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4 years ago
Posted on 29th May 2020 by

Keeping safe Online

During these strange times many of us are spending even more time online than usual. It has been incredibly useful and meant that we can still “see” loved ones who don’t live with us, work from home, learn from home and even have family quizz nights from home. (What would we have done if this had Lockdown had happened in the 1980’s or 1990’s?) However, we still need to be mindful of safety – it is easy for us to drop our guard when we depend so much on technology.

These resources are intended to support families and are not intended for children to access alone:

Thinkuknow website

thinkuknow-parents-helpsheet-primary

Online Safety Newsletter_Tiktok

I don’t want to over load you, but will be back with more updates and resources later in June.

4 years ago
Posted on 29th May 2020 by

Wider opening of the school on Monday 1st June

The staff and governors have worked hard to ensure the preparations for the wider reopening of the school can begin in a phased approach on Monday. There is a lot of information on this page which I am hoping you will find useful.
Monday 1st June and Tuesday 2nd June
School open for: Key Worker children, Year 6 at 8.45am and Year 1 at 9.00am.
Wednesday 3rd June and Thursday 4th June
School open for: Key Worker children, Year 6 at 8.45am and Reception children at 9.15am.

Please note that as there is strict guidance on the number of the bubbles, you must inform the school by 3pm on the Wednesday of the previous week if you are planning on sending your child back to school.

Please don’t forget to put sun cream on your child before they come to school and provide a hat – thank you.

I hope you have had a chance to look at some of the information sent out yesterday too!

We are looking forward to seeing you.

Information letter for parents

CLAVERLEY risk assessment June 1st

Letter from LA

Letter from the Catering Company

Government publication for the wider opening of schools

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/actions-for-educational-and-childcare-settings-to-prepare-for-wider-opening-from-1-june-2020/actions-for-education-and-childcare-settings-to-prepare-for-wider-opening-from-1-june-2020

Parenting-team-support

Online safety information for parents

https://www.vpncompare.co.uk/kids-online-safety-parents/

https://youngminds.org.uk/find-help/for-parents/

 

4 years ago
Posted on 28th May 2020 by

Coming back to school

Hi All,

There is a lot of talk in the news and we have shared our plans for a return to school and in preparation, I thought some of these clips might help our children. It would be great if you could play them with your child and stop them when you want to discuss something. They might be usedful!

Back to School-Social-Story

While We Can’t Hug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PnnFrPaRgY&feature=youtu.be

Back to School

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUda5y8PAUE&feature=youtu.be

4 years ago
Posted on 22nd May 2020 by

For Blue Class From Mrs D

So, it’s time for me to say goodbye.  Even though I haven’t seen you all for a long time, I’ve been thinking about you lots and believe it or not, it usually makes me smile when I do!

Some of you are going back to school soon, some of you aren’t. Some of you will move on to new schools, some of you will come back to Claverley as Year 6, the role models for the rest of the school.  Whatever you do, be the best version of yourself you can be, work hard and be kind.

There are certain things that come to mind when I think of you all – as a class but mostly as individuals.  Here is how I will remember each of you.  Can you tell which is for you?

I’ll remember you for…

For ‘Tales from your Garden’,

For your ICT wizardry,

For your patience towards others,

For your “great big buckets of sugar!”

For being utterly reliable,

For your resilience in the face of origami,

For your quiet offers of help,

But also, for the state of that cloakroom!

 

For getting my ‘jokes’,

For your epic Lockdown Diary,

For organising me,

For showing me your ‘best self’,

For your unexpected cake-decorating skills,

For your amazing new confidence,

For laughing until you cried,

For your mature acceptance when things were tough,

But also, for the terrible state of that cloakroom!

 

For your devotion to ‘Barbara’,

For your oodles of doodles,

For your relentless good humour,

For being a secret science buff.

For your well deserved maths move,

For your post-Arthog transformation,

For never truly deserving the ‘Horrible Child Award’!

For your competition modesty,

But also, FOR THE SHOCKING STATE OF THAT CLOAKROOM!

 

For stories of your furry friends,

For your delightfully chatty emails,

For sorting it out and moving forward,

For your TikTok moves,

For your nods and smiles when you catch my eye,

For comparing me to your Gran!

For your silly sense of humour,

For your secret smiles,

For being a Christmas Angel,

But also, FOR THE APPALLING STATE OF THAT CLOAKROOM!

 

Take care of yourselves and keep smilling.

LOVE FROM

MRS D X

4 years ago
Posted on 17th May 2020 by

Home learning W/C 18.5.20

We hope you have all had a lovely weekend. This is the last week of the first half of the summer term – well done everyone as  you have  nearly completed a whole half term of home learning. We know it’s tough but we don’t cease to be impressed by your continuing enthusiasm and hard work. Thank you for your photos  that never fail to bring us joy,  and also tears from Mrs Deards who was so impressed by your poems last week!

In school , we are busy preparing for the return of year 6, reception and year 1. Although school will be different to when we last met with social distancing and keeping classes separate, we can’t wait to have you back and we are determined the new rules won’t  stop us having  fun. Year 5, we know some of you are really disappointed at not being able to return to school yet but let’s hope we can be together soon. It is really sad that Mrs Deards will not be with us after half term and I know some of you are sending her emails and cards to school. She is determined to come in and say goodbye to you. We will be welcoming Mrs Bernasconi back to Blue; I expect lots of  you are clapping your hands wondering what IT she has planned for you.

I have just put on the English and maths learning for the week , but more activities will be added over the week. Have you tried revising the French yet from  Espresso? We are focusing on the unit called Allez. BBC bitesize  and Oak national academy have lots of ideas for afternoon activities too.

