Home Learning

All staff are aiming to update work and activities weekly for your child, however there may be a point at which the class teacher becomes unwell and is unable to set work for a period of time. We will do our best to ensure there are general websites and activities for your child to use in the event of this happening. 

Thank you all for your understanding during this difficult time. We hope that you and your families stay healthy and well. 

Expectations for Home Learning

The whole staff has worked very hard over the holidays to do our best to support home learning, having taken your views on board following our recent phone calls to you all. Those in school will be taught the same lessons, so if children are in school, please ensure their home learning is up to date as teaching many differentiated lessons to different year groups is quite a challenge without having to go over missed work.

As a school we would like to provide as much continuity as possible and hence have all agreed to prepare home learning and give feedback via Seesaw/Google Classrooms. We would therefore appreciate your commitment to the following:

Parents/children

• Compulsory for all -daily reading, daily English tasks , daily maths tasks
• Compulsory for Y3-6 daily times tables- Times Tables Rockstars as a minimum
• Optional-foundation subjects on webpage eg topic ,science, art, DT, music etc
• Life skills activities like virtual shopping, baking and gardening

• White Rose maths videos and worksheets for Mon-Fri should take about an hour and children/parents mark work from answers given
• English tasks (to include phonics for YR,Y1,Y2) to take about an hour Mon-Thur
• Exemplars and text features sheets giving guidance for each year group to be used to help children with expected standards
• English to be submitted via Seesaw if handwritten or Google Classrooms (Y4-6) as directed by teacher by 6pm on Thursday with feedback received by Sunday pm
• Any work related to topic/foundation subjects can be completed in afternoons or Fridays with one piece of  ‘best work’ shared via Seesaw
• Parents please note that we can realistically give good feedback on a limited number of items posted- one English post and one other per week!
• Parents/children with any concerns can use the class emails eg rowan@winterbourneearls.wilts.sch.uk which will be monitored daily.                               Thanks for your support on this.

Suggested Timetable

It is a good idea to have some structure to the day when learning from home, just like we do in school. Below is a suggested timetable that you might like to use if you are finding it difficult to structure your day. 

9.00-9.30 PE Lesson with Joe Wicks (see useful links page)

9.30-10.15 English

10.15-10.30 Reading

10.30-11.00 Break (time to relax for a little bit, have a snack and drink and recharge)

11.00-11.45 Maths

11.45-12.00 Times tables practise

12.00-1.30 Lunch

1.30-2.30 Other activities (Art, Science, French)

Remember to try and spend some time in your garden if you have one, or open the windows and enjoy the fresh air! You need to have some time to relax and have fun during this uncertain time.

Into Film offered our Choir 50 free places to the cinema to watch The Greatest Showman in November.  They are opening up a competition for your children to become budding film makers through their 'Nature in your Neighbourhood' film competition which ties in brilliantly with our nature topic.  Please see the link below for details of how to join.

https://www.intofilm.org/competitions/16?utm_source=Into+Film+-+Master&utm_campaign=1eff19f683-home-learning-8-ah&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a1465a9b17-1eff19f683-139965329

STEM Activities

Here is a link to a website providing recorded Science lessons for children, along with a worksheet for them to complete. There are lots of different topics and could be used to fill an afternoon session if you wanted your child to access some interesting Science. STEM activities combine Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths - so these activities will develop many skills for your child. 

https://www.stem.org.uk/remote-lessons/key-stage-2

Week beginning 18th May

MONDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Monday. Today you will be finding out what a habitat is and looking at different types of habitat. 

MATHS - Follow the link and find an activity on multiplying and dividing by 8. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvvsy9q

TIMES TABLES - practise your 8's.

Here are some links you could use to practise tables alongside Times Tables Rockstars:

https://www.timestables.co.uk/games/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

http://www.maths-games.org/times-tables-games.html

ART - complete one of the Art activities from the Nature Humanities power point below. (optional)

TUESDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Tuesday. Today, you will be exploring different vocabulary to do with habitats. 

