Hi Year 3 and Year 4,

Mr Swallow, Miss Housley and I are the proudest teachers in school this week! You have all been amazing! From logging onto Teams, being ready for your learning and having a fantastic attitude to working from home – well done guys, keep it up!

This afternoon, at 1:30pm, we will be hosting a ZOOM video call. Yes… ZOOM, not Teams. I have included the information below:

Meeting ID: 997 2651 1850

Password: survive (make sure it is typed in correctly, otherwise it won’t allow you to join.)

We will have a full room of Year 4 and Year 3 children – we can’t wait for the fun to begin! You will be making some informed choices where we will decided if you would survive… OR NOT!

See you at 1:30 🙂

Mr Mathieson, Mr Swallow and Miss Housley

Hi Year 4,

You should have received a letter from school regarding our online learning.

As we have already done this before we are in a good starting position! You will use Microsoft Teams for registration again. Morning register will be at 9:00am and the afternoon register will be at 1:30pm.

After the register, we will share our screens and go through the work on the blog and discuss the day’s learning.

We are going to run the day’s learning over three sessions – reading/SPaG or Literacy, Maths and then a Topic session. We can discuss this in our morning registration.

Take care Year 4 and see you all tomorrow!

Mr Mathieson & Miss Housley x

Hi Year 4,

We have put together a pack for you to use at home. This includes a book, writing pencil, handwriting pen, line guide, white board and a white board pen as well as a few sheets (blank maps) that will be useful later in the topic. They can either be collected from school, at our entrance steps or I can deliver them to you if you are struggling to get here.

We are going to treat these books the same as our topic books in class! That means that every piece of work we do is to our highest standard and completed with lots of pride – resulting in something that we will be proud of!

We will write in pencil, or if you have a pen license you may write in a handwriting pen. All of the titles will be underlined in blue, with a ruler. I am very confident that your books will look superb, just like they do in class! 

Here we go again kids!  Well, don’t worry!  We have got a FANTASTIC online topic planned and Mr Swallow, Miss Housley, Mr Crouch and I are really looking forward to working on it with you!

It’s called:

“DISASTER ZONE!  Surviving Planet Earth!”

Each week, we shall upload a timetable, telling you what lessons are happening each day and then we will be adding work here on the blog, over video and on Microsoft Teams, to keep you all busy at home.

Log onto the register every day to show us you are ready to learn and we will talk you through the activities. We already have an advantage at doing this as we have done it before! I like to think we’re the professionals!

See you all online,

Mr Mathieson

Even isolation won’t stop us joining in on Christmas jumper day!

Olivia has been working hard at home.

She has completed her VIPERS reading papers and research Egyptian animals – look at how beautifully presented her work is! I can also spot how Oliva has used a fronted adverbial in the crocodile description ‘During ancient times,’

Well done, Olivia!

Keep it up 🙂

Mr Mathieson x

Well done Lucas

Well kids, it’s here at last…the end of what has been a really difficult time for all of you and hopefully the last day you have not been allowed to attend school.

I just want to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to all of you and all of your wonderful parents and carers for your hard work.  You have made the best of a bad situation and you have often been the best bit of my lockdown experience because of the way you have shared your work and your adventures at home.  I only actually got to be your teacher for a little over 8 weeks but I will miss you all very much.  Mr Bennett is very lucky to be getting you all back in September and I know he will get you all working hard and making progress really quickly.

I’ve made lots of mistakes as I’ve learned how to set up distance learning (like forgetting to put the time of meetings, having Zooms that turn off halfway through, accidentally videoing my kitchen instead of the quiz!!!!!!)  However, you have helped me through and made it all worthwhile!  So one more big thanks and enjoy your summer.

If you would still like to create content for our blog and work on our topic then I have posted some ideas for other activities and units related to our topic that you may wish to have a go at.  I’ve tried ti make sure I have covered a range of subjects from sport to music.  I also recommend using the Oak Academy resources.

CLICK ME 

I have been using them at home with my own children and I’ve found them to be pitched at the right level of difficulty and also organized to plan activities in a very similar way to what I would do.

All the best for Year 5.

Mr Swallow

this is my boudica work and i am so proud. It look weeks.

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Zoom meeting ID:  93671558710
Password: art

We are going to have a go at adapting a nice piece of artwork I’ve seen online to our People who changed the World topic.

You will need:

paper

pencil

thin and thick black pens (black biro, handwriting pens, felt tips and even black paint all work fine)

It would also help if you have a picture of Dr Martin Luther King Jr Available to draw from.

Please join us on zoom for our last Beat The Teachers quiz.  Remember to add your current year group infront of your name on zoom so I can sort you into groups easily please.  However, feel free to come up with a crazy nickname on Kahoot!

Zoom Meeting ID: 946 5718 5074

Password: quiz

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By Oliver C  🙂

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Choose your favourite conqueror from the ones you researched. Write a detailed biography of them, include as much information about them as you can.

Why have you chosen them as your favourite conqueror?

Were they a hero or a villain & why do you think this?

Use your best writing skills including interesting vocabulary and a range of punctuation.

Here is a writing checklist to use to check you have included all the necessary writing elements and an example of a biography so you can see what you are aiming for:

Features of a biography

jacqueline_wilson_bio

Using your research about conquerors, can you create fact files to show each conqueror’s greatest and worst achievements in History?

The categories could include:

1) Years they were alive, age they were conquerors, how long they lived.

2) Number of countries they conquered.

3) How many people they killed.

