Doves - 13th May - Learning Overview

Date: 13th May 2020 @ 2:54pm

Some more great work completed today! Well done Doves :)

Here is a summary of the work I've seen today: 

LBQ: 

SPAG - We had 23 out of 26 children complete their SPAG tasks. 

Please try to complete both your SPAG and Maths tasks. 

Well done to the following children for full marks on their tasks:

Leon, Ellis and Amber- SPAG - Task 1  

Chloe, Jessica S, Adam, Akshay, Summer, Amber, Oscar, Mollie, Ava, Leon, Ellis, Gracie, Lucy and Martha - SPAG Task 2 

Leon, Ellis and Amber- SCIENCE - Task 3  

Ellis- Maths - Task 1 -  Miss F's Group 

Leon- Maths - Task 2 -  Mr S's Group 

I am so proud of the engagement, resilience and work ethic shown by ALL children who accessed their LBQ work.

Read Theory: 

Well done to the following children: Arwen, Akshay, Oscar, Oliver, Ava and Leon for logging on and accessing your daily reading. Between the 6 of you, you have read 18 additional quizzes, collectively! Amazing work - Keep it up!  

Special mention today to Oscar who read 9 quizzes today. Well Done! 

Reading Solutions: 

Well done to the following children for accessing Reading Solutions. 

Amber (3), Ellis (3), Alfie (1), Adam (1), Nathan (3), Noah (9) and Thomas (3)

Writing: 

I have received three amazing newspaper reports today! Well done Thomas, Olly and Arwen, I am super impressed with the quality of them. I can see you have worked extremely hard. 

NON-STOP CHALLENGE

Date: 13th May 2020 @ 12:19pm

I have created a discussion feed for you to post your results. I look forward to seeing your results.

I completed the challenge and I nominate:

- Mr Simpson

- Mrs Jarrett

- Layton (Kingfishers)

- Oscar (Doves)

- Gracie (Doves)

- Phoebe (Eagles)

Kingfishers Home Learning 13th May

Date: 13th May 2020 @ 8:56am

Good morning everyone. A positive improvement on participation numbers yesterday which is great to see. I uploaded some videos to yesterdays blog for anyone who might have missed them - make sure you give them a watch for help with your written work this week.

Todays tasks -

1) Read Theory x 2

2) Times tables rockstars

3) LBQ code - apu

Maths -  moving onto looking at line graphs. Line graphs show changes over time. The video below should give you some background on this before starting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opd1GDJjx4s

 English - (determiners) We looked at these back in January. There are lots of types of determiners however in general a determiner is a short word which comes before a noun to give it context - simply, it can tell us how many there are. The start of this video should explain it, it is the same video we used parts of earlier in the year. You don't need to know about all of the different types of determiners just yet - you just need to be able to identify them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdv59REiNZQ

4) Writing task - Planning your balanced argument

If you have not done the previous days task, I would suggest watching my videos on yesterdays blogs and complete them first before planning. For this lesson, I have attached an example planning sheet on the task on SeeSaw (you do not need to use this one but it is an idea). I would break my planning down into - Intro, arguments for, arguments against, conclusion. It should be as straightforward as placing your for and against points you created yesterday and organising them into your plan. You might need to think about how you can expand and discuss further about some of the larger points.

5) Topic web homework - Choose an activity from the topic webs and upload to SeeSaw.

Starlings Home Learning 13.5.20

Date: 13th May 2020 @ 8:36am

Good morning!

Thankfully the weather looks gorgeous again today so hopefully you are able to enjoy it once again. 

Your LBQ task today is: kes

Complete every question on all 3 sets, do not just switch when you feel like it. 

Please use TTRockstars and IXL today if you can.

Remember if you need any help, please leave a comment or create a blog about it and I will try to respond straight away today. 

Stay safe Starlings, enjoy yourself!

Mr Dean

Woodpeckers Home Learning 13.5.20

Date: 13th May 2020 @ 8:27am

Eagles - 13th May - Home Learning

Date: 13th May 2020 @ 8:17am

Good morning Eagles! 

