Reception/Y1 Diamonds

Boats and Beaches

Summer 2

Let's Grow!

Summer 1

Some of our "Pansy Portfolios"

Evil Pea has been causing trouble for a few of the poor vegetables from our kitchen!

We enjoyed spotting and naming plants in our environment.

Today we had a mystery to solve.  Someone had come into our classroom and left giant footprints, a golden egg and some gold coins!

Turrets and Tiaras

As part of our Turrets and Tiaras topic, Diamond class visited Portchester Castle to find out about the people who lived there and what life would've been like.

Home Learning w/c 29thNovember

We are really missing those of you who are unable to join at school!  For those of you who are not in school and are well enough to join us in our learning, here is another week of work for you to do at home.  As with last week, there are not quite so many sessions as usual as we will be practising our school play songs.  I hope to see you back in class as soon as you are able 

Home Learning w/c 22nd November

For those of you who are not in school and are well enough to join us in our learning, I have added some work for you to do at home.  There are not quite so many sessions as usual as we will be practising our school play songs in a few sessions this week.

I hope to see you back in class as soon as you are able 

Homework: 16th July 2021

Please look at the interactive Powerpoint about Sun, Sea and Beach Safety - there are lots of things to click on and discuss.  There is also a link to a Barnaby Bear video about lifeguards and lifeboats to watch.

Our School Trip to Dell Quay: 8th July 2021

Diamonds Class have had a wonderful day today visiting Dell Quay, which is part of Chichester Harbour.  We started the day by becoming oystercatchers and worked together to make "scrapes" (oystercatcher nests) and were very pleased to receive some visitors!

The tide was high for our visit to Dell Quay today, so we could not go down to the shore to search for creatures in this shingly, muddy estuary habitat. Instead we closely examined and identified some creatures in the classroom. We found crabs, cockles, periwinkles, sandhoppers, hydrobia,  anemones, sea lettuce, bladderwrack, and gut weed.  We also learnt about a Dell Quay food chain: seaweed—periwinkle—crab—black-headed gull—peregrine falcon.  After that we made "sticky pictures", using things we had found on the beach, as mementoes of our day.

Next we were lucky enough to be able to go crabbing off the pontoon - what fun!  We took it in turns to lower the bacon bait on our crabbing line, and to gently use the net to transfer our crab friends to a bucket, so we could look at them closely.  Of course we carefully released them back to the sea afterwards.

After lunch we walked to another area of Dell Quay to explore some habitats on land.  We compared our saltwater creatures with some freshwater creatures by pond dipping, and also examined minibeasts found in the meadow habitat.

Finally we walked back to Dell Quay along the foreshore:  what a wonderful and interesting day we had!

Hello wonderful Diamonds!

Welcome back to Week 2 of our Spring Term 2 home learning! 

Hello to our fantastic Diamonds, and welcome back to what is hopefully our LAST WEEK of online school - Miss Moore and I CAN'T WAIT to get back to school so we can all be together again, and see our friends, and learn together again.  It's so exciting - we've still got some more learning to do this week, so I hope you're ready to have some fun!

Isn't the weather lovely?? I wonder if you will be taking your learning outside into the sunshine - I've been working hard in my garden this weekend getting ready for Spring, and watching the birds on my new bird feeder, which is making me smile.  Have you been helping your family to smile this week?  I wonder what you've been doing to make you feel proud of yourself?  Miss Moore and I are missing you all very much and we're looking forward to see you all on Zoom this week!  Enjoy this special time with your families, and stay safe, well and happy!  And WHOOP WHOOP for going back to SCHOOOOOOOOOL!!

Lots of love from Miss Burrough and Miss Moore

Grown-ups please remember these activities are guidelines.  Video resources for the home learning can be found on the Home Learning Video page.  Please also remember to click on the Bug icons at the beginning and end of BugClub books, so we know that they are finished, and are then able to allocate new reading books.  (When they're marked as finished, they move out of 'My Stuff' into 'My Library' - your child also earns 'rewards' for completing books). Please also remember to ask your child to re-read sentences or pages to make sure they can read them fluently and understand what they have read before moving on to a new book - thank you! 

Hello lovely Diamonds!

Welcome back to Week 1 of our Spring Term 2 home learning! 

