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In September Toucan Form will move into Twelvemonth iii and get... Hornet Class!

Your adults will be Mr. Handy, Mrs Isle of man, Mrs Trevanion & Mrs Butterley

You will be in the room that is currently Yr half dozen.

A reading of George's Marvellous Medicine past Roald Dahl.

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11.1.21- Remote Learning Information

Proficient Morning Toucans! I hope that you have all had a lovely weekend.

As Miss Todd stated in her App message at the cease of concluding week things are going to be a little different with home learning this week and for the weeks going forrad while we are at domicile.

Instead of 1 email a week I am going to electronic mail you each school day with a brief timetable of work for the day, the email volition also include resource that y'all will need for the twenty-four hour period (I plan to email this the night before in case you desire to get any resources ready before the next twenty-four hours). This program is only a guideline as to when you lot could consummate the activities, it is completely up to you and your parents every bit to when and in what order you complete the work. (Parents- I have put the piece of work into a timetable purely then it follows Authorities Guidance to set daily work which is similar to our school day and covers the iii hours of learning that we are required to set. Please do not experience that y'all accept to follow the timetable (or that I am telling you lot when to have your suspension and lunchtimes!), information technology is purely to reflect our school twenty-four hours. It is of course upwards to you as a parent when you lot complete the work and information technology tin can be equally flexible equally y'all wish.) I n Monday'southward e-mail you will also a recieve a timetable of the activities that are to follow for the rest of the week.

I volition now only be setting work via your tabecat email address and I will not exist putting information technology on here as well. I know that most of you have already been accesssing your e-mail accounts but if not here is some information to aid you lot to get logged in.

In order to access your emails please click on the email link on the tabecat page. If you do this on a device or telephone equally this is a google account information technology may automatically bring upwards your other gmail accounts in which case you will need to add your email.

The e-mail accost is username @tabecat.com and the countersign is the same as your log in.

Please keep sending any completed work to me, I love seeing it! If possible please send any work over to be past Thursday so that I tin send feedback on Friday near how your home learning has gone for the week.

Have a lovely week, any questions delight ask,

Mrs Nethersole

Below is some information that Mr Handy sent out earlier this year well-nigh how to access your emails.

A reminder of how our pupil emails are gear up up that will hopefully help:

Since 2010 nosotros have used G Suite for Education (GSfE) for all staff & pupil email addresses. This is a Google product designed for educational utilise and does not have adverts. Each element of a usual Google account (Gmail, Drive etc.) is mirrored in K Suite for Pedagogy. The difference is that as a school we have greater command over what can and tin not exist done with each element, for example restricting access or filtering content.

Every student at Holy Trinity has a Google business relationship using GSfE. The username for that account is their Tabecat electronic mail address. (In the same way an adult's Google account username is their Gmail address.)

Imagine a student called Bob Bobness (it's the imaginary person I utilize in lessons!) His Google account username is bobbob@tabecat.com - his email address.

So, when Bob wants to access his email and clicks on the email link on www.tabecat.com he is taken to a GMail/Google Account login page - because his school e-mail address is office of his Google account.

The username is bobbob@tabecat.com and the countersign is the usual password for other logins.

If every bit a parent you are already logged into your GMail/Google Account you tin choose to logout or "add together another account" - in this case add together means login as bobbob@tabecat.com

You do non need to register a new electronic mail account.

On a Chromebook your child can login using their Tabecat email address & usual password.

On an Android device you tin can add a new Google account and employ your kid's Tabecat e-mail address & usual countersign for this.

Your child's Tabecat email address is a GMail/Google account.

child@tabecat.com works the same way as parent@gmail.com

Your child tin can merely email within the people at school: to & from other @ tabecat.com (pupils) and @ holytrinithalstead.com (staff) email addresses. Some Google features are switched off for due east-condom reasons.

Note 1: Logging into the Chrome browser or a Chromebook using your child's Tabecat accost comes with actress e-condom protection as adblockers and content filters are automatically pushed out as they are at school. It can't be as strict as using our broadband at school with its actress filters, but information technology is useful.

Notation ii: Tabecat is our due east-condom mascot, which is why we have a Tabecat page and the chidren's email accounts are @ tabecat.com

I know that this seem quite a lot to take in, but the bits in bold are the key bits. From the emails we've been receiving I know that a lot of pupils accept been accessing their email accounts at home, but I sympathize that if you don't know your child's email is a Google Business relationship information technology can cause some defoliation.

Please allow united states of america know if you are still having problems and we'll try and assist.

