All Saints’ School Home Learning Guidance Moving forward after the Easter Holidays. During these unprecedented times, all the staff at All Saints’ want to support and help you, as parents, as much as possible and assist you in providing the most effective home learning provision for your children. We are not only trying to provide the children with manageable, valuable, structured learning tasks, relevant to them, but also trying to ensure there is some sort of consistency across the school and within individual classes. By everyone following the same suggested learning tasks, the children and the teachers will be more prepared and equipped to effectively restart formal learning when we eventually come back to school. Each week every class will have a Learning Menu of work to help focus learning. • Blue tasks are to be completed daily: Monday to Friday. • We would like Yellow tasks also to be completed daily (Monday to Friday) if possible, but if not at least three times a week. These tasks are really important in supporting your child’s on-going Maths and English learning. Although these websites provide ‘worksheet’ style activities, they do not need to be printed out and it is not necessary to waste your paper or ink supplies. The tasks can be completed from the screen mentally and answers discussed orally with parents; then typed and saved to a computer; they can be done on paper or in the exercise books that the children were provided with before school closures; or even in chalk on a pavement if you fancy doing something different. • Green tasks will focus on broader areas of learning and will cover a different foundation subject (science, history, geography, art, design technology) each week. There will be a selection of tasks to choose from, but please don’t feel like you have to complete them all. If you have more than one child in school, then maybe siblings could work together on one of these tasks. Also please feel free to follow your child’s own interests, as we are sure that you and your children can think of many great and innovative ideas of your own! Although we love to see what learning the children have been doing at home through our school Facebook page, at the end of school closures, we are not going to expect your child to come back to school with reams of paper and evidence of their work and learning. Not everything a child learns can be evidenced and written down. Lots of learning happens through everyday life experiences and even through play. Any questions can be directed to your child’s class teacher via [email protected]or you can ask during any phone calls we have. As everyone has differing views on how much home learning primary aged children should have, we are taking a balanced approach to the work we are suggesting, but this is an unprecedented situation and everyone’s main focus is rightly on family security, health and well-being. TOP TIPS • Try to stick to a routine and include plenty of breaks, free time and fun! • Drink plenty of water and eat healthily throughout the day. • Try to monitor the amount of ‘screen time’ your child has. We understand that given the circumstances there may be slightly more of this, but please remember online safety guidance- www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/ The week after Easter (20 th April) will be referred to as Week 5 at All Saints’ although you will be looking at Week 2 or week 4 (see below) on suggested websites as detailed on the learning menus.
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All Saints’ School Home Learning Guidance Moving forward after the Easter Holidays.
During these unprecedented times, all the staff at All Saints’ want to support and help you, as parents, as much as possible and assist you in providing the most effective home learning provision for your children. We are not only trying to provide the children with manageable, valuable, structured
learning tasks, relevant to them, but also trying to ensure there is some sort of consistency across the school and within individual classes. By everyone following the same suggested learning tasks, the children and the teachers will be more prepared and equipped to effectively restart formal learning when we eventually come back to school. Each week every class will have a Learning Menu of work to help focus learning.
• Blue tasks are to be completed daily: Monday to Friday.
• We would like Yellow tasks also to be completed daily (Monday to Friday) if possible, but if not at least three times a week. These tasks are really important in supporting your child’s on-going Maths and English learning.
Although these websites provide ‘worksheet’ style activities, they do not need to be printed out and it is not necessary to waste your paper or ink supplies. The tasks can be completed from the screen mentally and answers discussed orally with parents; then typed and saved to a computer; they can be done on paper or in the exercise books that the children were provided with before school closures; or even in chalk on a pavement if you fancy doing something different.
• Green tasks will focus on broader areas of learning and will cover a different foundation subject (science, history, geography, art, design technology) each week. There will be a selection of tasks to choose from, but please don’t feel like you have to complete them all. If you have more than one child in school, then maybe siblings could work together on one of these tasks. Also please feel free to follow your child’s own interests, as we are sure that you and your children can think of many great and innovative ideas of your own!