Hello to our wonderful Diamonds, and welcome back to online school - let's hope it's not for too much longer, but in the meantime, let's have FUN!  Our new topic this half term is CASTLES, KNIGHTS and PRINCESSES, so we will be looking at how castles changed, how they were defended, what they were like inside, who lived in them, and also learning about knights and tournaments.  In literacy we will be focussing on traditional tales and fairy tales, starting off with the Three Little Pigs. 

I hope you've had a lovely rest this week, despite the weather?  I've been clearing my front garden and cutting hedges, so I'm feeling very happy, and today I heard my garden robin singing his Spring song for the first time this year - have you spotted any signs of Spring yet?  Look out for primroses, or catkins, or the spikes of bluebells in the woods; perhaps you have seen the first daffodil in your garden?  Hooray for Spring!

Have you been helping your family to smile this week?  I wonder what you've been doing to make you feel proud? Miss Moore and I can't wait to see you all on Zoom this week - we're missing you all very much!  Enjoy this special time with your families, and stay safe, well and happy!

Lots of love from Miss Burrough and Miss Moore

Grown-ups please remember these activities are guidelines.  Video resources for the home learning can be found on the Home Learning Video page.  Please also remember to click on the Bug icons at the beginning and end of BugClub books, so we know that they are finished, and are then able to allocate new reading books.  (When they're marked as finished, they move out of 'My Stuff' into 'My Library' - your child also earns 'rewards' for completing books). Please also remember to ask your child to re-read sentences or pages to make sure they can read them fluently and understand what they have read before moving on to a new book - thank you! 

Hello lovely Diamonds!

Welcome back to Week 6 of our Spring Term home learning! 

I hope you've had a fabulous weekend and you're looking forward to some more fun learning this week.  I wonder if we will get any snow?  Just one more week until we have a little holiday!   Miss Moore and I are both very pleased with how hard you are all trying with your work, and the progress you are all making - WELL DONE!!  We look forward to seeing all of you on our zoom meetings this week:  your challenge this week is to see who can read the most books - remember to re-read sentences or pages to make sure you can read them fluently.  

Have you been helping your family to smile this weekend?  I wonder how you will make each person in your family happy this week, to help your heart feel proud.  Enjoy this special time with your families.  

Stay safe, well and happy!

Lots of love from Miss Burrough and Miss Moore

Grown-ups please remember these activities are guidelines.  Video resources for the home learning can be found on the Home Learning Video page.  Please also remember to click on the Bug icons at the beginning and end of BugClub books, so we know that they are finished, and are then able to allocate new reading books.  (When they're marked as finished, they move out of 'My Stuff' into 'My Library' - your child also earns 'rewards' for completing books).

Hello to our wonderful Diamonds Class!

Welcome back to Week 5 of our Spring Term home learning! 

Have you all had a lovely weekend?  I hope so... perhaps you've been out on your scooters or bikes, or trampolining, or walking to the Pond or the Lake?  I wonder how many of you saw any interesting birds in our Big Birdwatch?   Miss Moore and I are looking forward to seeing you on the zoom meetings - it's such fun to see all the brilliant activities you've been doing.  We are both extremely proud of how well you are all concentrating on your work and how hard you are all trying to always do your very best work.   

I wonder what you have done to make your family smile this weekend?  I'm going to especially look out for children who are kind this week: even tiny little things like helping with the washing, tidying up your toys and thinking about how to make someone happy will make your heart feel proud.  Enjoy this special time with your families.  

Stay safe, well and happy!

Lots of love from Miss Burrough and Miss Moore

Grown-ups please remember these activities are guidelines.  Video resources for the home learning can be found on the Home Learning Video page.  Please also remember to click on the Bug icons at the beginning and end of BugClub books, so we know that they are finished, and are then able to allocate new reading books.  (When they're marked as finished, they move out of 'My Stuff' into 'My Library' - your child also earns 'rewards' for completing books).

Hello to our lovely Diamonds!

Welcome back to Week 4 of our Spring Term home learning! 

