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Thursday 26th March, 2020

Today’s Poetry Challenge

Morning Rhino Class,

Fancy a challenge?

Today I would like you to have a go at writing a special type of poem called a Kenning.

Kennings were first used in Anglo Saxon times. The famous Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf uses many kenning phrases, for example:

  • Body = bone-house
  • Ship  = wave-floater

Today, we can use Kennings to describe everyday people, animals and objects, for example a kenning about a dog could be:

face-licker
ball-chaser
stick-carrier
water-drinker
tail-wagger
floor-sniffer

and so on……

Can you write a Kenning poem about the squirrel in the video below? Remember each line of the poem needs to contain only two words (noun – er verb) e.g risk-taker. Remember to send your poems via Class Dojo and I can post them on the website to share. Have fun!

Wednesday 25th March, 2020

Working from home Y5&6 Jaguar class – Thursday 26th March

With the weather being so lovely today, hopefully all of the children managed to get some ‘down time’ in the garden or on a carefully chosen walk somewhere. Knowing our weather, it will probably snow on Friday!

School shall be open tomorrow as we are hosting the children whose parents are key workers. Therefore, if you have not already done so, please feel free to collect your child’s books (Sketch, RE, Topic, Science) from the reception area at any point during the day. I shall also leave out some paper for you to share as well as many of you will have been doing lots of printing at home.

Well done to Harvey who was awarded the 5 Dojos for his fantastic art work this afternoon. All of the other children who sent me their attempts were given 1 Dojo each!

Tomorrow’s timetable.

Daily Timetable Thursday 26.3.20

9:00 Joe Wicks ‘The Body Coach’

https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html

9:30 Spelling Shed –

WELL DONE EVERYBODY! YOU’VE NOW STORMED INTO THE LEAD! (Lucy, Nelly and Cameron were the highest scorers today – 2 DOJOS EACH)

1. Year 5 & 6 Myddle 119,537,020
2. Year 5 Baschurch 85,072,744

9:45 English – Continuation of the Famous Five and the Case of the ……… story (Solving the problem in the story)

English Lesson 4 Thursday 26.3.20

11:00 Maths –

Y5s Adding Decimals   

Maths Y5 Thursday 26.3.20  

Maths Y5 Thursday 26.3.20 Adding Decimals

Y6s Properties of shapes (Angles)

Y6 Maths Lesson 4 Angles 26.3.20

Y6 Maths Lesson 4 Angles Activity 26.3.20

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Reading (Complete your reading record)

1:30 RE – Christianity (Salvation)

RE Salvation Lesson 1

Tuesday 24th March, 2020

Working from home Y5&6 Wednesday 25th March

Hi everybody,

Why oh why does the weather start being beautiful whilst we are all confined to our homes for most of the day? It’s just typical of the British weather. Anyway, I hope everybody is okay and the children have found plenty of extra activities to do on their days at home as well as their timetable of learning.

Here’s tomorrow’s schedule:

Daily Timetable Wednesday 25.3.20

9:00 Joe Wicks Warm ups : https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html

9:30 Spelling Shed: We are currently in 2nd place overall! Come on, catch Baschurch Y5s up!

Well done to Jack Munn and Lily Thomas who are, so far, the leading boy and girl this week in their spellings.

1. Year 5 Baschurch 81,999,026
2. Year 5 & 6 Myddle 66,671,377

9:45 English: Famous Five and the case of……. (Solving the problem in the story)

English Lesson 3 Wednesday 25.3.20

BREAK:

11:00 Maths:

Y5s Subtracting Decimals  

Maths Y5 Wednesday 25.3.20

Y5 Subtracting Decimals Part 2      

Y6s Properties of Shapes (Angles)

Maths Y6 Wednesday 25.3.20 Lesson 3

Y6 Maths Angles Activity Sheet 1

Y6 Maths Angles Activity Sheet 2

LUNCH

1:00 Reading (Use your reading records) Also, don’t forget that you could listen to a David Walliams story online.

https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/

1:30 Art

Art Wednesday 25.3.20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv4hKMb797E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpcZ8lVWuwM

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

Tuesday 24th March, 2020

Vocabulary Challenge

Can you think of 10 words to describe this picture?

