I hope everyone has been catching our weekly assembly videos. Don’t miss the opportunity to nominate someone for an award before Thursday lunchtime so they can get a ‘shout out’ in this week’s video!

Leave a comment below telling us why you think your nominee should win one of the following awards…

• Head of School award for showing the school values at home
• Sports Personality of the Week for showing the values through sport and exercise
• The Jackie Johnson award for good manners, kindness and cooking skills!
• The Tidy Friday Award for helping to clean and tidy up
• Reader of the week for showing a love of reading
• Writer of the week for fantastic writing

Do spread the word. We want to give as many children a shout out as possible!

Mr Poyton

Thank you for continuing to engage with this blog and the assembly videos.

Please leave a comment below to nominate someone for this week’s video.

Remember to keep any eye out for our newsletter each week.

Mr Poyton

Thank you for watching and commenting under the latest assembly video. Leave a comment below to nominate your child for an award this week. You can nominate them for…

• The Head of School Award for showing the school values in learning and the choices they are making at home.
• The Tidy Friday Award for keeping your home clean and, you’ve guessed it, TIDY!
• The Jackie Johnson Award for politeness and kindness
• The Sports Personality of the Week Award for showing the school values through sport, exercise and a healthy lifetyle.

Mr Poyton

I hope you all enjoyed the half term break. Well done to all those who got back to Tapestry, Seesaw and the year group blogs yesterday, ready for another week of learning at home. I’m delighted so many have engaged with the Zoom video calls teachers have set up so far. More will be happening soon. Keep an eye out for emails with more information.

Thank you for watching and responding to the latest assembly video. We should get another one to you this week so get thinking about your nominations for this week’s awards and post a comment below by lunchtime on Thursday.

Mr Poyton

Leave a comment below to nominate your child for an award in this week’s assembly video.

• Head of School award for showing the school values at home
• Sports Personality of the Week for showing the values through sport and exercise
• Jackie Johnson award for kindness and good manners
• Tidy Friday Award for helping to clean and tidy up
• Reader of the week for showing a love of reading
• Writer of the week for fantastic writing

I hope you caught last Friday’s assembly video.

Leave a comment below to nominate award winners for THIS week’s video. Here’s a reminder of the awards:

• Head of School Award – showing the school values

• Jackie Johnson Award – good manners and kindness

• Tidy Friday Award – helping out by cleaning and tidying

• Readers of the Week – showing a particular passion for reading

• Writers of the Week – showing passion, aspiration and resilience in writing

• Sports Personality of the Week – showing the values through exercise, PE and sport

Keep visiting the Year Group blogs and Tapestry to find your learning guidance from teachers and if you can, please do use Seesaw or Tapestry to show teachers what learning has been going on at home.

Mr Poyton

As Poplar class pupils and their families already know, Mrs Archer gave her notice before the school closure and last week was her last week with Lawford Mead. Mrs Archer has been with Lawford Mead for a long time (she was an LSA at the old junior school before), so it’s the end of an era! She will be missed and we wish her and her family the very best.

Of course it’s extra sad to say goodbye when we can’t actually SEE Mrs Archer to say goodbye right now due to the school closure and lockdown. But she has promised to come and visit us all once we have reopened so we can say goodbye properly.

For now you can leave a comment below to say goodbye to Mrs Archer, thank her for her service to the school and community and to send your best wishes.

We’ll miss you Mrs Archer!

Another week of learning at home means another chance to nominate learners for an assembly video award. Remember, as well as the Head of School Award for showing our school values in learning, we also have…

Leave a comment below this blog post to nominate. We’ll text you when the new assembly video is online this Friday.

If you haven’t seen it yet, check you email inbox for an email sent out on Monday this week, pointing you towards additional home learning resources. But teachers are still updating the year group blogs everyday and on each blog you’ll find weekly links to downloadable Word documents that include a lot of the blog content. Here are recent posts that explain how to use Seesaw in Years 1 to 6 to show teachers the learning going on at home. Reception teachers will see families on Tapestry!

Seesaw in Year 1

Seesaw in Year 2

Seesaw in Year 3

Seesaw in Year 4

Seesaw in Year 5

Seesaw in Year 6

Take care,

Mr Poyton

NEW NOMINATIONS

Thank you to everyone who visited the blog last week and nominated children for an assembly award. Well done to all the children. I hope you all enjoyed the latest video. I plan to get another video up on the site this Friday so do leave a comment below with your new nominations by Thursday lunchtime at the latest.

Please don’t feel you can’t nominate your child again just because they already received a ‘shout out’ the previous week. We will always try to mention as many children as possible and if a nomination comes through too late for that week’s video, we’ll try to carry it over to the following week. I know you adults at home are working very hard to support children with their learning so I’m thinking you deserve the occasional nomination yourself! Feel free to subtly suggest to your children that they nominate you, especially for the Tidy Friday award if you want to make that one a little competitive!

Please just use first names and the first initial of surnames for children and for yourselves in the comments. You can mention the class or year group too.

LEARNING AT HOME

Teachers continue to update the blogs on a daily basis and they are now starting to include the blog content as a downloadable Word document or PDF in case that is helpful for families. Visit the blogs to find these files.

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3
• Year 4
• Year 5
• Year 6

All the learning going on in your homes is something to be proud of. Well done for all you are achieving as a family. Thank you.

Mr Poyton

I hope you all managed to enjoy your Easter break and, despite the necessary limitations we are facing, had a fun and relaxing time with loved ones.

Teachers have updated all the blogs with new home learning guidance:

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3
• Year 4
• Year 5
• Year 6

If your child is in Reception look out for Tapestry emails.

You can also find Knowledge Organisers and related home learning ideas (many of which can still be attempted during the lockdown) for the new Year 1-6 topics here.

The BBC have also launched new Bitesize home learning resources today which you may want to explore.

We hope to get another assembly video up on this website on Friday. Thank you for the kind comments about the last one. Please start commenting below this blog post with your new nominations! Preferably by this Thursday lunchtime please. You can nominate children for their behaviour and attitudes during the Easter break, not just this week. A reminder of the awards:

• Head of School Award (for showing one or more of our school values)
• Sports Personality of the Week (showing the values through sport and exercise)
• Readers and Writers of the Week
• Tidy Friday Award
• The Jackie Johnson Award (for good manners)

Have a great week everyone. Stay safe and take care.

Mr Poyton