Today's Home Learning:

Reading Solutions - 1 comprehension (minimum)

English  - nsb 

Maths -  kdf

Writing/Spellings – Make sure to check the discussions: Writing - Newspaper Report and Spellings - -tion, -sion, -ssion and -cian. Remember these are both due in on Friday. (How to access this: School Website, Pupil Login, Username and Password, Verification Code – 956789-, discussions). If you are not sure what your username and password is 1. Check School Spider OR 2. Contact the School Office. 

SPAG Support - Task 1: 

Miss Fairhurst has created a video below to support you with SPAG Task 1 looking at using semi-colons, colons and dashes between clauses. 

Science Support: Task 3:

Below is a link to support your understanding of reversible and irreversible changes. This was covered in Autumn term and should be revision. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zcvv4wx/articles/z9brcwx

Stay brilliant!

Mr Simpson

Swallows 13th May 2020 - Home Learning

Date: 13th May 2020 @ 7:42am

Good Morning Swallows!!!

Many thanks to you all who have been keeping up with some tricky learning with reading and grammar. Take care and have a smashing day in the open air. Use the new guidelines from the goverment to see some more of Westhoughton and for longer. Can’t wait to see what you produce with your wonderful skills in spelling and writing later on this week Swallows and pelase let me know what you are up to on the blogs!

Here are today’s learning tasks:

LBQ – Code: sdb (all lowercase)

There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the feedback – remember it is ok to get it wrong, as long as you give the feedback a go Swallows. How else do we learn?

Spelling/ Writing / Afternoon Task

Check out the discussion blog on your school spider logins – Some of you are masters at this now! Here you will find the weekly spellings, writing and afternoon task for this week. Are  back to our topic of volcanoes as a theme and I hope you could all join in with these tasks as well as you have been doing recently.

REMEMBER: Pupil verification code is 956789

Ciao all, take care today!

Mr P 🌈🌈🌈

Doves - 13th May - Home Learning

Date: 13th May 2020 @ 7:11am

Good morning Lovelies! 

Today's Home Learning:

Reading Solutions / Read Theory (Y5)- Please ensure you are accessing this.

English  - nsb 

Maths -  kdf

Writing/Spellings – Make sure to check the discussions: Writing - Newspaper Report and Spellings - -tion, -sion, -ssion and -cian. Remember these are both due in on Friday. (How to access this: School Website, Pupil Login, Username and Password, Verification Code – 956789-, discussions). If you are not sure what your username and password is 1. Check School Spider OR 2. Contact the School Office. 

SPAG Support - Task 1: 

I have attached a video below to support you with SPAG Task 1 looking at using semi-colons, colons and dashes between clauses. 

Science Support: Task 3:

Below is a link to support your understanding of reversible and irreversible changes. This was covered in Autumn term and should be revision. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zcvv4wx/articles/z9brcwx

Keep safe!

Miss Fairhurst

Nursery Home Learning 13th May

Date: 12th May 2020 @ 9:43pm

Happy Wednesday, Penguins!

I hope you are all doing ok and having lots of fun this week.

Take a look at some of the pictures you've all been sending:

Great job so far on this week's challenges everybody. Star of the Week this week is going to be such a tricky decision!

Here are today's challenges:

Challenge 1

Can you recreate the bears' cottage?
This could be done on PurpleMash, drawn or even made using things you have at home.

Challenge 2

This could be done on your daily walk

Please also complete activities on Purple Mash, Mini Mash, PhonicsPlay or IXL

Have a great day!

Miss Altham

Robins Class - Home Learning 13.5.20

Date: 12th May 2020 @ 9:43pm

Happy Wednesday Robins 

I hope that you are all doing well. I love the character in the picture I have put above, Winnie the Pooh is my favourite character from childhood books. For my 7th Birthday, my grandparents bought me a collection of all the Winnie the Pooh stories, I actually saw it in our school library last year and it brought back some great memories from my childhood, reading with my Nana and Grandad. Who is your favourite book character? 

