21 May 2020: Home Learning
Happy Thursday- I hope you’re all doing OK.
Today’s learning…….
Y5 maths: perimeter
Follow the BBC Bitesize lesson all about calculating perimeter.
Y6 maths
Play the final stage of Guardians of Mathematica – Ancient City of Algebra.
Test out your algebra skills by solving the Alphabet Algebra questions. Remember to start by using letter D.
Reading: fact and retrieval
Follow this online lesson.
Science: adaptation
Your learning today is science based and is all about adaptation. Complete this BBC Bitesize lesson.
19 May 2020: Home learning
Happy Tuesday!
Maths:
Y3 – continuing on with our problem solving, here is the video for today – it has the answers to yesterday’s problem (and how I worked it out) and today’s new problem. Here is the problem if you wish to print it.
Y4 – Yesterday’s answers.
Today’s learning – Position and direction 1 video and worksheet.
Reading:
Something a little bit different ….
Read through this interview with Ben Schwarz and find out about the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. Then, answer the questions on the next page.
Topic:
Answers to the last lesson’s continents and oceans. Today, we are learning about the hemispheres. Video learning and worksheet.
Storytime:
If you want to listen to chapter 2 and 3 of the story The chicken gave it to me by Anne Fine, click here. (If you missed chapter 1, you will find it on yesterday’s post)
11 May 2020: Home Learning
Good morning- I hope you all had a good time celebrating VE day with your family.
Today’s learning…..
Year 5 Maths- arithmetic paper
The answers are at the end of the test.
Year 6 Maths
You may recall that this week was supposed to be our SATs week. Don’t worry you can recreate that magical feeling from the comfort of your own home. Sharpen your pencil, set your timer to 30 minutes and take the 2019 arithmetic paper. Scroll through the questions and use your exercise book to write down your answers and working out. You don’t have to wait weeks to find out how well you did; the answers will be revealed tomorrow.
Reading
For your learning today, complete this BBC Bitesize lesson.
Living and Learning
This week’s living and learning statement is ‘I recognise the importance of money’.
This guide may help you design your £5 family meal and check it’s healthy and filling- not just good value! Eat well guide NHS
Parent / carer survey
At St James’, we’re always keen to hear your views. We hope that you let us know of any questions, comments and concerns (as well as causes for celebration!) whenever these crop up, but we like to gather your views in our annual survey, too.
We know that in the current situation, it might feel a bit strange to be asking you questions about learning when it’s you who’s currently teaching your child. You might also feel you’ve no time to respond. Because of this, we’ve tried to keep the survey short and simple this year:
- we’ve used only some of the questions that Ofsted asks
- all you need to do is click on the relevant response for each question
- there’s just one space for comments at the very end, only if you’d like to add anything or explain one of your answers
The survey should only take about five minutes, and you’ve plenty of time – the deadline is Friday 29 May 2020.
Although we can’t guarantee to meet the needs and wants of every parent / carer, we do assure you that if specific areas for improvement are highlighted by the responses from this survey, we aim to act on these.
We’re looking forward to receiving your responses.
20th April 2020: Home Learning
Hello- I hope you’re all well. I’m really missing seeing you all and learning with you. Easter holidays have been very different but I hope you all managed to have some fun and enjoyed lots of chocolate! I have been running nearly every day (even though my half marathon has been cancelled) and I’ve been into Scholes Primary School to help look after some of the children who still need to go into school.
Home learning is starting again this week-each day at 9am. If you have any questions or would like to send me any pictures of your learning then email me at [email protected]
Today’s learning….
Today’s maths: adding fractions.
Remember that to add fractions you have to make the denominator the same. Think common multiples!
Year 5 learning
Writing: homophones
Choose the correct homophone to put in each sentence.
draught/ draft
I am going to ______ a letter of apology.
Since Billy didn’t shut the door properly, his mum could feel a small ______.
wary/ weary
Finally, he looked down at his lap and let out a long ____ sigh.
The sailors watched the horizon anxiously, _____ of the approaching storm.