Mrs B

 

4 years ago
Posted on 15th May 2020 by

End of the week

Well done everyone- we have reached the end of the week! Year 6, we would have been going to Pizza Hut today and it is very sad that we cant mark this milestone.

Only one more week of home learning before half term….

Please keep sending your photos and news as we love hearing form you.

Have a wonderful weekend

Mrs B and Mrs D

4 years ago
Posted on 10th May 2020 by

Hello Everyone! 11.5.20

Hello Everybody,

How are you?  Everyone alright?  We have absolutely LOVED receiving your photos and diaries and chatty emails.  Thank you for taking the time to send them.  Keep them coming and if you haven’t got around to sending us a message yet, please do, it brightens our day!

So as some of you already know, like many other families, we are having a family quiz each week.  Last week, I was beaten by Mr Deards by half a point so  I need your help.  Who can give me some questions which might fox and befuddle him to give me the upper hand?  You all know so many things that I don’t know, that I’m sure you can help!

Oh, guess what? I have done the first partridge related emergency stop of the season!  So far during lock-down I have had 2 lambs, a pheasant, a deer and a partridge try to throw themselves under my car.  I am a bag of nerves.  Good job the brakes work.  I wonder if the animals are getting brave because there are so few cars about at the moment.  Mind you, I’m sure lambs should never be prancing about in the road should they?

Daisy and I are doing well with our couch to 5k running programme.  I am nowhere near being able to run 5k but we are making definite progress.  I know some of you are cross country champs and would find my rather slow and very wheezy efforts very funny.  As soon as the road takes on even the gentlest of inclines, I slow down so much, I could easily be overtaken by an arthritic tortoise.

News from my garden – drum roll please – the first Irises are out!  I absolutely love Irises (who has a sister called Iris?) can any of you guess why I like them so much?  They are not my favourite flower though.  My favourite will be a little while later, has a lovely smell and starts with F.  Any guesses?

A big excitement in our house today for the cat at least.  Boy, my brute of a cat, had a special delivery which has calmed him down a bit.  He has to have annoyingly hard to find and very expensive ‘good for his teeth’ cat biscuits and today a HUGE box arrived containing two whopping great sacks of them.  After he had sat in the empty box for a bit, he remembered how much he likes the biscuits and is tucking into his fourth helping as I type.  I know he is, without even looking because I can hear the crunching and guzzling from here!

Oh, I must tell you about the naughty thing he did on Friday.  We gathered with our neighbours for the 2 minute silence for VE day remembrance.  As we stood there, Boy came strolling up and sat down to show his respects too.  At the stroke of eleven o’clock, he caught sight of next doors dog, who was tied up outside the house.  He sidled up to the dog, keeping just beyond the reach of the lead.  The dog noticed Boy and started jumping and barking and pulling on the lead and making an enormous fuss.  Boy, despite being the one who was deliberately annoying, started arching his back and hissing and then ran off.  The dog tried to run after him and came to an abrupt halt when the lead was at full stretch which mad him yelp.  Boy then capered about rubbing round everybody’s legs and pulling faces at the dog, until the 2 minutes silence was up, at which point he strolled off to cause trouble elsewhere.

Rather alarmingly, Mr Deards asked me to give him a haircut yesterday.  Oh dear.  So I set up ‘Salon Deards’ in the back garden (garden chair on the lawn) and got to work.  It turned out alright, I was actually quite pleased with it.  He only wanted it shaved all over.  Disappointingly, he caught a glimpse of his reflection in the French doors before he went in and noticed the strip down the middle of his head that I had left unshaved.  He wouldn’t be convinced that it looked cool (it really didn’t) and made me shave it off.

Well done everybody for keeping going with the home learning.  Thank you parents for all your efforts and support, not to mention all the fabulous activities you are organising in addition.

Have a great week everybody, keep smiling.

Mrs D

 

4 years ago
Posted on 29th Apr 2020 by

Addition and Subtraction games now available on Rock Stars

We have added Numbots to our TimesTable Rock stars subscription for a trial.

This should be available when you log in to TTRockstars using your normal log in details. Numbots

This is designed to support fluency in mental addition and subtraction as well as numberbonds.

Don’t forget you can challenge your friends to tournaments in TTRockstars – allowing you to interact with your friends from school and maintain or improve your maths skills at the same time.

 

4 years ago
Posted on 28th Apr 2020 by

Thank you

Thank you to all those children who contributed to the message in letters and the video organised by Mrs Wilson; it really made our day. It was SO lovely to see your smiling faces and many of you active in your spacious gardens. I love the way lots of your pets made an entry into the videos too.

Hope you are all keeping well and coping with the home learning this week. Paddy picked up the mistake in the comprehension yesterday; there was only one word that also meant worry- I apologise as I thought I had checked all the questions.

Its a pity it’s raining today but I hope you find lots of fun-filled activities to do inside.

Mrs B

 

 

4 years ago
Posted on 23rd Apr 2020 by

Shrewsbury Bookfest

The  children’s book that has been voted the most popular read by children from Shropshire schools in  Shrewsbury Bookfest 2020 is ‘What”s that in Dog Years?’ by Ben Davis. Did any of you vote that as your favourite book?

Watching the awards ceremony this morning was really entertaining . Whilst our  fabulous films weren’t shortlisted, I am delighted to announce that Lilly was awarded FIRST prize in the art competition out of 600 contestants. I am not sure who was more excited Lilly or me!!

Congratulations Lilly – we are very proud to have a winner from Blue Class.