How are you all?  I wonder what you've all been doing this weekend?  We can see from the Blog and the Zoom meetings that you've all been working very hard - although there seemed to be a lot of very naughty teddies getting up to mischief this week!  I hope they're all behaving again now?  Or perhaps they've had some more adventures? You all looked very happy and smiley on our Zoom meetings last week, and Miss Moore and I are always SO glad to see you, because we're missing you A LOT!  Mrs Thompson-Smith, Mrs Tapster and Mrs Harper are send a very big HELLO! to you all too, and asked me to send you all lots of huge smiles.  I wonder who will do the BEST WRITING this week, or read the most books on Epic or Bug Club?  

I hope you're all not just working hard, but also enjoying yourselves, and taking care of your family - I expect you're helping your grown-ups a lot with your helping hands -- maybe you tidied your bedroom this week???  I hope we see each other soon, but in the meantime, enjoy this special time with your families.  Grown-ups please remember these activities are guidelines.  Video resources for the home learning can be found on the Home Learning Video page.

Stay safe, well and happy!

Lots of love from Miss Burrough and Miss Moore

Grown-ups please remember these activities are guidelines.  Video resources for the home learning can be found on the Home Learning Video page.  Please also remember to click on the Bug icons at the beginning and end of BugClub books, so we know that they are finished, and are then able to allocate new reading books.  (When they're marked as finished, they move out of 'My Stuff' into 'My Library' - your child also earns 'rewards' for completing books).

***Breaking News****

It's the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend, which is a national effort across the country to chart the population our lovely garden birds, and we thought you might like to join in!  The website link is below, if you would like some more information, and all the information you will need, including a bird-watching chart, and details of how to tell the RSPB about how many birds you spotted.  I'll certainly be joining in, as I saw a pair of Goldcrests in my garden yesterday - the smallest of all British garden birds - they only weigh as much as a 20p piece!!  I wonder which amazing birds you will see?  Have fun!

Hello Diamonds Class!

Welcome back to Week 3 of our Spring Term home learning! 

We are missing you very much, but we hope you've been enjoying your learning and managing to get outside in the sunshine.  Miss Moore and I have REALLY enjoyed looking at all your pictures on the blog page - it is lovely to see your hard work and your smiley faces!  Did you like getting messages from the teachers and the other children?    

Are you excited about our Zoom meetings this week?  I know Miss Moore and I are! 

We are missing you all very much, but I hope you're all staying safe and smiley, and having lots of fun with your family, and taking care of them - I wonder what kind thing you will do for someone in your family this week -- perhaps you will even do something special for every single one of them!  I hope we see each other soon, but in the meantime, work hard and enjoy this special time with your families. 

Stay safe, well and happy!

Lots of love from Miss Burrough and Miss Moore

Parents please remember these activities are guidelines and that you are free to adapt them to suit your own family.  Video resources for the home learning can be found on the Home Learning Video page.  Please also remember to login to Bug Club and join Epic via the email sent out to all families, as these provide a huge variety of online reading books for the children to access. Class Zoom meetings are every morning at 8:30 am and every afternoon at 2:30 to talk about the work for the day, and to discuss how the learning went: please check your emails for the invitation.  You are also very welcome to email us with questions or concerns at j.burrough@buriton.hants.sch.uk or r.moore@buriton.hants.sch.uk.  

Hello Diamonds Class!!!!

Welcome to Week Two of our online home learning journey.

We are missing you very much, but we hope you've been enjoying your learning and having fun in the frosty weather.  I am so impressed by all the fantastic learning that you all did last week, and I have loved talking to you all on the Zoom meetings and seeing your work on the Blog.  I know Miss Moore can't wait to see you all on Monday!  

I hope you're all staying safe, and laughing lots, and looking after your grown-ups - maybe you could surprise them this week by thinking of a special treat for them?  I hope we see each other soon, but in the meantime, work hard and enjoy this special time with your families. 

Stay safe, well and happy!

Lots of love from Miss Burrough and Miss Moore

Parents please remember these activities are guidelines and that you are free to adapt them to suit your own family - I loved Ted's timer activity, and Angus's garden science experiments on the Blog!  Video resources for the home learning can be found on the Home Learning Video page.  Class Zoom meetings are every morning at 8:30 am and every afternoon at 2:30 to talk about the work for the day, and to discuss how the learning went: please check your emails for the invitation.  You are also very welcome to email us with questions or concerns at j.burrough@buriton.hants.sch.uk or r.moore@buriton.hants.sch.uk.  

