Fir Class N:Rich Challenge 14.7.21
Fir Class have been challenging themselves this morning to work out how our number system works when the digits were replaced with symbols. The children had to use their knowledge of number patterns to piece together a coded hundred square. Resilience and collaboration was definitely needed!
This week Year 1 have have been focusing on using precise mathematical language to describe patterns in addition and subtraction calculations. We were absolutely amazed by how they were able to use their maths language to describe a pattern! For the grown-ups reading this, the minuend is the number they are subtracting from, the subtrahend is the number they are subtracting and the difference is answer. By using this language, the children were able to explain the patterns really clearly. Well done Year 1, you have worked really hard this week.
This afternoon, Year 4 have been learning about and creating their own ocean food chains. The children were investigating the predator/prey relationship and learnt how green plants turn energy from the sun into food.
We are over a week into our remote learning for some children and Year 4 are showing what resilient and resourceful learners they can be! This term’s topic -Burps, Bottoms and Bile! – has got off to a rather gruesome start looking at the digestive system.
Here are some of the things they children have produced to show they learning.
Today, Year 5 have been investigating the samples they found from Alchemy Island earlier in the week.
They have: separated solid materials by sieving; cleaned different samples of water by using sieves, filters and evaporation and condensation; investigated different materials for electrical and heat conductivity, hardness, transparency and magnetism.
Monday morning maths for Year 5 was experimenting with place value to be able to partition numbers. They were using part-whole model, place value charts and counters and dienes to really show they understood how numbers can be partitioned in different ways.
To mark the start of the Year 5 learning journey ‘Off with her head!’, the Year 5s sampled different Tudor foods this afternoon.
They watched a video of what life would have been like in King Henry VIII’s kitchen and listened to Tudor music as they were served many delicacies such as: spiced and sugared meat, eggs in mustard sauce, jumbles (boiled and baked biscuits) and stale bread!
They also compared the benefits of water from a stream or alcoholic drinks such as cider, mead or beer. They were very surprised to hear that children drank them as well!
Oak Class have once again been busy at home this week with a variety of activities. These are some of the things they have been up to.
Working on the allotment, planting seeds and having a few bug hunts.
Tongue Twister Poems from Hope.
More First Aid courses completed.
Posters to show how iron was made.
Investigations into magnets, information leaflets about the Iron Age and a beautifully coloured poster of the ‘stay at home’ pigs!
Well done Oak Class, Miss Souter and Mrs Davie are really enjoying seeing all of your pictures so keep them coming in!
TTRS are holding an event to set a Guinness World Record for the highest score on TTRS in one minute.
They would like you to film yourself completing a 1 min game in the studio and then sending it to them. The highest score will be the Guinness World Record holder!
This link takes you to the website to explain how you can enter. The closing date is 4th June so you don’t have long.
https://ttrockstars.com/page/gwr
This week has been amazing on TTRS! I have never seen such high scores. Fir class have smashed it out of the park with a whopping 7, 981 correct answers!!!!! They are most definitely the reigning Hazeldown Champions.
Here are this week’s results:
Next week the battles have been arranged based on where you came in the school overall this week. So Fir scored the most with Bonsai second so they are battling each other next week.
The battles look like this:
Battles begin at 8:50am on Monday and will end on Friday at 3:15pm. Let’s see if anyone can beat Fir!
Last week’s TTRS results are as follows:
Congratulations to the winning classes: Monkey Puzzle, Ebony, Apple, Palm and Fir.
To organise battles this week, I have ranked the classes based on the points scored last week. So Apple scored the highest amount closely followed by Fir so they are battling each other this week.
This is how the battles look:
The year 3 children who have been in school today have been tackling their SOLE work for Tribal Tales by doing some weaving. It was a little fiddly but with a little resilience they all got it finished.
We still have a few children in school and today with the return of the sunny weather, they were keen to make the most of the field. This afternoon, we had a carousel of PE activities set up on the field to practise a range of skills. It was really nice to make the most of the weather, the fresh air and the space after a rainy day yesterday.
Here are the Battles that have been randomly picked out of the hat by some of the older children in school. Battles end on Friday at 3:15pm!
Here are this week’s results. Well done to Oak for being the top scoring class this week. Congratulations to Cherry Y3 for their victory over Monkey Puzzle. It was a close race between Bonsai Y5 and Ebony Y6 with Ebony finally winning. Apple Y2 did an amazing amount this week! Well done to Redwood Y4 who were victorious over Holly Y6.