Happy New Year!! Nosotros promise that you had a wonderful Christmas and enjoyed your New year's day celebrations! We really hoped that we would take been back in school this week but this is non the instance then nosotros have another week of dwelling house learning.

This term is our EXPLORE term where we focus on Geography and DT and the question nosotros are looking at in yr two is 'Is it a small world?' Nosotros volition be looking at continents and oceans, using maps and learning nearly Kenya in Geography. In DT we are going to be making moving pictures using different mechanisms.

Here is what we would similar you to practice this week.....

Writing

Lesson 1 Aim: To understand and apply co-ordinating conjuctions. Consummate the BBC Bitesize lesson https://world wide web.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zjdxhbk . There are activities to complete and work your style through.

Lesson 2 Aim: To sympathize and use sub-ordinating conjuctions. Complete the BBC Bitesize lesson that you volition find here https://www.bbc.co.united kingdom/bitesize/articles/zsm9g7h In that location are activities to complete and work your style through.

Lesson 3 Aim: To empathize, identify and use word classes including nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. Complete the BBC bitesize lesson and activities that you will discover here https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zgxmwnb .

Reading

Please make sure that you lot are still accessing your Bug Gild online bookbag- it is full of books for you to read. Every bit you are going through the book make sure that y'all respond the comprehension questions by clicking on the bugs.

I have sent over a reading comprehension activity for you to do as well.

Spelling

For the side by side couple of weeks nosotros are going to focus on the Year two mutual exception discussion list for our spellings. At the finish of yr 2 your child should be able to read and spell all of these words. I take sent you over an activity booklet that has lots of activities that you can complete that will assistance y'all to learn to read and spell these words. This booklet will exist to final you lot this week and next week and then you don't take to do all of the activities this week!

Maths

In maths nosotros are starting our unit on Multiplication and Segmentation. The first couple of lessons are recapping on lots of year ane learning and then your child may notice it a picayune easy. Delight still complete the activities and work because we volition exist using it to build upon.

Lesson 1 Aim: To recognise equal groups. Watch this video https://vimeo.com/488106597 At that place is a worksheet to get through that links to the video which I will attach in the email that I ship over.

Lesson 2 Aim: To make equal groups. Watch this video https://vimeo.com/488108584 In that location is a worksheet to go through that links with the video. You could too take a go at practically making equal groups with objects from around your business firm.

Lesson 3 Aim: To add equal groups. Watch this video https://vimeo.com/488110327 There is a worksheet to go through that links with the video.

Science

This half term in science we are learning about everyday materials and their uses. An everyday fabric is a concrete substance that is used to make an object east.yard. plastic or metallic. Take a look at this Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?five=e5h5RgiagrU&feature=youtu.be and then complete the sheet investigating what everyday materials yous tin can find effectually the business firm and their uses. For a challenge tin y'all make a bar chart to show your findings?

Topic

This term we movement onto our Explore term where our focus is Geography and Design and Technology. Nosotros are going to start our learning with some Geography and we are going to wait at the seven continents. We would like you to complete this lesson on the Oak Academy website https://classroom.thenational.university/lessons/what-is-a-continent-c9k32d . I will besides transport you over a map to make full in the seven continents that you can either apply with the video or fill it in afterward to see if you can remember them.

We would honey to come across what you are upward to this week, delight send any completed work to nnethersole@holytrinityhalstead.co.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland

Accept a lovely week,

Toucan Squad

Wishing all of our Toucans a very Merry Christmas!

Nosotros know these concluding two weeks have been different to how we would have all liked them to exist in school, simply we actually do promise that you accept enjoyed the fourth dimension at home with your families and are now very much in the Christmas spirit.

Cheers to all the parents that have supported us with home learning, nosotros know that it is non ever easy.

Nosotros wait forrad to seeing you all back in school in January, have the best Christmas!

Mrs Nethersole, Mr Handy, Miss Smith and Mrs Mann x

14.12.20

Hi Toucans,

I hope that you are all well, and enjoying your fourth dimension at home on the run up to Christmas. Thank you so much for all the emails of your work this calendar week and Christmas jumper photos, information technology is lovely to see yous all.

Here is your work for the final week of school in 2020!

English

1) Tell me about the Christmas traditions that you take with your family. Write downwardly all the ways that yous celebrate Christmas with your family, how practice you make it special? Is at that place something different that y'all do with your family unit to celebrate that is different to other families?

