Please find attached a lovely book that you may wish to read with your children about the coronavirus.
As always, feel free to read it first to make sure it is something you wish to share.
Have a lovely Monday and stay safe.
Mrs Greer :)
We hope you are all well and are ready for another week of exciting learning! We have got some brilliant tasks coming your way this week so keep your eye on the Year 6 page.
You are being superstars at the moment – we are all so very proud of you! Keep smiling, working hard and enjoying the sunshine.
Please do continue to send us pictures of your lovely work and the odd picture of your wonderful animals helping you to complete your tasks :)
Lastly, thank you to everyone who has entered Jae Malone’s competition to win a signed set of her books. Do not fear if you haven’t got round to it yet – you have until the 4th May to enter! See the information in the next section if you are interested.
Have a WONDERFUL day!
Mrs Silvester, Miss Pettitt and Mrs Chapman
Don’t forget you can email us on year6@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if you have a question, need a password, need some help, want to show us your work or even just say hello! Please get your grown up’s permission before you email us. We look forward to hearing from you. We may not reply the same day!
Presentation – Please remember to do your very best work. Handwriting and presentation are as important at home as they are in school. You can complete your work in a book or if you need lined or squared paper you can get it here.
Note for parents: Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities and can do independently. We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child.
As well as the learning tasks we upload each day, there are a few ‘extras’ that you could have a go at, if you get time.
TTRockstars – Play 5 garage games + 5 studio games. Mrs Chapman will be online at 11am today in the Year 6 Arena area provided the website is running properly. Her TT Rockstar name is Zander Madden and will play games in the Wembley Stadium area.
Reading – Read for at least 20 minutes every day.
Weekly spellings – Practise these everyday in your spelling booklets – you can find this week’s set here: Week 2 – Main Spelling List Week 2 – Less Tricky Spelling List
Daily physical activity which you enjoy. Challenge yourself! Remember Joe Wicks is still there to keep us moving.
Competition Reminder – closing date 4th May
Jae Malone, the author of ‘Silver Linings’ unfortunately could not visit us last month because of the Covid situation. However, she is incredibly keen to make sure we keep our imaginations fired and let our love of writing stories grow. Therefore, she has sent some fun ideas on how to create short stories. With these writing prompts you may be able to come up with a brand new story idea that no one else has ever thought of. You don’t have to write stories down, you may picture them in your mind or be a storyteller to members of your family.
Grid – Haunting things Grid One – People and Creatures Seaside Columns
As well as these fun story creating ideas, she has set us an exciting challenge. If you would like to win a signed set of Jae Malone’s trilogy, then why not enter her creative writing competition?
All you have to do is send your completed Indiana story from last term. If you have already sent us uploaded photos of your completed story or sent it as a Word document, then all you have to do is ask us to submit it to Jae’s competition. If you didn’t send us your completed story, you have until 4th May to complete your story and send it to us. Remember to use the year6@stmarksce.org.uk address for your entries.
We have loved seeing photographs of the brilliant Maths work you have been doing at home – keep it up!
Let’s kick off this week with Monday’s Success in 7: Success in 7 week 2
When you’re finished, remember to check your answers before marking – it is really important you continue to practise your estimation skills too!
Here are today’s answers: 1. Monday answers Success in Seven
We’ve got two more Angles lessons coming your way this week – we hope you are enjoying them! Today, we would like you to use Summer Term Week 2 Lesson 1 – Angles in special quadrilaterals. Like usual, watch the video and pause it if you need to. Here is the website: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/
Here’s what the activity looks like:
Miss Goddard’s extra challenge can be found if you click here.
The photographs we received of your persuasive adverts were fantastic – we hope you are proud of them too! Such wonderful robot inventions as well. I wonder if one day your idea might actually become a reality?
Another brilliant English lesson for you today! You’re going to learn all about Bibo the Robot.
The PowerPoint below explains everything. At one point, you’ll be directed to watch the short film which can be found here: Bibo the Robot
Resources:
Screenshots – Significant Events in Bibo Film
Storyline – The story of Bibo
Enjoy the lesson and we look forward to seeing your work :)
Ready to learn how to dance like a robot? :)
The AMAZING Mrs Silv has made a video of herself demonstrating the routine for you to follow. You will be able to find it in the Video Resources section at the bottom of the page. Please use the usual password to access it.
