Welcome to Piccadilly Circus

contact: SilverPiccadilly@connectedlearningmat.co.uk

Spellings WB 16.3.21

These will be tested on Tuesday 23rd March

Year 1                       Year 2

high                           patting

night                          patted

light                           humming

bright                        hummed

right                          dropping

dear                          dropped

hear                          sadder

beard                        saddest

near                          fatter

year                           fattest

Welcome back to school

I hope everyone is happy to back in the classroom. I have a lovely week planned with lost of fun activities to help the children settle back into our class routine.

There will be weekly spellings set on Purple Mash for the children to practise, I will also put them on here for you. In class we will see how well the children have remembered them on a Tuesday.

PE will be on a Monday and a Thursday please make sure the children bring their kits in every Monday. The kits will then be sent home on a Friday to be washed ready for the following week.

Reading diaries and school water bottles should be brought in daily even if your child has not read that night.

Any queries please email the school office.

Best Wishes

Mrs Laughlin

This weeks spellings:

Year 1         Year 2

blue                   hiking

clue                   hiked

true                   hiker

rescue               nicer

Tuesday             nicest

new                    shiny

few                    describing

grew                  described

flew                   wiring

drew                  tiled

Welcome Back!

Hello everyone and welcome back. I hope you all had a good and safe half term.

We continue our online learning through teams. 

Each morning we have a registration session at 9.30 to say good morning to everyone and to find out a bit more about your lessons for the day. 

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings we have a live phonics lesson during our registration session.

On Wednesday's we will just have the registration session.

Each afternoon at 1.20 we will have a catch up session to see how your morning has been and discuss your learning so far. We may also play some games/activities and listen to our class story.

As always if you have any questions please use our class email above to contact me on. 

Stay safe and well

Mrs Laughlin 

Happy Half Term 

Hello everyone

We made it to Half Term

Well done for all of your hard work this half term

It's time to relax and recharge your batteries, get the games and paints out, put your walking shoes on, curl up with a good book, and take time to find the emerging daffodils in the park. Have fun this half term.

Well done for this half term.

Enjoy the break

Stay Safe

Mrs Laughlin

1st - 7th February

Children's Mental Health Week

The theme of Children's Mental Health Week this year is 'Express Yourself'. The aim is to encourage children to express themselves in a variety of ways. For example, expressing yourself can be about sharing your feelings, thoughts and ideas through creativity. Children could express how they feel through a piece of artwork or writing, or they could express it through a performance such as dance or drama.

An important part of this theme is that expressing yourself doesn't mean that you're the best at something. It's all about finding a way to show other people who you are and how you feel. It's about showing how you see the world and finding a way to 'express yourself' which feels good to you. Expressing yourself in a way that's unique to you is a great way to improve mental wellbeing

We will be talking about Mental Health and doing some activities around wellbeing this week. 

WB 25.1.21

Hello everyone

Well done for all of your hard work so far using Microsoft Teams. 

This week we will be starting our live sessions:

Each day: 

9.30am- Registration and timetable- we will meet each morning to say hello and for me to talk you through your day.

1.20pm- Q&A sessions: this is your chance to show me your work or ask any questions you might have about your work

The links for these are on your team accounts.

Few reminders:

Purple Mash: I have set you some weekly spellings and reading on Purple Mash for you all to have a go at completing. 

Year 2

You can still quiz any books you might be reading at home via renaissance reading- the link is on the useful links on the school website. I will be having a look at this each week to see how you are getting on.

Keep up the good work 

Mrs Laughlin

Work for Friday 15.1.21

Hello Everyone, 

Below you will find the links to your lessons for today and the activities you need as well.

If you would like to send your work to me please email: 

Silverpiccadilly@connectedlearningmat.co.uk

Have a good day everyone

Mrs Laughlin

Work for Thursday 14.01.21

Hello everyone please find the links for your videos for today and the relevant worksheets.

Please email any work you complete to

Silverpiccadilly@connectedlearningmat.co.uk

Many Thanks

Mrs Laughlin

12.1.21

Message to parents

Hello everyone I do hope you are all staying safe and well.

A few messages from me:

Tomorrow (13th January) we will be moving to lessons on Microsoft teams. I have uploaded a timetable for the next 3 days and the lessons for Wednesday along with a worksheet assignment for Maths.

I have also set spellings on Purple Mash for the next few weeks so please make sure that you keep checking on there for these.

The Week Beginning 18th January we will be beginning to make phone calls home to those who have not accessed our online learning to see if there is anything we can do to help and support. 

