22 April 2020 : Home learning
Bonjour! We often like to say hello in different ways during the register. Which other ways do you know?
Remember to read today.
Maths
Look at the repeating patterns. Copy and complete them.

Challenge : Make some shape/colour repeating patterns of your own. Look around your house to see if there are any more repeating patterns you can see?
Reading
Look at the funny postcard. Write a list of words that you can see in the postcard. Use your phonics and knowledge of tricky words to spell the words you use.

Challenge : Write sentences describing what is happening in the picture.
Topic – History
Read the information about the Queen.

Answer the questions.
- What is the Queen’s full name?
- How many children does the Queen have?
- Who are two of her grandchildren?
- How long has she been the Queen for?
- What doesn’t the Queen need?
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The bear from yesterday belonged to Mrs Latham. She got it in about 1978 when she was a little girl, over 40 years ago! She called it Barnaby and played with it a lot. It was special because it could suck its thumbs and toes.
22 April 2020: Home Learning
Hi children,
Here are your activities for today.
Competition time – which class teacher will receive the most emails this week? We want to hear from every single one of you so please email in to say ‘hi’. Thank you so much to all of you who have done this already. The winning class will be announced on Monday.
Keep staying safe.
Team 3,4
Maths
Answers Y3 place value – further practice – representing numbers up to 1000
Answers Y4 place value – further practice – partitioning.docx
Today’s work:
Y3 place value – further practice – 100s, 10s and 1s
Y4 place value – further practice – rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.docx
Reading
Writing
We are learning about adverbs. Watch the two clips to remind you.
Read the example ‘My narrow escape from the leopard’: Impala and leopard recount.
Identify and highlight any adverbs or adverbial phrases for WHEN, WHERE or HOW. You could also copy them into your book and make your own bank of adverbials.
Challenge: Create some of your own sentences using adverbs and adverbials about the Impala and the leopard. Use the adverbial phrase mat and fronted adverbials to help you.
22 April 2020: Home Learning
Good morning. We hope you are all staying happy and healthy and excited to see what home learning we have put in place for today. Have a look at the Class News page to see a video from Mr Catherall. He is giving some great tips on how to stay well during lockdown. Don’t forget that there are some great resources online that you can access too. The BBC offer some great programmes, videos and lessons that might inspire you. Have a look on the link below to see what’s available.
Here is your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
2.180cm²
Starter
Choose a sum from a times tables. Write down the associated division facts for each one. Repeat for other sums.
3 x 4= 12 12 ÷ 4 = 3
Your learning today is area.
How could you calculate the area of these compound shapes? Can you split the shapes into 2 rectangles? What is the area of each?

Draw some of your own compound shapes and calculate the area.
Challenge
Find out as many ways as you can to find the area of this shape.

Year 6 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
| 1)3 Zids and 4 Zods
2) The 5 possible ways of making 140 are: 28 Zids 21 Zids and 5 Zods 14 Zids and 10 Zods 7 Zids and 15 Zods 20 Zods |
Your learning today is working backwards.
Today, we’re practicing working backwards to solve I’m thinking of a number puzzles.
Working backwards (Use the inverse)
Challenge
Design some of your own similar questions. If you email them to us, we can choose some for everyone to complete next week.
Year 5/6 Reading Task
Answers from yesterday:
Answers for Tuesday’s retrieval questions
Your learning today is inference and interpret.
Skim over the text from Monday and Tuesday to remind yourself about it. All of today’s questions are about this text.
Now, answer the inference questions.
Wednesday – inference questions
For a challenge, imagine you are Mary and you are trapped in the cave. You don’t have any mobile reception but you manage to log on to the cave next door’s WiFi and so you can send an email. Choose someone to email asking for help. This could be her husband, her sister orher best friend.
PS I’m aware that if you were on the WiFi you could also send a message or Facetime etc –but an email made for better learning!
Year 5/6 Writing Task
21 April 2020 : Home learning
Remember to read today and work on your spellings/times tables. The BBC Bitesize Daily lessons and resources are also excellent. You can watch them on your tv, tablet or laptop. A full menu of how to access can be found here. We use White Rose to aid our maths planning at school and they have lots of resources too https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/.
Maths
Look at the 3D shape mat.

