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St Paul's Catholic Primary School

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Aspire not to have more but to be more – St Oscar Romero

Home learning information Summer 1

We hope you have had a safe and enjoyable Easter break and would like to take this opportunity to say welcome back to home learning! We have provided some information below regarding our new topic and how we intend to work with you to set work for your child whilst learning from home. We hope you find this useful and if you have any questions or would like any more information please do not hesitate to ask.

 

Pesky Pirates

This half term our topic is 'Pesky Pirates' we will be finding out about Pirates and explorers. Our curriculum map is included below.

 

Home learning folders

We hope you have found the home learning folders helpful. We are in the process of creating new folders for each child so that we can provide some of the worksheets linked to the work set on the website and you can continue to use these or your home learning book. We are aiming for this to be completed by Wednesday afternoon. Once the folders are close to completion then we will give you more details about how/ when to collect these from school. Please check on the class webpage for updates regarding this. 

 

Phonics and Reading

The systematic teaching of phonics is crucial for children so that they make progress in reading and writing. Therefore, we recognise that children need to continue to learn sounds and read words while they are learning from home. At St Paul's we use a programme called Read, Write Inc. written by Ruth Miskin.

The Ruth Miskin company are delivering live phonics lessons and we would like your child to access this teaching and learning. Your child would benefit from accessing the Set 2 and Set 3 Speed Sounds lessons daily (even when not mentioned as a task for that day). If you would like to recap Set 1 sounds they are also available as a live lesson. The link for these live lessons is 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo7fbLgY2oA_cFCIg9GdxtQ/featured   Set 1 Speed sounds lesson is at 9.30am, Set 2 Speed sounds lesson is at 10am and the Set 3 speed sounds lesson is at 10.30am. Each lesson is just 10 minutes long. If you are unable to watch the videos at the given time then they are available to watch for 24 hours. This link also provides an abundance of short videos aimed at parents to give tips on how to support your child with learning sounds and reading at home.

 

We want to ensure that your child continues to make progress with reading and to do this they need to be reading a range of age appropriate books regularly (daily if possible). The Oxford Owl website provides a great selection of free ebooks which are from the same scheme that your child brings home from school to read. Please sign up to the website to access these books. Signing up is really simple.

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ 

 

On a Monday and Wednesday we will focus on new Set 3 sounds and suggest a practical activity or game you could play in order to get to know each sound. On a Friday we will recap the two sounds introduced during the week with some practical games and activities. We will provide the Read Write Inc worksheet in our new home learning pack and also on the webpage for each of the Set 3 sounds. 

 

 

Writing

On Tuesday's and Thursday's we will be exploring our topic of 'pesky Pirates' and use this as a stimulus for some writing activities.

 

Maths

The maths work we set is following our yearly plan of White Rose. We will continue to introduce new concepts in a variety of practical games and activities.

 

Other areas of learning

We will aim to give your child a variety of activities to enhance their learning across all areas of learning through activities, games, challenges and worksheets.

 

Communication

We love to see what your child has been learning at home so please continue to share this using Tapestry. If you have any questions please email us at drake@stpauls.cheshire.sch.uk

 

Best wishes,

Mrs Danton and Mrs Ricketts.

 

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