Staff have been reviewing the huge range of online resources currently available to assist you with home learning. You will find a selection of our recommended ones in the 'Websites' section of the class page.

Links to websites relevant to weekly planning will be available on each weekly learning sheet in order that they can be easily accessed.

Responsible Internet Use and Esafety

As children may now be accessing the Internet and online activities more frequently, please take the opportunity to share the 'acceptable use' rules we follow in school. These can be found below. Please read and discuss them with your children and explain what they should do if they come across something that makes them feel sad or angry. The children have taken part in Internet Safety Day. Parental guidance, documents and links are available on the website under 'Esafety'. 

Safer Internet Day 2021

This year in the UK, Safer Internet Day explores reliability online. The campaign focuses on knowing what to trust online and supporting young people to question, challenge and change the online world. The internet has an amazing range of information and opportunities online, and can help us see the world from different points of view. But how do we separate fact from fiction, the genuine from the misleading? How do we decide what to believe online, and what’s the impact of dealing with fake content and experiences online? Join us this Safer Internet Day in helping to create an internet we can trust.

Explore our ESafety page for more information.

Week Beginning 1st March 2021

Hi Seafielders,

It was really lovely to see and chat to you last week, we can't wait to see you all back in school. We hope you have enjoyed working through your writing packs.

 

A reminder that our online class assembly is on Thursday 4th March (World Book Day) at 1:15pm. As always, you will be emailed an invite 15 minutes before we start. Please ensure that you have your camera on and your microphone off to begin with. Please bring with you a drawing of a character from one of your favourite books - you could copy the character in detail, or have a go at drawing them from memory or even draw your own interpretation. Please also bring two chapter books with you, these will be used for a fun game that we are going to play.

 

In addition to this there are several online sessions.

• Year 4 reading 'Pet Care of a Dog' with Mrs Allen, two sessions on Tuesday beginning at 10:30am and 11:15am, you will receive an email with a link to one of these sessions
• Year 3 reading 'The Green Cross Code' with Mr Genders on Friday beginning at 9am.
• Seafield maths with Mr Genders on Friday beginning at 11am. - Please have an arrow, red cross and green tick either drawn or printed out ready for the lesson. There are examples below.

Similar to the online assembly, you'll be emailed an invite 15 minutes before we start. Please ensure that you have some pieces of paper and something to write with at each session.

Mrs Allen has been enjoying the sunny weather on her walks and even met some of her neighbours. Can you name what type of animals they are?

In the garden she has been pottering and planting some of her favourite plants especially the 'bunny tails'. It will be interesting to see if they look like real tails when they grow.

Willow and Skye are now fully recovered from their operations and up to all kinds of mischief.

Mr Genders has been going on some lovely walks with his family as well as having fun trying to rap-read some of Bertie's favourite picture books, just like MC Grammar. Although not quite as good as him...Yet! He was preparing one to upload on here for you all to watch, however he thought he'd save himself the embarrassment until his rapping is "a bit better"... It might be a long wait. Check out some of the fun MC Grammar suggestions in this week's home learning.

Week Beginning 22nd February 2021

Hi Seafielders,

We hope you are all well and had a lovely half term, maybe you tried some of the activities from the half term pack.

 

A reminder that our online class assembly is today (Monday 22nd February) at 1:15pm. As always, you will be emailed an invite 15 minutes before we start. Please ensure that you have your camera on and your microphone off to begin with. An adult will be able to help with this and show you what to do.

 

In addition to this there are several online sessions.

• Year 4 reading 'Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf' with Mrs Allen, two sessions on Tuesday beginning at 10:30am and 11:15am, you will receive an email with a link to one of these sessions
• Year 3 reading 'Octocure' with Mr Genders on Friday beginning at 9am.
• Seafield maths with Mr Genders on Friday beginning at 11am.

Similar to the online assembly, you'll be emailed an invite 15 minutes before we start. Please ensure that you have some pieces of paper and something to write with at each session.

 

This week Mr Genders has been working hard in his studio, as well as having the unenviable task of sorting their loft out to decide which baby items to keep for Bertie's future brother or sister. Bertie has also been keeping him really busy with some early morning 'Coaster Curling' and lots and lots of reading. His favourite books at the moment are 'Grumpy Frog' by Ed Vere and 'I Want My Hat Back' by Jon Klassen, two books that he'll hysterically laugh to throughout, and that Mr Genders has to find his inner-Matthew McConaughey to help act out the different characters.

Mrs Allen has attempted some of the half term activities from the class page. Unsurprisingly the virtual cooking was the first one she did with her friends, the pancakes were amazing!

Katie has inspired Mrs Allen to begin scrapbooking, they have begun to create a time capsule scrapbook of the pandemic and also a bottle one, and a family game.

Have a look at these Half Term activities! There are lots of different things for you to try. Enjoy!

Week Beginning 8th February 2021

Hi Seafielders,

We hope you are all safe and well, and are finding ways to stay warm during this cold weather.

