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Goodbye Year 3, Hello Year 4!
Goodbye Year 3,
Hello Year 4!
Summer activity pack
Dear Parents/Carers,
Here is a pack of activities you might find helpful over the summer break. We know that for some families,
home learning has been helpful to give the day some structure and routine while parents work from home.
Also, we want children to know that, even though it is the summer holidays, we are still thinking about
them and want them to know they are still part of the Totley Primary School community.
The first part of the pack is maths and English worksheets with answers. This could help keep children's
knowledge and skills fresh for September. However, there is no expectation that children must complete
them and your child will not be ‘behind’ if they don’t. Feedback from some families has shown us how
home learning like this has helped give structure and focus, as well as a sense of achievement for their
children. If you feel this is the right thing for your child, then the resources are there to help.
The second part of the pack is to help continue the sense of community over the summer holiday. Firstly,
as a school, we are aiming to read 1,000 books! Please Tweet or email photos either of your child holding
each book they read over the summer, or a photo of the cover of the book. We will keep track of how
many books have been read and celebrate our achievement in September. To reach our target (or even
smash it!), we need everyone to do their part by reading and sharing what they read. Also, we’ve given
6 ideas for things you could do together over the holiday. If you want to share the outcomes of your den
building, cooking, art, history or geography, please do so using the Twitter # on each activity, or by
emailing photos to [email protected]
We are really looking forward to welcoming everyone back to school in September. It has been an
extraordinary time, but the strength of the Totley Primary School community is as strong as ever.
Best wishes,
The Totley Team x
Maths
Use this page to keep a track of your reading over the holiday by writing down
what you read each week.
Bring this page into school, if you like, so we can reward and praise you for your
fabulous reading!
Week What I’ve read
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2
3
4
5
6
#TPS1000books
Over the summer holiday, we are aiming to
read 1,000 books as a school.
Whenever you read a book, Tweet a picture
of it @TotleyPrimary and use the
#TPS1000books If you don’t have Twitter,
email a picture to:
Happy reading!
Sticking Together
Through the Summer
We hope these challenges will be fun and something
you can enjoy together. Please feel free to do them in
any order, and tackle as many as you wish, as many
times as you wish!
Each challenge has a Twitter hashtag so you can share
your creations and adventures with the school
community. If you’d prefer, email a picture to
[email protected] so we can celebrate
together when we’re back in school in September.
#TPSdenbuilding
In the woods:
In the garden:
In the house:
Build a den! Den building develops creativity, problem solving, imagination and construction skills. You can always revisit your
den to make it bigger, better and stronger, and in wet weather, a den indoors can be a grea place to curl up with a book or a
movie together.
#TPSart
The doorstep, garden path or your driveway can be a great place to get creative.
Create a piece of art outdoors– you can always add to it over a few days, or if it gets washed away by the rain, try something
totally different next time!
#TPScooking
Get busy in the kitchen. Try out one or all of the recipes below. Remember, safety first when cooking and get an adult’s help
with each step.
Cereal milk ice lollies
Who says cereal is just for breakfast?
Make these moreish milk ice lollies flavoured
with honey nut cornflakes.
Ingredients:
600ml whole milk
150ml double cream
120g honey nut cornflakes
Method:
Pour the milk and double cream over the
honey nut cornflakes and leave to sit for 1
hr until the cornflakes are completely soggy
and the milk has a cereal flavour. Pour the
liquid through a sieve into a jug, leaving
behind the cornflakes – you should get
about 350ml liquid (don’t force the corn-
flakes through otherwise your lollipops will
be cloudy). Pour into six ice lolly moulds (ice
cube trays also work well!) and freeze for at
least 4 hrs, or overnight.
Malteser cake
Who says cereal is just for breakfast?
Make these moreish milk ice lollies flavoured with honey nut cornflakes.
Ingredients:
100g unsalted butter
200g milk chocolate
2 tbsp. golden syrup
125g digestive biscuits
135g bag of Maltesers (are similar)
Method:
1. Line a 20cm square baking tin with baking parchment. Place the
200g of chocolate, butter and syrup in a heat-proof bowl and melt
over a pan of barely simmering water or in the microwave. Once almost melted, remove from the heat and gently stir until any tiny
bits chocolate have melted. Allow to cool a little.
2. Place the biscuits and 35g of the Maltesers in a freezer bag, seal and
crush with a rolling pin. You want mainly crumbs but a few small
chunks of biscuit is fine.
3. Top the crushed mixture and whole Maltesers (save 1 or 2 for your-
self) to the melted chocolate and stir until everything is coated. Press
into the prepared tin and make the topping.
4. For the topping, melt the chocolate, butter and syrup as before and
spread over the biscuit base.