MATHS - Follow the link and find an activity on multiplying a 2-digit number by a 1-digit

number. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zb4gcqt

**CHALLENGE** (optional) https://nrich.maths.org/10421/note

TIMES TABLES - practise your 8's. 

Here are some links you could use to practise tables alongside Times Tables Rockstars:

https://www.timestables.co.uk/games/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

http://www.maths-games.org/times-tables-games.html

LANGUAGES - follow one of the languages links and see what you can remember from the French we have learnt so far this year! (optional)

WEDNESDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Wednesday. Today you will be planning a new animal to live in one of the habitats that you have looked at. 

MATHS - Follow the link and find an activity on dividing a 2-digit number by a 1-digit number. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbkdjhv

**CHALLENGE** (optional) https://nrich.maths.org/8308/note

TIMES TABLES - practise your 8's. 

Here are some links you could use to practise tables alongside Times Tables Rockstars:

https://www.timestables.co.uk/games/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

http://www.maths-games.org/times-tables-games.html

SCIENCE - complete one of the Science activities linked below and record in some way in your home learning journal. Remember: title, method, labelled diagram, prediction and conclusion. (optional)

THURSDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Thursday. Today, you will be creating a fact file for your new animal.

MATHS - Follow the link and find an activity on multiplication and division problem solving. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhvbrj6

**CHALLENGE** (optional) https://nrich.maths.org/8315

TIMES TABLES - practise your 8's. 

Here are some links you could use to practise tables alongside Times Tables Rockstars:

https://www.timestables.co.uk/games/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

http://www.maths-games.org/times-tables-games.html

ART - complete an activity of your choosing. (optional)

FRIDAY 

ENGLISH - complete the work for year 3 and 4 on the power point below. Today you will be presenting your new animal as though you were on Blue Peter!

SPELLINGS - Choose 4-5 spellings from the Year 3/4 statutory spelling list and practise them using one of the spelling strategies linked below. Alternatively, you could use the following website for activities online. https://www.spellzone.com/curriculum/national-curriculum/years-3-4.cfm Click on the link and then choose one section. Once you have clicked on one of the sections, it will take you to a page where you can select an activity that you want to use. 

MATHS - times tables practice. Please complete some questions on the 8 times tables to show us how much you have learnt this week. If you want a challenge, you could see how quickly you can answer the questions.

HOME LEARNING CHALLENGE - learn how to do something to help around the house it could be: cooking, cleaning, tidying. Take a photo and put it in your home learning journal! I look forward to seeing what you have been up to. (optional)

Week beginning 11th May

MONDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Monday. Today you will be looking at features of a newspaper report. 

MATHS - Follow the link and find an activity on converting pounds and pence. Remember: 100p = £1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znf4kmn

TIMES TABLES - practise your 4's.

Here are some links you could use to practise tables alongside Times Tables Rockstars:

https://www.timestables.co.uk/games/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

http://www.maths-games.org/times-tables-games.html

ART - complete one of the Art activities from the Nature Humanities power point below. (optional)

TUESDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Tuesday. Today, you will be practising how to use inverted commas for direct speech. 

MATHS - Follow the link and find an activity on adding money in pounds and pence. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkwfvk7

TIMES TABLES - practise your 4's. 

Here are some links you could use to practise tables alongside Times Tables Rockstars:

https://www.timestables.co.uk/games/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

http://www.maths-games.org/times-tables-games.html

LANGUAGES - follow one of the languages links and see what you can remember from the French we have learnt so far this year! (optional)

WEDNESDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Wednesday. Today you will be planning your newspaper report. 

MATHS - Follow the link and find an activity on subtracting pounds and pence. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z6btpg8

TIMES TABLES - practise your 4's. 

Here are some links you could use to practise tables alongside Times Tables Rockstars:

https://www.timestables.co.uk/games/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

http://www.maths-games.org/times-tables-games.html

SCIENCE - complete one of the Science activities linked below and record in some way in your home learning journal. Remember: title, method, labelled diagram, prediction and conclusion. (optional)

THURSDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Thursday. Today, you will be writing your newspaper report. You can either use the template below or create your own template in your home learning journal. 

