Owls Home Learning 07.05.20

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 10:19pm

Good morning my little parsnips! 

I hope you all had a good Wednesday! 

I was working yesterday and had a lot of video meetings with other teachers. It was lovely to see them and chat about school - we all miss each other, just like you miss your friends!

In the 3 weeks since the Easter holidays, you've answered nearly 50,000 questions on IXL! I'm absolutely blown away by how hard you're all working whilst at home - you all deserve a big pat on the back!

Today's home learning is:

IXL - Maths - Addition - D18 and D20

IXL - English - Capitalisation - U1, U2, U3

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

Tomorrow is a bank holiday to celebrate VE Day. There will be no home learning set, but I will be revealing who is Owl Class star of the week!

I have been looking at your blogs today and it looks like there has been a lot of exciting learning taking place at home! Some of you have been baking (yum!) whilst others have been preparing for VE Day:

Have a wonderful extended weekend everyone! See you all on Monday.

Miss Whalley

Robins Class Home Learning - 7.5.20

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 8:42pm

Good Morning Robins 

It is another beautiful day, I am missing you all lots. I let the Guinea Pigs have a run around my living room yesterday, they found every possible hiding place they could. To get them back in their cage I had to lure them out from under an armchair using some cucumber, they enjoyed the run around though.

VE Fact of the Day

 Buckingham Palace was lit up in floodlights for the first time in six years since the war began and two searchlights formed a V, the sign of peace above St Paul's Cathedral in London. All the lights were turned off again the next day.

I have received one VE Day factfile so far, from Dakota. It is excellent Dakota, I will be sharing it on Friday 

Today's home learning is as follows:

IXL

Maths – Year 2 – Subtraction Strategies - I.3, I.4

English - Nouns - M.7, M.8

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. 

Blog Updates

More VE Day activities from one of you, this person was a busy bee yesterday. Designing bunting, creating a teacup, making a poppy and creating a flag.

Today phonics sound 'oe'

Have a great day everyone!

Miss Woodward

Doves - 6th May - Learning Overview

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 5:26pm

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

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

LBQ: 

SPAG - We had 22 out of 27 children complete their SPAG tasks. 

MATHS - We had 19 out of 27 children complete their Maths tasks. 

Please try to complete both your SPAG and Maths tasks. 

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

Leon, Arwen and Askay- SPAG Task 1  

Leon - SPAG Task 2 

Gracie, Jessica S, Leon, Ellis, Nathan and Amber -  Maths - Starter 

Leon, Mollie, Amber, Ellis and Akshay - Maths - Main Task

Nathan, Akshay, Oscar, Jessica S, Leon and Amber  - Topic - Topic Quiz 

Mollie and Leon - Science - Task 3 

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: Jessica B, Parthiv, Mollie, Akshay, Oscar, Gracie, Oliver, Olly and Leon for logging on and accessing your daily reading. Between the 9 of you, you have read 52 additional quizzes, collectively! Amazing work - Keep it up!  

Special mention today to Olly who read 31 quizzes today. This is an exceptional effort! 

Reading Solutions: 

Well done to the following children for accessing and completing your daily reading. 

Amber, Ellis, Adam, Nathan and Thomas. 

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

Writing: 

I have had two great Newspaper reports sent in which I would love to share with you all. Thanks to Olly and Arwen for these! :) I loved reading them. 

VE Day Activities: 

Well done to Alfie, who learnt some Morse code this week and to Thomas who has made some VE day medals. 

Eagles - 7th May - Home Learning

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 5:01pm

Good morning everyone!

The sun is back!!! I managed to do a bit of planting in the garden yesterday with Alexander which was nice - his control of the watering can needs a bit of work though! I have some plants floating in a pond now!

I also managed another run yesterday - that's Monday Tuesday, Wednesday this week! Hoping for another today!

What's everybody else been up to? Apart from getting beat by 5 by their younger brother on the maths task yesterday - mentioning no names!  Has everyone seen my maths RAR? I'm expecting lots of responses! Remember to click on the video for my demo first! (I still don't think I sound like that!).

There were some great newspaper reports that came in yesterday! Well done to all! 

