School closure means that the majority of pupils will be continuing to learn from home until at least the 8th March.

From October 22nd 2020, the Government set the expectation of provision of remote education in schools, under the Coronavirus Act 2020. This means schools have a duty to provide education to children at home, as they do when children are in the classroom. This helps provide assurances to both pupils and parents that if pupils have to learn at home their education will not be disrupted.

In line with our Remote Learning Policy, we are providing home learning resources to support you and your child.

Learning is uploaded in two week blocks.

Children in Year 2 have access to the following:

• Home reading books (these can be changed by booking an appointment with the school office to visit the home reading library).
• Set daily literacy and numeracy task available through the school website with identified appropriate video input links.
• A daily phonics link will be available through the school website.
• Daily key skills learning will be available through the school website.
• Daily spelling and handwriting  available through the school website.
• A weekly humanities lesson and weekly science lesson available through the school website.

Home Learning Timetable

Teachers will make calls throughout the week to offer learning advice and support.

Families who do not have access to suitable technology to view resources should request a paper pack which can be collected each week from the school office or posted on request.

In addition to the core home learning provided for the children at Viridis, we have extended the learning opportunities to cover the wider curriculum areas. There are additional year group specific tasks for each subject to enhance your child’s learning during the partial closure. Many of the tasks are designed to encourage discussion and interaction; however,  there are also plenty that the children can access more independently. Where suggested, outcomes can be captured in photo or video form. Please do send these through to school via the home learning email for us to see!

Lesson 1 – Exploring different ways to use your voice

Lesson 2 – Exploring different ways to use your body

What the video about sketching flowers:

What flowers did the artists draw? What shapes did the artists use to draw them?

Now, try to draw the different flowers following the instructions in the video.

Think about the shapes artists used to draw the flowers in the video from the previous learning task.

Use slices of fruit or vegetables to form the flowers. Can you think of other objects around your house to use (lego, pieces of paper…) to form flowers? Can you draw them now on paper?

Watch the video about Vincent Van Gogh

How were the colours like in Van Gogh’s paintings? What were the brush strokes like in Van Gogh’s paintings? What impressions do you get from his paintings? What is Van Gogh going to paint next? how would you draw a sunflower?

What the video on shading using cross-hatching

What shapes did the artist draw? Think about the shade: If the light is coming from the right of the object, where is the shade? If the light is coming from the left of the object, where is the shade? What do we do to draw the shade darker?

What are rules? Why do we need rules? What types of rules do we have in our school?

Watch the video.

Can you write down 5 rules that you think people in our community should follow?

What different jobs can you think of? Can you think of different jobs you could find in your local community?

Watch the video.

Write down a list of jobs that could be found in your local community and what people with those jobs do. What do they do? How do they help the community? What skills does a person need to do the job?

One of the most important skills needed in the world of work is working together! Can you think of why it is important to work in a team?

Watch the video.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zn3s34j

Draw a picture of a scenario of when you have worked in a team at school, for example in a group activity. Then write down what you did and how you worked well together.

Money can buy goods and services and is earned through work.

Watch the video.

Where does money come from? What can money be used for?

Can you write down different items that you could buy in a shop? Which items do you think would be more expensive? Which items would be cheaper?

Log into Espressco coding and watch the online safety video.  Next, complete the online safety activity!

Log into Purple Mash and use 2logo to make a shape. Click here.

Log into Purple Mash and practise your touch typing skills.

Log into Purple Mash. Create a quiz for your sibling/family member all about your Science topic Plants.

Yoga at home

Which stretches were your favourite and why? Did any stretches feel painful? If so why do you think that is? What part of your body is the most flexible?

Yoga at home

Why do you think it is important to stretch? Can you recap  all the stretches you did today? Tell and adult your favourite stretch and why.

Yoga session

What part of your body is beginning to feel more flexible? What stretches can you do to support the less flexible parts of your body?

Can you teach an adult in your house one of the stretches you learnt today?

Yoga session 

What have you enjoyed most in yoga? Why do you think exercise is important? Can you create your own yoga session and then teach it to your family. You could even consider playing some relaxing music in the background.