Welcome to 1VM

Teacher ~ Miss McKibbin

Teaching Assistant ~ Miss Crossley

1 to 1 Support Staff ~ Mrs Warrell & Mrs Davies

 Summer 2  

Information for This Half Term

Book changing days are Monday and Thursday. Please bring your books in a plastic bag.  

PE days are Tuesday and Friday. Children come to school in their PE kits on these days.

Our New Topic is ...

The World Around Us

Jigsaw topics - Changing Me:

• Life cycles - animal and human

  Changes in me

  Changes since being a baby

  Linking growing and learning

  Qualities as a friend and person

  Coping with change

  Transition

Our author for this half term is Eric Carle

Seesaw

We will continue to use Seesaw to record reading and spelling practise at home. We will also assign a Chatterbox activity to complete at home and send a link for Abacus online games. 

Reading

Please read with your child every day and remember to comment and sign the reading record and upload a photo to Seesaw. We find these comments really useful!

Spellings

Spellings will be sent on Seesaw. Please practise these in your blue spelling book and upload a picture to Seesaw.  We have a spelling test on a Friday.

Things to remember

A water bottle  

A piece of fruit for your snack

A lunchbox if you are having sandwiches

Please can we ask that you do not bring in any other items from home.

Spring Term 2 Week 1

Hello Everyone! Miss Mustari and Miss McKibbin here! 

Welcome back we hope you had a nice half term!

Topic - Healthy Me

- Keeping myself healthy

- Healthier lifestyle choices

- Keeping Clean

- Being Safe 

- Medicine safety/safety with household items

- Road Safety

- Linking health and happiness

We will also be learning about

‘People Who Help Us’ e.g. doctor, dentist

Author – Julia Donaldson

Parents Evenings

When: Over 2 weeks – February 22^nd–March 5^th

How: Invitation in your child’s Hwb email

Via – Join meeting on Teams

Spring Term 1 Blended Learning Week 6

Dreams and Goals

Hello Everyone! Miss McKibbin and Miss Mustari here!

Wow! What a fantastic week it has been!

It has been amazing to see all your great work this week. We are very proud of you! We have loved seeing all your unique squiggle art. We have seen lots of great estimating and counting in 2s, 5s, and 10s.

Da iawn Blwyddyn Un!

One more week, keep up the great work!

 All Week 6 activities will be on Seesaw as normal and we are available on there to help you with anything. Some activities will go live on Thursday and Friday.

Don’t forget to respond to the Register Activity on Seesaw each week. We love seeing your videos and pictures. It’s a great way to keep connected.

All Parents Evenings have been allocated now. You will be able to see these through your child’s Hwb. There is lots of information in the activities section on Seesaw on how to access these. If you need any help just let us know.

Suggested Timetable

Scroll down for the updated version of the suggested timetable.

This is to give you an idea of how you could plan out your week to ensure you are doing some learning each day.

We refer to this in our morning videos.

Daily Activities

~Sound and Spelling challenges including high frequency words

~Reading challenges - Book 1 - Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday

 Book 2 – Thursday and Friday

~Maths challenges and Interactive games   

~5 ways to Wellbeing activities

-Take notice

- Connect

- Be Active

- Keep Learning 

- Give 

Below is an overview of Week 6 Blended Learning. 

Spring Term 1 Blended Learning Week 5

Dreams and Goals

Hello Everyone! Miss Mustari and Miss McKibbin here!

We have completed Week 4 and engagement is high again!

Da iawn Blwyddyn Un!

Thank you for all your efforts!

We have thoroughly enjoyed seeing all your responses to all the activities! 

 Keep practising 3D shapes, Days of the week, Months of the year and Seasons!

 All Week 5 activities will be on Seesaw as normal and we are available on there to help you with anything. Some activities will go live on Thursday and Friday.

Don’t forget to respond to the Register Activity on Seesaw each week. You could say Hello, Bora da, Yma or Hola. You could also send a photo, video or use the notes to send an emoji.

On Monday you will be receiving information about our Parents Evenings via Zoom after halfterm.

Daily Activities

Scroll down for the updated version of the suggested timetable.

This is to give you an idea of how you could plan out your week to ensure you are doing some learning each day.

We refer to this in our morning videos.

Daily Activities

~Sound and Spelling challenges including high frequency words

~Reading challenges - Book 1 Monday and Book 2 Thursday

~Maths challenges and Interactive games   

~5 ways to Wellbeing activities

-Take notice,

Connect,

Be Active,

Keep Learning 

Give 

Oxford Owl Reading

Reading activities are assigned on Monday and Thursday on Seesaw. We have recorded videos so you can read with us and listen to what the daily tasks are.

Book 1 is a Read Write Inc book to read with us on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Book 2 is an Oxford Reading Tree book to read with us on Thursday and Friday.

Over the next few weeks we will try to cover different levels of books. You can pick a different book from Oxford Owl and follow the same plan for the daily activities.