I know there were some problems with the weblinks last week, so we have embedded any weblinks into the planning PDFs - please click on the links there.  Please also remember to login to Bug Club and join Epic via the email sent out to all families, as these provide a huge variety of online reading books for the children to access.

I really hope you will enjoy these activities together, and hope we all stay safe, and that we will all be together again very soon.

Hello Diamonds Class!!!!

Welcome to Week One of our online home learning journey (again!).

For those of you who have not experienced 'lockdown school' yet, a few explanations, and details that have changed for those who have already been through all this... The planning and resources for the week will be posted on this webpage (and sometimes on the Home Learning Video page) each Sunday, ready for the week, and every morning at 8:30 am and every afternoon at 2:30 there will be a class Zoom meeting - to talk about the work for the day, and to discuss how the learning went.  The invitations come to parents via email, so please make sure that we have your preferred family email address.  Miss Moore will being running the zoom meetings on Monday and Tuesdays and Miss Burrough Wednesday through to Friday. We strongly encourage you to post photos of work that your child is proud of onto the school blog so that we can give them feedback and maintain their engagement and positivity.  Each week we will give you an area of Maths, Literacy and Topic to focus on and some suggested follow up activities. There are three this week for Maths and Literacy, so if you'd like to follow our normal school daily morning routine of Literacy (including Phonics session), playtime, Spellings, Maths, then there are activities for each school day.  Our afternoons usually focus on a mixture of reading, PE (Tues and Fri), and Topic time (Wed-Fri).  Please continue to practice Tortoise words every day, and instead of sending out spelling words for Year 1s, we would like your children to learn to spell the Tortoise words, starting with Tortoise 1.  In due course we will post sets of Tortoise words on the web page.  We also advise continuing with phonics flashcards and will also soon provide links for phonics games and reading books linked to the phonics scheme.  We are also exploring whether we can access the Epic! website again.  Please read with your child every day, if possible.  Please also practice ordering 1-20 and then above, and to practice one more, one less etc.  Please also use the Numbots resources, and number formation practice is also important, so that we have no more backwards numbers!!! You are very welcome to email us with questions or concerns at j.burrough@buriton.hants.sch.uk or r.moore@buriton.hants.sch.uk.  

Every day, as part of their well-being and to build on literacy skills, we would like all children to keep a Happy Diary scrapbook.  Please encourage your child to draw a picture and write about something wonderful that they see, hear or do, or something that has made them especially happy that day.  Perhaps they beat their hopping record, or heard a bird sing, or grew some seeds or helped a grown up!  This writing should be independent although children should be reminded to use finger spaces, capital letters and full stops.  I hope it will be a lasting reminder of a very unusual, but special time.

Please bear with us as we get used to all this again.  Please also remember that these online lessons are not meant to overwhelm you as parents, and that measuring the ingredients for baking a cake is also Maths and DT; digging in the garden, finding minibeasts and planting seeds is "Understanding the World", and jumping on the trampoline is also PE, so everything you do with your children is helping to broaden their breadth of experience and helping to educate them.  I really hope you will enjoy these activities together, and hope we all stay safe, and that we will all be together again very soon.

AUTUMN TERM 2020

Welcome back to our Year 1s, and a very big welcome to our new Year Rs, who have all settled in extremely quickly to become happy members of Diamonds Class.  For those of you new to our webpage, this is where you can have a look to see some of the activities we've been enjoying, so do please check in regularly!

AUTUMN 1 WEEK 3

This week we have been thinking about the rain - we are enjoying learning 'Singing in the Rain' and had great fun making a "Dry Under My Umbrella" work of art, using toothbrushes to splatter the raindrops - pictures to follow when they are dry!  We also listened to a variety of classical music inspired by the weather, including sun, wind, fog, snow and ice - our favourite was Vanessa Mae's version of Vivaldi's 'Storm', which the children wanted to listen to three times - the last time, they wanted to dance!!!  We decided it was loud, fast, and "exciting" (as you can see!).

