Please click on the attachment for the answers to the homework for Week 3.
Thank you
Mr Wilmot
Please click on the attachment for the answers to the homework for Week 3.
Thank you
Mr Wilmot
A shocking fact… it is half Term next week – where has the time gone! We are now obviously more than half way through the year and I hope we have a full class in school before Easter.
I have really enjoyed catching up with the children either through TEAMs Seminar meetings or emails and I am really appreciative of all the support you have given your child over the last 6 weeks – I fully understand the challenges remote learning brings.
Please see the ‘SAT Buster’ book homework attachment for this next week. It shouldn’t take long and it is really good practise and revision.
I have added the answers for last week’s homework to the ‘HOMEWORK’ section of the website.
Due to it being Half Term and the fact that everyone needs a chance to down tools and relax I will not be setting any remote learning for the forthcoming week. Please look out for the Remote Learning Schedule/Timetable for the week commencing 22 February 2021 next Friday.
Please stay safe and take care.
Mr Wilmot, Mrs Carroll-Lewis and Ms Harris
I hope all are well and that you are not going too stir crazy – the Lockdown can be frustrating but the daily statistics are showing signs that the infection rates are falling. The weekly seminars are a good chance for you to socialise and see your classmates – it is, hopefully, something you look forward to.
I hope you have all accessed the work without any problems this week. If you do struggle then please either email me on willow@crowmoorschool.co.uk and I will help you, if I can remotely, or alternatively write the topic name in your book – when we return to school, as a class, we will go through these topics together as I am sure others might be struggling with that particular topic too.
Don’t forget the RAF STEM link at the bottom of the timetable with remote learning links. The RAF challenges are a little light relief and fun to do. You don’t need many resources and the ones we have completed in class have been great.
The answers for last week’s homework have been added to the ‘HOMEWORK’ section of our class webpage. Please see the homework for this week:
The work for the forthcoming week can be found on this link:
Willow Remote Timetable Week 6
This new remote learning work takes us to Half Term – I won’t set any remote learning work over Half Term but please look at the website on the Friday of Half Term for the work week commencing: 22nd February 2021.
I will set homework from the ‘SAT Buster’ books over Half Term – please access the homework sheet in the normal way.
Have a super weekend.
Mr Wilmot, Mrs Carroll-Lewis and Ms Harris
Click on the link for the answers to this week’s homework. You will see it is in a slightly different format this week.
Apologies for any confusion. I thought I’d posted these on Friday but it looks like something went wrong.
Please find the answers to the last week’s homework.
Number:
Arithmetic:
Geometry:
Grammar:
Punctuation:
Spelling:
More homework has been set on the class newsletter link. Answers for the new to follow on Friday.
Have a good week.
Kind regards
Mr Wilmot
We have had a good week in school. We have developed our work on the ‘The Golden Compass’ film study, we’ve improved our sentence constructions and in maths we have looked at data handling. The drawing of the line graphs was quite tricky and those in school will have benefited from a little more explanation.
The history and science is going well. I am enjoying learning more about Greece. The science ‘electrical’ topic is good too – they get through quite a lot of content in the lessons. Whilst there may not be too much written work the children seem to be remembering the content of prior sessions well.
If you get chance please try the RAF STEM projects – they are going down well in class and offer a little light relief. The link is at the end of the timetable and should take you directly to the week’s activity. They don’t take long to complete; the clips explain the STEM elements.
Here’s the link to the timetable for next week:
Willow Remote Timetable Week 5
Here’s the new CPG SAT Buster homework for this week:
To avoid confusion, answers to this last week’s homework have been posted to the class website ‘Homework’ page. Please mark the homework using the answers I post.
If your child struggles with the work, and I appreciate there are some lessons where they might, please just write the lesson title in the back of their purple ‘Crowmoor Curriculum’ books and I will go over the areas when the children return to school.
I look forward to speaking with your child in school or on the TEAMs link and thank you for your continued support. I am very appreciative of the challenges home educating can bring and will help out wherever I can. In the event of any query please email on willow@crowmoorschool.co.uk and I will endeavor to respond as soon as I get chance.
Have a great weekend.
Mr Wilmot, Mrs Carroll-Lewis and Ms Harris
This week seems to have flown. Hopefully the concept of Remote Working and TEAM Seminars etc are becoming more familiar. I am certainly more comfortable using TEAMs now and the remote links seem to work well.
The lessons from the Oak Academy are inline with what we should have been studying if the children were in school like normal and I like the way they are presented. They are engaging and the content is accessible. Having said that, I appreciate some children may require a little support and extra help, particularly in maths, and to this end I have passed some details to Mr Bates, our new maths tutor; if I think your child would benefit you should have received an email and a new TEAMS invite for next week’s sessions. Mrs Walters, our new literacy tutor, will have also contacted a few children; she can assist with reading and again she has sent emails and TEAM invites to the children she will help initially.