Next week’s battles will be drawn at random, so log on on Monday morning to find out who you will be battling.
This week’s Battles have finished with he following results:
Holly 1096 v 628 Ebony
Bonsai 762 v 499 Monkey Puzzle
Fir 2305 v 1811 Redwood
Oak 4487 v 512 Cherry
Apple 723 v 354 Palm
Congratulations to the winning classes. Just to change things up a little next week, the KS2 battles will be between a class and their nearest competitor.
Next week’s battles will be between:
Oak (Y3) v Fir (Y4)
Holly (Y6) v Redwood (Y4)
Bonsai (Y5) v Ebony (Y6)
Monkey Puzzle (Y5) v Cherry (Y3)
Apple V Palm
Battles start at 8:50am on Monday!!
Oak Class have been working incredibly hard this week on their new topic Tribal Tale. Here are just a few of the amazing things they have created whilst learning about the Stone Age through to the Iron Age:
Lots of cave paintings and hill forts have been created. Some of you have even had a go at making Stone Age tools!!
Literacy skills have been improved by looking for key features in an information text and then put to good use when writing their own.
In maths, we have been learning about measurement and lots have children have been dusting-off the tape measures and finding out the height and length of lots of things around the house. Barney measured all of his family to find out who was the tallest!
Fantastic learning Oak Class! Miss Souter and Mrs Davie really enjoy seeing pictures of all the wonderful things you are doing so keep sending them to us and we’ll put as many as we can on here so you can see what everybody is up to.
Year 6
Ebony are the winners with 1691
Year 5
Bonsai won with 1182
Year 4
This was really close! With only 28 more correct answers, Fir were the winners
Year 3
Oak smashed it with 4554 correct answers!
Year 2
Apple Class won with 750
This week’s results:
Ebony 16,424 v Holly 13,173
Bonsai 7,267 v Monkey Puzzle 370
Redwood 2020 v Fir 218
Oak 11,504 v Cherry 4223
Apple 222 v Palm 87
Congratulations to the winning bands. A new battle will start on 14th April so get practising!
All week, classes in each year group have been battling each other on Times Tables Rockstars to win this week’s Battle of the Bands. Children score points for every correct answer they give during the week.
In Yr 2 Apple Class are the champions scoring 222 to Palm Class’s 87
In Yr Oak Class were victorious with 11,504 against Cherry Class with 4,223
In Yr 4 Redwood won with 2,020 to Fir’s 318
In Yr 5 Bonsai are the champions with 7,267 to Monkey Puzzle’s 370
And finally, Yr 6 champions are Ebony with 16,424 to Holly’s 13,173
The competition starts again on Monday morning at 8:50am and will continue until 3:15pm on Friday. Don’t forget to log in to your account and do your bit. Next week’s Battle of the Bands results will be posted on Friday.
| Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 13th March 2020
(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 25th March 2020) |
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| Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record. |
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| Spellings
Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the spelling focus in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn! |
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| Home Learning Menu
Over the next 2 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do one fifteen and a five-point activity or you could do two ten points; you could also choose to do four five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below. |
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| 15 points | 10 points | 5 points |
| Music
Listen to these 5 songs: Holding Out for a Hero We Don’t Need Another Hero Hero Wind Beneath My Wings I Can Be Your Hero Review the songs – Rank them 1 to 5 – 1 being your favourite. What sounds can you hear? Think about tempo(speed), dynamics(loudness), timbre(sound), Pitch (high and low) and duration(length) Listen to the lyrics (words) how do you know they are about heroes? What does the hero do?
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History
Historical Heroes – below is a list of historical heroes or you can think of one yourself. Can you research the hero and create and information piece about why they were a hero. Don’t forget to explain when and where they lived and what they did that made them a hero?
Florence Nightingale Ghandi Amelia Earhart Rosa Parks Mother Teresa Mary Seacole Martin Luther King Boudicca William Wilberforce Neil Armstrong
Or any one else from history as long as you can explain why they are a hero! |
5 points for each act.
PSHE ‘Paying it forward’ – Can you do a good deed for someone. It could be anything that is kind, helpful or thoughtful to someone else. It could be as simple as picking up something that someone else has dropped and returning it to them or something big raising money for charity! Write about it, photograph it, video it! Whatever you can think of to show how you are spreading kindness in the world!
