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Home learning Dinosaurs day 1, by Miss Mclaren
Date: 23rd Feb 2021 @ 9:45am
Welcome back Preschool.
We hope you have had a lovely half term with your families.
We are learning about dinosaurs this week.
We hope you enjoy learning about our dinosaurs and we will see you very soon.
Our focus today is Understanding the World.
Warm up
Joe Wicks
1.
Introduce Dinosaurs.
Ask your child if they know what a dinosaur is, or if they know any names of dinosaurs?
Introduce children to these words
Use ‘my turn, your turn’ to introduce each word. For example: Point to yourself and say “dinosaurs” and then point to your child for them to repeat “dinosaurs”. Once the child has said this then explain the word.
Dinosaur: A special kind of animal that lived on land a long time ago. Extinct: No longer alive we cannot see them in the world we live in. Prehistoric: A very long time ago. Bones: Hard parts of the body which make up a skeleton. Fossils: Fossils are parts of an animal which have made marks within the rock and has turned to rock itself over millions of years.
Palaeontologist: A scientist who explores prehistoric times.
2.
Watch video below to see how we can tell what a dinosaur is.
https://videocentralhd.lgfl.org.uk/premium_pla.aspx?id=t1aQvDI86iWd67
3.
Look at some pictures of dinosaurs and talk about which dinosaurs are your favourite?
Think about what they might have eaten?
https://videocentralhd.lgfl.org.uk/premium_play.aspx?id=1G0KVymyOsNkzP
Watch this palaeontologist talking about dinosaurs and what they might have eaten?
4.
Can you find out what your favourite dinosaur ate? Was it a herbivore, carnivore or omnivore?
5.
Can you draw a meal that your dinosaur might have eaten?
Year 1 Vlog 23/02/21, by Mr Chamberlain
Date: 23rd Feb 2021 @ 8:24am
Year 5 Home Learning Tuesday 23rd February 2021, by Miss Welsh
Date: 22nd Feb 2021 @ 8:46pm
Welcome back Year 5!
We hope you all had a fantastic half term and a very well deserved break.
The weekly timetable has been uploaded onto the school spider for you to take a look over and of course there is the daily video to explain your tasks for today.
Hopefully it won’t be too much longer before we are all back together.
Keep smiling
The Year 5 Team 
Today's Home Learning 23.02.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 22nd Feb 2021 @ 6:18pm
Welcome back Year 6!
We hope you all had a fantastic half term and a very well deserved break.
After a very strange start to 2021 and lots of homeschooling we really are looking forward to seeing you all back in school very soon.
The weekly timetable has been uploaded onto the school spider for you to take a look over and of course there is the daily video to explain your tasks for today.
Brief overview
Maths - Ratio and Proportion - This is a re-cap lesson from things you learnt during Spring 1. There is a video for you to watch and work through the questions.
English - You should have finished listening to 'Journey to the River Sea' if you have not yet finished please spend some time finishing the story. Don't forget you can listen to each chapter on YouTube. You are then going to be completing a book review. A PowerPoint has been uploaded onto the school spider to support you with this.
Geography - Today we are looking at the South American Country of Ecuador in more detail. Our focus will be on the Galapagos Islands.
Your challenge is to locate the islands on a world map.
Don't forget to send us a picture of your completed work and remember myself or Miss Flynn are here if you need any help.
Have a brilliant week.
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes 
F2 Tuesday 23rd February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 22nd Feb 2021 @ 3:03pm
Hi F2,
We hope you had a lovely and relaxing half term! Here are the activities for today:
Literacy - Farmer Duck
Listen to the story Farmer Duck. Miss Kealey has read the story for you on Tapestry (Memo's). Can you role play the story and create actions for different parts. Can you act out the story for your family and tell them what happens at each part, for example, the beginning, middle and end. What is your favourite part of the story?
Phonics — Adjacent Consonants
Can you practise these phonemes with the caption action 'th, ck, t, sh, ch'
Write the word 'ten' on a piece of paper. Segment and blend the word. Add the letter 't' to the end of the word to make the word 'tent'. For each of the following words (below) write the first three letters e.g. ten, dam, lum, ben, men. Can you add a letter to the each of these 3 letters to make another word? For example: tent, damp, lump, bend, mend.
