St Andrew's Church of England Primary School An intelligent heart acquires knowledge and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. Proverbs 18:15

Puffins

USEFUL NUMERACY AND LITERACY RESOURCES

EASTER HOMEWORK

R.E. Puffin class created a hidden meaning box to help us find hidden meanings.

DINOSAUR ARTWORK - Puffin class have enjoyed creating!

Mrs Adshead

Home Learning Photos

BACK TO SCHOOL MINDFULNESS IDEAS

Home Learning Timetables and Resources.

PHSE Mental Wellbeing

FEELING GOOD Lesson 1 In this lesson, you will be talking about feelings and how people respond to them. You will meet Bobby and friends who will talk to you about how they feel and what they do when they feel different emotions. At the end you'll write a letter to one of Bobby’s friends to help her feel better.

Cool down corner - Lesson 2 In today’s lesson we will be exploring anger and how to deal with it. Bobby is annoyed and frustrated with some of his friends and needs your help to deal with this problem. Help him by designing a cool down corner where he can go to relax, be calm and find inner peace.

Turn things around - Lesson 3 Today’s lesson will focus on bullying. We will look at the different types of bullying, how to deal with them and who to speak to if you are being bullied. You will listen to the story of Willy the Wimp who learns to be brave and to stand up to the Suburban Gorilla Gang. Would you do the same if you were in Willy’s position?

Don't worry about a thing - Lesson 4 In this lesson we will be talking about worries and how to deal with them. We'll be reading a story about an anxious little boy called Billy and how he learns to deal with his worries. Remember, it is always a good idea to share your worries just like Billy does. He shares them with his parents and his worry doll. You’ll be making some worry dolls of your own. So let's get started!

Keep calm and carry on - Lesson 5 In this lesson you will be learning about how to keep calm and carry on. We will be thinking about objects and materials which make us feel happy and at peace. You will then make a happiness box into which you can add all these materials.

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Try out the lessons on PHSE, Music or Jack and the Beanstalk (click on the links below) - videos to help support your home learning. Let us know how you get on!

Have a go at the Eco Challenge set by the School Eco Committee. Send your photos to Robins@st-andrews-pri.derbyshire.sch.uk

Eco challenges.pdf

JACK AND THE BEANSALK In this lesson we will share ideas to create a new story about justice. We will plan our new story on a plot matrix.

Lesson 2 The aim in this lesson is to tell a created story from memory. We will map, step and speak our new created story.

Lesson 3 To explore problems that matter. In this lesson we will be exploring the problem within our created story. We will look at the character's thoughts, feelings and actions.

Lesson 4 To add suffixes to verbs. In this lesson we will be adding the suffix -ed and -ing to verbs.

PHSE WHO AM I? In this lesson, we will explore a new topic of friendships. We will discuss the qualities of a good friend and also how our actions can impact others. We will then think about acts of kindness that we can do for others.

PHSE Lesson 2 That's not fair. In this lesson, we continue on the theme of friendship. We will look at a range of scenarios that commonly occur amongst friends and discuss whether they are fair or unfair. We will then consider how we can act fairly to everyone and not just our close friends.

Lesson 3 Forever friends. In this lesson, we will think about what we can do if we experience or witness someone being unkind. We will read a story about kindness and understand that our actions can have a positive and negative impact on others.

Lesson 4 Listening ears. In this lesson, we will learn the importance of listening in friendships. We will learn new strategies to show other people that we are listening and that we are showing interest in what they are saying. We will then consider ways of resolving a simple argument including forgiveness.

MUSIC Getting bored? Have a go at this video. Here is lesson 1 - watch out for more lessons later in the week!

MUSIC Lesson 2 Creating simple Patterns In this lesson, we will be learning how to use our body to show pulse in different ways and how to match the rhythm pattern to the pulse.

MUSIC Lesson 3 Understanding how sound is represented by symbols. In this lesson, we will be learning how sounds can be represented using symbols or pictures and the relationship between pulse and rhythm.

MUSIC Lesson 4 Physicalising pulse in different ways. In this lesson, we will be learning how sound patterns fit into a pulse, the difference between a ta and ti-ti pulse and how to change the way we represent pulse in a song.

BBC Supermovers Join the Super Movement. Fun curriculum linked resources to get you moving while you learn.

Blue Peter on YouTube. Welcome to the incredible Blue Peter YouTube channel! Here you will get to see all the best bits from the show and more!

In normal circumstances we invite parents and carers into school to complete workshops on phonics; however, this year we are sadly unable to offer this.

Therefore, we have set up this section on our website with activities to support your child and the adults at home.

Phonic vocabulary:

Phoneme - smallest unit of sound such as, a

Grapheme - written form of a sound.

Diagraph - two letters that make one sound such as, ar

Trigraph - three letters that make one sound such as igh

Split diagraph - two letter that make one sound but aren't next to each other such as, a-e in cake.