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| PSHE
Choose your favourite (or scariest). What do they do? Why are they good at being a villain? Why are they the most villainous villain? You could think about Darth Vader, Scar, Professor Snape. What about Tom from Tom and Jerry, is he a villain? |
Maths
TTRS – We are having a Battle of the bands with the other Year 3 class. It will start on Monday and run until Friday so don’t forget to pay every right answer counts!! |
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Year 3 have been tackling the tricky subject of fractions! They have been showing their understanding of parts and wholes all week and today they began working on tenths. The children were able to use images and express the fractions they could see in many different ways. Their work was amazing; deeper understanding was shown by all.
Year 3 have been researching Cruella de Vil, as part of their Heroes and Villains topic, with the aim of eventually writing a biography about her life. Today, they were very lucky to have a visit from the lady herself! The children were able to interview her and ask her lots of questions and find out all the juicy details about her life!
Year 3 were lucky enough yesterday to have some gymnastics training from a specialist gym teacher. They were able to practise 3 different types of rolls, counter and tension balances and were even able to use some of them on various pieces of apparatus.
Year 3 have started a new using on fractions today. They started by exploring the part-whole relationship. The children could recognise what made the whole and then identify part of the whole. This understanding will be really important when understanding fractions.
| Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 28th February 2020
(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 11th March 2020) |
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| Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record. |
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| Spellings
Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the spelling focus in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn! |
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| Home Learning Menu
Over the next 2 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do one fifteen and a five-point activity or you could do two ten points; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below. |
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| 15 points | 10 points | 5 points |
| Maths
Have a go at cracking codes. On the website below you will see 6 different types of code breaking activities. Have a go at, at least 2 of these. Remember to bring in your coded message and the tool for solving it. We will be able to have some time to crack each other’s codes in school. https://www.melissaanddoug.com/blogpost?postId=6-secret-codes-for-kids |
Art
Sketch a portrait of your hero from photographs (think about your North Star, who inspires you?) |
Reading
Collect stories from newspapers and magazines everyday heroes and make a clippings board. Heroic acts might include saving people or animals from danger, fighting fires or donating organs to help another person. |
| Literacy
Investigate 1920’s slang used by gangster of the a day. Can you find out what these mean: attaboy, bee’s knees, beef, big cheese, big house, caper, coppers, joint, let’s blouse, moll, rhatz, scram, sitting pretty, soup job, swell. |
PSHE
Make a list of 5 positive things that you and your friends could do to improve your school environment. Write your ideas on ‘helping hands’ and decorate them beautifully. |
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| Design
Design a poster to advertise a charity that you are interested in helping. What do they do? Why are they important? How could people help them? |
Writing
Write a fact file about a real-life hero past or present. |
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| Writing
This is an example of a riddle. Can you solve the riddle and make one of your own? |
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Year 3 had an afternoon of musical appreciation this afternoon as they immersed themselves in different classical scores created to depict various film villains. First, the children moved their bodies to the music and discussed how it made them feel. Then, the children used different symbols to represent dynamics, tempo, timbre, duration and pitch creating their own graphic scores. They listened to: The Imperial March from Star Wars; Miss Gulch’s theme music from the Wizard of Oz and Voldemort’s theme tune from Harry Potter.
Today, Year 3 have begun their new topic, Heroes and Villains, by pretending to be villains and trying to send secret messages using codes. First, they learnt how to use a code wheel. Then they made different invisible inks one from lemon juice and the other from bicarbonate and soda.
Oak Class have had sometime today to email Zeus as part of their Gods and Mortal topic. The children were very keen to explain to Zeus everything they had learnt so far and ask him some questions about his unusual family!
Fantastic mathematical reasoning going on in Year 3 today with children exploring multiplication using the bar model and the area model to make connections.
Year 3 have spent some time this morning using different representations of multiplication and division to explore their understanding. Amazing explanations of how to using models has developed their understanding!
Straight back to school and amazing investigations have been going on in Year 3. Children have been using manipulatives to explain the connections between the 2 times table and the 4 times table.
This afternoon Year 3 have been harnessing the power of water! The children had to choose to either create water powered paddle boats or water wheels.
We will be testing them later in the week!
