Welcome to our news and events page. Please have a look at our latest school news articles so you can keep up to date with everything that’s happening at our school. Make sure you check back regularly! You may also like to use the filters down the side to narrow our news entries down.

• Visit www.wickhamcommonprimary.co.uk today

  Tue 12 Jan 2021

  Go onto the tab COVID-19 and on there you will see several sections with pre-recorded

   

  videos made by Wickham Common staff.

   

  There are stories read by Mrs Critten, Ms

  Norsworthy, Mrs Moore, Ms NiGhosain, Mr Slack,

  Mr Walker, Mr Winter, Mrs Myles, Mrs Stevenson,

  Ms Miran, Mrs Ringham – to name a few! These

  stories are wonderful for children in many year

  groups to sit and watch/listen, so please do show

  your child how to access, settle down somewhere

  cosy with a warm drink and enjoy!

   

  There are also some modelled Maths lessons on there – again for all to tap into and

  practice. Mr Slack and Mr Grice are modelling a variety of methods and these are well worth

  looking at for children Year 2 upwards.

  There are 62 videos of teachers modelling writing – they demonstrate how to

  construct text types and also presentation ... Writing when

  completed at home is notoriously poor quality compared to what

  children can produce in school and this is why we rarely set

  writing as home learning. However, in such times as these we

  cannot allow children to totally disengage with their writing

  skills. Please look at these videos and see which ones you and

  your child could practise.

  There are also PE lessons, French lessons, Phonics demos, interviews with authors,

  podcasts, Music lessons with our colleagues at BYMT and of course our wonderful

  Celebration films – around 15 in total I think. These have been made from April to December

  and are suitable for everyone to sit and enjoy – they vary in length.

• Lockdown learning programme

  Tue 12 Jan 2021

  Yesterday the BBC started with their Lockdown learning programme – here is a link to it –

  take a peek and see how this can help you and your child.

   

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-55591821

• The Oak National Academy

  Tue 12 Jan 2021

  On myUSO the children in Years 1-6 have been directed to visit pre-recorded

  lessons produced by The Oak National Academy and also The White Rose

  Maths Hub to support their learning. These are highly recommended,

  professionally produced films.

   

  Wickham Common staff have also begun to make new videos of themselves

  reading stories, going on walks, doing PE and demonstrating how to do

  Phonics/Maths, introducing the week’s learning timetable. Some of these may

  be viewed on the website via the Covid link, others will have a direct link only

  via myUSO for children and parents specifically in that teacher’s class/year

  group to watch.

   

  If directed to watch a video as part of a lesson children must do so in order to be able to

  compete the task set properly. This means that laptops will need speakers/earphones.