Here’s this next week’s timetable with links:
Willow Remote Timetable Week 4
Spellings are now given in the literacy lesson on a Thursday. Please ensure your child practise the rules and spellings by creating a list each day (Look, Cover, Write and Check) then use the word in a sentence (in context) and then ask them to define the word. Your child could use google for the definitions of words if they haven’t got a dictionary to hand.
If you haven’t collected the CPG ‘SAT Buster’ books from Reception please do so as all homework will be set using the books themselves. Please write in the books on the pages directed in the homework activities that I will post on subsequent weekly newsletters; this next week’s homework can be found on the slip within the bag containing the books and an explanatory letter as to how the books can help your child prepare for Y7.
The RAF STEM activities are great; I recommend them – we made Hoopsters in class this last week – they are a great alternative to a paper aeroplane!
Well done to Billy and Emelia for achieving a “CROW’ Award. Billy’s engagement from home is very impressive and Emelia’s percentage work and commitment impressed me.
In the event of query please contact me on the class email: willow@crowmoorschool.co.uk and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
Have a super weekend and please stay safe.
Mr Wilmot, Mrs Lewis and Ms Harris
Thank you for your patience with the TEAMs setting up this week. It is a sharp learning experience and I have made a few errors along the way but am now hoping the links to the Seminar Groups work. If you download the TEAMs app it will work better apparently.
There are three groups: Seminar Group A, Seminar Group B and Seminar C. Seminar Group A meet on a Tuesday at 1:30-2pm, Seminar Group B meet on a Thursday at 2:30-3:00pm and finally Seminar Group C meet on a Friday at 1:30-2:00pm. The Seminars are a chance for your child to show me their work, to talk about any problems in accessing it and for your children to keep in touch with the children who are in class. Your child has been assigned to one of the groups and a link will follow, where appropriate. I look forward to supporting your children in these sessions.
I hope you are all able to access the learning schedule; if you have problems accessing it please email me on: willow@crowmoorschool.co.uk. Here’s the new timetable (I have also included a fun RAF activity):
Willow Class Week 3 Remote Timetable
The next Spelling lesson will take place next Thursday – new spellings will be given in that lesson so please make sure your child copy the list when directed. You can test your child the following week after they have had chance to learn them each day.
I am in the process of organising some SAT books. We usually use these books as homework in the lead up to SATs. The Department for Education has suggested SATs will not go ahead this year but I thought the books would help prepare your child for Secondary. It will keep their skills current and are a good revision tool for the knowledge they have learnt. There are 6 books and it is my intention that the children work through them; they will need to follow my specific direction as to what to complete and when as it will usually follow my curriculum/plan. I intend posting the answers on the homework page each week for the children to mark at home. I will organise the resources then send a message re their collection from school.
Have a fantastic weekend and remain safe.
Mr Wilmot
Hi
Please find the spellings for this week. They are the same as the ones mentioned in the spelling lesson this last Thursday.
The test will be during the lesson this coming Thursday. I will set the next spellings during next week with the intention that they hopefully coincide with the spellings in the Literacy lesson the week after.
Dependent on getting the technology sorted out I hope to run three seminars a week; starting next week. In each seminar there will be the children who are in class and a group of children who are at home. It is an opportunity for the children to see and speak to each other – for me to look at the work your children have completed, a chance to mark the work and address any general errors. Details of the Seminar times and groupings will follow via an email invite; probably on Monday evening after I have received some training on how to do it.
I am also in the process of setting up a TEAMs chat facility where the children, at home, can contact me with any queries or if they need any support whilst carrying out their activities remotely.
As always, in the event of any parent query please email me on the class email account (willow@crowmoorschool.co.uk) and I will respond as soon as I can.
Thank you for your continued support – it’s a steep learning curve for us all!
Take care.
Mr Wilmot
I hope you all had a good Christmas and I wish you all a safe and healthy 2021.
What a strange week – I don’t think many expected the extremes of school closure etc. It’s all very new and very different to what I anticipated so please bear with me as we become more familiar with the remote learning process and TEAM face-to-face sessions.
I published the weekly timetable earlier in the week and I expect your child is now familiar with the process and sequencing of sessions. The children in school have commented on the how engaging the lessons are so far and I believe all in the class can access the content, possibly with the exception of the maths today. I will virtually meet with the children next week when I can see the work they have completed, mark the work and answer any questions relating to it.
In the event of any query, please email me on: willow@crowmoorschool.co.uk. I will answer emails as quickly as I can; however, please be aware that I will be teaching full-time too with the children that are in class.
I will publish the weekly spellings each week and, where possible, link them to the focus of the English lessons.
Please see the attachment for the timetable for next week: Week 2 – 11.1.21 – Willow new
I have included a Science lesson and a History lesson for the coming week for completion in the afternoons. The Science lesson follows our termly plan and the topic is ‘Electricity’. The History unit revises but more importantly extends the Ancient Greek topic we started last term – this will be particularly relevant for our end of your play (providing we can go ahead with it).
Your child should have their passwords to access Accelerated Reader, Mathletics, NumberGym, LanguageNut and Espresso – these can be accessed online and at any time. I will ensure work is added/set on Mathletics.
Please remain safe.
Mr Wilmot