Updates

Thursday 14th May, 2020

Highlights From Home Y5&6 – Thursday 14th May 2020

Y5&6,
Well done on all of your hard work today. Below is the list of children who I will send the Friday Family Fun quiz to tomorrow evening. There will be 60 questions in total, with the final 10 questions being about ME! It will be available from 6:30pm onwards and will last until 9pm. Good luck.

Jack, Zoe, Ruby, Sophie, Lily, Bethany, Dante, Isla, Chloe and Cameron

Here’s today’s ‘Highlights From Home.’

Thursday’s 14.5.20 Highlights from Home Y5&6

Have a good evening.

Thursday 14th May, 2020

Rhino Daily Challenge – Maths

Money Bags

Tom divided 15 coins, each 1p, into four small bags.

bags

He labelled each bag with the number of 1p coins inside it.

After doing this, he could then pay any amount of money from 1p to 15p by just using the certain bags without the need to open any bags.

How many 1p coins did Tom put in each bag?

Is there only one way Tom could have done this? If so, why?

Wednesday 13th May, 2020

Working From Home Y5&6 – Thursday 14th May 2020

Good morning Y5&6. It looks like it might be a pleasant day today. Here’s today’s weather forecast….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2637891

 

Here’s today’s timetable:
Daily Timetable Thursday 14.5.20

9:00 Morning exercise & Spelling Shed

9:30 English (Minotaur v Polythemus)
English – Thursday Lesson 4 – 14.5.20

11:00 Maths (Calculation starter – Kahoot for Y5s & Y6s)
Y5 Maths Thursday 14.5.20
Y5 Maths Thursday 14.5.20 Activity 1
Y5 Maths Thursday 14.5.20 Activity 2
Y6 Maths Thursday 14.5.20

1:00 Reading

1:20 Art or D&T
Art Thursday 14.5.20 Lesson 4
D&T – Thursday 14.5.20 – Lesson 4

Have a good day. Keep in touch!

Wednesday 13th May, 2020

Highlights From Home Y5&6 – Wednesday 13th May 2020

Another active day from everybody in Y5&6 in your learning and your physical well being. Well done to those Y5s who took part in the Kahoot Maths calculation quiz today. It takes a while to organise so it’s pleasing that a lot of you are taking part. It’s a lot of fun! As for the Y6s, I hope you are always checking the Bikeability levels so you can tick off everything that you’ve achieved so far.

There’s been lots going on for you all to see so here’s the main highlights of the day.
Wednesday’s 13.5.20 Highlights from Home Y5&6
If you missed Newsround today, here it is…….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround

Have a lovely evening and a good night’s sleep.

Tuesday 12th May, 2020

Working From Home Y5&6 – Wednesday 13th May 2020

Good morning Y5&6.
Well done to the following children, who have reached these Class Dojo landmarks because of their hard work at home.
50 Dojos
Dante, Heidi, Holly H, Isla, Isobel, Jacob, Lily, Megan, Sophie & Toby
100 Dojos
Amy, Bethany, Cameron, Chloe, Harvey, Henry, Jack, Katie, Lucy, Reuben, Ruby & Zoe
200 Dojos
Chanel

 

Here’s the weather forecast for today.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2637891

 

Why not catch up on yesterday’s Newsround to start your day?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround

 

Here’s your timetable of learning for today.
Daily Timetable Wednesday 13.5.20

9:00 Morning exercise & Spelling Shed

9:45 English
English Wednesday Lesson 3 – 13.5.20

 

11:00 Maths
Y5 Maths Wednesday 13.5.20
Y5 Maths Wednesday Activity 13.5.20
Y6 Maths Wednesday 13.5.20

 

1:00 Reading

1:20 Computing 13.5.20

2:00 Physical ActivityBikeability – Keep working through the Levels!

Have a good day! Let me know if you need anything.
Mr Hughes
Tuesday 12th May, 2020

Highlights From Home – Y5&6 – Tuesday 12th May 2020

Well done everybody on another fantastic day’s learning from home. Apologies that it’s a bit late but I went out for a long run this evening.

I hope that you enjoyed the maths Kahoot quiz that was created for both Y5 and Y6 today. My advice would be to always have a pencil / piece of paper handy just in case you need to do any quick workings out. I can change the amount of time given to answer each question, so I will always given you extra time on the questions that take more thought.

In English, congratulations to Theseus who was voted as the most heroic ancient Greek mythical warrior, beating Odysseus by 9 votes to 4. We had some excellent persuasive writing produced from it.

I hope that you enjoyed learning about the Battle of Marathon in History today and how the Athenians and Spartans were different in how they were ruled back in the Ancient Greek period.

