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Great French Language Challenge!

By Natalie Jewitt15th May 2020

Bonjour!

Hi everyone,

As part of our Modern Foreign Languages curriculum at Ashley Primary School, Key Stage 2 study the French language.

I thought the following activities would give you something a little different to challenge yourself with whilst you’re staying safe at home with your families and also help you to keep in touch with your French learning!

The Great French Language Challenge is made up of a number of fun activities to do with your families which focus on the French language – in fact some of them you might need to ask for a little help with and make it a real family challenge! You could even join up with class mates online (be e-safe aware!) and create a socially distanced team!

If you manage to complete the French challenge, why not try the second challenge and choose a different language to focus on? Can you find any similarities between that language and your French challenges? Which words sound the same or have similar roots? Did any words surprise you?

I appreciate given the current situation it might be tricky to do one or two of the challenges, for example trying foods from that country which you may not have tried before: shopping isn’t straight forward at the moment, and I don’t want you to spend any money on this! For that reason, you can change any challenge that proves too difficult to complete for one that you make up yourself – how imaginative can you be?

To download the files, click on the images below.

Go on! Why not have a go – discuss with your families and compare ideas with friends. Most of all, have fun! 🙂

Anyone who manages to complete the challenge can send me an email at [email protected] with the subject line ‘Great French Language Challenge’ or ‘Great Languages Challenge’.

Parents, so that your child can be rewarded with their awesome certificate, please include their name (first name and initial of surname only) and class – or if it was a family effort, maybe create a team name and send me that instead! (I still need a class for reference however 😉 )

Bonne chance! (Good luck!)

For your information, there are also some great activities on Education City (you will need your login details) and BBC Bitesize if you fancy brushing up on your French.

https://go.educationcity.com/level/index/4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z39d7ty

Nothing beats listening to a language to help promote the learning of it, so maybe try and tune into some French songs online as well. Here are just a few as an example, but there are loads out there – you might find some cartoons as well:

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Au revoir!

Mme Sanderson 🙂

Build your own city!

By Natalie Jewitt2nd May 2020

A London architecture firm called Foster and Partners have created some fab printable templates which allow you to ‘build your own city’, including a skyscraper! They look great: you can colour them to suit your own design initiative and print as many as you want (can!), meaning your city can become a real family effort.

What is really useful is the practice it will give you working with 2D and 3D shapes. It’s a great opportunity to try and predict what shape you think a building will become just by looking at the net of 2D shapes.

Come on you budding architects, why not have a go – I’d love to see pictures of your growing city!

Click here to open file containing the PDFs.

Have fun! Miss S 👍🏻🌈

Happy Birthday Captain Tom!

By Natalie Jewitt30th April 2020

Happy Birthday Captain Tom!

It has been quite an inspirational morning watching Captain Tom celebrate his 100th birthday on the BBC news. What a wonderfully humbling man he is. If you haven’t caught up with his incredible actions, why not have a look at BBC Newsround? They have a fun quiz you can complete as well!

He is close to raising 30 million pounds as I write this. Just amazing and certainly goes to show, you can achieve anything you set your mind to…

Don’t forget to send in your pictures to Mrs Todd tonight if you are able to join in with the national 8pm clap – perhaps including some happy birthday and thank you messages for the Captain?

I hope you’re having a good week.

Keep staying safe all.

Miss Sanderson🌈 😊

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52471924

Year 5 Home Learning Guidance – Summer Term, Week 2

26th April 2020Natalie Jewitt

Greetings Year 5! 🌈👋

We hope you are all well and have enjoyed a good weekend with your families.

Below is the link to this week’s learning guidance – should you choose to follow a more structured timetable.

If you prefer to pick and choose activities and complete them at your own pace, according to your own circumstances, that is absolutely fine! You can of course use any other resources you have discovered which work for you. Just because we haven’t included something, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it. In fact, if you do find something that you think is really rather awesome – do let us know! We can share the joy! 👍🏻🌈

Don’t forget: videos are available to support your Maths tasks from White Rose. Select Summer Week 2.

CLICK HERE FOR our Summer Term, Week 2 Learning Guidance – Year 5.

We have also provided Year 5 Classroom Secrets Home Learning packs in the above resources – like last week however, all year groups are available in this file should you require differentiation. Click here to view all of the packs.

Do remember to include some ‘down time’, during which you could do some mindfulness colouring, listen to/play some music, keep a diary, exercise, nature exploration, crafts… We would love to see your home creations! We have included a ‘Something a bit different…’ activity file for that very purpose. You can also continue to access all of your online learning tools: Mathletics, Lexia, Education City, Purple Mash, Get Epic!, Oxford Owl, Times Table Rockstars, Espresso.

Parents, you can connect with us via Class Dojo: simply email your child’s teacher and we will send you an invite to join. It’s a really good way of keeping in touch and an easy way to ask for support, as well as share your child’s learning/fun activities with us.

[email protected]

We do appreciate how much ‘stuff’ there is out there which has the aim of helping you undertake the huge feat of home learning. In fact, despite the helpful lists and information, sometimes it can feel like a bit of a minefield.

However, we would like to remind you how important it is not to place any undue pressure on yourselves or your children – and you certainly shouldn’t feel the need to ‘keep up’ with the expectations of others. Just as your child will learn at their own pace in school, so too do they (and you) need to develop their own way of doing things at home.