2) Christmas Cracker Contractions- Before we finished school Miss Smith taught y'all all about apostrophes for contractions. I have attached a worksheet to complete looking at contracted words and finding out what words take been contracted to make the new words. If you would like a quick reminder there is a piddling ane hither https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvwwxnb/articles/zcyv4qt of how apostrophes for contractions work.

3) The Mystery of The Christmas Cookie Crime- A mystery to solve by using your spelling, punctuation and grammer skills. Solve the clues to piece of work out which reindeer ate the Christmas cookies! I take sent yous the activity in the email I have sent to you.

Reading

Christmas comprehension- In your e-mail I have attached a Christmas comprehension activity for you to do. Read the information and answer the questions. You don't take to do all the sheets but choose one that you think you tin do. If y'all tin can't print this out at home read a story with a grown up and ask them to ask you some questions about the story to see if you can call up what happens. They might want to ask you to predict what you retrieve might happen next, what some of the vocabulary means, how you call back the characters might exist feeling at certain points or see if you tin remember certain data from the text.

Go along reading your banded book, a book of your choice or on problems gild and keep practising your phonics cards every twenty-four hour period or as much every bit possible. Nosotros are aware that some children have had problems accessing their virtual bookbag on Bug Order. If you tin not login to the business relationship on Bug Club, you could endeavor reading these books from Oxford Owl https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-dwelling/discover-a-book/library-page/ Your parents will need to register gratis to the site merely there are books on here that are similar to what we take in school. Select levels > book band and click on the colour that you lot are working on. This is indicated as a sticker on one of your reading books in your zippy wallet.

Maths

ane) Christmas tree measuring- using some paper that a grown upwards has said is OK to cut up (any paper will do- card, wrapping paper etc), cutting out some strips of paper well-nigh 2cm in width. Use a ruler to measure 1cm on your strip, cut it out then place it in the centre at the top of a piece of paper. Side by side measure 2cm and place information technology below the 1cm. Carry on measuring strips but increasing it by 1cm every time. Your shape should make a Chritsmas tree, you could then decorate your tree however you lot like. See below for a photo to prove you one I made earlier!

2) The Mystery of the Missing Reindeer Bells Maths Game- A mystery that you lot need to solve by completing Maths problems. Work through the maths puzzles to find out who the culprit is for the missing reindeer bells! I accept sent you the activity in the email I have sent to you.

PE

Mr Wiskin has set you a PE Bingo claiming. Encounter how many activities yous tin can tick off this calendar week or over the Christmas holidays. I have attatched this in the email that I accept sent to you.

Topic

Information technology'S CHRISTMAS! Brand a Christmas bill of fare for a friend, brand some Christmas cookies (good fashion to practise measuring skills as well!), create a decoration for your Christmas tree/ window, decorate your ceiling with paper chains or snuggle upward and lookout man a Christmas movie. All we want you to exercise is have some Christmas fun!

Calculating

Get onto Purple Mash and find 2Paint. Choose the nest tool in 2Paint to create a lovely Christmas picture. No words, just an image that is Christmassy! Don't forget to save information technology. (You don't demand to email the image, we'll find it.)

Delight email whatsoever completed work to nnethersole@holytrinityhalstead.com I look forward to seeing what you lot take got up to!

Have a lovely week,

Mrs Nethersole

Skilful Morning Toucans!

So it seems it will exist a fiddling while longer before nosotros run into each other again, I hope that you are all keeping well and enjoying your time at abode.

Here is your piece of work to consummate for the remainder of the calendar week (Today's work is below this post also in case you missed information technology!).

English

Nosotros have been looking at postcards for the last few weeks, we take looked at features of a postcard and accept written a class model of i based on the volume 'Meerkat Christmas.' In 'Meerkat Christmas' Sonny the meerkat travels effectually the globe to find the perfect Christmas and sends letters/ postcards back to his friends in the Kalahari of his adventures. This week we were going to write our own postcard. I would similar you to imagine that you lot take a visit to the Northward Pole to run into Father Christmas and send a postcard dorsum to your loved ones of what you got upwardly to. (Parents- we were going to sentry 'The Snowman' film to help usa to generate ideas of what we might have seen/ done. Specifically the bit where the little boy flies off with the snowman to take the Christmas party with Father Christmas. If y'all happen to have the motion picture at home it might be helpful- it doesn't thing if not.)

1) Plan what you are going to say in your postcard. Remember the structure of a postcard that we have been looking at.

Greeting, v Due west'due south and How, Best Fleck, Activities, Fun Fact/ Did you Know?, Sign off and P.S.

