We heard in the story that Jesus gave Zacchaeus His kindness, and Zacchaeus began to follow in Jesus’ footsteps by becoming a kind and generous man. I wonder if your child could retell you the story?

Thank you once again for supporting our almsgiving during Lent. This week we are going to try to make our beds each day for some money to add to our growing Cafod collection.

Phonics: This week we have been introduced to the new sound: ‘air-that’s not fair’.

Please continue to enjoy stories at home, your child’s reading book and hunting for tricky words and new sounds out and about.

Maths: This week we would like you to focus on the shapes: Triangles and rectangles. Where can you spot these shapes? How many sides and corners do they have?

PE: We can really spot the progress and confidence particularly in the children’s bouncing skills and side gallops! Please continue to practise throwing and catching using light objects.

We hope that you have a wonderful weekend, Miss Bassett, Miss Neves and Mrs Malley

"It's very simple: Almsgiving is to love others. Fasting is to love yourself. Prayer is to love God. Lent is all about LOVE."

It has been another busy week this week in Reception. We used new instruments with Mrs Mallinson, made something very special with Mrs Curtis and have been busy helping Goldilocks. We found a lovely letter on Wednesday from Goldilocks who was so apologetic about eating Mrs Malley’s porridge. She wanted to put her mistake right and bought Reception some porridge to say sorry. This was a real relief for everybody in class, lots of us had been worried that Goldilocks was unkind and may come back to do something else mischievous. Goldilocks also left us her special story which we are now learning. At the end of the week we created a story map so that we can retell the story using the pictures to help us.

Certificates

Brave Timmy Turtle Charlotte for… becoming so brave and confident, particularly with your writing! Miss Neves and I were blown away with your writing in RE this week. You wrote a whole sentence with beautiful handwriting completely independently. You should feel so proud Charlotte, you have worked so hard!

Co-operative Roger Robin Tilly N for… being such a caring member of our class! You think about those around you with such empathy and kindness. During Read Write Inc you make such a super learning partner, praising and supporting their reading and effort. Thank you Tilly for being such a kind and loving friend towards others in our class, it is so wonderful to see!

Lent: Well done to all of the children for trying so hard to raise money for Cafod this week at home. It has been wonderful to hear from the children how they have been busy keeping their bedrooms tidy.  A huge thank you to you all for supporting this at home. I am sure that by the end of lent we will have raised a lot of money for Cafod.

This week our lent almsgiving is to help after tea by washing the plates. You could earn 20p per plate you wash, or 50p each day that you help.

Phonics: This week we have been introduced to the new sound: ‘or-shut the door’.

Please continue to enjoy stories at home, your child’s reading book and hunting for tricky words and new sounds out and about.

Maths: We have focused on the numbers 6-8. Most of us are able to recognise these numbers, but this is definitely something to keep practising. The children have been busy counting out amounts and spotting things that make them think about these numbers. We looked at the colours in the rainbow and some of the children noticed that there are 7 colours in the rainbow! We decided that we would learn the rainbow song to remind us.

PE: We have focused continued to practise our, bouncing and catching skills. We have also been practising our over arm throwing by playing a game called splat the rat. I wonder if your child could teach you how to play this game at home? Do they remember their aiming arm?

World Book Day: If you have not managed to get to our book fair just yet do not worry, it will still be here on Monday afterschool at 3:35.

We hope that you have a wonderful weekend, Miss Bassett, Miss Neves and Mrs Malley

"The season of Lent"

The children have returned to school with a spring in their step, which is great because our learning has been jam-packed, I know that many of them are certainly in need of a rest this weekend.

Certificates

Concentrating Cooper crab Rory for... wonderful concentration during your maths learning. You have such an interest in numbers and we love hearing you making connections between them, such as, “10 is two more than 8.” Your enthusiasm is just delightful. You are a joy to teach Rory, well done!

