4 years ago
Posted on 27th Apr 2020 by April Whitehouse

Home Learning

Here’s a reminder of the home learning information we shared last week:

Summer term topics

This term, our topics are ‘Fairtrade’ and ‘Animals Including Humans’. Below are some lesson ideas and links that you could follow. For all of these, you do not need to print anything – you can either use a pen and paper or do it online.

Science – Animals Including Humans

You can work your way through these six lessons about the human anatomy. When you open this link, download the file. Then open each file titled ‘Lesson 1 -6’. Inside these folders are great lessons with PowerPoints and resources. https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/tp2-s-090-planit-science-year-6-animals-including-humans-unit-pack

Here are some other links for good interactive activities and videos:

Topic – Fairtrade

This is your Fairtrade project for the term: Fairtrade project

This link may be useful to help you with your project: https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/

Maths:

Year 6 Maths Booklet and Year 6 Maths Answers There’s a variety of maths activities to work through.
https://www.mymaths.co.uk/ (updated on a Mondays and Wednesdays)
https://ttrockstars.com/ (Use the logins you were re-given before school closed)
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/ Daily lessons updated with a different maths focus each week

English:

Fa Cup Reading Comprehension Activity and VE Day Differentiated Reading Comprehension Activity Reading comprehension activities for you to work through
Film Review and Continue the Story Writing activities
https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html Accelerated reading (free digital books)
Year-5-and-6-spelling-list.pdf Find different ways to continue practising all the words you should aim to spell by the end of year 6
Grammarsaurus- Terminology-table Year 6. Use the grammarsaurus link below to access work for the terminology that you’re less confident with. https://grammarsaurus.co.uk/portal/free-materials/

Other useful curriculum links

https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6/#schedule A fantastic resource for virtual teaching. They release 3 lessons a day for different subjects for you to complete. The maths and English ones are particularly useful!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach From today, BBC are releasing lots of online lessons every day – a great online resource to use! Go through and select any resources appropriate for KS2 (it may say 7-11 year olds).
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/parents
https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/category/learning-video-clips/ Online learning clips
https://www.purplemash.com/sch/apley Purple mash is great software where you can design and program games. Use the purple mash logins that you were given before school closed.
https://t.co/MXi3oV1BnT Scratch. Software which all children will be familiar with from their IT lessons in school.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-lessons/1 BBC Bitesize are also uploading some very useful lessons to be completed daily. Although the science and history topics don’t currently match our curriculum, definitely have a go at the maths, English, music and well-being activities.

Before school closed, children were given their Spring homework project. If you didn’t get round to completing it here’s a reminder: homework spring. We received some lovely photos of some very creative chocolate bars and would love to see more!

Don’t forget to look out for the weekly challenges – the current challenge is to make a habitat for an animal of your choice (see the previous post shared earlier today).

4 years ago
Posted on 27th Apr 2020 by April Whitehouse

Weekly Challenge- keep them coming!

Thank you to Alyssa and Ellie-Mae who have sent in pictures for their weekly challenge- keep them coming!

Ellie-Mae created her habitat for a hedgehog and it definitely looks very cosy! She has used recyclable resources to create the structure of her habitat herself and then filled it with collected leaves which are ideal for a hedgehog in need of a home!

Alyssa has used her creativity to make an ideal habitat for a sloth (which I believe happens to be her favourite animal!). Using an old fish tank and creating a scenic backdrop, it’s the perfect place for a sloth to enjoy spending its day hanging in the sun!

Alyssa’s also made an excellent video to show the creation of her habitat. It’s great to see the little details that went into making it perfect.

Continuing the weekly challenge

Miss Morgan and I enjoyed receiving these creative habitats and we’re going to keep this challenge going for another week as we’d love to see even more!

You could draw your habitat for an animal of your choice, label the different features and explain why you have used them. You could even create your own habitat using things from your house (like cardboard, plastic etc) and write an explanation about why your habitat would suit the animal you have chosen. Be creative!

If you complete the challenge, please send your pictures to:

lucinda.morgan@taw.org.uk

april.whitehouse@taw.org.uk

We look forward to seeing some more of your incredible creations!

4 years ago
Posted on 23rd Apr 2020 by April Whitehouse

Home update- Keeping busy

Ellie-Mae is making the most of her time by keeping active and getting stuck into her home learning! She’s been using her laptop to complete online work and have a go at the ‘workout’ resources. Additionally, she’s taken advantage of the glorious weather to keep active outside with bike rides and playing in the pool. Look like you’re having a wonderful time!

It’s lovely seeing all the great things you’ve been doing Ellie- receiving photos definitely makes our day!

Year 6- you are welcome to keep sending photos and updates to me and Miss Morgan as we love to see what you’ve been up to!

april.whitehouse@taw.org.uk

lucinda.morgan@taw.org.uk

4 years ago
Posted on 22nd Apr 2020 by April Whitehouse

Keeping Active

During lock-down, it’s more difficult than ever to find ways to ensure we get our recommended 60 minutes of exercise each day.

Here are a range of resources I have found that can help you keep active in a fun way!