List the shapes and write the properties of each one.
Pyramid – 5 faces, 5 vertices (corners)
Sphere – 1 face, 0 vertices
Challenge : find some objects around your house that are the 3D shapes
eg a book is a cuboid, a toilet roll is a cylinder, the roof of the house is a pyramid
Reading
Sing the alphabet song : https://youtu.be/jPVbJ-IaHIw
Go on a scavenger hunt around your house or garden. Try to find something beginning with each letter of the alphabet.
Challenge : write out the alphabet and the item you found beginning with that letter.
Topic – History
Have a look at the photos of the old toy. It belongs to one of the teachers.
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Write 3 (or more) questions that you would like to find out about the bear. Eg When did you get it? How old is it? What did you call it?
21 April 2020: Home Learning
Good morning. Hope you had a good sleep last night and that you’re ready for your learning today. Remember to get outside for some fresh air too – this is just as important for you and your mental health.
Your learning for today is…
Year 5 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
- 58cm
- 34cm
- 70cm
Challenge
14.2cm
Starter
Write down as many number facts that you know about 1,092. Think about addition and subtraction calculations, partitioning, multiplication and division, part-whole models.
Your learning today is area.
To calculate the area of a rectangle or a square, multiply the height by the width.
- How many rectangles can you draw with an area of 24cm²?
- Mo buys a house with a small back garden, which has an area of 12m². His house lies in a row of terraces, all identical. If there are 15 terraced houses altogether, what is the total area of the garden space?
Challenge

Year 6 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
Solve puzzles
Today’s maths is a problem solving task that uses times table facts and mental addition.
Problem solving – Zids and Zods
Challenge
How many different solutions can you find?
How do you know you’ve found them all?
Year 5/6 Reading Task
Your learning today is retrieval.
First of all, you should re-read the text from yesterday (The Cave).
Next, you should answer the retrieval questions.
For a challenge, create your own retrieval questions for someone in your house, or even better someone in your class, to have a go at – remember that you’ll need to know the answer so you can check if they’re right or not.
Year 5/6 Writing Task
Re watch the video from yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-45TbOGadro
Read your work from yesterday. ChARM it! Check for punctuation errors, missing words and sense. Add more to a sentence or paragraph. Remove anything that you don’t like. Move a clause, phrase, word or sentence to improve the flow of your work.
Now, publish your work by rewriting in your best handwriting and sending it to your teacher to add to our Class News page.
21 April 2020: Home Learning
Hi children,
Here’s a SUPERMOVERS clip to get you going today!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers/ks2-maths-the-8-times-table-with-filbert-fox/z4mrhbk
Here are your activities for today – have fun!
Keep up that reading and times tables learning.
Keep in touch – if you haven’t emailed us yet, please do!
Stay safe.
Team 3,4
Maths
Answers from yesterday:
Answers Y3 place value – further practice – counting in 100s and 50s Answers Y4 place value – further practice – representing numbers up to 10,000.docx
Today:
Y3 place value – further practice – representing numbers up to 1000
Y4 place value – further practice – partitioning.docx
Reading
Can you still remember the poem that you learnt yesterday?
Which poem did you choose?
Writing
Answers from yesterday:
Write a recount: ‘Narrow Escapes’. Our writing focus this week is to use adverbs and adverbials in our writing of a recount.
Take notes from a video:
- Watch the video clip about the Impala and the Leopard. Don’t be worried: it has a happy ending!
- Read Impala Notes. Fill in the answers. Write as much description as you can. Watch the video again to help you.
- Extra challenge: Write some sentences about the video using adverbial phrase mat
20 April 2020: Home Learning
Good morning! We hope you all had a lovely Easter and that you spent some more quality time with your families. We hope that lots of you had a go at the Easter challenges we set for you. We would love to see some photos of these, so please send some our way!
Anyway, it’s back to learning time. Remember to put lots of effort in and still think about your presentation.
Your learning for today is…
Year 5 Maths Task
Starter
Have a game of times table bingo with someone.
Your learning today is perimeter.
To measure the perimeter of a shape, you add up all the sides. A composite shape is a shape made up of two or more geometric shapes, like the ones below. They are made up of two rectangles.
1.

- How many composite shapes can you draw with a perimeter of 34cm?
3.How many regular shapes (squares, rectangles) can you draw with a perimeter of 26cm?
Can you use any decimal numbers?
Challenge

