Remote Learning – PSHE

27th January 2021S Robson

We have seen lots of fabulous examples of Health, Wellbeing and Relationships work across school, from our pupils engaged in remote learning and those pupils in school.

Some pupils in KS1 have been practising mindfulness by joining in with online story yoga, and also learning about what makes them special. Others have been learning about money, and having an awareness of saving money for something they need or would like.

In KS2, some classes have been thinking about what makes them happy, and their thoughts on this are all very unique. Researching issues facing cocoa farmers in Ghana and how organisations like Fairtrade are trying to improve working conditions and environment, has produced some interesting debate from some classes. Other pupils have created very informative posters based upon their awareness of basic first aid to do with nose bleeds.

Our Year 6 pupils have been looking at careers and potential jobs for the future, discussing  things that might lead them to choose a certain job or career.

Fantastic!

 

 

 

 

26.1.21 Year 3 Home Learning

25th January 2021J Devlin

Maths
Good Morning Y3, Today we will be moving on to looking at money. We will be counting in pence.

Starter: Use TopMarks game to give the shop keeper the exact amount using coins. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/money/toy-shop-money

Video: Watch the video link going through the different coins we use and comparing amounts.

Activity: Add up the coins on the worksheet and write your answers in the boxes. Work your way through the pence activities moving onto comparing amounts and solving problems.

Click to access Y2-Autumn-Block-3-D1-Count-money-pence-2019.pdf

English
Beowulf follows the same structure as conventional hero myths, where a hero needs to defeat a monster. As the hero gets closer the monster, the tension builds and it begins to look like the hero may not survive, but at the last minute the hero finds strength and overcomes the monster. Today we are going to look at how the author builds tension in the story Beowulf. Watch the video lesson on your Google Classroom before you begin. The video cuts off at the end when Miss Whitehead is explaining your task (technical error- sorry!) so make sure you read exactly what you need to do below.

Your Task
Use the diagram below to help you create a tension mountain. You need to decide where on the diagram each of the cards at the bottom would go to show how tension builds up. If you can’t print this sheet out that’s absolutely fine- you can draw the diagram on a piece of paper and write the events.

Extension
Authors build tension is to vary their sentence length, by mixing long sentences filled with description with shorter sentences, usually with action or important details in them. Listen to Miss Whitehead reading chapter 7 again. Can you spot how longer sentences and shorter sentences work together to build tension?

History
Hadrian ruled as the Roman emperor between 117-138CE. Instead of continuing the expansion of the empire he decided to work on securing the empire’s boundaries. There were several places where the borders were vulnerable to attack. He built Hadrian’s wall to keep the Scottish barbarian tribes out! Today we are going to learn all about Hadrian’s wall and explore artefacts found on a local site…

To begin your lesson, use the PowerPoint and then follow the link below to explore further!
https://arbeiaromanfort.org.uk/learning/crafty-romans-from-home-pier-stone

Your task!
Using items you can find around the house build a pillar. Try it with a friend or family member. Have a race to see who can build the tallest, strongest, or widest. You can use blocks, lego, toilet rolls, paper tubes, rolled paper, books, etc. Let your imagination run wild!

We would love to see your creations! Send them to us at [email protected]

25.1.21 Year 3 Home Learning

22nd January 2021J Devlin

Maths
Good Morning Y3 and welcome back to home learning week 3! Can you believe how fast this time is flying over – we certainly can’t!

Today will be our last day on Multiplication and Division – We will be looking at how many ways we can represent a calculation by using concrete resources to help us.

Starter: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button Division Hit the Button!

Video: Watch the video link and see how many ways you can represent a calculation – keep stopping the video when you are asked to work out a question – use scrap paper to help you jot down your working out.

Worksheet: Complete the worksheet below working out how many different ways you can represent the calculation.

Click to access Y3-Spring-Block-1-D9-How-many-ways_-2019.pdf

English
Today our literacy lesson has a reading focus, we will be making predictions! Can you remember what a prediction is? Watch the video lesson on your Google Classroom to find out. Don’t forget to have your pencil and paper ready before you begin.

Your task
Write a paragraph (4 or 5 sentences) to predict what you think will happen at the end of the Beowulf story. Don’t forget to use conjunctions in your work to extend your sentences and give lots of detail to your predictions.

Challenge!
Can you justify your prediction?
E.g I predict this because Beowulf is brave and strong, he is the hero and the hero almost always survives.

In our google meet this afternoon, we will be reading the end of the story so you can see if your prediction was correct!

