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Today's Home Learning Blog Wednesday 3rd February 2021, by Miss Flynn
Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 9:22am
Good Morning Year 6!
Here is a brief overview of today's lessons;
English today will be reading/listening to Journey to the River Sea- ensure you are up to chapter 8. The links for the chapters are on SchoolSpider and then there are some questions to complete.
In Maths we are continuing with algebra and forming expressions. There is a PowerPoint and worksheet on SchoolSpider to help you.
In Science you will be investigating what happens when certain changes are made to a circuit.
Don't forget to go on the rockstars website (just let us know on the school spider if you need your log in). https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school
We look forward to seeing you all soon.
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Year 1 Vlog 03/02/21, by Mr Chamberlain
Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 8:48am
Home learning Keeping healthy and Growing day 3, by Miss Mclaren
Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 8:37am
Understanding the World
Today we are working on our Understanding the World area of learning.
Before you start, why don't you have a try warming up with Joe Wicks?
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Today we will be looking at the change in the caterpillar and then the changes we can see in ourselves
First of all, look at the pictures of the caterpillar throughout the story.
What did he start as? What did he grow in to? What did he do throughout the story to grow into a butterfly?
Can you show your child the video of The Very Hungry Caterpillar again, encourage them to look at the different parts of the lifecycle of a caterpillar.
Why and how do they think that has happened?
If you are able to, can you show pictures of yourself as a baby, child, teenager, if not is there anyone else in the family that you could show their growth and change through pictures?
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Look at the way they have changed by looking at their baby pictures.
What changes can they notice?
Do a hand print using paint or draw around their hand and then do the same to yours. What do they notice about the two?
Do they think they will grow as big as their parent or stay as they are?
What will help them to grow?
Can they draw a picture of themselves as a baby and then a picture of themselves now?
3.
Now that you have seen what you looked like as a baby and what your family looked like, we now need to think about the caterpillar and what they would grow into.
Do you think you could make me a lifecycle of a caterpillar?
You can be as creative as you want. You can draw it, paint it, build it or make it.
I would like to see an egg, a very small caterpillar, a fully grown caterpillar, a cocoon and a butterfly.
I can’t wait to see all your creations.
4. If you would like to have a go at making an exploratory tray, you could use cucumber, tomatoes and raisins to create a caterpillar, go on the hunt for some leaves and twigs and make a habitat for your caterpillar to live in.
5
Write your name and measure yourself with a piece of string, cut the string and tie it ina bow with your name and the date on. Then place it in your memory box
Year 5 Home Learning Wednesday 3rd January 2021, by Miss Welsh
Date: 2nd Feb 2021 @ 8:19pm
Good Morning Year 5,
Wednesday already! You are half way through our week of home learning, we are so proud of all the hard work you are doing. Keep it up!
We have uploaded a daily video explaining the activities for day further for you. We have also modelled the method for Maths.
Today is inside out day, we have uploaded activities for you to enjoy and think about yours and others mental wellbeing. It’s ok not to be ok. Remember to talk and share how you’re feeling good or bad.
Keep going with the Timetable rocks star battle, it is so close now!
Miss Welsh, Mr Worthington, Mrs Scarisbrick, Mrs Daley and Mrs Barron 
F2 Wednesday 3rd February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 2nd Feb 2021 @ 6:38pm
Hi F2,
Here are todays activities:
Literacy – Alliteration
Sometimes we get words muddled when they all begin with the same letter and are next to each other, which is alliteration. Listen some tongue twisters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tvZ-J5AsfM&t=187s&pbjreload=101
Can you say the first letter that their name begins with? For example ‘B’ for Billy. Can you recognise the first letter of the names of the people you live with?
Can you write a name label but use some alliteration too. Think about your coat peg in school what is the picture? For example: Tiger Tim. You might even want to think of an action For example: Jumping Jake.
Phonics – Consolidation
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 phonemes:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/assets/resources/shared/pdf-thumbnails/printables-scene-farmyard.jpg Can you look at the picture. can you write some words to match what you see in the picture? For example: sheep. Can you write your sound buttons too?
Maths – Halving
Watch the story all about halving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=663FhDCwhkY
Have some different pieces of fruit/ objects E.g. 4 apples, 6 bananas, 5 oranges etc.
Pick a number. Can they count out the correct amount of fruit/ objects and halve it equally (share between 2)?
