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  • Full School Reopening Plans

    Thu 16 Jul 2020

    School breaks up for the summer holidays tomorrow, Friday 17th July 2020.

     

    We reopen to ALL pupils in all year groups on Tuesday 8th September 2020.

     

    Please see letter regarding school reopening and associated risk assessments on our Latest News Documents page.

  • Home Learning W/C 13/7/20

    Mon 13 Jul 2020

    Firstly, we’d like to say a BIG thank you to all the children who have completed & returned work. We’ve loved looking at and reading them all and seeing most scores going up and up! And a big thank you to those resilient robins who took on feedback and returned work. A final really big thank you to Parents and siblings who have helped the children. We hope you’ve enjoyed the tasks and look forward to this last week’s outcomes – Show us what you’ve got!

    EYFS

    Tasks we are working on in school this week:

    Maths – counting to 20 and counting in 10s to 100.

     

    Other Ideas

    • Can you draw a picture of something you have done in lockdown with a sentence to go with it?
    • Can you draw a picture of yourself with some sentences that describe you and your likes to give to your new teacher in the upcoming Goodbye/Handover days coming soon? (more info from Mrs Butterworth to follow)

    Please continue to follow the other guidance and website ideas in the most recent letter. Practise as much reading, number work and phonics as you can to help develop your child.

    Including those in previous tweets or on the school website.

    Year 1

    Thank you to all those children who have handed in work, we have really enjoyed reading your work and seeing how talented you are. If you completed any work last week look out for comments/suggestions in the 2do area. Also check your rewards (Near the 2do but top left). How well did you do?

    You may find your work or your friends work by clicking on the share button and choosing Year 1 Home Learning.

    This week’s targets are

    • Learn and write the story of the Hungry Caterpillar.
    • Where do Minibeasts live – Bug Hunt?
    • Revision (1 more, 1 less: x10: Add and subtract: time intervals)
    • Studying the life of Barbara Hepworth (Finish the task if not started / completed)

    Please look at your 2do list in Purplemash – Login and click 2do top left corner.

    • Learn the hungry caterpillar story (included and via youtube read by the actual author).
    • Hungry Caterpillar writing frame
    • Comprehension on the Hungry Caterpillar
    • 1 more 1 less (timed multiple choice challenge / type in challenge)
    • X10 singing tables
    • Add and subtract (missing numbers)
    • Time interval quiz
    • Bug Hunt Diary
    • Art challenge
    • Mindful jigsaw / colour

    To supplement this work the following website links may be useful

    Year 2

    Thank you to all those children who have handed in work, we have really enjoyed reading your work and seeing how talented you are. If you completed any work last week look out for comments/suggestions in the 2do area. Also check your rewards (Near the 2do but top left). How well did you do?

    You may find your work or your friends work by clicking on the share button and choosing Year 2 Home Learning.

    This week’s targets are

    • Katie Morag and her 2 Grandmothers (Book related work)
    • I can find totals of coins
    • I can tell the time. (o'clock 1/2 past 1/4 past/to)
    • I can tell the time to 5 minutes intervals
    • Minibeasts and Habitats
    • Study the artist Matisse

    Please look at your 2do list in Purplemash – Login and click 2do top left corner.

    • Read / Listen to the story of Katie Morag
    • Describe Katie Morag’s Grandmas (Character study)
    • Write a postcard apologising for the things you (as Katie) did with her things on the sheep.
    • Katie Moragcomprehension
    • Multiplication activities
    • Draw the hands on the clock (15 minute and 5 minute intervals)
    • Count the coins
    • Pay for the shopping task (drag and drop)
    • Bug Hunt Diary
    • Matisse art- finish the report on the artist (use the videos / weblinks to research him)
    • Art challenges to complete (Mindful)

    To supplement this work the following website links may be useful

    Year 3/4

    Thank you to all those children who have handed in work, we have really enjoyed reading your work and seeing how talented you are. If you completed any work last week look out for comments/suggestions in the 2do area. Also check your rewards (Near the 2do but top left). How well did you do?

    You may find your work or your friends work by clicking on the share button and choosing Year 3/4 Home Learning.

    This week’s targets are

    • English based on the text Beth of the Nile (inc comprehension) Parts 6 and 7
    • Spellings based on year 3 or 4 curriculum
    • Maths – multiplication by 10 and 100 and divide by 10 and 100
    • Science Classifying animals and minibeasts
    • Topic – Ancient Egypt –The Nile & Farming / Egyptian Afterlife

    Please look at your 2do list in Purplemash – Login and click 2do top left corner.