Science
This is the final lesson of our animals including humans topic- well done for producing some fabulous work over the past few weeks!

Starter: Can you match the common bone names with the scientific bone names (how many have you remembered from last lesson?)

Main Activity: You are going to researching in today’s lesson. Your task is to choose 3 major skeletal muscle pairs and research where each of the muscles are in the body and find out what their function is. You can record your research on a piece of paper- make sure this is your best handwriting!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zqm8q6f
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/znntsbk

Here is an example:
The biceps are muscles on the front part of the upper arm. Biceps bend the forearm and are used in lifting and pulling movements.

Challenge: Miss Samuels has been running. Can you name the muscles, in her body, that have been used? (Hint: There are three muscles)

22.1.21 Year 3 Home Learning

22nd January 2021J Devlin

Good Morning Y3 – We have made it through another week of amazing work from all of you – Your teachers are very proud of the effort you are all making to complete your learning tasks.
Maths
Starter: True or False? The bar model represents how many apples and pears they are?

Click to access T-or-F-Year-3-S8-Scaling.pdf

Today we will be looking at scaling – this is where we look at the size of a number and draw a bar to compare it with another number this is explained in the video link below.
Video:

Worksheet: Complete the worksheet attached remember to read the questions carefully and show your working if necessary.

Click to access Y3-Spring-Block-1-D8-Scaling-2019.pdf

English
You have all been working so hard so we thought today’s lesson would be a little different. We know how much you all love Drama, so today we would like you to act out your favourite scene from Beowulf so far. You could find props from around the house or maybe even make some- you can be as creative as you like!

To hand in today’s work all you need to do is take a photo of the scene you are acting out, your teachers will make a guess at which scene it is! There is a list of ideas to choose from below or you might have your own idea!

– King Hrothgar refused to be scared, he built a huge hall for himself on the top of a craggy hill.
-Brave warriors enjoying the lavish feast at Heorot Hall
-Grendel’s attack on Heorot Hall
-Beowulf arrives on a ship to save the day!

We can’t wait to see photos of all your amazing acting! Don’t forget to hand them in via Google Classroom or email them to us at [email protected]

Topic
A visit to the national aquarium
We are off to visit the national aquarium again! Remember don’t be late- the session runs from 1:00-1:20pm. The theme for this week is Creature Classification. We hope your enjoy 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/user/NMAPlymouth

ICT
For ICT today we know how much you all love coding so use the link below and choose an activity to complete.

We hope you enjoy your afternoon activities!

https://hourofcode.com/uk/learn

19.1.21 Year 3 Home Learning

18th January 2021J Devlin

Good Morning Y3!

Maths
Starter: https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/arithmetic/latest/arithmetic_en.html Have a go at different multiplication and division calculations by playing on top marks arithmetic game!

Today we will be dividing 100 into equal parts of 2,4,5 and 10.

Video and Task: Watch the learning video and keep pausing to complete the tasks set for you throughout the video – remember to write down your answers for each question – you can then take a photo and upload to your assigned task or email to [email protected].

English
You all produced some excellent plans yesterday, thank you for sharing them with us! I have stolen some of your fabulous ideas to help me in today’s video lesson on your Google Classroom.

Your task today is to use your plan to write a character description. Now remember, you are focusing on Grendel’s appearance, personality and movements. You included lots of adjectives, adverbs in similes in your plans yesterday- make sure you use those today! Try to use a range of different sentence openers- the word mat attached below will help you with some ideas.


Good luck and don’t forget to share your work with us! 🙂

History
Today in our history lesson you are going to investigate the story of a famous character called Boudica who lived in Britain around the time of the Roman invasion. Good historians act like detectives by looking for clues about the past in ‘sources’ of information. Today you are all going to be true historians! Use the PowerPoint link on your Google Classroom to start today’s lesson, during the PowerPoint you have the option to read the story from the slides or follow the link on the slide to listen to it. There are other links below that you can also explore- I know you will all enjoy the Bolshy Boudica Song from Horrible Histories.

Your task!
You are going to create a story board depicting the main events of the Boudica’s story. There is a worksheet attached below, if you have access to a printer you might want to print this off and create your story board on there. If not you could split your page into different sections by folding it.


We are still looking for some fabulous work to go onto our brand new History display in our corridor. So don’t forget to send your work to [email protected] because yours could be picked!

18.1.21 Year 3 Home Learning

15th January 2021J Devlin

Good Morning Year 3.
It is a brand new week of home learning- We are very excited to see the amazing work we are going to produce this week.

Maths
Today we will continue to look at division – dividing 2 digits by 1 digit.