We learnt about 'Why it rains?' and conducted two experiments - the first, where shaving foam represented the clouds, and water, the air, resulted in food colouring 'rain', which only fell when it became heavy enough to fall; in the second, we filled cotton-wool-filled cups with pin-prick holes in the bottom with water - the rain only fell once the cotton-wool clouds became saturated, and again, there were enough water droplets to fall as rain.

AUTUMN 1 WEEK 2

The Year 1s learnt about Human and Physical Geography and we went for a walk around the village to categorise whether the geographical features we saw were man-made or natural.

We studied artistic impressions of the wind and the wind sculptures of Anthony Howe, and made our own swirling wind art using crayons, which we cut in a spiral to make our own whirling wind sculptures -- we will watch these to see how fast the wind is blowing.  We also learnt about the Beaufort Scale and made wind socks to find the direction of the wind.    We then conducted an experiment to predict and test which items the wind would blow, and tested our predictions with    Mrs Brown's fan!

AUTUMN 1 WEEK 1

Here are a few pictures of some of our Year Rs settling into their new school with their new Diamonds Class friends - photos taken by Talia, one of our Year 1s! 

The Year 1s became cartographers to map the human and physical geographical features of our Meadow.

SUMMER 2 WEEK 7

For those of you who are staying at home we have added some resources that we will be using in school this week.  We have provided lots of resources and suggested sites over the last few months so don't forget about those too! 

As an overview:

Literacy:   

This week Year 1 will writing about seahorses and other ocean creatures.

Year R need to continue to focus on practising phase 2 and 3 phonics and Tortoise Words, sounding out words, writing simple sentences and spelling some high frequency words correctly. We'll be reading and discussing The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson and Big Blue Whale by Nicola Davies, and looking at some non-fiction books about whales.

Maths:

Year 1  will be continuing to learn about money and will be making the same amount with different combinations of coins.  We will also be revisiting counting to 100 and beyond and revisiting other maths skills we will need to use to solve the "Maths Mats".

Year R will continue to do lots of practice recognising, counting, ordering and writing numbers 1-10 or 1-20. We will also be practising doubling and halving.

Topic: 

Our topic this half term is Under the Sea.  Year 1 will be learning about the Coral Reef and making coral pictures.

Year R will be learning about whales this week, in particular toothed whales such as orcas, sperm whales, belugas and dolphins, and baleen whales such as the blue whale, humpback whale and right whale. We'll be looking at some clips from Blue Planet and BP II, but I've added some links for you below - there are lots of others on YouTube too.

SUMMER 2 WEEK 6

For those of you who are staying at home we have added some resources that we will be using in school this week.  We have provided lots of resources and suggested sites over the last few months so don't forget about those too! 

As an overview:

Literacy:   

This week Year 1 will continue to look at underwater poetry and writing an acrostic poems using different ocean related words such as SHARK or FISH.  We will also continue to learn and apply phase 5 phonics.

Year R need to continue to focus on practising phase 2 and 3 phonics and Tortoise Words, sounding out words, writing simple sentences and spelling some high frequency words correctly. We'll be reading some online Sea Otters books, and writing Otter facts, and about worries that we've overcome.

Maths:

Year 1  will be learning to recognise and know the value of different coins and notes and will be solving money problems.

Year R will continue to do lots of practice recognising, counting, ordering and writing numbers 1-10 or 1-20. We will also be practising "1 more and 1 less" on numbers to ten, and those children who are more confident will be practising subtraction by counting how many are left, and by counting back using fingers and a numberline.

Topic: 

Our topic this half term is Under the Sea.  We will be learning some sea creature facts and making our own fact file.  We will also be finishing our port holes. 

Year R will be learning about some of the creatures who live in the Kelp Forests and finding out who eats who and why Sea Otters are so important.  We'll be looking at some clips from Blue Planet and BP II, but I've added some links for you below - there are lots of others on YouTube too.

Breaking News!

Epic Update... as of today, our Diamonds class have read a whopping

439 books!!!

I'm so proud of all of you who have been reading so much - it's really very impressive.  The Epic website is continuing to allow free access from 1 July onwards via "EpicFree" - you don't have to do anything different, though I think it allows you 2 hours free reading per week, with the timer reset every Monday, and with a reduced number of books - still a very worthwhile resource whilst we can't yet send reading books home. 