I have included a planning canvass in your email if you lot wish to apply it.

2) Write your postcard using your planning sheet to help y'all. I would like you to endeavor and use commas for a list, apostrophes for contracted words, noun phrases and adjectives to describe what you tin can see, affect and hear. These are all things that we accept been looking at in class over the terminal couple of weeks.

three) Read dorsum through your postcard, make sure that it makes sense. Look for spelling and punctuation errors (your grown ups can assist you with this) and see if you lot can correct them. Is there anything you could add together into your postcard to make it more exciting to read?

Reading

Please spend at least 1 v minutes each day reading or sharing books with an adult. There are plenty of books for yous to read on Bug Club if y'all have finished your colour band volume , or you lot can read or share a book from home.

Maths

2)To find the total of a fix/ sets of coins. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/calendar week-11-measurement-money/

Watch the video and work through the pause and think questions. Inquire a grown upwards to set out some groups of coins for you. See if you tin combine two of the amounts and discover the total.

3) To find the difference between amounts of coins. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/yr-ii/week-xi-measurement-money/

Watch the video and work through the pause and remember questions. I will email over a worksheet to go with this lesson to complete.

Topic

On the tabecat page of the website follow the link called The Great Fire of London which will take you to a Corking Burn of London game which yous tin work through. You have to look at sources and work out what information it tells u.s.a. about the burn down. It will also test your agreement of events of the fire.

Don't forget Sumdog, Teach Your Monster to Read and Bug Society are as well bachelor via the tabecat page of the website for yous to employ equally yous wish for some extra activities.

I would love to meet any work that y'all have completed at the end of the week, my email address is nnethersole@holytrinityhalstead.com I love getting photos of what you lot have been up to equally well!

I am really hopeful that nosotros can be back at school for a few days before the holidays so that we can have a bit of Christmas fun earlier we break up!

Have a lovely week,

Mrs Nethersole

I hope that yous accept enjoyed your concluding couple of days off Toucans, you even got snowfall!

Thank you to those that have emailed me over work and so far that they have completed.

Here is your piece of work for Mon to exercise whilst yous are at dwelling house.

Maths

To compare dissimilar amounts of money. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/week-11-measurement-money/

Scout the video and piece of work through the break and think questions. Ask a grown upward to sort a few coins (and notes if feeling really confident) into 2 piles and see if you tin can work out which is the biggest corporeality. Can write the correct greater than >, less than < or equals to =, symbol between them? (Don't forget the crocodile likes to eat the biggest amount/ number!)

Phonics

https://lettersandsounds.org.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland/for-home/y2-phonics-screening-check-revision With the phonics screening check coming upwards whatever of these revision lessons will be helpful for you to have a await at. However these are the sounds that we oft find catchy-lesson xi ue blue, lesson 12 ew chew, lesson 13 u-e utilise, lesson 14 aw, lesson 24 u unicorn, lesson 27 wh, lesson 28 ie field and lesson 29 m gem, so could be a good starting point.

Computing

Login to Regal Mash and create an blitheness. The first week nosotros made a shape get bigger and smaller. Then we moved a shape around the screen. This time try to make Ii things happen! Perchance one changing size and the other moving, or both the aforementioned - information technology's up to you. Remember you need to create at to the lowest degree 30 slides to make your animation look great.

Admission Regal Mash via www.tabecat.com using your usual login details - just like y'all do in class! Delight save your work as ani4 and I'll take a look at them adjacent calendar week.

RE

Nosotros are coming to end of our topic on Special Places. As you lot're at domicile, talk to an developed well-nigh their special place or places. Ask them why the place is special to them. Is information technology because of a memory, or it is because it's a beautiful place? Is it a physical identify, or does it depend on who or what is in that location? Tell your adult about your special place, compare it to your adult's favourite identify, and tell them why it'south special to you.

Don't forget to keep reading as well! I accept checked and all of you lot accept got books available on Issues Social club and if y'all happen to run out transport me an email (nnethersole@holytrinityhalstead.com) to let me know and I will update them for you. Whatsoever reading you do volition be added into the reading raffle next week.

We wait forward to seeing you all on Tuesday,

Toucan Team

Good afternoon,

I hope that you are enjoying your unexpected day at habitation!

Here are a couple of things that you can do to proceed you lot decorated for the next couple of days based on what we have been doing at the get-go of the week.

Maths

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/week-10-measurement-money/ Here y'all will find videos on the coin work that we take been doing this week. You tin watch any of the videos as it will be expert recapping but the side by side lesson that nosotros were going to complete in class would have been the selecting money one. Watch the videos and work through the 'pause and take a think' questions every bit you scout them.