Can you speed write these words? How many times can you write each word in 1 minute?
Silly sentences
Write your own silly sentence for each of the homophones above.
Topic
This half term we would normally be starting a geography topic.
This week, we will recap on some of the knowledge we learnt in the last geography topic.
Today, can you name the rivers in the UK?
Complete this sheet and see if you can locate the rivers in the UK.
02 April 2020: Home learning
Happy Thursday!
Remember to keep sending us pictures of your learning and any other activities you’re doing at home.
Send it to both teachers so we can both have a look.
Here are the answers to yesterday’s learning for year 3 and year 4.
Maths:
Year 3 – find your addition and subtracting packs. Complete the “subtracting 2 digit numbers from 3 digit numbers – no exchanging” page. Remember to be careful where you place your numbers. Keep the ones under the ones column and tens under the tens column.
Year 4 – find your addition and subtraction packs. Complete the “Using inverse operations to check addition and subtraction calculations” page. Pretend you are Mrs Rowley or Mrs Welsby and mark the maths learning. Are the answers right or wrong? Can you find where they have gone wrong if the answer is wrong?
Reading:
Find out all about the ‘Wooden Allfather‘ in today’s reading activity.
RE:
After Jesus was arrested, he was taken to be tried. Peter was the leader of the disciples — the most confident, and perhaps the one you might
expect to stick with Jesus at his arrest. But after Jesus’ arrest, Peter denied Jesus three times – just like Jesus predicted.
33 Peter said, “All the other followers may lose their faith because of you. But I will never lose my faith.” 34 Jesus said, “I tell you the truth. Tonight you will say you don’t know me. You will say this three times before the rooster crows.” 35 But Peter said, “I will never say that I don’t know you! I will even die with you!” And all the other followers said the same thing. Matthew 26: 33-35.
Have a look at this video of Peter denying Jesus.
Tell an imaginary story about yourself. Use your dramatic side! Your best friend has just ignored you in the supermarket, as if they didn’t know you. Next, someone came up to them and said, ‘You are friends with him/her, aren’t you?’ and they looked at you and said, ‘I’ve no idea who they are!’ and walked off. Explain how you felt. How would the pupils feel? You could write this as a story or you could draw a comic strip and speech bubbles – the choice is yours!
30 March 2020: Home learning
Hello- I hope you’ve all had a good weekend and you’re all ready for week 2 of home learning! I’ve started to learn a bit of Spanish using the Duolingo app, just for ten minutes a day- you should give it a go!
Year 5 and 6 maths task
Your learning today is factors.
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A factor is a number that divides into another number exactly and without leaving a remainder.
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Most numbers have an even number of factors; however, a square number has an odd number of factors.
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A prime number has only two factors – the number itself and 1.List the factors for the following numbers:18, 14, 16, 30, 25, 42, 48, 60
Are these statements true or false?
6 is a factor of 24 12 and 7 are factors of 72
3 is a factor of 27 1, 3 and 8 are factors of 48
8 is a factor of 54 2, 6 and 8 are factors of 42
Challenge: ‘sweets in a box’ problem
Reading task: inference
Look at this picture and answer the inference questions.
History/writing task
Watch the videos and create a fact sheet about the Vikings and how they lived. It would be great if you could take a photo and email it to me on [email protected]
25 March 2020: Home Learning
Hi children,
We hope you’re having a good week and you’re managing to get your learning completed whilst your grownups get their work done too. Maddie has been keen to help with my learning!
Here are yesterday’s answers to the maths worksheets for year 3 and year 4. Here are yesterday’s possible answers to the RIC.
Here are today’s learning activities.
Maths:
Year 3 – find your maths fractions packs. Complete the “comparing fractions with the same denominator” pages.
Year 4 – find your maths fractions packs. Compete the “test of strength“page. Then, complete your last two questions of the word problems page.
Reading:
The reading task today is a comprehension task. The answers are on the second page so please don’t look before you have answered! These sheets do not need to be printed – just write the answers to the questions in your books. Remember to put today’s date!