This morning, Year 3 visited a river to see all the features they have been learning about in school.
The children took part in a variety of activities to further their growing knowledge of rivers. The activities included: kick sampling to find creatures that live in the river; taking water and soil samples for further experiments back at school; sensory observations to help with their future poetry writing and finding features like meanders, waterfalls and oxbow lakes.
We had a fantastic morning and all the children were very excited during the activities. They were also very successful find: water boatman, pond skaters, fresh water shrimps and even a mayfly nymph!
| Year 3 Home Learning – Friday 13th September 2019
(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 2nd October 2019.) |
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| Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 15 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record. |
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| Spellings
Like reading, Spelling is very important for your writing. Spellodrome will have targeted spelling lists each week linking to the lessons in class. Challenge yourself and see how many points you can earn! |
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| Home Learning Menu
Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 20 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may choose to do one fifteen and a five-point activity or you could do two ten points; you could also choose to do four five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below. |
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| 15 points | 10 points | 5 points |
| River Nile Study
We will be studying rivers- both here and around the world. We will be thinking of the importance, and impact, rivers have on human populations as well as wildlife. |
Make a river fact file
Use the website below to discover amazing facts about rivers |
Art work Have a go at drawing, painting or sketching your own river. There are some very good tutorials on line |
| Times tables 1 hour (split into at least three chunks) each of TT Rockstars. Or try place value basketball https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/place-value-basketball | ||
| Visit a river.
Find out facts about it- include source of the river and outflow (what does the mouth of the river flow into). You can choose how to present your research. |
Research river dolphins
https://kidzfeed.com/pink-river-dolphin-facts/ Present your findings in a form of your choosing- ready to share your new learning in school. |
Vocabulary
Choose 5 words from our river vocabulary list and practise spelling them and apply into a sentence: Flow, meandering, channel, valley, ocean, spring, source, sediment, erode, river bank. |
As part of our Sport’s Week, the children have been able to have skateboarding tuition. The was an array of abilities but all were able to develop their skills and challenge themselves.
As part of their learning on life-cycles, Year 5 have been dissecting flowers to see for themselves the different parts. They have also researched what each of the parts do and how the life-cycle of a
Congratulations to our 5 mathematicians who took part in an inter-schools maths competition today. The children, from both Year 5 classes, were up against 3 other schools to solve a range of maths problems in a set time. The children represented their school amazingly well and triumphed over their competitors by a convincing 12 points!
Fantastic work! Well done!
This afternoon Year 5 have carried out a variety of investigations involving forces. They have learnt about air-resistance, gravity, friction, magnetism as well as pushes and pulls.
Our new learning journey is ‘Making Tracks’, during this topic we will be learning about forces. This afternoon, Year 5 began their learning with investigating ‘spinners’. They identified the different variables and then designed a fair test to find out how they could reduce air-resistance to make the spinner fall faster.
Bonsai class held an election today to find a new school council representative. First, they watched a video about parliament and how the democratic process works. Then we set up a voting booth so everybody could take part in the secret ballot. Emmie, our out-going school councillor, was the returning officer and she announced the result. Lily-Mae will be Bonsai’s new school councillor. Congratulations!
| Year 5 and 6 Home Learning- Friday 7thDecember. Due in Friday 14thDecember. |
| Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes
Spellings –please practice them and remember you can now use ‘Spellodrome’. Times Tables – Rock Stars |
You need to look for the celebration your group is working on.
| You are currently working on the celebration of Diwali on Friday you will be setting up your table to represent a traditional Hindu celebration. This week for home learning you may like to think about completing one of the tasks below to further enhance your group’s table.
Decorations Make paper lanterns, create firework art, create flower garlands, finds some battery-powered fairy lights or tea light Food Sugar disk sweets, samosas, home-made festive sweets such as Jalebis (please remember no nuts) Optional Extras Create a traditional costume to wear, create some jewellery, cut out footprints to place on the floor to welcome Lakshmi |
| You are currently working on the celebration of Christmas on Friday you will be setting up your table to represent a traditional Jewish celebration. This week for home learning you may like to think about completing one of the tasks below to further enhance your group’s table.
