Foundation Phase Specialist Teaching Facility for MLD - Miss Holloway

Welcome to Our Class! 

Miss Holloway is our teacher and we are lucky to be supported in our learning by Mrs Whittle, Miss Smith and Mrs Froom.

We like to learn through exploring things and we especially love messy play. We may come home messy some days, but that's because we have been having lots of fun. 

A few helpful reminders!

• Class fund is paid on a Monday every week and is £3. This covers our fruit, snack, cooking and going out on the minibus shopping every week.
• Our PE day is on a Thursday afternoon. 
• We do lots of messy play so could we please have spare clothes just in case we get a little bit dirty!
• We cook on a Friday and we cook or taste different things every week! (We like to try healthy snacks)
• For this half term we will be having our Forest Schools session on a Wednesday morning.
• We go shopping on a Thursday/ Friday every week, if this changes we will let you know!

Thank you for your continued support :)

A Little Note

We have provided a range of home learning activities that you can complete with your child. We also have links to different sites that will support your child’s learning. We recommend that you spend 2 hours a day completing learning activities provided. Please can all parents continue to work on pupils’ IEP targets at home daily.

HWB

Hwb has a range of fun and interactive activities for your child to access at home. In order for your child to access it you will need their individual HWB account details (their username and password). Some of the activities we like to use on HWB can be found on J2E/Jit.This can be found on your homepage once you have logged onto your HWB account. We love using paint to create pictures and turtle to guide the bee to the flowers using directions. 

If you are unsure of your child’s HWB log in details please email your child’s Class Teacher. Additionally if you have any questions about your child’s learning would you please email us on the following:

Email for Miss Holloway:   HollowayS6@hwbcymru.net

Email for Miss Davies:      DaviesA41@hwbcymru.net

Our Week of Fun 

Each week we will be uploading a different grid to support your child's home learning to help develop the following areas. These areas include:

Speech and language --> Come and communicate

Gross motor skills --> Magical movement

Cooking skills --> Little chefs

Fine motor skills --> Funky fingers

Listening to music, songs and rhymes linked to literacy and numeracy --> Tune time

Calming and relaxing activities --> Cool and calm

Learning outside --> Wonderful wellies

Helping around the house to support life skill development --> Helpful heroes

Have fun! 

Videos of the Week

Week 6 - WC 01.06.2020

Mr Tumble Spring Signs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_q8SQhw0ME

Cosmic Kids Bee Story - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyj5LooYWyg

Welsh Bore da ffrindiau - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfq0ACrgMBI

Videos of the Week

Week 5 – W/C 18/5/20

Numberblocks, odd and even numbers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3uxBI9npas

Busy Feet caterpillar to butterfly video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOHkVwe44C4

I am a very hungry caterpillar song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-gNaNOWdg8

Heno Heno - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pIIRziNq7o

How to make leaf rubbings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W66TAqCT4hc

Making sensory bags: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuYaH12pNFI

Videos of the Week 

W/C 11/5/20 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Story – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75NQK-Sm1YY  

Days of the Week song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXMofxtDPUQ 

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Cosmic Kids – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhWDiQRrC1Y 

Aderyn Melyn - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I52fbzsfTxY  

Mr Tumble’s Garden - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWZsOr3q8SE 

Videos of the Week 

WC 4.5.20

We’ll Meet Again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbLAtgUpl2g

Mr Tumble Party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlZ8GCzOAc

Cosmic Kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VdtT0vQUY

Miss Spider’s Tea Party: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o5JLeFzb98

Mr Hapus ydw i : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGozXPt9M-Y

Videos of the Week 

WC 27.4.20

Cosmic Kids Peace Out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_vEZTrmtyA

5 Little Apples: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-five-little-apples/zvt8gwx

Coco the Butterfly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT-s1-phgxs

Lliwiau’r Enfys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-fs5JB_b7E

Mr Tumble – Learn to Sign Food: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dZyWQWZ-Gk

Videos of the Week 

20/4/20

Mr Tumble's Alphabet Song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMog84sQp3o

5 Little Men in a Flying Saucer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_1-TrP9jwA

Easter Activities

Easter is approaching and we usually love being creative, making lots of different Easter crafts in School. We know how creative you are and it would be great if you could get creative at home. Please find below lots of different crafts and Easter card ideas. Once you have made some crafts or cards we would love it if you shared your crafts with us on HWB or Twitter.  

Helpful Learning Links 

Here are a range of helpful links to support your child's home learning. The links cover a range of topics such as literacy, numeracy, movement and mindfulness and ICT. 

Mindfulness and Movement Links

Busy Feet song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MugzDjGDYjo

Cosmic Kids Yoga – The Very Hungry Caterpillar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhWDiQRrC1Y

Calming music and visual sensory therapy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvM-mpqXllM

Literacy and Numeracy Links

Letters and Sounds: Here are some phonics activities. All the games will help your child with reading/sound recognition: http://www.letters-and-sounds.com/phase-1-games.html

Top Marks: Here are some maths activities – We have covered a range of Maths activities this year. We love playing the gingerbread man game and Teddy numbers to help us with our counting skills. There are lots of other fun games to help with patterns, shapes and money: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/3-5-years/counting

Speech and Language resources: https://speechandlanguage.info/parents

Oxford Owl: There are access to Oxford Reading Tree ebooks: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/

Minibeast Topic Links

Here is a story about a ladybird. Listen to the story and talk about your favourite part and why?

What the ladybird heard story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu9mPX7DuLA

What the ladybird heard song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NbyiDpY6Ww

Twinkl - Free resources. You do have to join for free. Use the code CVDTWINKLHELPS: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/class-management/school-closure-home-learning-classroom-management-key-stage-1-year-1-year-2

BBC School Radio – For nursery rhymes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-incy-wincy-spider/zr4yt39

ICT Links

Bouncy Balls: https://bouncyballs.org/

Pixie Dust: https://codepen.io/neave/full/bGdwGev

Imagination: https://codepen.io/neave/full/WNvGNez

Wobble: https://codepen.io/neave/full/yLNaLMw

As you know our topic for this term is Lightbulb and will be based around light and dark. We will also be learning about day time and night time routines. Here are some activities you can do with your child to support their learning:

1. Listen to bedtime stories together.

2. Look out of the window and count the stars at night. 

3. Brush your teeth together. 

4. Try different types of breakfast foods such as cereal or egg on toast.

5. Listen to and sing rhymes such as 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'

You can listen to these songs on the BBC School Radio Website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06kbsbz

We have enjoyed exploring light this week. We had lots of fun in the UV room, everything glowed in the dark. 

We also enjoyed learning about Saint Dwynwens day - We made cards for our special person who 'lights' up our life. 

2018-19

What a busy year we had!! Our Spring term topic - 'scrumptious' was a great success with all the pupils learning about healthy and unhealthy foods as well as everyone having a go at trying new foods. During the Summer term our topic was 'beach'. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed visiting Langland bay. 

Autumn term 2019

Our topic this term is 'Heroes: people who help us'.

19.9.19

The fire service came to school today. We all had a chance to sit in the fire engine and even held the hose when it was squirting water across the yard. What a lot of fun we had!!!