Dancing with ‘Hello HipHop’
Some classes have had a few sessions delivered by Phil from Hello HipHop recently. We also had them booked in to deliver sessions for the whole school during Health Week. We will have to reschedule the sessions for the future but in the meantime, here are some hip hop moves for you to work on. Enjoy!
School Garden Update
Keeping your memory fit!
As well as keeping your body active, it is a good idea to keep your brain active too. Using your memory is a good way to do this. Memorising a poem, song or short story is an easy, fun way to do this at home. It was one of our home learning tasks recently. Here is a poetry performance in the sunshine.
6 March 2020: Easter Activities
Happy Easter!
We know that it’s the Easter break, but in these unprecedented times we thought that we’d continue to post some ideas of activities that you can do at home, if you choose to do so. Some of these are Easter related and others are ideas that you can continue after the Easter break.
This will be the only post for the two week Easter holidays. During this time, you can still send emails, although we may not respond as quickly as we have been doing.
The most important message this Easter is to have fun as a family. Read together, play outside, bake, garden, watch a movie, sing and dance. Make the most of this time together.
Easter activities
Happy Easter! We know that it’s the Easter break, but in these unprecedented times we thought that we’d continue to post some ideas of activities that you can do at home, if you choose to do so. Some of these are Easter related and others are ideas that you can continue after the Easter break.
This will be the only post for the two week Easter holidays. During this time, you can still email your child’s class teacher, although they may not respond as quickly as they have been doing
The most important message this Easter is to have fun as a family. Read together, play outside, bake, garden, watch a movie, sing and dance. Make the most of this time together.
Easter Holiday ideas
Here are some links to a CBeebies programme called “Let’s celebrate”. It shows children celebrating Easter along with a child friendly reference to the Easter Story.
Watch the CBeebies Easter programmes -Talk about what you watch with your child. Have you done any of the things that Toby has done to prepare for Easter? Have you seen any baby animals? See if your child can remember the names of the young animals from two weeks ago. Have you seen any spring flowers in the garden? Talk about their names and colours. Can the children remember painting the daffodils for their Mother’s Day cards?
Here are some activities that you may like to try over the Easter holidays.
Make an Easter egg picture – Cut out some egg shapes from paper and ask your child to decorate it. The patterns we use in Nursery for mark making are zigzag patterns, wave patterns, horizontal lines, vertical lines and circles.
Easter egg hunt – Can your child help you to think of some clues for the Easter egg hunt? Can you write their instructions for the rest of the family?
Decorate an egg – Make a hard-boiled egg and allow it to cool down. Ask your child to decorate it using coloured pens. Use a slide or create a ramp with a large box propped against a chair. Whose egg rolls the furthest?
Counting eggs – Sing ‘Hickety Pickety my red hen‘ song together. Count the eggs as they hatch. Count carefully counting to each egg as it pops.
Counting ducks – We enjoy singing the ‘5 Little Ducks‘ song at Nursery. Each time a duck is lost, count how many are left. Use each finger to represent a duck.
As always, stay safe and have fun. Let’s hope that the sun shines!
Professor Myers challenges you…
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Week 2 home learning pictures
What another busy week! We have had lots of exciting emails to share all of the lovely activities you have been doing at home.
We think the baking/cooking activity must have been a favourite as we have lots of smiling chefs.
Anything we can do to help support your child’s learning journey please email .
WUSU – Shout Out To My Ex
Miss Parling and I did a video chat earlier and we danced to one our favourite WUSU songs. The audio is not the best but we hope you still join in and enjoy it !
Let’s rock!
We are loving hearing about all the amazing things you’re doing at home. Doing some art, dance, cooking, gardening and music all help us to feel a bit better at this tricky time. This put a huge smile on my face this morning – a great song! ‘Song 2’ by Blur : singing and drums by one of our Year 2 children accompanied by his dad on guitar. Amazing!
03 April: Hall of (home learning) Fame
Hello again everyone
Firstly, I hope you’re all keeping well and staying positive. It can be tricky to stay happy and healthy when you’re not going outside much but everyone I’ve had contact with has seemed as chirpy as always.
Thanks to the people who have been emailing regularly to stay in contact and get help when they need it. It’s really made me happy hearing from you. If you haven’t sent me an email yet, please do. It’s great to catch up with people!
Today is another exciting day for two people as they make it in to the highly respected ‘Hall of (home learning) Fame!’ #HoHLF
Entrant number 1 has been sending loads of pictures of her learning and it’s all been great! She’s been challenging herself and asking for help if she needs it; what a great skill to have. On a personal note, I really like, and appreciate, how this person always asks how I am and what I’ve been up to – it makes me smile every time. Well done, Lucy and welcome to the ‘Hall of (home learning) Fame!’
Our second entrant today has also sent a lot of images in. He’s been working super hard and has always kept in touch – thank you! What I like most about this piece of learning is that Alfie actually emailed me early in the day to say he was finding this task difficult. I replied with some hints and then later in the day received this picture of his completed learning – awesome effort! Well done and welcome to the ‘Hall of (home learning) Fame!’
Stay tuned for more entrants to our Hall of (home learning) Fame over the coming days.
Send photos to your class teacher’s email address accompanied by #HoHLF. Terms and conditions apply.
Terms and conditions: you must send a picture to be entered into the Hall of (home learning) Fame. Winners will be posted on this section of the website and will receive their prize as soon as they read it. The prize is a virtual high five from the Year 5,6 team.