Starter: True or False? 24 ÷ 2 > 12 × 2 Write your answer in the comments box on your Google Classroom with your reason.

Video: Today’s video builds on Friday’s learning of dividing 2 digits by 1 digit.

Worksheet: Complete the worksheet attached by either copying out the questions and showing your working out or writing on the sheet.

Click to access Y3-Spring-Block-1-D6-Divide-2-digits-by-1-digit-2-2019.pdf

English
Today in Literacy we are continuing our topic Myths and Legends with the novel Beowulf.

Your task today is to plan a character description using adjectives, adverbs and similes. You will be focusing on Grendel’s appearance, personality and movement. Remember- we looked at adjectives and adverbs on Friday when we focused on Grendel’s movements. This should help you today!

Follow the video on your Google Classroom linked with Miss Devlin and Miss Samuels talking you through the work. You can either plan your work using spider diagrams or using the table shown on the PowerPoint. Make sure you keep you plan in a very safe place as you will need it for tomorrow!

We want to see your best work- show us that amazing vocabulary! Send your fabulous work to [email protected]

Science
Good afternoon Year 3! Today in Science, we will be learning about the different parts of the skeleton and their functions. Follow the PowerPoint slides to find out about today’s learning!

Task 1/Starter- Label/write down any of the bones that you know already. You can use the human outline task 1 document of draw your own human body outline.


Task 2/Main Activity- So far you have identified the common bone names. However, bones are also called by their scientific names. You are going to research the scientific names of bones to find where they are located in the human body. Use the main activity document to find out which specific scientific bones you will be researching.

Task 3- There are 3 functions of a skeleton: protection, movement and support. Watch the attached YouTube video link and complete the attached document (task 3). You are given different bones in the body and it your job to decide whether they protect, support or help move the body.


You may need to use your ipad/laptop to research some information for today’s lesson! Good luck and enjoy 🙂

15.1.21 Year 3 Home Learning

14th January 2021J Devlin

Good morning Year 3. Well done for making it to Friday- you have all worked so hard!

English
Today in English you will be writing sentences using powerful verbs and adverbs. You will be focusing on verbs and adverbs to describe Grendel’s movements.

There is a video of Miss Devlin and Miss Samuels talking through your work for today on your Google Classroom. You will need a pencil and a sheet of paper to write down any examples of powerful verbs you hear in the story.

Here are some ideas to help you write your amazing sentences:
1. How Grendel rises from his swamp.
2. How Grendel makes his way to Hereot Hall.
3. How Grendel fights Beowulf.
4. How he picks up the men.

Don’t forget neat handwriting and take care when you are joining your letters. We look forward to seeing your amazing work- please send your work to [email protected].

Maths
Today we will be recapping division methods and learning to divide 2 digits by 1 digit – it’s even simpler than multiplying!

Starter:
6 ÷ 3 =
12 ÷ 3 =
30 ÷ 3 =
3 ÷ 3 =
15 ÷ 3 =
9 ÷ 3 =
18 ÷ 3 =
21 ÷ 3 =
24 ÷ 3 =
0 ÷ 3 =

Copy and paste this with your answers into the comments box on your Google Classroom or send via email [email protected].

Video: Watch the video and learn how we divide 2 digits by 1 digit – you will use your knowledge of times tables to help you with this step.

Worksheet: Divide 2 digits by 1 digit using the methods your have learnt from the learning video. Remember to write out your working out onto a scarp piece of paper to help you and use your X tables knowledge.

Click to access Y3-Spring-Block-1-D5-Divide-2-digits-by-1-digit-1-2019.pdf

Topic
The National Aquarium
Dive into ‘Deep Science’ from 1:00pm-1:20pm. This will take place every Friday with live YouTube sessions. You will get to meet some of our amazing animals as well as stopping at the AquaLab! The key theme for this week is going to be underwater volcanoes! Enjoy 🙂

Here is the link you need to follow to access the national aquarium Youtube page:
https://www.youtube.com/user/NMAPlymouth

PE
For your PE lesson today you can choose an activity from our PE file on your Google Classroom.
Inside this file is lots of different activities to choose from. You may want to get moving with Joe Wicks or Just Dance (link below Miss Devlin’s favourite!) or perhaps you feel like doing a GoNoodle to get you in that Friday feeling!

Always make sure you’ve got some water nearby to keep you hydrated – Enjoy Year 3!

14.1.21 Year 3 Home Learning

13th January 2021J Devlin

Maths
Good Morning Y3! Today we will be building on yesterday’s lesson and continuing multiplying 2 digits by 1 digit with exchanging.