Maths — Counting
Practise counting using the splat square https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-countlpatnt-the-squares For example — counting 1-20 forwards and backwards, counting in 10's, counting in 2's, one more, one less, missing numbers.
Can you write numbers 1-10 on cut up pieces of paper? Can you match the correct amount of objects to the number? Can you practise forming the numbers too? Challenge: Can you do this for numbers to 20 or higher?
RE: Lent
Talk about the beginning of Lent — Shrove Tuesday. Did anyone have pancakes on Shrove Tuesday? Discuss meaning behind Shrove Tuesday with your child. (Shrove Tuesday is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent — the 40 days leading up to Easter — was traditionally a time of fasting and on Shrove Tuesday people made pancakes to eat before the fasting during Lent)
During Lent, people make promises or give things up as it is a time for Christians to reflect and think about Jesus and how he fasted for 40 days and nights.
Can you make a Lenten Promise? Please find a worksheet attached on the School Spider. For example: I will help with the washing. I will give up sweets. I will tidy my room.
Wellbeing Activity: Make a friendship bracelet.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
Year 2 Vlog 12.02.21, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 12th Feb 2021 @ 11:35am
Home learning Jasper's Beanstalk day 5, by Miss Mclaren
Date: 12th Feb 2021 @ 9:07am
Expressive art and design
Warm up
Joe Wicks
1.
Today we are thinking about different sounds.
If you have some toy instruments in your house see if you can play them and think about what sound sounds like a seed popping, water pouring and plant growing.
If you don’t have instruments that’s ok.
Use anything around your house that you can find that makes a noise, pots and pans, body percussion, your voices etc.
2.
You may like to make a rain maker using an empty tube, bottle or containers you may have. If you use some rice, place it on the container, seal and shake. Now you can think about making loud or quiet sounds, fast or slow sounds.
3.
Can you retell the story of Jasper’s beanstalk for your family?
Maybe you could draw, paint or make the character of Jasper and some part of the story.
4.
Wellbeing task
On sunday it is Valentine's day, maybe you could make a card for some one you love?
Film afternoon,
Choose tour favourite film, help your family make your favourite snacks and have fun.
Year 1 Vlog 12/02/21, by Mr Chamberlain
Date: 12th Feb 2021 @ 8:18am
F2 Friday 12th February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 5:51pm
Hi F2,
Here are the activities for today:
Literacy – Literacy Shed – ‘Tuesday’
Recap over the story ‘Tuesday’ by David Weiner The Picture Book Shed - THE LITERACY SHED
Can you pretend to be another animal – where would you go and who would you be? Maybe your favourite animal. Can you perform an action as a new animal – can your family guess the animal?
Create your own version of the story with a new character and location.
For example: Pigs fly in the sky and go to the beach.
Phonics – Consolidation
Can you practise these phonemes with the caption action ‘j, er, w, ai, ee, igh’
Can you practise your spellings for this week. ‘it, an, not, put’. How many did you get correct?
Play some free blending games on Phonics Play or Phonics Bloom.
Maths – Money
Play the game: Pay with just one coin https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?f=payusingonecoinv3
Play a listening game with pennies and a jar. Have an adult choose an amount and drop that amount of pennies into the jar, can you close your eyes and listen for how many pennies dropped and guess the amount.
Then can you count out the coins in the jar and write the total amount e.g. 5 pennies in the jar is 5p.
Complete the worksheet on the School Spider.
PSED: Koala makes the Right Choice
Listen to Miss Kealey’s video of the story –‘Koala Makes the Right Choice’ on Tapestry (Memo). Talk about the importance of making the right choices
Key questions: Answer Verbally
- Have you ever made the wrong choice before?
- How did that choice make your/others feel?
- When have you made the right choice?
- What did you like about making the right choice?
- Talk about food choices here too (link to lunch times in school)
Draw a good choice and a bad choice and label it.
For example: A good choice is sharing toys. A bad choice is snatching a toy.
Wellbeing Activity: Read a story with someone at home.
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
Today's Home Learning Friday 12th February 2021, by Miss Flynn
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 4:22pm
Good Morning Year 6!
We made it!! The last day of half term!!