Send me your 10 words  via Class Dojo and I will compile a list later in the day. Good luck!

Mr Glover

A great list so far….Can we add more?

Now we have this list…

Version 3… The bigger the word appears, the more times it has been used. Well done to those who have thought of synonyms and more abstract words.

Final version. Well done and thank you to all that contributed to today’s challenge. You have done a great job exploring vocabulary.

Monday 23rd March, 2020

Working from home Y5&6 – Tuesday 24th March

Hi everyone.

Hopefully everybody had no problems with accessing the work provided from today and have managed to complete any tasks with no issues. Also, as the weather seems to have finally improved, make sure that you take advantage of that and get into the garden too.

Did you enjoy the start of the day with Joe Wicks? Hopefully that got you motivated for the rest of the day.

Here’s a timetable for tomorrow:

Daily Timetable Tuesday 24.3.20

9:00 Physical activity with Joe Wicks

https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html

9:30 Spellings (Spelling Shed)

9:45 English – continuation of your Famous Five story

English Lesson 2 Tuesday 24.3.20

10:45 Break

11:00 Maths – Y5s – Subtracting decimals (including tenths, hundredths, thousandths)       Y6 – Properties of shape (angles – YOU NEED A PROTRACTOR, WHICH ARE AVAILABLE TO COLLECT FROM SCHOOL IF POSSIBLE)

Maths Y5 Tuesday 24.3.20

Y5 Subtracting Decimals 1

Maths Y6 Tuesday 24.3.20 Lesson 2

Y6 Naming and measuring angles with a protractor activity

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Reading (Don’t forget to fill in your reading record)

1:30 Topic – Crime and Punishment

Topic – Crime and Punishment Lesson 6

What I now know activity 1

What I now know activity 2

Well done! Keep working hard!

Sunday 22nd March, 2020

Distance Learning – Don’t Panic!

Distance Learning – Don’t Panic!

We are all about to embark on something very new and very daunting. You have not opted to home educate your child, as some parents do, so many of will not have the set-up and resources to replicate school at home – and we do not expect  you to replicate school! Children work well in school, being taught, being led, bouncing ideas off each other; it will be impossible for them to do this at home and you mustn’t feel bad if what you try to do doesn’t work. Within school, teachers and children develop a very special respect for each other and this is how we get the best out of them. I know from having my own children that it can be a very different story at home when it comes to school work!  You must remember though, when you try and get them to do their homework usually, they have already done 6 hours work in school and are bound to be more tired and reluctant.

As well as you being thrown in at the deep end with this, so have the teachers. They have never had to provide learning in this manner before. They are trying to add resources and activities to the website BUT you don’t have to do it all! Some families will be in a position to do more, some less. You will not be judged on this. The teachers and TAs are also working in school on rotation to care for the children whose parents are vital in the covid-19 response. Some are very anxious and worried about doing this and the risk to their own families so I want to thank you for all your efforts to keep your children at home at this time and for the lovely supportive messages we have had send in to school.

If it works for your family to have other learning experiences such as art, music, cooking, sewing, board games, craft, sport or gardening then definitely do these! This time could be a rare chance in our busy lives to spend a lot of time with our children doing things we never have time to do.  We would love to hear from you and see what you’re up to, so please email photos or write to us at the school email addresses. We will all miss the children so much and are heartbroken that this is the way the year has potentially ended.

Good luck – we’re only a dojo away, so keep in touch!

 

Sunday 22nd March, 2020

Panda Class Home Learning 23rd March

Good morning Panda Parents/Carers,

I hope you are all well and enjoying some sunshine. I have added a link to next week’s learning and an Early Years Foundation Stage Home Learning pack which is full of different activities to keep those minds active. I will be using ClassDojo as a means of communicating with you all – thank you for the messages so far, it’s lovely to stay in touch.

Any queries at all please just get in touch I am here to help.