MATHS - Follow the link and find an activity on multiplying and dividing by 3. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbkvbdm

TIMES TABLES - practise your 4's. 

Here are some links you could use to practise tables alongside Times Tables Rockstars:

https://www.timestables.co.uk/games/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

http://www.maths-games.org/times-tables-games.html

ART - complete an activity from the Nature Humanities power point below. (optional)

FRIDAY 

ENGLISH - Spellings. Choose 4-5 spellings from the Year 3/4 statutory spelling list and practise them using one of the spelling strategies linked below. Alternatively, you could use the following website for activities online. https://www.spellzone.com/curriculum/national-curriculum/years-3-4.cfm Click on the link and then choose one section. Once you have clicked on one of the sections, it will take you to a page where you can select an activity that you want to use. 

MATHS - times tables practice. Please complete some questions on the 4 times tables to show us how much you have learnt this week. If you want a challenge, you could see how quickly you can answer the questions.

HOME LEARNING CHALLENGE - learn how to do something to help around the house it could be: cooking, cleaning, tidying. Take a photo and put it in your home learning journal! I look forward to seeing what you have been up to. (optional)

Hi Year 3! It was wonderful to see all of your Space poems last week, you have all worked so hard and they were amazing! This week we are starting a topic on Nature which will continue for the next two weeks. Try and get outside in the garden or during your daily exercise and look at all of the wonderful nature that is around you. There are lots of ideas for activities that you could do on the Nature humanities power point below. You might like to have a look at this programme on CBBC. Naomi's Nightmare's of Nature https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b0489qyf/naomis-nightmares-of-nature. I hope you all have a wonderful week and I look forward to seeing more of your fabulous work on Thursday/Friday. Keep your eyes open for the next installment of Harry Potter on Seesaw! 

Miss Wright

*Parents* We have decided that in order to make times tables more simple and easy to follow, we will put up a suggested weekly times table focus for you that we hope you can have a go at using. This will help us to track which times tables the children are learning and able to do. On a Friday we would appreciate it if you could use your Maths time to answer some set questions on these times tables so that we can see how your child is getting on with these at home! If your child likes a challenge, they can set a time limit and see how quickly they can answer them in but this time limit is OPTIONAL as we know not all children respond well to this. 

Here are some links you could use to practise tables alongside Times Tables Rockstars:

https://www.timestables.co.uk/games/

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables

http://www.maths-games.org/times-tables-games.html

Week beginning 4th May

MONDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Monday. Today you will be describing a character in two different pictures and writing a descriptive paragraph. 

MATHS - Follow the link and practise adding two 3-digit numbers. See how much you can remember! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z72dwty

TIMES TABLES - practise your 2's, 5's and 10's.

ART - complete one of the Art activities from the Nature Humanities power point below. (optional)

TUESDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Tuesday. Today, you will be exploring some vocabulary that will come up in the story you hear tomorrow. 

MATHS - Follow the link and practise subtracting two 3-digit numbers. See how much you can remember. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvm72sg 

TIMES TABLES - practise your 2's, 5's and 10's.

LANGUAGES - follow one of the languages links and see what you can remember from the French we have learnt so far this year! (optional)

WEDNESDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Wednesday. Today you will be listening to/reading the story 'Wild' by Emily Hughes and answering some comprehension questions about it.

MATHS - Follow the link and practise using efficient methods for adding and subtracting two 3-digit numbers. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7psf4j

TIMES TABLES - practise your 2's, 5's and 10's.

SCIENCE - complete one of the Science activities linked below and record in some way in your home learning journal. Remember: title, method, labelled diagram, prediction and conclusion. (optional)

THURSDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Thursday. Today, you will be comparing the settings of the city and the forest and writing a comparison paragraph. 