You could too gear up a shop at home where you have to pay for items (we haven't covered getting alter yet!) counting out the correct pounds and pence.

English

https://www.bbc.co.u.k./bitesize/articles/zh7bgwx This is a link to a video and activities on using commas for a listing. We accept looked briefly at using commas for lists in class and this will assist you to understand how to use them a little more.

Phonics

https://lettersandsounds.org.uk/for-home/y2-phonics-screening-check-revision With the phonics screening bank check coming up any of these revision lessons will be helpful for you to accept a expect at. All the same these are the sounds that we oft notice tricky-lesson eleven ue blue, lesson 12 ew chew, lesson thirteen u-e employ, lesson 14 aw, lesson 24 u unicorn, lesson 27 wh, lesson 28 ie field and lesson 29 thousand jewel, so could be a skilful starting betoken.

Spelling

We have been learning about homophones in spelling sessions. See if you can explicate to an adult what a homophone is, how many different homophones can yous listing? https://world wide web.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqhpk2p/articles/zc84cwx Here is a short video if you would like a quick reminder of what a homophone is.

It would exist lovely to see what y'all have been up to, please email over any work at the terminate of the week to nnethersole@holytrinityhalstead.com

Take a lovely couple of days and I promise that I can see y'all soon!

Mrs Nethersole

Adept afternoon,

Equally always we take had a busy week in Toucan Class this week. In English we have been busy writing postcards based on the story 'Meerkat Christmas', the children take wowed me with their writing and have been getting excited about writing something Christmassy! Nosotros have had to include commas for lists and apostrophes for possession and contraction which has been a little catchy! Information technology would exist great if y'all could have a little practise of these. We have sabbatum Maths assessment papers this week and in Maths side by side week we'll exist learning about money.

In maths over the side by side couple of weeks nosotros will be working with money. We will be recognising and counting coins and notes, comparing amounts, finding totals and divergence, and working out some bug. Information technology would exist really helpful if you lot could talk well-nigh coin values and evidence how you lot utilise coin for paying for items at home. I appreciate it is difficult at this moment to go shopping and pay with coins but perchance you could gear up a little 'shop' at home and have a practise of paying and getting change. This volition help to reinforce the work that we are doing in school and requite them some 'real life' context.

Thank you then much for your back up with our reading raffle information technology is articulate to come across those children that are reading at dwelling regularly and it is really helping them to make great progress! Well done Toucans!

Take a lovely weekend, proceed practising those play words!

Toucan Team

A message from the office - If your child would like a Christmas Dinner lunch on Thursday 1 7 th December, this needs to exist ordered online by 26.11.20.

This week we have been sitting some reading assessment papers, we are very impressed with how the children have approached these with such a grown upwards attitude and have worked then very hard to attempt to read the questions and answer the text. Well washed Toucans, brilliant work- Maths ones next calendar week!

In Maths we take been learning to subtract a ii digit number from another 2 digit number. This has included column subtraction but nosotros haven't done any exchanging yet, we volition go onto that soon. During English lessons nosotros have been looking at nouns and we fabricated an A to Z of different nouns, tin can your child tell yous what they are and give you some examples? Nosotros also had an exciting lesson looking at Where'southward Wally Books and coming up with noun phrases as clues to describe people in the volume so that the rest of the course could endeavour to spot them. In phonics lessons we have been recapping on Phase 3 and v sounds looking at alternative spellings and rules.

Thanks for all the reading that has been going on at home, our reading raffle was very full this week and information technology definitely seems to be encouraging all the children to read a piddling more than!

Have a corking weekend,

Toucan Team

Happy weekend Toucans!

We have had another busy calendar week here in Toucan Class. In English we have started looking at postcards, I wonder if your child could tell you the features we have been looking at and maybe describe some of the symbols we have used to represent these symbols? We have looked at how nosotros can go on ourselves rubber in PSHE, especially burn safety and we have also been mastering adding together two digit numbers in maths using cavalcade addition, which we all feel very grown up virtually! We also had a cracking time watching the duck race yesterday, even if some of us were a picayune disappointed that our ducks didn't win.

The children take enjoyed showing their first lot of homework to the rest of the course this week. Nosotros had lots of lovely Slap-up Fire of London pictures and lots of endeavor on Sumdog and Bug Order. We were very impressed with how many children completed their homework, well done Toucans!