These are the instructions from the website:

If your students are already using Remote Student Access, there will be no change to how they log in today. Parents should visit getepic.com/sign-in and enter the same parent email and password that was used to set up their Parent accounts. It is important to recognize that they will have access to their complete reading history, but a smaller library of books than they did with Remote Student Access.

SUMMER 2 WEEK 5

For those of you who are staying at home we have added some resources that we will be using in school this week.  We have provided lots of resources and suggested sites over the last few months so don't forget about those too! 

As an overview:

Literacy:   

This week Year 1 will be looking at underwater poetry and writing an acrostic poem using the word OCEAN.  We will also continue to learn and apply phase 5 phonics.

YR need to continue to focus on practising phase 2 and 3 phonics, sounding out words, writing simple sentences and spelling some high frequency words correctly.  We'll be reading and discussing the books 'The Coral Kingdom' by Laura Knowles, 'Mister Seahorse' by Eric Carle and 'Seahorse: the shyest fish in the Sea', as well as excerpts from 'The Sea Book', using pictures that fire our imaginations as writing prompts to construct simple sentences.  We will also continue to add to our bank of adjectives and verbs.

Maths:

Year 1  will be investigating, learning and using number bonds to 20 to solve missing number problems

Year R will continue to do lots of practice recognising, counting, ordering and writing numbers 1-10 or 1-20, and practising 1-less or 2-less subtraction skills.  Those who are more confident will be practising using number bonds to help us with subtraction from ten.

Topic: 

Our topic this half term is Under the Sea.  We will be learning the names and locations of the 5 oceans and finding them on a globe and on a map.  Year 1 will be investigating which materials float and which sink and will be making submarine porthole art.  Year R will be learning about the Coral Reef - we will be watching some clips from Blue Planet I and II and a YouTube video called "Exploring the Coral Reef".  We will create a picture of the coral reef in oil pastels by first drawing the coral and then adding in creatures we learn about.  We'll also make some seahorse art inspired by Mister Seahorse.

SUMMER 2 WEEK 4

For those of you who are staying at home we have added some resources that we will be using in school this week.  We have provided lots of resources and suggested sites over the last few months so don't forget about those too! 

As an overview:

Literacy:   

This week Year 1 will be focusing on revisiting and applying phase 5 phonics sounds, and Year R will be focusing on phase 2 and 3.  We will continue to look at prepositions and how we can apply these at the beginning of our sentences to make our writing more interesting.

YR need to continue to focus on sounding out words, writing simple sentences and spelling some high frequency words correctly.  We'll be reading the books 'Swimmy' and 'Shark in the Dark'.

Please find lots of resources linked with these phonic phases on:

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/ 

Maths:

Year 1  will be learning to subtract two numbers using a number line, solve subtraction word problems and to solve missing number problems.

Year R will continue to do lots of practice recognising, counting, ordering and writing numbers 1-10 or 1-20, and be learning number bonds to ten, working with objects, numicon, fingers and 10 pegs on a coat-hanger.

Topic: 

Our topic this half term is Under the Sea.  We will be learning the names and locations of the 5 oceans and finding them on a globe and on a map.  Year R will be learning about the Open Ocean and its predators - we will be potato printing a shoal of fish and painting a predator to eat them up! (sailfish, yellow-fin tuna, swordfish etc).

SUMMER 2 WEEK 3

For those of you who are staying at home we have added some resources that we will be using in school this week.  We have provided lots of resources and suggested sites over the last few months so don't forget about those too! 

As an overview:

Literacy:   

This week our focus is on the book "The Rainbow Fish" and Year 1 are looking at using the comparative and superlative, the prefix "un" and prepositions.

YR need to focus on sounding out words, writing simple sentences and spelling some high frequency words correctly.

Maths:

Year 1  will be learning to add two numbers using a number line and solve addition word problems.

Year R will be learning to share different amounts and about number bonds to 5, 6, 7 and 8.

Topic: 

Our topic this half term is Under the Sea.  We will be looking at the Open Ocean habitat and classifying some of the creatures who live there.  Year R will be looking at the layers of the ocean and making "portholes".

Breaking News -- Epic Update!

