15 July 2020: Home Learning
Hey everyone
Thanks to those of you that got in touch yesterday – it’s great to hear from you!
Here’s your home learning for today…
Y5 Maths
Starter
Use the Topmarks website to play ‘Hit the button.’ Put your times table knowledge to the test.
Your learning for today is about describing positions and coordinates.
Y6 Maths
You are now ready to do battle in Guardians: Defenders of Mathematica. Play all four levels of Ruins of Ratio and Proportion.
Y5,6 Reading
Choose your favourite book at home. Create a short persuasive piece of writing as to why others should read this book.
Some areas to think about:
- Is this book fiction or non-fiction?
- What is the book about?
- Why did this book catch your attention?
- What age group is this book appropriate for?
Y5,6 Topic
Following on from yesterday, our friends at Hello Hip Hop return to help us develop our colouring skills in the graffiti style. Watch this video first. Then, use this document to have a go at colouring in the word ‘Scholes’. Remember to send your finished piece to your class teacher.
15 July 2020: Home Learning
Hello boys and girls and welcome to Wednesday!
Only 3 more days to go until the end of term.
Here is your learning for today:
Maths
Year 3 and 4: puzzles and challenges and answers attached.
Topic Quiz time again. Here is another quiz to get you thinking:
Living and Learning
Can you think of anyone who has been a superhero during lockdown?
- parents, supermarket workers, Nurses, doctors, teachers.
You are going to develop a character profile of your superhero self, listing five superhero qualities and writing a unique fact about yourselves. As a challenge, you can create a basic comic strip of your superhero self, describing your superhero qualities in a story. You can use the template below or create your own – you decide.
Story – read by Mr Gathercole
Little Red Riding Wolf part 2
14 July 2020: Home Learning
Hi everyone
We hope you’re all OK. We’re almost at the end of the school year now – it’s certainly been one to remember. We’d love to hear your views about this year. Finish these sentences and send them, by email, to your class teacher:
- I feel I improved the most in…
- Something important that I learned this year was…
- My favourite subject this year has been…
- What I enjoyed learning the most this year was…
- Something I’m proud of accomplishing is…
- Something I’ve learned about myself is…
- Something I will miss is…
- I will never forget this year because…
Here’s your home learning for today…
Y5 Maths
Click on the link above for today’s starter. This game is about factors and multiples.
Your learning for today is about describing translations.
Y6 Maths
It’s the last week of year 6 so we had better finish our quest to save Mathematica. In order to prepare for your next battle on Wednesday, learn the mystical art of ratio and proportion in this bitesize lesson.
Y5,6 English
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zxsy6g8
Have a go at this BBC Bitesize lesson on analysing texts.
Y5,6 Art
Yesterday, we learnt about the famous graffiti artist Banksy. Today, we’re going to continue our art learning by developing our own style. Our friends at Hello Hip Hop have sent us a video to help us create effects on our graffiti. Watch this video and then have a go at one (or more) of your own. You could choose to write whatever as long as it is appropriate.
14 July 2020 : Home learning
Maths
Odd and even numbers investigation
- Write a number line from 1-20. Circle all the odd numbers in one colour and all the even numbers in another colour.
- Count in 2s. Are the numbers odd or even? Describe the pattern.
- Count in 5s. Are the numbers odd or even? Describe the pattern.
- Add two even numbers. Is the answer odd or even? Try with some more even numbers. What do you notice?
- Add two odd numbers. Is the answer odd or even? Try with some more even numbers. What do you notice?
- Add an odd and an even number. Is the answer odd or even? Try with some more even numbers. What do you notice?
Reading
Read (or sing) the lyrics of the song again.
Look for these words in the song :
farewell (a way of saying goodbye)
glad (feeling happy)
clanging (a loud banging sound)
absurd (crazy, unbelievable)
regretfully (being sorry about something)
firmly (not changing your mind, being strict)
Challenge : Write each word in a sentence or when you are talking to someone.
Topic – staying safe online
Watch Episode 2 – Sharing Pictures
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/jessie-and-friends-videos/
Talk about the message in the video.
14 July 2020: Home Learning
Hello everybody – what are your plans for the summer? Are you looking forward to the summer break?
Here is your learning for today:
Maths – Year 3 and 4
Duck ponds (answers attached)
Topic Quiz 2
Well done to everyone who unscrambled the letters yesterday. Here is another fun quiz called ‘Guess where?’. Can you guess where the teachers are hiding in the school?
Living and Learning
At this time of year, we would be talking in school about moving to new classes and celebrating our end of year. But we haven’t managed to do that this year. If you’re feeling a little worries or concerned about moving year groups you can use these tools to help manage your emotions.
Story read by Mr Gathercole – Little Red Riding Hood part 1
13 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning.
We hope you’ve all had a lovely weekend and that you got up to some nice things. Maybe send your class teacher an email this week before the summer holiday starts – tell us what you’ve been up to.
Here is your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths
Click on the link above for today’s starter. This game allows you to practice your rounding skills. Select the option that you feel confident with. If you would like a challenge – try out the decimal numbers.
Your learning for today is about translation. This first lesson goes over the learning you will have done in year 4.
Year 6 Maths
Before starting your main lesson, take 15 minutes to sharpen your times tables skills on Times Tables Rockstars.
This next lesson will teach you have to calculate and represent ratio.
Year 5/6 Reading
Today is our read for pleasure lesson. Choose a book, magazine, newspaper or perhaps an online article to read for your own pleasure. If you have recently read something that you have particularly enjoyed, you could write a book review to recommend it to others. Think about what information is useful to the reader in a review.
Year 5/6 Art
Your learning today is all about art. Graffiti is one of my favourite styles of art. It is controversial and, in some cases, illegal but I love the style of it. I also love how it often tackles issues in society. One famous graffiti artist is Banksy.
