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Young Carers Friday 27 March
Update for Young Carers… The Good, the bad and the (bet it isn’t) ugly ????.
The good: Ms Stonehouse and I have managed to configure a way of having a conference call together, tested it and all seems good. It’s better than Zoom, but we need special permission, and to email everyone an invite in real time. So adults – be ready ????.
The bad: We can’t use it until next week. There are some problems with essential permissions that need to be ironed out by the powers that be. Sorry folks!
The (bet it isn’t) ugly ????: Whilst not being able to conference call together, we thought we could jump on the Rainbow bandwagon. I suspect some of you have already made something, but I just received one through my door and I have to say I smiled like a Cheshire cat! Maybe you could make a rainbow picture for a neighbour (washing hands before and after), your room or even a scrapbook? Take a pic and post it on to your Year Group, put it on the home learning page for St Mark’s on FaceBook (which I scour to see what you’re all up to – if you were looking too, I put one up of me doing my own homework) or show us when we meet up on line next week (fingers crossed!).
Please remember we are thinking of you a lot and are looking forward to a chat asap.
Mrs Bennett
Year 6 – Friday 27th March
Good Morning to our lovely Year 6 children!
Who’s got that Friday feeling?! I think we can all agree this has been a very odd week, but we are immensely proud of you all for showing such resilience and responsibility in completing your home learning. If we haven’t heard from you yet by email, please try to send us a little message today to let us know how you’re getting on. We will be trying to get in contact with any children we haven’t heard anything from early next week. We miss you all – that’s all it is!
Visit the link below to see today’s worship.
https://www.stmarksprimary.net/category/worship
Enjoy your last day of learning for this week and have a brilliant, well-deserved rest this weekend.
Take care!
Mrs Silvester, Miss Pettitt and Mrs Chapman
Helpful Reminders
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.
Ongoing Daily Activities
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.
Reading – Read for at least 20 minutes every day.
Weekly spellings – Practise these everyday in your spelling booklets – your new weekly sheet will be uploaded each Monday. Download here: Week 5 spelling sheet or Week 5 spelling sheet less tricky
Daily physical activity of some sort
Maths
Each Friday, we will use our CGP books for our Maths work. Don’t worry if you haven’t got yours. We will always upload a scan of the pages we’d like you to complete. Either print them off or just complete the answers neatly into your maths books. When you have finished the pages, you may check your answers carefully using the CGP answer booklets that we sent home, or the scanned answers below.
CGP Geometry, Measures and Statistics Book – pages 17, 18 & 19
Documents to download if required:
English
Each Friday, we will use our CGP SPaG books for our English work. Don’t worry if you haven’t got yours. We will always upload a scan of the pages we’d like you to complete. Either print them off or just complete the answers neatly into your ‘Home Book’. When you have finished the pages, you may check your answers carefully using the CGP answer booklets that we sent home, or the scanned answers below.
CGP Spelling Book – page 37
CGP Punctuation Book – pages 45 & 46
Documents to download if required:
Spelling Test
In the back of your Home Book, please write today’s short date and title: Spelling test.
Ask someone in your house to test you on this week’s spellings – remember to get them to ask you the words in a random order and within a sentence to remind you of the meaning.
Then you can mark them together.
Art
In Maya mythology, the jaguar is seen as the ruler of the Underworld, and as such, a symbol of the night sun and darkness. They were, and still are, highly regarded and very significant animals to the Maya people. Use the following step by step guide to help you sketch a jaguar. You might like to practise this a few times until you have a final, neat sketch. You may then use pencils, or paint to add colour if you’d like to. Stick your final piece of artwork in your Home Book if you can. We look forward to seeing your artwork!
https://how2drawanimals.com/8-animals/247-draw-jaguar.html
Video Resources
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Year 5 – Friday 27th March
Good Morning Year 5!
We hope you are well, can you believe it is Friday already?! That’s our first full week of home learning done. Make sure over the weekend you enjoy the sunshine before it hides away next week (or so the weatherman says).
Did anyone listen to the David Walliams link that we put on here yesterday which was Trish the Troll? If you didn’t manage to listen yesterday but would like to, click on the link after 11am for the next short story – https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/ .
We would like to say a massive well done for all of your hard work so far. We are incredibly proud of you and wanted to share some of the fantastic photos of work we have received so far. If yours isn’t here, please don’t think we haven’t seen it, we just couldn’t put all of them on. Keep sending them in and maybe you will see yours up here one other day.