MATHS - Follow the link and practise answering some mixed addition and subtraction questions. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfxx6v4

TIMES TABLES - practise your 2's, 5's and 10's.

ART - complete an activity from the Space art power point below. (optional)

FRIDAY 

This is Bank Holiday due to 75th Anniversary of VE Day so learning is optional! Perhaps you would like to make some flowers for the Petals for Peace project? Details have been emailed about this and how you can get involved with commemoration activities.

ENGLISH - Spellings. Choose 4-5 spellings from the Year 3/4 statutory spelling list and practise them using one of the spelling strategies linked below. 

MATHS - times tables practice. Please complete some questions on the 2, 5 and 10 times tables to show us how much you have learnt this week. If you want a challenge, you could see how quickly you can answer the 40 questions.

HOME LEARNING CHALLENGE - learn how to do something to help around the house it could be: cooking, cleaning, tidying. Take a photo and put it in your home learning journal! I look forward to seeing what you have been up to. (optional)

Week beginning 27th April 

Hi Year 3! 

It has been so lovely to see all of your wonderful work on Seesaw. It's amazing to see how hard you're all working at home and I'm so proud of all of you for taking this in your stride and adapting to this new way of learning! As this week, we are continuing to learn about space, you might like to have a look at the CBBC website, where they have lots of videos and activities you can do related to space https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/curations/space-on-cbbc. I am very much looking forward to seeing an upload of 1 piece of your English work on Thursday/Friday this week. Keep smiling and remember to be kind to the people you live with! Miss W x

Note to parents: this week we have changed Maths following some feedback from people I have spoken to. We will now be using the BBC Bitesize website, which recaps things that we have already learnt in school this year and should be easier for the children to access independently. I hope this helps! This week, we will be following the learning for w.b. 20/4/20, I have attached the appropriate links below. 

MONDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Monday. You should think about some of your own examples to go in the word bank. 

MATHS - Follow the link to recap some place value that we have already covered this year. See what you can remember! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdgdwty

ART - complete one of the Art activities from the Space Art power point below. 

TUESDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Tuesday. Today, you will be immersing yourself in some poetry to get lots of lovely ideas for your own work. 

MATHS - Follow the link to recap some place value that we have already covered this year. See what you can remember! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zmdpnrd

LANGUAGES - follow one of the languages links and see what you can remember from the French we have learnt so far this year!

WEDNESDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Wednesday. Today you will be writing your poem. Remember to use all of the amazing words and phrases from your word bank. 

MATHS - Follow the link to recap some place value that we have already covered this year. See what you can remember! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhpq7nb

SCIENCE - complete one of the Science activities linked below and record in some way in your home learning journal. Remember: title, method, labelled diagram, prediction and conclusion. 

THURSDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Thursday. Today, you will be editing and publishing your poem. Make it the best it can be and use your neatest handwriting!

MATHS - Follow the link to recap some place value that we have already covered this year. See what you can remember! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zb86t39

ART - complete an activity from the Space art power point below. 

FRIDAY

ENGLISH - Performing your poem! Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Friday. We would love to see some examples of your performing your poem on Seesaw! 

MATHS - Follow the link to recap some place value that we have already covered this year. See what you can remember! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbqrcqt

HOME LEARNING CHALLENGE - learn how to do something to help around the house it could be: cooking, cleaning, tidying. Take a photo and put it in your home learning journal! I look forward to seeing what you have been up to. 

FISH UPDATE!

As you may or may not know, the fish have found a loving, caring home during this lockdown with Mrs Morgan-Tranter and her family! She has sent me some pictures of the fish today so I am sharing them with you. Our baby fish is growing and adapting to life in the tank and all of the other fish are happy and it is all going swimmingly(!) 

Week beginning 20th April 

MONDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for this week. The children will be doing some research online about Space and writing down key words/phrases/things they see in a mind map. 

MATHS - Follow the link below and you will find an explanation video and work to complete for each day of the week. This week, the children are continuing their learning on Fractions. 

