Coronavirus Closure - Week 11 (22.06.20)

Week 11 - Home Learning – Larch Class Blog

Hi Larch Class!

I hope you are all keeping well and had a good week, the weather has finally picked up, thankfully!

Last week’s ‘Star of the Week’ certificate was awarded to Gaby for excellent work in English, and a fantastic attitude to her learning.

This week for Home Learning, you have English, Maths and Humanities work to complete. We are also giving Year 5s the opportunity to be considered for next year’s Head Boy/Girl or Castle Captain. Remember, if you need help with ANY of your Home Learning tasks or have ANY queries, just send me an email using your school360 email account. I do enjoy hearing from you and I am always here to help! My email address is: jacqueline.oconnell1@school360.co.uk (don’t forget the ‘1’!).

As always, I have explained below each of your tasks for this week and then the resources you need are either in your work packs or attached at the bottom of the page.

Have a great week and take care,

Mrs O’Connell

Work to submit this week:

This week, I would like you to submit your Humanities work about the role of women in WW2 by Monday 29th June.  I will then provide each of you with some personal feedback. Please send your work to me where possible, using your School360 email address.

If you wish to considered for the role of Head Boy/Girl or Castle Captain, your speeches for these also need to be emailed to Miss Back by Monday 29th June.

English: - These tasks are for the children in Rowan and Larch that are not currently attending school.

Reading Activities:

To complete the reading activities, you will need your Home Learning booklet as you will be reading Chapter Five of Goodnight Mister Tom and then completing activities based on this. At the bottom of the blog, there are two reading PowerPoints that will take you through step-by-step what you need to do.

Writing Activities:

You are going to write a set of instructions on how to build an Anderson Shelter, like Tom and William do in Chapter 5. You will need to research key details about the shelters before writing your instructions. At the bottom of the blog, there are two PowerPoints that again take you through what you need to do.

Year 5s who have access to Reading Plus, please remember that you should be completing 5 activities on it per week.

Year 5 Spelling Tasks:

Year 5 have been set up with an online spelling programme, where your spellings are broken up into syllables and there are lots of games for you to practise before you complete your test online. You have each been given a username and password (in your new packs). You can practise by playing the games as many times as you want. Remember, you MUST take the test before Monday 29th June.

Year 6 (not returning to school) Spelling Tasks:

Please look up the definitions of the following words and then write a sentence using each word, correctly and in context:

Lightning

Marvellous

Mischievous

Muscle

Necessary

Neighbour

Nuisance

Occupy

It would be great if someone could then test you on your spellings each week. Remember to keep a record of your scores and challenge yourself to do the best you can!

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Maths - These tasks are for the children in Rowan and Larch that are not currently attending school.

This week we will be securing your knowledge and understanding of ‘Calculating Missing Angles’.

Lesson 1 – Calculating straight line angles and angles around a point

Lesson 2 – Calculating angles within different types of triangles

I would like you to work your way through the two PowerPoints attached, carefully reading the information on the slides and answering the interactive questions on a piece of paper.

Once you have completed the warm-up and interactive questions, you’ll be ready to complete the independent activities in each PowerPoint. Please turn to pages 9 (Calculate Angles) and 10 (Angles in a Triangle) in your work packs to complete these independent tasks.

In addition to your two lessons on angles, I would also like you to complete:

- Arithmetic: Practice Test 1 / Questions 1 to 18 (In new work pack)

- Big Maths: Skills Check 9 (In new work pack) ** Please see attached sheets due to photocopying errors

- Times Table Rock Stars: Garage Challenge = 10 Games

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Humanities – This task is for the children in Rowan and Larch that are not currently attending school. 

This week we are considering the role of women in World War Two. You need to read through the PowerPoint, considering the key questions as you do so, before completing the activity sheet to consider the role of women before, during and after World War Two. It may help you complete the table, if you carry out further research of your own.

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Head Boy, Head Girl and Castle Captain Elections

Unfortunately, we won’t be able to hold the elections but we are still looking out for next year’s Head Boy, Girl and Castle Captains. To help you write your speech, go through the PowerPoint which helps you think about different qualities of these positions.  You will then write a persuasive speech.  This can be handwritten, typed or even a video of yourself giving the speech.

The rules:

You can apply for both Head boy or girl and Castle Captain.

Entries must be received by Monday 29th June.

Entries must be sent to catherine.back@school360.co.uk