St Joseph's RCVA Primary School (Coundon)

Victoria Lane, Coundon, Bishop Auckland, County Durham DL14 8NN

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Tuesday 19th May

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Online Safety at Home

Reception

Key Stage One

Key Stage Two

Plazoom – Podcast on Inspiring Children to write

Plazoom – Garden Visitors

KS1KS2

 

CAFOD Summer of Hope

Guinness World Record attempt on TT Rock Star Times Tables

 

First News Paper this week

National Book Tokens- Book Competition and Meet the AuthorsRSPCA

Stephen Fry reads the next chapter of Philosopher’s Stone!

British Red Cross- Life saving skills

This weeks free eBook – I Can be Sporty

More Educational sites to visit…

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Our very own Art Blog-

The fabulous Mrs Dennis has set up her very own Art Blog on our school website which will show us some fun artistic ideas we can try out at home! We will also be able to add your art work so please send it in!

Welcome to our school’s new art blog for showcasing our artistic talents!
Here at St.Joseph’s, we have always promoted and thoroughly enjoyed the creative aspects of the National Curriculum. But how do we do that in our current situation? Inspiration comes at the most unusual times – hence this blog!
As the school’s art coordinator, I would like to celebrate and continue to develop the outstanding talents of our pupils, families and teachers.
I will be posting suggestions of creative challenges for children and their families to give a go and most of all have fun.
I miss you all and look forward to seeing you all again. In the meantime, I would love to see any art / creative work that you have done so please send me a photo to share with everyone.
Stay Safe
x Mrs.Dennis

This Week’s Free E-Book – Infographics- Human Body

 

Votes for Schools – Would you like to be a child actor?

Primary Activity Pack

 

Daily Music Learning Videos

DMS has launched its Youtube channel

Every day from 20th April we will post a short musical learning video for your pupils suitable for both in and out of school.

Action Monday (wake up the week with an Action Song)
Rockin Rhythm Tuesday ( Have fun with rhythm with percussion/household objects)
Ukulele Wednesday (Sing and strum for Uke Fun!)
Singalong Thursday ( Catchy songs for all the family)
Signing Friday (Sing and Sign for all)
Webcam Small Group Lessons

Ten Ten Resources

DfE Daily Phonics Youtube account

Supporting Your Child’s Well-being

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Dear parents and carers,

During this difficult time, I wanted to reach out to let you know that, even though our school is currently closed to all but a few children, we’re still here to support your child and your family in whatever way we can.

You might be noticing signs of increasing anxiety in your child as they’re spending more time indoors and outside of their normal routines. These might include:

Pupils ages 3-6 years:

  • Regressing to behaviour they’ve outgrown, such as thumb-sucking or bed-wetting
  • Showing greater fear at being separated from you 
  • Tantrums
  • Trouble sleeping

Pupils ages 7-10 years:

  • Expressing sadness, anger or fear
  • Sharing false information that they’re hearing from their peers or seeing online
  • Wanting to talk about coronavirus all the time
  • Not wanting to talk about the current situation at all
  • Having trouble concentrating

Older siblings -preteen and teenaged pupils:

  • Acting out – this might include things like picking fights with you or with siblings or abusing alcohol or drugs
  • Becoming afraid to leave the house
  • Distancing themselves from their friends and family
  • Exhibiting intense emotions but being unable to talk about what they’re feeling

We’ve put together some resources to help you support your child. We hope you find this information helpful.

If you have any concerns about how your child is coping or you need any other support from the school, please let us know by contacting me.

We’re extremely grateful for all the support you’ve shown us as we’ve adapted to these new circumstances, and we want to reassure you that we are still here to support you too. 

We can and will get through this together.

 

Kind regards,

 

Mrs M Brown

Below you will find a document with some VERY important ways to look after your child’s and your own mental health and wellbeing during this uncertain time. Please stay safe, stay well and stay happy.

Pupil Wellbeing Parent Pack

 

 

Welcome back…

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We hope you’ve all had a wonderful and most importantly SAFE Easter Holidays! Just a reminder of websites you can access and different work you can be getting on with over the forthcoming weeks. Some of these are tried and tested by our very own teachers with their children!

The Apps:

Websites-and-Apps-to-Support-with-Home-Learning

 

Teach your monster to read:

Numbots and Rockstar Times Tables:

Please remember to use our fabulous Rock Star Times Tables app which also allows free access to NUMBOTS – you can also change your avatars to Rock Star Doctors and Nurses to celebrate all of the incredible work our NHS are doing!

Morning challenge story starters:

BBC Bitesize:

DAILY Lessons right here on one of our favourites BBC Bitesize.

Axel Scheffler’s book on Coronavirus:

Pobble 25 Non Screen activities you can do at home:

This weeks edition of First News:

Access the articles, review the writing, create a story from what you have read or even show us what you’d perform on Britain’s Got Talent!

BBC iPlayer have released ALL of the Julia Donaldson episodes:

ACCESS HERE

Below are several activties for each episode (LOTS of opportunity for writing!)

Pyjamarama – Friday 1st May

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Hello

Pyjamarama is moving to Friday 1 May 2020

To help keep families entertained while they’re at home, we’re bringing Pyjamarama forward to Friday 1 May 2020.

To celebrate the bedtime story and reading together, this year’s Pyjamarama will be a day when families across the country can join in a festival of story-filled fun at home.

There’ll be lots of new activities for your children and fantastic ideas for things to do on the day – the only requirement is that they’re done in pyjamas!

To make things even more fun, we’ve got PJ Masks, Horrid Henry and Tracy Beaker on board. They’ll be helping out and providing extra ideas and activities for a brilliant day in pyjamas on Friday 1 May.