This week we started our reading raffle and it was lovely to meet so many children really making the endeavour to read each dark and we have lots of raffle tickets in the box. Events of Friday afternoon meant that nosotros didn't do the reading raffle on Friday merely Mr Handy volition draw it on Monday instead. Thank you so much for all the support at home with this.

This week your child has been given their part in the KS1 Birth. They volition accept brought a script home and their part will be highlighted in their script. It would exist extremely helpful if you could help your child to learn their lines. (Mum and Dad characters will be able to read theirs, just it would be helpful if they are very familiar with them!) We volition be doing lots of practising in school so please could nosotros ask that scripts are ever popped back into bags once you have finished practising at home so they are prepare to be used at schoolhouse.

Well washed Toucans a swell calendar week, have a lovely weekend,

Toucan Team

Welcome dorsum! We hope that you had a lovely holiday and enjoyed your time before our latest lockdown.

Nosotros have dived straight dorsum in with our learning this week and have washed lots of fabulous writing, writing diaries based on The Cracking Fire of London and creating firework poems which we have fabricated into rockets. In Maths we are continuing our work on add-on and subtraction and nosotros have started to add two 2- digit numbers this week.

Next week in English language we are looking at postcards and the structure of these. If you have any postcards (we're looking at written ones, not just the postcard from different places) that you are willing for the states to accept a little look at information technology would be very helpful. Please make sure any that yous send in are named or in a named envelope and so that we can get them back to you! Give thanks you lot for your assistance.

As I mentioned before half term we are starting our reading raffle this week. Every time your kid reads at home they will exist given a raffle ticket (dissever to the whole schoolhouse principal raffle) and at the cease of the calendar week we will pick out a winner who will receive a modest prize from our form raffle box. Nosotros promise that this may encourage children to read at abode as much as possible. We know that family life is very busy but we would really appreciate it if y'all could observe some time to dedicate to their reading each day or as much every bit possible, information technology really does brand a difference.

Your child will have brought home a homework grid tonight. Each calendar week nosotros would similar them to consummate one activeness from the homework filigree, it tin be whatever activity they cull, but must exist a unlike i each week. They can complete it in any manner they would similar just we would like to see what they have washed, so they must be able to evidence us something. We will be giving credits and raffle tickets for whatsoever child who completes their homework each week. Fourth dimension volition be given each Wed to become through homework and your child will exist given the opportunity to share what they have done.

Look out for nascency play scripts coming habitation soon, although we are not going to be performing a nativity to an audience this yr we are very much still going to do a nativity, however it will look slightly different this twelvemonth. The show must go along!

Have a lovely weekend,

Toucan Squad

Wow! We have had a fantastic half term in Toucan Class. It has been lovely getting to know our Toucans this one-half term and it seems to have flown by!

We have really got stuck into learning about The Peachy Fire of London this week and I am certain that your children will take come dwelling talking about Samuel Pepys and his diary (and perchance near him burying his vino and cheese in the garden as that is their favourite thing at the moment!) The actually seem to exist enjoying this topic and finding out all about the fire.

This week we have had Harvest Festival and the children made fantastic scarecrows which are now upward on display around the school. I was very proud of their reading of The Dingle Dangle Scarecrow, they were and so loud and clear and everyone has commented on how well they did, great work guys!

This afternoon your kid will accept come up abode with some maths games to play over one-half term. There is something for everyone on in that location and most of them can be played with limited resource or the resources that are in the pack. If y'all would however like to borrow a die from school or a set of playing cards then please permit me know and I will send some home with your kid when we return to school.

Nosotros have been revising all of the Phase v sounds this calendar week in phonics. If you want to practice more than phonics over half term don't forget we have Teach your Monster to Read on the tabecat page of the schoolhouse website that you tin can log in to play. You can also check out https://world wide web.phonicsbloom.com/ or https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/ for more games which the children will exist familiar with.

Later on one-half term to encourage more reading at home we volition be starting a 'Reading Raffle'. Every fourth dimension your child reads at dwelling house they will exist given a raffle ticket (separate to the whole school main raffle) and at the end of the week nosotros will pick out a winner who will receive a small prize from our grade raffle box. We hope that this may encourage children to read at home equally much as possible. Nosotros know that family life is very busy but we would really appreciate it if you could find some time to dedicate to their reading each day or as much as possible, it really does make a difference.

We promise that y'all have a wonderful half term and enjoy a well earned rest from school.