Sounding out - saying each sound in a word such as c-a-t-

Blending - putting each sound ina word together to say the word such as, c-a-t = cat

Sound button - We place a dot (sound button) under each sound to help sound out and then blend together to read the word.

Letter name - is what we call a letter not the sound it makes we explain to the children we call L, L and it makes a l sound. Just like a tiger we call it a tiger but it makes a roar sound.

Pure sound - saying each sound without the added extra uh sound such as, m not muh

Capital letters - Capital letters are for the start of a sentence, name, place and personal pronoun I (proper nouns).

Throughout school we use this vocabulary with the children as well as upper and lowercase letters not big and small letters.

How we teach phonic at Stanley St. Andrew's:

We follow Active Learns' scheme of work which is split into units:

Phase 2

S,A,T,P
I,N,M,D
G,O,C,K
CK,E,U,R
H,B,F,FF,L,LL,SS

Phase 3

6. J,V,W,X

7. Y,Z,ZZ,QU

8. CH,SH,TH,NG

9. AI,EE, IGH, OA, OO,OO

10. AR, OR,UR, OW, OI

11. EAR,AIR,URE, ER

Phase 4 - Year One

12. Adjacent consonants

BL,BR,CL,CR,DR,FL,FR,GL,GR,SM,SN,PL,PR,SC,SCR,SHR,SH,SL,SP,ST,STR,THR,TR,TW,FT,LF,LK,LP,LT,MP,NCH,ND,NK,NT,PT,SK,XT

Phase 5 - Year One

13. Split diagraphs introduced

AY,OU,IE,EA,OY,IR,UE,UE,AW,WH,PH,EW,EW,OE,AU,EY,A-E,E-E,I-E,O-E,U-E,U-E

Phonic games and activities:

Phonic activities and gamesThere are lots of exciting games to play to support phonic knowledge.

Phonic playThere are lots of exciting games to play to support phonic knowledge.

Phonic BloomThere are lots of exciting games to play to support phonic knowledge.

Teach your monster to readThere are lots of exciting games to play to support phonic knowledge.

Keep our children safe online:

Here at Stanley St. Andrew's we teach our children that to stay safe online by:

1) always being with an adult whilst online

2) If there is something they don't like they Stop, Get off and Tell and adult.

3) Usernames and passwords are private.

We advise all parents and carers to carefully monitor what your child is doing online by having parental controls on all device your child has access to, having devices in communal areas not in bedrooms and ensure content is age appropriate.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL.

with love from the Puffin Team.

HOLIDAY HOMEWORK

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If you have any queries about this work, do not hesitate to contact the Puffin Team by email.

Please ensure that your child's work is returned to school by Wednesday 6th January so that it can be marked and their homework books can be made ready for the next week's homework.

Thank you for your continued support.

Our energetic Santas doing the Santa Dash.

CHRISTINGLE

Christingle celebrations are named after the Christingles that are lit during the ceremony. Christingles are oranges wrapped in red ribbon, decorated with sweets, with a candle on the top.

Each element of a Christingle has a special meaning and helps to tell the Christian story:

The orange represents the world
The red ribbon symbolises the love and blood of Christ
The sweets and dried fruit represent all of God’s creations
The lit candle represents Jesus’s light in the world, bringing hope to people living in darkness.

All ready for today's Christingle service.

We are enjoying our new book: "The Other Side" by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by E.B. Lewis.

It is a story of the power of friendship.

'That summer, the fence that stretched through our town seemed bigger. We lived in a yellow house on one side of it. White people lived on the other. And Mama said, "Don't climb over that fence when you play." She said it wasn't safe.'

The Big Write

This term Puffin class have been learning how to write a newspaper article. We travelled back in time to 1666 to report on the Great Fire of London and our Big Write this term is an article about the mystery of the missing baby Jesus from our school Nativity display.

After extensive research and a fingertip search of the school and playground the children of Puffin Class wrote their article for the Stanley News.

Phonic Webinar Free parents webinar on how to support your child with phonic.

Getting ready for Christmas dinner with our hats and mats.

Puffin Class Christmas dinner.

HOMEWORK

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If you have any queries about this work, do not hesitate to contact the Puffin Team by email.

Please ensure that your child's work is returned to school by Wednesday 9th December so that it can be marked and made ready for the next week's homework.

Thank you for your continued support.

We carefully took our paperchain outside to measure it. It was an amazing 10m long!

The Puffin Elves have made Christmas decorations to brighten up our room: a hand print Christmas tree; silver bells; Merry Christmas bunting and an unbelievably long paper chain.

HOMEWORK

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If you have any queries about this work, do not hesitate to contact the Puffin Team by email.

Please ensure that your child's work is returned to school by Wednesday 3rd December so that it can be marked and made ready for the next week's homework.

Thank you for your continued support.

