DT and English 

This week we have begun building our cam mechanism toys with a Viking theme and learning our text map in English.

English: Instructions story map and text

Here is the story map and text we are currently working on in Hares. The children began to learn a section that they felt might be the trickiest to write, so that when they come to write their own instructions, they have a good model to help them. They might like to do this practise instead of a grid activity this week.

Survival Day in Hares

We had a fantastic day of learning survival and team building skills with Hill End Outdoor Learning Centre. The children really rose to all the challenges, learned lots of new skills and developed their collaborative approach to tasks. They should be very proud of all that they achieved, as we certainly are.

GIANT BUBBLES

We had a great time making giant bubbles and experimenting with how to form them; it is harder than it looks!

If you'd like to have a go at home you need:

Two sticks (canes are good)

Two pieces of string, one double length of other (try 80 cm and 160cm). Attach to both ends of sticks to form a triangle and weigh down the middle of long string with a bead or blu-tac.

250 ml of vegetable glycerin

250 ml Fairy liquid

500 ml water

Best left over night-then empty into low dish or tray

Dip string in mixture, gently remove, opening sticks as you go to create MASSIVE bubbles! Lots of patience needed! Have fun.

Term 5-6

Welcome back to the summer term! Attached are all the documents you will need for the term ahead. There are three spelling sheets here: one is the weekly rules that we will be learning in class and practise weekly through dictations, as well as a word list for both year 4 and year 5 that are common words the children should be learning. Please try and look at these at home too.

Remote Learning TERM 4

If you are unable to come into school (for example, if your household needs to isolate) please base your home learning on the grid below. 

All of the resources that you will need are here on the class page. You can complete the tasks in any order and there is still the expectation for you to learn your spellings, read daily and practice your multiplication facts. Try and complete your work to the best of your ability. Don't forget, should you need to contact us, you can do so in the usual way by emailing the class email. We will still be checking it daily.

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Archive

Please see below for past home learning grids / activities / resources.

Friday 5th March 2021

Hooray, the last remote learning day!

We are nearly there Hares. It would be fab to see you all in our final Zoom lesson-we will be creating daemons just like in Northern Lights as our last day focussing on Philip Pullman. We look forward to seeing you all at 11.45.

Don't forget to check out our last masked reader of the week too. Did you spot that yesterday's was our very own Mrs Seymour?

Miss Sharman has also recorded the second chapter of The Scarecrow and his Servant for you to enjoy.

Miss Sharman and Miss Gardner

Thursday 4th March 2021

Welcome to World Book Day!

Stay in your pyjamas, check out the activities, teacher book tastings and some of the fab World Book Day illustrator/author workshops. Most importantly, HAVE FUN!

Can you guess today's masked reader?

See you at 11.45. Remember to come with a famous book character description for some fun drawing and guessing.

Miss Sharman and Miss Gardner

Wednesday 3rd March 2021

Good morning Hares!

How accurate were you with your masked reader guesses? I think one or two of you managed to guess it straight away - well done 

Attached is your learning for the day and the resources that you may find helpful. In tomorrow's live lesson we will be celebrating World Boook Day; please start to think about an interesting book character that you could describe to the rest of the class for this lesson-reasonably well-known ones would be good as the resto of the class are going to try and guess/draw your characters!

You will be making Top Trumps today in English and continuing with your area work in maths.

Keep up the amazing work and see you at 11:45 tomorrow,

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Tuesday 2nd March 2021

Hello Hares,

Thank you so much for all of the work that has been sent in so far. You have all clearly been inspired by the texts that we are using - they are all amazing pieces of work.

Have you managed to guess any of the masked readers yet?

Have a great day and see you all at 11:45am,

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Monday 1st March 2021

Good Morning Hares! 

Happy World Book Week!

Enjoy a range of activities linked to reading and Philip Pullman this week in our English lessons. Don't forget to try and guess the masked reader today on the main classes page here...reveal at the end of the day.

Don't forget to send us your work to share in our class gallery. We are also going to be making a class display for when we are back next week and would love to have your contributions.

See you at 11.45.

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Friday 26th February 2021

Good Morning Hares!

We hope that you  have had a good week of learning and we have really enjoyed catching up with your parents in the last couple of days.

Don't forget to bring your radio advert plan to our live lesson today.

See you at 11.45 am

Miss Sharman and Miss Gardner

Thursday 24th February 2021

Good Morning Hares!

We hope you all have a good day of learning and we look forward to seeing you at 11.45.

Miss Sharman and Miss Gardner

Wednesday 24th February 2021

Good morning Hares,

How are you finding the advert work so far this week?

There isn't a live lesson today so please make sure that you watch the maths session below before completing the task.

We look forward to speaking to your grown-ups tonight and tomorrow on zoom.

