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EYFS Home Learning - 13th April

April 16, 2020
Dear Parents and Carers
Ms Vickery and Mrs Willis have worked together to come up with suggestions of activities for your child as they play and learn at home. Please remember that these are just suggestions and we don’t want you to feel pressured into turning your home into a home school. Please only do what works for you and your family. 

It would be great if you could read regularly with your child. Reading to them, listening to them read and talking about what’s been read is hugely beneficial. Beyond that please do what is easy, stress free and comfortable for you and your family.

Reading
We encourage you to read every day for 20 minutes with your child. 
• Read books together - talk about the story, characters and pictures. Upload a video of your child reading to Tapestry, if you can, for their teacher to see. 
• If you have read the school reading books that were sent home, you could access books similar books here https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/   
• CBeebies Radio is a great place to find stories to listen to (plus music and information shows) https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio Download the free BBC Sounds app to listen to the station on phones or tablets.
• Learning nursery rhymes is a great way to help early reading skills – this site has lots that you can share and sing along with https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/nursery-rhymes-songs-index/zhwdgwx

Writing
• Help your child to use the name card in their home learning pack to practise writing their first name and surname. Remind them to pinch their pencil near the tip.
• Encourage your child to practise letter formation to support their handwriting. This is a link to Get Squiggling, which has a fun videos showing how to form each letter of the alphabet https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLex2rFvT0W9aZZAi-ffiGK05rWBiOrIBL
• Remember children can use the writing book in the home learning pack to practise writing. If you have a garden, children can also practise letter formation outdoors with chalks, paint brushes with water and using washing up bottles filled with water. Make big loops, lines and spiral patterns – it will help improve gross and fine motor control which are really important for handwriting skills. 

Phonics 
Learn these fun songs to help read and write tricky ‘Train Your Brain’ words (words you can’t sound out easily).

Maths
It would be brilliant if you could…
• Have a go at the activities on your Mathletics account (log in details in your home learning pack). 
• Take a look at White Rose Maths Supertato maths activities - https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/early-years/ This is a story that is well known to all the children ( the story is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rze89HB9u8g ) and there are lots of fun maths activity suggestions to go with it. 


If you are having trouble accessing your Tapestry account or need to reset your password, please email svickery@ecfschools.org.uk 


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Wynstream Primary School has hosted a Gabrieli Roar workshop this month for three other schools, ahead of their performance at Exeter Cathedral on the 9th of December. Gabrieli is a choir and period instrument orchestra founded and led by Artistic Director Paul McCreesh. They perform and record choral, vocal and instrumental repertoire from the renaissance to the present day and have cultivated an international reputation for excellence, innovation and ambition. They offer first-class performance opportunities to young people through their education programme, Gabrieli Roar. Pupils from Montpelier Primary School, Ide Primary School and Ermington Primary School came along to join Wynstream’s choir of 45 pupils to prepare for the concert. This initiative is supported by the Devon Music Service whose representative at the rehearsal thanked Wynstream Primary School for hosting and said that their cooperation, organisation and choral preparation of the young people was “exemplary.” The children will be performing at ‘A Grand Georgian Christmas’, the show will be a festive exploration of English music for parish churches during the Georgian period. It has been designed to offer the perfect platform to encourage young singers to connect with choral and classical music. Tickets can be purchased here. Elise Redman, Headteacher at Wynstream Primary School said: "We are so proud of our choir and the dedication they are showing. We know that musical education is really important for children and supports their development in many ways. Rehearsing, working together and performing in front of an audience are all things that help build their confidence and that will help them flourish in every area of life." Matthew Shanks, CEO of Education South West said: “I am so pleased to hear that Wynstream Primary School played host to its neighbours for this exciting workshop. At Education South West we strongly believe in both the power of collaboration and the importance of promoting the arts and this initiative achieves both of those things. I wish the choir all the best with their performance next month.”
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A message from our Chair of Governors. Hello. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you all back to the school after the Easter holidays. As you are aware Wynstream is now part of Education South West Academy Trust. The school has already been working with the Trust for the past year. Together we are continuing to deliver support, exciting opportunities and high quality of teaching and learning across the school and the community. I hope you will all join me in embracing this new journey of Wynstream's future. Your sincerely Michaela Young Chair
March 29, 2023
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March 29, 2023
Do you know anybody who would make a great Community (Co-opted) Governor for our school? There is a vacancy on Wynstream's Local Governing Body and we are inviting nominations. Governors are welcomed as valued members of the governor team and play an important role. Life as a governor is interesting and varied. Meetings are at least once every half term. Training and support will be available. Please do let friends and family know, and ask anybody who is interested to pop into school for more information, or call 01392 284990. More information as well as the nomination form can be found by clicking here. Thankyou.
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