Here's Joe's fantastic effort:

ThrowbackThursday! Can you guess who the member of staff is? Miss Fairhurst has posted a picture of a member of staff on the main blog page. Who is it??? Post your answer! Clue: It's not me!

There will be no home learning tasks set on Friday monring as it's a Bank Holiday so this will the the last learning set this week. I'd still be delighted to see any spelling & writing posted in the discussion feed, but if you can't on Friday (and if it's not ready today), I'll still look at them all on Monday!

Todays Home Learning:

1. Maths RAR - (see last blog)
2. English - cno 
3. Maths - bog 
4. Reading Solutions - 1 comprehension (can do more than 1)
5. VE Day – Try to complete as many VE Day activities as possible (in school this week we have created WW2 artwork so far – have a look at the blog for some inspiration).  

Eagles/Doves - Maths Feedback & RAR

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 4:44pm

Hi Everyone,

Well done on today's maths task. I've attached a video with feedback for the question that was answered most incorrectly, but overall most of you did very well!

Watch the video and then complete the RAR below. I've set it out like the example in the video, so don't stop too early before you get to your answer.

Add your answers as comments on this blog and I'll take a look!

(click on the blog title to see the video)

RAR: 

Woodpeckers Day 6.5.20

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 3:42pm

HI Woodpeckers,

Another fantatsic day. You all did amazing with finding the area of shapes today, I hope that the maths video helped.

20 of you joined in with LBQ today and completed all the tasks - well done. 10 house points to you.

I have had a nosey at Read Theory today and a huge shout out to the following children who have completed over 30 quizzes so far:

Oliver BS, Oliver B, Erin, Kate, Rebecca, Heidi, Emelia, Morgan, Kaitlyn, Archie, Apple and Henry. 10 house points to each of you. Well done.

Jasmine -  a huge shout out to you - you have completed a huge 127 quizzes. This is incredible. Imagine how much this will have helped your reading skills. 20 housepoints Jasmine.

Keep it up Woodpeckers. I am proud.

Mrs Latham

Robins - Learning Overview 6.5.20

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 3:26pm

I hope you are all doing well and have had a lovely day in the sunshine. Apologies for not including the IXL learning straight away this morning, not sure how I managed to miss that! Thank you to those of you who still managed to access maths and English tasks.

Readtheory 

Well done to Bea, Hope, Amelia, Emily, Chloe, Archie, Harris, Isabelle, Ethan S and Lola T for accessing their daily reading comprehension(s) on readtheory.

IXL

The following children completed both their SPaG and Maths tasks today - well done to Alex, Amelia, Bea, Chloe, Emily, Ethan S, Harry, Henry, Hope, Leah and Macie.

Purple Mash

Lots of you have been busy creating the VE Day celebration bunting on Purplemash this week. They all look fabulous!

Well done everyone for another great day learning! I will share some more Blog VE day updates tomorrow.

Penguins learning today

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 3:18pm

Hi Penguins, 

I can't believe another day is done, and as always you have smashed it!

We have had a fun busy day here today.  Arthur decided he wanted to do what you guys were doing today so did some doubling outside.  We have also been baking coconut macaroons and made a fruit salad for our morning snack!

Your party preperations look like they are coming on well, sandwiches been made as well as bunting!  I can't wait to see your parties!

VE Day Party

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 2:38pm

What a fantastic day we have had in school celebrating VE Day. For dinner, we wore our newly designed top and sat at Union Jack style tables. In the afternoon, we had a picnic where we ate some biscuits which we had decorated In red, white and blue. We also played pin the tail on the donkey and a roll and run hula hoop game. 
 

Owls Home Learning 06.05.20

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 8:47am

Good morning my little cabbages! 

I hope you had a lovely day yesterday! 

Today's home learning is:

IXL - Maths - Addition - D14, D15, D16

IXL - English - Articles - P1, P2

Don't forget there are 2Dos set on Purple Mash and Reading Comprehensions on Read Theory.

It was great to see some of your blog posts yesterday! We had children learning chess, going out for walks and using chopping skills to make a yummy fruit salad!

Have a lovely day Owls Class!

Miss Whalley

Woodpeckers Home Learning 6.5.20

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 8:33am

Starlings Home Learning 6.5.20

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 8:32am

Good morning Starlings!

