Updates Week Beginning Monday 20th July 2020

 

Summer learning and transition materials can now be found under 'Transition Summer 2020- Autumn 2020'. This has information about our September curriculum and how best to prepare. It also has your end of year message from your class teacher. 

This page will be archived soon and updates will be found on your transition pages. Links to TTRockstars and Education City can still be found on your class pages.

 

Remember, we continue to take part in the School Games online challenges. You can register at https://www.sgochallenge.com/ with the invite code hamstead . Congratulations to our Reception and Year 1 children that made it onto the leader board out of the whole of Birmingham- for the second week running! It would be wonderful to see even more St Mary's children on the leader board! This week's theme is Tri-golf!

Open-Access Online Parenting Resources

Parenting for Lifelong Health provides open-access online parenting resources during Covid-19. They are working with the World Health Organisation, UNICEF, the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children, the Internet of Good Things, USAID and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 These resources are available in over 90 different languages.

 For further information please visit: https://www.covid19parenting.com/

BT and the DFE have worked together to create a programme designed to empower 10 million adults by 2025 by giving them the skills they need to flourish for the digital future. Mrs Baines has highlighted this as a brilliant resource with lots of information for parents. Visit www.bt.com/skillsfortomorrow to find out more!

Our blogs are looking very sad and empty at the moment! If you would like to write a blog about your lock down experiences or on theme that you feel passionate about please email your blog to Mrs Freeman at Year2@stmrysb20.org and it will feature on our website! Use the word 'blog' in the email subject. 

Peaceful protests, mass marches, and portrayals of violence. Petitions, political speeches, and demonstrations. The last few weeks have seen movements advocating for an end to racial inequality on a mass scale. Yet, current affairs aren’t always tangible or immediately clear, especially from a child’s perspective. Many children may have questions about the images, stories, and conversations they hear on the news and around them. The resource below is intended to support conversations between parents/carers and children around the Black Lives Matter movement. 

BBC Bitesize have created daily lessons for each of the subjects. They can be accessed at www.https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons

 

Oak National Academy have created a Government recommended home learning scheme which can be accessed at www.https://www.thenational.academy/

 

We are  taking part in the Virtual Get Set Tokyo Competition through Team GB and Paralympics GB official. All you need to do is to log your daily activities through https://www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo/log-activity  The class that logs the most activity will win a prize!