#TPScooking
1.KIDS: The writing in bold is for you. GROWN-UPS: The rest is for you. Mix a sticky dough. Put the flour, sugar
and yeast in a bowl and get the child to make a hole in the middle. Measure 300ml water – that isn’t cold
and isn’t hot but just right (like the little bear’s porridge in Goldie Locks). Add the oil and water; point
out that the two don’t mix well. Stir with a wooden spoon until you have a sticky dough. Add a splash
more water if needed.
2.Now you need to do something called kneading. Scatter a bit more flour over the surface and tip the
dough onto it. You now want to ‘stretch’ the dough and bring it back into a ball shape. This will need to
be done for about 10 mins. I usually give children a few minutes bashing the dough about, then take over to make
sure that the dough is smooth and elastic enough.
3.Leave the dough to grow. Brush a clean bowl with a little olive oil, put the dough in it and cover with
cling film. Leave it somewhere warm for it to grow until doubled in size. Now is a good time to tidy up and wipe down
surfaces a little before you start again.
4.Make a tasty tomato sauce. Crush the garlic by using a garlic crusher or by grating it on the fine edge
of a box grater. Tip into a bowl and mix with the other sauce ingredients. Stir well until everything is
combined, then set aside.
5.Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 8. Show your child how the dough has grown, then divide into the amount of pizzas you want to make. Brush the baking trays with extra oil. Divide the dough and roll out, then lift onto the baking trays.
Roll out the dough to the shape and size you want your pizzas to be.
6.Spoon on the tomato sauce. You need to be a bit more careful with this task than you think. If the dough
is thin, a child can easily tear it, so make sure that they use the back of the spoon to spread the sauce over.
7.Build your own pizza. Put all the toppings out in different bowls and each ‘build’ your own pizza. Encourage little
ones to make a pattern or shapes with the ingredients and avoid piling ingredients up.
8.Get cooking. You can get older kids to carefully place the tray in the oven using oven gloves (see safety first, opposite).
Bake pizzas for 12-15 mins until puffed up and golden around the edges, then carefully lift out of the oven. Leave to
cool slightly, then slip onto a board or plate. Serve cut into pieces with houmous and a simple green salad.
Ingredients:
For the dough
500g strong white bread flour, plus extra for dusting
small pinch of sugar
7g sachet fast-action dried yeast
2 tbsp olive oil, plus extra for greasing 300ml warm water
For the sauce
1 garlic clove
400ml chunky passata
1 tbsp tomato purée 1 tsp dried oregano
Handful basil leaves, snipped, or a teaspoon of dried basil (optional) Small pinch of sugar
1 tsp red wine vinegar
For the toppings
ham, red peppers, black olives, salami, mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, cheddar,
tuna, sweetcorn
houmous and green salad, to serve
Pizza
#TPShistory
Your local history challenge is to go for a walk around Totley to find the view shown in each picture and
compare then and now.
This is a great opportunity to practise road safety with a grown up.
#TPShistory
#TPShistory
#TPSmaps
Draw a map of your history walk.
Or, you could plot the route on Goggle Maps.
#TPSbacktoschool
We are really excited about welcoming you back to school!
We know that for some of you though, it’s a long time since you were at school and with your friends,
and that you might be feeling lots of different things about returning to school.
The ideas below could help you with these feelings and to get yourself feeling ready for returning to
school.
Worry and anxiety increases while us-
ing avoidance techniques such as avoid-ing eye contact, not raising your hand
to answer a question or not attending school. So the most effective way to
deal with social anxiety might be to
face it. Allow your child to have small
experiences of social success – give
their opinion to one person, start a conversation with someone they know
– so they can learn to feel safe in these
social situations
Chat about school in your
ordinary everyday conversations as
the holidays come to an end.
Keep it light, keep it positive.
Plan a few interesting things to do
in the evenings and at weekends in the next term, to give them something to
look forward to and remind them that
school is only a part of their week.
Establish a routine ‘family feed-
back’ time which makes it normal for
everyone to air and share worries from
their day, as well as the fun things that went on. This could happen over
dinner time and involve questions like, ‘What was the silliest moment of your day? What was the most interesting
fact you learnt today?”
These ideas could help your child feel ready and raring to go for the first day back.
Imagine yourself back at school.
Sportspeople use visualisation to help keep
a positive, can do attitude. A simple way to
do this is to draw a picture of what you think
school is going to be like.
Draw yourself working in the classroom with
your friends and new teachers. Use speech
bubbles to imagine what people will be saying
and asking.
Keep it simple, keep it positive.
Plan your first day back
What time will you need to get up? What
will you need to take with you to school? Is
your uniform washed and ready?
A calm start to day one will make the rest of the day and the days after that so much
more positive.
We’re going to make a video of school with a message from Mr P.
You might want to watch it to see what school looks like and remind yourself.
