Today's Home Learning Blog Thursday 4th March 2021, by Miss Flynn

Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 11:18pm

Good Morning Everyone!!

Happy World Book Day!

Today's Online Learning will be a bit different. Instead of our ususal timetable, today we will be completing a number of World Book Day activities.

We have attached videos and activities for you to complete at home.

Below is a rough timetable of the day- whilst at home you can complete the activities in any order that you wish.

Don't forget to upload any work you complete and remember to show off your costume if you have decided to dress up! You can upload a picture to SchoolSpider or send them to the school office email!

World Book Day

9.30am-

Assembly and Quiz. (Uploaded to SchoolSpider) There is then a link for you to choose a story to listen to either by yourself or with your family.

10.30am

Bringing Books to life (30 minute live)

https://www.worldbookday.com/event/words-pictures-bring-reading-to-life/

11(ish) am

Break

11.30 until Lunchtime

Bookman introduction video

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vrgcgw2zvkxnskd/AABW6mBUPp8SIdvbfAGm3OXga/Bookman%20Films?dl=0&preview=Bookman-Opening-Film.mp4&subfolder_nav_tracking=1

PowerPoint- 'Open a Book'

Powerpoint with the beginning of a poem written....can you write the rest? Complete Open Book Wksheet attached to SchoolSpider

1.30pm - ​

Watch Bookman Powerpoint uploaded to SchoolSpider

'Fiction Fusion'

Merge two of your favourite stories together to create a new one. Write short story and then create a front cover and blurb.

There are also lots of other events on the World Book Day website. See the whole school blog on our school website for links.

Have a great day everyone! :)

F2 Thursday 4th March 2021 Home Learning World Book Day, by Miss Ward

Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 5:27pm

Hi F2,

Today is World Book Day. Here are today’s activities:

Morning Activities

Look at the World Book Day PowerPoint on School Spider. Can you complete the fun quiz?

Look at the Bookman and the World of Books PowerPoint on School Spider.

Can you complete some of these activities? There are some resources on the School Spider.

• Design a front cover for a ‘fiction fusion’ story e.g. Goldilocks and Topsy and Tim
• Design a character mask
• Draw/paint yourself in your costume
• Story map for your favourite story

Afternoon Activities

Look at the Bookman Brainteaser PowerPoint on School Spider. Can you think of some of the answers to the brainteasers?

Can you complete some of these activities?

• Design a finger puppet of your favourite story character
• Complete a bookman storyboard
• Design a bookmark
• Collect a stick and make a stickman
• Make a puppet show
• Read a story with an adult or sibling
•  

Remember to send in a picture of your costume on Tapestry. We cannot wait to see what your favourite book characters are.

Wellbeing Activity: Read a story at home with a family member.

Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!

F2 Team

Home learning Animals day 3, by Miss Mclaren

Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 1:30pm

Understanding the world

Warm up

Cosmic kids yoga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5MtR2KSdGk#

1.

We will be thinking about animals and their young today.

Ask the children if they know what any animals babies are called, e.g. what is a dog’s baby called?

If they can not think or have no idea ask them to watch the video below and then talk about the other animals they might be interested in and what their young is called.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJg4YFtvOp8

2.

Play What am I game,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZJgA9sdgso

 the video above can be watched and children will be able to answer the questions as it plays.

3. can they draw a family of their favourite animal, thinking about what the baby is called, what they eat, what they may produce and any facts they ma know.

Parents do the same and show your child your animal family, telling them the facts you have found out about your animal.

Home learning Animals day 2, by Miss Mclaren

Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 1:28pm

Literacy

Warm up

Joe Wicks

1.

Encourage your child to recap on alliteration, thinking about some of the animals that started with the same sound from yesterday’s activities.

Can they draw some animals that start with the same sound and write the correct initial sound? If they can’t do this by themselves they could write over your writing or dots etc.

2.

Think about an animal that they like, can they look on google to find out some facts about their favourite animal.

Once you have read out the facts to your child can they draw their favourite animal, write their initial sound and then talk about their characteristics and facts they have learnt.

e.g. where do they live?

      What do they eat?

      What is their young called?

3.

If you have some animals make a farm/zoo or a mixture of both, this could be with cuddly toys, plastic animals etc.

