Home Learning

With children spending more time online due to school closures we have add new content for parents on the 'Online Safety' page of our website. There you will find links to some extremely useful websites aimed at keeping you and your family safe online. Thinkuknow have also produced some home learning packs with 15 minute activities for you to work through with your children at home. 

Monday 6th July

Good Morning Class 3, 

I hope you have had a lovely weekend and enjoyed another week of home learning last week. We have just two more weeks of term to go! We're almost there! You have all done fantastically and we want you to keep it up for just a little while longer!! As previously said, if you can continue with the Maths, Literacy and Reading,  then that would be brilliant.  Try to stay busy and occupied. To help this we hve a few interesting and fun activities for you to have a go at below.

Mrs Swain is there for you, as am I. If you need support, then don't be afraid to email one of us with any questions or if you fancy a phone call/video chat.

Well done to our 5 Bug Club Readers of the week: Rose C, Hugo, Finn, Max and Tom.  It's great to see and hear that you are reading lots at home. Make sure this continues, whether it's a home book or on Bug Club! Can you be one of our readers of the week next week by reading lots on Bug Club?

Also, well done this week to Arlo who has deservedly earned the Work of the Week Certificate for some super work at home!

Here is a reminder of your Maths and Literacy choices.

Maths

Please continue to complete the daily White Rose Maths lesson, first watching the instructional video and then answering the questions on your worksheets. Remember to mark your work or get an adult to help you.

Literacy

Complete a Literacy task each day. You could either complete the Hamilton Literacy lesson every day

OR

You could do the alternative Literacy ideas, where there are 3 SPaG Mats and 2 creative writing activities.

HERE ARE A RANGE OF OTHER ACTIVITIES FOR YOU TO DO!

• Soap carving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y17RweezGi8

• Look at "links to websites". Here you'll find ideas for a variety of activities. (download document below)

• Grow a Rainbow challenge. (download document below)

• Tie-dye with Tumeric! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7HBdjMLEuM

• Create a magazine on all the things you like! You could include a fact file about someone or something that interests you, add photos of your family, include a puzzle section(Create a worsearch or crossword), a recipe, an exercise challenge, create a quiz,  some book recommendations and so on. You could do this on Publisher or Word or by hand.

• 100 ideas to do at home. Whilst aimed at KS1 as well as KS2, you might find some fun activities to keep you busy! (download document below.

• Read, read, read! You could visit the library and sign up for the Summer Reading Challenge  or enrol online.  Go to https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/ to find out more.

• How about investigating the WAMA "share your lockdown experience" creative task. Mrs Swain has made a page on the Class Pages homepage with all of the details here:  https://www.thebritishschool.co.uk/oak-academy-thursday-assembly/

• Have a go at The Gloucestershire Schools PE challenge. All info found here  https://www.thebritishschool.co.uk/ve-day-activities/

• Do you go for daily walks with your family? Perhaps you go on bike rides? Total up the number of miles you do in a week!

• STEM challenges (download document below)

I hope you all have an amazing week of home learning. You are all doing such an amazing job and we all miss you lots! Remember, keep smiling, keep having fun and try to enjoy yourselves as well!!

Take care of yourselves and keep safe.

Mr Beale, Mrs Symanowski, Mrs Shep Mrs Weston and Mrs Swain

cbeale@british.gloucs.sch.uk

dswain@british.gloucs.sch.uk

Weekly Maths and Literacy Lessons

Further Literacy Resources and Websites

Further Maths Resources and Websites

Project - Through the Keyhole

Nature and Animals Project Activity ideas

• Minibeast Hunt and Bug Hotel- Get out into the garden and make a bug hotel. Go on a mini beast hunt and record what you find. If you find any minibeasts that you haven’t seen before you could always look it up online. What can you find out about these amazing creatures?

• Design a treasure map- Design your own treasure map using the instructions on the resource below.

• Bush Craft Challenges- Take part in some of the bush craft challenges in the resource below.

• Spring Hunt- Take part in a Spring hunt- Write down evidence of things and/or take pictures/draw pictures of things that show that it’s the beginning of spring. You may want to research before about what the signs of spring are.

• Animal Fact File- Write a fact file about two contrasting (different) animals using https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/category/discover/animals/ to help you. You may also want to draw the animals in your fact file.

• Animal Top Trumps- Create some top trump cards about different animals to play with your family.

Additional Home Learning Packs