18 June 2020: Home learning
Good morning! I hope everyone is having a great week so far.
Here are your learning activities for today.
Phonics
Practise tricky words at BBCBitesize
Practise writing tricky words using a sheet like this.
Don’t forget there are daily phonics lessons here.
Literacy
Book of the week: The monkey puzzle by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story of the week.
What happens in the story? What are the events?
Retell the story to a grown up or draw a story map of events.
Maths-number
We are learning about the number 16. Sixteen is a square number. Can you remember the other square numbers we have learnt?
Watch Numberblocks.
Can you draw 16 in different ways?
Things you could draw to show 16:
– 16 monkeys jumping on a trampoline
– 16 stars in the sky
– 16 rainbows
-16 hearts
Challenge: Is 16 an even number? How do you know?
Extra activity
Reading
We know that reading daily is an important part in supporting your child’s reading development.
Some parents have been using oxford owls free ebooks to get their child to read daily – fantastic! Typically, a child in reception would be reading ‘Oxford Level 2/3‘, ‘Letters and sounds – phase 3/4’ and ‘Book band Red/Yellow/Blue’.
It might be that you are starting to get through most of the ebooks available that are appropriate for your child’s reading level. If so, here are some more free downloadable books that your child could enjoy.
17 June 2020: Home learning
Hi everyone! I hope you are enjoying this week’s learning.
Phonics
Practise recognising and saying all the sounds.
Phase 2
Phase 3
Words to read:
Use your ‘phoneme fingers’ to help blend the words. How many sounds are in these words?
Words to Write:
Phonics Activity:
Phonics play – dragons den – phase 4
Literacy
Book of the week: The monkey puzzle by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story of the week.
What is the setting? Where is the story set?
Draw the setting of the story. This will be the background for your puppet show.
You could paint, draw or collage a jungle scene.
Maths-number
Count from 0-15.
What number is next?
Let’s learn about the number 16. Sixteen is one ten and six ones.
Watch Numberblock 16.
Can you do 16 hops, claps, jumps? Remember to count each movement and stop at number 16.
Write the numbers 0-16 on the floor using chalk, paint or write on paper (make sure they are big enough to stand on).
Can you find the answers to these problems?
Find and stand on the number that is 1 more than 14
Find and stand on the number that is double 7
Find and stand on an odd number
Find and stand on a number that is fewer than 8
Find and stand on a number that is more than 10
Find and stand on an even number
Find and stand on the number that is half of 12
Challenge: Parents/carers give your child some more problems to solve. Can your child think of their own number problem?
Extra activity
Watch ‘Do baby animals look like their parents?’
16 June 2020: Home learning
Good morning!
Here are the home learning activities for today.
Did you collect the sticks you will need for today?
Phonics
You will need a pencil and paper or whiteboard and pen for this lesson.
Let’s recap the digraph oo, oo
Phonics activity
Just add oo to make the words.
Watch BBCBitesize oo
Literacy
Story of the week: The Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson
Listen to the story.
Can you name all the characters in the story?
They are: Mum Monkey, Dad Monkey, Baby Monkey, Butterfly, Elephant, Snake, Parrot, Frog and Bat.
Make puppets for some OR all of the characters. Here are examples of some puppets you could make.
These puppets will be used for your puppet show on Friday.
You will need paper OR card, colouring pencils and sticks OR spoons.
You can use a stick to hold up your puppet. Draw your butterfly on card.
If you can’t find any sticks you could use a spoon instead – just like this. Draw the monkey on paper.
Maths-shape
Try counting in 2s.
Make a square spy glass to find the squares.
Extra activity
Draw a self-portrait and think about what makes you unique.
Send me your self-portraits.
15 June 2020: Home learning
Hello! I hope you’ve had a great weekend. I’m hoping the sun will shine this week!
Keep sending photos of all your learning to moortowneyfs@spherefederation.org
Here are today’s home learning activities.
Phonics
Phonics
Practise recognising and saying all the sounds.
Phase 2
Phase 3
Words to read:
Phonics activity:
Play buried treasure.
You can log-in at Phonicsplay
Username: march20
Password:home
Literacy
Story of the week: The Monkey Puzzle by Julia Donaldson
This week we are going to be looking at the characters, setting and events in the story. This will then help us to retell the story using homemade props.
What do we mean when we say character? Setting? Events?
Talk to your adult about these:
Character = Who is in the story. The people/animals in the story
Setting = Where the story is set
Events = What happens in the story
Retell the story.
To join in with this week’s creative activities, you will need the following items. Hopefully, these are items you will find in your home.