Play with your child pretending to be a farmer/zoo keeper. Feed the animals, put them to bed, take them for a walk etc. If you have a pet at home maybe your child could help to feed it or groom it?

Year 2 Blog 03.03.21, by Miss Hanton-Wise

Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 11:02am

Year 3 home learning Wednesday 3.3.21, by Mrs McAlynn

Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 10:39am

Hi everyone! Hope you had a good day yesterday! I don't know about you but I am freezing today! Hopefully the sunshine will come back out when we are all back together in school next week :)

Here are your home learning tasks for today:

Maths: we are focusing on our column subtraction today- watch the video carefully to remind yourself what we do when we have to take a bigger number from a smaller number and have to use exchanging.

English: we are going to be using what we have learnt about the Egyptian Cinderella to put our own spin on a fairy tale! Share the story of the Princess and the Pea, and have a go at creating your own version of the story, changing different parts to make them more Egyptian!

Geography- this afternoon we are going to be Archaeologists and will be researching the top 10 discoveries about Ancient Egypt! What can you find out about the different artefacts? What do they teach us about the past?

Have a great day children! Mrs McAlynn, Mrs Bale, Mrs McGunigall and Mrs Mayes :)

World Book Day 4th March 2021, by Miss Flynn

Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 10:07am

World Book Day - 4th March 2021

World Book Day changes lives through a love of books and shared reading. Our mission is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own. Reading for pleasure is the single biggest indicator of a child’s future success – more than their family circumstances, their parents’ educational background or their income. We want to see more children with a life-long habit of reading for pleasure and the improved life chances this brings them. Designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, World Book Day is marked in over 100 countries around the globe.

Throughout the day, your child's teacher will upload activities to complete to SchoolSpider however there are also a number of free events being hosted throughout the day.

See below for further information and don't forget to send photographs in if you have dressed up!

Most importantly- keep reading!

Miss Flynn :)

4TH MARCH

In the morning…

BBC Breakfast: tune in to see Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo and Malcolm Donaldson sharing stories while dressed up as the book characters! If you’re inspired, check out our ideas on how to make your own book character costume to wear while you share your favourite stories. 

9:15am: Join CBBC presenter Kenzie Benali and Football School authors Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton for a fun, free live event! Hosted in collaboration with the National Literacy Trust and the Premier League, the event will be an interactive quiz, including a round led by footballers from the Premier League, the English Football League, and Women’s Super League! Join the event here. 

9-10am: Scala Radio’s Screentime with World Book Day. Scala will be playing music from films and TV shows that have been adapted from children’s books, including The Secret Garden, The BFG and Harry Potter. There will be exciting conversations about how to get involved with World Book Day, as well guest readings throughout the day. 

In the Afternoon…

1:45-2:45pm: Fonetti’s World Book Day online extravaganza! Register in advance to hear stories from Clare Balding and Christina Gabbitas, who will answer questions from young readers. Fonetti are also launching a new competition, where the winners can become a published author. Register for the event here. 

 2-2.45pm: KS3 event with Robert Muchamore, in partnership with South West ASCEL schools/libraries and Authors Aloud 

2.30pm – 3.30pm: Twinkl’s World Book Day Quiz! Twinkl are hosting a fun, quick fire World Book Day quiz. For children in the early years there will be the reading of a short story then asking some fun, quiz questions based on the book to practice children’s retelling and recall skills. Afterwards, there’s some further quiz fun as children can try to name that story with Twinkl’s PowerPoint and/or try another scavenger hunt for some further screen free, energy-burning fun. 

Big World Book Day Virtual Book Bonanza with At Home 4 Indies: Two brilliant schools events for KS1 and KS2, featuring Konnie Huq, Andy Shepherd, Jonny Duddle, Julia Patton, John Kane and Chris Wakling. Email [email protected] for more information. 

Become a RECORD SMASHER!  In celebration of the upcoming publication of The Incredible RecordSmashers by Jenny Pearson, Usborne and Guinness World Records are encouraging as many children as possible to have at a book-based challenge this World Book Day! Book tower & topple, book stacks, balancing books on your head… Everyone who has a go gets an official certificate to prove they are INCREDIBLE – get involved here. 

