Author: Jen Whittingham

4 years ago
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Team Collins South African Marathon!

We received a lovely update from the Collins family over half term that Jamie and Ella’s friends will be amazed to see!

To Jamie and Ella: We are so proud of you for all your achievements below and particularly for thinking about other children in need. You are an inspiration! Thank you for telling us all about it. I wonder what plan you have for June?!? 

Here is their update:

“Our family decided for the month of May …we would challenge ourselves to do the South African virtual Comrades Marathon, completing 90km by either walking or cycling.

We were thrilled to see Mrs Viner’s challenge of Harry’s Rainbow run🌈 and dedicated the first sponsored 10 km to Ella and Jamie’s “Harry’s Rainbow run”(see plotted it on our map.🐸🌈)

Thank you so much it was a really positive addition to our personal challenge and was good for the children to feel they were fundraising for a great cause! Jamie said “ I feel proud that I could be active in lockdown and do something good for the Harry Johnson Trust.”
I’ve logged and plotted their progress each week and there is an interactive virtual map. In South Africa this marathon alternates as an uphill race from Durban to Pietermaritzburg and then downhill the following year.
We followed the virtual 2020 route which is a down ‘run’ ( walk/ cycle for us!) from Pietermaritzburg to Durban. Normally it starts at 5.30am and cut off is at 5.30 pm ,thank goodness we had the whole of May!! We are thrilled to announce that Ella and Jamie finished their 90 km target this morning !!! They did a lap of honour around the Roundabout!🙂🌈🚲

The Comrades Marathon should be held on 14th June but has been postponed. We thought it was a good focus for our month of May activity, and our well-being really benefited , through the lockdown, from this too.👍🙂

A message from Jamie and Ella…
“Thank you for your challenge Miss Whitt and Mrs Viner we loved doing it!”
Please see pics of the progress map and pic collage.

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4 years ago
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Dragonfly Class – Monday 1st June

Good morning Dragonflies!

I hope you’ve had a fab week staying safe in the sunshine. I don’t know about you, but I’ve been outside constantly! I’ve enjoyed some lovely long runs over half-term and on Saturday set myself a challenge of completing a half-marathon (that’s 13.1 miles) which took me 1 hour and 50 minutes in the morning sun. I felt very proud of my achievement so rewarded myself with the biggest ice cream I could find 🙂 We also set on the job of building a fence for my chickens who have been VERY naughty… Ginger has decided she’s a house chicken (constantly found at Briar’s bowl), Road Runner has taken to following Ginger into the house too whilst Shirley & Bassey have taken it upon themselves to dig up my flowers in pots! So they’re having a sturdy but roomy run made at the bottom of the garden. I look forward to hearing some of your updates this week – I’ve no doubt there will be some fun Dragonfly stories to tell!

To start your day, why don’t you check out Newsround and catch up on what’s been happening? I watched SpaceX being launched on Saturday and saw the International Space Station pass over shortly after – did you see it?

Here are your learning activities for today:

  1. Reading:  Grab a book and lose yourself for 20 minutes! Then, can you create a picture of one of the characters?

2. Spellings: Access the link below for your year group and learn the set list. You could print the handwriting sheet OR present it in your Homework Pack.

Year 3 Spellings Week 1

Year 4 Spellings Week 1

Year 5 Spellings Week 1

3. Maths:

White Rose Maths activities can be found below. I suggest you look at the activity sheets first and think about what you already know. Then watch the video which will help you with your understanding. Finally, complete the sheet then mark it but try and work out where any mistakes you made came from using the asnwers.

To access the related video, go to the usual White Rose and find Week 6.

Year 5

Year 5 Week 6 Lesson 1 Answers

Year 5 Week 6 Lesson 1

Year 5 White Rose Maths

Year 4

 

Y4 Lesson 1 Add 2 or more fractions

Y4 Lesson 1 Answers

Year 4 White Rose Maths

Year 3 

Year 3 White Rose Maths – for teaching clip

 

Y3 Lesson 1 Answers – Tenths as decimals

Y3 Lesson 1 – Tenths as decimals 2019

 

4. English: 

Check out your year group activities on bitesize:

Year 4 Monday

Year 5 Monday

Other ideas for Monday:

  • PE: Get yourself going with a Joe Wicks workout! Or even better, design your own circuit 🙂 Good luck!

 

 

TT Rockstars:  The Inter House Tournament  continues – your next match against each house! Play ‘Battle’ to earn your team points.

Have a great Monday,

Miss Whit 🙂

4 years ago
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The Magic Box by Max Clifton-Moore, inspired by Kit Wright

Check out Max’s poetry below where he had chosen impressive language and description. I really like “the fuzziest bumblebee” and the “hinges are the jaws of a pussy cat”! Brilliant work.

 

The Magic Box by Max Clifton-Moore, inspired by Kit Wright

I will put in my box the crinkle of a crisp packet on a Sunday afternoon, the smell of burning from a red toaster, the sweetness of sugar on my Weetabix.

I will put in the box a cherry blossom off a tall tree, the pollen from the fuzziest bumble bee, the pattern from the wing of a butterfly.

I will put into the box the bones of an ancient fish, the swirl of an ammonite, and a tooth from the first shark.

I will put into the box a blue lemon and a orange banana, a cat with no legs and a dog with eight legs.

My box is fashioned from solid gold limes and lemons, with a silver rim and recyclable plastic. Its hinges are the jaws of a pussy cat.

I shall sit on my box in a dungeon beneath the deepest, darkest castle, then I will use my box as a plate as I eat my dinner.

4 years ago
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“Chops of Steel” award!

Congratulations to MS in Dragonflies for achieving a brilliant award from the music service for having  ‘chops of steel’! He completed 2 weeks of challenging practice playing scales staccato and legato and lip exercises during April.

I’m well-aware M has been using his time at home to improve his musical talents – we can’t wait to hear how you’ve improved! Well done.

 

4 years ago
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Dragonfly Class Friday 22nd May

Good morning Dragonflies,

We’ve made it to the end of another half term – well done to all of you who have been logging in and a huge well done to everyone for all the other activities you have been doing whilst at home – including gardening, baking, tidying and helping!

Here are Friday’s learning activities:

  1. Reading:  Enjoy reading your book somewhere different – I’ll be outdoors today! Don’t forget to record your reading in your reading diary.

2. Spellings: Access the link below for your year group and learn the set list. You could print the handwriting sheet OR present it in your Homework Pack.

Year 5 Spellings & Handwriting

Year 4 Spellings & Handwriting

Year 3 Spellings & Handwriting

3. Maths:

Play TT Rockstars today and earn points for your team! You could also catch up with unfinished tasks on My Maths.

4. English: 

Here is the final lesson of the week from Oak Academy – perhaps you could send me what you have done.

Poetry Lesson 5

Other ideas for Friday:

  • TT Rockstars:  The Inter House Tournament Round 8 continues – your second match against each house! Play ‘Battle’ to earn your team points.
  • Complete activities from the week.

Have a great half term break, whatever you are up to. Stay safe – I miss you all very much.

Miss Whit 🙂

4 years ago
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Year 6 hoodies

Morning Year 6, it was lovely to see so many of you and your parents when you came to collect your leaver’s hoodies.  From the photos we’ve seen, you look fab in them!  Please keep sending them in and we will put them together; not the same as a whole group photo we know but we want to celebrate your fabulousness!

Have a great day,

Mrs Hollis x