• Paper OR card and colouring pencils
• Sticks from outside OR a collection of spoons (they can be re-used afterwards)
• Sticky tape
Perhaps if you are going outside for a walk today, you could collect some sticks.
Maths-teen numbers
Watch the video and count backwards from 20 to 0.
We have learnt these teen numbers.
Describe them to your adult. “Twelve is one ten and two more.”
Extra activity
Listen to a story.
Busy Bees
Mrs Taylor and Mrs Freeman really enjoyed being able to catch up with lots of you over the phone last week. It was great to speak to the children and hear all about the different things you have all been up to.
Have a look at some of these photos to find out what your classmates have been doing at home.
Take a seat
In school, the children have been designing and constructing chairs. We looked at many different examples and enjoyed sketching some.
Doing design and technology, whilst social distancing, is tricky! However, the children were mature and followed the rules well.
The finished products!
Year 6 outcomes – a celebration
End of key stage 2 assessments (known as SATs) were cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Some children will undoubtedly have felt relief at not having to do these tests, while some pupils tell us they quite enjoy doing them. Similarly, some parents don’t place a lot of importance on the tests, while for others, they’re an important indicator of how well their child, and school, has done.
The data below represents what we predict would be the outcomes of those assessments. The data is a cause for celebration of the children’s great learning throughout their time at Moortown Primary. The outcomes would have been exceptionally high – a true reflection on the great attitudes to learning we’ve seen from these children.
For Reading, Maths, and Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling, our assessments stem from some trial tests that children did in the Autumn term and in February. The tests were all previous SAT tests and were done under test conditions. They were marked and graded based on the thresholds for that particular test. As a result, the assessments below are likely to provide an accurate indication of outcomes in the national assessments in May.
For Writing, the assessment stems from teacher assessment, as it would do for the outcomes in May. Year 6 teachers across Sphere Federation and beyond met at various times in the Autumn and Spring term to review their assessments for children’s writing. As a result, the teacher assessment for Writing is also likely to provide an accurate indication of end of year outcomes.
Attainment: expected standard
Expected standard is where a pupil’s scaled score is 100 or more. 94% of our pupils were on-track to achieve the expected standard in Reading, Writing and Maths, combined. As in recent years, this is securely above the national figure – we don’t have a national 2020 figure, but in 2019, the combined figure was 65%.
The proportions reaching national expectations for each subject, and for Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling, are all predicted to have been higher than the 2019 national:
- Reading: 94% meeting expected standards (2019 national: 73%)
- Writing: 97% meeting expected standards (2019 national: 78%)
- Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling: 100% meeting expected standards (2019 national: 78%)
- Maths: 97% meeting expected standards (2019 national: 79%)
Attainment: higher level
Greater depth standard is where a pupil’s scaled score is 110 or more. 32% of pupils were on-track to reach greater depth in Reading, Writing and Maths combined, which is three times higher than the 2019 national figure of 11%. the proportions for Reading and Writing were predicted to be very much higher than the 2019 figures:
- Reading: 68% meeting the higher level (2019 national: 27%)
- Writing: 55% meeting the higher level (2019 national: 20%)
- Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling: 84% meeting the higher level (2019 national: 55%)
- Maths: 55% meeting the higher level (2019 national: 27%)
Whilst we can’t be certain that these figures would match the outcomes of the real SATs in May, we’re confident they wouldn’t be far off – perhaps a little lower, but just as likely to be even a little higher. What we can be certain of is that our Year 6 children once again have enjoyed and achieved great things at our school – we’re very proud of them.
This week’s learning
It was lovely to talk to lots of you this week.
Keep sending photos of your learning-I love to see what you’ve all been up to.
12 June 2020:Home learning
Hello everyone. It’s Friday again!
I hope you have all enjoyed this week’s activities.
Phonics
Phonics activity:
How many objects can you spot? Write the words to match.
Literacy-storytime
Listen to the story
Spiderella by Julia Donaldson.
Watch a clip about minibeasts
Maths-measuring
How wide is your bed? How long is your bed?
This week we are looking at non-standard measuring. The key words we will be using are long, wide, more, less, the same.
For this activity we will not be using tape measures or rulers. Choose an object to measure with-this can be anything! You can use your feet, hands, tins of beans, spoons, pieces of paper…
Measure your bed. “How many…long is your bed?”
“How many…wide is your bed?”
Try again with different objects.
Draw around your foot and cut it out. Measure these objects with your foot.
Art
Have a lovely weekend!