20 April 2020: Home learning
Welcome back, everyone!
A word from Miss Wilson…
Morning, guys! Hope you all had a great “break” and you’re keeping happy and healthy in this month-long-Sunday we’re currently experiencing. It’s been amazing hearing from you all and seeing what you’ve been getting up to! I’ve been enjoying the sun, PE with Joe Wicks and catching up with family and friends over video chat, doing a few quizzes! Email me (jenwilson@spherefederation.org) to let me know what you’ve been doing – pictures, too, would be awesome!
A word from Mr Wain…
Happy Monday, everyone! I hope you have all had a fantastic Easter ‘break’ and have managed to get up to lots of fun things! I hope you are all doing well and please feel free to email me sharing some of the things that you’ve been up to during our break!I’ve been extremely thankful for the lovely weather we’ve had – I’ve been in the garden a lot: reading, listening to music and kicking my football about!Just a reminder that my email is: oliwain@spherefederation.orgPlease use it to email me with any questions you have about any of our learning or just to share what you have been up to!Keep happy and healthy,Mr Wain
Ok, let’s get started! Today’s tasks are maths, writing and reading.
Y6 Maths – LO: four operations
Click here for today’s questions. Write the answers in your home learning book. If you’ve forgotten some of the ideas, your CGP books might help. Remember, you can email me if you’re still unsure.
Challenge
Choose one of the problems and write your own similar question. Send me a photo of it for me to have a go!
Y5 Maths – LO: calculate perimeter
Reading
This week’s reading centres around a text called The Cave. Your learning today is a mix of retrieval and inference.
First, you should read the text. Then, your first task is to draw and label a picture of Mary. You have done this before in your reading lessons at school. If you’re feeling arty, you could draw an actual picture of Mary or you could draw an outline (like a Gingerbread person). Around the outside of your person, you should label it with things from the text. This could be facts (eg her toenails are painted) or it could be inferences you’ve made about her personality (eg I think she’s brave because…).
Your second task is to imagine you are Mary when she realises that she is in a cave (towards the end of page 1). Your task is to draw what she can see around her – remember this isn’t an art lesson. Once you’ve drawn everything, use evidence from the text to label your picture. For example, you could label the floor as ‘highly uneven, but largely flat’.
For a challenge, you could write either a short setting description, or a short character description (or both!). Whichever challenge you choose, remember to use evidence from the text and send me a photo of it if you like! You might even star in #HoHLF!
20 April 2020: Home learning
Good morning Year 2!
We hope that you have enjoyed the Easter break and are ready to get back to some home learning tasks. We will continue with the same structure as before. PLEASE send us your completed tasks as we would like to see how you are all doing. So far, we have been incredibly impressed by all your efforts (parents too) and we are very proud of everyone.
We are all missing each other and school life. Just keep going – you’re doing a great job! 
Please contact us if there are any queries or if you just want to touch base. We will aim to reply the same day.
carolinetaylor@spherefederation.org
jackiefreeman@spherefederation.org
To help with homeschooling, BBC Bitesize Daily Lessons launches on Monday 20 April. We are going to look through these lessons with a view to using some of them. We will keep you posted! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
Let’s get going!
Here are your home learning tasks for today.
There are some optional challenges too. We will also give you a suggested physical activity and mindfulness activity to help you to keep physically and mentally healthy.
Physical activity: Why not start your day by joining in with the free live PE with Joe video for kids. These sessions will be running daily at 9am.
Mindfulness Matters Activity (we usually do these straight after lunch but it can be included at any point in the day): OK breathing – Make an ‘ok’ sign on your tummy and slowly breathe in and out. This sign is to represent that it is ok to feel different emotions. No emotions are bad. Emotions change and you won’t feel like that forever. Play some relaxing music just like we do in school. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUXEeAXywCY 
Task 1 Reading
Here’s the fluency text for this week. The children are used to having these texts weekly in class and they are aimed at developing the children’s fluency when reading.
A Helicopter Tour of London
Before you read the text, study the picture. What can you see? Are there any places that you have been to?
1. Read the non-fiction text below based on a helicopter ride over London.
2. Copy out words you are not sure of. Try to find out some of their meanings using a dictionary text or online.
3. Reread the text and record two new facts, in full sentences, you have found out. I have found out that ……………………… I didn’t know that ………………………….. Welcome aboard this tour of London, the capital city of England. Below us, over eight million people are living and working in one of the most exciting cities in the world. The famous River Thames flows through the city and it is full of slimy eels and oysters. Would you like to try some? Beside the Thames, you can see the tower of London, where the crown jewels are kept, and over in the distance is Buckingham Palace, where the Queen and the rest of the royal family live. Underneath the ground, in London, is a railway network known as the ‘tube’. What a fantastic city this this! Challenge: Can you find and correct my mistakes? london is the capital sity of England and the queen lives in Buckingham palace
Task 2 Maths
To start with, chant your 5 times tables to 12 x 5 = 60 Can you do it backwards? Fractions
LO: I can make equal parts.
