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02/04/20

For our older , another of our very favourite tales, The Twits, read by our very own Mrs Cushing https://t.co/PkPAH1C9ij. https://t.co/vXZ20Wkky5

02/04/20

No apologies for another “Very Hungry Caterpillar” post. Beautiful work, Ato. https://t.co/DS6t57KAdx

02/04/20

Is there anyone that doesn’t love “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”? Our EYFS are doing a marvellous job with their projects this week https://t.co/EiDnA56bVt

01/04/20

Retweetd From Harris Primary Purley Way

So our window inspired the staff and children at to create their own and it looks great! Any other Harris academies up for the challenge? https://t.co/JQcxXBfUmR

31/03/20

We are just so excited about our school Newsletter this week, we have had some great contributions including our Year One fruit salad makers here https://t.co/CPo6gPyWjr

27/03/20

In the best use of an old roll of wallpaper we have seen for some time, here we see a live experiment to find out where our organs are inside our body. Definitely one to try out, HPAO Home Learners! https://t.co/djY9ogCXT3

27/03/20

This family had their own Praise Assembly today, with songs and rewards, followed by Fishfinger Friday (of course!). We love this! Well done on your certificates, boys! https://t.co/DssBUgLEuJ

26/03/20

These two HPAO Home Learners have made their own Rocket Reward Chart which we think is just STELLAR! Glad to see you are at the top, boys 😉 https://t.co/Qjm2OGLlES

26/03/20

Retweetd From Department for Education

We have been informed some parents have received an email stating: ‘As schools will be closing, if you're entitled to free school meals, please send your bank details and we'll make sure you're supported’. This is a scam email - do not respond, and delete immediately. https://t.co/r6cJP28dyY

24/03/20

Retweetd From Harris Federation

PLEASE RETWEET: with 36,000 families at our schools in London and Essex, we want to supply food parcels for those in need (on top of free school meals which we’re already doing). We’ll fully fund this but URGENTLY need a supermarket chain to help.

24/03/20

We wanted to share this awesome Timetable created by one of our TAs for her family - how great is this?! DEAR means “Drop Everything And Read- a great way to finish off a day of learning. How are our other Home Learners organising their day?#successforall https://t.co/cqJuW5OzVS

23/03/20

Fantastic pics from our HPAO Home Learners today, working out to and getting busy growing! Keep sending your pictures in. You are not alone, you are part of our AMAZING team, let's keep sharing. https://t.co/RWMItImcBn

23/03/20

Retweetd From Nick Gearing

On behalf of , we support . I joined in at 9am from home (today isn’t one of my rota days at school), I know a lot of our students and staff would have done too! https://t.co/coNNJaY8G4

22/03/20

Retweetd From HPAEastDulwich

Although we are open tomorrow to those parents who are critical keyworkers in the fight against COVID-19, if you can keep your child at home you should.

22/03/20

Ok, HPAO Home Learners, let's kick off Monday morning with some PE with Joe Wicks on YouTube: Mums, Dads, littler and bigger siblings, those of us still in school - we will all be doing it! 9.00am every day https://t.co/hj9wH8VqKr

13/03/20

Fantastic visit from GB athlete today, lots of active fun had by all and money raised for the school too! https://t.co/f24Pq2WCba

05/03/20

Assembly time! A fabulous effort from the staff, pupils and parents of HPAO https://t.co/yu7SDsQIVk

05/03/20

at HPAO kicking off with story time in the library with 2 Browne, followed by identifying the difference between fiction and non fiction https://t.co/76ZezQZ8mo

13/02/20

EYFS WOW Day - are you a pirate or a dinosaur? EYFS are discovering their inner explorers .... what will they find? https://t.co/MzhPLu6ca3

06/02/20

Next up....its Tony Hadley lighting up the O2 at https://t.co/nR2Ty8qW6r

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Home Learning

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There is an expectation that all our children will continue with their learning at home and teachers will keep in contact with families to offer support.

We will be putting updates on pupils’ learning on the academy website here each Friday. Simply look at the Year group page here for your child and ask them to complete work in the exercise book and pack provided.

If you have a query please email to the info@harrisprimaryorpington.org.uk account and someone will advise you.

Remind your child that if they are worried about anything or need to talk to someone while the school is closed there are places they can go for support. For example, Childline can be contacted for free on 0800 1111, or children can get support online.

Why not kick off each day of Home Learning with a PE session with Joe Wicks - Joe will be on his Youtube Channel every morning at 9.00am with a PE session suitable for small children up to secondary school age (and beyond!).  Pupils, siblings, parents, carers, staff and all of us still at school looking after our keyworker children - we will all be doing it, so please join in!

The link is here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6r99N3kXME&safe=active

 

As a school we use 'Letterjoin' for our handwriting scheme. 

Get ready to practise handwriting at home via the letterjoin website at https://www.letterjoin.co.uk/


Letter-join includes lots of great handwriting activities for pupils to enjoy at home, using the same font as we use at school. 

Login details are as follows: 

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Home-School Account

        

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We would love to see pictures of you all joining in with the PE sessions and doing your home learning - and this does not have to just be learning from your home learning packs.  Reading, cooking, art - send your pictures in to info@harrisprimaryorpington.org.uk and we will share them with you later in the week.  We would love to tweet them too - please state in your email if you would prefer that your pictures were not shared on Twitter.

We will also put the link on the Home Learning pages of our website, together with a generic Purple Mash log in for each year group, so don't worry if your child cannot remember their log in.

Here is some guidance from the Department for Education on keeping your child safe online:

 

Where can I go to get support to help keep my child safe online?

There is a lot of support available to keep your child safe online. Below are some useful links to help parents and carers:

  • Thinkyouknow (advice from the National Crime Agency to stay safe online)
  • Internet matters (support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online)
  • Parent info (support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online)
  • LGfL (support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online)
  • Net-aware (support for parents and careers from the NSPCC)

 

Reading

This page: https://readon.myon.co.uk/ has a great free online library so children can still access reading every day.

 

 

Daily Lessons on YouTube and Facebook 

 

Learning to read at home with Read Write Inc. Phonics during School Closure
 
Daily lessons for children
We are excited to announce that from Monday 23rd March we are scheduling Read Write Inc. Phonics lessons on Facebook and YouTube for children to watch at home.
 
We will release three short Speed Sound lessons with one of our trainers every day for the next two weeks. The films will only be available at the times below:

  • Set 1 Speed Sounds at 9.30 am and again at 12.30 pm
  • Set 2 Speed Sounds at 10.00 am and again at 1.00 pm
  • Set 3 Speed Sounds at 10.30 am and again at 1.30 pm

Please note: the films are streamed live and won’t be available at other times.

We will also release a film of a teacher reading a poem for Reception and Year 1 children to join in with at 2.00 pm every day. The poems will be available to watch again and again on YouTube.

A great opportunity for children to learn these by heart!
 
Parents can sign up to either our Facebook page  or our YouTube channel.

 

Films for parents

 

Films for parents to help their child learn to read at home with Read Write Inc. Phonics are available on our website and YouTube channel.

The YouTube channel will be redesigned shortly to help parents find the films easily.

We will add a parent film to Facebook every day.

 



Best wishes, 
 

 

 

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