Repeat this with different numbers.
Thematic: What sounds can you hear in the rainforest?
Talk about the rainforest climate and the fact that it rains a lot. Show children rainmaker instrument and explore using it to make different sounds. https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51KDYKZOQJL._AC_SX425_.jpg
Explore pouring different materials into cardboard tubes (kitchen roll tube or just rolled up card) eg. lentils, rice etc and what sounds best.
Can you create a rainforest design on paper that can be wrapped around your rainmaker you might include trees and what animals live in the rainforest.
Can you make a rainforest sound composition, explore starting quietly and then get louder.
We have started uploading videos of stories on Tapestry (Memo). In addition, there is a video on Tapestry explaining some Phonics terminology.
This week is Children’s Mental Health Week there are lots of activities that you can do on https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/ Place 2B website.
Wellbeing Activity: Do some yoga with your family.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
Year 4 Home Learning 02/02/2021, by Mr Woodland
Date: 2nd Feb 2021 @ 2:57pm
Happy Tuesday Year 4,
Today's Home Learning tasks are in the login area and their is more detail if you watch below.
A new TTRockstars battle is also set up between the 2 classes, for you to use at home. Mrs Barron's class won last week.
We hope you are all doing well and just message if there are any problems.
Stay safe
Mr Woodland, Miss Barron, Miss Lee and Mrs Evans
Home learning Keeping healthy and Growing day 2, by Miss Mclaren
Date: 2nd Feb 2021 @ 1:54pm
Hi preschool,
Today we are doing our literacy lessons,
We have loved seeing all your work so far so keep up the good work.
I will be posting a story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar tomorrow so watch out for that.
Here are the activities for today.
Cosmic Kids Yoga
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhWDiQRrC1Y
Literacy and Communication and Language
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Listen to the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Focus on the p sound, can they have a try at writing the sound p?
What food did the caterpillar eat that began with p?
What other food can they think of that begins with p, make a list together.
2
Now that you have thought about food that begins with p in the story, can you think about your favourite food? Mrs McLaren’s favourite food is pizza, what sound does that begin with?
Can you draw your favourite food and write the initial sound next to it?
Children may need help to write the initial sound so if you could write in yellow, or a lighter colour and the child copy over the letter that would be great.
They can also use the letter board we have sent home to find and recognise the initial sound and have a practice writing over those letters.
3
Fine motor control
If you have playdough could you make some small balls of playdough?
Then, using your tweezers or kitchen tongs, try to pick up the balls of playdough and place them down next to each other to make a caterpillar. Find something to use as antenna and eyes and legs.
Can you make a big face and mouth for your caterpillar?
The caterpillar is hungry, do you think you could make some food for him and feed him with your tweezers/tongs?
4
Well being task
Start to create your very own memory box, capturing your time at home with your family.
The first thing you need to do today is find a box and start to decorate it.
Each day we will add something to the b
Year 2 Home Learning Vlog 02/02/21, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 2nd Feb 2021 @ 11:48am
Happy Tuesday!
Here are your activities for today!
Have a great day,
Miss McNamee, Miss Wise, Miss McLaughlin, Mrs Wright and Mrs Dunleavy :)
Year 3 Home Learning Tuesday 02.02, by Mrs Bale
Date: 2nd Feb 2021 @ 9:06am
Good Morning Children,
We hope you enjoy today's home learning challenges.
Have a lovely day and please continue to upload your work, we love seeing what you've done.
Mrs Bale, Mrs McAlynn, Mrs Fitzgerald, Mrs Mayes and Miss Massie 
Mental Health Week, by Mr Chamberlain
Date: 2nd Feb 2021 @ 8:41am
This week we are celebrating Mental Health Week. The theme is "Express Yourself".
We are aiming to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health by asking our children to use their imagination and creativity to express themselves on the theme of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Children may decide to design a poster, create a performance, write a poem, make an object, as long as it is about mental health it can be anything!
Some of the following statements could be used;
Year 1 Vlog 02/02/21, by Mr Chamberlain
Date: 2nd Feb 2021 @ 8:15am
Year 5 Home Learning Tuesday 2nd February 2021, by Miss Welsh
Date: 1st Feb 2021 @ 9:07pm
Good Morning Year 5,
Hope you are all keeping safe and keeping busy at home
We are now going to upload a blog and a video daily, explaining the tasks for each day. If you go onto the school spider to ask any questions you might have and you can also upload your completed work here. Also on the weekly timetable of work you will be able to find some links to videos.
