After the Easter two-week break, it has probably been a hard week for the children, having to get back into a routine of working from home. However, from what I’ve seen, they’ve shown great focus and resilience throughout the week. It must be difficult for both the children and yourselves, so a huge thank you for keeping up their concentration levels and high expectations. Hopefully you’ve been enjoying the ‘Highlights from Home’ pages that I’ve been uploading each evening.

Here’s Friday’s timetable of learning from home.

Daily Timetable Friday 24.4.20

9:00 Morning exercise

9:25 Spelling Shed: (Having now got back into the Top 10 in the world this week, can we maintain it?)

9:45 English (Biography writing)

English Lesson 5 Friday 24.4.20

11:00 Maths

Y5 Maths Friday 24th April

Y5 Maths Activity Friday 24th April

Y6 Maths Friday 24th April

Y6 Maths Activity – Friday 24th April Pie Charts

1:00 Whole class story (Ancient Greek Myth) Demeter and her daughter Persephone

http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/playstory19837-demeter-and-her-daughter-persephone.html

1:20 RE (Hinduism – Lesson 1)

Lesson 1 RE – Hinduism

2:20 PE – Athletics – Long Jump  &  Tennis

Enjoy your weekend!

Yet again, another beautiful day outside, so hopefully you all got a chance to experience the outdoor life. Hopefully, the children enjoyed learning about their chosen sports person and turning their notes into the start of a biography today. It’s been great to read the examples that have been created so far. It looks like many of the children enjoyed making their hummus (even though they may not have liked the taste!). For those who chose the phoenix’s eye, it may get frustrating along the way, but it’s worth it in the end.

Thanks to our star spellers today, we’ve now climbed into 7th place in the world!

Nelly has started her own ‘story channel’ – Reading with Nelly. Here’s today’s edition.

And then, after all of her hard work this morning, she enjoyed some ‘down time’ with the dogs in the garden.

Here’s the rest of the highlights from today’s learning at home. I hope you enjoy it and gain inspiration from all the effort that these children/parents have been putting in at home. I certainly have!

Thursday’s 23.4.20 Highlights from Home Y5&6

Good morning everybody. Well done on your hard work from yesterday. I’m looking forward to seeing what you produce at home today. The weather is supposed to be lovely this afternoon so hopefully Chloe will spend more time on her trampoline, Reuben will attempt to break his 500m record in the pool, Lily will try and achieve 5 keep ups with her football, Katie and Lucy will show off their rollerblading skills and Nelly will record her first episode of ‘Reading with Nelly’ live from outdoors!

Here’s today’s timetable:

Daily Timetable Thursday 23.4.20

9:00 Morning exercise

9:25 Spelling Shed: We are now 20th in the world. I think we can break into the top 15 this morning!

9:45 English: Biography writing (Writing/Typing the opening parts only)

English Lesson 4 Thursday 23.4.20

11:00 Maths

Y5 Maths Lesson 4 – Thursday 23rd April (Look carefully at the final slide which shows you which questions to attempt!)

Y5 Maths Lesson 4 Activity – Thursday 23rd April

Y6 Maths Lesson 4 – Thursday 23rd April (Look carefully at the final slide which shows you which questions to attempt!)

Y6 Maths Lesson 4 Activity – Thursday 23rd April

1:00 Reading (Own reading today)

1:20 Art OR D&T (Food technology) Read the information for both of these lessons HOWEVER, only choose 1 of them to do today. If you don’t have the ingredients for the cooking, choose Art and you can do the D&T next week.

(*1 of these activities is for today, the other is for next week – you decide!)

Lesson 1 Art

Lesson 1 D&T (Food technology)

Have a great day!

Yet again, the Y5&6 children proved how fantastic they are and demonstrated a great work ethic at home today. They really are an inspiration to the rest of the school on keeping that focus and concentration, even though they aren’t in their usual learning environment. Currently, they have now climbed to 16th in the world rankings on Spelling Shed and I’ve no doubt that they will be aiming to get back into that top 10 by the end of the week.

Here’s today’s ‘Highlights from Home’

Wednesday’s 22.4.20 Highlights from Home Y5&6

Nelly would also like to read to you again as well as showing you her typing skills.

Good morning Y5&6. I was really impressed with all of your efforts at home yesterday. You focused really hard and produced some excellent pieces of home learning.

Here’s your timetable for today.

Daily Timetable Wednesday 22.4.20

9:00 Morning exercise

9:25 Spelling Shed – (Some phenomenal scores yesterday helped you to 24th in the world league table)

9:45 English (Planning a biography)

English Lesson 3 Wednesday 22.4.20

Organising my biography planning notes

11:00 Maths

Y5 Maths Lesson 3 – Wednesday 22nd April

Y5 Maths Lesson 3 Activity – Wednesday 22nd April

Y6 Maths Lesson 3 – Wednesday 22nd April

Y6 Maths Lesson 3 Activity – Wednesday 22nd April

1:00 Whole class story (Ancient Greek Myth – Arachne The Spinner) (Click on me)

1:30 Computing

Lesson 1

2:30 Afternoon exercise / sport – If you can, play tennis, cricket or take part in some athletics. Maybe you want to play the sport of the person that you chose for your biography research.

Enjoy! You know where I am if you need anything.

I’ve been so busy today (which is great) because of the amount of photographs or messages about what the children have been producing at home today. It’s been wonderful to see! Thanks to some amazing spelling efforts on Spelling Shed, our class are now back up to 24th in the world! When you see the opening slide below, you will be amazed at some of the individual efforts on Spelling Shed today! It was also nice to see a smiley Holly H as I was running through Myddle later this afternoon.

Here’s the ‘Highlights from Home’ for today. (See below)

Tuesday’s 21.4.20 Highlights from Home Y5&6

Hi everybody. It’s been great to have been in contact with so many of you today and lovely to see all of the fantastic dedication and focus you have been putting into your learning at home. This 3 minute slideshow (which includes on the first slide the spelling champions for today) will show you what your class mate have been doing! Enjoy!

Monday’s 20.4.20 Highlights from Home Y5&6

And today’s storyteller is………..Nelly.

If you want to be tomorrow’s storyteller, you know what to do!

Hi everybody, welcome back to the Summer Term. It’s time to get back to a routine of focusing on your school work at home so here’s your daily timetable for your first day back. Let me know if you have any problems during the day and if you can send me any examples of how you’ve been getting on so that I can award any class dojos.

Daily Timetable Monday 20.4.20

9:00 Morning physical exercise: You can either watch somebody online, (eg, Joe Wicks) to copy from or, if you would prefer, you can do your own exercise routine.

9:20 Spelling Shed: We are currently in 48th place in the world. How far up the league table can we get in the next 15 minutes. Your spellings for the this week are the same as those that you’ve had during the Easter break. You could also practise some of the expected Y3&4 or Y5&6 words though too.

9:35 English: (Look carefully at the final slide which tells you which piece of text about Usain Bolt YOU need to be reading)

English Lesson 1 Monday 20.4.20

Usain Bolt Biography

11:00 Maths:

Y5 Maths Monday 20th April

Y5 Maths Monday 20th April Activity 1

Y6 Maths Lesson 1 Monday 20th April

Y6 Maths Lesson 1 – Monday 20th April Activity

1:00 Reading Time: (Complete your reading record)

1:30 Science: (If you are struggling to do this investigation because of a lack of resources at home – don’t worry, spend your time learning about thermal conductors and insulators)

Lesson 6 Science – Materials Keeping Cool

Differentiated Investigating Materials Activity Sheet (PAGES 1 and 2)

Enjoy!