17 July 2020: Home learning
It’s Friday! It’s the last day of term!
This has been a tough year and you should be proud of yourselves and the way you have all coped with the changes and challenges.
Maths
For a lot of the lockdown learning, we have been doing challenges on a Friday so it’s only right that for our final maths lesson we do a final challenge Friday! Head to BBC bitesize for your last home learning maths lesson.
Living and learning
We’d love to hear your views about this year. Finish these sentences and send them, by email, to your Mrs Welsby and Mrs Rowley:
- I feel I improved the most in…
- Something important that I learned this year was…
- My favourite subject this year has been…
- What I enjoyed learning the most this year was…
- Something I’m proud of accomplishing is…
- Something I’ve learned about myself is…
- Something I will miss is…
- I will never forget this year because…
16 July 2020: Home learning
Good morning – it’s your penultimate day of year 3 and year 4. How are you feeling about having finished (nearly!) the school year? It’s been a funny old year and Mrs Welsby and I are definitely missing teaching you all.
School trip
Today, we’re jetting off on a plane all the way to Seattle. Seattle is a seaport on the west coast of the United States. We’re heading to Seattle Aquarium.
Once you get to the aquarium, you have a choice: you can either watch the live feeds or join in on their virtual field trips. Once you’ve completed the trip, have a go at one of the following activities.
- Carry out a research project on Seattle aquarium.
- Create an information brochure for the Seattle aquarium.
- Create a poster advertising the place.
- Create a fact file using what you have learned in the video or about one of the animals you saw.
Maths
Gnome Valley is a beautiful, well-cared for garden. It is home to the happiest community of gnomes ever to grace a garden. Or at least, it was.
All is not well in Gnome Valley. Over the past few nights, there have been strange things happening. First, a group of fisher-gnomes had their rods stolen. Then, the ‘Welcome to Gnome Valley’ sign was hidden in a tree. Last night, while all the gnomes were sleeping, the gnome guards had their red uniform hats decorated with yellow spots! This morning, Gnome News has reported that a naughty gnome is the only explanation for these strange situations. Gnome Valley Police are worried and have called in Detective Gnome to get to the bottom of what’s going on.
Can you help Detective Gnome solve the problems to discover which
naughty gnome is behind the devious deeds?
Virtual School Sports Day – results
Thank you to everyone at home and in school who took part and submitted results. Over 200 schools across West Yorkshire took part. You can see the results below.
Did you get sporty today?
Well, the rain came – just like when we usually have sports day! We hope you managed to complete at least some of the challenges set by the West Yorkshire School Games for the Virtual Sports Day. Don’t forget to submit your results here : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfdEX8xOo-PtkFwasg0B7deXM1uzvMQMFAPwpKCU9yEKG6qqg/viewform
Social distancing: How wide is 2 metres?
A group of us who are in school looked at how wide 2 metres was. In our investigations, we found that 2m was the same as the following:
2 Hana’s legs
7 yellow cones
1 ¾ Alfies
16 Emily’s phones
4 stools
42 board rubbers
7 i-pads
18 glue sticks
4 carpet tiles
20 maths blocks
6.4 rulers
10 Mr Stink books
7.8 of Mya’s water bottles
17 pink houses
0.8 football goals
24 sticks
How many other ways could you measure 2 metres?
Story time
So, here is the final installment of The Chicken Gave It To Me by Anne Fine. I hope you have enjoyed listening to it. Let me know your opinion of the book.
Last week in school
Last week, we opened our school up to some of our pupils. Here are some of the fun activities the KS2 children have been doing.
Story time
Here is the link to the penultimate chapters (15, 16, 17) of The Chicken Gave It To Me by Anne Fine.
Story time!
Here is the link to the next chapters (12, 13 and 14) of The Chicken Gave It To Me by Anne Fine. I hope you are enjoying listening to it as much as I’m enjoying reading it to you!
Don’t forget, if you want to tell us what you’ve been getting up to, please send us an email. It’s always great to hear from you! kerensawelsby@spherefederation.org and beckyrowley@spherefederation.org
Happy summer term
Hello children,
As promised, here are the next two sections of ‘The chicken gave it to me’. (chapters 8-9, chapters 10-11) Have you enjoyed hearing a story?
How was your half term? Did you enjoy some of the challenges set?
I had a lovely half term with Maddie and Mr Rowley. We spent a lot of time outdoors (thank goodness the weather was so nice) and went on lots of walks. My favourite was a long walk in Dalby Forest. It’s been hard not having my usual half term with my mum but it will be all the more special when we are allowed to see other people! Here’s a sneak peek at some of the things we got up to!
Remember to send us (beckyrowley@spherefederation.org / kerenswelsby@spherefederation.org) an email and show us what you’ve been up to – it doesn’t just have to be learning related although that is fab too – as we’re missing seeing all of you!
Mrs Rowley x