1 April 2020: Home Learning
Hi children,
How are you all? Have you been making the time to exercise?
Whether you are practising your football skills, skipping, hula hooping, running or following Joe Wicks every day, keep going! Let us know what you have been doing to keep both physically and mentally fit!
Enjoy your learning tasks for the day.
Topic / Reading
- Before the start of the battle, why would Boudicca have been confident of winning?
- What slowed down the Celts movement towards the Romans?
- Why has the author included a diagram on page 24?
- What stopped the Celts from getting away from the Romans?
- What does the word rebellion mean? Use a dictionary or the internet to find out if you’re not sure.
- Whereabouts in England did the Battle of Watling Street happen?
Maths
Y3 – bus stop division Y3 – grid method ANSWERS
Y4 – column method, grid method ANSWERS Y4 – x and division (2)
Creative writing – descriptions
Describe an egg, using adjectives, and see if a partner can guess it.
Which dragon do you think is the most dangerous? Why?
Which dragon do you think will be the friendliest? Why?
Which species could survive in cold temperatures? How do you know?
Which dragon egg would you like to find and why?
What would you do if you came across a Norwegian Ridgeback egg? Write a what-to-do-if…guide.
Try drawing what you think each species will look like as a fully grown dragon; use details from the egg’s appearance and the species name to inform your choices.
Extra: Create ‘Top Trumps’ cards for each species. Decide on the categories and give them ratings, then do battle!
challenge:
31 March 2020: Home Learning
Happy Tuesday everyone!
Here are your activities for today. Here’s a routine to help you structure your day Home Learning Routine. Have lots of fun and remember to keep up with your reading and times tables too!
Happy learning !
Team 3,4
Reading:
Maths (and answers from yesterday)
Y4 – column method, grid method
Topic
In history lessons this half-term, we have answered all of the following questions.
- When did the Romans successfully invade Britain?
- Who was the emperor during the first successful invasion?
- Why did the Romans invade Britain?
- Was Boudicca a Roman or a Celt?
- What was the name of Boudicca’s tribe?
- How did Boudicca die?
First of all, we’d like your child to answer the questions. If there are any questions they don’t remember the answer to, they can use the internet to find them. A couple of links below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqtf34j
http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html
Next, they should show off some of the knowledge they’ve learnt in the topic in a poster. This could be some of the answers to the questions above or other things they’ve learnt. Email some pictures of the posters you create and I’ll post them on Class News!
30 March 2020: Home Learning
Hi children and welcome to Week 2 of Home Learning.
We hope that you have had a lovely weekend and have managed to do some
interesting activities!
Check out these ways to Keep Fit At Home. There is something for everyone with a Gold, Silver and Bronze challenge bingo board to complete!
We have given you a list of spellings to practise this week – you could ask an
adult to test you on Friday. In addition to your daily tasks, please keep up the daily reading and times table practise too.If you haven’t already looked at the class news section of the website, then please do. You may see a few familiar faces and enjoy listening to our messages.
Please keep in touch – we really do enjoy hearing from you.
Happy learning! Happy Monday!
Team 3,4
Spelling.
accident(ally)
actual(ly)
address
answer
appear
arrive
believe
bicycle
breath
breathe
How many ways can you practise these spellings?
Examples:
- rainbow words – each letter is written in a different colour
- split each word into syllables en/joy/ment
- box words – draw a box around each letter in the word
- pyramid words
- look, cover, spell, check
Maths
Y3 – multiplication and division assessment
Y4 – multiplication and division assessment
Reading
Writing
Watch the film clip of ‘The Present’.
What is the story here? Rewrite it.
Think about:
- How does the puppy help the boy?
- How is the boy different at the start and at the end of the clip?
- How are they good for each other?
- What do you think happened to the boy?
Happy learning!
PE with Joe Wicks
Some classes have used Joe Wicks workouts in their PE lessons recently and he has sent a message for you all.
Starting Monday 23rd March I’m going to be hosting a free workout aimed at kids LIVE on my YouTube channel.
With the schools closed and with us all spending more time at home, it’s more important than ever that we keep moving and stay healthy and positive.
Exercise is an amazing tool to help us feel happier, more energised, and more optimistic.
