Headteacher:



Moor First School

School Lane

Biddulph Moor

Stoke on Trent. ST8 7HR

Headteacher : Mrs. S. J. Mayes Tel. No. 01782 512350

e-mail: headteacher@moor.staffs.sch.uk.

March 2020

Dear Parents/Carers

With all the concerns over the coronavirus outbreak and how this might impact schools and your child’s learning, we wanted to offer you some ideas to help you continue their education during any potential school closures. We also appreciate that keeping children engaged in learning whilst at home is not going to be easy and so we have prepared perfectly matched content for your child that can be completed both independently or with adult support. See below for website details.

When going on any website, the resources are usually in year groups but at Moor First, we use colour coding:-year1-red, year2-orange, year3-yellow, and year4-green.

For more practical resources and worksheets, we have included a learning pack perfectly matched to your child’s year content and English and maths ability. With a range of resources, these packs will help continue the learning inside your home. Your child has also been allocated with extra reading books and an exercise book if your child needs to write.

We appreciate that we may seem to be issuing your child with many resources, but we are preparing for every eventuality and as guidance, we suggest that your child completes one piece of English, maths and topic per day, alongside regular reading to an adult.

We have set up a method of communication for learning activities using an app called Seesaw. This can be accessed on multiple devices for all parents.

We have sent you a set of instructions for signing up and a personalised QR code for your child. This can be scanned on any number of your devices and as soon as the class teacher accepts your request to join, then communication may begin. We will not be using any photographs of children at this time, instead this is a platform for us to communicate with parents regarding learning tasks and occasionally teachers will assign additional tasks for children to have a go at completing. If you do not want access to this method of communication, then please contact the school.

Websites/apps

• Classroom Secrets Kids: Kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/-packed with fun and engaging content.

• Twinkl: offer code-CVDTWINKLHELPS-unlimited worksheet downloads for 2 weeks if you sign up.

• Education city: login as usual (passwords included in pack)-free 24-hour access-(we will title any assigned tasks within the homework area as ‘School Closure week 1, etc.’)

• Emile education app: logins have been altered so they are the same as Educationcity and there is unlimited access to all of the subjects that Emile offer.

• Discovery Education: login username- student28038, password- espresso. There are games, videos, news and coding (scratch).

• : These 10-minute bursts of fun will really get your kids moving and count towards the 60 active minutes they need every day!

• Joe Wicks for Kids (you tube).

• Cosmic kids yoga -

• - at present you can have a 2 weeks free reading app if you sign up. Lots of activities and books from 2 year to age 13

• Phonics Play games - username: march20

Password: home

Additional tasks:

Learn how to tie shoelaces at speed, read the time / convert analogue to digital clocks and understand how to read scales. Learn about the industrial revolution and volcanoes/ earthquakes. Rehearse column addition, column subtraction and bus shelter division. Learn how to multiply a 2 digit number by a 2 digit number. Complete the Emile MTC regularly to keep times table speed rehearsed ready for the national assessment.

We hope that you have everything that you need to support your child at home and that you remain fit and healthy during this difficult time. If you have any school enquiries, which are not linked to learning tasks, then please send an email to the school office email address: office@moor.staffs.sch.uk.

Yours faithfully

Mrs V Atherton

Class teacher

Staffordshire County Council

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