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Thursday 2nd April 2020

April 2, 2020April 2, 2020 Scott Grason-Taylor

I’m so pleased to see you’re beginning to share exciting things on Tapestry. I’d like to set a challenge for anyone who has not yet posted to have a go today. This could be a message, a photo, a video or even just a reply to this message. Let’s see if we can get everyone involved. If you haven’t yet signed up please send an e-mail to Mr Grason to join.

English – you should have given someone your instructions to try yesterday. Did they work? Had you missed anything out? I would like you to use today to make any changes that you may have needed and check that your steps all include imperative verbs.

Maths – as the weather is nice again today, we are going to mix our time and science together. I’d like you to all go out for a walk today and measure your heart rate every 4 minutes (you might need to take a paper and pencil to record your results) for the duration of your walk. Once you have returned home, use your results to produce a line graph recording your results.

Topic – if you have collected some resources, have a go at making your Victorian light from your design.

Get our for some fresh air and I look forward to seeing your results.

Happy recording.

Mrs Walker

Wednesday 1st April 2020

April 1, 2020April 1, 2020 Scott Grason-Taylor

Good morning Leaders

April already – where did March go?

It’s fantastic to see you are beginning to upload things to Tapestry, having a go at your challenges. It will be a great way to see your progress. If you haven’t decided on your challenge or I haven’t yet collected your ideas, don’t worry I will be collecting all of them when I speak to your families (or you can post on Tapestry and tell me too!) and then we can put together a list so you call all see what people are doing. I love the ideas I have been collecting so far.

English – It’s time to test those instructions, either try them out yourself or give them to someone else in the family to have a go at – remember to follow the instructions exactly to see if they work.

Maths – Continuing our work on time here are two links to time games that you might want to have a look at.

https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/118/adding_time_word_problems#

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?a=activity25

Topic – Have a look at this short video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLce9i2Ci5wand make a list of the similarities and differences between a mosque and our local church in Sleights.

Happy April everyone.

Mrs Walker

Tuesday 31st March 2020

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 Scott Grason-Taylor

Morning Leaders.

Thank you to those who have started sharing their work through Tapestry, it has been brilliant to see. If you haven’t already you can still sign up by sending an e-mail to Mr Grason – it would be fantastic to see everyone there so that we can keep in touch.

English – if you had a go at carrying out a task yesterday, have a go at writing instructions for that task today.

Maths – look at your timetable and see if you can answer these questions:

Which is the longest activity and how long does it last?

Which is the shortest activity and how long does it last?

How many hours and minutes is it from getting up to going to bed?

Challenge – If you got up half an hour earlier each day until Friday, how many hours and minutes would it be then from getting up to going to bed?

Topic – There seems to be some love of cooking and baking at the moment so I though it might be nice to share a bun recipe. Have a go at baking buns with your family and decorate however you can. http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/28455/plain-buns-with-icing.aspx Take a picture and upload it – I’d love to see your creations.

Happy baking.

Mrs Walker

Monday 30th March 2020

March 30, 2020March 30, 2020 Scott Grason-Taylor

Morning Leaders

It has been lovely to hear what you have been doing last week and I am looking forward to being able to share more with you through Tapestry.

For those who would like to, I am going to set you three tasks each day: 1 English, 1 maths and 1 topic. I know lots of you are busy with your arithmetic books and grammar so you can do as much or as little of this as you like. You will find that that the whole school is going to try and follow the same maths and English topics so that you can completed these as a family if you wish.

English – we are going to think about instructions this week – today is the day to carry out a task that you will be able to write instructions for over the week. Some ideas – making up a game, baking a cake or making a model.

Maths – the clocks have just changed and the evenings are now lighter so we are thinking about time. Have a go at doing a timetable for your day at home using digital times.

Topic – try and draw a design for your Victorian light – remember to label your drawing and imagine that you have to fit the circuit inside. (It would be great to start collecting some recycling material too so that we can make it once you have collected what you need.)

Finally, you can upload any of this (or anything else you would like to share) to Tapestry and I will be able to see it – very exciting!

Looking forward to hearing from you all.

Mrs Walker

Friday 27th March 2020

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 Scott Grason-Taylor

Morning Leaders

Firstly, well done everyone – our Sumdog percentages have increased very quickly – Wow!

I hope you all had more luck in your garden/environment yesterday than I did – I think maybe the bounding spaniel has scared mine away. I’m going to have another look in the sunshine today.

As the sunshine is still out today, let’s do some art. Find something, either inside or outside, to make a pencil drawing of. Remember to use light and dark strokes, think about pattern and texture too.

Happy drawing.

Mrs Walker

Thursday 26th March 2020

March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 Scott Grason-Taylor

Hello Leaders!

Another beautiful day so let’s enjoy the sunshine. Have a look around your garden or local environment and see how many different minibeasts you can find. You might also want to make a list of the amount of each different one that you find and then make a graph to show your results. I am going to do some investigation myself and will show you what I find tomorrow.

With the beautiful weather, it made me think about being our in our forest, so I have also posted a link to teach yourself how to try a reef knot. If you don’t have a piece of rope see if you can borrow a shoelace – just remember to return it afterwards!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aprfVTaxkk0

We’ll try another knot later in the week – that way we’ll be prepared for our first forest school session back in school – den building and hot chocolate.

Enjoy the sunshine.

Mrs Walker

Wednesday 25th March 2020

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 Scott Grason-Taylor

What a lovely day!

What about using your science knowledge to carry out another heart rate investigation after exercise. You could maybe find the difference in heart rates for all members of your family after doing the same amount of exercise. Remember to make it ‘fair’ to give you the best results.

For those of you who would like something different to Joe Wicks, here are some other ideas to keep you active: http://www.imovement.com are the activities we tried whilst we were still in school; Oti Mabuse, from Strictly, is also doing a dance class for those dancers amongst us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btxws8qvYAA

It has been lovely hearing what you have all being doing so far and I will continue to be in contact with you and your families over the coming days. Remember to think about your 3 week challenge – once I know what everyone is doing I will post them here so you can see what everyone has challenged themselves with.

Enjoy the sunshine and stay safe.

Mrs Walker

Tuesday 24th March 2020

March 24, 2020March 25, 2020 Scott Grason-Taylor

Morning Leaders

I hope lots of you joined me with Joe Wicks this morning – 20 different exercises in 20 minutes – well done everyone! My personal favourite was the ice skater. Same time tomorrow if you didn’t manage to join us today.

You will probably have heard that we now have at least 3 weeks in our homes – in those 3 weeks I would like you all to set yourself a challenge. You all know that I showed you a ukulele in the class a little while ago with the promise that I was going to teach myself so we can learn as a class together. That is going to be my challenge over the next 3 weeks. Your challenge could be anything from learning something new to completing something every day for those 3 weeks.

I will be in touch with your families over the course of the week and would love to find out what your challenges are.

Monday 23rd March 2020

March 23, 2020March 25, 2020 Scott Grason-Taylor

Good Morning Leaders

This is our first week of learning from home. I am going to join Joe Wicks at 9am every weekday morning and I would love you to join me – we can all be active together! Please follow the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz0go1pTda8.

Remember to try and complete some of your activities each day, little and often is the way to go. It is also important that you spend time with your families: play that board game that has been hiding under the bed; make your lunch or tea together to practise your cooking skills and try and get some time outside in your gardens whilst the weather is nice.

More importantly, stay safe and healthy.