Miss Welsh, Mr Worthington, Mrs Scarisbrick, Mrs Daley and Mrs Barron
F2 Tuesday 2nd February Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 1st Feb 2021 @ 5:49pm
Hi F2,
Here are today's activties:
Literacy – Alliteration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4YaF-jXWuY Play a game of eye spy. Can the children find the picture that matches the letter?
Look at this picture. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/09/71/61/097161aac1230c50448fbd5b11dcea06.jpg
Can you find pictures of objects that begin with the same letter? For example: Pig, Pineapple etc.
Challenge: Can you say them or write them in a sentence? e.g. I saw a pig eating a pineapple.
Phonics – Consolidation
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 phonemes:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Model reading words with two syllables chicken, tonight, boatman, rooftop, farmyard, market, lightning, bedroom. Can you use your sound buttons underneath to help you?
Look at a picture of a sea scene on this link https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/assets/resources/shared/pdf-thumbnails/printables-scene-seaside.jpg Can you label items in picture e.g. shell, fish, shark, tooth, boat, sail, ship.
Can you practise reading the sentences?
The farmyard is full of pigs and cows. Lightning might hit a boat tonight. Rats run on the rooftops in the dark.
Maths – Doubling
Listen to the doubles song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At0quRa90rs
Can you draw or make a domino. Can you practise making your doubling addition facts e.g. 1+1 = 2, 2+2=4 etc.
Can you complete the worksheet attached on the school spider?
Thematic: What sounds can you hear in the rainforest?
EYFS/KS1 Music: Andy Day looks at rainforests - BBC Teach watch the video. Can you guess what habitat we are going to be learning more about?
Talk about habitat ‘the rainforest’ and discuss what it is like there and the animals that live there.
Listen to the music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8myYyMg1fFE&t=193s Think about what sounds you might hear in the rainforest, what could they be?
Can you draw the rainforest and think of onomatopoeia words to match the sounds e.g. drip, drop, splash, tweet, crunch etc.
We have started uploading videos of stories being read on Tapestry (Memo). In addition, there is a video on Tapestry explaining some Phonics terminology.
Wellbeing Activity: Draw a picture for someone and post it to them.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
Year 4 Home Learning 01/02/2021, by Mr Woodland
Date: 1st Feb 2021 @ 3:46pm
Happy Monday Year 4,
Hope you had a good weekend.
Today's Home Learning tasks are in the login area and their is more detail if you watch below.
A new TTRockstars battle is also set up between the 2 classes, for you to use at home. Mrs Barron's class won last week.
We hope you are all doing well and just message if there are any problems.
Stay safe
Mr Woodland, Miss Barron, Miss Lee and Mrs Evans
Today's Home Learning 02.02.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 1st Feb 2021 @ 3:19pm
Happy Tuesday Year 6!!
Hope you are all ok and keeping safe at home. Not long until half term!!
A brief outline of today's tasks
Maths - Two step function machines - a PowerPoint will be uploaded onto the school spider for you to work through with a focus on reasoning style questions.
English - Listren to chapter 7 of 'Journey to the River Sea' and complete the questions on the school spider. Once you have done this please listen to chapter 8 ready for tomorrow's learning.
Geography - You will be making comparsions between England and Brazil, South America. A document will be uploaded onto the school spider to help you with this.
This week is also Children's Mental Health week - keep an eye out for some extra activities realting to this.
There is a virtual assembly to watch here: https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/news/watch-our-children-s-mental-health-week-assembly-with-bafta-kids-and-oak-national-academy/
Have a lovely day and stay safe!
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Year 3 Home Learning Monday 01.02, by Mrs Bale
Date: 1st Feb 2021 @ 10:55am
Good Morning Children,
We hope you're all feeling well and enjoyed a relaxing weekend.
Here is an explanation of your home learning for today. Keep working hard and uploading your work - we love seeing what you've been up to.
It is Children's Mental Health week this week. This year's theme is 'Express Yourself'.
We know how food and exercise is important for keeping our bodies healthy and looking after our physical health, but how can we also look after our minds and our mental health? Here is a link to a brilliant webiste, where there are lots of videos to watch and activities to complete - https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/
Have a lovely day.