ART - complete one of the Art activities from the Space Art power point below. 

TUESDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Tuesday. Today, the children will be looking at some examples of Space poetry and finding features. 

MATHS - Follow the link below and you will find an explanation video and work to complete for each day of the week. This week, the children are continuing their learning on Fractions. 

LANGUAGES - follow one of the languages links and see what you can remember from the French we have learnt so far this year!

WEDNESDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Tuesday. Your child will be completing an activity on similes and metaphors, so that they can use these in their poem. 

MATHS - Follow the link below and you will find an explanation video and work to complete for each day of the week. This week, the children are continuing their learning on Fractions. 

SCIENCE - complete one of the Science activities linked below and record in some way in your home learning journal. Remember: title, method, labelled diagram, prediction and conclusion. 

THURSDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Tuesday. Your child will be turning their ideas and phrases from Monday into descriptive sentences that could be used for a poem, thinking about rhyming words. 

MATHS - Follow the link below and you will find an explanation video and work to complete for each day of the week. This week, the children are continuing their learning on Fractions. 

ART - complete an activity from the Space art power point below. 

FRIDAY

ENGLISH - Spelling practise - use the Statutory Word List for Years 3 and 4 to practise some spellings. There are some ideas for how to practise spellings below. 

MATHS - Follow the link below and you will find an explanation video and work to complete for each day of the week. This week, the children are continuing their learning on Fractions. 

HOME LEARNING CHALLENGE - learn how to do something to help around the house it could be: cooking, cleaning, tidying. Take a photo and put it in your home learning journal! I look forward to seeing what you have been up to. 

Maths Week beginning 20th April 

Follow the link below and complete the work for Summer Term Week 1. It is dated w.b. 21st April. Watch the videos and complete the worksheets. Please use the answers to mark the work that your child completes. 

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Easter Holidays!

Although we will not be setting specific work during the Easter holidays, we have put together some ideas of fun activities that you could do with your children if you are stuck. 

Below you will find the power point with lots of ideas and the resources that you would need to complete them. 

We hope you have a lovely Easter, despite all that is going on and if possible, enjoy the lovely weather in your garden! 

Week beginning 30th March

MONDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work from the English power point for this week. The children will be completing some research about Dinosaurs and using this information to create a fact page about them at the end of the week.

MATHS - Follow the link below and you will find an explanation video and work to complete for each day of the week. This week, the children are continuing their learning on Fractions. 

ART - complete one of the Art activities from the Dinosaur Art power point below. 

TUESDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Tuesday. Your child will be researching information about Dinosaurs today.

MATHS - Follow the link below and you will find an explanation video and work to complete for each day of the week. This week, the children are continuing their learning on Fractions. 

LANGUAGES - follow one of the languages links and see what you can remember from the French we have learnt so far this year!

WEDNESDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Tuesday. Your child will be planning their fact page about Dinosaurs today.

MATHS - Follow the link below and you will find an explanation video and work to complete for each day of the week. This week, the children are continuing their learning on Fractions. 

SCIENCE - complete one of the Science activities linked below and record in some way in your home learning journal. Remember: title, method, labelled diagram, prediction and conclusion. 

THURSDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Tuesday. Your child will be creating their fact page about Dinosaurs today. Encourage them to be creative, imaginative and present their information in interesting ways!

MATHS - Follow the link below and you will find an explanation video and work to complete for each day of the week. This week, the children are continuing their learning on Fractions. 

ART - complete an activity from the Dinosaur art power point below. 

FRIDAY

ENGLISH - Please complete the work for Year 3 and 4 from the English power point for Tuesday. Your child will be presenting their fact page about Dinosaurs today. Encourage them to speak clearly and confidently. 

MATHS - Follow the link below and you will find an explanation video and work to complete for each day of the week. This week, the children are continuing their learning on Fractions. 

HOME LEARNING CHALLENGE - learn how to do something to help around the house it could be: cooking, cleaning, tidying. Take a photo and put it in your home learning journal! I look forward to seeing what you have been up to. 