    • Access Beth of the Nile story and work files (released over 2 separate days)
    • Access Yr 3 or 4 Spell tasks (With downloadable Look Cover Write Check)
    • Complete Beth of the Nile writing task (Character study)
    • Comprehensions (released Wednesday)
    • Multiply and divide activities by 10 and 100.
    • Multiply multiples of 10 using known facts.
    • Animal / living thing classification quiz
    • Art – Mindful – Complete the picture
    • Topic – Why was the Nile so important
    • Topic – The Book of the Dead

    To supplement this work the following website links may be useful

    Year 5

    Thank you to all those children who have handed in work, we have really enjoyed reading your work and seeing how talented you are. If you completed any work last week look out for comments/suggestions in the 2do area. Also check your rewards (Near the 2do but top left). How well did you do?

    You may find your work or your friends work by clicking on the share button and choosing Year 5 Home Learning.

    This week’s targets are

    • English based on the text: Busters Blitz. Parts 6 and 7
    • Spelling – Continue Yr5 scheme
    • Maths – Statistics, Graphs and Times tables
    • Science – Properties of changing materials
    • Geography – Passport to the World – Country fact files.

    Please look at your 2do list in Purplemash – Login and click 2do top left corner.

    • Access to Busters Blitz text ch3, 4 & 5 and comprehension tasks
    • Buster Blitz Writing task – Character study / comparison.
    • Grammar activities – Flying high
    • Maths – Venn & Carroll diagrams (sorting & reading)
    • Reversible changes / Irreversible changes
    • Continent Poster or Fact Sheet (continue from last week / finish)
    • Travel operator – Can you suggest an itinerary of locations, activities and areas of importance for a travel customer?
    • Art – Mindful slide / colour task

    To supplement this work the following website links may be useful

    Year 6

    • Check previous posts. /including work on Travel guides and report writing. Ratio, area and perimeter.

  • Home Learning W/C 6/7/2020

    Mon 06 Jul 2020

    EYFS

    Tasks we are working on in school this week:

    Maths – counting to 20 and counting in 10s to 100.

     

    Other Ideas

    • Can you draw a picture of something you have done in lockdown with a sentence to go with it?
    • Can you draw a picture of yourself with some sentences that describe you and your likes to give to your new teacher in the upcoming Goodbye/Handover days coming soon? (more info from Mrs Butterworth to follow)

    Please continue to follow the other guidance and website ideas in the most recent letter. Practise as much reading, number work and phonics as you can to help develop your child.

    Including those in previous tweets or on the school website.

    Year 1

    If you completed any work last week look out for comments/suggestions in the 2do area or My Work folder. Also check your rewards (Near the 2do but top left). How well did you do?

    You may find your work or your friends work by clicking on the share button and choosing Year 1 Home Learning.

    This week’s targets are

    • Learn and write some poems on minibeasts.
    • What do Minibeasts eat?
    • Shape – 2D and 3D
    • Studying the life of Barbara Hepworth (Finish the task if not started / completed)

    Please look at your 2do list in Purplemash – Login and click 2do top left corner.

    • Learn the bug party poem.
    • Create a bug acrostic.
    • Comprehension on the bug party poem
    • Find the rhyming words (task)
    • Complete the rhyming poems. (Find the rhyme)
    • 2D 3D quizzes
    • Colour the shape pictures.
    • Number bonds practise.
    • Minibeast sort task (by what they eat)
    • Report on Omnivore, carnivores and herbivores.
    • Art challenge

    To supplement this work the following website links may be useful

    Year 2

    If you completed any work last week look out for comments/suggestions in the 2do area or My Work folder. Also check your rewards (Near the 2do but top left). How well did you do?

    You may find your work or your friends work by clicking on the share button and choosing Year 2 Home Learning.

    This week’s targets are

    • Write instructions – Care for a Bog Baby
    • Multiplication practice
    • Minibeasts and Habitats
    • Study the artist Matisse

    Please look at your 2do list in Purplemash – Login and click 2do top left corner.

    • Read the Bog Baby (You tube clip available too)
    • Write care instructions for a Bog Baby
    • Bog Baby comprehension
    • Multiplication practice, games and arrays
    • Habitat sort activity 1 and 2
    • Matisse art – copy his famous goldfish painting
    • Matisse art - write a report on the artist (use the videos / weblinks to research him)

    To supplement this work the following website links may be useful

    Year 3/4

    If you completed any work last week look out for comments/suggestions in the 2do area or My Work folder. Also check your rewards (Near the 2do but top left). How well did you do?

    You may find your work or your friends work by clicking on the share button and choosing Year 3/4 Home Learning.

    This week’s targets are

    • English based on the text Beth of the Nile (inc comprehension) Parts4 and 5
    • Spellings based on year 3 or 4 curriculum
    • Maths –addition & subtraction
    • Science Classifying animals and minibeasts - Habitats
    • Topic – Ancient Egypt –Hieroglyphics

    Please look at your 2do list in Purplemash – Login and click 2do top left corner.