Accept care and see you lot all soon,

Toucan Squad

This week we have been hard at work again writing our own stories in English language. We have used our story 'The Marvellous Fluffy Squishy Itty Bitty' as our stimulus and have all written stories nearly an important gift for a special person. The children worked incredibly difficult and produced some lovely pieces of writing. In maths we accept been looking at improver and subtraction, particularly related facts and 10 more and 10 less. There volition exist homework prepare from next week but for this calendar week if you would like to do anything at home it would exist really useful to help your children to practise their formation of numbers. Not only making certain the numbers are the right way around, but also making certain that the digits are in the right place (twenty 7 for example is written 27 and not 72).

We take been doing lots of phonics this week and nosotros have fifty-fifty had a go at a practise phonics screening check. This calendar week nosotros take looked at the ar audio and we have been having a look at phase 4 which is lots of blending to read words.

We haven't had Mrs Mann in this week so nosotros haven't managed to test the Maths award targets. If your kid has missed their turn and are set up to exist tested please write a annotation in their diary and we will make sure that they are tested next week.

It is lovely that some children are starting to complete their first reading rewards, well done to those children who are managing to read at habitation.

If you have asked for an engagement for a phone parent consultation for side by side calendar week nosotros have sent these dwelling house with your kid this afternoon.

Take a lovely weekend,

Toucan Team

We have had a great week this week. Information technology was lovely to meet so many different things that the children collect on Tuesday and the children had fun talking about these and asking each other questions about their collections. They had fun and worked hard during their 'Walk for the Walkway, Run for the Covers!' today and hopefully will have raised lots of coin for the new walkways and covers needed effectually school.

This week in Phonics we take been looking at the or sound and some it'south alternatives (aw and au) . The children have been brilliant at spotting these in words and we have practised writing lots of these words likewise. Information technology would exist corking if you could try and spot these sounds in their reading or remind them to utilize the correct representation when writing these words. We accept also done some general stage 5 revision this calendar week and the children will be bringing home an action booklet that they have started in course that they tin stop off at home.

Although the children haven't been set any formal homework yet (this is coming soon), I would really like for all the children to endeavour and read every twenty-four hour period! If they forget their reading book one nighttime then please recall that they all have books available on Bug Order or they can read their library book or whatever story from home instead.

Don't forget.......

• Essex Sumdog contest this week, log in and have a get!

• individual photos on Monday (twelfth).

• to bring in any sponsorship money class the 'Walk for the Walkway, Run for the Covers!'

Accept a lovely weekend, encounter you on Monday,

Toucan Team

Toucan Class take worked actually hard on their writing this week, I have been very impressed with their vocabulary choices and the effort they are putting in to endeavor and brand their writing audio heady. We are of course yet making sure we think finger spaces and punctuation in the right places. They likewise had a vivid walk with Mr Handy and he sang their praises about how smashing they were whilst out and about around boondocks.

Side by side week linked to work in our English language lessons we are going to wait at collections. If your child has something that they collect at dwelling, it could be pokemon cards, football cards or dolls for case we would like you lot to share this with the states. Please could y'all bring in or email us (nnethersole@holytrinityhalstead.com) a photo of your kid's collection gear up to be shared on Tuesday.

In phonics we have looked at the oe sound and some of it'south alternatives (o-east, oe and ow) and the oi/oy sound. Nosotros have practised reading and writing lots of words with these sounds in, it would be groovy if you could endeavour and spot these words in their reading or remind them to employ the right representation when writing these words.

Although the children are not able to visit the library and choose books at the moment, Mrs Wrigley Brooks is bringing effectually a book trolley each week for the children to be able to choose books from. This will happen on a Mon afternoon, if your child wishes to swap their library book so please make certain that they accept their book to return ready on that day.

Don't forget to read as much as you lot tin, ideally every solar day, information technology really does brand a departure to your child'southward reading progress and helps them in all subject field areas.

Have a neat weekend,

Toucan Team

We take had a really busy week this week. We accept completed some food tasting and used this to get together lots of vocabulary for our writing, we have done lots of work looking at numbers and their place value in Maths and nosotros accept learnt about how we grow and change in Science. In phonics we accept looked at the igh sound and some of information technology's alternatives (i-e and ie) and the oe audio and some of it'south alternatives (o-eastward, oe and ow). We have practised reading and writing lots of words with these sounds in, it would be great if you could effort and spot these words in their reading or remind them to utilise the correct representation when writing these words.