Once again the weather this week is looking amazing, I hope you manage to get outside and be creative in the sun again!

Just a reminder not to forget about your on going projects on the class discussion pages, as well as your preparation for VE Day!

Your LBQ code for the day is: sup

IXL and TTRockstars are both still available for use, please don't forget to use them too.

Keep up the great work guys, hopefully see you all soon!

Mr Dean

Swallows 6th May 2020 - Home Learning

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 8:10am

Good Morning Swallows!!!

LOOK AT THIS! There have been some fantastic examples of design and improvisation that have already started flooding in from you wonderful children! Keep up that great effort and a great Roman phrase to start the day – another google experience with a little bit of research. ‘Carpe Diem’. Research it…

Take care and have a smashing day in the sunshine (hopefully!) …

Here are today’s learning tasks:

LBQ – Code: evb (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?

Also, have a look at the video below:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhdwxnb/articles/zxcfjty

Spelling/ Writing / Afternoon Task

Check out the discussion blog on your school spider logins – Some of you are masters at this now! Her 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 🌈🌈🌈

Kingfishers Home Learning 6th May

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 8:08am

Good morning everyone,

I've been informed that not everyone has been receiving my feedback/comments on SeeSaw and some people still cannot see the writing task or spellings. I think I have discovered the root of the problem so hopefully they should be visible at some point this morning.

1) Read theory

2) Times tables rockstars

3) LBQ code - pih

Maths - Addition and subtraction review 

This task is going to challenge your judgement on when to use which method. It is always ideal to choose the most efficient method - which is quickest and easiest? Some will require written method and some are best done mentally.

The diagram below shows an efficient way of mentally solving 74 - 27.  We have taken away 30 (3 more than we should have taken) and then added that extra 3 to our answer. Remember that when adding using the same method, for example 74 + 27, you would add 30 and then subtract the extra 3

4) Written task - 

Your weekly task is to write a newspaper report on VE day, on Monday you should have done a bit of research on VE day itself, today you can either start to plan your report or start to write a first draft (depending where you are up to). I understand that we might all be upto different points due to the technical issue on SeeSaw.

5) Afternoon topic web work - You can choose any topic from any any of the previous terms. Choose something that you are interested in and want to learn more about. 

South American Stadium by Lucy

South American Parrot by Paige

Some sequin art by Isabell and Imogen

The topic webs should be on a previous blog post from the end of March if you need to find them again.

Have a great day everyone.

Mr Horsley

Penguins 6th May Home Learning

Date: 6th May 2020 @ 7:30am

Good morning penguins! 

Our party preparations are coming on brilliantly, you are all working really hard.  Keep it up!

Maths

So now we have smashed halving we are going to look at the opposite of halving, doubling. 

Doubling is when you add the same number 2 times.

Watch the video and have a go at doubling numbers 1 to 6.

If you are able to double using the objects confidently with numbers up to 10 then have a go at doubling using pictures.

Literacy

Today we are going to make some sandwiches for our party. I am going to make Jam sandwiches for my tea party so today I am going to write some instructions on how to make them. 

Watch the video and then write some instructions on how to make your sandwich.

Challenge:  Can you record yourself making the sandwich telling us your step my step instructions?

We are going to play space race today.  Choose the sounds you need to work on when you play this game.  Remember to sound out each word carefully using your sound fingers!

Daily reminders:

• Oxford owl reading
• Purple Mash 
• Spellings
• VE day activities

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

Have a great day!

Puffin Class Home Learning 06.05.20

Date: 5th May 2020 @ 10:43pm

Hello Puffins!

We had a lovely day yesterday, we did some shadow drawings while it was sunny. Hope you  had a good day too!

Special Mentions

There has been some fabulous phonics and spellings on the blog from Harrison, this is great to see! I love how the abacus is supporting IXL learning on the ipad too. It’s a great resource to have, thank you for sharing these pictures. Finally, well done to Jacob B for an amazing poster that he has made with his family for VE day.  

Today’s learning
IXL:
Maths Year 1 I.6, P10, F9

English Year 2  H.5, S.1, M.2

Please also complete activities on:
Read Theory

Writing task (see separate blog)

Purple Mash (I’m looking for some good work for the blog).

