David’s brilliant projects

Super work has been sent in by David.  He has been very busy making a pond in his garden; let us know if you get any wildlife making a home there.  He has also made a fab picture using natural materials inspired by Andy Goldworthy as well as writing a brilliant short story about chocolate cake.  Excellent work David.

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Dragonfly Class Monday 4th May – Star Wars Day

Good morning everyone!

I hope you are all well and enjoyed your weekends. Happy Star Wars Day! May the 4th be with you!

This week is a special week where many people will be commemorating VE Day. I wonder how much you know about it? As a school, we would like you to think about this special event and produce some work that can be shared – perhaps for a school display. Check out the activity menu below to see what projects you could be working on:

VE Day activity menu

Here are your other learning activities for today:

  1. Reading:  Try out these activities (feel free to make it easier or harder by trying different year groups!)

Year 4 ‘The Worst Witch’ with Rachel Riley

Year 5 The London Eye Mystery

  1. 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

Year 4 Spellings Week 3

Year 3 Spellings Week 3

3. Maths: Complete the White Rose Maths activity for your year group.  It is slightly different now as they are only releasing the video for free and the worksheets have to be purchased.  The good news is that school have subscribed to this so the worksheet is attached below.  To access the related video, go to the usual White Rose page through the link below.  You will need to go to Summer Term week 3, day 1 today.

Year 5

Year 5 week 3 Lesson-1-Multiply-2-digits-area-model-2019

Year 5 week3 Lesson-1-Answers-Multiply-2-digits-area-model-2019

Year 5 White Rose Maths

Year 4

Day 1 Multiply 2 digits by 1 digit

Day 1 Answers

Year 4 White Rose Maths

Year 3 

Year 3 White Rose Maths – for teaching clip

Lesson 1 Convert pounds and pence

Lesson 1 Answers

4. English: 

Access and follow the Bitesize links below.

Year 4 Paragraphs

Year 5 Setting descriptions

Other ideas for Monday:

  • PE: 9am Joe Wicks workout. Also, improve your Standing Long Jump through these links:

Standing Long Jump Level 2

Video

  • Languages: Spanish Supermovers – Try out this fun task! I know some of you found this chap a hoot last week!
  • TT Rockstars:  The Inter House Tournament Round 5/5 begins! Play ‘Battle’ to earn your team points.

Have a great Monday,

Miss Whit 🙂

National Walking Month Lockdown Challenge – beginning today!

Today, Friday 1st May, is the beginning of National Walking Month! Consequently we are going to have a new Inter House Challenge with awards and a special guest team: the TEACHERS!

Here’s what you need to do:

1. Record how many steps you take on a walk each day  (if you bike, record this instead) but being mindful of the government advice and hour of exercise. For example, yesterday I ran 7,000 steps in my hours exercise. You could even do this around your garden! NB: By the end of the day I’ve usually walked around 20,000 steps but we are only counting the recommended HOUR of exercise.

2. Each Friday, send us your total steps for the week! That means sending in your weekly totals on Friday 8th May, 15th May, 22nd, May and 29th May to the school: admin@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk.

We will then calculate winning children, year groups, classes and houses for awards! 

If you miss a day, don’t worry! Just keep moving on the days you can.

Good luck!

Memo to the teachers:- WE CAN NOT LOSE TO THE CHILDREN! Get moving! 😆🏃‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚲 – Miss Whit 😊

 

Dragonfly Class – Friday 1st May

Good morning Dragonflies,

We’ve made it to the end of another week – a slightly wetter one!

Her are today’s learning activities:

  1. Reading:  Check out today’s Reading Eggs task which some of you requested!
  1. 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 Spelling & Handwriting

Year 4 Spelling &Handwriting

Year 3 Spelling & Handwriting

3. Maths: Access White Rose Maths and complete the tasks for Summer Term Week 2, Day 5.

Year 5 White Rose Maths

Year 4 White Rose Maths

Remember – if you find it too tricky (or easy!) feel free to try the daily lesson from a Year 3 (or Year 5/6) page. This is completely fine to do 🙂

4. English: 

Access and follow the Bitesize links below.

Year 4 English

Year 5 English

 

Other ideas for Friday:

  • Do your first hour of exercise for our Walking Month Challenge!
  • Topic: How did the Ancient Greeks change our lives? Explore the link below to find out about their inventions and think about the impact they have had on our lives today. You could simply research and list your findings, or carry out your research then make a presentation to your family later in the day!

Ancient Greece

  • TT Rockstars:  The Inter House Tournament Round 4 continues! Play ‘Battle’ to earn your team points.

Have a great weekend – remember to keep helping at home and stay safe. Miss you all very much.

Miss Whit 🙂

Rhys’ Trash free trails – part 2

Earlier in the week, Rhys made a video for his YouTube channel highlighting the amount of litter he had been finding on his biking routes.  Not being one to ignore this, he had been making a note of the location of the pieces of litter so that he could go back and pick it up safely so as not to risk infection at this time.  Well, here is part 2 showing Rhys going back armed with gloves and a litter picker to collect litter.  Brilliant community spirit Rhys; we can all learn from you.

 

 

Dragonfly Class – Thursday 30th April

Good morning all,

It was so lovely to talk to so many of you yesterday (if not your grown ups!) – I laughed a lot and heard about a huge range of activities you have all been up to.

Archie started it off with a super-fun chat telling me all about the rainbow he’s made (photos to follow), plus soapbox building and bike riding. Archie could have chatted all day! Anouk has been very busy comparing pollen with her microscope and Eva has enjoyed a holiday – camping in her garden! Han & Katie have both been busy on their own projects whilst ‘C’ told me all about doing the clap for the NHS. In the meantime, a very-busy Matthew was blaring his house down with his trumpet practise (fantastic!) whilst Lowri was busy thinking what she’s going to put in a lockdown time capsule… Max has found an interesting art award which he is working towards (more details to follow). Izzy has her hands full with her new puppy (who sounds adorable) whilst Sam and Reuben have settled well into their home school routines and are all nicely busy at home. Harry has been learning to cut logs (with grown-ups of course!) and Toby completed his mastery of apostrophes this week!

Thank you to everyone for making me smile – it was lovely to hear your voices and hear your news and updates. Those of you who missed your call, I’ll try again today.

Here are today’s learning activities:

  1. Reading:  Design a new front cover for a book you have read during your time at home. What will you change from the current front cover?
  1. 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 Spelling & Handwriting

Year 4 Spelling &Handwriting

Year 3 Spelling & Handwriting

Challenge: Owl Class have been designing word searches. Can you create some kind of puzzle for your words? 

3. Maths: Access White Rose Maths and complete the tasks for Summer Term Week 2, Day 4.

Year 5 White Rose Maths

Year 4 White Rose Maths

Remember – if you find it too tricky (or easy!) feel free to try the daily lesson from a Year 3 (or Year 5/6) page. This is completely fine to do 🙂

4. English: 

Access and follow the Bitesize links below.

Year 4 inverted commas (speech marks!)

Year 5 Brackets

Other ideas for Thursday:

  • RE: Have a look at the link below which has some nice activities linked to creation. The artwork is inspiring.

Creation challenge

  • TT Rockstars:  The Inter House Tournament Round 4 continues! Play ‘Battle’ to earn your team points.

Have a great day – and don’t forget to wish a happy 100th birthday to Colonel Tom!

Miss Whit 🙂