Celebration Friday 27 March 2020 · Celebration – Friday 27th March 2020 Take a look at this...
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Celebration – Friday 27th March 2020
Take a look at this week’s fantastic home learning! We are loving seeing everyone’s
fantastic efforts.
Willow Class
Acer Class
Willow Class have been amazing this week! The
boys have been busy learning about measures
with paper aeroplane competitions, creating
rainbows of hope to display in their windows,
designing 3D vehicles on Purple Mash, making
creatures from pipe cleaners, writing fact sheets
about modes of transport and practising their
reading and spelling on Nessy and Rapid
readers. Miss Pagram has heard lots of stories of
bike rides, gardening and playing nicely with
siblings and has even been treated to a live
recording of Dylan’s own Harry Potter story. Miss
Pagram is so proud of everything they have
achieved this week and the way they are
adapting to learning at home. Keep up the
hard work Willow!
Wow – what a week Acer have had!! So much learning
being attempted and so much fun being had by all!
This week Acer have made an effort to keep
connected and have written letters to each other –
parents commented on how the children enjoyed
reading them!
As well as this, some children have put on a concert for
us in their back garden, created sculptures in the style
of Andy Goldsworthy in their gardens, learned about
Wildlife with Steve Buckshall, helped with chores around
the house, cooked and generally had a great time in
the sunshine!!
Check out our photographs to see what we’ve been up
to! Parents are joining in too and have commented on
how they’re enjoying the daily challenges as well!!
Palm and Juniper Class
Squirrel Class
There has been lots of learning and life skills in Juniper
and Palm class this week. Sam has started a fitness
regime at home that was set by Mr Mullings with the
help of Miss Puckrin-Jones and this has helped his
positive mind-set. He’s also been completing lots of
tricky maths work. Well done Sam!
Myles has been busy with his home learning. He has
completed some tricky maths and found lots of 3D
shapes around the house. He has also created some
outdoor artwork. Keep it up Myles!
Tyler and Joshua have both been enjoying PE with Joe
Wicks. Keeping active and staying healthy is so
important and they both did a super job!
Alex has been very helpful at home. He has been in the
kitchen, in the garden and reading with Mum. Well
done Alex!
Our small group have also been very busy. Leo read 30
pages on Monday and has read every day since. David
has been enjoying playing with Diesel the Dog in the
garden and has also been completing maths work
EVERY day. Well done everyone!
This week in Squirrel class our pupils have
been very busy. Some have completed a
shadow drawing challenge – Look at the
amazing Megazord and Dandelion
picture!
Pheonyx has been busy making pizza on
purple mash. Maybe we have a future
chef amongst us! He has also been using
pasta to count, earning lots of stickers!
Ashton completed the Body Coach
workout, and learning even continued in
the bath with letters and numbers!
Cayden has been exploring non-
Newtonian fluid (Ooblek).
Leon has designed his very own robot
called Rod, and even drew some planets
on his deign.
Larch Class
Squirrels South
Larch class have been doing a daily art
challenge, parents have been getting
involved too! They have also been
continuing their topic on human rights and
education so students have been making
PowerPoint presentations on Malala
Yousafzai.
The children have also been writing letters
to each other, which have been lovely to
read.
Life skills have been a large part of what
Larch are up to at home. Making lunch for
their families, baking, jobs around the
house and outdoor games. Well done
Larch class.
Thomas and Charlie have been completing
Mrs Coombes’ challenge of ‘having fun in
the garden’. They both enjoyed spending
time outside. Thomas was practising his best
jumping whilst Charlie was continuing to
learn about the class topic of Space by
drawing the Solar System in the correct
order from the sun in chalk. He then worked
on his Funky Fingers by squirting the chalk
away with water pistol. Looks great fun!
Aiden has taken on the social media Lego
Challenge and has begun creating a
funfair out of Lego with
Pine Class
Hazel Class
Pine class have been working very hard
this week.
Tom F built this fantastic Lego model
from the “30 day Lego Challenge”
Jacob has been working hard
researching his favourite subject – Ford
Transits, as well as sorting odd and
even numbers. Excellent stuff, Jacob!
Jacob also built a self-isolation house
form Lego. Parked outside, you will see
the Ford Transit model that Ford sent
Jacob because he wrote a poem
about transit vans.
Tom has been sorting odd and even
numbers, then moved onto more
advanced work and starting writing
number sentences using the division
sign.
Hazel class have had a really positive
week, with work or pictures from everyone.
Well done Hazel. Below are just some
highlights of the amazing work I have
received
Charlie has been practicing his spelling
and got nearly all of them right.