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

Phonics 'ew'

On the writing tasks we have noticed that the work doesn’t look as independent as it should. In class you get an example modelled to you and then you are expected to complete the task independently. It is really important that you make sure the writing is your own. Spelling mistakes are completely fine! We are looking for you applying your Phase 3 and 5 sounds and those tricky words too. Also, to be working towards the sucess criteria. The writing may look like this mini example below…

Dear Captn Tom,

Thank yoo for all the hard werk that yoo have dun to help the NHS. Yoo maik me veri prowd. I wont to be like yoo when I am owlder becos yoo are an inspirashon. I hope that yoo had a wunderful birthday. I carnt beleev that yoo are 100 years owld.  

Yurs sinseerly,

Paul

I have my beady eye on Purple Mash for some super examples for the blog tomorrow. I can’t wait for some lovely surprises.  

Have a lovely day,

Mrs Lenagan and Miss Thompson :)

Nursery Home Learning 6th May

Date: 5th May 2020 @ 10:22pm

It's Wednesday already!

This week is going by so fast. Who is looking forward to their VE day tea party on Friday?

You have done such a great job on your party invitations and bunting.

You've also created some fantastic beanstalks and giants like the ones in our story!

Harrison has even given this lovely message to Mrs Mort.

Keep up this amazing work, Penguins. I am very proud of you all!

Here are today's challenges:

Challenge 1

Can you draw a picture of Daisy the cow? This could be done on Purple Mash or on paper.
What colours will you use?
Can you name some of the body parts?

Challenge 2

To get ready for our party, can you make a special cake or a favourite sweet treat?
I will make one too and post a picture later. I'd love to see yours so don't forget to blog.

Try not to eat it yet, it's for our special party!

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

As always, I hope you have a wonderful day!

Miss Altham

Doves - 6th May - Home Learning

Date: 5th May 2020 @ 9:42pm

Good Morning Doves!   

Today's Home Learning:

1. English and Science- gxs 
2. Maths - ejv 
3. Reading Solutions / Read Theory (Y5)- 1 comprehension (minimum)
4. Writing/Spellings – I have posted two new discussions with your weekly spellings and your writing task. Remember these are both due in on Friday. I have none to share with you as of yet, but remember to look at the WAGOLLs for inspiration. 
5. VE Day – Try to complete as many VE Day activities as possible. It is a great day to celebrate – I would love to see some blog posts and work about it today. I have attached some ideas below. 

SPAG Support - Task 1 and 2:

I have uploaded two videos to help you with Task 1 and 2, looking at the different word classes. PLEASE make sure you're watching the video and watching it all the way through. I noticed a lot of children struggled with Q21 yesterday and it was a question I modelled on my video. 

Maths Support - click the blog title.

Science Support: 

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

Have a lovely day!

Miss Fairhurst :) 

Robins Class Home Learning - 6.5.20

Date: 5th May 2020 @ 8:41pm

Good morning little Robins 

I hope you are all well and enjoying the sunshine as much as you can. As mentioned before, Friday is VE Day, one of you has been doing a couple of VE Day activities, the results are fantastic. We have some VE Day bunting and brilliant VE t-shirt. Both hand made, well done these are absolutely fantastic. 

Princess Elizabeth and her sister were allowed to leave the palace and celebrate with crowds outside, although they had to do it secretly. The future Queen described it as "one of the most memorable nights of my life".Many people also attended church services to thank God for the victory.

Today's learning is as follows:

Maths - Year 2 - Money - S.7, S.8, S.9

English - Year 2 - Nouns - M.5, M.6

Today's phonics sound is 'ew'

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Miss Woodward 

Doves - 5th May - Learning Overview

Date: 5th May 2020 @ 5:39pm

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

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

LBQ: 

SPAG - We had 26 out of 27 children complete both tasks. 

MATHS - We had 22 out of 27 children complete both tasks. 

Please try to complete both your SPAG and Maths tasks. 