Writing task

The writing tasks have started to come in already this week. I really enjoyed reading Dakota's letter to her Grandma and Harris wrote one that made me laugh out loud to his future self, it was a brilliant read Harris. I will attach them both to this blog post so that you can have a read. Chloe has also made a fantastic memory/hope jar I really enjoyed reading what you hope to do when this is all over. Thank you so much for sharing guys!

Today's home learning is as follows:

IXL

Maths – Year 2 – Measurement - R.7, R.8, R.9

English – Nouns - N.1, N.2

Don’t forget there are 2Dos set on Purple Mash. Times Table Rockstars is also available too, it is great to see some of you improving your times tables knowledge. I’ve seen so many more of you on readtheory which is excellent. Keep aiming for one comprehension a day. 

Remember the writing task as well, remember to blog your finished product.

Today sound is 'e_e'

Have a fantastic day everybody! 

Miss Woodward

Owls Home Learning 13.05.20

Date: 12th May 2020 @ 9:24pm

Good morning my little plums!

I hope you all had a lovely Tuesday!

Well done for all of your hard work on Read Theory so far this week. I am particularly proud of the following children for gaining lots of knowledge points:

Imogen - 636

Leo - 185

Tristan 198

Well done superstars!

Today's learning is:

IXL - Maths - F6, F7, F8

IXL - English - L1, L2, L3, L4

Don't forget there are also 2Dos on Purple Mash and reading comprehensions on Read Theory.

I've really enjoyed looking at some of your work on Purple Mash. Ethan and Stephanie have done a wonderful job being weather reporters for the UK!

We've also had 2 children working hard on jigsaws. They are my two favourite things - Harry Potter and Marvel. Who's your favourite superhero? Mine is Captain America!

We've also had our first blog about this week's writing task. L has written things that she and her family are looking forward to doing when they lockdown is over and put them in a specially decorated jar.

Great job! 

Have a wonderful Wednesday Owl Class!

Miss Whalley

Penguins 13th May Home Learning

Date: 12th May 2020 @ 8:55pm

Good morning penguins! 

Let us see what amazing learning we can do again today.

Maths

You have done really well with your sharing this week.  Watch the videos again to remind you how to share.  Can you answer these word problems by sharing, you can use objects or drawings?

Literacy

Have a read or watch of The Three Billy Goats Gruff story again. The problem video isn’t working again today so I have added an example on below to help you write your sentences about the problem in the story. Can you write at least 2 sentences about the problem in the story?

Challenge:  Can you use the story language to continue your story?

Today can you play reading robot, think carefully when your sounding out those words.

Daily reminders:

• Oxford owl reading
• Purple Mash 
• Spellings

Don’t forget to upload your pictures on the blog so I can see what you have been doing. 

Have a great day!

Penguins learning

Date: 12th May 2020 @ 8:27pm

Hi Penguins!

You have had another great day of learning today and I am so impressed with your writing and how many of you are challenging yourself to the challenge writing!

Puffins 13.05.20 Home learning

Date: 12th May 2020 @ 6:47pm

Happy Wednesday Puffins!

It is a special day today because it is Miss Thompson’s birthday! I know lots of you have been spending your birthday’s at home, so please share any fun things you did on the blog! I am going to spend the day playing games and eating some birthday cake.

Special Mentions

A super well done to Henri and Liam for amazing Purple Mash work, great work drawing their own houses! Jacob worked super hard last week making his tshirt for VE day. It is amazing, well done!  Also, we have been so impressed to see the children in our class caring for and reading to their younger siblings. It is wonderful to see!

Today's Learning

IXL:
Maths Year 1 D2, D10, N9

English Year 2 R1, R2,  U2

Please also complete activities on:

Read Theory 

Writing task (see separate blog post)

Purple Mash

Spellings for the week in the discussion section (these link to the online phonics)

Phonics 'e-e' video attached.

Also a video is attached to help with understanding split digraphs in Phonics.

Have a wonderful day

Miss Thompson and Mrs Lenagan

Robins Class - Learning Overview 12.5.20

Date: 12th May 2020 @ 4:37pm

Readtheory

The children who have accessed their daily reading on readtheory today are Bea, Hope, Amelia, Emily, Chloe, Archie, Harris, Isabelle, Ethan S, Lola T and Ruby. Well done everyone!