Notes Children explore making and recognising equal and unequal parts. They should do this using both real life objects and pictorial representations of a variety of shapes and quantities. Below are some helpful questions to ask your child regularly. What is the whole? What are the parts? How many parts is the object/quantity split into? Are the parts equal? How do you know? Do equal parts always look the same?
Next, using a piece of A4 paper, how many ways can you fold it to make equal parts? Try folding in half first and remember, the parts must be equal.
Next, follow this link and complete the activity.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/ Week 1 Lesson 1 Make equal parts There is a short video and a worksheet. When you have finished you can mark your own work using the answers provided. Good luck!
Challenge Can you split the teddies into three equal groups? 
Can you split the teddies into three unequal groups?
How many ways can you split the teddies into equal parts?
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Task 3 Writing The spelling rule this week is drop the y for an i. Each word is a noun. When making the noun plural (more than one) you need to follow the rule.
Don’t forget to spend some time on Spelling Shed to practise these words. Parents/carers – if possible, please test your children on these words at the end of the week.
| lorry | family | party | cherry | city | baby | lady | worry |
| lorries | families | parties | cherries | cities | babies | ladies | worries |
Write 5 crazy sentences using some of your spelling words. The crazier the better!
Can you help me? I think I’ve made a few mistakes
Write out my sentence in your BEST handwriting and underline the corrections. Mrs Freeman’s silly sentence. The cheeky babys slowly drove the lorrys.
Challenge1: Test me! Using your spellings, can you think of an incorrect sentence to send to me? Will it be correct when I send it back?
Challenge 2: Draw a picture for each spelling and label it. You could draw one teddy or you could draw five teddies.
WELL DONE YEAR TWO!
20 April 2020: Home learning
Good morning, Year One!
How are you all? Well I hope!
I hope everyone had a great Easter and enjoyed a little break from the learning tasks. Thanks to those who continued to send me emails – It was great to see lots of you having fun completing the different tasks.
Now back to the learning tasks…
Writing
Look at the picture below from ‘Pobble 365’ and write sentences about what you can see.
If you want to see the picture clearer, click on the link below.
https://www.pobble365.com
When writing your sentences, remember to use:
- capital letters
- finger spaces
- full stops
Also, can you use ‘and’ in your sentences?
Reading
Read a story of your choice with an adult. Once you have read the story, think of some questions that you would like to ask the adult you were reading it with.
With your questions, you can check if they were listening and if they have understood what you have read.
Use the question words below to help you start your questions:
- who
- what
- where
- when
- how
- why
Maths
In maths, over the next couple of weeks, we are going to be focusing on place value.
Today’s task is about finding one more and one less of any given number to 50.
Find one more and one less of the numbers below:
12 45 31 8 47 20 29 14 33
e.g
Use this hundred square to help you if you need it.
Challenge:
Complete the sentences below:
39 is one more than _____.
40 is one less than _____.
_____ is one more than 26
_____ is one less than 44.
If you would like to send me any learning you have completed or are stuck with anything, please feel free to email me. My email is – benparker@spherefederation.org.
Good luck with today’s tasks!
20 April 2020: Home Learning
Hello and welcome back to school (kind of) after Easter holidays (kind of)!
I hope you’re all doing okay and finding some kind of routine.
There are lots of things I’m missing and not enjoying about the lockdown but there are a lot of things I am enjoying. For example, spending more time with my wife and daughter (almost too much), only going to the shops once a week, talking more to my neighbours, going for walks in Gledhow Valley Woods, reading more books, the slower pace of life in general.
Try to spend a little time thinking about and talking about the things that you are enjoying and that are going well.
Anyway, here’s the learning for today:
Reading:
Maths:
Geography:
Chapter Ten Part 1
Hi,
A change of tech today. Hopefully it’s a bit better!
Here’s the next installment.
Oh look, it’s me in the bottom corner. Wow. I need a haircut!
Chapter 9 part 2
Click here for the next installment of the class novel.
Chapter 9 Part 1
Click here for the next installment of the class novel.
A bit of holiday reading 1…..
Before school was closed, our class novel was a Famous Five book by Enid Blyton. It’s the first in the series: Five on Treasure Island.
When Miss Rushbrooke started reading the novel with the children, they had a discussion about some of the language that Enid Blyton used and the characterisation of the five main characters. For example, the children were quick to pick up on some gender stereotyping they encountered in the book. It would have been easy to decide not to read the book because of this, but we believed that a conversation around these issues was really valuable learning. The mature and thoughtful discussion that followed really impressed Miss Rushbrooke.