Mrs McAlynn, Mrs Bale, Mrs FItzgerald, Mrs McGunigall, Mrs Mayes and Miss Massie.
Year 2 Vlog 01.02.21, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 1st Feb 2021 @ 10:12am
Year 1 Vlog 01/02/21, by Mr Chamberlain
Date: 1st Feb 2021 @ 10:03am
Today's Home Learning Blog Monday 1st February 2021, by Miss Flynn
Date: 1st Feb 2021 @ 8:42am
Good Morning!
We hope you have had a lovely weekend!
Here is a brief overview of today's lessons;
English today will be reading/listening to Journey to the River Sea- ensure you are up to chapter 5. Today we would like you to listen to and make notes on chapters 5 and 6 and then complete the activities outlined on SchoolSpider.
In Maths we have set an activity on function machines. You need to problem solve to try and work out what has happened to the number as it has passed through the function machine.
HIstory will be researching the Maya's diet and what crops they grew. There is also a recipe for Hot Chocolate!
Don't forget to go on the rockstars website (just let us know on the school spider if you need your log in). https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school
We look forward to seeing you all soon.
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes 
Year 5 Home Learning Monday 1st February 2021, by Miss Welsh
Date: 31st Jan 2021 @ 8:10pm
Good Morning Year 5 ,
Week 5 of home learning, we are really proud of how hard you are all working. Hope you are all ok and staying safe at home. We have uploaded a daily video explaining the activities further for you.
This week can you start collecting material ready to make you Greek temple. You can collect and make your temple out of anything you have around the house; toliet roll holders, empyt milk cartons, cardboard, etc.
There is a new TT Rockstar battle set up between both classes. Last week Mr Worthington’s class won. Who will win this week?
Don't forget to take plenty of breaks and maybe try to do some exercise or get some fresh air.
Miss Welsh, Mr Worthington, Mrs Scarisbrick, Mrs Daley and Mrs Barron
F2 Monday 1st February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 31st Jan 2021 @ 9:58am
Hi F2,
We hope you all had a lovely weekend! We cannot wait to see all of your hard work!
Literacy – Alliteration
Listen to the alliteration song - https://www.youtube.com/watch/y-koivS_aho
Alliteration is when we have words that begin with the same letter. E.g. jiggle jelly, brown bear. Can you play a game of eye spy and find things that begin with the same letter?
Choose a letter and write some words of things that begin with that letter. You could even draw a picture too.
How many letters can you complete?
Phonics – Consolidation
In Phonics, we are practising our Phase 2 and 3 phonemes:
Phase 2 (s, a, t, p, i, n, m, d, g, o, c, k, ck, e, u, r, h, b, f, ff, l, ll, ss)
Phase 3 (j, v, w, x, y, z, zz, qu, ch, sh, th, ng, ai, ee, igh, oa, oo, ar, or, ur, ow, oi, ear, air, ure, er).
Can you write a sentence using last week’s spellings e.g. all, he, my , into
Go on Phonics Play or Phonics Bloom and complete some of the free blending games.
Maths – Doubling
Listen to the My Doggie Double song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqp90ulJiIo&t=50s
Can you make or draw a butterfly and cut some circles out of paper. Then roll a dice and whatever number it lands on can you put the circles on each side of the butterfly’s wings. Can you work out what double of your number is?
e.g. 3 and 3 is 6 (so double 3 is 6)
RE: Jesus heals the sick
Listen to the Story of Ben. (Ask an adult to read the story, please see attached)
Can you verbally answer these questions?
How did Ben feel when he was in hospital?
• What did his friends make for him?
• Can anyone think of anything else they did?
• What did Ben think was the best thing they did?
• How can we help people when they are ill?
Listen to the song and join in with the actions. We Believe (Easter Song) - YouTube
Jesus brought the good news of God’s love to everyone. He healed the sick, raised the dead, he fed the hungry and he quickly forgave people who had made wrong choices.
Write a speech bubble of what they think Jesus would say to the sick.
Wellbeing Activity: Sing some nursery rhymes with your family.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
Home learning Keeping healthy and Growing, by Miss Mclaren
Date: 30th Jan 2021 @ 5:58am
Hi Preschool, we hope you are all doing well.
We miss you lots.
This week and next week we are thinking about Keeping healthy and Growing.
The book we will be reading this week is The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.
