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Spring Term, 5th March 2021 in Lockdown
News from Mrs. Peacey
This week we have celebrated World Book Day in all the classes both at home and at
school. A special well done for those of you who dressed up and joined your Google
Meets. There were so many inventive costumes from Verruca Salt to Stick Man from
Harry Potter to a pig. Next week we will give you the vouchers which can be used
online or in some supermarkets to get books. I know some of you also listened to the
audiobooks and took part in the activities to celebrate how important books are.
Thank you all again for all you have done in the past two
months, it seems strange to realise that exactly two months
ago; on 5th January, this lockdown started. We will very soon
be back into the swing of school again but please contact
your class teachers if you have any concerns. Mrs Brown will
be back in the office next week but please ring or email her
any queries that you may have.
Accompanying this newsletter is a letter with final
arrangements for returning to school next week, along with
details on how to obtain home testing kits. See you on
Monday…
The March Online Safety Newsletter is now available and accompanies this newsletter. Please take a
look as there is useful information especially with children accessing online games and social media.
Ready Steady Cook is an initiative run by Worcestershire Children First on behalf of Worcestershire
County Council – if you need support, especially through the school holidays with food or activity ideas
take a look at their website https://www.worcestershire.gov.uk/readysteadyworcs
Dr Kathryn Cobain, Director of Public Health has recorded a short video for parents and carers in support
of the return to face to face education https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUoKV8F4YT4
COVID Update
Should your child receive a positive test at a weekend or during the holidays
please ring or text 07709987018 and leave a message.
“Shaping bright futures together”
This week we have been on countdown to next Monday
when we all come back to school!
On Monday we found out about St
David’s Day, listened to the story of ‘Elen
Benfelen a’r Tair Arth’ (that’s ‘Goldilocks and the
Three Bears’) read in welsh by the lovely Mrs
Clayton, investigated and made daffodils and
explored google earth to locate wales and many
ACORN CLASS NEWS
other places as well.
Our theme this week has been farm animals and
we have enjoyed a range of stories which have
led us into map making, creative writing, ladybird
themed maths, weighing and measuring and all
sorts of creative activities from biscuit making
to rock chicks.
However, the big excitement of the week was on Wednesday when we
had 30 members of Acorn reception and preschool together on
a google meet and we put some chicken eggs into the incubator in our
classroom. If we look after them carefully over the next three
weeks, and are very lucky, we hope to have some baby chicks in Acorn
class just before Easter.
On Thursday many of us chose to dress up
for World Book Day as well as creating our
own gallery of dressed potato
storybook characters.
For more photos of our Acorn adventures, please look at our class
blog at https://www.ashton.worcs.sch.uk/news/acorns-news/
“Shaping bright futures together”
Our last week of home schooling has been a busy one and the children have worked
extremely hard. We’re really proud of all their effort and enthusiasm. We also can’t
wait to welcome them all back to school.
Our English lessons continue to be based on our class text, ‘Could a
penguin ride a bike?’ This week, the children have gained a greater
understanding of questions and statements, been verb detectives,
joined sentences with conjunctions and written some very creative
ideas.
In Maths, Year 1s have been counting in 2s in all sorts of different
ways while Year 2s have explored line symmetry and 2D shapes.
CLASS HAWTHORN NEWS
In our Topic lessons, the children learned about
the five oceans of the world and began their work
on Antarctica. They’ve also been keeping a weather
watch throughout the month of February and
looked at the data to evaluate the different types
Our Science lessons this half
of weather recorded and compare it with the
term are all about Animals and
observations they made in November.
Humans, and this week the
children explored the changes
that take place as creatures
As you know, Thursday was grow up. They each chose one
World Book Day, and we to focus on which was a great
thought you might like to see activity for all the animal
a few photos of the children lovers in our class!
dressed as their favourite
characters. Can you see who
they all are?
And finally, you may remember that last half term we challenged the children to
make a vehicle for the future from junk modelling. We were bowled over by their
ingenuity and creativity, and wanted to take this opportunity to share all their
designs with you. They went through a detailed design process – planning and
drawing their ideas first, making them up with care and precision, and then
decorating them to create the finished product. Afterwards, they evaluated them
and thought about any changes they might implement if they were to make them
again. We have a class of very talented young designers, as the photos show! Great
job, Team Hawthorn! I wonder if we’ll see any of their vehicles when we’re out and
about sometime soon.
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Guess
Who?
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We have come to the end of Home schooling – finally!! (No whooping or
dancing in the street parents!!) We cannot wait to welcome back your
children.
We have had a productive week and are very pleased to see that you have
continued to complete lots of the tasks knowing we are back in school next
week.
We had a fun World Book Day quiz with many of the Key
Stage 2 children. Lots of you made a great effort to dress
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up as well-known characters and join in the fun. The
children answered True or False or multiple-choice
questions on a range of books and authors, holding up
their answers on cards like a TV game show!! They got
lots right too – well done everyone. A wide range of book-
based activities were completed here are a few examples
along with some dressing up photos.
“Shaping bright futures together”
Science
In science this week we looked at
interpreting and creating animal
classification keys. The children had
to identify different animals from the
keys and then create one of their own.
They did a great job as it was harder
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to draw these on the screen than on
paper.
Topic
We have continued with our Roman topic and
incorporated some of this into our English work
too. The children had to think of an alternative
ending to the Romulus and Remus story. Many
came up with a cooperative solution whereby the
brothers worked together and settled their
differences or built roads, tunnel or a bridge to
join two separate cities together. Some
however, were unable to reconcile their
differences and met a gruesome ending!
The success of Julius Caesar was the main focus
for topic this week, the children wrote interview
questions for this historical leader and wrote
the answers he would have given too. We were
very impressed with how much they learnt about
him.
In art we asked the children to follow a drawing
tutorial to enable them to create a Roman
soldier. They were fantastic as you can see from
this wonderful selection. We will continue to
draw some more on or return to school as we
need to create a Roman Century of 100 soldiers
for a classroom display!
“Shaping bright futures together”
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