The workouts will be fun and suitable for all ages and even adults can get involved.
You don’t need any equipment, just tune in to my YouTube channel at 9am each morning for a 30-minute, fun workout.
One more thing! I really need your help to spread this message. So please please share this with everyone that might like to get involved, and together we can help keep the nation moving
🏻
20 March 2020
This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework: I can pay and receive compliments to/from people outside of school.
This homework, which links to our recent living and learning statement, is an opportunity for children to discuss the benefits of paying compliments to people. Here are some questions that might shape your discussion:
- How does paying a compliment make you feel?
- How does receiving a compliment make you feel?
- Why is it important to be sensible when paying or receiving compliments?
- Can you compliment people too much?
- Is it ok to compliment a stranger? Is this safe?
Children should be ready to discuss what they’ve talked about at home by Thursday 26 March 2020. It would be even better if children were able to talk confidently about times when they have given, or received, a compliment.
13 March 2020
Our homework this week is Creative: I can show my talents.
All of the children in our school are blessed with an array of talents. This week, our homework, which links to our living and learning statement (I can recognise my talents), gives our children the opportunity to celebrate and share their talents. Children should respond creatively and be ready to show off their talents to their peers as part of their homework review. They could do this in a range of ways:
- create a short performance to show to the class
- film themselves showing off their talent
- make a collage of their many talents
- produce a piece of art to show off their talents
There are, of course, many other ways that children could respond. Children should be ready to show off their talents by Thursday 19 March 2020.
28 February 2020
This week, our homework is Creative and is helping us to celebrate World Book Day next week.
I can show what I love about reading.
Children could come up with their own ideas for how to show this, or ideas might include:
- create a labelled diagram of the perfect place to read in
- write a book review
- draw and label/describe a character from your favourite book
- write a letter to an author telling them how much you loved reading their book
- write a one minute speech on your favourite book, persuading others to read it – consider what the most exciting parts are, which characters you love or you love to hate, who might enjoy reading it next and why
Be as creative as you like.
This homework will be celebrated in our weekly homework review on World Book Day itself, 5 March 2020.
07 February 2020
This week, the whole school has the same creative homework, which is due in on Thursday 13 February 2020.
I can show different ways to stay safe, including online.
This week, linked to our Living & Learning, we have been thinking about how to make safe choices, including online. There are many ways, and many different situations, in which we need to keep safe: at home, at school, in our environment and online.
Children should think about the situations where they need to keep safe and who might help them to stay safe. This could be done in any creative way:
- A story
- A poem
- Instructions
- A comic strip
- An advert
- An interview
- A game
- Scenarios
…or any other creative ideas!
The homework will be reviewed as part of our weekly homework review.
24 January 2020
This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework: What is a drug?
This homework, which links to our Living and Learning statement, is a first step in children becoming aware of drugs. There are a few key points you may wish to talk about at home. Children need to be aware that some drugs are helpful, some are harmful, some are legal, some are illegal. Don’t forget to consider that even the legal or helpful ones can be harmful.
Below are some question prompts that could help shape your discussion…
- What is a good definition for a drug?
- What is a drug? What is not a drug?
- Are all drugs bad?
- Why might some people need to take medicines?
- Who can prescribe medicine?
- Who should administer medicine?
- What should you do if you find some medicine?
- Should you take medicine that isn’t yours?
Children should be prepared to discuss what they’ve talked about at home during our homework review next week. This homework should be completed by Thursday 30 January.
17 January 2020
This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework:
I can show different ways to make things better.
This homework, which is due on Thursday 24 January, is an opportunity for children to reflect on our living & learning statement for this week: I can make things better.
Children should think about ways to make things better in a variety of different situations and contexts:
- in class
- in a friendship group
- at playtimes
- at home
- with siblings
- out and about (countryside, park)
- the wider environment (recycling)
You could consider…
- Why should we try and make things better?
- How do we do this?
- When should we apologise?
- What is the effect it has on others around us when we make things better?
- Older children might want to consider the benefits of restorative justice.
Don’t forget to be creative! Produce a report or diary; capture photos of making things better; create rules for better games at play times; make a poster about how to say sorry; or, think of your own creative response.
This homework will be celebrated in our weekly homework review.