IXL

The children who have accessed both their English and Maths tasks today are Alex, Amelia, Archie, Bea, Chloe, Emily, Ethan F, Ethan S, Harris, Harry, Hope, Lola B, Lola T, Macie, Ruby, Zak and Zara. Well done everyone!

Superstars

Robins Class Overview 

Most Questions

Harry has answered 277 questions today, wow Harry that is incredible.

Emily answered 192

Ire answered 184

Longest amount of time

Amelia was on for nearly two hours today.

Alex, Zara, Harris, Harry and Ethan F were on for over one hour.

Achievements

Chloe has learned to ride her bike, what a fantastic achievement, you should be very proud of yourself, I know I am!  

PurpleMash

Do you remember when we did our weather report on Mexico? Some of you have been doing a weather report on Britain this week, I love the results, it is lovely to see so many faces!

Doves - 12th May - Learning Overview

Date: 12th May 2020 @ 3:53pm

Some more great work completed today! Well done Doves :)

Here is a summary of the work I've seen today: 

LBQ: 

SPAG - We had 23 out of 27 children complete their SPAG tasks. 

Please try to complete both your SPAG and Maths tasks. 

Well done to the following children for full marks on their tasks:

Leon, Ellis and Amber- SPAG - Task 1  

Martha, Ava, Nathan, Oscar, Oliver, Emily, Akshay, Leon, Amber and Alfi - SPAG Task 2 

Mollie - Maths - Miss F's Group 

I am so proud of the engagement, resilience and work ethic shown by ALL children who accessed their LBQ work.

Read Theory: 

Well done to the following children: Parthiv, Akshay, Oscar, Ava, Martha and Leon for logging on and accessing your daily reading. Between the 6 of you, you have read 18 additional quizzes, collectively! Amazing work - Keep it up!  

Special mention today to Oscar who read 7 quizzes today. Well Done! 

Reading Solutions: 

Well done to the following children for accessing Reading Solutions. 

Ellis, Nathan, Noah and Thomas

Please make sure all children who have access to Reading Solutions are completing at least 1 comprehension a day!

Special mention today to Ellis who has completed Level D - Well done! 

Also, well done to Noah for completing 7 comprehensions in 1 day. 

Today in school

Date: 12th May 2020 @ 3:23pm

Today in school we have been continuing to think about our time capsule and what to put into it. We made handprints and added our names. 

Kingfishers Home Learning 12th May

Date: 12th May 2020 @ 8:53am

Good morning!

17/27 on LBQ yesterday, lets try to break 20 today please. You did well on bar charts yesterday so today we will be moving onto some slightly tricker bar chart problems.

1) Read theory

2) Times tables rockstars

3) LBQ code - APE

Maths -  bar chart work. I posted a video blog on Kingifshers blog yesterday which might help.

Punctuation - adverbs of time and place

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

4) Writing task - today you could choose your argument and start thinking of sides for and against. Try to find facts and figures to support your points. Try and think of the main, most important arguments. It is important that you choose the MAIN facts which will allow you to expand on them in more detail. Remember, it is a balanced argument so they do not need to be what you think. You are thinking about what everyone might think.Here is an example I have made. I have drawn lines to point which are linked and could be used as counter arguments (an argument said in response to another argument to challenge it).

5) Afternoon topic web work

Starlings Home Learning 12.5.20

Date: 12th May 2020 @ 8:35am

Good morning Starlings!

It looks like for once the nice weather has abandoned us, at least for the morning, so today would be a good day to do your additional tasks seeing as you probably won't be able to go outside much!

Your LBQ code for today is: jge

Please see the class discussion pages for your additional work alongside the spellings for this week.

Don't forget about the extra learning websites or to be getting as much excersize as you can whilst responsibly social distancing and not taking any extra risks. 

Take care boys and girls,

Mr Dean

Woodpeckers home learning 12.5.20

Date: 12th May 2020 @ 8:28am

Eagles - 12th May - Home Learning

Date: 12th May 2020 @ 8:05am

Good morning Eagles!

