3A

HOME LEARNING

ASHDALE BUBBLE

Dear Parents/Carers,

As you are aware, Ashdale is having to restrict the amount of children attending school to ensure the correct level safety is in place for both children and staff. As a result, we are offering children at home the opportunity to access high quality virtual teaching and learning.

This will take place on the following platforms:

• Zoom/Google classroom
• Tapestry
• Classroom 360
• Education City
• Oxford Owl
• Posted resources (at families request)

There are five key elements of our home learning offer:

1. Home learning packs
2. Personalised targets linked to EHCP, basic skills and life skills
3. Activity suggestions
4. Whole group  zoom sessions
5. Online learning sessions

Home learning will be used to support the transition between school and home and will encourage a healthy routine when the children are not in school. We will support this transition with visual resources and daily zones of regulation check in’s.

Virtual home learning:

Home learning days will begin at 9.00am where the children will be invited to join a whole class zoom call with a familiar adult. This session will last 15 – 20 minutes and will include a weather/story massage routine, zones of regulation check in and a makaton sign of the day.

The children will then be invited to join various subject specific zoom learning sessions throughout the day (a timetable will be uploaded via Tapestry).

The day will end with a show and tell session with a member of the home learning team, the children will be encouraged to talk about something they have learnt/made that day. The zoom call will end for the day with a zones of regulation check in and a story time.

We ask that you ensure that an adult is in the same room as your child whilst they are on the zoom call, this is to safeguard both staff and children.

Tapestry:

The home learning team will also upload various ‘Winter Themed’ activities which you can use at home. These will be updated regularly and you will also be able to gain access to Education City and Oxford Owl through the login details which will be posted on Tapestry.

Teachers have created life skills documents which include a range of targets that we aimed to work on with your children in school this half term. Teachers have added suggested activities to these targets for you to work on at home.

Tapestry can also be used as a way for you to communicate with staff at school and show us the lovely activities that your children have been doing at home.

If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact us at school on 01670 336906 or by emailing demi.stroughton@thedales.northumberland.sch.uk

Thank you for your continued support.

This week class 3A have conducted lots of interesting investigations.

First we made our own bubble solutions and experimented with how many bubbles we could make inside a bubble.

Next we tested which type of water would make our gummy bears grow the biggest, we tested warm water, salt water and sugar water. We left our bears for 12 hours to grow and then we found out that the bears that were in warm water had grown the most. We also found a gummy bear escape scene in class, there was a trail of red gummy bears and jelly slime which led us to a gummy bear web. We had to use the tweezers to rescue the bears from the tangled web.

Then we carried out a cookie excavation! we used magnifying glasses to look closely at the cookies and think about what was inside them. We wrote our own cookie recipes then followed our recipes to bake our own chocolate chip cookies. They were very very tasty!

Next week we will begin our Christmas themed activities.

On Monday we designed and then made our own Charlie and the Chocolate Factory inspired roller coasters. We even had our own virtual roller coaster ride!

On Tuesday we experimented with our own ‘Fizzy lifting drinks’ we made our drinks using sparkling water, edible glitter and lots of different fruit juices. The prune juice did not go down well!

On Wednesday we created our own edible chocolate factories, we thought very carefully about what each element of our factories represented… they also tasted delicious!

On Thursday we worked with class 4 and 5 to learn all about the journey of the cocoa bean and how the chocolate we buy from the shop gets to the shelves. It was very interesting and we enjoyed working with new friends.

On Friday we made our own ‘Big Breakfast’, we practiced our life skills and made beans on toast, scrambled egg and delicious breakfast pancakes. We placed our orders, prepared the surfaces hygienically and made our own breakfast.

What a busy week!

Have a lovely weekend 3A.

This week class 3A have created some amazing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory inspired artwork!

We have used our Design Technology skills to plan our artwork, we have used our Literacy skills and phonic knowledge to write lists of the resources we need to create our design ideas. We have independently collected our own resources, used our Math’s skills to measure our creations and we have also worked scientifically to test our work.

We have had great fun learning this week!

Have a great weekend class 3A.

This week, in class 3A, we did some spectacular Science! We followed a set of instructions and used salt, ice cubes, cream, sugar, vanilla essence and lots and lots of shaking to make our own ice cream in a bag. We watched closely as we shook the salt and ice in a bag and it turned our cream, sugar and vanilla into ice cream. Magic! We then added our own toppings and tasted our creations, they were delicious!