To finish off this half term we would like you to complete the following;
Today's Tasks
Maths -
To name parts of a circle:
Key vocabulary:
- Diameter
- Radius
- Centre
- Circumference
Why is the centre important? What is the relationship between the diameter and the radius? If you know one of these, how can you calculate the other? Can you use the vocabulary of a circle to describe and compare objects in the classroom? There are more tasks oulined on SchoolSpider
English - Edit and improve your short story. You should have built up your story over the week and should now be ready to edit, improve and re-write. Once you have done this, you may wish to add a front cover and blurb!
RE- Continuing to look at the different parts of the Mass. Today will focus on 'The Gloria' and 'The Liturgy of the Word'.
Have a great day and enjoy your well deserved week off!
Happy Half Term!
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Year 5 Home Learning Friday 12th February 2021, by Miss Welsh
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 2:14pm
Good Fri-YAY Year 5!
We’ve done it, we are on the last day of the half term! We all deserve a good rest but… before we finish today we would like you to complete a few more activities.
In English today, you are performing your limerick. Think about putting actions to represent your poem.
In Maths, you are looking at scaling down.
In the afternoon we have an art project, we would like you to recreate the ruins of the ancient Greek Parthenon.
Don't forget to go on the rockstars website (just let us know on the school spider if you need your log in). https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school. The battle is going strong, which class will be champions this week?
Have a lovely half term.
Miss Welsh, Mr Worthington, Mrs Scarisbrick, Mrs Daley and Mrs Barron 
Year 4 Home Learning 11/02/2021, by Mr Woodland
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 1:27pm
Happy Thursday Year 4,
Today's Home Learning tasks are in the login area and their is more detail if you watch below.
A new TTRockstars battle is also set up between the 2 classes, for you to use at home. Mr Woodland's class won last week.
We hope you are all doing well and just message if there are any problems.
Stay safe
Mr Woodland, Miss Barron, Miss Lee and Mrs Evans
CBBC YouTube Channel - free to subscribe to, by Mrs Harris
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 1:20pm
CBBC are uploading videos daily that are suitable for 5-11 year olds.
They have all the top CBBC brands on there, with a wide range of genres from factual shows, news, dramas, comedy to entertainment. Programmes like Horrible Histories, Blue Peter, Newsround, The Next Step, Saturday Mash-Up, Operation Ouch, the Playlist, the Dumping Ground, Heirs of the Night and Jamie Johnson.
They are also welcoming back Dani Harmer in the brilliant new programme My Mum Tracy Beaker.
Year 4 Home Learning 10/02/2021, by Mr Woodland
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 1:19pm
Happy Wednesday Year 4,
Today's Home Learning tasks are in the login area and their is more detail if you watch below.
A new TTRockstars battle is also set up between the 2 classes, for you to use at home. Mr Woodland's class won last week.
We hope you are all doing well and just message if there are any problems.
Stay safe
Mr Woodland, Miss Barron, Miss Lee and Mrs Evans
Year 2 Vlog 11.02.21, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 10:37am
Home learning Jasper's Beanstalk day 4, by Miss Mclaren
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 9:28am
Maths
Warm up
Cosmic Kids Yoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWowDC3x0hE
1.
We are thinking about positional language again today.
Practice makes perfect, so watch this video and then have a go at placing one of your teddies in the different positions and using the language to tell me where teddy is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWpz1xsk6js
2.
We are also thinking about the language of size.
Do you think you can make a beanstalk using your toys or things you find in your house?
Can you make a beanstalk that is taller?
Can you make a beanstalk that is smaller.
If you can’t make one, could you draw them?
3.
We are still working on the days of the week. Listen to the song of the days of the week again and have a go at trying to remember the order of the days of the week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJhRqVdAzRM
4.
Wellbeing task
Play hide and seek in the house. See who has the best hiding place.
Today's Home Learning 11.02.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 9:16am
Good Morning Year 6,
Hope you are all ok!
It's almost Friday and it's almost half term!!
Watch today's video where the tasks of the day are explained.
Overview
Maths - Reasoning and Problem solving - Line Graphs. There is a worksheet uploaded on the school spider for you to work through.
English - Listen/Read chapter 14 and 15 of Journey to the River Sea- you can read ahead if you like as we need to finish before we return from half term.
Please read ALL of the information below…..
Today you are going to put the last three days’ worth of work together to write your own short section of the story.
You will start from when Maia took off her mask…
Art -
Create a South American Landscape using a medium focus of your choice (paint, crayons, tissue paper, and coloured pencils).