    • Access Beth of the Nile story and work files (released over 2 separate days)
    • Access Yr 3 or 4 Spell tasks (With downloadable Look Cover Write Check)
    • Complete Beth of the Nile writing task(Announce the King is dead / Secret message)
    • Comprehensions (released Wednesday)
    • Column addition, subtraction word probs, calculation generator.
    • Minibeast fact file, classify sort, Guess who (print out)
    • Art – Mindful minibeast 2 colouring
    • Topic – Create a cartouche with your name in hieroglyphics.

    To supplement this work the following website links may be useful

    Year 5

    If you completed any work last week look out for comments/suggestions in the 2do area or My Work folder. Also check your rewards (Near the 2do but top left). How well did you do?

    You may find your work or your friends work by clicking on the share button and choosing Year 5 Home Learning.

    This week’s targets are

    • English based on the text: Busters Blitz. Parts 3 4 and 5
    • Spelling – Continue Yr5 scheme
    • Maths – Statistics, Graphs and Times tables
    • Science – Properties of changing materials
    • Geography – Passport to the World – Country fact files.

    Please look at your 2do list in Purplemash – Login and click 2do top left corner.

    • Access to Busters Blitz text ch3, 4 & 5 and comprehension tasks
    • Buster Blitz Writing task – Newspaper article.
    • Grammar activities – Flying high
    • Maths – Reading graphs – answering questions.
    • Reversible changes / Irreversible changes
    • ContinentPoster or Fact Sheet (continue from last week / finish)
    • Travel operator – Can you suggest an itinerary of locations, activities and areas of importance for a travel customer?

    To supplement this work the following website links may be useful

    Year 6

    • Check previous posts. /including work on Travel guides and report writing. Ratio, area and perimeter.

    Virtual Sports Day (against all schools) Reminder:

    On Tuesday 7th July at 10am, we will be holding a virtual sports day, and even those at home can join in and help Flanshaw earn points towards the National Score board. Look in Purplemash 2dos for guidance on the activities and resources to prepare for the day. A score sheet you can fill in and return on the day will be handed out as a 2do on the day. For your scores to count – it must be returned on the same day.

    Look out for a link to a video which will include some dance entertainment, warm ups and visual demos of the tasks.

    We hope you can join us by taking part – Go Team Flanshaw!

  • Goodbye Drop-in Sessions

    Thu 02 Jul 2020

    We would like to invite all of our children and their parent/carer along to a drop-in session to say goodbye to their current class teacher and to collect school reports and any certificates they may be due. Please note, children should be accompanied by a responsible adult, as this is an after school session and there are quite a lot of items to return for each child, including refunds for visits that were cancelled.

    The sessions will be held on different days for each class in order to maintain appropriate social distancing with other classes between 3:30-4:30pm each day - please see below for details of which day your child's session is on. Please also bring a carrier bag with you to take home the various items we have to return to you.

    During the sessions, we will:

    1) Collect any reading books or Wakefield Library books you may still have at home;

    2) Give out reports;

    3) Give out new class slips and class letters from their new teachers;

    4) Give out 100% attendance certificates and vouchers;

    5) Give out any presentation certificates and vouchers your child may have been awarded;

    6) Return PE kits for washing ready for next year;

    7) Give out any text books/ work from class;

    8) Give out Year 6 hoodies for Year 5 pupils moving into Year 6;

    9) Provide any refunds due (Year 5/6 residential).

     

    Date   Main Playground Bottom Playground EYFS Area
    Tues 7/7/20 Severn Mersey  
    Weds 8/7/20 Thames   Tyne
    Thurs 9/7/20   Avon Ribble
    Tues 14/7/20 Trent Eden  
    Weds 15/7/20 Ouse Wharfe  
    Thurs 16/7/20 Derwent Wye Tweed

    Reminder texts will be sent the day before - please note the change in date from that originally advertised for Trent class.

  • Free School Meal Holiday Voucher Scheme

    Thu 02 Jul 2020

    FSM Holiday Vouchers

     

    Following the government’s recent announcement regarding free school meal vouchers through the school holidays, we have now received guidance and placed orders for vouchers for all pupils that are currently eligible for free school meals, including Year 6. The vouchers will be issued through the Edenred ordering system used throughout lockdown and can be redeemed in exactly the same way. You will receive vouchers to the value of £15 per week to cover the 7 week break from school, a total of £105 per child. Your vouchers should be issued on (or within a few days of) the following dates:

     

    If you have 1 child: 10/7/20

    For the 2nd child: 24/7/20

    For the 3rd child: 7/8/20

    For the 4th child: 14/8/20

     

    If you do not receive your first voucher by Weds 15/7, please contact school on 01924 290360. If you do not receive the others within a week of these dates, please email Mrs Bradley, School Business Manager: m.bradley@flanshawjin.co.uk Please bear in mind that response times may be longer than usual during the school holidays as staff will be taking leave from work during this time, but Mrs Bradley will respond and deal with your query at the earliest opportunity.

     

    If you have problems with the vouchers after you have redeemed them, please contact Edenred directly: freeschoolmealsparentscarers@edenred.com

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