As always if you have any questions please email me via our class email address: 

Silverpiccadilly@connectedlearningmat.co.uk

Please note I am in school on Wednesday 13th January so will be unable to respond to emails on this day

Thank you for your continue support and good luck with the lessons, I hope you enjoy them.

Mrs Laughlin 

Message to parents 8.1.21

Dear Parents,

Firstly let me say thank you for all your hard work this week with helping the children get back into a home-schooling routine. They have been working really hard and I can see from their interaction on Purple Mash and by you emailing me that they are getting on well and have enjoyed the activities set both on the class page and via Purple Mash. 

For Monday and Tuesday next week I have set some work on Purple Mash for the children to complete. As always they can access BBC Bitesize and Oak National academy for some extra bits. You can also access Phonics Play free of charge for some phonics games.

As before, the children are able to contact me on Purple Mash and you have the class email address which you are able to use to contact me should you have any questions. I will be in school on a Wednesday. On this days please be mindful that responses may be less than other days. 

Have a great weekend and thank you again for your continued support,

Mrs Laughlin

You can contact Mrs Laughlin through the class email at silverpiccadilly@connectedlearningmat.co.uk.

Home learning WB 6th January

Firstly I want to wish you a Happy New Year! I would have loved to have been doing this in person but we must keep each other safe. Below is the home learning for the next few days. I will also be setting some home learning using purple mash for this week. The children should all have their log in details in their reading records but should you need them again please send me an email on Silverpiccadilly@connectedlearningmat.co.uk 

I will be available Mon-Tues and Thurs-Fri. I shall be in School on Wednesday's so will be unable to respond to emails on this day.

Reading: Year 2 children can still access Renaissance reading and complete quizzes on the books they have read, these do not have to be their current school books as they can access a whole library of quizzes for a variety of books that they might read.

Year 1 & 2 children you can sign up for free for Oxford Owl reading library (link) to access their extensive library.

Maths: Number and Place Value

Watch the Numberblock episodes linked below to give you some ideas on your activity

I would like you to create your own number booklet for numbers 1-20 (1-50 for Year 2) challenge: Year 1 up to 50 Year 2 up to 100

For each number you need to write the number as a digit- make sure that they are the correct way round, write the number as a word, create an + and - number sentence and draw this number- be as creative as you can

E.G

3

three

4-1=3

1+1+1=3

14

Fourteen

20-6=14

7+7=14

           1             4

English

We have recently moved into a new year. We are now in 2021. At the start of each new year lots of people make New Years Resolutions. These are promises that people will try and follow throughout the coming year. They might be things like:

• I will try to work harder at school.
• I will eat more vegetables and less sweets.
• I will do some more exercise.
• I will try to keep my bedroom tidy.
• I will stop biting my fingernails.
• I will be kinder to my brother/sister.

I would like you to think of a New Year’s resolution you can make. You could cut out a star shape and write your resolution and promise on this. Think of 2 New Year promises you could make. Something that you will try and do at home and something you will try and do at school.

Phonics

Play this game and then practise copying out each word.

Ext: use a word from each column in a sentence

Reading

Find your favourite book or poem and share this with someone in your household.

Create a book review for someone in our class about your chosen book/poem

You need to tell them:

Why it is your favourite book

What is it about

Who is your favourite character and why

Why do you think they should read it

Draw a picture of your favourite character or part of the story/poem

Art:

In class we follow the 4R’s of learning:

Resourcefulness

Resilience

Reflectiveness

And

Reciprocity

Reciprocity means: two people or groups of people give each other help and advantages

In class this means helping each other and guide each other to improve our learning, At the beginning of the school year we chose an Octopus to represent this learning behaviour for our class. I would like you to think about how an Octopus might help the other animals within the ocean. They clean the coral for other fish and make it a cleaner environment.

Create a picture showing an octopus and some other sea creatures within the ocean. Make it as colourful as you can.

Spellings WB 7.12.20

These will be tested on TUESDAY 15th DECEMBER

Year 1

Year 2

Spellings WB: 30.11.2020

These will be tested on Monday 7th December

Year 1                    Year 2

as                            door

said                          floor

says                         poor

are                           because

went                         find

was                           kind

full                            have

house                       behind

our                            child

but                            children

came                        help

Mr                             will

Spellings WB: 23.11.20

These will be tested on Monday 30th November

Year 1                       Year 2

pack                           station

puff                             fiction

buzz                            solution

fizz                              section

off                                motion

miss                            creation

well                             celebration

back                            nation

dress                           caution

shell                             position

Spellings WB 16.11.20

These will be tested 23.11.20

This week in Piccadilly Circus we have been learning all about Remembrance. We spent the morning creating a Poppy Wreath for each table and then we created our own Poppy Field artwork