Home Learning:

Well done on yesterday's home learning. Today's is as follows:
 

Maths - umk (there are 2 tasks, 1 for Miss Fairhursts Maths Class and 1 for mine)

SPAG - wbq

Reading Solutions - 2 comprehensions (it would have been your reading SAT today!)

Writing/Spellings - See discussion feeds

Have a lovely day,

Mr Simpson

Swallows 12th May 2020 - Home Learning

Date: 12th May 2020 @ 7:45am

Good Morning Swallows!!!

Many thanks to all who have been keeping up with your home learning this week. Take a look at the blogs later on today – there will be a round-up with some house points thrown in for good measure! Take care and have a smashing day!

Here are today’s learning tasks:

LBQ – Code: fny (all lowercase)

There are 3 tasks, please complete all 3 tasks. If you get stuck, read the feedback – remember it is ok to get it wrong, as long as you give the feedback a go Swallows. How else do we learn?

Spelling/ Writing / Afternoon Task

Check out the discussion blog on your school spider logins – Some of you are masters at this now! Here you will find the weekly spellings, writing and afternoon task for this week. We are remembering VE Day (Victory in Europe) as a theme and hope you could all join in with these tasks as well as you have been doing recently.

REMEMBER: Pupil verification code is 956789

Ciao all, take care today!

Mr P 🌈🌈🌈

Doves - 12th May - Home Learning

Date: 12th May 2020 @ 7:40am

Good morning Lovelies! 

Today's Home Learning:

Reading Solutions / Read Theory (Y5)- Please ensure you are accessing this

English  - wbq 

Maths -  umk 

Writing/Spellings – I have posted two new discussions with your weekly spellings and your writing task. Remember these are both due in on Friday. (How to access this: School Website, Pupil Login, Username and Password, Verification Code – 956789-, discussions). If you are not sure what your username and password is 1. Check School Spider OR 2. Contact the School Office. 

SPAG Support - Task 1: 

I have attached a video below to support you with SPAG Task 1 looking at using brackets, commas and dashes for parenthesis. 

Keep safe and have a lovely weekend!

Miss Fairhurst

Owls Home Learning 12.05.20

Date: 11th May 2020 @ 10:19pm

Good morning my little oranges!

I hope you had a wonderful Monday. I had a lovely birthday - I was very fortunate to have lots of phone calls and cards and presents sent through the post.

I've been so impressed by your work on IXL - since Easter you have answered nearly 56,000 questions! That is amazing!! 

Yesterday we had 6 people who answered more than 200 questions:

Ethan - 205

Luke - 294

Tristan - 260

Eli - 207

Junior - 297

Max P - 200

Excellent work - well done!!

Today's home learning is:

IXL - Maths - Understand Subtraction - F3, F4, F5

IXL - English - Prepositions - R1, R2

Don't forget there are 2Dos on Purple Mash and reading comprehensions on Read Theory.

It's been really lovely to see that some of you are developing new skills whilst you are away from school. This week we've had one person learning how to rollerblade and another practising their drumming skills. Way to go!!

We've also had children who are furthering their Science learning at home. Here, one person created a solar oven - to use the sun's rays to melt chocolate and another tried to imagine what it would be like to write in space, so used his table to help. What creative ways to extend your learning!

Keep up all of your wonderdul learning Owl Class - I'm one very proud teacher!!

Miss Whalley

Nursery Home Learning 12th May

Date: 11th May 2020 @ 9:31pm

Good Morning everyone,

Wow! I can't believe how many of you posted on the blog yesterday. It is so lovely to see what you've all been up to.

It looks like you all had a wonderful day on Friday to celebrate VE day:

Alexa learnt about her great grandad who was a secretary for Officers of the RAF and helped to edit a wartime newspaper. He was stationed in Italy at the end of WW2. How amazing!

You've all done a great job with yesterday's challenges:

Here are today's challenges:

Challenge 1

Can you Draw the three bears?
Remember, they are all different sizes.

Challenge 2

Have a fantastic day, Penguins!

Miss Altham