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

Akshay, Ruby, Ellis, Martha and Leon - SPAG Task 1 - Main and Subordinate Clauses

Akshay, Ellis, Leon, Lucy and Oscar - SPAG Task 2 - Subordinating Conjunctions 

Ellis and Ayaan- Maths - My group

Leon  - Maths - (Mr Simpson's group ). 

Olly, Gracie, Oscar, Leon, Ava and Amber  - Topic - Topic Quiz 

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: Jessica B, Parthiv, Arwen, George, Akshay, Oliver, Olly, Chloe Oscar,  Ava and Leon for logging on and accessing your daily reading. Between the 11 of you, you have read 36additional quizzes, collectively! This is down from yesterday, so lets see if we can pick it back up tomorrow! 

Special mention today to Oscar who read 10 quizzes today. Keep it up!  

Reading Solutions: 

Well done to the following children for accessing and completing your daily reading. 

Amber (2), Ellis, Adam, Nathan (2) and Thomas.

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

Eagles - 6th May - Home Learning

Date: 5th May 2020 @ 5:20pm

Good morning everyone!

Well done to those of you that completed all the tasks set yesterday. For those of you in Miss Fairhurst's maths class, if you've not already seen it, I posted a video explaining q12 as it was answered incorrectly more than any other question. I also wanted to play with the screen recorder - so I've made another one for today's maths task! (click the blog title to see it).

There were a number of children who completed the SPAG tasks yesterday but not the maths task! Are you deliberately trying to upset me?? I might have to make a few phone calls home if this continues! Some of the effort on the maths tasks by some of you could also be improved - you know who you are! However, I was very impressed with Elisha, Ella, Sam and Jack W's efforts on the maths task 1 questions yesterday and Amy, who was the only person to score 20/20 correct first time, on maths task 2. 

What's everybody been up to? It was great to hear from Ella & Olivia on the pupil blog section. More photo's and comments please! I've been going running quite a bit, but my knees aren't really enjoying it too much! Fancy having a bad hip and bad knees aged only 22!

Todays Home Learning:

1. English - gxs 
2. Maths - ejv 
3. Reading Solutions - 1 comprehension (can do more than 1)
4. Writing/Spellings - see discussion feed. Due Friday.
5. VE Day – Try to complete as many VE Day activities as possible (in school this week we have created WW2 artwork so far – have a look at the blog for some inspiration).  

Robins - Learning overview 5.5.20

Date: 5th May 2020 @ 4:47pm

Another day down, I hope you have all had a lovely day!

Readtheory Shoutouts

Well done to Lola B, Bea, Amelia, Harris, Isabelle, Ethan S today for accessing readtheory comprehensions!

IXL Shoutouts

The children who have completed both their Spelling and Grammar work and their Maths work are Alex, Amelia, Bea, Chloe, Dakota, Emily, Ethan F, Ethan S, Haleema, Harris, Henry, Hope, Ire, Isabelle, Ruby, Zak and Zara. Well done to you guys! 

Blog Updates

A super way to revise our money learning, 'Little Red Riding Hood' has been busy using real money to help with her exchanging. It is quite a difficult task, isn't it?

One of you has been busy doing some VE Day activities today I am going to share the results with you in tomorrow's morning blog!

Achievement

I hear that Macie has learned to ride her bike, I am so proud of you Macie. What a great achievement! 

Well done guys.

Miss Woodward 

Penguins learning today

Date: 5th May 2020 @ 4:27pm

Another day done and another day of great learning!  I have loved reading your menus today.  They have made me very hungry!! 

You have done brilliantly with your halving too, I have put some examples below.  I love how imaginative you and your grownups have been with the objects you have been using to halve. 

Well done Penguins. 

Doves/Eagles Maths Feedback - Task 1: Qn12

Date: 5th May 2020 @ 3:23pm

Hi everyone! 

I've seen qn 12 on Task 1 was proving tricky today so I've trained myself up on how to use a screen recorder to explain! I don't really sound like this, do I????

(Click on the title to view)

School Learning - 5th May

Date: 5th May 2020 @ 3:09pm

In school, we continued to learn about VE Day. We watched a video from VE Day, listening to Winston Churchill's speech. We also watched an animated biography so we could learn more about the British Prime Minister. In the afternoon, we made decorations and designed T-shirt's for our VE party tomorrow.