P.E is now MONDAY's and THURSDAY's

Spellings WB 9.11.20- these will be tested on Monday 16th November

Year 1       Year 2      

her             sadness

term           careful

were           playful

verb            hopeless

person        plainness

girl              badly

bird             happiness

shirt            employment

first             darkness

third

Welcome back after Half Term

P.E will now be on Monday's and Thursday's

This weeks spellings

These will be tested on Monday 9th November. Please make sure you are learning these during the week

Mrs Laughlin

Update 18.10.20

The last half term has gone really quickly. The children have settled in really well and are becoming more independent in their learning and how they come into school each day. As we approach the Half Term break, I hope you all have a safe half term and I thought you might like to see some of the learning we have done over the past few weeks. 

We have recently built toy cars using plastic water bottles and bottle lids. The children had great fun building the cars and then testing them out in the playground.

We have also been carrying out some science experiments. We placed 5 eggs into different liquids to see what affect they would have on the shells. We were looking to find out the affect different liquids would have on our teeth. We were very surprised that the vinegar made the egg grow and becoming bouncy and squishy. We then wondered if the colour of the fizzy drink would affect the egg so we have set another experiment to find this out.

Have a safe Half Term Break

Mrs Laughlin

Half term Spellings

Please practice all of the spellings we have learnt this half term (They can be found below)

These spellings will be tested on Monday 2nd November (after half term) These have also been set on Purple Mash. I will add all of this half terms spellings onto Purple Mash too, should you wish to complete these. 

Year 1                                   Year 2

lie                                           want

tie                                           watch

pie                                          wander

cried                                       quantity

tried                                        squash

five                                         wallet

ride                                         wasp

like                                          quality

time                                         quarry

side                                         wash

Spellings 12.10.20

These will be tested on Monday 19.10.20

Year 1

Year 2

Spellings WB 5.10.20

These will be tested on Monday 12th October

Year 1             Year 2

sea                   key

dream               donkey

meat                 monkey

each                 chimney

read                  valley

chief                  journey

field                  alley

thief                  honey

reach                hockey

teach                 money

A quick reading update from me:

We have had a few questions regarding reading, quizzes and levels.

The children have all been assessed on Renaissance Reading and the Phonics screening check. We have then given them a reading points range that matches these assessments and the children will choose a book within this range.

Due to the fact that we cannot use reading diaries at the moment we are doing our best to change reading books when needed. The children complete a short comprehension quiz based on their book. We endeavour to quiz and change books when needed. There maybe some days when this might not be possible. 

Some books will have both a reading colour and a points range. E.G Yellow and 1.6 We are basing their book choices on the points range not the colour. 

When the children have completed the book with you at home they can log onto the link below and complete the comprehension quiz (Accelerated Reader) we can then access this and change their book. If you would like the children's log in details to complete this please let us know.

Thank you for your continued support.

Here is the web link to access the website:

https://ukhosted59.renlearn.co.uk/1896806/

Children need to log in and click on the Accelerated reader button (its orange), they then type in the quiz number (inside the book cover) and once they have searched for the book they click 'take quiz'. 

Thank you for your continued support

Mrs Laughlin

Spellings WB 28.09.20

These will be tested on Monday 5th October

Year 1                    Year 2

Spellings WB 21st September

These will be tested on Monday 28th September

Year 1                             Year 2

day                                   charge

play                                  bulge

say                                   village

way                                  gem

stay                                  giant

boy                                   magic

toy                                    giraffe

joy                                    energy

enjoy                                jacket

annoy                               adjust

Welcome to Piccadilly Circus!

Welcome to Year 1 and Year 2.

We have had a brilliant first week. We have been busy establishing routines and our code of conduct.

A few messages from me

P.E

Our P.E days are MONDAY and TUESDAY

Please make sure the children have their kit in on these days. If they have earrings in they must be removed or if the children can remove them for P.E.

Spellings

I will be posting the children's spellings on this page each Monday. They will also be on PurpleMash. If you require their log in details for Purple Mash please let me know.

Reading Books

From Monday we will be sending home reading books. They need to be brought into school everyday and they will be put into their class trays during the day. If they need changing please ask your child to let us know and we will Quiz (year 2) and change the book, and change their book (year 1) 

Thank you for all you help at the end of the day waving at me. I'll try and remember your faces soon.

Mrs Laughlin

We will not be sending reading records home just yet. 

Week Beginning 14th September- Spellings

Year 1                

Year 2

Reading!

Oxford Owl

If you finish a book and you would like to try something different, sign up for FREE to Oxford Owl reading, You can choose from a range of books including phonics, fiction and non fiction books.

Link - https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/