Saturday 6 February 2021

08.02.21 - This coming week in Early Years

Hello everyone!

Well done for completing another week. We are now just 1 week away from half term, which also means this is our last week for our Dinosaur Project. I wonder how many of you did take part in the RSPB Birdwatch last weekend? As promised here are my results...I managed to see 11 pigeons, 4 wood pigeons, 7 sparrows and 2 blackbirds...along with my 6 chickens, who obviously don't count!! I was really impressed with how many I'd seen.

As I mentioned above, this is our last week for the Dinosaur project. It also sees the start of Chinese New Year on Friday so we would have been learning about this too. 

Below are some ideas for this week's home learning, these are the activities we would have been doing had we been in school.




We would have been:

  • Learning 3 new vowel digraphs and 1 tricky word in our Phonics sessions. There are 4 new films in the Home Learning Folder.
  • Finishing the phase "Growing 6, 7 and 8" in our White Rose Maths sessions. A link to the films for this week can be found here. The book Jasper's Beanstalk is used on Wednesday, if you do not have this book a version of it can be found here.
  • Learning about fossils, as this is where we get our information about dinosaurs from. We would have watched this film from the Natural History Museum and then talked about some of my fossils that I've found in Dorset. The film can be found here.
  • Continuing making our dinosaur book, as this would have taken place over 2 weeks, as mentioned in last week's blog. It has been lovely to see the writing and books that the children have been doing about dinosaurs.
  • Creating our own fossils using salt dough. There is a film from the Natural History Museum that shows you how to make an ammonite fossil. It can be found here, or alternatively you may decide to use some dinosaurs to create a fossil, there are some ideas here.
  • Learning about Chinese New Year. Chinese This year it is the year of the Ox as each year is named after a different animal. We would have shared this story and also watched the film clips that can be found here to find out more about the celebrations. In school we would have joined in with Dragon dancing and engaged in other creative activities linked to Chinese New Year using these ideas.
  • Continuing with our Vocabulary Ninja words, there are another 5 in the folder. (Numbers 16-20).
In school we are in the process of updating the school website. As a result I have created a new area for Early Years. I would be very grateful if you could take a look at it and be my guinea pigs, letting me know what you think and in particular, if any part of it isn't working for you. The new Early Years site can be found by clicking on this link: Early Years site. Thank you in advance for your support.

Finally, please see the message below from Mrs Hurley and it would be great if you could complete the survey. Thank you.

Dear Parents and Carers, 

We’ve all had to adapt to new ways of working recently, so I wanted to take the opportunity to say what an amazing job you’re doing supporting your child’s wellbeing and learning during this time. To help us make sure we’re providing the right level of support for you and your child, we’d like to know your thoughts on our approach to remote home learning. Please take the time to complete the survey on this link: Feedback Survey

It should take you between 5 and 10 minutes to complete. Please fill out the survey by Thursday 11th February 5pm. Your feedback is very important to us. 

Yours sincerely,

Mrs Hurley


Gosh, what a long blog post this week!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend, maybe this time we really will get the snow!

Take care

Miss Wakefield