For older readers…

4-5pm: Spark Your Story with this free virtual Creative Writing Workshop. Aimed for ages 16-25,  join Isabelle King, Norfolk Storyteller and children’s author, to explore the stunning landscapes of Alfred Cohen, to inspire your writing. At the end of the workshop you will have created a setting, character and the start of your own amazing story. Click here to book your place.

Today's Home Learning 03.03.21, by Miss Houghton

Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 9:27am

Good Morning Year 6, 

Only three more days of home learning!! 

Watch today's video to find out your activities for the day! 

Brief Overview 

Maths: Area of Triangles. 

English: Fronted Adverbials 

Science: Reproduction of Plants 

Have a great day 

Year 1 Vlog 03/03/21, by Mr Chamberlain

Date: 3rd Mar 2021 @ 8:08am

Year 5 Home Learning Wednesday 3rd March 2021, by Miss Welsh

Date: 2nd Mar 2021 @ 10:21pm

Good Morning Year 5 

We are half way through our week of home learning, we are so proud of all the hard work you are doing. Keep it up! Not long now before we are all back together!

We have uploaded todays video to give you an outline of today’s activities along with examples of the maths.

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. The battle is going strong, which class will be champions this week?

We look forward to seeing you all soon. 

Miss Welsh, Mr Worthington, Mrs Scarisbrick, Mrs Daley and Mrs Barron 

F2 Wednesday 3rd March 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward

Date: 2nd Mar 2021 @ 5:43pm

Hi F2, 

Here are today's activities: 

Literacy – Farm Animals

Listen to the story ‘Down on the farm’  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usaNJILopQI

What animals did you spot in the story? What noises did they make? What were they doing?

Can you write some of the names of the animals? For example, pic, cow, dog, horse.

Challenge:  Can you put some of these words into sentences? For example, a pig is pink.

Phonics – Adjacent Consonants

Practise these Phase 2 and 3 phonemes (or, oa, ar, oo, oo)

Can you practise writing and remembering these High Frequency Words (down, went)

Can you write these words into the phoneme frame template? (skip ,brush ,bench, desk)

Maths – Time

Practise counting using the splat square https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares  For example –  counting 1-20 forwards and backwards, counting in 10’s, counting in 2’s, one more, one less, missing numbers.

Talk about different times of the day when we do things. For example: what time do you wake up, what time is lunch, what time do you have dinner?

Can you make a clock using cut up pieces of paper or draw it outside using chalk remember the 12 is a the top of the clock.

Can you make the o’clock times of the day. For example: school starts at 9 o’clock.

Remember the minute hand (longer hand) points to the 12 and the hour hand (smaller hand) points the hour it is.

Understanding the World: What animals eat?

What do different animals eat? What does a cat or dog eat?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv/articles/z96vb9q Watch this 1-minute video, which explains what different animals eat.

Can you draw a picture of an animal you have learnt about and write what it eats.

Play a PE game: Can you move like different animals? For example: a cheetah, kangaroo, snake, sloth, crab, frog etc.

Wellbeing Activity: Go on a ‘senses walk’. Go to a familiar place (or somewhere completely new) and think of all of the things that you can see, hear, smell and feel. 

Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!

F2 Team

Year 3 home learning 2.3.21, by Mrs McAlynn

Date: 2nd Mar 2021 @ 9:45am

Good morning children! Only a few days of home learning left! We can't wait to see you next week! Here are your learning tasks for today:

Maths- we are going to be looking at our column addition this morning, focusing on what we do when we need to regroup numbers.

English- today we have a very special English lesson! The whole of KS2 will be taking part in an assembly led by  one of our favourite authors: David Walliams! Go to the link at 10:30am to take part!

RE- in our lesson today we will be continuing to explore the mass, focusing on the Last Supper. We will be finding out why was such an important moment for us as Christians, and how we can show our thanks to Jesus for the sacrifice he made.

Have a great day everyone! Mrs McAlynn, Mrs Bale, Mrs McGunigall and Mrs Mayes :)

F2 Tuesday 2nd March 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 7:38pm

Hi F2, 

Here are the activities for today:

Literacy – Guided Reading  

Choose a story to read at home with an adult. Can you find the beginning, middle and end of the story? Retell the story back to an adult or sibling at home. 

Can you draw a picture of your favourite part of the story and write a sentence why?

