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Dear Parents and Carers,
Here is an overview of tasks we’d like children to complete at home over the coming weeks. We are committed to making sure that your child is still learning as much as possible and endeavour to do our best to keep this happening.
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Accelerated Reader Follow the link to access our school's personal accelerated reader page. You can quiz on any book that is on their system during school hours. Keep reading!!
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Week 16: Monday 13th July - Friday 17th July 2020
Year 3 Literacy
- Monday - Read a Collection of Jokes. Write Own Jokes and Make Joke Book.
- Tuesday - Look at examples of ‘exquisite corpse’ pictures and then draw own.
- Wednesday - Read about Dragons and Match Pictures. Write Multiple-Choice Answers for Given Questions.
- Thursday - Complete ‘Crosspoint’ Puzzles.
- Friday - Read a Menu and a Poem about Revolting Food.
Year 4 Literacy
Year 3 Maths
- Monday - Mathematical investigation: to solve a geometrical problem.
- Tuesday - Practical Activity: to investigate creating the nets of cubes
- Wednesday - Puzzles: to solve a fun set of number puzzles
- Thursday - Game: play a game using ‘pentomino’ pieces
- Friday - Mathematical investigation: investigate how pentominoes can be combined to make rectangles.
Year 4 Maths
- Monday - Mathematical investigationt o solve a geometrical problem
- Tuesday - Practical Activity: to investigate creating the nets of cubes
- Wednesday - Puzzles: to solve a fun set of number puzzles
- Thursday - Game: play a game using ‘pentomino’ pieces
- Friday - Mathematical investigation: investigate how pentominoes can be combined to make rectangles.
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Week 15: Monday 6th July to Friday 10th July 2020
Year 3 Literacy
- Monday - Listen to Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Write about a character.
- Tuesday - Listen again to a story; compare different versions of a story; write persuasively in relation to a story.
- Wednesday -Listen for a final time to a story; write a letter; write a conversation as punctuated dialogue.
- Thursday - Read ‘Strict’ by Michael Rosen. Write the very strict class teacher’s class rules.
- Friday -Read ‘Dinner Hall’ by Michael Rosen. Create a menu of the kind of revolting food combinations.
Year 4 Literacy
- Monday - Read biography of Edward Lear and read his classic poem: ‘The Owl and the Pussycat’.
- Tuesday - Read another version of the same poem. Explore vocabulary. Make predictions. Plan own poem.
- Wednesday - Read Edward Lear's Poem 'The Quangle Wangle's Hat'. Practise expanded noun-phrases.
- Wednesday - Noun Phrases powerpoint with audio.
- Thursday - Read Edward Lear's Poem 'The Pobble Who Has No Toes'. Write a recount.
- Thursday's Text - Poem 'The Popple Who Has No Toes'.
- Friday - Read Edward Lear's limericks and check features. Learn one off-by-heart and then write their own.
Year 3 Maths
- Monday - Revise times tables and related facts.
- Tuesday - Scale up by multiplying by 4 (double twice) and by 10.
- Wednesday - Scale down by dividing by 4 (halve twice) and by 1
- Thursday - Investigate adding numbers in rectangles drawn on calendars. -
- Friday - Use inverse operations to solve puzzles and to help write ‘magic’ chains.
Year 4 Maths
- Monday - Revise equivalent fractions.
- Monday - PowerPoint on revising using a fraction wall to find equivalent fractions.
- Tuesday - Revise finding non-unit fractions of amounts
- Wednesday - Multiplication ‘arithmagons’.
- Thursday - Investigating addition on a number grid.
- Friday - Solving number puzzles.
P.E. Activities
60 Active Minutes A Day Initiative
Being active for at least 60 minutes a day is linked to better general health, stronger bones and muscles, and higher levels of self-esteem and wellbeing.
Dance Festival - Strictly Home Dancing. Submit Entries from Monday 15th June 2020
Music Activities
Collective Worship - Change!
As we come closer to the year end, we begin a couple of weeks looking at what lessons Moses and the Israelites can teach us about change.
Week 14: Monday 29th June - Friday 3rd July 2020
Year 3 Literacy
- Monday - Read a Classic Greek Myth, 'Icarus'. Answer Questions and Retell Story.
- Monday - 'Icarus' Text
- Tuesday - Reread 'Icarus'. Compare Written Text with an Animated Version. Diary Work.
- Wednesday - Read a Longer and More Complex Version of 'Icarus'. Instructions Writing.