Overview-of-learning-23rd-March-2020

EYFS-Home-Learning-Pack

Best wishes

Mandy Turner

Saturday 21st March, 2020

Rhino Class – Learning Project WEEK 1 (23rd to 27th March) – All About My Family

Hi Everyone,

Please click on the link below to access the Rhino Class Learning Project for this week:

Week 1 Learning Project – All About My Family

The project includes weekly tasks for Maths, Reading, Writing and Spellings and a cross-curricular / topic project. All web links and instructions are included in the document. Please choose at least one activity from each section per day. This should keep you all busy…

If anyone needs reminding of their X Tables Rockstars username and password then please request one via Class Dojo.

Weekly spellings – please access the spellings to learn this week below. Start with week 1. These can be learnt each day and then tested on Friday.

Year 3 summer 1       Year 4 Summer 1

Please click on link below to access Year 3 and 4 Common Exception words and activities

Year 3 and 4 Spelling and Activity Sheets

The are also 5 daily maths lessons which including video tutorials and follow up activities. Please click on the link below:

Year 3 week 1    Year 4 week 1

If fancy being active, then click on the link below for a daily workout from the body coach Joe Wicks. Each day, he will be doing a live 30 minute PE lesson for pupils at home at 9am. There are also a wealth of 5/10 min workouts specifically aimed at children which are great.

Joe Wicks – Workout Sessions

If you wish to share your child’s work with me (for rewards and feedback), this can be done via the Class Dojo portfolio. As usual, if you have any queries, please continue to contact me via the Class Dojo app.

Kind regards and keep well

Mr Glover

Saturday 21st March, 2020

Working from home Y5&6 Jaguar class Monday 23rd March 2020

Hi everybody,

Hopefully everybody is safe and well, and you’ve been able to spend quality time with each other during the weekend so far. Below is a timetable for Monday’s schooling from home.

If you can’t access the attachments at home for whatever reason, I shall be in school on Monday from 8:15am onwards to provide hard copies of any activities that are listed below, which I shall leave in the reception area of school. Hopefully, all of the children now have their Maths/English book at home to use for their daily work. I shall also leave others books in the reception area of the school that the children are likely to need during the week, ie, sketch book, science, topic, RE, etc……

Daily Timetable Monday 23.3.20

Timetable

9:00 Morning exercise – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_A_HjHZxfI

9:15 Spelling Shed

9:30 English – Opening to The Famous Five and the case of the ………………

(THIS CAN BE HAND WRITTEN IN THE CHILDREN’S ENGLISH BOOKS OR  IT CAN BE TYPED AND THEN STUCK INTO THE CHILDREN’S BOOKS)

English Lesson 1 Monday 23.3.20

Famous Five and the Case of the

10:30 Break

11:00 Maths – Y5 Fractions, decimals and %      Y6 – Ratio

Maths Y5 Monday 23.3.20

Maths Y5 independent activity 1

Maths Y5 independent activity 2

Maths Y6 Monday 23.3.20 Lesson 1.

Y6 ratio-questions – 1-10

Y6 ratio-solutions

(THE ANSWERS CAN BE WRITTEN IN THE CHILDREN’S MATHS BOOKS OR THEY CAN BE PRINTED AND THEN STUCK INTO THEIR BOOKS – I SHALL LEAVE HARD COPIES IN THE RECEPTION AREA OF THE SCHOOL FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNABLE TO PRINT OUT)

(Y5s – the final slide indicates which activity each child should be doing)

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Reading – Make sure that you record in your reading record!

1:30 Science – (Materials – Separating mixtures)

Science Lesson 4 Materials – Separating Mixtures

Separating Mixtures Explanations Activity Sheet

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zcvv4wx/articles/zw7tv9q

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zb9c87h

(WITH REGARDS TO THE INVESTIGATING PART OF THE LESSON, DO WHAT YOU CAN WITH THE ACTIVITIES – IF YOU DON’T HAVE ANY OF THE RESOURCES, NOT TO WORRY. THE FOCUS OF THE LESSON IS THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT MIXTURES CAN BE SEPARATED!)