Make sure your piece is bold and bright. Think about how it represents South America.
Use the internet to find some inspiration for your own piece.
Have a lovely day!
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Year 1 Vlog 11/02/21, by Mr Chamberlain
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 8:36am
Year 5 Home Learning Thursday 11th February 2021, by Miss Welsh
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 8:34pm
Good Morning Year 5 ,
Hope you are all ok and staying safe at home. We have uploaded a daily video explaining the activities further for you.
Keep uploading your work, it is fantastic to see what you are doing.
Don't forget to go on the rockstars website (just let us know on the school spider if you need your log in). https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school. The battle is going strong, which class will be champions this week?
Miss Welsh, Mr Worthington, Mrs Scarisbrick, Mrs Daley and Mrs Barron
F2 Thursday 11th February 2021 Home Learning Tasks, by Miss Ward
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 5:32pm
Hi F2,
Here are today's activities:
Literacy – Literacy Shed – ‘Tuesday’
Recap over the story ‘Tuesday’ by David Weiner The Picture Book Shed - THE LITERACY SHED
Look at the characters in the video. For example: The man in the kitchen, the frogs etc.
Can you make a frog mask and act out parts of the story? Can you describe the frog? e.g green, slimy.
Can you draw a picture of one of the characters or a frog and write some words or sentences to describe them?
Phonics – Consolidation
Can you practise these phonemes with the caption action ‘v, sh, ch, z, ll, ff, ss’
Recap the caption action for the ‘ure’. Can you form this grapheme on paper?
Ask an adult to write some words containing the ‘ure’ sound and hide them around your house. Can you go on a detective hunt to find them and try to segment and blend them?
Maths – Money
Listen to the coins song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFzAU3u06Ps
With your role-play shop you made yesterday, can you give the different objects/items a price. Either find some pennies or make some out of paper. Can you use the coins to buy the items? Adults can you encourage your child and use language such as change, price, amount, coins, money, left over, expensive, cheap etc.
Thematic: What sounds can you hear in the Rainforest?
Can you make some shadow puppets of animals you might find in the rainforest. Can you find a torch and make the shadows move?
Have a think about animals losing their homes if the rainforest is chopped down, can you write a letter to tell people to stop cutting trees down?
Remember to write your full name at the bottom of the letter.
Wellbeing Activity: Make an obstacle course – how fast can you complete it?
Have fun and remember to post pictures of your work on Tapestry!
F2 Team
Year 3 Home Learning Friday 12.02, by Mrs Bale
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 3:59pm
Year 3 Home Learning Thursday 11.02, by Mrs Bale
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 3:58pm
Year 2 Vlog 10.02.21, by Miss Hanton-Wise
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 12:46pm
Home learning Jasper's Beanstalk day 3, by Miss Mclaren
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 10:10am
Understanding the World
Warm up
Joe Wicks
1.
Look at the beanstalk in the story of Jasper’s Beanstalk on the story video.
Can you build a beanstalk using different things in your house? How tall can you build it?
2.
If you have any seeds, could you plant a seed and see how it grows?
If not, watch this video of a seed growing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECibetK2EYI
Explain that a plant grows from a seed, it needs water and light to grow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zvGv8yVE9s
watch this video above, this tells you about different parts of a plant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDjFZVqiLvY
The video above will help you to explain what a plant needs to stay alive.
3.
After watching these videos and maybe going to look for plants outside, can you now have a go at drawing a plant and talking about it’s different parts?
Key words to use:
Flower, leaves, stem, roots.
4. Wellbeing task
Enjoy colouring in some pictures together. Maybe you could add these to your memory box?
Year 3 home learning Wednesday 10.2.21, by Mrs McAlynn
Date: 10th Feb 2021 @ 10:09am
Good morning children! What a beautiful sunny morning it is! Here are your home learning tasks for today:
Maths: we are going to be looking at properties of 3D shapes and explore their faces, edges and vertices. We will also begin building our own 3D shapes.
English: today we are going to begin drafting our non-chronological reports about the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt.
Geography: we are going to be exploring some of the different signs and symbols associated with Egypt, thinking about what they mean and why they are important to the Egyptian people.
Have a fantastic day children! Mrs McAlynn, Mrs Bale and Mrs McGunigall :)