Maths Links Week Beginning 30th March

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Remember to complete Week 2 learning, one session per day. Watch the explanation video and complete the attached work.

Here is a game you could play to support your understanding of fractions of shapes: http://flash.topmarks.co.uk/4097

Week Beginning 23rd March

MONDAY

MATHS - Please complete the Length and Perimeter mini-assessment to check what your child can remember from this topic. Encourage your child to complete this independently, you can read the question if they need help with what it says. The answers are also attached, so that you can mark your child's answers. Please put the completed assessment in your child's home learning journal. 

ENGLISH - Please look at the Rainforests English Work powerpoint attached below and complete the work assigned for Monday. You should look at the activities for Year 3 and 4 and your child could answer some of the questions in their home learning journal. 

TUESDAY

MATHS - Please go through the powerpoint with your child and discuss the new learning and then chose a suitable worksheet for your child to complete in their home learning journal or file. The worksheets will be differentiated so please choose accordingly, based on how your child has understood the content in the introductory powerpoint. Red star = Developing  Green star = Expected   Orange Star = Greater Depth

ENGLISH - please look at the Rainforests English Work powerpoint attached below and complete the work assigned for Tuesday. You should look at the activities for Year 3 and 4 and your child should complete the work in their home learning journal. 

SCIENCE - complete one of the kitchen science activities. You could take some pictures or draw what you do in your learning journal and write about the activity. Remember to make predictions: I think.....because.... and observations: I can see that, I notice that, I observe that. 

WEDNESDAY

MATHS - use the White Rose Maths link to find the video for the lesson below and discuss with your child. They should then complete the worksheet attached and put it in their home learning journal. There are answers below as well, so that you can check if your child has understood. The interactive game is optional but a fun way to reinforce understanding. 

ENGLISH - please look at the Rainforests English Work powerpoint attached below and complete the work assigned for Wednesday. You should look at the activities for Year 3 and 4 and your child should complete the work in their home learning journal. 

ART - choose one of the Art activities from the powerpoint below to complete. Have fun and be creative!

THURSDAY

MATHS - go through the powerpoint attached below and check discuss with your child the questions and their understanding. They should then complete one of the worksheets attached based on their understanding.

Red star = Developing  Green star = Expected   Orange Star = Greater Depth.

ENGLISH - please look at the Rainforests English Work powerpoint attached below and complete the work assigned for Thursday. You should look at the activities for Year 3 and 4 and your child should complete the work in their home learning journal. 

FRENCH - spend some time on one of the Languages websites linked below and see what French you can remember/what new words you can learn. (Duolingo is a really good website and app).

FRIDAY

MATHS - watch the online White Rose video for today's Maths lesson and then complete the work attached below. Feel free to pause the video and check your child's understanding throughout. Then, spend some time on Mathletics answering some questions about Fractions to see what they can remember from the week. 

ENGLISH - 

please look at the Rainforests English Work powerpoint attached below and complete the work assigned for Friday. You should look at the activities for Year 3 and 4 and your child should complete the work in their home learning journal. 

ART - complete another of the Art activities from the Rainforest Art powerpoint attached below. Again, be creative and imaginative. 

Useful website for Maths support

The following website is really useful to support your child with their learning in Maths. This is the scheme we follow at school for Maths and they have produced some online videos and support for children learning at home. Please check the website to see whether there are useful resources for what your child is learning in Maths each week. 

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

Please make use of Mathletics and Times Table Rockstars during this time as well. These are invaluable resources for your child and will provide activities for them to complete. 

Challenge Activities

- Activity 1 - Perimeter

• Give the children a piece of squared paper and ask them to draw a variety of shapes by shading sets of 5 squares. They then find their perimeters. Example shown below.

Resources required: centimetre squared paper

- Activity 2 - Length

 https://nrich.maths.org/4332

Follow the above link for a problem solving activity linked to length. There is an interactive version of the activity involving cuisenaire rods to help children solve the problem. 

