Dear Parents/ Carers,
To celebrate World Book Day, Scholastic are providing free events for children from Monday 1st March – Friday 5th March 2021. As a school, we have access to these events as we hold our annual Book Fair with them.
Mr Harding, Mr Lane and Mr Mardell have picked the following authors and events for you:
To attend these events, you will need to sign up to the suggested sessions beforehand using the following link https://shop.scholastic.co.uk/scholastic-live-world-book-day.You will then need to enter this password clubsandfairs.
You are welcome to sign up to more if you wish.
Before signing up to the events, we would like to make you aware that these sessions will be accessed by many schools and children across the country, who are also likely to be logging in from home. Please be aware that we cannot guarantee that comments made in the ‘chat box function’ will be monitored. We therefore suggest that if you do decide to sign up, that an adult is present in the room. It is also possible to close the ‘chat box’ entirely so that it is not visible on-screen.
Whilst Year 6 are learning at home, all Home Learning can be accessed via the daily timetable sheets below. Each sheet contains a description of the activities along with links to the files needed for the lesson. There is also a link at the top of each sheet that opens a folder with all the files needed.
There is one file for all of Year 6, so some lessons may not be on the day your child would have it when in school.
If you have any problems accessing the timetables or downloading the linked files, please email your teacher:
mlane@hethersettprimary.co.uk
pmardell@hethersettprimary.co.uk
mharding@hethersettprimary.co.uk
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