Although we love to see what learning the children have been doing at home through our school Facebook page, at the end of school closures, we are not going to expect your child to come back to school with reams of paper and evidence of their work and learning. Not everything a child learns can be evidenced and written down. Lots of learning happens through everyday life experiences and even through play.
Any questions can be directed to your child’s class teacher via [email protected] or you can ask during any phone calls we have. As everyone has differing views on how much home learning primary aged children should have, we are taking a balanced approach to the work we are suggesting, but this is an unprecedented situation and everyone’s main focus is rightly on family security, health and well-being. TOP TIPS
• Try to stick to a routine and include plenty of breaks, free time and fun! • Drink plenty of water and eat healthily throughout the day. • Try to monitor the amount of ‘screen time’ your child has. We understand that given the
circumstances there may be slightly more of this, but please remember online safety guidance- www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/
The week after Easter (20th April) will be referred to as Week 5 at All Saints’ although you will be looking at Week 2 or week 4 (see below) on suggested websites as detailed on the learning menus.
Year 4 Home Learning Menu Week beginning: 27th April 2020
Blue tasks- Daily 1. EXERCISE: Complete 30 minutes of daily exercise. I’ve been hula hooping!
Suggestions:
• Joe Wicks daily workout – live at 9am on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
• Daily Dance Class with Oti Mabuse – live at 11:30am on youtube. • https://www.gonoodle.com/good-energy-at-home-kids-games-and-videos/ • Yoga: https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga 2. MATHS GAMES: 5 minutes every day
Complete TTRockstars 3 times a week- either on sheets below or online. https://ttrockstars.com/ If you don’t have a printer, don’t worry, just write your answers on a blank sheet of paper – maybe write 1-60 on your page before you begin to help and have the questions on your screen as you time yourself. I wonder what kind of music you could listen to?!? Don’t forget you can also access Numbots with the your TTRockstar login https://play.numbots.com/#/intro
3. READ: 15 minutes every day- either using a book from home or online.
https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/portal.aspx Collins Connect – Big Cat Books. Choose Student sign in and fill in the required boxes with your child’s details. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/please-log-in?open_loginbox=true
Log in - year 3 and year 4 Password - All Saints (please use capitals letters and spaces as shown here)
www.renlearn.co.uk/keep-reading Click on the ‘click here to start reading immediately’ tab. Click on ‘start reading’ and choose a category of books. Click ‘read’ under your chosen book or click the ‘info’ tab to see which year groups this book is most suitable for.
Reading quizzes! Key Stage 2 children can access Accelerated Reader at home, so you are able to quiz on any books you have read. Please use the login details that you usually use at school via this link: https://ukhosted69.renlearn.co.uk/1896055/
4. PHONIC OR SPELLING PRACTISE: 10 minutes every day. NEW SPELLINGS for this half term. Test yourself each day. Remember these spellings are from the National Curriculum. These are the expectations for year 4 pupils. These words will be the same until May half term (from Mrs Chambers). Spellings are:
Learning spellings can get a little boring so if you would like an alternative to just writing the words out, try www.spellingcity.com . You can type into the sample game section 4 words at a time and you can be tested in a few different ways.
Yellow tasks- Daily if you can, of not at least three times a week MATHS: Visit White Rose Maths, watch the daily tutorial and complete the daily task. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
• Each lesson starts with 4 or 5 recap questions from the year so far and talks through each answer.
• The lesson then goes onto explain another small part of a maths unit followed by a few questions, which get progressively harder.
• All of it is done and explained via a video powerpoint, so super easy for use. • The lessons do not take very long to complete and it is all prepared and ready to go for you, plus
you don’t necessarily need to print anything off!
This week we would like to use the SUMMER term week 2 planning.
ENGLISH: Visit Hamilton Trust, and complete the daily task. https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/learning-home-packs/ Scroll down the page and pick the correct year group. Each weekly pack includes reading (including answering questions), writing, grammar, spelling and handwriting and covers a range of text genres.
This week we would like to use the week 4 planning. Green tasks- for fun and creativity
• Keep a diary of everything you’ve been up to and how you are feeling. You could even draw some pictures to go with it.