Starter: True or False? Write your answer with a reason in the comments box on your Google Classroom.

Video: Watch the video on multiplying 2 digits by 1 digit using column method.

Worksheet: Complete the worksheet building on yesterday’s skills – make sure you read the reasoning questions very carefully! Remember for the final questions Odd numbers end in, 1, 3, 5, 7 or 9 and Even numbers end in 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8 – if you can’t work with your parent or sibling just have a go at doing it yourself and writing down the combinations you come up with.

Click to access Y3-Spring-Block-1-D4-Multiply-2-digits-by-1-digit-2-2019.pdf

English
Before you start today’s lesson make sure you have some paper, a pencil and your plan from Tuesday ready. Today’s lesson is very similar to yesterday but this time we are going to describe Heorot hall after Grendel’s attack. How will the hall be different? Remember to watch the video lesson before you begin.

Your task
You are going to write a description of Heorot hall after Grendel has attacked. Today you are going to try and include a list in your writing- don’t forget the punctuation. When you finish your paragraph make sure you check over it for capital letters, full stops and spelling mistakes.

There is a word bank of ideas linked below to help you with your writing.

Art

For our new art project meet David Hockney.

• Hockney is a British born, contemporary artist.
• He was born in Bradford, England, in 1937.
• He experimented with a variety of styles over sixty years including paint, photography and digital media.
• His work includes portraits and still-life, but also landscape painting.

After living in America, Hockney returned to England in the late 1990s. Living in Yorkshire, he admired the landscapes around him for their subtlety of colour. His painting became focused on colour, shape, pattern and texture.
Some aspects of a picture will be flat and without tone, but in other parts, Hockney uses brush strokes or dashes and dabs.
Take a look at a landscape painting by David Hockney. What do you think of it?

Activity 1 – Open to document below to see your activity for today. You can use paints, pastels or watercolours.

Year 3 are Historians at Home!

13th January 2021C Whitehead

Year 3 have started their new history topic- The Romans!

Historians believe that Rome was founded in 753 BC. In our first lesson, we thought about when this time fits into the bigger picture of world history. We learnt that although the Roman Empire had its beginnings in the city of Rome, over time it expanded its rule to include many other countries. But how?

We found out that one of the main reasons the Roman Empire was able to expand so greatly was the power of its army! We undertook online research to gather information all about life in the Roman Army.  Take a look!

 

 

We know that many different tribes of people inhabited Britain during the Iron Age. Meanwhile, the Roman Empire had been expanding across Europe. The Romans had heard about Britain, which they called Britannia, and Caesar began to think about invading.

We soon discovered that it took more than one attempt before the Romans were successful in their efforts to invade Britannia.

We then imagined that we were all Celts in Britain at the time of Claudius’ invasion. We had heard about the impending invasion and within our tribes, we had to decide whether or not to fight back against the attacking Romans! We made a list of arguments for and against fighting back again. Take a look at our reasons below!

 

 

We have really enjoyed learning about the Romans so far. We wonder what we will learn next…

 

13.1.21 Year 3 Home Learning

12th January 2021J Devlin

Good Morning Year3!

Maths #

Starter:
Write down the numbers from this list which are not multiples of 8.

12 16 1 3 8 1 21 24
32 12 20 16 5 8 24 3

Convert the numbers you have written down
to letters (A=1, B=2 etc).
Make a mathematical word out of your letters.

Main Teaching Video: Today we will be looking at column method with exchanging using 2 digits multiplied by 1 digit. Watch the video then have a go using the worksheet below to help you set out your calculations.

Activity: Multiply 2 digits by 1 digit trailing column method.

Send your work in via your Google Classroom assignment or email to [email protected]. Work can be copied out onto paper.

English
Before you start today’s lesson make sure you have some paper, a pencil and your plan from yesterday.
Log into your Google Classroom to view the lesson video attached to your English Assignment.

Today you are going to write a description of Heorot Hall. You are going to use ideas from your plan and build them into detailed sentences. Watch the video lesson before you begin!

Your task
You are going to write a description of Heorot hall. Remember to try and include your senses in your writing. Don’t forget to write in the present tense and only describe the hall before Grendel’s attack.

Don’t forget there is a word bank of ideas linked below to help you with your writing.

French!
Today we are going to be writing sentences about the contents of a pencil case or bag. Watch the video attached on your Google Classroom for your lesson with Madame Smith! Make sure you have your pencil and paper ready before you start because you are going to complete the work as you watch the video.