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By J Jackson19th March 2020

All our children from Y1-Y6 are already able to access ttrockstars, a programme that enables them to practice their times tables.  For the foreseeable future during school closures, they will also have access to the sister website ‘Numbots’.

NumBots is an online game and playing little and often will significantly improve your child’s recall and understanding of number bonds and addition and subtraction facts. These are critical foundations in maths so we are excited by the impact NumBots will have.

They can play at home on the website (play.numbots.com) or the NumBots app, available for Amazon, Android and Apple devices. Children might need some help navigating to the website and entering the details but once they’re in, they just need some quiet space to get on with the games.

All the children already have a username and password that allows them to logon to ttrockstars.  The same login details will allow them access to numbots too.

Most children’s login details in Y1 and Y2 are:

Username: firstname

Password: 123

There may be the odd slight variation due to more than one child with the same name.  If you have any problems logging your child on then please email me at [email protected] and I will email back with their personal log in details so that they can get straight on learning and having fun at the same time!

Free Phonics

By Mrs R Carter19th March 2020

Phonics Play are currently offering a free service! This is a great website for practising phonics skills. You can log in using the username and password below to have full access to the site. Currently children are expected to be working within Phase 1 but some children may be able to access the learning games for Phase 2.

By the end of Nursery children are expected to be secure in all aspects of phase one. These include:Image result for phase one phonics

 

 

I spy a rainbow!

By Mrs R Carter19th March 2020

It’s nice to hear that even though some of our children are not at school they are going for lovely walks and keeping busy with lovely family activities. Some families are putting rainbows in their windows for other children to play ‘I spy a rainbow!’

 

 

 

Can you spy our rainbows in our nursery window? If you are wondering what you can do to spread the happiness at a difficult time put a rainbow in the window to spread some joy!

Fabulous free phonics resource to use at home

By J Jackson19th March 2020

Phonics Play are currently offering a free service! This is a great website for practising phonics skills. You can log in using the username and password on the image below to have full access to the site. Currently children in Year 1 are expected to be working within Phase 4 and 5 but some children may feel more confident with the Phase 2 and phase 3 games until they know some of the Phase 5 sounds.

By the end of Y1 children are expected to be able to sound out and read words within Phase 5.

This is also a really good resource for children in Y2 who need to further develop their phonic skills and for rapid reading practice.

 

Free Phonics Games

By Miss Schön18th March 2020

Phonics Play are currently offering a free service! This is a great website for practising phonics skills. You can log in using the username and password below to have full access to the site. Currently children are expected to be working within Phase 3 but some children may feel more confident with the Phase 2 games until they know some of the Phase 3 sounds. More confident children may want to access some of the Phase 4 games which use the same sounds but with more challenging words.

By the end of Reception children are expected to be working within Phase 4.

https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/

Communication whilst self isolating and at home due to enforced closure

By C Salter18th March 2020

In order to ensure we are in touch with all of our students whilst they are self isolating or not attending school due to the closure notice. We have created a web page on our website ‘home learning portal’ (https://sites.google.com/greentopschool.co.uk/home-learning-menu/home) which will be regularly updated.
In addition, teachers will be inviting children in F2-Y6 into the ‘google classroom’ to work on activities (these will also be hosted on our home learning page.) Reception children will have a pack sent home with an exercise book and pencil enclosed tomorrow after school to complete their activities in from next week if working at home.
There will also be sessions for teaching staff in Y1-Y6 to ‘hangout’ using google hangouts through their school log ins and these times will be communicated via the school blog but all be in a morning (9am / 9.30am / 10am OR 2pm / 2.30pm). In order to ensure we are in communication with children whilst they are not at school we will follow the following protocols for communication.
1st check
Online learning interaction with a class teacher. 
 
2nd check (if first check not achieved by 11am)
Text to main mobile number asking to make contact via email or learning action by 12pm
 
3rd check (if second check not achieved by 1pm)
Phone Call Home to contacts in order (speaking to the child if possible).
Final check (if necessary)
Home visit by 2 staff
Finally, we have, and will continue to, provide our whole curriculum on the ‘Our Expeditions’ tab of the school website. As the time progresses we will populate the case studies within our Summer Expeditions to allow for children to learn at home.
Any child who would like an exercise book and pencil to record their work in is welcome to do so please ask class teachers.
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Investigators in Maths!

By Amy Faulding18th March 2020

  1. Class 7 have had a fab time this week making their own Cuboids to investigate it’s properties ready to answer their reasoning questions.
  2. I was super impressed to see you all working so well together as a team.
  3. Keep it up super stars!!
  4. Mrs Faulding 🌟