Have a great day,

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Tuesday 23rd February 2021

Happy Tuesday Hares!

Below are your tasks and instructions for the day.

Have a great day and we will see you at 11:45.

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Monday 22nd February 2021

Welcome to Term 4 Hares!

We hope you had an enjoyable and restful half term break. We are hitting the ground running with lots of exciting tasks and activities linked to our Oxford topic. Have you had a chance to watch the video that all of the adults in school made? Can you work out who is who?

In maths this week (and next) it may be helpful if you have a ruler to hand. So take some time this morning to have a rummage through your pencil cases to make sure that you have one ready!

See you all at 11:45,

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Friday 12th February 2021

Happy Friday and Happy half term everyone!

One day left and then time to relax!

See you all at 11.45.

Miss Sharman and Miss Gardner

Thursday 12th February 2021

Good Morning Hares!

We look forward to seeing you all at 11.45 for today's live lesson on English.

Remember to just try your best and stay positive-you are all working so hard!

See you later,

Miss Sharman and Miss Gardner

Wednesday 10th February 2021

Good morning Hares,

We hope that you are all still smiling and doing ok. Not long now until the half term break so keep going and give it one last push!

Attached are all of the tasks and resources that you will need to complete your learning today.

See you all tomorrow,

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Tuesday 9th February 2021

Good morning Hares,

I'm still waiting for the snow, I have a feeling I might be waiting a long time!

Today is safer internet day, so we have some tasks lined up for you throughout the day. There is a live lesson on CBBC at 11am which lasts for 30minutes. There are some tasks that have been uploaded that link to that if you decide to watch it.

I hope you all got on well with your timetable work - I'm sure you did. We are going to have a look at bus timetables today.

See you at 11:45

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Monday 8th February 2021

Good morning Hares,

The final week before half term is upon us. We are so proud of all of you and how well you are working at home remotely. Keep up the good work!

Below are your tasks for the day. The answers for the maths are at the bottom of the page so please don't have a sneak peak until you have completed the tasks AFTER the live lesson.

See you all at 11:45am,

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Friday 5th February 2021

Happy Friday Hares!

We are looking forward to seeing you later for our live lesson which will also include our FRIDAY QUIZ!

Nearly the weekend, yippee!

Miss Sharman and Miss Gardner

Thursday 4th February 2021

Good Morning Hares!

We are looking forward to seeing you in the live lesson for English at 11.45. Remember to have a go at some of our well-being activities too today.

Miss Sharman and Miss Gardner

Wednesday 3rd February 2021

Good morning Hares,

Attached is the learning for today and answers from yesterday's reading and English tasks too. Remember there is no live lesson today but there are plenty of links and supporting resources to help you.

As always, we are here if you need us. Just email the class email and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

See you tomorrow!

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Tuesday 2nd February 2021

Good morning Hares,

We have our special guest on zoom today so make sure that you log on promptly with your questions, paper and pens.
You will find all of your tasks and resources below. Remember, you do not have to print of you don't want to, you can always write out your answers straight into your books.

See you at 11:45,

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Monday 1st February 2021

Good morning Hares,
 

Welcome to week 5, it's wellbeing week!

From 1-7 February 2021 schools, youth groups, organisations and individuals across the UK will take part in Children’s Mental Health Week. This year’s theme is Express Yourself.

Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts, or ideas, through creativity. This could be through art, music, writing and poetry, dance and drama, photography and film, and doing activities that make you feel good.

It’s important to remember that being able to express yourself is not about being the best at something or putting on a performance for others. It is about finding a way to show who you are, and how you see the world, that can help you feel good about yourself.

For Children's Mental Health Week 2021 we will be encouraging children (and adults) to explore the different ways we can express ourselves, and the creative ways that we can share our feelings, our thoughts and our ideas.
For more information, visit https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/ 

Remember, these are not normal times so this isn't 'normal' teaching. Please be kind to yourselves (and each other). Just do what you can with the learning and tasks that are being set. We do not expect you to complete every single task every single day, although some of you may want to, and that is also fine. If you are struggling with any tasks or any of the work that has been set then please email the class email and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

See you all at 11:45am

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Friday 29th January 2021

Hooray, Friday is here! Well done on some fantastic learning in Music week. We have particularly loved your creativity and performance work, thank you for sharing it all with us! Attached here is the beginning of the next part of Clockwork for you to enjoy. Please try and keep up with listening or watching these as we will be looking whole story next week in English.

We look forward to seeing you at 11.45 for our body percussion performance, sharing our learning and our Friday quiz.

Miss Sharman and Miss Gardner

Katie's additional question on the Orchestra Maths:

If all the Brass and half the Strings went on holiday to Majorca, and a quarter of the remaining orchestra went to Paris, how many were left in London? Answer to be shared on Monday!

