11 June 2020: Home Learning
Good morning, year 3 and 4!
Maths
Today, year 3, have a look on this BBC bitesize page to learn all about fractions on a number line.
Year4, here are your answers to yesterday’s maths problem. Today, have a go at this circles problem – watch Mrs Welsby talking about it here.
Reading
For your reading task, watch this video of Mrs Welsby all about Mr Botte’s mystical shoemaker’s shop. The answers to yesterday’s learning are also in that video.
Science
Head to Oak National Academy to learn more about Plants. Throughout the lesson, you will be asked to pause the video to complete tasks (just like when we do a video lesson). Don’t forget, you can go back and listen to bits again to help you fill in the answers correctly. Have fun!
9 June 2020: Home Learning
Phonics
ear, air, ure sound revist…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvq9bdm
Use the link above to find the video for each of the trigraphs in phase 3. Watch the video and press the arrows to answer the questions.
Maths
Tens Frame Number Problems
You will need objects to use for counting, two ten frames (print or you can make/draw one)
Can you solve these number problems?
Indie has 12 pieces of chocolate, she gives 2 pieces to Elizabeth. How many pieces of chocolate does she have left?
Thea has 7 pom poms and Georgia has 6 pom poms. How many pom poms do they have altogether?
Charlie has 4 cars, Grayson has 2 cars and Joshua has 3 cars. How many do they have altogether?
Challenge: Iris has 6 oranges. She gives 2 oranges to Francesca and 2 oranges to Dylan. How many oranges do they each have?
Literacy
Yesterday, you watched Mrs Palmer pot a plant. Now it’s your turn. Can you think of something to do/make that you will be able to write some instructions for? This could be making a model, making a smoothie, baking a cake, drawing a picture, washing your hands.
Once you have an idea, talk about what you need to do/make your activity?
Have a go at doing/making your activity.
Whilst you are doing your activity think about what happened first, next, after that, finally?
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 nataliebeatson@spherefederation.org
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.
beckyrowley@spherefederation.org
kerensawelsby@spherefederation.org
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 nataliebeatson@spherefederation.org
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.