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LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER <strong>01.05.20</strong><br />
LUDGVAN SCHOOL<br />
NEWSLETTER<strong>01.05.20</strong><br />
LUDGVAN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER <strong>01.05.20</strong>
A word from the Principal...<br />
Welcome,<br />
As we settle into online learning, which is becoming our new normal for the time being, I thought<br />
I’d share a couple of landmarks with you. From Y1-Y6, our children are now submitting over 1500<br />
pieces of work a week via Seesaw and the total number of pieces submitted is now over 6000! This<br />
is fantastic and will help ensure that when we return to school, those children are ready to continue<br />
with their learning. If your child has not engaged with the online learning provision as much as they<br />
could, now is the time to start. If you need any support with this, please contact your class teacher.<br />
Yesterday, we held a teacher staff meeting via zoom and I can report that they are all in good<br />
spirits and are really enjoying seeing and feeding back on all of the work that has been submitted.<br />
Thank you to all of you who have given our staff really positive feedback, it’s greatly appreciated<br />
and a huge source of motivation.<br />
I have sent out an email to you all with links to surveys about our digital learning provision. There<br />
is one for parents and one for children and we would greatly appreciate your feedback to help us<br />
identify what is working well and how we can improve. If you have not received this email, please<br />
let me know and I will send you the link.<br />
Stay safe,<br />
Mr Adam Anderson<br />
Principal
Home Learning...<br />
This week the Early Years children have been learning all about snails. Yet<br />
again, the children and parents have been working incredibly hard. It has been<br />
great to see what they have been doing at home.<br />
The children were asked to make spiral patterns and snails using different resources<br />
from inside their home or from their garden. They needed to be as creative<br />
as possible and they certainly were!! They also had fun looking for snails<br />
in their gardens.<br />
The children have been completing different maths challenges and are very<br />
proud of their achievements.<br />
Well done Early Years.<br />
They have also been producing some great maths.
Home learning...<br />
Year 1 have been brushing up their sketching skills this week and I am very<br />
impressed with their attempts at sketching an apple. As well as this, they have<br />
been thinking and preparing delicious, healthy snacks. Children are thinking of<br />
many different ways to do their learning, some choosing to use seesaw, others<br />
emailing their work, and I have also had some lovely home videos of all kinds<br />
of learning activities taking place. Mrs Patrick and I realise how unusual these<br />
times are, therefore we are happy to see you learning in any way that suits you<br />
and your families. Take care, stay safe and keep up your amazing efforts!<br />
100 books read this<br />
week by Y1, bringing<br />
their total to 500!<br />
Well done, this is truly<br />
epic!
Home learning...<br />
Class 2 have had a great week. They have been revising their knowledge and<br />
understanding of multiplication, division and fractions and have all done a super<br />
job with their maths. In English they have been looking at traditional stories<br />
and have been writing some questions to ask the wolf from The Three<br />
Little Pigs. They then managed to interview the wolf! It’s okay, no children<br />
were harmed during the interviews! They have been on phonic sound hunts<br />
and have completed some guided reading tasks. They have also been writing<br />
riddles about food, finding out about farming, focusing on milking and doing<br />
lovely sketches of fruit and vegetables. Good work Year 2, keep it up.
Home learning...<br />
Class 3 have been using their research of healthy foods and where they come from<br />
in the UK to create a report. Some have delved into the history of farming and given<br />
some amazing facts about this topic. They have also explored their computing skills by<br />
using transitions and animations to deliver a visually pleasing slide show.<br />
For maths, we have used column addition to add together money. Some children<br />
have completed tens of thousands addition and even added together three different<br />
amounts.<br />
Other children have been working from books bought by parents and have sent in lots<br />
of pictures with great results. Bailey has shown how he can construct a sentence and<br />
video himself reading it.
Home Learning...<br />
Class 4 have taken part in a huge variety of learning this week! They have continued<br />
to learn about the Romans, including Pompeii. We are beginning to learn<br />
about the structure of the Earth so that we can learn more about volcanoes<br />
and what causes volcanic eruptions. A huge well done to all of the families who<br />
managed to successfully make the salt dough earth....the recipe needs refining.<br />
We ended up with lots of flat earths!
Home learning...<br />
Class 5 have been really enjoying and getting involved in their new topic ‘Fork<br />
to Food’. The children are cooking healthy dinners; making shakes; creating<br />
artwork as well as looking at how food and exercise work together. It has been<br />
great to see such a wide range of work completed, with everyone expressing<br />
their own personality. In addition to their topic ‘Fork to Food’ , the children still<br />
have some core geography and history subjects to cover. Some areas of geography<br />
they have been studying are Antarctica, The Water Cycle and The United<br />
Kingdom.
Home learning...<br />
Since the beginning of this home learning period, I have been so impressed<br />
by the computing ability in Year 6. This week, lots of them have been working<br />
hard on creating detailed and complex documents involving lots of different<br />
skills. It has been brilliant to see them using this time so productively. We have<br />
started focusing on our new topic this week ‘Food to Fork’ and children have<br />
been tracking the food miles of some of the ingredients in their meals - we<br />
were all very surprised by how far lots of our food is travelling. It has also been<br />
great to hear how some of Year 6 are working hard to reduce these miles and<br />
locally source their food. Finally, children in Year 6 are entering into a VE Day<br />
competition to celebrate this event next Friday, there have been some incredibly<br />
creative entries so far. Well done Year 6!
Numbots..<br />
Jake N.<br />
is awarded this certificate for achieving<br />
1 st<br />
HIGHEST NUMBER OF MINUTES<br />
PLAYED<br />
in the last 30 days<br />
out of everyone in<br />
Year 1, Year 2<br />
30-04-2020
A word from the Principal...<br />
Jonny C.<br />
1 st<br />
Biggest Increase in Correct answers<br />
over the last 7 days<br />
Year 3, Year 4<br />
30 / Apr / 2020
A word from the Principal...<br />
Alex C.<br />
1 st<br />
Biggest Increase in Correct answers<br />
over the last 7 days<br />
Year 5, Year 6<br />
30 / Apr / 2020
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