The Great Fire of London

For literacy and history, Puffin Class are studying 'The Great Fire of London'. We have researched the facts and have gone back in time to 1666 to become ace reporters for the Puffin Class newspaper. We have created a class shared write and have written a newspaper article about the fire. Soon we will all write our own individual news reports. We have also worked together as a team to create an amazing 2D frieze depicting the Great Fire and a 3D model of London Town.

FIRE STRIKES LONDON.pdf

HUGE FIRE DESTROYS LONDON.pdf

Our 2D frieze of The Great Fire.

Our model of London Town 1666

HOMEWORK

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If you have any queries about this work, do not hesitate to contact the Puffin Team by email.

Please ensure that your child's work is returned to school by Wednesday 25th November so that it can be marked and made ready for the next week's homework.

Thank you for your continued support.

Changing shape. Investigating which materials can change shape in Science.

Year 2 measuring using centimetre strips.

Year 1 measuring using cubes and metre sticks.

HOMEWORK

FIND BELOW THE HOMEWORK SET FOR THIS WEEK

If you have any queries about this work, do not hesitate to contact the Puffin Team by email.

Please ensure that your child's work is returned to school by Wednesday 11th November so that it can be marked and made ready for the next week's homework.

Thank you for your continued support.

All dressed up for Children in Need . Morning exercise with Joe Wicks

Our Great Fire of London frieze. An amazing team effort. Well done Puffin Class.

Creating the houses of 1666 London for our Great Fire of London frieze. Come back next week to see the completed frieze.

Phonic_on_the_website_.zip

October Half Term Holiday Homework Fun

We are receiving lots of photos showing the amazing work the children have been doing during the Half Term Holiday.

It's not too late to send your pictures in...

Wonderful writing from our talented writers

Super scary pumpkin bird feeders.

Creating the amazing Zachablaster!

Carefully making a rocket for Ironman.

Beware the Rainbow witch!

Fantastic work to create a puppet theatre, puppets and to write a play for them to perform.

Working hard to create an Eco box from a cereal box.

A rocket to blast off into space.

Making a music shaker and writing a song.

Super quilling work and a boat made from an eggbox.

A super jet pack and a great Eco box.

A silver space rocket.

Open the following document to see the Half Term holiday homework tasks. Choose one or more. Have fun making the re-cycled projects and send in lots of photos for our class webpage.

October HOLIDAY HOMEWORK.pdf

Superhero Day

Today Puffins welcomed Superheroes into class.

WOW!

ACROSTIC POEMS

We have all written an acrostic poem and Ms. Middleton has sent them away to be entered in a competition.

Working at home, practicing phonics and spellings with a game.

HOMEWORK

FIND BELOW THE HOMEWORK SET FOR THIS WEEK

If you have any queries about this work, do not hesitate to contact the Puffin Team by email.

Please ensure that your child's work is returned to school by Wednesday so that it can be marked and made ready for the next week's homework.

Thank you for your continued support.

The Science of Materials.

In Science, Puffin Class have been looking at different materials and thinking about which material would be the best for a particular application.

We searched the playground for as many materials we could find: bricks, tiles, wood, slate, tarmac, stone, plastic, metal.

Next we thought about the uses of all these different materials; we compared the different materials and found that they have many uses. Some materials could be squashed, bent, twisted or stretched, others could not.

We designed our own coffee cup and found out all about recycling and why it is important.

Finally we learned about John MacAdam the inventor of the Tarmac used on our playground and roads.

Pop Art

We have been looking at the amazing Pop Art of Roy Lichtenstein, he liked to use bright primary colours to create big, bold paintings.

Black History Month

During Black History Month we have been studying the life and work of Mary Seacole; a Jamaican born nurse who nursed the soldiers during the Crimean War. Mary's wish was to work with and alongside Florence Nightingale, unfortunately the racial prejudice of the time meant she was prevented from doing this. Mary was not put off easily: she funded her own passage to Crimea, where she set up her 'British Hotel'; a hospital for the soldiers injured at the battle front.

We like to read out our stories in class.

Puffin Class love writing and drawing at home. Have a look at their super work.

Star Of The Week

Congratulations to our Stars of the Week.

The Star Of The Week is awarded to the person who has been kind, helpful and dedicated throughout the week.

Each Star of the Week chooses a prize from Ms. Middleton's Special Prize Box.

Dojos

Well done to everyone who has been awarded Dojos.

Dojos are awarded to people who have worked hard throughout week, showed acts of kindness, been helpful, listened to instructions and have been dedicated to their work.

Everyone receives many Dojos through the week and the person with the most Dojos at the end of the week chooses a prize from Ms. Middleton's Special Prize Box.

V.I.P.

Every week Puffin class draw a name out of our V.I.P. box.

That tells us who is our Very Important Person of the week.

Our V.I.P. is responsible for many roles throughout the week, such as: being Ms. Middleton's helper; lighting the Collective Worship candle; collecting the dinner register from the office; choosing their own helpers to give out work books and many other special tasks that arise during the week.