Below is an overview of Week 5 Blended Learning. 

Spring Term 1 Blended Learning Week 4

Dreams and Goals

Hello Everyone! Miss McKibbin and Miss Mustari here!

We have completed Week 3! We have seen some fantastic work. We have loved seeing all your castles. We have seen great counting on and adding and lots of children using VCOP in their writing. It has been lovely to hear what you are proud of. We are super proud of you all!

Da iawn Blwyddyn Un.

All Week 4 activities will be on Seesaw as normal and we are available on there to help you with anything. Some activities will go live on Thursday and Friday.

Don’t forget to respond to the Register Activity on Seesaw each week. You could say hello, bora da, yma or hola. You could send a picture, video or use the notes to send an emoji.

Daily Activities

Below is an updated version of the suggested timetable. This is to give you an idea of how you could plan out your week to ensure you are doing some learning each day. We refer to this in our morning videos.

Daily Activities               

~Spelling challenges

~Reading challenges

~Maths challenges and interactive games   

~5 ways to Wellbeing activities

Oxford Owl Reading

This week we will be setting 2 reading activities on Seesaw. We have recorded videos so you can read with us and listen to what the daily tasks are.

Book 1 is a Read Write Inc book to read with us on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Book 2 is an Oxford Reading Tree book to read with us on Thursday and Friday.

Over the next few weeks we will try to cover different levels of books. You can pick a different book from Oxford Owl and follow the same plan for the daily activities.

Below is an overview of Week 4 Blended Learning. 

Spring Term 1 Blended Learning Week 3

Dreams and Goals

Hello Everyone! Miss McKibbin and Miss Mustari here!

Thank you for all your hard work during Week 2. We have loved seeing all your fairy tale writing and lots of you have been challenging yourself with the maths. Thank you to all the grown ups to for all your hard work and support.

All Week 3 activities will be on Seesaw as normal and we are available on there to help you with anything.

Don’t forget to respond to the Register Activity on Seesaw each week. We love seeing your little videos and responses.

Daily Activities – Last week we shared a suggested timetable to show how you could plan out your week to ensure you are doing some learning daily.

Activities you can do daily:

• Spelling challenges
• Reading challenges
• Abacus Online or Topmarks interactive games
• Keep active with Joe Wicks or Cosmic Kids Yoga

Below is an overview of Week 3 Blended Learning. 

Spring Term 1 Blended Learning Week 2

Dreams and Goals 

Hello Everyone! Miss Mustari and Miss McKibbin here!

Wow what an amazing first week! Well done to all the children and thank you to all parents and carers, you are doing a fab job!

All the activities are on Seesaw as normal and we are available on there to help you with anything.

When you are on your Seesaw page there are 3 parts:

• Seesaw Journal – Whole Class Activities e.g. PE, stories, Welsh and your child’s work will appear here.

• Seesaw Activities – Click to complete Focus Tasks e.g. Maths, Writing, Topic

• Seesaw Inbox – announcements, messages and daily videos from Miss Mustari or Miss McKibbin

We will also pin our daily videos to the top of your journal everyday so you can access it for a daily check in and overview of activities.

Remember to say hello on the Register activity so we know you are accessing Seesaw.

Below is an overview of Week 2 Blended Learning. 

Spring Term 1 Blended Learning Week 1

Dreams and Goals 

Hello Everyone! Miss Mustari and Miss McKibbin here!

Welcome back! We hope you had a nice Christmas with your families and Happy New Year!

Below is an overview of Week 1 Blended Learning. 

All the activities are on Seesaw as normal and we are available on there to help you with anything.

We will be sending a daily video through Seesaw announcements to say hello to the children every day so have a look at that!

Welcome to 1VM

Teacher ~ Miss McKibbin

Teaching Assistant ~ Miss Crossley

1 to 1 Support Staff ~ Mrs Warrell & Mrs Davies

Information for This Half Term

Spring 1 

Information for this half term:

Topic - Dreams and Goals through Fairytales

Genre - Fairytales and Non - fiction - Castles

Topic

This half term our topic is

‘Dreams and Goals through Fairytales'.

We will also be

learning about targets and New Year Resolutions.

Jigsaw

Jigsaw is a whole school

approach to PSHE.  Every lesson has 2 learning

intentions:

1 Health and Well-being knowledge.

2 Emotional literacy and social skills.

Home Learning Reading Books

Please read with your child every day and remember to comment and sign the reading record and upload a photo to Seesaw. We find these comments really useful!

Home Learning Spellings

Spellings will be sent on Seesaw. Please practise these in your blue spelling book and upload a picture to Seesaw.  There will a spelling test on Friday.

If your child is in school -Things to remember

A water bottle  

A piece of fruit for your snack

A lunchbox if you are having sandwiches

Please can we ask that you do not bring in any other items from home.

Home Learning Seesaw

Seesaw will be used to record reading and spelling practise at home. We will also assign a Chatterbox activity to complete at home and send a link for Abacus online games.