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4 years ago
Posted on 03rd Apr 2020 by

Message from the Head

Hello to everyone and especially all the children!

Today we would have been breaking up for the Easter holiday with our Church service and PTA organised Easter egg hunt. Sadly, we are not spending this last day together and I have been searching but can’t find any eggs! So you are not missing out!

Your teachers and I have loved hearing from you all and finding out what you have been doing. We are very pleased that you are continuing to work hard from your new classrooms! I wonder if you have all shared a ‘Super Silver’ or even ‘Great to be Gold’ lunch together, if not, you could plan one next week. I would love to know if any of your parents have earned one!

I am adding some ideas for the holidays to this post. You don’t have to do them but you might like to choose a couple to try. I have seen lots of children going onto the site with an artist called Rob Biddulph and he shows you how to draw some amazing characters – it doesn’t matter if you are a fantastic artist or a beginner, you can have a go!

I hope you enjoy have some fun and enjoy the lovely weather.

Mrs Derrer

Activities for Half-Term (1)

4 years ago
Posted on 02nd Apr 2020 by

2.4.20

Good morning Home Learners! Only two days until the Easter holidays, you are all doing brilliantly. If you haven’t done so already, have a go at making an Easter card or try some Easter crafts or Easter baking. Don’t forget to have a go at some of the R.E ideas posted by Mrs Derrer.

Have a great day! Miss Pinches

12 to do at home worship and RE activities

5 years ago
Posted on 27th Mar 2020 by

Home Learning for Week Beg: 30.3.20

Well done Yellow Class on completing your first week of home learning!

I am posting the English and Maths tasks for next week now, but if you are reading this thinking we still have plenty to do, please don’t worry.  Yellow Class will tell you that I tend to over plan and whenever they finish something, I always have another challenge waiting on my desk! If you are happy to carry on working through the activities in your pack or those posted this week, please feel free to do so.

English: Go to hamilton-trust.org.uk

Click on learning at home packs and select Year 2 English Pack for Week 1 or Year 3 English Pack for Week 1.

Maths: Go to whiterosemaths.com/home learning

Click on Year  2 or Year 3, there is a lesson on fractions for each day with a video clip and an activity sheet.

I have also posted the spellings for next week if you would like a sneaky peek! Have a lovely weekend. Best Wishes, Miss Pinches

 

5 years ago
Posted on 26th Mar 2020 by

26.3.20

Good Morning Home Learners, I know that lots of you are enjoying joining in with Joe Wick’s P.E lessons. You might also like to try www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers as they have song and dance routines for different maths topics including one for each times table. Have a great day and enjoy the sunshine! Missing you, Miss Pinches

5 years ago
Posted on 24th Mar 2020 by

Topic Ideas

History- We have been learning about the Vikings. There are lots of resources for this on twinkl.co.uk

You could try making a model of a Viking house, a Viking Longship, a Viking helmet or some Viking inspired jewellery. LKS2_IS_VIkings_BlkC_WayofLife_S2_Resource1

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Science- some investigations for you to try. Which animals and plants live in different habitats? What can you find in your garden? Help your child to make a brief record of what they find in a table. Discuss what animals they found and where they found them. Can they find out some facts about one of the living things they found?  Can they make an information poster or booklet about them?

Are all plants the same? Look at two differently structured flowers. Ask your child to draw and label the parts of the plants that are common to both e.g. leaf, stem, petal, flower. Look at differences in shapes of leaf, colour of flower, thickness of stem. Year 3 should be introduced to the relationship between structure and function: the idea that every part has a job to do.

Does the size of the pot influence the size of the plant? Show your child two pot-bound plants that have grown too large for their pots. Repot one while showing your child the roots. Why do they think the plant needs repotting? What do they think will happen to the plant that has been repotted? What do they think will happen to the other plant? Let your child observe the plants over the next few weeks to see which one thrives. Encourage your child to sketch and label their observations.

