Dragonflies Bulletin

Messages emailed to Dragonflies parents

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6 years ago
Posted on 24th Mar 2020 by

TTRS Groups

Good Morning Class 3!

Mrs Heath has asked me to set up battles on TTRS.

We have split you into 4 groups and given those groups names of Shropshire hills: Caradoc, Mynd, Clee and Wrekin. Click on the link below to see what group you’re in.

Keep a look out for the first battles…..who will be against who?!!

TTRS Groups

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6 years ago
Posted on 24th Mar 2020 by

White Rose Maths update

Thank you all for your patience with the White Rose Maths site yesterday. I know that White Rose are on the case and hope that you have a better time accessing resources today!

A Message from the Head of White Rose Maths

I wanted to sincerely apologise if you have experienced any difficulties getting on to our website today.

Due to the huge level of traffic to our site this morning, our web servers were incredibly busy, and we understand that some people had problems accessing the resources.

At one point we had over 200,000 visitors trying to access the pages at once, which as you can imagine caused issues. Lots of you were able to get on the system, but I know others could not access our content. 

High demand was anticipated but unfortunately despite the measures taken, the system found this level of traffic challenging! We will be working around the clock with our website team and server hosts to ensure the web site can cope with this massive demand for our home learning resources going forward. 

In order to help level out the demand please try to download the worksheet and answers the day before, at a separate time from the videos.

We will be following the lessons through the week, so you know which worksheets to download in advance.

 

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6 years ago
Posted on 23rd Mar 2020 by

White Rose Maths

Hi again Class 3,

I have just spoken to the fantastic staff at the White Rose Maths site. They currently have over 100,000 people trying to access the site at the same time and although the site hasn’t completely crashed they are aware that there are problems. They have reassured me that their IT team are currently working on solving the problem and have thanked us for our patience.

They have suggested trying to access the site again a little later in the day at the moment as the videos are more likely to play when the demand is lower.

It’s been great to see that Archie has been busy working this morning – I have just had a great mail with pictures of him hard at work. Well done Archie!

 

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6 years ago
Posted on 23rd Mar 2020 by

Web links on class planning

Hi Class 3,

I have just been informed that the links on the Class 3 planning sheet aren’t fully functioning. It appears that there are two issues that I am currently trying to sort out.

Firstly, because the document is saved as a PDF the links aren’t working. These are the links that were on the sheet for today:

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html

Secondly, when you get to the White Rose pages it seems that they are no longer working correctly. I think that this may be because there are so many people trying to access them at the same time. I will email White Rose and get back to you all again later.

Please carry on looking at the work that can be done, it really doesn’t matter which order the tasks are done in.

Look forward to hearing from you,

Mrs Heath

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6 years ago
Posted on 22nd Mar 2020 by

Physical Challenge

We are only 460 miles short of reaching our goal of completing our class challenge of walking/running “Home from Rome” – let’s get to the finish line!

You have worked SO hard over the term to get this far. If you go for a walk, or a run, or do laps of your garden or field etc whilst you are off please try to work out the distance that you covered, so that I can add it to our total. Yesterday Lexi and I walked 4 miles, so there are now 456 miles left to go. Send photos if you can!

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6 years ago
Posted on 09th Mar 2020 by

Cake Sale – ‘Cakes for Koalas and Kangaroos’

Class 2 will be holding a cake sale, this week, on Thursday 12th March to raise money for koalas and kangaroos that have been affected by the terrible Australian wildfires. We will be sending the money to ‘Koala Aid’ and ‘Wild2Free Kangaroo Sanctuary’.
We would be very grateful if you could help us by bringing in cupcakes or buns for us to sell, on Wednesday or Thursday morning. We will be holding the cake sale on Thursday afternoon.
Thank you so much for your help!

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6 years ago
Posted on 12th Jan 2020 by

Spring Term Forest School

The dates for this term’s Forest School sessions are as below. Please note that all children will need their Forest School kits next Monday (13th January) and also on 23rd March.