- Thursday - Finish the Longer Version of 'Icarus'. Consider all versions.
- Friday - Read the Poem,'Hope is the things with Feathers'. Answer Questions.
Year 4 Literacy
- Monday -Read a classic Greek myth, Icarus; make responses to the text. Read a longer text version.
- Monday - 'Icarus' Text
- Tuesday - Re-read a Greek myth to develop familiarity with its themes and characters;
- Wednesday - Begin reading a more demanding version of a Greek myth.
- Thursday - Finish reading a more demanding version of a Greek myth
- Friday - Read a classic poem, ‘Hope is the thing with feathers’
Year 3 Maths
- Monday - Revise doubling numbers to 100 using partitioning.
- Tuesday - Revise halving numbers to 100 using partitioning.
- Wednesday - Describe and name 3-D shapes
- Wednesday - PowerPoint on 3-D Shape
- Thursday - Describe, name and sort 3-D shapes using a Carroll diagram.
- Friday - Count faces, vertices and edges of pyramids.
Year 4 Maths
- Monday - Divide 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers, using a vertical layout for ‘chunking’.
- Monday - PowerPoint on Dividing using 'Chunking'.
- Tuesday - Divide 2-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers: answers <30, writing remainders as fractions.
- Wednesday - Solve division problems, interpreting remainders appropriately.
- Thursday - Count on and back in steps of 25 and 1000.
- Thursday - Count on and back in steps of 25 and 1000.
- Friday - Use Roman numerals to 100.
Collective Worship - Fearfully and wonderfully made
This week we consider how amazing the human body and mind is and how we should respond to such a precious gift.
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Week 13 - Monday 22nd June to Friday 26th June 2020
Year 3 Literacy
- Monday - Listen to 'The Night Shimmy'. Answer Questions. Revise Expanded Noun Phrases.
- Tuesday - Listen to 'Silly Billy'. Recall and Write about the Details. Write a Letter.
- Wednesday - Listen to Both Monday's and Tuesday's Stories, Compare and Contrast Them.
- Thursday - Listen to 'Voices in the Park'. Define and Use the Simple Past Tense in Recount Writing.
- Friday - Re-listen 'Voices in the Park'. Define and Use Progressive Form of Past Tense in Writing.
Year 4 Literacy
- Monday - Listen to 'The Night Shimmy' and Answer Questions about the Artwork.
- Tuesday - List to 'Silly Billy'. Rewrite a Set of Instructions and Write a Letter.
- Wednesday - Listen to Both Stories Again and Answer Comparison Questions.
- Thursday - Listen to 'Voices in the Park' and Answer Questions. Write a Version of the Day from a View Point.
- Friday - Re-listen to 'Voices in the Park' and Divide into Paragraphs. Write from the View Point of a Character.
Year 3 Maths
- Monday - Revise using expanded and compact addition to add any pair of 3-digit numbers.
- Monday - PowerPoint on expanded and compact column addition
- Tuesday - Use compact addition to add pairs of 3-digit numbers. Estimate totals.
- Wednesday - Add three or four 2-digit numbers using expanded or compact addition.
- Thursday - Identify right angles, and angles greater than or less than a right angle.
- Friday - Identify horizontal, vertical, perpendicular and parallel lines.
Year 4 Maths
- Monday - Use knowledge of times tables and place value to divide multiples of 10.
- Monday - PowerPoint on using times tables facts and place value to solve divisions of multiples of 10 and 100.
- Tuesday - Solve scaling problems. Convert from centimetres to metres.
- Wednesday - Solve correspondence problems.
- Thursday - Convert from kilograms to grams and vice versa.
- Friday - Order items by mass/weight.
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Collective Worship - Food! Feeding the 5000
Join us as we enjoy some food, have a story about a picnic and ask why Jesus likened Himself to Bread!
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Week 12 - Monday 15th June - Friday 19th June 2020
Year 3 Literacy
- Monday - Listen to Part of the Fable 'The Queen of the Birds'. Predict What May Happen.
- Tuesday - Listen to Remaining Part of 'The Queen of the Birds'. Compare with Predictions. Homophones.
- Wednesday - Listen to the Fable 'The King of the Birds'. Compare the two versions. Direct Speech.
- Wednesday - PowerPoint on Punctuating Direct Speech
- Thursday - Listen again to 'The King of the Birds'. Use Determiners 'a' and 'an' correctly.
- Friday - Poems 'Owl' and 'The Sparrow'.