Here’s today’s ‘Highlight’s From Home’.
Tuesday’s 12.5.20 Highlights from Home Y5&6

 

Here’s Jack’s English from today also….
Jack chose Odysseus for Ancient Greece’ Talent

See you in the morning! Sleep well!

Tuesday 12th May, 2020

Rhino Daily Challenge – Writing

Can you write a Limerick?

A limerick is a silly poem with five lines.  They are often funny or nonsensical.  Limericks were made famous by Edward Lear, a famous author who wrote the “Book of Nonsense” in the 1800’s.  This was an entire book of silly limericks.

How to write a limerick:

The first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 8 or 9).
The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 5 or 6)
Limericks often start with the line “There once was a…” or “There was a…”

Here are some examples about teachers:

There was a headmaster from Quebec,
Who wrapped both his legs round his neck,
But then he forgot,
How to untie the knot,
And now he’s an absolute wreck.
There once was a teacher from Leeds,
Who swallowed a packet of seeds,
In less than an hour,
Her nose was a flower,
And her hair was a bunch of weeds.
There was a young teacher from Harrow,
Whose nose was too long and too narrow,
It gave so much trouble,
That he bent it up double,
And wheeled it around school in a barrow.

Challenge:

Can you write some Limericks of your own?

Can you write a Limerick about yourself? There was a young man/lady called….

ZOOM CLASS MEETING

I would like to create the opportunity for you to see and speak to me and all of your classmates via a class zoom meeting, on Thursday 14th May in the afternoon around 2pm. During the meeting, I would also like you to share one of the limericks you have written.

If you are not familiar with zoom, it is quite easy to use and set up. Best way to start, is to ‘Google Search’ zoom and just follow the instructions. Many of you may have already used zoom and are probably more familiar with it than I am!

I will be sending out a link via Dojo for you to be able to join the meeting later on today. Can’t wait to see you all.

Monday 11th May, 2020

Working From Home Y5&6 – Tuesday 12th May 2020

Good morning Y5&6.
You can start today by watching yesterday’s Newsround to keep you up to date with what’s currently happening in our country.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround

 

Here’s your timetable for today….
Daily Timetable Tuesday 12.5.20

9:00 Morning exercise & Spelling Shed

9:30 English
English Lesson 2 Tuesday 12.5.20

 

11:00 Maths
Y5 Maths Tuesday
Y6 Maths Tuesday
Y6 Maths Activity – square number investigation
Y6 Maths Answers Tuesday

1:00 Reading

1:20 Topic (History – Ancient Greece – The Battle of Marathon)
History Lesson 4 – The Battle of Marathon
Bethany, Jack, Amy, Nelly, Reuben and Ruby – Task 1 – The Battle of Marathon
Other Y5s & Y6s – Task 1 – The Battle of Marathon
Everybody Task 3 – Athens Vs Sparta

Enjoy and have a good day.

Monday 11th May, 2020

Highlights From Home Y5&6 – Monday 11th May 2020

Good evening,

I hope the Y6s enjoyed their maths ‘Kahoot’ quiz today. Tomorrow, it will be the turn of the Y5s but don’t worry Y6s, your calculation starter will be a ‘Kahoot’ Quiz instead.

It was really interesting to learn about the different gestation periods of animals in Science and to compare it to the average 9 months of a human. Here’s the answer to the question that I asked some of you to research…….

Here’s the rest of the ‘Highlights From Home’ for today.
Monday’s 11.5.20 Highlights from Home Y5&6

 

Katie and Lucy would also like to share the way that they presented their gestation period research…..
Katie’s Gestation Periods of Animals
Lucy’s Gestation Periods of Animals

See you in the morning!

Monday 11th May, 2020

Phased return to school

Dear parents and carers,
Following the Prime Ministers announcement yesterday evening I’m sure you have many questions, as we do, that you would like clarifying. We found out the same information at the same time as you, so as you can imagine we have spent this morning trying to get some clarity.  I have met virtually with the headteachers from the other local primary schools and we will work closely on the next stage together. I will also be speaking to the Corbet to discuss year 6 transition. 
At the moment we will continue to provide provision for our Key Workers as we are at the moment. We have not yet received any information to support us with this new plan to start a phased return for some of the year groups. We expect to receive information from the Department for Education and the Local Authority very soon.
Please be assured that the safety of our children, staff and school community is the key priority and we will only begin a phased return when we are 100% prepared.
As always, we will keep you updated but for now please do not worry. We will continue to provide online learning for our children, keep in contact with you and continue to support each other during these difficult and uncertain times.
Many thanks for your patience.