Creative Kiki Chameleon Chloe for… being such a creative thinker! The detail that you put into each and every piece of artwork is just amazing! I know that Mrs Curtis would agree. You concentrate so carefully and this shows in your reading and writing too. You should be so proud of your hard and consistent effort Chloe! You are an absolute delight to teach. Well done!

Tuesday made for such an exciting day! So many of the children came bouncing into school to tell Miss Neves and I all about the pancakes that they either, had for breakfast, or would be having later that day. This excitement carried on until the time came for the children to make their own pancakes in class. We used all of our senses as we made and ate these delicious treats. I have been so impressed with the children’s listening and memory skills. Each one of them engaged wonderfully during our discussions as we made pancakes. By the end of the day, they all knew the importance of this day as a Catholic, and were proudly calling the day Shrove Tuesday. 

On Wednesday we went to church for Ash Wednesday and, once again, the children behaved beautifully as they sat quietly and prayerfully with their Year 6 partners. They were fascinated to find out that the ash put on their forehead was made from palm leaves!

RE: This week has marked the start of Lent. We have decided to create a class Lent box and we hope to fill this box with money, which we will give to CAFOD at the end of Lent. Each week I will be setting the children a special challenge to earn money at home by carrying out helpful acts around the house.

This week I want the children to have a go at tidying their bedrooms. They could earn some money for the initial tidy and then a little extra for every day that they manage to keep it tidy. Please bring in the money they earn next Thursday. Good luck Reception!

Phonics: This week we have been introduced to the new sound: ‘ar-start the car’.

Please continue to enjoy stories at home, your child’s reading book and hunting for tricky words and new sounds out and about.

Maths: We have focused on the number 1-5. Looking at each number as a whole  and how they are made up by other numbers, parts. For example we have been saying, “5 is the whole number. It is made up of a part of 1 and a part of 4.”

PE: We have focused our attention towards the skills, bouncing catching. The children have been building up their skills using two hands and moving to 1 hand to bounce/dribble a large ball. Please practise this skill at home.

World Book Day: This year we will be holding a Book Fair after school taking place on Thursday 5th, Friday 6th and Monday 9th March. We will NOT be dressing up for World Book Day. This is something that we do as a school every 2 years so that it does not become too much work sourcing costumes each year. We will still focus on stories throughout this day, including stories from the Gospels.

We hope that you have a wonderful weekend, Miss Bassett, Miss Neves and Mrs Malley

"Rest is as important as working hard."

Thank you to those of you who brought your sponsor money in on Friday! The children had such a great day; taking part in a challenging exercise session and extra PE time with Mr Nay. We also listened to Craig McCann, who shared his sporting story, leaving the children feeling inspired to reach for their dreams. The children are now even more enthused about sports and PE!

Earlier in the week, the children took part in Safer Internet Day. Many of them recognised that we use the internet when using a phone, IPad and some watches but they were shocked to hear that even doorbells can use the internet too! Reception are very aware of how to be safe when using equipment that connects to the internet and many explained how they use the internet safely at home. Well done Reception.

In phonics this week we have been learning the alternative (short) oo sound as in book, cook, shook.

Please support you child in identifying this sound in words along with the long oo sound.

In maths this week we have been looking at tricky teen numbers. Using ten frames the children are gaining a greater understanding that teen numbers are 1 lot of 10 and then some more ones. Please practise over the half term recognising the numbers to 20.

Certificates

Concentrating Cooper Crab Ciaran for... really focusing carefully on your reading Ciaran! You have made masses of progress and are now able to blend sounds together to read short stories. We are so proud of you and your wonderful determination. Well done Ciaran! Keep up this great effort.

Concentrating Cooper Crab Hudson for… being such a determined and focused little learner! You have made huge progress and continue to make everybody who works alongside you so proud! Keep up this wonderful effort towards learning and you will only keep improving and achieving new skills. Well done Hudson!

Today we break up for the February half term, how time flies! We look forward to seeing you all again on Monday 24th February, refreshed and ready for the second half of the Spring term.

Miss Bassett, Miss Neves and Mrs Malley