Year 2 Home Learning Week 3

 Good Morning Parents/Carers,

On Friday, we heard the devastating news that Mrs King passed away after a short battle with Covid. 

For those of you who attended Broadford Nursery you will remember her as your Nursery teaching assistant. Mrs King was a kind, caring and funny lady who played a really big part in many children's important first years of learning.  

As  staff, we are completely heartbroken. Mrs King was a huge part of our school. She worked at Broadford for over 20 years and had such a positive impact on everyone, each day.  So many of us have happy memories of her time at Broadford School that we will treasure, as we are sure many of you will too. We will all really miss her and our thoughts are with her family, who she absolutely adored, at this sad time. 

In our hearts and thoughts xxx

Week 3 Home Learning

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We shared a form last week for parents to give feedback on our online learning. Thank you for filling it in (if you haven't you still can on Google Classroom) it really helped us to plan for future improvements and it was lovely to hear positive comments! What was very evident was that each households 'perfect' home learning would look very different so while we have taken all suggestions and requests on board please understand we are trying to keep everybody happy and meet all needs. 

You are all doing an amazing job it a very difficult time! We have seen lots of smiling photos of children completing all sorts of work, jobs around the home and creative activities so we can see they are still happy and safe which is the most important thing.

What we have changed

• The majority of parents requested either pre-recorded or a mixture of pre-recorded and live lessons. We have changed two of our morning meet sessions to class literacy sessions. For those unable to attend please don't panic we will continue to provide the learning and record the video for you to watch as you can. 
• The reason we have focused on literacy sessions is our engagement has consistently been higher for Maths. The days we won't have live sessions we will try to ensure tasks allow for some independence.
• We have adapted the phonics timetable to allow you to find your groups sound easier. 
• We have ensured Mathletics tasks can be used as an extension and will be linked to the class maths task if children wish to complete these.
• For any children finding the work difficult we will be in touch with suggestions and changes we have made to support this.
• We will continue to have a class session on a Monday once a week for children to have an opportunity to interact with their class.
• We had one comment that we really thought about, it can be hard to fit in outdoor time! As a school who value this enormously we want to encourage outdoor time so have allowed some dedicated time to this. We would also encourage everybody to have breaks between sessions, move around, get out if the weather allows! 
• We will include how to videos for submitting work and using google classroom,  a great idea! 

Many Thanks,

The Year 2 Team