4) Greatest achievement.

5) Worst thing they did. Etc…

You could add or draw a picture of the different conquerors to each fact file.

Here’s an example of a fact file to give you an idea of how to present your work, but you can come up with your own way of presenting if you want to.

This week, there is even more reason to try to win, as Mr Swallow is competing this time as well as the rest of the staff.  Don’t worry though, I have kept him far away from the questions and answers!

Here are our sections for this week:

• Harry Potter
• Football
• Maths
• Topic/History
• Staff questions

Zoom meeting ID:  946 5718 5074

Password:  quiz

Log on from 1:15 onwards.

As usual, you will need to have a separate device to access the Kahoot app to join in with the quiz.

Good luck kids, Mrs Rees!

Now you know all about the history of these great conquerors, can you use your geography skills and mark the countries where your researched conquerors lived on a map? Use an atlas or device to help you locate the countries.

Colour in the countries that they conquered. Use different colours for different conquerors and create a key to show who/what the colours represent.

Can you also mark on any significant physical land marks in the area e.g. mountains, rivers, deserts etc…

Here is a link to a blank map to print off:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.freeusandworldmaps.com%2Fhtml%2FWorld_Projections%2FWorldPrint.html&psig=AOvVaw3au1D2am1gfoDv3KGoCCQ_&ust=1593347190918000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAIQjRxqFwoTCLC6mIT_oeoCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE

Timeline task!

Now you have found out about some of the most famous conquerors, can you create a timeline?

What is a timeline?

One method used in KS2 to help understand history is the timeline. Timelines are a listing of events, such as historical periods, which can make history much easier to understand.

Lesson 1 – Research.

What is a conqueror?

Have you heard of any of these people?

Genghis Khan

Alexander the Great

Boudicca

These are a few of the world’s most famous conquerors!

What is a conqueror?

• Find out about some famous conquerors – include: who they were, when they lived, where they lived and where they conquered.
• What were they famous for achieving?
• How many countries did they conquer?
• Were they a hero or a villain? Why?

Here are a few resources to help you:

https://www.ducksters.com/biography/world_leaders/genghis_khan.php

https://www.ducksters.com/biography/alexander_the_great.php#:~:text=He%20reigned%20as%20king%20from%20336%2D323%20BC.&text=Alexander’s%20father%20was%20King%20Philip,how%20to%20play%20the%20lyre.

https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Boudicca/442493

I created this awesome game on Hour of Code which Mrs O’Neil showed us in Year 3. Here is the link, the instructions are on the page of the game. 

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/408617957/

Lesson 1:

Lesson 1 – Interpret charts 2020

Lesson 2:

Lesson 2 – Comparison sum and difference

Lesson 3:

Lesson 3 – Introducing line graphs

Lesson 4:

Lesson 4 – Line graphs

Tomorrow, we are going to write a newspaper article about a recent robbery.  I will remind you about the features of a newspaper tomorrow but today we want to ensure that the language you choose is suitably old-fashioned and period correct.

Use a thesaurus as well as interviewing your family to find lots of period-correct alternatives for these words:  (I’ve done 1 for you)

• thief (rouge, miscreant, near-do-well, outlaw, scoundrel, blaggard)
• policeman
• the merry men
• money
• rich person

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The teachers won last week and earned their treat…can you turn the tables on them this week?  We have introduced a new category this week, due to popular demand:  “Fortnite” (the video game, for old people like me!)  With questions written and presented by our Year 6 children and Mrs Rees’s son, Eddie.  I’ve read them when I put the quiz together and didn’t know any of them…it doesn’t look good for the teachers!!!

Zoom meeting ID:  946 5718 5074

Password:  quiz

When you log into Zoom this time, please use your year group at the beginning of your name  (3 Mr Swallow).  We are going to do the chat first and the quiz afterwards this time, log on from 1:15 onwards.

As usual, you will need to have a separate device to access the Kahoot app to join in with the quiz.

Good luck kids!

As we are learning about Robin Hood, we decided to learn some woodland craft skills.

Our first project is a fun, colourful toadstool, carved from a stick or branch.  We used a technique called, “whittling” where you shave off little bits of wood at a time to get the shape you want.

It was challenging but fun.  the kids went from hardly being able to remove any wood to being expert carvers!  They really had to persevere when things were difficult and understand that it takes time to get something to be proud of.

Yesterday, our task was to build up a bank of vocabulary and phrases for a forest setting.  My group in school and I visited the woods down Hay Green Lane.  We tried to use our different senses to listen, smell, see and hear the things around us to capture in our writing.  The kids came up with some fantastic phrases:

“bark like crocodile skin”

“The leaves rustled like a million green butterflies!

“shadows danced in the woods”

“the leaves and soil smell like old tea bags”

“holly leaves nibbled at my neck like tiny shark teeth”

These are all fantastic phrases for bringing our writing to life and building up an image for your reader.

Now, I would like you to use your vocabulary bank to help you write a short piece in which you are Robin (or one of his outlaws) lying in wait in Sherwood forest.  You have to stay very still so no one sees you.  This will give you the opportunity to tell us about the sounds and sensations you notice all around you as you wait.  It would be good to include some of the discomforts you are putting up with, in your hiding position (this sort of thing tends to be familiar to a reader…we’ve all scratched our face on a branch or been stung by a nettle!)

I would like you pice to end with the line;

“suddenly I heald my breath as the coach pulled into sight between the trees…”

I created my own Google logo on Hour of Code.

Freddie

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