 

A reminder that our online class assembly is on Thursday 11th February at 1:15pm. You will be emailed an invite 15 minutes before we start. Mr Genders will be leading it this week and you will need a pencil and some pieces of paper. Please ensure that you have your camera on and your microphone off to begin with. An adult will be able to help with this and show you what to do. So you can see all your friends you will need to change a couple of settings. You will find a crib sheet below for you to follow.

 

This week Mr Genders celebrated 2nd February with his son, a bizarre tradition that they devised in 2018. This involved having the same film on repeat all day, taking part in some painting and colouring as well as some clock face biscuit baking. There were even a couple of gifts to remember the day by.

This week Mrs Allen has been baking with Katie... AGAIN! This time she made bread rolls and healthy sugar free flapjacks which were surprisingly yummy!

The daily walks are now increasing and she was really pleased to notice snowdrops and catkins on her walks this week.

Hopefully Spring is just around the corner.

Week Beginning 1st February 2021

Hi Seafielders!

We hope you all managed to have some fun in the snow. Mrs Allen had some great snow adventures involving a complete total wipe-out on the sledge. She’s sticking to building snowmen from now on.

To recover from that she perfected the art of making mug cakes and you’ve guessed it, chocolate was the best. She has also been keeping an eye on Willow and Skye in their new runs.

Mr Genders has had to continue to embrace the great indoors this week, but was thrilled to be back in the studio working on some tape portraits. He and his wife enjoyed attempting last week’s music home learning idea using his son’s toy instruments to create some “slick” beats. They are convinced they could become the next Sonny and Cher. Yesterday, Mr Genders also began to decorate Bertie’s bedroom ready for his “big boy” bed. A project that he is already regretting.

 

Don’t forget our first online class assembly is today (Monday 1st February) at 1:15pm. You will be emailed an invite to the email address sent to your parents 15 minutes before we start. It will help if you can have your camera on and your microphone off to begin with. An adult will be able to help with this and show you what to do. So you can see all your friends you will need to change a couple of settings. You will find a crib sheet below for you to follow.

 

See you on later.

Week Beginning 25th January 2021

Hi Seafielders, we hope you are all safe, well and happy.

This week the Genders household daily routine has begun with a 5am morning alarm of, "DADDY! DO YOU WANT TO PLAY NOW?", and so begins a day of cars, cars and more cars. Mr Genders has also begun to teach Bertie a series of other games including Snakes and Ladders, Hungry Hippos and The Missing Puzzle. However, his favourite game is definitely the 'Oi Frog!' memory game which is now played several times before breakfast, lunch, dinner and bedtime.

Mr Genders, well his wife, have also discovered that Bertie is pretty sly when it comes to snowball fights.

 

Mrs Allen has been working on her IT skills by hosting a virtual games night with her friends. She was impressed that some of the Seafield had had that idea over the Christmas holidays so tried it out on Saturday. It was great fun, with lots of laughs (mainly at Mrs Allen).

Luckily the Allen walks have been more picturesque with the ice and snow, rather than mud. Although, she did get caught in a hail storm on one of them.

 

Mrs Marshall has been making some long bird feeders with her family, ready for the RSPB bird watch, they filled them with peanut butter and bird seed. She has also been bird watching in their garden and spotting different birds on their daily walks.

 

Week Beginning 18th January 2021

Mrs Allen has been busy  going for even muddier walks and trying out some new, healthier recipes. The favourite in the Allen house is ratatouille, a recipe inspired by the film from the Disney website.

Willow and Skye have also had an operation so she has been looking after them, they are both much better now.

 

Mr Genders, on the other hand has being trying to spend as much time in the studio as possible, as he's currently working on several portraits. However, a loud three year old continues to scupper his well laid out plans and instead he has been playing more Batman games, reading lots of picture books and completing dinosaur and Bing! jigsaw puzzles. Fingers crossed that he'll be able to get in the studio more this week.

As we said last week, remember to try to read a little every day, practice your spellings with the patterns uploaded onto Ed Shed as well as using the pencil and paper games in your folders and don't forget to access Times Table Rock Stars little and often.

We hope that you find some of this week's ideas useful and don't forget you don't have to print anything off, looking on the website and jotting things down is great.

Week Beginning 11th January 2021

Hi Seafielders, we hope you are well and finding exciting things to do whilst at home.

Over Christmas Mr Genders has really enjoyed spending lots of quality time with his family. This has included some lovely (but chilly) walks, trips to the park, competitive Hungry Hippos, painting and lots of Batman play. He is also really enjoying watching lots of football which has been on TV, particularly the Villa matches, this inevitably involves nervous pacing around and loud celebrations.

 

In the Allen household they too have been enjoying a few muddy walks, with Mrs Allen very nearly ending up face down in the mud!

Mrs Allen has also resumed her virtual gym classes to try and work off all that hot chocolate she keeps drinking, and has spent the weekend trying to make a new rabbit run for Willow and Skye .(Look out for the photo next week)

 

We  are all having to adapt to a different way of working again ,so we have given you lots of suggestions below for your learning from home. Remember to try to read a little every day, practise your spellings with the patterns uploaded onto Ed Shed as well as using the pencil and paper games in your folders.

Don't forget you don't have to print everything off, looking on the website and jotting things down is great.