Other resources you will need:
We know you will love this!
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Hope you are all well this morning and that you had a fantastic weekend. Did you manage to make the most of the sunshine by playing in the garden? having a BBQ? or going for a walk or bike ride?
Thank you to all of you for your hard work on the Year 5 vs Year 4 TT Rockstars battle. We were successful again against the Year 4s!!! Thank you to the 20 children who helped towards our victory – you are all amazing!!
We continue to be amazed by your fantastic work that you are sending in. We are really proud of all your hard work and can’t wait to see you all as soon as we are allowed.
Year 5 Team
Don’t forget you can email us on year5@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if you have a question, need a password, need some help, want to show us your work or even just say hello! Please get your grown up’s permission before you email us. We look forward to hearing from you. We may not reply the same day!
Presentation – Please remember to do your very best work. Handwriting and presentation are as important at home as they are in school. You can complete your work in a book or if you need lined or squared paper you can get it here.
Note for parents: Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities and can do independently. We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child.
Today your jobs are Maths and English. We has also included and topic lesson for today, where we will be continuing to think about the Caribbean. Remember that you can also do:
Today we will be continuing with Percentages. Today’s lesson you can access by clicking here. We are working on Week 2 – Lesson 5 – Equivalent FDP (Fraction, Decimals and Percentages). Remember that we are not yet on the Summer Term and to use the video to help you.
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Today you are going to read a couple more poems from the ‘Lost Words’ book. Then you are going to write a Kenning poem and if you have time, decorate it beautifully. Please then send them in to us, we love to look at them.
From now on in our topic lessons, we are going to be looking closely at one Caribbean Island in particular – St Lucia. Today you will be looking at the human and physical features in St Lucia.
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Good morning everyone, we hope you had a good weekend and managed to get lots of exercise either indoors or outside. Well done to all those who took part in our Rockstars battle with year 5, they narrowly beat us this time, so if we keep trying we will win. A special mention to George and Parker who each got well over a 1000 points each.
Some of us find it hard to get going on a Monday after our weekend so here are some ‘Motivation Monday’ quotes to help kick start your week:
‘You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.’
‘Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.’
Hopefully with these in mind you will have a great day. Our topic for this week is Big Cats – another one of your excellent choices. This week is packed full of exciting lessons finding where you will be able to choose a big cat to focus on and will have opportunities to find out facts, how they survive, be directed to some excellent videos to watch and even some artwork!
Here is a new link to Scholastic Reading Pro library. This is a site with lots of primary age books. We thought it might be useful if you are looking for something different to read. There are both fiction and non-fiction books available and you can do quizzes about the books if you like. and you will be receiving an email with a password for this site.
Miss Goddard, Miss Hardy and Mrs Happy
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Don’t forget you can email us on year4@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if you have a question, need a password, need some help, want to show us your work or even just say hello! Please get your grown up’s permission before you email us. We look forward to hearing from you.
Presentation – Please remember to do your very best work. Handwriting and presentation are as important at home as they are in school. You can complete your work in a book or if you need lined or squared paper you can get it here.
Note for parents: Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities and can do independently. We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child.
Use your digital logins to play the following:-
In maths today, we will being understanding how different decimals can be added to create a whole. If you combine your knowledge of number bonds and the work you have just completed on decimals you will see it is exactly the same as working with whole numbers, but because the decimals are a fraction of a whole they combine to make 1. Here is the link for the White Rose video , which is Summer Term, Week 1, Lesson 1.
If you are looking for extra Maths practice or want to warm up your ‘Maths brain’, you can play a game with your number bonds, one person says a 2 digit number and the other person has to say how many more are needed to make 100. If more people in your family want to play, you can make the winner the first person to get the answer. Don’t forget the ones will add up to make an extra ten.
For children who are completing their Maths with ease, and who would like further challenge, Miss Goddard is started a ‘Daily Maths Challenge’ page on the school website where she will upload a new set of fun challenges everyday. If you complete today’s work and would like to access it, please click here.
Watch the Youtube video below, where Miss Goddard will introduce your new project ‘Big Cats’ and will also explain today’s English and related Topic task.