R.E- Mrs Derrer will be posting some nice ideas from the Diocese. In Yellow, we have been learning about Easter and following the ideas from ‘Love Life, Live Lent’. These are the ideas for this week: Find ways to save water, make a card for a friend, ask someone how they are and take the time to listen to the answer, take longer over breakfast and really taste your cornflakes (or whatever else you have!), make a list of the good things in your life, make some cakes for your family.

I hope that you will find some of these ideas useful. Thinking of all our home learners. Miss Pinches

 

5 years ago
Posted on 22nd Mar 2020 by

Home Learning Week Beg: 23.3.20

Here are a few ideas for this week. This is not intended to be prescriptive so please feel free to only use anything that you find useful.

1. Set up a routine that works for your family and display the times as a way of teaching telling the time. It is amazing how some children in Yellow will tell me that they can’t tell the time and yet are always the first to tell me off if I don’t take them out for the Daily Mile at 2:30pm on the dot! You know who you are!

2. Start with one of these quick English starters: Write down as many words as you can think of that start with an m and end with an s. Year 3 could check the spelling of the two longest words they think of in the dictionary. Have the children thought of any adjectives? e.g marvellous or mischievous. Play hangman using words from their spelling list. Print out a Year 2 Common Exception Word word search or a Year 3-4 Statutory Spelling List word search pack from Twinkl.

3. English: either complete a task from the pack or some work on spelling and handwriting. On Monday, this could be a spelling test and some time spent looking at the new spellings for the week. The children could write the words using a different colour for each letter, write each word in a silly sentence, make the words using magnetic letters etc.

4. Break

5. A quick maths starter: Find as many ways as you can to make 45 e.g. 40+ 5 or 9 x 5. Continue this number sequence 20, 22, 24…. or 6, 12, 18….

6. Complete a maths activity from the pack or go on espresso>K.S.1 Maths>Addition and Subtraction>Activities or go on Times Table Rock Stars.

7. Lunch and playtime

8. Reading

9. You might like to try drawing or painting your family, the view from your window or your favourite animals. Twinkl have some nice Mindfulness colouring sheets. You might like to start making an Easter or Spring garden. This could be outside, out of Lego or in an old shoebox using materials that you have available. Later in the week I will try to post some more topic suggestions.

Best Wishes to you all, Miss you already. Miss Pinches

5 years ago
Posted on 19th Mar 2020 by

Learning at Home

Dear Parents, I will be sending home today a pack of work for your child to complete at their own pace if they are not attending school. For Year 2 there is a pack aimed at helping them to prepare for their end of  K.S.1 assessments. I have included  an answer booklet for you to look at if you wish or I am happy to mark the children’s work when school reopens to all. For Year 3, I have enclosed some Maths and English activities. I have also sent extra reading books and would encourage you to continue to hear your child read for at least 15 minutes every day, if possible. I will continue to post spelling lists as it is important that the children continue to learn these words and to spell them correctly in their writing. By the end of the year, Year 2 should know their 2, 5 and 10 times tables and Year 3 should know their 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10 times tables. I would therefore highly recommend using Times Table Rockstars to support them with this. I have sent home reminders of their logins today. The website timestable.me.co.uk is free to users and provides online games and worksheets that can be printed out. I will continue to post advice and information on our website. Best Wishes to all our pupils and their families. Miss Pinches

5 years ago
Posted on 05th Mar 2020 by

Homework 4.3.20

Yellow homework

In the national curriculum there is a focus on reading and learning poetry ‘by heart’. Homework this week is to select and learn a poem by heart to be performed in front of the class.  The class teacher and T.As will listen to their polished entries on Monday 23rd March and the best ten from each class will perform their poem to the rest of the key stage on Wednesday 25th March. We will then select the best 4/5 from each class in the school to perform their poems to the whole school in a poetry competition on Wednesday 1st April. Parents will be invited to this event. Your child will receive a letter detailing this homework on Friday 6th March.

 

5 years ago
Posted on 05th Mar 2020 by

World Book Day in Yellow Class

We have been inspired by the book ‘ The King Who Banned The Dark’ by Emily Haworth-Booth.