• Continue your coding journey using code.org • Practical hands on maths - through cooking, in the garden, telling the time, measuring and comparing
the height, length, volume, capacity or distance of things or through physical or online maths games. • Play board games and do jigsaw puzzles.
This week’s tasks will have an Art Focus and Science Focus
Art Science Key stage 1 Positive and negative shapes (easier
version) Follow the Youtube link in the box below. You can experiment making shapes of real or abstract objects.
Making things move: Take a toy car or any toy with wheels and give it a push on different surfaces in your house or outside space. Which surface do you think the car will travel the furthest? Try it out a few times. Can you think of other ways to make your toy move?
Positive and negative shapes Make a picture using positive and negative shapes. Will you use more than two colours? Which colour combinations produce the most striking pictures? Follow the links below for step-by-step instructions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrEDpWAuOM4 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExeekGarOzo You can make it as easy or as complicated as you like. Here are some ideas to inspire you.
Explore friction: Can you predict which surfaces will slow the speed the toy travels? Why does the toy move at different speed on different surfaces? What is friction and how does it effect the speed the toy travels?
Upper Key Stage 2
Positive and negative shapes-taking it further You can take the Lower KS2 ideas even further, by adding other elements. For example, you can create patterns and lines on one of the papers before cutting out the shapes. Maybe you want to layer the shapes using a variety of colours?
How about creating a picture using only a negative shape?
Explore forces: Make a ramp for toy/moving object (use blocks/boxes to change the angle/gradient of the ramp) and explore how does the angle (gradient) of the ramp effect the speed the toy travels? What forces are acting on the toy and what impact do they have?
OTHER IDEAS FROM MRS CHAMBERS • ART – On youtube, search for tutorials about POP ART. This is a very famous style of art made
famous in America and the UK in the 1950’s. You could research the era, especially Andy Warhol • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Va9Y_rlNg for information (first 4 mins only needed as the
rest is interesting but not so necessary as we don’t live in Texas). You can respond as you wish but a suggestion of what to use as your inspiration is below. You can choose one, two or all three pages to use, or draw your own! Felt tips or pencils or chalk or crayons are all great to use. I’d love to see your pop art on the Facebook page or brought in when we are all back together again.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZTsbJcr9VI teaches about Andy Warhol. Use the video as an inspiration for your own unique Pop Art picture
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6MMd7DEie0 tutorial is just for fun!
• FRENCH -Did you join Duolingo? Try revising French colours by doing the French wordsearch below
• Learn some French vocabulary – words to practise this week are based on a classroom:
Une table – a table, une gomme – a rubber, un stylo - a pencil, un crayon – a pencil, une regle – a ruler, un cahier – an exercise book, une livre – a reading book, une chaise – a chair, un professeur – a teacher,– a student, un garcon – a boy – une fille – a girl, un taille-crayon – pencil sharpener,
• Using your knowledge of the colours and the classroom vocabulary, create a classroom scene on one half of a page (with friends and teachers too!) and label them in your picture. At the bottom of the page, describe the colours you can see - eg C’est une table rouge – it’s a red table, or C’est un cahier bleu – it’s a blue book. NOTICE: the colours go AFTER the noun in French. NOTICE also that SOME colours in french change spelling if the noun is a feminine word –
• bleu (m) - bleue (f) noir (m) - noire (f) vert (m) – verte (f) blanc (m) – blanche (f) • White is the trickiest one to remember as you add ‘che’ to the end for feminine words • If the colour has an ‘e’ at the end, the spelling stays the same
So watch out for words like une gomme – your word is feminine, so your colour must be also – une gomme verte – a green rubber. Have fun and take your time with this. I’d love to put these up in class on display when we are back. Try looking up youtube clips from Alexa about colours and classroom objects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzEPv-Zc3eg – French objects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38qdGY6vXwY – French with Alexa – classroom items https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld7x0xv72Uk colours
Stay safe, take care of each other and keep washing your
hands! Always remember At All Saints’ We are ‘Children of God’. We wear our crowns with pride. Together, we are Included, Involved and Inspired. Let’s keep it that way!
