Reading Conferences
An example of a Reading Conference
This is a video showing what a Reading Conference looks like. This video might also help you to support your children when reading at home as it shows how staff support, question and challenge a child when reading. We hope you find this useful.
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Reception Home Learning Spring 2021
Wednesday 3rd March - comparing a plant and tree
Monday 01.03.21 Jasper's Beanstalk story
Phonics with Mrs. Chester 1.3.21
Monday 1st March Label a Plant
Mrs. Wanless helps us to find out about parts of a plant and then sets us a labelling challenge!
Monday 1.3.21 sight words
Tuesday 2nd March - Phonics igh
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Year 1 Home Learning Spring 2021
Painting a mystery island with Mrs Clayton
Monday 1st March - Phonics - Recap of 'aw'
Hi everyone! Today's phonics lesson is teaching the phase 5 'aw' digraph! You will need something to write with! Have fun! :)
Monday 1st March Prince Cinders read by Mrs Clayton
Monday 1st March - English - Writing the Wriggly Squiggly Story
Monday 1st March - History - Ernest Shackleton
Hi Everyone! Today's history lesson is all about the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. You can find the worksheet on the home learning section of the website - https://www.overdale-inf.leicester.sch.uk/monday-1st-march/ . Enjoy! :)
Monday 1st March Mindfulness Safari with Mrs Ricketts
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Year 1 Pick and Mix Activities for Home Learning
How to make a Chinese New year dragon puppet with Mrs Clayton
Make a sensory bottle with Mrs Gosal
How to make Salt Dough with Mrs Clayton
How to make a book with Mrs Clayton
Make a necklace with Mrs Gosal
Junk modelling techniques - Make a dragon
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Year 2 Home Learning videos from the weekly timetable Spring 2021
05.03.21 - Let's Cook with Mrs Davis
Wednesday 03/03/21 English - Lesson Three
Storytime with Mrs Smith Wednesday 3rd March
Wednesdays phonics 03/03/21
Learning the ‘ere’ (air) sound
Wednesday (3/03/21) Brain Break with Miss Shenton
Wednesday (03/3/21)-Maths Game with Mrs Ridgeway
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Comets Home Learning 2021
Comets w/c 1/2/21 S Walker Story “That’s Nothing”
Comets w/c 1/2/21 S Walker Phonics “z” and “zz”
Comets w/c 1/2/21 S Walker CVC words robot, blend and write
Comets w/c 1/2/21 S Walker Phase 5 Tricky words
Phonics - letter S - Wednesday 27th January Home Learning
Feelings - Tuesday 26th January Home Learning
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Welcome to Overdale Infant School
Welcome to Overdale Infant School - A Video by Mrs Hayley Holmes
This video welcomes anyone thinking of choosing Overdale Infant School as the first school for their child. We wanted to give parents and carers the opportunity to get a feel for our school and as we are currently unable to welcome visitors this was the only way to allow you to take a look inside our wonderful school. We hope you enjoying this snapshot of Overdale Infant School and it allows you to get a feel for the wonderful work we do here. If you have any further questions please do get in touch.
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Year 2
Handwriting with Mrs Dhadwar 09/02/21
Year 2 Assessment Meeting
This video discusses the Year 2 statutory assessments and end of year expectations. This video is only for adults so please do not watch this with your children. Please watch this video and write down any questions that you have. You will be able to ask these questions in the virtual questions and answers meeting on Wednesday 25th November. Thank you.
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Gold Class Home Learning
20.11.2020 Maths - Addition
Recapping previous learning of Addition.
20.11.2020 Fruit and Milk Story Time
The Disgusting Sandwich
19.11.2020 Maths - Partitioning into tens and ones
Recapping previous learning.
Art with Mrs Taylor
Creative writing activity by Ms Holmes
What are these people looking at?
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Red Class Home Learning
Counting in fives
Billy's Bucket Story read by Mrs Davis
Tuesday Maths
Miss Quick reads out some subtraction word problems.
Monday Maths
Miss Quick shows how to solve mixed (addition and subtraction) calculations. Read the calculations carefully, looking at the mathematical symbols. Don't forget to use your jottings! Enjoy!
Friday
Story Time with Mrs Awan (Dinosaurs United)
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Reception Home Learning
Sight word SNAP!
Reading - Yes or No!
Mrs Wanless helps to read some questions, find out if the answer is yes or no!
Maths - Sharing
Help me to share the food equally for a teddy bear’s picnic.
