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Thanks to everyone who has contributed links for our Home Learning Links website. If you have a link you believe would benefit our children please let us know.

The Home Learning Links website has had a major makeover and has been updated with a number of new links to support learning in a home environment.

New Links, Parent Support Information and Resources pages will be added in the next couple of days in the "Home" menu button.

Home Learning - A Note From The Junior School

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I hope this finds you all safe and well in your bubble. I am certainly having some quality time with my two teenagers walking around the block! They have been teaching me some tik tok dances and we have had fun videoing the cat jumping over the toilet rolls - gosh the things you do to keep busy in a lockdown!!

On Wednesday 15 April we will start our Home Learning and this will be through Seesaw where one activity will be added a day. We will enjoy sending feedback and comments to you on Seesaw.

Mangahigh will be used for Maths tasks and Sunshine Books will be used for reading.

Teachers may also add in their own website links and resources that they have found.

We sent home a booklet on the last Friday before we finished, this booklet contained exercise tasks, creative challenges, handwriting and writing activities. If you have completed some of these tasks in the booklet take a photo of them and add it to Seesaw as we would love to see them.

On Monday 20 April we will introduce a new website that will have a daily timetable and it will be divided into year groups. The link to this website will be sent to you on Sunday 19 April.

Children were all given their own passwords for Seesaw, Mangahigh and Sunshine Books. If you have lost these please contact your child’s class Teacher.

Please remember we don’t want parents to feel pressured into completing any of the tasks and our main concern is that you keep well and safe during this difficult time.

Thinking of you all, take care, Paula Fleming-Connell.

Home Learning - A Note From The Senior School

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We hope you are all safe and well in your bubbles. As you know, we will be starting distance learning on Wednesday 15 April. You will have received information from each teacher regarding the process. We have listed these below.

Teachers are using Seesaw and Google Drive for interacting with their students. Students should know their logins and how to access the sites. If they do not please contact their teacher through email.

Year 4 - Rooms 16, 17, 18

Students were given home learning booklets with an assortment of activities at the beginning of the lock-down.

Year 4 will use Seesaw as the prime method of providing activities and interaction with students. Each day on Seesaw there will be an explanation of the activities set for the day. Each day activities will be set for reading, writing, maths and sometimes other curriculum areas. There are also some other activities set up on google drive.

In order for children to access their Seesaw account, they will need to log into the student portal by visiting https://web.seesaw.me.

The following websites are available for them to use

Cotswold School Home Learning Links Website

There is also a Cotswold School Home Learning Links website which has additional activities you may wish to use with your child.

Year 5 - Rooms 10, 15, 19

At the beginning of the lock-down all children were provided with a home learning booklet that was uploaded to their Google Drive. This can be found in the folder called ‘Home Learning’ or ‘Stuff’. It has a variety of reading, writing and mathematics tasks for children to work through at their own pace. As children complete tasks we would encourage these to be uploaded to Seesaw so that teachers can comment and provide feedback. In order for children to access their Seesaw account, they will need to log into the student portal by visiting https://web.seesaw.me. Their username and password is the same one used to access their Google Drive.

To supplement this we have created a Google Website which provides further opportunities for home learning. The activities cover a wide range of curriculum areas which are fun and engaging. It also provides easy access to a number of other websites which children have access to/passwords for.

Other websites to note are:

  • Maths Buddy
  • Study Ladder
  • Sunshine Classics
  • EPIC reading
  • Scholastic

The site link is: https://sites.google.com/view/year5cotswold

The activities on the site can be copied into a book or can be completed on documents that are available in your child’s home learning file in Google Drive. Teachers will provide updates via Seesaw and post any further information via this medium.

Year 6 - Rooms 11, 12, 20

At the beginning of the lock-down all Year 6 children were provided with logins and passwords to the following websites:

  • Maths Buddy
  • Steps Web
  • Sunshine Classics.

They were also provided with a Camp Solo Chart to reflect upon their camp experience.

The children have been provided with a number of tasks to date via Seesaw, these have involved:

  • Art
  • Planning
  • Creating
  • Cooking
  • Researching

On the first day of Term 2, Team Extreme will begin setting daily tasks for students in the following curriculum areas:

  • Reading
  • Writing
  • Maths

We will also set one other learning task each day which will vary in order to cover the range of other curriculum areas. We will be using Seesaw and Google Drive to set and track students’ work.

We will be providing a Timetable in which children can set the pace of their learning and track their progress with tasks to assist both parents and students with their management of Home Learning each day.

Team Extreme Home Learning Plan and Timetable

We will email parents on Tuesday 14 April with our expectations, the Timetable and any information they need about new websites we will be using. We will be introducing another website, Epic, to further assist the reading programme at home.

We have been in regular communication and will continue to make decisions together about which Home Learning tasks will be set each day/week to maintain consistency across the Year 6 team.

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