Do what you can when you can, but most importantly, if you can keep up with the core basics: reading every day, practising times tables, and spellings, the rest will fall into place when we all get ‘back to normal’. Don’t forget, your child will be learning through many different avenues right now, some of which they wouldn’t have the opportunity to do at school. Enjoy those moments and embrace them!

In the files this week, we have included some guidance issued to support the mental health and well-being of children at this time as well as a guide for parents.

Take good care everybody; we are here if you need us. We really are missing you all so much! We can’t wait to see your Thursday ‘Clapping’ pics!

Stay Safe. 😊🌈

Miss Sanderson and Mrs Tuff 🖖🙌

5JS Mathletics and Lexia Certificates

By Natalie Jewitt24th April 2020

Happy Friday 5JS!

I hope you’ve all had a positive week and managed to enjoy some fun time with your families.

I can see many of you are working hard on Mathletics and Lexia, which is fantastic! Shout out to Evan – wow! How many minutes have you put in on Lexia this week?! Incredible! Make sure you give yourself some well-deserved down time this weekend!

Now that we have been ‘back to school’ (sort of) for a week, I’m back on it with sharing your weekly achievements.

Lexia Superstars:

Well done to Evan who has completed Level 13 and 14 and Jeremy who has completed Level 11! Fab work boys!

Mathletics Awards:

Well done to Amy, Poppy, Faith, Lizzie and Finnlay for working super hard on Mathletics over the past couple of weeks. Excellent effort everyone!

Here are your certificates!

Don’t forget, if you would like to be added to our class story – where I can send you your certificates directly, parents can email me at the following address: [email protected]

Stay Safe all 🙂

Miss S

5JS Mathletics

2nd April 2020Natalie Jewitt

Well done to those of you who have managed to get signed in to Mathletics over the last couple of weeks.

I’m pleased to share with you this week and last week’s certificates!

Well done to:

Olivia, Lacey, Faith, Finnlay, Gracie and Jeremy! Keep up the fantastic work!

If you’d like to have your certificates sent to you electronically, why not email me and I can add you to our Class Dojo at the same time!

5JS Lexia Superstars

1st April 2020Natalie Jewitt

I’d like to end today on a positive note and congratulate some of my Lexia Superstars!

Well done to…

Faith for completing Level 13 🤩⭐

Lizzie for completing Level 12 🤩⭐

Mason for completing Level 14 🤩⭐

Jackson for completing Level 10 🤩⭐

Poppy for completing Level 16 🤩⭐

Laurie for completing Level 14 🤩⭐

Amazing work everyone! Keep it up! Really proud of you all.

If anyone is having issues getting logged on to Lexia, do drop me an email/message on class dojo and we’ll see if we can sort it out.

Don’t forget, you need to enter [email protected] to gain access to Lexia in the first instance at home.

Have a good evening all!

Miss Sanderson 😊🌈

British Sign Language

By Natalie Jewitt30th March 2020

If you’re looking for something a little different while you’re staying safe at home… How about learning British Sign Language?

My daughter and I have decided to do just that and it’s really a wonderful skill to learn – not just for yourself, but to open up your ability to communicate with Deaf people and those who are deaf following hearing loss.

Like learning any new language, it’s also a lot of fun!

I’ve added the Fingerspelling guide for right/left handed below, and a little message for you to interpret! 👍🏻 Miss S 🌈

Year 5 Times Table Rockstars

28th March 2020Natalie Jewitt

Hi everyone!

Update on Times Tables Rockstars – a fantastic site for you to practise your times tables! (You can even challenge the teachers – although I’m not quite sure how to do that yet… 😉 )

By now, you should have received an email to your school email address containing your log in details. If you are struggling accessing your school email or drive, parents can drop us an email from their own address and request it. Parents, please clearly state your child’s name and we will forward the necessary info.

Have fun! We are sure you’re going to enjoy it! Click here to access the site.

Stay safe,

Miss Sanderson and Mrs Tuff 🙂

Year 5 Update…

27th March 2020Natalie Jewitt

Hi Year 5!

We hope you’re all keeping well and taking good care.

We’d like to let you know that, whilst you have been given a Home Learning Pack (containing a project which we recommend completing over two weeks), we will be providing you with weekly work and regular guidance as to how you might like to structure your day. Your weekly work update will be posted by 5pm on a Sunday afternoon for the following week. (All being well with my very temperamental home wifi!)

Please note: we very much understand that we are all in very different circumstances right now, and as such, it might not be possible to structure your day the same way as your friends. PLEASE DO NOT WORRY!!

Every one of you and your families is unique and will manage this unusual situation in a way that suits you and your parents best. For that reason, whilst we will be providing guidance and work, we understand you may choose to do this work at a different pace or in a different routine to others. As should be the case.

Parents, please don’t feel pressured to become teachers overnight – we know you aren’t, and we appreciate you have households to run and work lives to balance in as best possible way you can.

Importantly, just do what you can and continue to take part in online learning sessions, fitness, arts, music – domestic exploration! (Learn to cook and do the washing!)

Take time to talk as well and look after your mental wellbeing. Mindfulness and calm time is incredibly important.

To reiterate what Mrs Todd has said, colour some rainbows and share that you are thinking about everyone. We are in this together. Stay safe. 🌈

A quick reminder of our emails should you have any difficulties with work set, or any enquiries:

[email protected]

Miss Sanderson and Mrs Tuff 🖖🌈