Websites for Children
Here are some online resources for your child to access from home.
This is a great website with interactive games and resources to support the teaching of phonics.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
This website has lots of interactive maths games.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
Another great website with suggestions for maths-related games and activities.
https://nrich.maths.org/14536
The Oxford Owl website has games and activities to support English and Maths.
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/
Twinkl is used regularly in school and has a wealth of resources to support learning across the curriculum. They are offering free membership at the moment.
https://www.twinkl.com/resources/parents
Numberblocks episodes can be found on YouTube and iPlayer. A great educational maths programme.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08bzfnh/numberblocks
This website has links to various apps which can be downloaded from the App Store.
https://www.earlylearninghq.org.uk/childrens-apps/
These are the Jolly Phonics songs in the order they are taught.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2wpdvv
These are various songs which can be found on YouTube which the children enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dJWfQHF8Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ-qLUIj_A0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQrlgH97v94
Enjoy!
Here are the Phase 2- Phase 5 sounds to practise at home.
Here also are some letter and number formation sheets.
Here are the first 100 words. When your child can read the first 100 words on sight, they can begin to spell them.
Phonics Resources
Phonics PlayOnline games for practicing sounds and blending
Oxford OwlAs mentioned by Mrs James in the phonics screening meeting
Links to useful websites
Number Bonds to 10 GameAn interactive game to practice finding number bonds to 10
Dear Parents/Carers,
Online Learning for Reception / Year 1
Happy New Year to you all and welcome back to a slightly different term to what we were expecting! Let’s hope that all the children can return to full time school as soon as possible.
This letter is to outline how we are hoping to manage online learning and contact with your children over the next two weeks in Reception and Year 1. It will be different across the school.
By 8.45am each day we will set some tasks/activities/work for the children to complete at home during the course of the day. This will be set on Google Classroom and your child’s logins will be sent via email, if they haven’t already. Please let us know if you have any trouble logging in. The activities will be in line with what we will be doing in school with the children who are attending.
We will organise one, short ‘meet’ per day with your child, as part of a small group. This might be a phonics activity, story or group discussion with the children. You will be given a time for your child’s ‘meet’. This time is for us to interact with the children only – if parents have any questions, queries or concerns, please can you email us separately.
The first contact tomorrow will be to say hello and talk to the children about the Christmas holidays; this will give us the opportunity to iron out any technical issues moving forward and for everyone to get used to the format. As you will be aware, the youngest children are the most difficult for us to engage with in this way and we will adapt as we go depending on what suits individual children and their circumstances best. We appreciate that it may not be possible for everyone to login at the given time; please contact us if your child is unable to join their ‘meet’. Please be aware that we are teaching children in school also, so may not be able to answer emails immediately but we will get back to you as soon as practically possible.
Children are being taught on Google Classroom across the school so please bear with us if we have technical issues.
You may be asked for a class code when you login on Google Classroom
The code for RJ is paaoxoz
The code for RS is dzvz4j3
The code for 1O is lsftzpo
The code for 1S is kqymmpe
Thank you for your support and do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Mrs James – claire.james@buckhursthill.essex.sch.uk
Mrs Stephens – angela.stephens@buckhursthill.essex.sch.uk
Mrs Ovel – annette.ovel@buckhursthill.essex.sch.uk
Mr Stuckey – francis.stuckey@buckhursthill.essex.sch.uk
Date: 10th December, 2020.
Dear Parents/Carers,
YEAR 1 NEWSLETTER
This is the last newsletter before Christmas and the last one of 2020. We are all looking forward to the holiday season.
We are trying to make the children more independent regarding their drinking. To that end we are asking them to bring in their own labelled water bottles which they can leave at the back of the classroom.
Please can we remind everyone that Year 1 children start school at 8:30am and finish at 2:55pm. Our Early morning work session begins straight away so it is also important that children are not late to school. Children with older siblings can be collected at the same time, but the younger child should be collected first and no later than 3.15pm. Children without a sibling should always be collected at 2.55pm.
Christmas trees are up in the classroom and there’s still time to bring in a decoration to add to the tree or classroom. They can make something or bring a spare decoration from home. Please do not send in anything precious and make sure that it is named so that we can return them at the end of term.
Tuesday 15th December – Christmas Dinner / Christmas Jumper Day
Children can wear a Christmas jumper with non-uniform and will be having their Christmas school dinner.
PTA Grand Prize Draw - You will find raffle tickets in your child’s bag. Please ask if you would like some more.
Dates for your diary:
Tuesday 15th December – Christmas Dinner / Christmas Jumper Day
Wednesday 16th – Year 1 group Panto
Friday 18th December – Last day of term – 2.00pm finish
Monday 4th January – Back to school
Show and tell – The children can talk about the decorations they bring in.
Homework: This weekend we thought it would be nice to just have some Christmas song practise, so we’ve put some words in the homework folders to help.
Christmas Cards: Christmas cards for the other children in the class need to be in by Friday 11th December. We will then distribute them from the next week commencing Monday 14th December.
Yours sincerely,
Mr. Stuckey and Mrs. Ovel
Good afternoon,
Just a quick reminder for the children to come in to school tomorrow (Wednesday 23rd September) wearing their school uniform and not P.E kit as the school photographer will be taking their photos.
Many thanks
Year 1 team
Dear Parents, Welcome to Year 1!
The children have made an amazing start to the new school year and have settled brilliantly! You can be very proud of them as they are all doing such a fantastic job! It has been great to welcome them back after the summer break.
TEACHERS AND LEARNING SUPPORT ASSISTANTS
Mr Stuckey
Mrs Fitch and Mrs Turner
A homework folder will be sent home every Thursday. Homework folders are due back in the following Tuesday.
Show & Tell and Reading days are on the class windows.
P.E. day is Wednesday. P.E. kit to be worn on the day.
Please email me if you have any questions or concerns:
francis.stuckey@buckhursthill.essex.sch.uk
Websites for Children
Here are some online resources for your child to access from home.
This is a great website with interactive games and resources to support the teaching of phonics.
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
This website has lots of interactive maths games.
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/5-7-years/counting
Another great website with suggestions for maths-related games and activities.
https://nrich.maths.org/14536
The Oxford Owl website has games and activities to support English and Maths.
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/
Twinkl is used regularly in school and has a wealth of resources to support learning across the curriculum. They are offering free membership at the moment.
https://www.twinkl.com/resources/parents
Numberblocks episodes can be found on YouTube and iPlayer. A great educational maths programme.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b08bzfnh/numberblocks
This website has links to various apps which can be downloaded from the App Store.
https://www.earlylearninghq.org.uk/childrens-apps/
These are the Jolly Phonics songs in the order they are taught.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2wpdvv
These are various songs which can be found on YouTube which the children enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvMyssfAUx0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0dJWfQHF8Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ-qLUIj_A0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQrlgH97v94
Enjoy!
Here are the Phase 2- Phase 5 sounds to practise at home.
Here also are some letter and number formation sheets.
Here are the first 100 words. When your child can read the first 100 words on sight, they can begin to spell them.