Today, I’d like you to read this information about Banksy and then have a go at creating your own piece of art – remember to link it to an issue in society.
Send your class teacher your finished masterpieces.
13 July 2020 : Home learning
Well, we really didn’t think we would be seeing in the final week of summer term 2020 like this. We are all really sad that we couldn’t say goodbye to our classes like we usually do… with a ‘beach party’, extra-long Wake Up Shake Up sessions, games, movies and having fun with our friends. Each teacher has recorded a message for their class to say goodbye and that we will see you again in September, just not in our classes. We have also made you a poster with all your names on so you have something to remember us by!
Mrs Latham : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYij2N5Cqk
Miss Parling : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYi6li5JMT
Miss Lowry : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYi1Qa54Zv
Mrs Lake : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYiQ605G2Q
Children might be spending more time on iPads, tablets and computers over the summer, so our topic activities this week are all about staying safe online.
Weekly spellings :
Y1 : like, slide, nice, home, note, rule, tube, use
Y2 : there, their, here, hear, quite, quiet, see, sea, one, won
Times tables : Choose any times tables and division facts that you want to work on.
Maths
Watch the video about subtracting 2 two digit numbers, with an exchange : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cY1vQH5b8T
Have a go at these subtractions.
63 – 43 =
94 – 55 =
85 – 16 =
Challenge : What have I done wrong?
54 – 28 =
14 – 8 = 6
50 – 20 = 30
30 + 6 = 36
Reading
Sing along with the song, reading the words as you go or reading them afterwards : https://youtu.be/-nRU5RIDWXU
So long, farewell (from the Sound of Music)
There’s a sad sort of clanging
From the clock in the hall
And the bells in the steeple, too
And up in the nursery
An absurd little bird
Is popping out to say coo-coo
(Coo-coo, coo-coo)
coo-coo Regretfully they tell us
coo-coo But firmly they compel us
coo-coo To say goodbye
To you
So long, farewell
Auf wiedersehen, goodnight
I hate to go and leave this pretty sight
So long, farewell
auf Wiedersehen, adieu
Adieu, adieu
To you and you and you
So long, farewell
Au revoir, auf Wiedersehen
I’d like to stay
And taste my first champagne
Yes?
No!
So long, farewell
Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
I leave and heave
A sigh and say goodbye
Goodbye
I’m glad to go
I cannot tell a lie
I flit, I float
I fleetly flee, I fly
The sun has gone
To bed and so must I
So long, farewell
auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Goodbye
Topic – staying safe online
Watch Episode 1 : Watching videos https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/jessie-and-friends-videos/
Talk about what you do if you see something that you don’t like.
You can also access the storybooks by scrolling to the end of the page where you will find the PDF links.
13 July 2020: Home Learning
Hello children! 
Make sure you check out the video from your new teacher on the Class News page.
This is the last week of term, so your home learning will be a little bit different – just as it would be in school. We have some fun quizzes for you to do each day as well as your maths puzzles.
There will be a reflection task for you to do on Friday as well as the disco at 11 am!
Here is your learning for today:
Maths – Year 3 and 4: Problem solving
Which script? You can find the answers here.
Topic – Quiz 1
Spelling –
The ‘shun’ sound – alternative spellings for this sound. Watch this bbc bitesize video to help you. There is also a quiz on the same link.
magician
possession
attention
confusion
session
fraction
politician
electrician
fiction
direction
mission
explosion
optician
10 July 2020 : Home learning
Happy Friday!
Maths
Have a go using the vertical method for subtraction. Subtract the ones first and then the tens.
Challenge
87 – ? = 54
? – 45 = 76
Reading
Watch the clip about mindfulness : https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47243692
Read and follow the instructions about how to be mindful on paper :
Mindful Movement on Paper
Have you ever put pen to paper without having any particular idea in mind of what you want to draw? This is sometimes called ‘taking your pen for a walk’. Put your pen or pencil anywhere on a piece of paper and focus on your breathing as you move your pen around. There is no right or wrong way of doing this and you are not trying to create a specific image. After a little while, stop and see where your pen has travelled. Notice the shapes you have made. You can use different colours to fill in the shapes you have created – your very own mindfulness colouring design! Mindfulness activities can help us to feel calm, happy and relaxed.
Topic
Play the listening game : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucuXAYMYttc
10 July 2020: Home Learning
Hey everyone
We hope you’ve had a great week. And, we hope you have a happy and healthy weekend, too – fingers crossed for a bit of sunshine!
Thanks to everyone who has been in touch this week – we really do love hearing how you’re doing.
Here’s your learning for today. As always, if you have any questions contact your class teacher.
Y5 Maths
Log on to TT Rockstars and test your multiplication skills.
Your learning for today is about multiplying decimals by 10, 100 and 1000.
Y6 Maths
Here are the answers to yesterday’s questions.
Your final challenge of the week is to take on all four levels of The Swamp of Statistics on Guardians: Defenders of Mathematica.
Y5,6 Reading
If you’ve been in my class, you know how much I love a good debate. I think it helps us engage with the world around us, articulate our thoughts and is a really valuable life skill. Also, to gain information, we often have to use our reading skills. Today, I’d like you to read this information and form your own opinion – you could even debate it with someone else.
Then, I’d like you to create a short poster or presentation (or anything else you can think of) to put forward your viewpoint.
Y5,6 Topic
We are going to familiarise ourselves further on one of our protective characteristics with this black lives matter lesson. This is a large global movement supporting the lives of black people.
Why are we doing this?
In Scholes (Elmet) Primary School, we know that racism is never ok and is not tolerated. Black lives matter supports our values, and it is important we are aware with current issues around the world. Complete this video lesson.