Although originally we said the children could only change their reading books on a Mon or Th this didn't seem to piece of work so well in class, and then we are reverting dorsum to them being able to change their book whenever they need to. Nosotros take a separate box that the children add their books into and books will stay in 'quarantine' for at least 48 hours before existence put back. Delight remember though it is useful to read the books more than once as repetition is a great way for your child to acquire those unfamiliar words and develop fluency in reading. Information technology is too important to talk near the books to ensure that your kid understands and comprehends what they have read. If your child wishes to change their book information technology is their responsibleness to make us aware, withal if your not sure your child will remember please put it in their Toucan diary as these are checked daily.

Equally you may of heard from your child we didn't get on our walk on Friday due to the bad atmospheric condition and traffic chaos around Halstead, Mr Handy volition be taking them on Monday the 28th September instead.

Some other great calendar week, savor your weekend,

Toucan Team

18.ix.20- What a neat week!

Nosotros have had a slap-up week in Toucan Grade this week and we are getting used to being back at school.

We have tested all the children on their phoneme recognition over the last calendar week and have sent home their phoneme mats and then that you can work on these with your children. Whatever audio that has a tick by information technology your kid already knows and any that are underlined are ones that we are working on with them at school. If your child has them all ticked off information technology would withal be useful for yous to recap these from fourth dimension to time, just to make sure that they don't forget them! We are decorated doing daily phonics in course to make sure that nosotros are fix for the screening cheque after half term. This week nosotros have been revisiting the ai sound and some of it'due south alternatives (a_e and ay) and the ee sound and some of it's alternatives (east, ea and e_e). Nosotros take practised reading and writing lots of words with these sounds in information technology would exist great if yous could try and spot these words in their reading.

Every kid now also has their current Maths award targets in their Toucan communication books and these volition be tested every other week on a Th. It would exist very helpful if you could point in their diary whether they accept been practising these at home.

Next week nosotros programme on doing some nutrient tasting in form and we are going to go on a local walk to wait at the high street and specifically the bakery (we won't be going into any shops.). This is to enhance our English language and our History work. We know that under normal circumstances nosotros wouldn't ask for permission for this, however at this electric current time we would like to ask for you to consent to your child taking office. Delight give consent via the scopay app. Any questions please speak to or email Mrs Nethersole (nnethersole@holytrinityhalstead.com).

Have a lovely weekend, run across you on Monday!

Toucan Team

Welcome to our Grade Website Toucans!

Here is where you volition notice lots of information most things that are happening in school and this is where your homework will exist set one time we are a little more settled! Please keep an center on this web folio as well equally the school app for updates specifically for Toucan Form as we will update it regularly.

A few notices from the first week...

This week your child will have come home with a Toucan advice book and a schoolhouse reading book. As y'all know, reading at home actually does make a huge impact on your kid's reading progress and we encourage as much reading at home as possible. We know that family life can be very decorated simply if there is one thing that you tin find 10 minutes to do then delight read with your child. Any reading is brilliant whether information technology be a comic, phonics game, mag or a book from home, we would dear to know about it then delight tape it in their advice book. It doesn't always have to be them reading to yous, it is too just every bit important for them to hear you reading them stories, they may seem likewise big for a bedtime story simply they will honey listening to yous read!

Forth with the reading, please tape any messages for us or whatever other piece of work that they take been doing at home, we would dearest to hear about it. Whilst we will try our all-time to expect at the communication books every day if there are any urgent letters please let us know on the door or email u.s..

Our PE mean solar day is a Thursday, please make sure that your child comes to schoolhouse set in their PE kit, that earrings are removed or taped upward and long hair is tied back. Mr Wiskin will be doing PE exterior equally much as possible then it would be useful for your child to accept a plain, dark sweatshirt and jogging bottoms/ tracksuit when the weather gets chilly.

We know there has been a trivial defoliation about h2o bottles but these are going to be coming home daily so that y'all can wash and refill them.

Please, please, delight brand sure that you name all of your child'due south school uniform, nosotros will absolutely brand sure that your child'southward compatible gets dorsum to them if it is named, information technology makes that job incommunicable if it is not. Nosotros have already had a few missing cardigans or jumpers so delight check.

Any questions about anything, please only ask on the door or email us on nnethersole@holytrinityhalstead.com or khandy@holytrinityhalstead.com

Please bear with us, things are a little different for us all at the moment and we are getting used to a unlike 'normal', your children have been brilliant with all the changes and nosotros are very proud of them all. We have had a lovely first week in class and nosotros are enjoying getting to know all our new fiddling Toucans, accept a lovely weekend and we will see yous all on Monday!

Mrs Nethersole, Mr Handy, Mrs Mann and Miss Smith

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