The Body Coach

PE with Joe has been a national hit and we love how many there are of you taking part EVERY morning! He also has loads of ‘Kids Workouts To Do At Home’ which are each 5-8 minutes that you can try throughout the day!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyCLoPd4VxBvPHOpzoEk5onAEbq40g2-k (Workouts)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyCLoPd4VxBuHn84_as427AwkVpahrqti (PE with Joe)

Super Movers https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers

This is fab website by the BBC that link being active with other parts of the curriculum. Click on either KS1 or KS2 and there are a range of Active Learning videos which are organised by subject.

Go Noodle https://family.gonoodle.com/

Go Noodle contains lots of active videos and games. This can be accessed through the website but is also conveniently available in an app. If an adult creates an account for free you can receive different curricular activities, off-screen home activities and newly added videos regularly.

Imoves https://imoves.com/imovement-signup

iMoves is an excellent resource to support your home learning experience. You have to create a parent account (which is absolutely free) and you then have access to a wide range of videos. These include a variety of different focuses such as: ‘Quick blasts’, workouts (like yoga, balance, hip hop), boredom breaks, wellbeing and even a ‘Good Deed For The Day’. You can also get sent new activities and resources daily.

Nike- Active Kids do Better https://www.activekidsdobetter.co.uk/active-home

This website contains a variety of ideas of how to be active around the house and as a family. It suggests different games which you could play away from the screen but also has a function called ‘Activity Booster’ where you can create your own workout video to follow by selecting different movements and music.

Youth Sport Trust https://www.youthsporttrust.org/pe-home-learning

This is a brilliant resource to get active but away from a screen. It contains loads of ‘activity cards’ for a variety of different focuses (eg. gymnastics, athletics, games, outdoor and adventure). Click and download an activity card to get the instructions for the activity; you can also watch a video guide for each card if you want a visual example of how it’s done.

Change 4 Life https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/activities/indoor-activities

These are Disney themed ’10 minute shake up’ resources which can be done as a family. Select a Disney character game to open the step-by-step instructions. The Change 4 Life website also has lots of other resources linked with staying healthy.

Disney Dance Along https://www.thisgirlcan.co.uk/activities/disney-workouts/

This website contains Disney Dance along videos to well-known Disney songs. Copy the dance moves on the screen or put your own spin on their routines. There is also an additional link on the right-hand side called ‘exercising with your child’ which lists different ideas of how to stay active.

We’d love to see photos or videos of you being active! Also, if you have any other brilliant ideas or resources that we could share with your classmates, please send them in! Let’s keep active!

You can send them to: april.whitehouse@taw.org.uk or A2190@taw.org.uk

4 years ago
Posted on 20th Apr 2020 by April Whitehouse

Home Learning

Below are a variety of links for you to access during your home learning and a reminder of some which hopefully you’ve already been completing. There’s a great variety of resources that you can access online- don’t worry about printing any sheets out as you can just record your work in a notebook/on a piece of paper.

We will also continue setting weekly challenges for you to look out for and a variety of work linking to our new summer topics.

Maths:

Year 6 Maths Booklet and Year 6 Maths Answers There’s a variety of maths activities to work through.
https://www.mymaths.co.uk/ (updated on a Mondays and Wednesdays)
https://ttrockstars.com/ (Use the logins you were re-given before school closed)
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/ Daily lessons updated with a different maths focus each week

English:

Fa Cup Reading Comprehension Activity and VE Day Differentiated Reading Comprehension Activity Reading comprehension activities for you to work through
Film Review and Continue the Story Writing activities
https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html Accelerated reading (free digital books)
Year-5-and-6-spelling-list.pdf Find different ways to continue practising all the words you should aim to spell by the end of year 6
Grammarsaurus- Terminology-table Year 6. Use the grammarsaurus link below to access work for the terminology that you’re less confident with. https://grammarsaurus.co.uk/portal/free-materials/

Other useful curriculum links

https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6/#schedule A fantastic resource for virtual teaching. They release 3 lessons a day for different subjects for you to complete. The maths and English ones are particularly useful!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach From today, BBC are releasing lots of online lessons every day – a great online resource to use! Go through and select any resources appropriate for KS2 (it may say 7-11 year olds).
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resources/parents
https://classroomsecrets.co.uk/category/learning-video-clips/ Online learning clips
https://www.purplemash.com/sch/apley Purple mash is great software where you can design and program games. Use the purple mash logins that you were given before school closed.
https://t.co/MXi3oV1BnT Scratch. Software which all children will be familiar with from their IT lessons in school.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-lessons/1 BBC Bitesize are also uploading some very useful lessons to be completed daily. Although the science and history topics don’t currently match our curriculum, definitely have a go at the maths, English, music and well-being activities.

4 years ago
Posted on 03rd Apr 2020 by April Whitehouse

Fancy-dress workout

It’s great to know so many of you have been taking part in the Joe Wicks PE at home workout videos each morning!

Thank you to all of you who sent in photos completing today’s workout in fancy dress. I loved seeing the spectacular costumes and such hard work taking place!