Hello Everyone!  Just wanted to say a HUGE well done to all those of you who have been reading on Epic this week -- since you've signed up, you've managed to read a MASSIVE 123 books between you and have read for 12.4 hours!  My Year R superstars are Elsie-Rose who has read 11 books, and Harlow-Rae who has read 21; and our Year 1 reading heroes are Wilhelmina with 9, Tom with 10, Joseph with 13, Louis with 18 and Sophia with a whopping 34!!  Well done to you all!   Our class has received its Reading Badges for 25, 50 and now 100 books read.  Yay to Diamonds Class -- I wonder who will be our star readers next week?

I have added a new collection for you on the Epic website -- a whole library of Under the Ocean books with lots of different levels to suit everyone.

Grown-ups, if you haven't signed up yet, it is free at any time until the end of June, and from July 1st, they've also extended the scheme to give free home-reading access for 2 hours a week.  I have sent an email and an automated 'invitation email' to everyone in the class: for some people, the invite went to their "promotions folder", so do have a look in your other email folders if you're not sure where the invitation is.  If you have had any problems logging in, please email me (j.burrough@buriton.hants.sch.uk) and I will reset your link and send a new invitation.

SUMMER 2 WEEK 2

Now our learning is moving from online back into the classroom and we are very excited about seeing you all again!  There will be some changes but we will talk you all through these when you join us at school.

For those of you who are staying at home we have added some resources that we will be using in school this week.  We have provided lots of resources and suggested sites over the last few months so don't forget about those too! 

As an overview:

Literacy:   

This week our focus is on the book "The Rainbow Fish" and Year 1 are looking at using adjectives and exciting verbs.

YR need to focus on sounding out words, writing simple sentences and spelling some high frequency words correctly.

Maths:

Year 1  will be learning to describe position, directions and movements, including half, quarter and three quarter turns.

Year R will be learning to use everyday language to talk about position.

Topic: 

Our topic this half term is Under the Sea.  We will start by exploring what creatures live in the different layers of the ocean and will also learn about World Oceans Day.  We will be painting and making different sea creatures.

There are additional learning resources for both year groups on https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/subjects/#subjects

All of these resources are valuable even though they won't necessarily follow the same order/topics of teaching that we will use in class.  We suggest you look through the different "lessons" and choose an area that appeals to your child.

Don't forget about https://www.twinkl.co.uk either as this website has a lot of useful resources too.

Hello lovely Diamonds Class!

Welcome back to Week 1 of the second half of our Summer Term home learning! 

How are you all?  I wonder what you've all been doing?  I expect you've been enjoying the sunshine during Half Term - perhaps you've even been to the beach now we're allowed to go out a little bit more.  We're all missing you A LOT, but we're very excite to hopefully be seeing you at school again very soon, even though things at school will seem very different from what we're used to and we'll have to learn a lot of new rules.  We've decided that we are going to save our new topic launch for next week when we're back at school, so this week's literacy is about getting ready to come back to school, and topic is still linked to our Metamorphosis topic.  If you would like any extra topic activities, please return to the previous weeks' topic work and fill in gaps for activities you haven't completed yet.

 I hope we see each other soon, but in the meantime, enjoy this special time with your families.  Grown-ups please remember these activities are guidelines.  Video resources for the home learning can be found on the Home Learning Video page.

Stay safe, well and happy!

Hello to our lovely Diamonds!

Welcome back to Week 5 of our Summer Term home learning! 

How are you all?  I wonder what you've all been doing?  We can see from the Blog and the Zoom meetings that you've all been working very hard - although there seem to be a lot of lost caterpillars this week!  I hope they've all been found again now?  Or perhaps they've metamorphosed? You all looked very happy and smiley on our Zoom meetings last week, and all of us teachers were SO glad to see you, because we're all missing you A LOT!  We'll have another whole class meeting on Tuesday at 11 am, so we can all see each other to say hello and send each other hugs, and you can show each other what you've been doing.  You can choose your favourite piece of work you've done last week to show us, or read a page from your Happy Diary.  I wonder who will have done the BEST WRITING this week?. See you on Tuesday!  

I hope you're all working hard, and enjoying yourselves, and taking care of your family - I expect you're helping your grown-ups a lot -- maybe you've helped in the garden this week???  I hope we see each other soon, but in the meantime, enjoy this special time with your families.  Grown-ups please remember these activities are guidelines.  Video resources for the home learning can be found on the Home Learning Video page.