Year 6 Maths Task
Four operations
Write the answers to the questions in your exercise book. If you’ve forgotten some of the ideas, your CGP books might help. Remember, you can email your teacher if you’re still unsure.
Challenge
Choose one of the problems and write your own similar question.
Year 5/6 Reading Task
Your learning today is a mix of retrieval and inference.
First, you should read the text – The Cave.
Your first task is to draw and label a picture of Mary. You’ll have done this before in your reading lessons at school. If you’re feeling arty, you could draw an actual picture of Mary, or, you could draw an outline (like a Gingerbread person). Around the outside of your person, you should label it with things from the text. This could be facts (eg her toenails are painted) or it could be inferences you’ve made about her personality (eg I think she’s brave because…).
Your second task is to imagine you are Mary when she realises that she is in a cave (towards the end of page 1). Your task is to draw what she can see around her – remember this isn’t an art lesson. Once you’ve drawn everything, use evidence from the text to label your picture. For example, you could label the floor as ‘highly uneven, but largely flat’.
For a challenge, you could write either a short setting description, or a short character description (or both!). Whichever challenge you choose, remember to use evidence from the text.
Year 5/6 Writing Task
Get thinking…. Get talking. Have a discussion with someone about the following questions.
Is it possible for us to touch clouds?
What are clouds made of?
Can we touch what they are made of?
What is the sky?
Where does the sky begin?
Why is the sky blue?
Watch this endearing video about a father and son creating clouds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-45TbOGadro
Today you have a choice of tasks:
Write a set of instructions for creating clouds based on the video. Include imperative verbs (cut, push, blow).
Write a narrative about how other natural phenomena is created (lightning, thunder, wind, snow)
20 April 2020 : Home learning
Morning!
Well, the Easter holidays are over. It may not have felt much different to the previous two weeks, but we hope you had some egg-cellent fun and enjoyed the sunshine. Here are your tasks for today. Each day we will set three main tasks.
We would also like you to read for at least twenty minutes per day – to yourself, your mum, dad, teddy or pets. It could be in two, 10 minute sessions.
Keep reading anything and everything. If you have run out of your own books to read, there is a fab online library of eBooks to read on https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/
Just register on the website, log in and choose what you want to read.
Each Monday, we will also upload a set of spellings for you to practise over the course of the week. Then on Friday, see if you can write them out without looking at them. Someone could test you if you want.
Y2s will also have a set of times table or division facts to learn too.
Weekly spellings :
Y1 : was we were where you your
Y2 : half hold hour improve kind last many mind money most
Times tables : times 10 and divide 10
You can contact your child’s teacher if you are not sure about any of the learning or want to send us photos or messages about what you’re doing.
1K – Miss Parling – katieparling@spherefederation.org
1,2V – Mrs Latham – vickylatham@spherefederation.org
2KN – Miss Lowry/Mrs Lake – kaylowry@spherefederation.org natalielake@spherefederation.org
Maths
Warm up by singing the shapes song – https://youtu.be/WTeqUejf3D0
Go on a shape hunt. Look around your house see which 2D (flat) shapes you can see.
Draw the shapes from the song or shapes that you see.

Challenge : Write what you know about each shape.
Eg A square has 4 sides. It has 4 corners. The sides are straight and all the same length.
Reading
Read the instructions about how to make a fruit salad. Answer the questions in your home learning book.

Challenge : If you can, make your own fruit salad.
Topic – Science (observing nature)
Find three animals outside. Find out their name, write down where you saw them and draw or take a picture of them.
Do not pick them up!
Challenge : Find out/make up and write a fun fact about each one.
eg Blue Tit

I saw it in the tree in my back garden, singing.
Fun Fact : As they get older, their colouring gets brighter.
20 April 2020: Home Learning
Hi children,
How are you all? We hope that you had a fabulous Easter break. Did you eat any chocolate eggs or have an egg hunt? We have all been eating plenty of chocolate over the holidays! We have also been enjoying the sunshine from our homes and gardens.
We’d love to hear from you and find out what you have been doing to keep busy. Remember to keep in touch through email. Send us any pictures that you might want featured in our weekly posts.
Enjoy your learning activities for today – remember to read every day for at least twenty minutes and learn your times tables too.
Take care and stay safe!
Team 3,4
Maths
Y3 Place value – further practice – counting in 100s and 50s
Y4 place value – further practice – representing numbers up to 10,000
Reading
Writing
Today we are going to recap on adverbs and adverbials. Work through the Powerpoint – Adverbials 1.
Then, complete the task: Day 1 adverbials OR for a more challenging task: Day-1-adverbials CHALLENGE.
Copy the sentences out into your book and take care with your handwriting and presentation.
The answers will be available tomorrow.
A revision prompt is available for printing or if you do not have Powerpoint on your computers Revision adverbs.
06 April 2020: Home learning – answers
Good morning everyone!
I hope you have all had a lovely weekend. As I’m sure you know, we are setting some activities for you to do over the Easter holiday – things a bit different to our regular posts. However, I know some of you will be desperate to know the answers to your maths learning from Friday, so here they are:
Year 5 maths task
Answers
- 500
- 50
- 5
- 2700
- 270
- 27
Using what you have just worked out- solve the following calculations.
- 1200
- 600
- 300
- 900
- 300
- 180
Year 6 maths task
2016 Arithmetic (2) Answers.pdf
Year 5/6 reading task