We hope you continue to stay active, maybe using Joe Wicks, going for walks or playing in the garden. Have a fantastic weekend and stay safe,
Year 5 Team
Helpful Reminders
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.
Daily Activities
Today you are going to have a Maths, English and Topic. But carry on doing,
- TTRockstars – Miss T (Missy Flowers) and Mrs Stone will be online at 3pm – it would be great to see a few more challenge here if you can
- Spelling Shed – Email in for your logins
- Reading – Read for at least 20 mins. (Keep writing in your reading logs)
- Keywords – Look, say, cover, write, check.
Maths
Today you are going to practise a range of different fraction skills, specifically finding fractions of amounts and multiplying fractions. There is a video in the video resources section of this webpost.
Part 2 – These are some SATs style questions, so have a go and try your best, but don’t worry if you can’t manage all of them.
English
Today you are going to be planning your own Millions Story. In this section there is, a PowerPoint explaining what to do, a blank planning format and an example plan written by Mrs Poole.
Topic
Today you are going to be researching a European Capital City of your choice, other than Prague, Vienna, Amsterdam or Paris as we have already looked at these together.
We would like to research:
- Famous landmarks
- Population
- History
- Interesting facts
Once you have researched these things, make a poster informing others about the city. You can choose whether to make this on the computer or by hand (example below). Then please send a photo or copy of them to year5@stmarksce.org,uk so that we can share them in our posts, so that other children in the year group can learn about these cities.
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Year 4 – Friday 27th March
Good Morning Year 4!
We hope you had a lovely day yesterday. Lots of you completed our survey by voting for your favourite topic and there has been a clear winner – Mythical Creatures! Your teachers have already started thinking about some exciting lessons which link to this topic for next week’s learning.
Big Cats, Superheroes and Inventions also proved very popular so we will also try and include some creative ideas linked to these topics during the Easter Holidays.
Today we have a TTRockstars battle with Year 3 between 9am and 3pm. Let’s see if we can retain our victory from last week, gaining as many correct answers as possible! Good luck!
Here is a link to a worship which you might like to use today as a family or at some point over the weekend: https://www.stmarksprimary.net/category/worship
We hope you have a lovely day today and enjoy your weekend. Remember to stay safe and follow government guidelines.
Mrs Tunnicliffe, Miss Goddard, Mrs Happy & Miss Hardy
Helpful Reminders
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.
Ongoing Daily Activities
Remember to use your online user names and passwords to play the following:-
- TTRockstars – Gain as many correct answers as you can in our battle with Year 3
- Numbots – Play for 15 mins
- Spelling Shed – New spellings go live at 12 noon
- Reading – Read for at least 20 mins
Maths – Times Tables and Maths Game
Usually on a Friday you do your times tables challenge so below are links to the Big Maths ultimate challenge or the Big Maths Step 15 challenge. If you are able to print them off, you can use them and set yourself a timer to see how quickly you can complete them in.
Here is a maths game for today – Strike It Out. See if you can play against different people in your house. Are you able to cross out all of the numbers in one game? For extra information and a tutorial click this link: https://nrich.maths.org/6589/index
English & Spellings
Friday is traditionally spelling test day. Well done for all your hard work on Spelling Shed this week.
Ask someone at home to test you on this week’s spellings: caught, laughter, daughter, naughtiest, naughty, taught. For those of you with pink words: kind, mind, behind, climb, child, find.
Parents/carers: At school we tend to say the word, say the word in a sentence and then repeat the word.
Your spellings for the week ahead are below and they will go live on Spelling Shed at 12 noon.
Thank you to those who have been sending in work from your fairground writing. Today’s English is also below and encourages you to write (and maybe record!) your own Newsround bulletin, reporting on the grand opening of your new theme park ride – have fun!
Topic – Art & Design
Over the last few days, you have been thinking about a new fairground ride and today we would like you to create some eye-catching lettering. In the video tutorial, Miss Goddard will teach you some new lettering techniques such as choosing colours, fonts, word shapes, shading, blending and using patterns to make your work look professional! Really think about the theme of your ride and how your lettering can represent that theme through the techniques which you use. We would love to see some of your artwork when you have finished.
Video Resources – Art tutorial
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