Year 4 Literacy
- Monday - Listen to First part of 'Sinbad's Fifth Voyage'. Revise Conjunctions.
- Monday - PowerPoint on Conjunctions and Prepositions with audio
- Tuesday - Listen to Second part of 'Sinbad's Fifth Voyage'. Revise Prepositions.
- Wednesday - Listen to Last part of 'Sinbad's Fifth Voyage'. Retell Story using Conjunctions and Prepositions
- Thursday - Read Several Humorous Poems.
- Friday - Read Draft Poem and Notice Amendments to Improve. Write Own Poem.
Year 3 Maths
- Monday - Count in 4s and 8s.
- Tuesday - Describe the rule for a sequence and continue it.
- Wednesday - Revise times tables and division facts (1×, 2×, 3×, 4×, 5×, 8×, 10×).
- Thursday - Understand angles as an amount of turn and right angles as quarter turns.
- Thursday - PowerPoint on clockwise and anticlockwise quarter turns.
- Friday - Understand angles as an amount of turn and right angles as quarter turns.
- Friday - PowerPoint on a picture being rotated through quarter turns, clockwise and anticlockwise.
Year 4 Maths
- Monday - Count up to find a price difference.
- Monday - Powerpoint on using ‘Frog’ to find the difference between two prices.
- Tuesday - Choose appropriate methods to subtract 4-digit numbers.
- Wednesday - Using counting up (Frog) to find change.
- Thursday - Use negative numbers in context of temperature
- Thursday - PowerPoint on using negative numbers in the context of temperature.
- Friday - Place negative numbers on a line. Order positive and negative numbers.
Collective Worship - Compassion - Blind Bartimaeus
This week we continue looking at the subject of compassion, this time through the meeting of Jesus with Blind Bartimaeus.
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Week 11 - Monday 8th June to Friday 12th June 2020
Year 3 Literacy
- Monday - Wilf Merten's 'The Little Story That Didn't Want to be Told'. Commas and And to Separate Items in a List.
- Text of Wilf Merten's 'The Story That Didn't Want To Be Told'
- Tuesday - Listen to Monday's Story again. Use Conjunctions and Descriptive Language When Writing.
- Wednesday - Read A Different Version of 'The Little Story That Didn't Want to be Told'. Write About An Animal.
- Thursday - Reread the Written Story. Punctuate and Lay Out Direct Speech.
- Thursday - Powerpoint Punctuating Direct Speech
- Friday - 'The Little Tale'. Summarise Opinions.
Year 3 Maths
- Monday - Add and subtract multiples of 10 and 100 to and from 3-digit numbers
- Tuesday - Add and subtract near multiples of 10 to and from 3-digit numbers.
- Tuesday - Powerpoint on adding and subtracting ‘near multiples’ of 10.
- Wednesday - Identify lines of symmetry.
- Thursday - Name and describe polygons, including pentagons, hexagons and octagons.
- Friday - Name, describe and sort 2-D shapes.
Year 4 Maths
- Monday - Revise column subtraction of 3-digit numbers.
- Monday - Powerpoint on revising expanded and compact column subtraction with pairs of 3-digit numbers.
- Tuesday - Column subtraction of 4-digit numbers.
- Wednesday - Find the perimeter of rectangles using calculation.
- Wednesday - Powerpoint on finding the perimeter of rectangles using doubling strategies.
- Thursday - Find the perimeter of rectilinear shapes using calculation
- Friday - Investigate area and perimeter.
Science Year 3 (Week 2 - 8.6.20)
Science Year 4 (Week 2 - 8.6.20)
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Collective Worship - Compassion: Feeling and helping
This week, we explore how Jesus meeting with a leper shows us that compassion goes beyond simply feeling for someone, to actually doing something to help.
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Week 10 - Monday 1st June - Friday 5th June 2020
Year 3 Literacy
- Monday - Listen to 'The King of Rome' song. Direct Speech and Retelling the Story.
- Monday - Powerpoint of King of Rome Dialogue with audio
- Tuesday - 'The King of Rome' song. Synonyms for 'Said' and Write a Paragraph.
- Wednesday - Calligram 'Bembo's Zoo'. Investigate and Create Own Calligram.
- Thursday - Read a Three-Line Poem arranged as a Triangle. Practise Conjunctions.
- Thursday - Powerpoint on Conjunctions and Prepositions with audio.
- Friday - Learn A Poem. Practise Prepositions and Write Own Triangle Shaped Poem.
