Good morning Dragonflies, I hope you’ve had a lovely Easter break and spent time enjoying the Spring sunshine. I’ve been running and biking daily (very grateful to the Prime Minister the daily exercise allowance) including a 10 mile run today! I’ve spent time practising my piano too – I read somewhere that it takes 10,000 hours of practise to master a skill so thought I’d add a few hours on my journey – I’ll be jamming with Mrs Hindson before you know it! 🙂

Our daily activities will continue this week.  Do your best, work your way through challenges and ask for timely help if needed.

1. Reading:  Log into Reading Eggs and follow the activities.
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 Summer Week 1 Spellings & Handwriting

Year 4 Summer Week 1 Spellings & Handwritin

3. Maths: We are going to be using some daily lessons from White Rose Maths (website).  The link for your year group is below, please complete Lesson 1.  Each lesson has a short teaching clip, an activity and the answers. You could print the sheet or simply write your answers on paper or in your book (as we do in class).

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-4/

4. English: 

Your grammar task links to pronouns this week. For revision, firstly check out this link:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mn/articles/z37xrwx

Then, access this activity book in the link below. Again, write answers on paper (or in Home Packs) or print out the booklet.

Pronouns Home Pack

Aim to complete ‘Grammar Boy’ and ‘Priscilla Pronoun’ today (p.2/3&4). We’ll continue with this during the week.

Other ideas for Monday:

• PE: Design a circuit station with 8 – yes 8! – exercises. How long will you spend on each one? Will you play music to exercise to?
• Languages: Learn 10 capital cities and their country.
• TT Rockstars:  The Inter House Tournament continues! Play ‘Battle’ to earn your team points.

I hope you all have a good day and don’t forget to do your bit to help at home. Remember, if there’s anything you’d like to share then you can send it to school through the school admin address.

Take care, all of you.

Miss Whit 🙂

We made it! Well done and thank you to each and every one of you have logged in to the school website to complete home learning activities over the past two weeks. We will have a little ‘break’ from our daily learning for Easter holidays, as we always do, and get back to lots more in a fortnight.

I’ve been sent some brilliant emails about what you’ve been up to – thank you for making this effort and keeping me entertained!

Here are your suggested activities for the day (based on our normal Friday timetable):

1. Maths: Log into My Maths and complete today’s set activity (remember to aim for 100% by practising tasks if needed.
2. English: Log into Reading Eggs and continue reading the set book.
3. History: Time Capsule! We are currently living in a very strange time but one that will be remembered in history! You could begin to make a ‘time capsule’ – find an object that you could fill with things but made of a material that will last. What will you put in it? How will you remember these first weeks? What’s important to you? You could add to your time capsule as the weeks go on.

Other ideas for Friday:

• PE: Make extra-special use of your exercise time to learn a new skill or spend extra energy! It’s brilliant for your mental health.
• TT Rockstars:  The Inter House Tournament continues! Play ‘Battle’ to earn your team points.

Over Easter, TT Rockstars, Number Gym and all the programmes we use will still be available for you to use. But of course, there’s lots of other things to ‘learn’ – I’ve heard about children learning to make beds properly, doing the washing and even mastering their own ‘family meal’. Sounds like an eggstremely good thing to do, eggstraordinary use of your holidays!

Have a great fortnight – stay safe, be kind and share your smiles. I’m missing you very much – last day of Spring term is one of my favourites in school.

Enjoy 🐣

Miss Whit 🙂