Phonics – Adjacent Consonants

Practise these Phase 2 and 3 phonemes (sh, ch, ck, th)

Can you practise writing and remembering these High Frequency Words (have, like)

Can you cut up these words and put them in a sentence? pig, see, pink, I , can, a

Play a phase 4 game on Phonics Play  https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/4

Maths – Time

Practise counting using the splat square https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares  For example –  counting 1-20 forwards and backwards, counting in 10’s, counting in 2’s, one more, one less, missing numbers.

Recap over different types of time: analogue clock, digital clock, watches, and wall clocks. What numbers do we see on a clock?

If you have a wall clock or a watch, you might want to let your child look at it and let them explore the time and the way clocks work. If not have a look at this clock game on top marks https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock

Talk to the children about the hands on the clock being different sizes and where the minute hand goes when it’s an o’clock time.

Play a game: If you have chalk at home or you might want to use paper and pencils/crayons. Can you draw a clock and add the numbers to it? Draw 4 different o’clock times and put them in 4 corners. Have an adult or sibling shout out a time, can you run to it as fast as you can?

Understanding the World: Types of animals

Can you remember what a reptile is? Can you think of any animals that are reptiles?

Watch these 1-minute videos to learn about reptiles, mammals and amphibians.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv/articles/zp9pfg8 - Reptiles

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv/articles/zp92xnb - Mammals

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6882hv/articles/zc6br82 - Amphibians

Choose an animal, either a mammal or amphibian. Can you draw the animal, you might want to colour it or paint it.

Can you write a fact about your animal too?

Wellbeing Activity: Share a story with a family member and listen to Miss Kealey’s video reading the story Owl Babies.

Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!

F2 Team

Year 5 Home Learning Tuesday 2nd March 2021, by Miss Welsh

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 7:34pm

Good Morning Year 5,

We have uploaded a video explaining the tasks for today 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. 

There is a new time tables battle, the last one for this half term. Who will win this week’s battle?

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 

Year 1 Vlog 02/03/21, by Mr Chamberlain

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 5:27pm

Today's Home Learning Blog Tuesday 2nd March 2021, by Miss Flynn

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 3:30pm

Good Morning Year 6, 

Watch today's daily video to find out more about your tasks today. 

Brief outline 

Maths - Calculating the area and perimeter of compound shapes

English- Reading Lesson comprehension activity -Author Study- David Walliams

Geography- Naming, locating and investigating the rivers of South America

Have a great day!

Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes 

Home learning Animals day 1, by Miss Mclaren

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 10:01am

Hi Preschool, 

We hope you are all ok. We are missing you lots. We hope to see you very soon.

This week we are focusing on jungle animals and farm animals.

Communication and Language/Phonics

Warm up

Cosmic Kids yoga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4CaR0syf1g

1.

We are thinking about animals this week and what types of animals there are.

Encourage your child to think about different animals that they know, make a list e.g. tiger,lion, elephant, dog, rabbit, cow, pig, sheep.

It doesn’t matter what type of animals they think about, this is what we want them to do so that they can begin to differentiate between the different types of animals.

2.

Farm animals

Jungle animals and pet animals.

Encourage your child to watch this video and talk to them about the different animals they see and where they might live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq4EZgeuNxA

3.

Play Bertha goes to the zoo.

Set up a small toy zoo and join the children as they play with it.

If you don’t have zoo animals maybe draw some or find pictures of them on the internet.

Look for animals starting with the same sound (e.g. a lion, a lizard, a leopard, a llama and a lobster) to act out this story.

Chant the following rhyme and allow your child to look at the animals adding an animal name to the list of animals spotted at the zoo. Bertha the bus is going to the zoo, Who does she see as she passes through? … a pig, a panda, a parrot and a polar bear.

By the end of the activity they should be beginning to: identify initial sounds of words;

reproduce the initial sounds clearly and recognisably

make up their own alliterative phrases

Year 3 Home Learning Monday 01.03, by Mrs Bale

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 9:35am

Good Morning Year 3, 

Here is your home learning for this week. Just one week left until you'll be back in school - we can't wait to see you!

Have a lovely day, enjoy the sunshine!

Mrs Bale, Mrs McAlynn, Mrs Fitzgerald, Mrs McGunigall and Mrs Mayes 

Today's Home Learning 01.03.21, by Miss Houghton

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 9:27am

Good Morning Year 6, 

Hope you all had a lovely weekend and enjoy the sunshine. 

