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It’s been a busy few weeks in Year 1 and it’s been great to see all the wonderful work that the children are completing in school and at home. The children have enjoyed learning about different materials and spotting objects around the classroom and home which use the materials. They are also starting to explore toys as part of their science learning and have explored what materials toys are made of. We’ve had great fun learning about our artist of the moment, Beverley Edge and the children loved making their own robots at home and school. We’ve printed out lots of the home learning robots to brighten our classrooms.

Thank you parents and carers for all that you are doing to help with your children’s learning. Please contact us on year1@stmarksce.org.uk if you have any questions or concerns.

Year 1 Team

Parents/ Carers,

Thank you all for the support you have given the Year 1 team during our first week of Lock-down as we work through teaching in class and remotely.

Over the coming weeks, Year 1 will be offering the following remote live teaching each day.

9.05am – Live maths lesson, taught by one of the year 1 teachers. The link will be found on the Year 1 stream. The link will remain open until 10am, where a member of the team can answer any questions to support your child with their learning.

10.45am – Live English lesson, taught by one of the year 1 teachers. The link will be found on the Year 1 stream. The link will remain open until 11.30am, where a member of the team can answer any questions to support your child with their learning.

1pm – Live phonics and story time (Fridays this will be phonics and star learners) with your child’s class teacher. The link will be found on your own class (1C/1J/1P) stream.

We understand that working from home, multiple children, sharing of resources, accessing remote learning etc. is not always easy so please just try your best. Please remember to contact us on year1@stmarksce.org.uk if you have any queries. We look forward to seeing all the children this week in our meets and seeing all their fabulous work you send in.

Year 1 Team

Can we take this opportunity to say thank you for your support so far this week and bearing with us as we have moved to live teaching for key worker children and those at home. It has been lovely to see so many of you joining our lessons and meets from home. We want to feel like a class, year group and school community and you have certainly helped us to achieve this.

Daily Meets:
9.30am – We will take the register and then teach the English session. If you can’t make this slot you will be able to access the pre-recorded lesson instead but we would love to see you and have your ideas shared with everyone too. Please ensure you have your book and pencil ready to work. You should be sat at a table so you can complete your writing as we teach.
11.30am – This is a drop in session that is available for those that may need some help, want to share something with one of the teachers from Year 3.
1.05pm – Afternoon register and story time – we may sometimes use this for quizzes, introduction of afternoon activities or other live lessons. We will have a celebration worship every Friday where we will celebrate someone from home and at school.

Handing in work:
Please ensure your child hands in their work when it has been completed by clicking on ‘Handing in’ work. We will have LSA’s and teachers giving feedback and RP’s. You can complete in your books, take a photo or by editing the Google Doc/Slide. Please do encourage the children to read the comments and support that might be given by staff as this would be beneficial to their learning.

Printing of work:
We are doing our best to ensure that there are documents online for those children who don’t have access to a printer. We are not expecting you to print everything we set – children can complete straight into their books if needed.

Resource packs:
We are aware that you may not have all the resources and equipment at home that you may need. We are making packs of resources for those who may need them. This will include their school pencil cases, resources and books for English and topic work. We will set a date to be able to collect these after school this week.

Google meet Rules:
Can you please share the google meet rules below with your child before Monday. Thank you.

Finally, we would like to share some of the wonderful work from our home learners this week. We hope you like them. Thank you again for all your support and kind words that have been emailed in. If you do need to get hold of us, do please email us at year3@stmarksce.org.uk.

Mrs Boyle, Mrs Spiers, Miss Tamblyn, Mrs Parker and Mrs Gregory