Thursday 28th January 2021

Good Morning Hares!

We hope that your musical week is coming along well. We are loving our class gallery of work and look forward to adding more today!

See you all later for our Maths and orchestra themed Zoom lesson.

Miss Sharman and Miss Gardner

Wednesday 27th January 2021

Good morning Hares,

We are halfway through the week already!

We are really enjoying seeing all of your work that you have been sending in, we will be updating the Hares gallery shortly so why not have a look to see some examples of all of your amazing work. Please do keep sending work you are proud of in as we love seeing what you are up to.

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/grieg/news/tram-grieg-melody/ Matilda sent in this link to an article that relates to Edvard Grieg - how amazing would it be to have a tram that plays a special tune when it pulls up outside your house!?!

Attached are things that you may need for your learning today. Remember, we do not expect you to print out everything as you can always copy down calculations, draw out tables and makes notes. Of course, if you would like to print out the tasks then you can.

See you at 11:45am,

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Tuesday 25th January 2021

Good Morning Hares,

Tuesday is here and so are you tasks for the day. We have another day of music based creativity. Remember to bring your work from after the live session yesterday with you to the live today.

See you at 11:45am,
Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Lovely seeing you all Hares!

As promised, I've uploaded the task from the live session. I look forward to seeing all of your wonderful ideas tomorrow.

If you haven't already seen it, take some time to watch the video in the whole school home learning folder. Who knew Mrs Hammerton-Jackson was so talented!?!

See you later,

Miss Gardner

Monday 25th January 2021

Welcome to music week!

We have got so much to look forward to this week Hares so get your listening ears on and your body percussion at the ready.

Read the daily upload carefully for your instructions today as you will need to ensure that you bring some completed ideas to the live lesson.

See you all at 11:45am!

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Friday 22nd January 2021

Good Morning Hares,

Friday is here, hooray!

Last day of learning before the weekend, you can do it Hares. We have also added the writing instructions here that you shouldn't need until AFTER our live lesson, but if you want to have a look at it before the lesson, that is fine too.

See you at 11.45

Miss Sharman and Miss Gardner

Thursday 21st January

Good Morning Hares!

Attached is your learning for today including the answers for yesterday's work on punctuating speech.

We look forward to seeing you later!

Miss Sharman and Miss Gardner

Wednesday 20th January 2021

Good morning Hares!

We can't quite believe that we are halfway through the week already 

How are you all getting on with the home learning so far this week? 

In maths today we will be looking at some biscuit and cake recipes. You will see that we have added an extra challenge on the maths task for you to try some baking (if you want to). This would be a good way to show off you mass skills that you have been working on so far this week.

See you at 11:45am 

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Tuesday 19th January 2021

Good morning Hares,

Please find below your tasks for the day. Mathletics tasks have been set to go live for you at 9am today so please take some time to have a look at them. 

See you at 11:45am!

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Next Part of Clockwork

Enjoy listening to the story, but also have a look at the text as there are some extra boxes on some pages that I haven't read in the story.

Next part of Clockwork

Here is the next part of Clockwork for you to enjoy. I have been having some technical difficulties today so I have been unable to upload the video of me telling this, but I will try and get this sorted and upload later so that you can watch it in the morning.

Thanks, Miss Sharman

Monday 18th January 2021

Good Morning Hares!

We hope you have all had a restful weekend and managed to take in some of the winter sunshine.

We can't believe that we are already at the start of week 3. Hopefully you are all beginning to settle into some sort of routine and will continue to work as hard as you have been over the last 2 weeks. We really do miss seeing you in class but we look forward to seeing you daily on our class zoom meetings.

Attached are your activities for the day plus any extra helpful documents that you may need. 

As always, you DO NOT need to print the attached documents to work on. You can simply choose your challenge, write the date and LO into your book and complete the tasks there. 

Look forward to seeing you at 11:45am,

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Friday 15th January 2021

Good morning Hares!

We've made it to Friday-well done for all your hard work and enthusiasm this week.

We look forward to our last Zoom meeting of the week at 11.45. Below are details of today's learning and don't forget that some of the English resources you need were posted at the end of yesterday too.

See you all later.

Thursday 14th January-addition

Good morning Hares. Here is a vocabulary table to support the reading of the next section if the story-apologies, I meant to post it with the other information below.

Clockwork vocabulary for page 16-29

Some words and their meaning to help you with this part of the story.

Thursday 14th January 

Good morning Hares!

Below are the documents for today-they do not need to be printed, you can do the tasks directly into your book. You will also need to look at the video/story extract posted yesterday afternoon if you haven't had a chance to look at it yet. See you all at 11.45 for our English lesson.