-  Activity 3 - Estimating, Measuring and Comparing Length 

 This is a simple but effective way to practise estimating, measuring and comparing lengths: give each learner a small piece of plasticine or modelling clay. Give them time to roll 4 different length worms. They order the worms from shortest to longest. They then estimate the length of the shortest worm and once they have, they measure it. They use this knowledge to estimate the length of the next worm and then measure it. They continue to do this for all the worms. They can then find the differences in length between their worms and also add pairs of their lengths together.

Resources required: plasticine or modelling clay

Reading

Please encourage your child to read for at least 20 minutes a day (not all in one go but spread across the day). 

Think about questions that you could ask your child related to their book to check their understanding. I have attached some useful documents to use below when reading with your child. Different comprehensions and work will be uploaded for your child to complete either by using the text online and answering questions on a sheet of paper (please write out the questions and answers) or if you are able to print at home then you can answer directly on the sheet. 

Comprehensions: please choose either the one star, two star or three star comprehension for your child, based on their reading level and how confident you feel they are. They should copy out the questions and answers (unless you are able to print off the work) and you will find the answers after the questions in the document to help you check if your child has answered correctly. 

Epic Online Reading Platform

As we know it may be difficult to have access to books during Self-Isolation or working from home, we have signed children up to this online reading platform to enable children to access books on either a computer or laptop, ipad or phone. All that your child needs to do to access these is to follow the link below and then enter the class code: bqj5006.

Once into the platform, they should then select their name and they will be able to access a range of reading resources such as ebooks, audiobooks and videos. 

As teachers, we are able to set specific texts and quizzes on the books to support children understanding of their reading. We can also monitor which children are accessing the texts and completing the assigned books. 

This is a really useful tool to help children to keep reading during these difficult times.

Science

Here you will find some examples of fun Science experiments that you can do at home with your children. Your child could write a list of equipment, a method and predict what they think will happen and draw a labelled diagram of the experiment. They could also talk about any observations they can make during the experiment and write up a conclusion to show what has happened and whether their prediction was right! 

Most importantly, have fun with it! 

Here are some links to sites where you can practise all the wonderful French you’ve learnt at school!  Have fun playing the games and improving your recall of vocabulary.  A few minutes a day and you’ll be confident French speakers in no time at all.

https://www.duolingo.com/

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2french.html

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z39d7ty

https://www.lightbulblanguages.co.uk/estrellas-french-index.htm

https://www.digitaldialects.com/iPad/French.htm

English:

18th March - Please research some information about the Iron Age using books or the internet and record what you find in note form e.g. the key information only. The children should think about different sections that they would like to include when they create their own Iron Age Fact page and research accordingly. Some questions they may find useful to answer when researching are: 

When was the Iron Age?

What was the Iron Age?

Where did they live?

What did they eat?

What did they wear?

What did they do?

Why was it called the 'Iron Age'?

What weapons did they have and why?

This is not an extensive list of areas to research but a good starting point to help your child start off in the right direction.

19th March - using the research that your child has done, they should plan a fact page about the Iron Age, possibly using the template below. The plan should include what the heading would be, any sub-headings they would use, their notes from the research sorted under the right sub-headings and a plan of any pictures, images or fact boxes they might like to use. This should all be in note form and possibly a couple of words in a box where pictures might be, so that the child knows what the layout will look like when they write it up properly.  

If your child decides to create their own plan - they might like to use a double page spread in their home learning books (or large piece of paper) to plan out where each section will be. 

20th March - using the plan that your child has created, they should create their own fact page about the Iron Age using the features we discussed earlier in the week and their plan. This should include: heading, sub-headings, paragraphs, facts, pictures, third person language (people, women, men, they), bullet points, past tense verbs (cooked, lived etc.) This should be completed in your child's home learning book or on a sheet of paper if you do not have one. Please remind your child to think about capital letters, full stops, other punctuation (? and !), neat handwriting and presentation.