Stay safe, well and happy!

Lots of love from Miss Burrough and Miss Moore

Grown-ups, please see letter from Mrs Brown on how to access Blog via the Home Learning page on the

Children's tab; any problems, feel free to email me.

Anyone who wants to join in the Zoom meeting and hasn't yet emailed me, please see the letter from Mrs Brown 

with Zoom meeting protocols and our contact details

Hello lovely Diamonds Class!

Welcome back to Week 4 of our Summer Term home learning! 

We are missing you very much, but we hope you've been enjoying your learning and having fun with your families.  Did you have a nice time celebrating VE Day?  We loved seeing all your happy smiling faces on our Zoom meetings last week -- this week we're going to try a whole class meeting, so you can all see each other, and show each other what you've been doing.  You can choose your favourite piece of work you've done last week to show us, or read a page from your Happy Diary.  The meeting for everyone will be on Tuesday at 11am.  See you then!  

I hope you're all working hard, and enjoying yourselves, and taking care of your family - I expect you're helping your grown-ups a lot -- maybe you've tidied your bedroom ALL BY YOURSELF?????!  I hope we see each other soon, but in the meantime, enjoy this special time with your families.  Grown-ups please remember these activities are guidelines.  Video resources for the home learning can be found on the Home Learning Video page.

Stay safe, well and happy!

Lots of love from Miss Burrough and Miss Moore

Grown-ups, please see letter from Mrs Brown on how to access Blog via the Home Learning page on the

Children's tab; any problems, feel free to email me.

Anyone who wants to join in the Zoom meeting and hasn't yet emailed me, please see the letter from Mrs Brown 

with Zoom meeting protocols and our contact details.

Hello Diamonds Class!

Welcome back to Week 3 of our Summer Term home learning! 

We are missing you very much, but we hope you've been enjoying your learning even though it's not been quite as sunshiney.  I've had a very busy week last week, since it was my Mum's Birthday, and I've been doing some shopping for an elderly friend, and also finding out all about VE Day and putting up some bunting at our lovely School.  I've also REALLY enjoyed looking at our new blog page, looking at the work that the children of all the different classes in our school have been doing.  A very special "Well Done" to Izzy, Felix, Wilhelmina, Louis and Joseph who are the only children from our class so far!  It was lovely to see your hard work and your smiley faces!  Did you like getting messages from the teachers and the other children?  I am very much looking forward to seeing some work from other children in our class too - it will be really lovely to share what you've been doing with your friends and  I'm sure it will make us all smile. . 

Are you excited about our Zoom meeting this week?  I know Miss Moore and I are!  You can choose your favourite piece of work you've done last week to show us, or read a page from your Happy Diary.

Year R will be on Tuesday at 11am and Year 1 at 12am.  See you then!  

I hope you're all staying safe and smiley, and having lots of fun with your family, and taking care of them - I wonder what kind thing you will do for someone in your family this week -- perhaps you will even do something special for every single one of them!  I hope we see each other soon, but in the meantime, work hard and enjoy this special time with your families.  Grown-ups please remember these activities are guidelines.  Video resources for the home learning can be found on the Home Learning Video page.

Stay safe, well and happy!

Lots of love from Miss Burrough and Miss Moore

Grown-ups, please see letter last week from Mrs Brown on how to access Blog via the Home Learning page on the

Children's tab; any problems, feel free to email me.

Anyone who wants to join in the Zoom meeting and hasn't yet emailed me, please see the letter from Mrs Brown last week

with Zoom meeting protocols and our contact details.

As part of our whole school celebration of VE Day I have made a set of suggested ideas and activities (PDF file below) to help you celebrate with your families.  We are asking all the children of Buriton School to make poppies to show our gratitude to the heroes who fell keeping us safe, and we would especially like the children who live in Buriton, or who pass through the village on your daily exercise to please tie your poppy or poppies to the railings of our school, and to take a photograph to show the rest of our school community, as a way of keeping us altogether in spirit.  Thank you, and Happy Celebrations!

(Grown-ups, the videos are all on the Video resources page - please note that some are suitable only for older children - these are marked KS2)