So that we can continue to enjoy the book, I’ll be posting weblinks every few days to a video of me reading the story alongside the text. You’ll see some ‘tricky’ words explained on most pages as well. Your child can listen to these independently, or even better if they listen along with you. Feel free to mute me if you’d prefer to read it yourselves!
The link below starts at Chapter 8. Look back at your child’s story map from the first week of home learning to refresh what’s happened previously. Enjoy!
Easter home learning
As it’s the Easter holidays, we’re taking a break from the daily home learning tasks. Instead, here are a range of activities that you might like to try over the two weeks. The tasks are creative and are designed to allow children the opportunity to enjoy some different learning, perhaps alongside family members. A few key points…
- The list will be the same across year groups, meaning if you’ve more than one child, they might work on it together in some way.
- Some of the tasks can take a bit longer, like a mini-project, and others match Creative homework tasks.
- You can encourage your child to do some or all of the activities – they’re all optional.
- During this time, you can still email your child’s class teacher about the home learning, although they may not respond as quickly as they have been doing.
- Teachers will return to daily home learning tasks on Monday 20 April.
Art Attack
Andy Goldsworthy is a British artist who creates art using things he can find in nature. The artwork shown here was created using different leaf types and creating a pattern. He creates his art outside as he likes the fact that it’s temporary and won’t be around for long!
Create your own piece of art using different materials you can find around your home or in the garden. You could even create some ‘rubbish art’ using only items that have been used and would be thrown away or recycled.
Take some photographs and send them to your teachers.
Hunted
Create your own treasure hunt with cryptic clues for your family members to complete. Make the clues as tricky as you can. What could be the prize for the winning hunter? Maybe, this could tie in with a family Easter egg hunt.
Secret Message
Create your own invisible ink.
Using a spoon, mix water and lemon juice. Dip a cotton bud into the mixture and write a message onto the white paper. Wait for the juice to dry so your message becomes completely invisible. When you are ready to read your secret message or show it to someone else, heat the paper by holding it close to a light bulb – be careful: maybe ask an adult to do this part. As the mixture heats up, your message should reappear so people can read it again.
Alternatively, the same result can be achieved by writing the message on white paper with a white candle or crayon. Then, paint over the message using coloured paint to reveal the writing.
For a challenge, come up with your own way of making invisible ink and try it out on your family.
‘Board’ Silly
Design and create your own board game for you and your family to play – perhaps play some existing board games first to research ideas.
There are a few key things to think about:
- What will your theme be?
- Will there be any ‘snakes’ or ‘ladders’ style elements?
- Do you need to make a dice using a cube net?
- Will there be any extra challenges or forfeits if you land on certain numbers?
Enjoy your games!
Extreme Reading
Reading is a great way to relax and learn about the world around us; also, reading regularly can help us to stay happy and healthy. This challenge is all about making reading even more fun. We’d love to know how many places you can read in. Try to read in a different place each day. Take photos or draw a picture of you doing it, if you can.
You could read…
- in a den that you’ve made
- up a tree
- under the bed/table
- to the dog/cat
- looking in a mirror
Stay safe and send your class teacher some pictures.
Come Dine/Bake with Me
Have your very own family ‘Come Dine With Me’ experience. Each family member could cook a meal or a course and then you must score each other out of ten. Similarly, each family member could bake something and you could all have a tasting after where you give points (like on Great British Bake Off). You don’t have to work on your own – you could help an adult.
Who will win?
Den Building
Who doesn’t love making a den? Either in your house, or in your garden, spend time building a den and enjoy some time relaxing in it – if there’s more than one of you, you could make it a competition. Use whatever materials you can find and see how creative you can get.
You could also read in it and combine this challenge with the ‘Extreme Reading’ one.
Get Ya Body Movin’
Staying physically active plays a crucial role in keeping us happy and healthy; it boosts our mental and emotional health, too. This task has three options – all of which are designed to get people moving during the holidays. You could include your family as well.
Option A: Create your own ‘Ninja Warrior’ style challenges in the garden or your house. Try to include a range of activities that include jumping, balancing, stretching, climbing and, if you’re feeling brave, water. The adults in your family will love a water challenge.
Option B: Create your own Joe Wicks style workout video. You could do it with your family or film yourself and send it to your friends. You might like to check out Joe Wicks’ YouTube channel for inspiration.
Option C: Choose your favourite song and create your own ‘Wake Up Shake Up’ (WUSU) dance routine. Again, you could lead this for your family to join in or film yourself and send it to friends or other family members. This’ll be a great way to get everyone dancing.