One week left of home learning!! We can't wait to see you all soon. 

Brief Overview

Maths - Area of compound shapes and finding shapes with the same area. 

English - Comprehension uploaded onto the school spider with questions to answer. 

History - Maya Transportation System 

Year 1 Vlog 01/03/21, by Mr Chamberlain

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 8:45am

Year 5 Home Learning Monday 1st March 2021, by Miss Welsh

Date: 1st Mar 2021 @ 8:30am

Good Morning Year 5,

We have uploaded a video explaining the tasks for today 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. 

There is a new time tables battle, the last one for this half term. Who will win this week’s battle?

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 

Year 2 Blog 01.03.21, by Miss Hanton-Wise

Date: 28th Feb 2021 @ 9:43pm

F2 Monday 1st March 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward

Date: 28th Feb 2021 @ 9:59am

Hi F2, 

Here are activities for today: 

Literacy – Labelling a farm

Look at this picture of a farm.  https://wallpapercave.com/wp/wp3228055.jpg

What can you see on the farm? What animals or objects are there? For example: mud, tree, sun, log, barn, farmer.

Can you write some words of things you would find on a farm?

Challenge: Can you put some of these words into sentences? For example, A big red barn.

Phonics – Adjacent Consonants

Practise these Phase 2 and 3 phonemes (i,j,v,x,w,y)

Can you practise writing and remembering these High Frequency Words (come, some)

Write ‘pot’ on a piece of paper. Can you add a ‘s’ in front of pot to make a new word? What is the word you have made?

Repeat with stop, skip, trip, plan, from.

Play a phase 4 game on Phonics Play  https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/resources/phase/4

Maths – Time

Practise counting using the splat square https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares  For example –  counting 1-20 forwards and backwards, counting in 10’s, counting in 2’s, one more, one less, missing numbers.

Have a look around your house, can you find anything that tells the time? Look at different types of clocks e.g. analogue clock (wall clock) or a digital clock.

Play a game of ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf’ with your family.

Write numbers on paper and place the numbers in the shape of a clock. Can you make different O’clock times?

RE: Sorrow and Joy

Look at a picture of a child who is sad (See school spider template) Can you think of a reason why the child might be sad?

What things could you do to cheer up the child? Can you think of a list of kind things you could do?

Can you make a face (either out of a paper plate or out of paper) of someone who has shown you kindness?

Can you write why they are kind too?

Wellbeing Activity: Learn how to bake or cook something. Could you make a healthy treat or a new meal? 

Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!

F2 Team

Home learning Dinosaurs day 4, by Miss Mclaren

Date: 26th Feb 2021 @ 9:34am

Maths

Warm up

Cosmic Kids yoga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISX9DSK4uEk

1.

Can you cut up some shapes of bones to hide around the house?

Hide the bones in different places with numbers on from 1-10 and higher numbers if your child is able to recognise these.

Encourage your child to find the bones and place them in the correct order.

2.

Can you now make the correct number of dinosaur eggs to go with each number? These could be drawn, made with playdough, or any other way of making amounts that you have at home.

Once they have made the amounts use 4,5 and 6 and split these amounts up e.g. 3 and 3, explain that you have shared the amounts between you and your child, you have three and they have three. How many do they have altogether? Has the total amount changed or stayed the same?

Try this with different amounts.

3.

Number practice 1-9

Today's Home Learning Blog Friday 26th February 2021, by Miss Flynn

Date: 26th Feb 2021 @ 9:17am

Good Morning Year 6, 

Watch today's daily video to find out more about your tasks today. 

Brief outline 

Maths - Scale Factor - We use scale factor when we talk about increasing the size of a 2D shape. The size by which we make the shape larger is described by its scale factor. Today you will be drawing and then enlarging simple 2D shapes.

English - Reading Lesson- comprehension activity 'The Cave'- read the text, highlight any unfamiliar vocabulary and find the definition. Then answer the questions uploaded to SchoolSpider.

RE- Revisit what Lent is? What happens on Shrove Tuesday and why do we celebrate it? What happens on Ash Wednesday? Have you made a Lenten Promise? 

Have a great day and enjoy your weekend! 

Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes