Foundation Phase: Learning Grid 01.06.20 and 08.06.20

Nursery/Reception,

 We hope you have had a fantastic week enjoying this gorgeous sunshine! I know Mrs Harris, Mrs Williams and I certainly have. 
I have attached a new learning grid, however, these will be changing slightly.

  • From this week, your learning grid will have activities that you can complete overtwo weeks.So, next week (08.06.20)you will not have an updated learning grid from myself. However, I may add additional activities if needed. 
  • Mrs Harris will be setting activities next week on Seesaw (08.06.20) so you have additional activities.
  • We will be alternating weeks we upload our activities. 

*Please note that Mrs Harris will be continuing to update Reception children with their own reading books on Seesaw weekly. 

 This change is to allow you time to complete these activities to suit your family’s needs.
Again, choose activities you feel comfortable doing and adapt or extend to suit your child’s needs. 
If you require any support or have any queries, please contact us on Seesaw.
Many thanks for your continued support, 
Miss Davies, Mrs Harris, Mrs Williams. 

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Foundation Phase: Learning Grid 01.06.20 and 08.06.20

Nursery/Reception,

 We hope you have had a fantastic week enjoying this gorgeous sunshine! I know Mrs Harris, Mrs Williams and I certainly have. 
I have attached a new learning grid, however, these will be changing slightly.

  • From this week, your learning grid will have activities that you can complete overtwo weeks.So, next week (08.06.20)you will not have an updated learning grid from myself. However, I may add additional activities if needed. 
  • Mrs Harris will be setting activities next week on Seesaw (08.06.20) so you have additional activities.
  • We will be alternating weeks we upload our activities. 

*Please note that Mrs Harris will be continuing to update Reception children with their own reading books on Seesaw weekly. 

 This change is to allow you time to complete these activities to suit your family’s needs.
Again, choose activities you feel comfortable doing and adapt or extend to suit your child’s needs. 
If you require any support or have any queries, please contact us on Seesaw.
Many thanks for your continued support, 
Miss Davies, Mrs Harris, Mrs Williams. 

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Class: Home learning challenge grid week beginning 1st June 2020

Hello Year 1 and Year 2,

We hope you have all had an enjoyable half term, making memories with your family in the sunshine.

If would like to share a picture on seesaw alongside your half term news writing it would be lovely to see and hear about what you have been getting up to at home.

Please see the attached home learning challenge grid for the week beginning 1st June. If you need support with any of this week’s activities, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Stay safe. Stay happy.

Mrs Parry and Mrs Tomlinson.

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Class: Home learning challenge grid week beginning 1st June 2020

Hello Year 1 and Year 2,

We hope you have all had an enjoyable half term, making memories with your family in the sunshine.

If would like to share a picture on seesaw alongside your half term news writing it would be lovely to see and hear about what you have been getting up to at home.

Please see the attached home learning challenge grid for the week beginning 1st June. If you need support with any of this week’s activities, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Stay safe. Stay happy.

Mrs Parry and Mrs Tomlinson.

pdf icon Home-learning-journey-challenges-week-beg-01.06.20.pdf

News: North East Wales Archives – competition time!

North East Wales Archive Service is running a campaign for local residents to record the unprecedented period of history which we are currently living through. 

The service has also launched a campaign for children to write a letter to ‘future children’ to explain how the current lockdown has changed their lives.   Details of both campaigns are set out below.

My Life During Lockdown

North East Wales Archives (NEWA) wants to record the experiences of people in Flintshire and Denbighshire during this unprecedented period in history.

The purpose of keeping archives is to preserve historical records to aid future understanding of events, people and places in history. The service hopes to create an archive of information and images for future generations to help them understand how much the current situation is affecting the local community and impacting on the lives of everyone involved.

Are you in lockdown at home, or going out to work in a changed and uncertain environment? How is it affecting your daily life? 

NEWA would like to hear about the positive aspects as well as the unsettling and challenging ones! If you are keeping a daily journal or would like to contribute a poem, drawing, painting or a photograph depicting how life during lockdown looks to you, they would love to hear from you!  Photographs could include images of shops closed down; deserted streets; usually crowded areas looking incongruously empty; wildlife returning to unexpected places.

E-mail your writing/images, with your name and address, to:

[email protected]for Flintshire residents, and[email protected]for Denbighshire residents. 

The best contributions will be selected to form part of an historic collection of memories and in the future will help people to understand what the current situation meant to people living in North East Wales. 

A letter to future children

NEWA is also running a competition for the best ‘Letter to Future Children’ written by school-age pupils living in Denbighshire and Flintshire. Write a letter, to be read by children in 100 years’ time, to tell them how your life has changed since you were sent home from school.

• What are you doing every day? 

• What is it like being at home all the time without seeing your friends and extended family? 

• Are you having to go to school, and, if so, is it strangely quiet? 

• How are your family coping with working at home or going out to do essential work? 

• Above all, tell the future children what you are missing most and enjoying most!

• Please include a drawing, showing how life looks to you at this strange time in history! 

All letters will be included in the ‘Letter to Future Children’ Archive and preserved for future generations to read. The winner will receive a prize of a £20 Amazon Voucher and have their letter shared online. 

Again, e-mail your letters, with your name and address, to:

[email protected]for Flintshire residents, and[email protected]for Denbighshire residents. 