Wednesday Update-English

Here is the next part of the story for you to read/watch prior to tomorrow's lesson. See if you are able to list the main characters and summarise the story so far (you don't need to write this down). We have also uploaded the answers to the reading comprehension in case you didn't manage to check them all in the live lesson.

Wednesday 13th January 2021

Good Morning Hares,

We are already halfway through another week. Keep up the great work, you are all amazing!

See you at 11:45am,

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Tuesday 12th January

Good morning Hares!

We hope that you all have a good day of learning and enjoy starting our new class book too.

We look forward to seeing you all later for our live lesson.

Best wishes,

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Monday 11th January

Good morning Hares!

We hope you are all rested and ready for another week full of learning. We are starting new units of work in both English and Maths this week which we are really looking forward to.

Make sure you have a pencil and some paper ready for the live this morning, we can't wait to see you at 11:45am for maths!

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Maths Follow up

Hi all!  There were a few queries about number of questions for each task, versus number of answers given-I've had a look through and they seem to match up. Just make sure when today's answers are posted later that you are using the correct answers to mark the correct questions (Mild, Warm or Hot).

Friday 8th January

We've made it to Friday Hares! Well done on all your hard work and input in our lessons, we are really impressed. Here are today's tasks and documents.

Thursday 7th January 2021

Good Morning Hares!

Thank you all for your input in the lesson yesterday, we think we are all beginning to get the hang of it. Please look at the document below for all of today's information. See you all at 11.45am

Thank you!

Remote learning - Wednesday 6th January 2021

Good morning Hares,

It was great to see so many of you on Zoom yesterday. We really enjoyed seeing all of your smiley faces again after the Christmas break.

The answers from yesterday's maths have been uploaded so make sure you have a quick look to see how you have done.

We have another busy day ahead of us. Make sure you have had a go at the tasks from yesterday before starting on the tasks from today.

See you at 11:45am!

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Remote learning Tuesday 5th January 2021

Good morning Hares,

We hope that you are all excited and ready for our first day of remote learning. Both Miss Sharman and myself are really looking forward to seeing you on zoom at 11:45am.

Below you will find a document that sets out your tasks for the day. Each day you will need come and visit our class page to see what activities and tasks we have set for you. We will try as hard as we can to not attach too many documents for you. 

Today you will need to make sure that you can see a copy of the attached image of a submerged city for your reading task.

If you get stuck on ideas for your English task then there is an example that we have put up for you to have a look at.

Remember, as well as you set daily tasks you should still be reading, practicing your spellings and times tables and checking for Mathletics tasks.

See you all at 11:45 - don't forget your pencils and paper!

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Welcome back to term 3!

Whilst it isn't quite the start we were expecting, there is still lots of new and exciting learning to come. We have uploaded the new topic web for the term which introduces our new topic - Oxford. As well as this there is a new home learning grid with tasks related to our topic and spelling grids.

You may notice that there are a few different spelling grids for this term - during our remote leaning we will be looking at the main Hares spelling grid and teaching you the spelling rules that are on there but, as part of your remote learning tasks we would like you to look at your year group spelling lists and have a go at learning the words that are on there as well. These are some of the words that you should be able to spell by the end of the year.

Keep practicing you spellings using the strategies that we have looked at.
See you all soon,

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Home learning due to Covid-19 isolation

If your child is isolating at any point, please refer to the class' current home learning grids and spelling lists below for home learning tasks. In addition, your child should log in to Mathletics and complete the tasks they have set on there. They should also be reading and discussing what they have read with an adult on a daily basis.

Welcome to the new year, Hares!

We hope that you have had a great first week back, we have really enjoyed working with you.

Below are copies of the work that have been sent home in your homework book.

You have:

- a spelling sheet - you will work on these words in school, but also practise them at home.

- a homework grid - choose a task to complete each week.

- a reading record - complete it each time you finish a book and see how many of the challenges you can complete this year.

- your Mathletics logins have been sent home and you should log on each week to see what work has been set.  Feel free to play maths games once you've finished your assigned task.

If for some reason you are unable to come to school, please use these as a basis for your work.  Be original and work to the best of your ability.  For example, you could:

- write out your spellings in super sentences in your best handwriting.

- review a book from your reading challenge.

- choose a task from the homework grid and take the time to plan, produce, edit and publish to a very high quality.

Keep up the good work!

Miss Gardner and Miss Sharman

Hello Hares!

Many thanks for joining us either in the classroom or over zoom this week!

As promised, here is the suggested home learning for you! 

Please feel free to work through the grid at your own pace. We have attached some support resources as well as some useful websites.

We wish you a relaxing and fun summer holiday. Stay safe and we look forward to seeing you all in September.

Miss Gardner, Miss Sharman and Mrs Seymour