James has been a times table super star
and completed a whole sheet of times
tables.
Cae has started to build a volcano and will
soon be painting it. We can’t wait to see it.
Jamie has written his newspaper report on
‘Violent Volcanoes’ He used some great
vocabulary!
Edmund can now independently tie his
shoe laces after lots of practice. Well done
Edmund
Oak Class
Beech Class
Oak class have also been engaging in
learning activities at home.
Some pupils have been completing
their learning with their family at the
dinner table or out in the sunshine!
Some have been researching online
and watching educational YouTube
videos.
One pupil even did some arts and
crafts and made this fantastic 2 toned
mask!
This week in Beech Class, we have had
some great learning taking place!
There has been lots of cooking for Life
Skills, Lego building to help with fine
motor skills, some amazing drawing
challenges, and I have also seen lots of
reading, maths and humanities work
being completed!
Tyler has also celebrated his 11th
birthday this week – Happy Birthday
Tyler!
A huge well done to Beech Class, keep
up the hard work and enjoy your Friday
Fun-day!
Catering Pathway
LOTC Pathway
Owen has been working hard this week
cooking up a storm in his kitchen and
producing great looking food for himself
and his sister, as well as working hard on his
catering theory. I especially like the way he
has positioned his hand written recipe.
Corey made a quiche at home today- he
made this without supervision or support,
using a recipe from memory that he'd used
at school previously. Thought we'd share a
picture of it.
Great work from the catering students,
keep up the good work.
This week LOTC Pathway Pupils have been
working very hard on their Duke of Edinburgh
sections.
Skills – Rapid Readers, writing and maths work
Physical – Skipping challenge and keeping fit
Volunteering – Helping around the house and
garden
On the 25 March 2020 Jonnie completed:
12 press ups
2 books in Rapid Readers
While Ben has been out riding his bike but
socially distancing and Isolating, on a very
early frosty morning! Ben has also been working
hard on his DofE skills section. He has
completed all sections of Rapid Readers and is
now completing the next reading challenge. A
very big WELL DONE to Ben!!!
LOTC are looking at new and exciting ways to
engage with our pupils so keep an eye on our
new site www.learnoutside.wix.com/lotc for
more information next week!!
Highlights of the week in Maple Class!
Chloe has been working
hard on her writing –
great resilience!
James took on the
Humanities challenge of
finding out where his food
comes from… fab
learning!
Ethan has been loving reading the
Beast Quest books!
Oliver has been
participating in the 30
Day Lego challenge –
what a fantastic
rocket!
Joshua has been using
flashcards to help him
with his spellings!
Natalis has been working hard
on his PE and uploading videos
of workouts we can do!
Iris created this fab sundial as the
weather has been so sunny!
Alfie has been working on creating
a new computer game!
Logan has been participating in Joe
Wicks’ PE classes in the morning!
Highlights of the Week in Acer Class South.
Lots of Acer Class have been joining in with Joe Wicks’ daily
PE. Here is Toby showing his older sister how it is done!
Mrs Berry is so proud of the amount of maths she has been seeing from Acer. Lots of maths
challenges as well as practical measuring skills in baking. In class we were learning how to
convert between imperial and metric units, so this baking has been great practice!
It has also been amazing to see you all getting out and enjoying the sunshine whilst
practicing some great life skills. Sam has been helping to mow the lawn, while Toby has
planted his own lettuces ready for some delicious summer salads.
The Therapy Blog
All forms of social media have been used this week by the team to keep in touch with our
students.
Text chats on dojo
Skype counselling sessions
Face time chats
Telephone calls to Parents/Carers and students
Email chats and sharing of photos of activities they have been doing at home.
At the moment the two common anxieties are that children want to go out to the parks and
play and they don’t know how to stop feeling anxious.
The wider therapy team have developed a list of useful websites and apps that can help with
anxiety – for adults and children. This can be found on the school webpage. Below are two
recommendations which may help, both have previously been used by school staff and have
had positive feedback from students!
Movement
With lockdown in place parks are of limits but there is a fantastic YouTube channel called
Cosmic Kids Yoga. Yoga will both help calm the body and mind and also give the body the
movement in needs in a slower controlled way and help reduce anxieties.
It’s aimed at children but parents can join in too. Here’s a link to one of the classes, there
are lots to do and each one focuses on a different character.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbCjkPlsaes
Anxiety Apps
There is an app called Stop, Breathe & Think Kids. It is a mindfulness and meditation app
but delivered with a fun interactive element.
https://www.stopbreathethink.com/kids/
Look out for own mindfulness and anxiety strategies coming out soon on Springfields
Academy YouTube Channel