Decorations Make a red and gold wreath, create cardboard Christmas tree, create decorations for the tree, finds some battery-powered fairy lights Food Mince Pie, Gingerbread, Christmas pudding, yule log Optional Extras Make a stocking, create small nativity scene, make some crackers |
| You are currently working on the celebration of Hanukah on Friday you will be setting up your table to represent a traditional Jewish celebration. This week for home learning you may like to think about completing one of the tasks below to further enhance your group’s table.
Decorations Make a blue and white wreath, create a Star of David, create blue and white bunting, finds some battery-powered fairy lights or tea light Food Potato Latke, doughnuts, sweet noodle kugel Optional Extras Find the instructions playing for dreidel, create a dreidel, make some gold coins |
| Year 5 Home Learning- Friday 23thNovember. Due in Wednesday 28thNovember. |
| Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes
Spellings –please practice them and remember you can now use ‘Spellodrome’. Times Tables – Rock Stars |
| RE
You are working in groups to create an interactive layer text about the Winter Festivals of 3 world religions. This week for home learning we would like you to do some research for one of your information pages. Discuss with your group which pages you still need to find information for and then pick a different page each. Remember, research is notes about a topic it needs to be in your own words. It will then be typed into your interactive layer text.
My group would like me to research __________________________________ |
In the lead up to Christmas, the children in Year 5 are investigating Winter Festivals from 3 different world religions. Today, the children have been working in groups, some of the children researching the festivals and others creating hyperlinks to join their slides together.
Year 5 Spelling Group 1 Week 3 Focus: ‘ent’ words
Handed out on Monday 24thSeptember; Tested on Monday 1st October
- Apparent
- Excellent
- Confident
- Equipment
- Frequently
- Efficient
- Sufficient
- Environment
- Parliament
- Government
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from either the Year 3 & 4 or Year 5 & 6 word lists.
Year 5 Spelling Group 2 Week 3 Focus: ‘ent’ words
Handed out on Monday 24thSeptember; Tested on Monday 1stOctober
- Apparent
- Excellent
- Confident
- Different
- Absent
- Present
- Decent
- Environment
- Parliament
- Government
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from either the Year 3 & 4 or Year 5 & 6 word lists.
Year 5 Spelling Group 3 Week 3 Focus: ‘sound s, spelt c’ words
Handed out on Monday 24thSeptember; Tested on Monday 1stOctober
- face
- race
- prince
- circus
- force
- bounce
- city
- Bear
- Can’t
- Again
Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s phoneme focus; spellings 8-10 are from high frequency word lists.
On this very windy afternoon, Year 5 spent some time outside creating their mod roc warrior figures. Thanks to all the parents who were all to help. All the figure look amazing and will be ready for painting early next week.
| Year 5 Home Learning- Friday 14th September. Due in Wednesday 19thSeptember. |
| Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes
Spellings – Spellings will be given out on Monday. In addition to learning the 10 words, please practice them and remember you can now use ‘Spellodrome’. Times tables– It is crucial that year 5 and 6 children know their times table facts up to 12 x 12 – this really supports other areas in maths. Please make sure your child regularly practices them until they become second nature. |
| SOLE- My Compass for Life
As part of our whole school learning journey, we are encouraging the children to think about their aspirations and the journey they will take to support them achieving their goals. We would like your child to create an Acrostic Poem of their own name. These should be creatively presented and a piece of work that they are proud to put in their SOLE book. Good luck! Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. |
Bonsai have challenged themselves today by scaling a very large wall!
As part of our whole school learning journey – My Compass for Life- the children were using our school values, risk-taking, collaboration and resilience, to push themselves as far as they could.
| Year 5 Home Learning- Friday 7th September |
| Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes
Spellings – Spellings will be given out on Monday. In addition to learning the 10 words, please practice ‘ie’ words ‘Spellodrome.’ Times tables– it is crucial that year 5 and 6 children know their times table facts up to 12 x 12 – this really supports other areas in maths. Please make sure your child regularly practices them until they become second nature. |
| SOLE- My Compass for Life
As part of our new whole school learning journey, we are encouraging the children to think about their aspirations and the journey they will take to support them achieving their goals. We would like your child to write a letter to a chosen person or company, explaining their passion and asking for any advice on how to achieve their goals. We sent similar letters off last year and got some amazing responses from Olympic athletes, authors and the military. Your child can either send the letter off directly from home or can bring it in and we’ll send it from school. Either way, they will need an additional copy to put in their SOLE book. Good luck! Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions. |