News: Headteacher Update

Dear Parents/Carers

I hope that this communication finds you and your families well. On behalf of staff and Governors, I wish to thank you all, once again, for continuing to support your children with their learning, both ‘on line’ and through the use of the ‘paper based’ activities provided by the staff. A special ‘well done’ to all of the children for their hard work also.

Our staff continue to do a tremendous job, providing work for the children, responding to their questions, supporting critical workers’ children in the hub and ensuring that the children of Brynford are uppermost in their thoughts. I thank them for their dedication and commitment.

As I am sure you are aware, there is no further news at the present time, about a return school date for anyone in Wales. Please be reassured that any information received, regarding future plans for the re- opening of school, will be communicated to you, well in advance.

We are now approaching the half term break. Next week, I am asking you again, to take a well-earned break from home learning and allow the children to do the same. Staff will continue to support Critical Workers’ Children next week, in the Hub, but, similar to the Easter Holidays, they will not be setting work, over the half term break. This ensures they also have a well-earned rest, to spend precious time, with their families.

We have loved hearing about the activities the children have been doing, over the past weeks and we are all very proud of their efforts. We wish you all a safe and enjoyable half term break.

We will resume our ‘home learning’ on Monday 1st June and will continue to keep you ‘up to date’ with our regular communications, on the school website.

Thank you for your continued support.

R Critchell

News: Headteacher Update

Dear Parents/Carers

I hope that this communication finds you and your families well. On behalf of staff and Governors, I wish to thank you all, once again, for continuing to support your children with their learning, both ‘on line’ and through the use of the ‘paper based’ activities provided by the staff. A special ‘well done’ to all of the children for their hard work also.

Our staff continue to do a tremendous job, providing work for the children, responding to their questions, supporting critical workers’ children in the hub and ensuring that the children of Brynford are uppermost in their thoughts. I thank them for their dedication and commitment.

As I am sure you are aware, there is no further news at the present time, about a return school date for anyone in Wales. Please be reassured that any information received, regarding future plans for the re- opening of school, will be communicated to you, well in advance.

We are now approaching the half term break. Next week, I am asking you again, to take a well-earned break from home learning and allow the children to do the same. Staff will continue to support Critical Workers’ Children next week, in the Hub, but, similar to the Easter Holidays, they will not be setting work, over the half term break. This ensures they also have a well-earned rest, to spend precious time, with their families.

We have loved hearing about the activities the children have been doing, over the past weeks and we are all very proud of their efforts. We wish you all a safe and enjoyable half term break.

We will resume our ‘home learning’ on Monday 1st June and will continue to keep you ‘up to date’ with our regular communications, on the school website.

Thank you for your continued support.

R Critchell

News: Police Liaison Officer

Afternoon all

I hope you are all well and keeping safe?

Today we have launched a new activity book for ages 9 to 11, it is about internet safety.  The activities are based on familiar lessons for the children that I would normally deliver in the summer term.  It Is designed to reinforce schoolbeat’s most important key safeguarding internet safety messages.  The edition is suitable for 9 to 11 year olds and available in both English and Welsh. 

Please can you share on your school websites to parents / staff.

www.schoolbeat.cymru

Kind regards

Debbie Barker

(Currently working from home – home based investigation team)

Cwnstabl / PC 1848 Debbie Barker

Swyddog Cyswllt Ysgolion / School Liaison Officer

Gorsaf Heddlu Yr Wyddgrug/ Mold Police Station

Stryd y Brenin / King Street

Yr Wyddgrug / Mold

CH7  1EF

News: Fire Service Poster Competition

Calling all parents!

Are you homeschooling?

Due to the popularity of our recent poster competition which has now closed, we are running another poster competition for children.

This time we are keen to promote the dangers of burning garden waste – and the prize is a Lego set.

We would like you to design a poster that explains why burning garden waste is dangerous – you might want to think about the following:

•             The danger to wildlife

•             The risk of fires spreading

•             How fires could cause injury

•             The demand on our fire crews

Can you come up with a slogan for your poster?

We will be sharing as many entries as possible – so let’s get drawing!

Send your name, age, an adult’s name and contact details to [email protected].

Closing date is the 18th June and will we announce the winners before the end of June.

Galw ar rieni!

Ydych chi’n dysgu gartref?

Oherwydd poblogrwydd ein cystadleuaeth llunio poster yn ddiweddar, sydd bellach wedi cau, byddwn yn cynnal cystadleuaeth llunio poster arall i blant.

Y tro hwn rydym ni’n awyddus i hyrwyddo peryglon llosgi gwastraff gardd – a’r wobr ydi set Lego.

Hoffem petaech yn dylunio poster sydd yn egluro pam ei bod hi’n beryglus llosgi gwastraff gardd – meddyliwch am y pethau canlynol:

•             Y perygl i fywyd gwyllt

•             Y risg y gallai’r tân ledaenu

•             Sut y gall tanau achosi anaf

•             Y galw ar ein criwiau tân

Allwch chi feddwl am slogan i’ch poster?

Byddwn yn rhannu cymaint o geisiadau â phosibl – felly ewch ati i arlunio!

Anfonwch eich enw, oedran ac enw a manylion cyswllt oedolyn i [email protected]

Y dyddiad cau ydi 18fed Mehefin a byddwn yn cyhoeddi enw’r enillwyr cyn diwedd mis Mehefin

Emma Mcculloch

Addysgwraig Diogelwch Cymunedol / Community Safety Educationalist

Gwasanaeth Tân ac Achub Gogledd Cymru / North Wales Fire and Rescue Service