Each day I will be adding the new lesson to this class blog and to Tapestry. Any work you complete please upload to Tapestry and if you are having any problems uploading, please phone the annexe and Mrs McLaren will be happy to talk you through how to upload.
Monday 01.02.21
Todays tasks are to do with phonics and physical development.
We are working on our rhyming today within phonics.
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Rhyming pairs In a pairs game, use pictures or objects with names that rhyme.
If you don't have any rhyming cards you could draw them or just find objects or toys that rhyme.
Here are a few simple ones: mug,rug,bug,jug,slug
cat,bat,rat,hat
ham, jam, lamb
hen,pen,ten
dog,frog,log
Take it in turns to turn two cards over and keep them if the pictures are a rhyming pair.If they are not a rhyming pair, the cards are turned face down again and the other person has a turn.
If playing with objects, split the rhyming objects.Place one of each of the rhyming objects outside the box and the other objects inside the box. Pull one object out at a time and match it to the objects outside of the boxt. Again take it in turns to match the objects. the person with the most pairs at the end wins.
Start with a small core set of words that can then be extended. The children need to be familiar with the rhyming word families before they can use them in a game – spend time looking at the pictures/objects and talking about the pairs.
2
Cutting activities. All our children need lots of practice with cutting as it is a very hard skill to master.
Encourage your child to work on their cutting skills, focusing on how they hold their scissors and what hand they hold their scissors in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDtupoBsp6o
Above just a simple video to help your child learn how to hold scissors proerly and cut.
Different resources you can use to help with their cutting skills is playdough, straws, paper, bread and card.
3
Hide and seek game
Promotes listening and attention and language skills and prepositional language, e.g. on top of, underneath, next to and behind.
Use some of your child’s favourite toys and hide them around the room before your child comes in.
Encourage your child to find the toys, following your instructions e.g. it is underneath something blue. Once they have found all the toys re-set the game focusing on the prepositions they found the hardest.
Allow your child to then hide them and encourage them to use the prepositional language to explain where the toys are.
You could incorporate some rhyming in here too if you are able by placing items that rhyme by each other, e.g. a mug on a rug, a hat on a mat etc.
4
Well being activity
If you haven’t already, pick up a baking set from our pop up pantry open from 10-11 am and enjoy doing some baking.
A big thank you from Children in Need, by Mrs Walker
Date: 29th Jan 2021 @ 2:20pm
Children in Need feels like a million years ago now!
It was lovely to open the post this morning to find this certificate to say a big thank you.
Well done to everyone who joined in with all the fun on the day and very generously donated during such difficult times.
Stay safe everyone!
Year 4 Home Learning 29/01/2021, by Mr Woodland
Date: 29th Jan 2021 @ 11:06am
Happy Friday Year 4,
Nearly the weekend.
Today's Home Learning tasks are in the login area and their is more detail if you watch below.
A new TTRockstars battle is also set up between the 2 classes, for you to use at home. Mrs Barron's class won last week.
We hope you are all doing well and just message if there are any problems.
Stay safe
Mr Woodland, Miss Barron, Miss Lee, Mrs Evans and Miss Harrison
Year 3 home learning Friday 29.1.21, by Mrs McAlynn
Date: 29th Jan 2021 @ 10:12am
Good morning everyone! We have reached the end of another busy week and are so proud of all the hard work you have done at home!
Here are your home learning tasks for today- please upload evidence of your work onto school spider so that we can give you feedback.
Maths- we are finishing our week of learning about angles by looking at angles that are larger or smaller than a right angle. What do we call these angles? Log onto school spider to find out more!
English- today is your opportunity to use the checklist to go over the Tanka poem you wrote yesterday and try to edit and improve your work. Are them some words that would be replaced with better adjectives? Are you happy with the order of your lines? Remember that it still needs to follow the Tanka syllable pattern! 5-7-5-7-7
Art- this afternoon we will be pulling together all that we have learnt so far about African masks to design out own mask. Think carefully about the kind of colours you have seen used and the shapes that Artists have used to make different features like the eyes and the mouth.
I hope you have a successful day learning at home children! Pop back onto the youtube channel or the class blog this afternoon when I will be posting another video to tell you about our exciting art work next week.
Don't forget your timestables rockstars- there's not long left to help your class be champions this week!
Mrs McAlynn, Msr Fitzgerald and Mrs McGunigall :)