Year 4 Literacy
- Monday - Listen to Story 'Henry's Freedom Box'. Order Events and Answer Questions.
- Tuesday - Listen to Two Versions of Story.
- Wednesday - Write in Role.
- Thursday - Classic Poem 'Sea Fever'. Revise Possessive Apostrophes.
- Thursday - Powerpoint on Possessive Apostrophes with audio.
- Friday - Classic Poem 'Amulet'.
Year 3 Maths
- Monday - Find a difference between pairs of numbers within the same century (‘Frog’).
- Monday - Powerpoint to show ‘Frog’ counting up to find the difference.
- Tuesday - Use counting up (Frog) to calculate change from £5, £10 and £20.
- Tuesday - PowerPoint on counting up to find change from £5, £10 and £20.
- Wednesday - Use counting up to find the difference between two amounts of money.
- Thursday - Revising finding unit fractions of amounts
- Friday - Find non-unit fractions of quantities using division and multiplication.
Year 4 Maths
- Monday - Use expanded column subtraction to subtract 3-digit numbers.
- Monday - PowerPoint on expanded column subtraction with pairs of 3-digit numbers.
- Tuesday - Introduce compact column subtraction to subtract 3-digit numbers.
- Wednesday - Choose a strategy to subtract 3-digit numbers.
- Thursday - Find the area of rectangles.
- Thursday - PowerPoint on finding the area of rectangles using times tables facts.
- Friday - Find the area of rectilinear shapes.
Year 3 Science
Year 4 Science
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Woodland Trust: Tree ID for kids Nature detectives
Week 9 - Monday 25th May - Friday 29th May 2020
Year 3 Literacy
- Monday - King of the Sky. Answer questions and Describe a Setting
- Tuesday - King of the Sky. Write about the Main Characters and Direct Speech.
- Tuesday - Powerpoint on Dialogue with audio
- Wednesday - Non-Fiction 'Pigeon Racing' and Research
- Thursday - Poem 'The Cow' by RL Stevenson. Use Adverbs.
- Thursday - Powerpoint on Adverbs with audio
- Friday - Poem 'Sheep in Winter'. Use Adverbs.
Year 4 Literacy
- Monday - Poem 'Hero Dad' by Grace Nichols. Revise and Identify Determiners.
- Monday - Powerpoint on Determiners with audio.
- Tuesday - Poem 'Hero Dad'. Identify Determiners and Swap them. Write a Poem.
- Wednesday - African Stories and Summarise.
- Thursday - More African Stories. Plot a Storyboard Retelling the Story.
- Friday - Identify Conjunctions and Fronted Adverbials in an African Story.
Year 3 Maths
- Monday - Add 1-digit number to 3-digit numbers using place value and number facts.
- Monday - Powerpoint on adding a 1-digit number to a 3-digit number
- Tuesday - Subtract 1-digit numbers from 3-digit numbers using similar strategies.
- Wednesday - Tell the time to the minute on analogue and digital clocks.
- Thursday - Find and compare time durations, converting from analogue times to digital to help with the subtraction.
- Friday - Revise units of time.
Year 4 Maths
- Monday - Use column addition to add three 3-digit numbers.
- Tuesday - Use column addition to add amounts of money.
- Wednesday - Use column addition, expanded and compact, to add pairs of 4-digit numbers.
- Wednesday - Powerpoint on Expanded and Compact Column Addition with Pairs of 4-Digit Numbers
- Thursday - Use factors to provide useful strategies when multiplying.
- Friday - Multiply three numbers, reordering where it will make the calculation easier.
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Collective Worship - Pentecost
A couple of weeks early but let's look at the events of Pentecost and see what they can teach us.
Collective Worship - Compassion for All
This week, we briefly revisit the Good Samaritan among other things as we try to understand what our attitude should be towards those from other places.
Collective Worship - Equal? Galatians 3 v 28
Do we treat different people of having different worth? This week's CW explores the value God places on us all, no matter who we are, and how this should affect us in our own relationships.
Collective Worship - The Prodigal Son
Relationships are so important so how are things going in your house during lockdown? Jesus' parable about the prodigal son teaches us an important lesson.
Good Samaritan CW
Mr Buckeridge's Collective Worship for Schools during COVID-19. Are you a good neighbour? What does being a neighbour mean? How does the story of the Good Samaritan help us. Sing, listen, reflect - then how to respond?
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The Easter Story
Mr Buckeridge's Easter Story in 4 parts.
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