You firstly need to choose a big cat to focus on this week. You can choose from one of the main groups – lion, cheetah, jaguar or leopard but you may want to be really specific for example a clouded leopard, a Siberian tiger or even a panther (which is actually a type of jaguar!) It doesn’t matter if you don’t know anything about them – you certainly will be the end of the week!
Once you have chosen your big cat, then we would like you to find out as many statistics as you can about this animal. A ‘statistic’ is another word for number. Here are some questions you could look into…
How much does it weigh?
How long is it?
How fast can it run?
How far can it jump?
How long are its canine teeth?
How long are its whiskers?
How many spots/ stripes does it have?
How many cubs does a female bare?
How long is a female pregnant for?
What year did it become endangered (if it is)?
How many are left in the wild?
How many are left in captivity?
How many teeth does it have?
How long are its claws?
How much food does it eat?
Or anything else of interest! Remember, today’s challenge is all about numbers so any fact related to a statistic.
If you want an extra challenge, you could compare some of these figures to a human so that you are able to make a comparison e.g. 180 kg is the weight of a male lion compared to a man who weighs around 80kg.
Once you have found the answers to a selection of questions, use your topic work time to present your findings.
If you watched the Youtube video below, you would have heard some creative suggestions of how to present your work. Why not give one of these ideas a go – try decorating your work using the pattern on your big cat’s fur or even hide your information under little flaps so your reader can guess what the statistic might be about. You don’t have to present all your findings, you could choose a selection like the 8 which Miss Goddard has chosen. Here is the example you were shown in the video…
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What super work you sent us on Friday of your Bee fact sheets and other things you have been up to – see some below! We hope you had a nice rest over the weekend and were able to enjoy the sunshine outside for your walk or in your garden. Please remember to do as much or as you can whilst your grown-ups are trying to work, we will be proud of you for trying your best in all you do!
Please do send you work in, as and when you can – we will add photos throughout the week.
Year 3 Team
Don’t forget you can email us on year3@stmarksce.org.uk. We would love to hear from you if:
1. You have a question
2. Need a password
3. Need some help
4. Send us your work
5. Or even just say hello!
Please get your grown up’s permission before you email us. We look forward to hearing from you. We will reply ASAP but it may not be the same day!
Presentation – Please remember to do your very best work. Handwriting and presentation are as important at home as they are in school. You can complete your work in a book. in your homework book (if you have it at home) or if you need lined or squared paper you can get it here.
Note for parents:
* Hopefully your children will enjoy working through these activities and can do them independently.
* We completely understand it may be difficult to complete all these tasks due to other family commitments or you are working from home, so please do not worry; complete what you can with your child.
* The work we have set should take about 2 hours maximum spread throughout the day.
* Please note the ongoing activities are optional and could be completed once a week or more depending on time.
You may choose to complete these daily, weekly or a couple of times a week.
You can find lots of learning resources that we have collated on the Educating Home Page. Click here to be redirected.
Today, we are continuing our work on Fractions using the White Rose Maths Lessons. This will involve watching the video clip and completing the worksheet. There is an answer sheet to check your work.
Please complete Summer 1 (w/c 20 April) Lesson 1 – Equivalent Fractions 2 – This lesson builds on your knowledge from Friday’s work on equivalent fractions, you will use numberlines to compare fractions and also look at how we can multiply the numerator and the denominator by the same number to get an equivalent fraction.
You can find the video and resources for today’s lesson here https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/
Summer 1 (w/c 20 April) Lesson 1 – Equivalent Fractions 2 Watch the clip and follow the instructions.
Resources you will need:
Please remember if you don’t have a printer you can copy into your maths book or onto paper. Try and complete as best as you can.
Don’t forget Miss Goddard’s challenges: click here.
When you have finished use the answer sheet to mark your work.
Things to remember
We have loved seeing your work from last week, see some more below. Today in English, you are going to watch the next part of the story ‘Varmints’ and then make a prediction about what you think will happen next.
Resources you will need:
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What’s one of the most important things that plants need to grow? That’s right, water!
Today, we are going to investigate just how plants use water to grow healthily. Work through the Power Point and watch the video clip. Afterwards, you can choose which activity you would like to complete.
Resources you will need:
Science video song for what plants need:
Cosmic Kids yoga link:
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