Science:
This half term, we have been looking at “The Great Nappy Challenge”. We have investigated which nappy was the most absorbant but have you ever thought how many nappies a baby wears and uses?
Your challenge is to work out how many nappies a baby would wear in a week, a fortnight, a month, 6 months and a year if they wear 5 nappies a day. Write the answers in your home learning book.
Home learning (24 March 2020)
We hope your first day of home learning went well.
Yesterday, we suggested getting a timetable up and running with your child, to help them get into routines, and we shared various websites that can help to support you.
It’s completely understandable that you’re feeling stressed right now – most parents will be feeling the same. Here’s a few things to bear in mind:
- Combine home learning with some practical tasks, like helping to prepare lunch and doing the washing up. They can be added to the routine of the day and are great for developing a sense of responsibility. Try to invest the time now so your child becomes really good at a household job – first one, then another and perhaps a third.
- The ideas, and the suggested timetable we shared yesterday, are for guidance. You’re not falling short if you don’t quite manage to achieve everything we’ve suggested – we understand that many of you are trying to work from home as well.
- It might help to build up the timetable, taking on board something new one at a time. It’s important to really secure one or two things done well before trying to get it all right from the outset.
For parents of younger children, you might be reassured to know there are plenty of countries where children don’t actually start school until children are about seven. Some education professionals argue that in the UK we push our children too quickly down an academic route rather than securing really strong characteristics of effective learning. These feature in Early Years settings and they’re something you can develop and nurture at home. With these characteristics, children are well-suited to make good progress later on, so try to develop those at home.
And now a top tip… (and one I’ve tried out at home, too!)
Why not encourage your child to take a virtual mountain bike ride, courtesy of imoves? Go on a speedy journey travelling through forests and trees, over bridges and much more! Once they’ve done the ride, get them to think about the ride they’ve just been on. What did they see, smell or hear? How did it make them feel? imoves has a whole range of ways to support physical health and mental health and wellbeing, quick blasts of exercise to calming meditations.
(Yep – I’ve taken the virtual bike ride in my kitchen last night!)
23 March 2020: Home learning
Hi children,
We hope you’ve had a good weekend.
Here are your tasks for today. Each day, we will set three main tasks. In addition to these, we would like you to read for at least twenty minutes per day and practise your times tables facts – you could use TT Rock Stars to do this.
Each Monday, we will also upload a set of spellings for you to practise over the course of the week. The spellings will link to a rule that we have covered already this year.
The answers to the maths tasks will be given the next day so you will be able to go through and mark your answers.
Happy learning.
Mrs Welsby and Mrs Rowley
Maths:
This past week, we have been learning all about fractions.
Year 3 – find your maths fractions packs. Complete the year 3 fraction problems. Explain to a grown-up which part of the fraction is the denominator and which part is the numerator.
Year 4 – find your maths fractions packs. Complete the adding and subtraction fractions with the same denominator. Answer questions one and two from the problems on page 1.
Reading:
The reading task today is a comprehension task. The answers are on the second page so please don’t look before you have answered! These sheets do not need to be printed – just write the answers to the questions in your books. Remember to put today’s date!
Writing:
Last week, we acted out the rebellion by Boudicca and the Britons. We planned our own newspaper reports. If you have yours with you, you can use this. If not, you can use my ideas on this plan. Today, write your first paragraph include the WWWWWH and your second paragraph. Don’t forget, this is where you give more details about what happened. We will continue this tomorrow so save some ideas and information for your last two paragraphs!
Suffixes
-less -ly -ment -ed -ing
Can you add the suffixes above to any of the following root words? How many different words can you make?
care run help proper
hope sure achieve rain
pain skip move close
enjoy curious point use
Challenge
Now you have written your list, how many more words can you think of ending in each of the different suffixes?
Practise spelling these words. Use different strategies to help you learn them. Examples:
- rainbow words – each letter is written in a different colour
- split each word into syllables en/joy/ment
- box words – draw a box around each letter in the word
- pyramid words
- look, cover, spell, check