Look at the 3d shapes I have found in my house!
Reading Comprehension
Teen numeral bingo!
Play along, and practise numeral recognition, and recall what the numerals represent.
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Rainbow 1 Class Home Learning
R1 Making playdough with Mrs Archer
Silly Soup with Mrs Wanless
Mrs. Wanless has made a silly soup game. Watch here, then have a go at making some silly soup at home or use the activity on the home learning page to sort the pictures, thinking about which can go in the Silly Soup!
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Rainbow 3 Class Home Learning
Leaf animals
Make animals from leaves and natural materials.
Number Rhymes
Join in with Mrs Chester
Tommy thumb and dough disco
Finger gym exercise with Mrs ortega
How to make playdough
Silly Soup
Do you notice anything special about the ingredients in my silly soup?
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Year 1 Home Learning
Design your own ice cream poster activity
Subtraction Word Problems
In the summer I see... English video - Writing
Learning to Tell the Time - Half Past
This video will help you to learn to tell the time. Today we will recap o'clock and then look at half past.
There are lots of animal groups
o'clock
This video will help with learning to tell the time. We always start with o'clock times.
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Indigo Class Home Learning
Marble Painting With Mrs Rickets
English Lesson 3 WC 14.09.20
Writing simple sentences. See if you can use an adjective in each sentence! If you would like to challenge yourself, you could use the conjunction 'and'. For example, "The elephant has a long trunk and it has a sharp tusk." 'and' is the conjunction and 'long' and 'sharp' are the adjectives.
English Lesson 2 WC 14.09.20
writing simple cvc words
English Lesson 1 WC 14.09.20
sounding and blending cvc words to support reading
Sinking and Floating with Mrs Ricketts
Colouring Mixing with Mrs Ricketts
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Green Class Home Learning
Friday 18th September - Maths
Ordering numerals to 20.
Sight words with Mrs Chorley
Thursday 17th September - Maths
Recognising numerals, 15 to 20.
English - Wednesday 16th September
Writing simple sentences.
Tuesday 15th September - English
Writing simple words.
Marble Painting With Mrs Ricketts
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Year 2 Home Learning
How to write questions
Subtraction
How to solve subtraction calculations.
Measuring Mass!
A video explaining how we can measure and compare mass (weight).
Dough Dancing - exercises to improve handwriting! 😃
Hi Year 2! I remember that many of you enjoyed doing some dough disco at school to strengthen your finger muscles which helps to improve your handwriting. It’s also a lot of fun too! 😃 I thought I would create a similar video for you to join in with at home. At the end of the video I have attached a dough recipe for you to follow so you can make your own. Have fun!!! 😃 (Video Inspired by Shonette Bason Wood’s Dough Disco)
Acrostic poetry
A video about poetry.
Mixed Word Problems
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Phonics, Reading and Writing Information for Parents and Carers
Phonics, Reading and Writing Presentation 2020
Presentation for Reception parents outlining how we teach phonics
Oral blending and segmenting activities to try with your child
A short video for parents suggesting activities to try at home to support your child and their ability to orally blend sounds together to say words, and orally segment the sounds that they hear in words.
Matching phonemes and graphemes activities to try with your child
A short video for parents suggesting activities to try at home to support your child and their ability to learn the shape (grapheme) and sound (phoneme) of each letter.
Blending sounds to read words activities to try with your child
A short video for parents suggesting activities to try at home to support your child and their ability to blend sounds together to read words.
Segmenting to spell activities to try with your child
A short video for parents suggesting activities to try at home to support your child and their ability to segment words to spell.
Sight word activities to try with your child
A short video for parents suggesting activities to try at home to support your child and their learning of sight words.
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Phonics Pure Letter Sounds
Pure Phonic Sounds
Following Phonics Evening parents expressed how useful it would be to be able to access a video of pure phonic sounds. Therefore we have created just that. This video can be used with children of any age who are working on learning what the letters of the alphabet look like and the sounds they make.
Phonics pure letter sounds
Digraphs
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Sight words
Sight word matching pairs
Sight word BINGO!
Sight word video 4a
Reading sight words he, she, be, we, me, is, with, at, that, this, then, they, there, I
Sight word video 4b
Writing from memory he, she, be, we, me, is, with, at, that, this, then, they, there, I
Sight words video 3a
Reading sight words can, but, so, you, all, on, said, my, little, up, had, in
Sight word video 3b
Write from memory can, but, so, you, all, on, said, my, little, up, had, in