A Lego model of Titanic proportions!

By Natalie Jewitt11th May 2020

What can I say! Wow!

As part of our home learning, year 5 have been set a Titanic Project which covers all manner of subject areas. I was overjoyed to receive a picture from Chloe in my class who has most certainly embraced the project and shown her inner design and construction worker!

She has built a fantastic brick model of The Titanic itself – those who know me well, will know how in awe I am of this model! I LOVE LEGO!

I have seen this model advertised before, and had hoped to buy it one day for the class to build together as part of the topic. So it pleases me no end to see it constructed despite our distance learning during these times.

Thank you for sharing Chloe, what a wonderful addition to your project!

Year 5 Home Learning wk beg: 11.5.2020

10th May 2020Natalie Jewitt

Greetings Year 5!

We hope you had a good bank holiday weekend celebrating VE Day with your families – all socially distanced of course! This week marks the bicentennial celebrations (200th birthday anniversary) of Florence Nightingale – which wonderfully coincides with ‘International Nurses Day’ – on Tuesday 12th May.

The theme for International Nurses Day this year is ‘Nursing the world to health’ with a focus on the ‘true value of nurses to the people of the world’. I think you’ll agree that this is quite an appropriate theme given the current situation we find ourselves in. Perhaps you could write why you believe nurses are so important to us and give thanks for the values they work so hard towards achieving each and every day.

We have provided some fun colouring activities (click here) to mark this day, as well as a differentiated reading comprehension activity about Florence Nightingale.

Florence was a key contributor the changing the face of nursing during what were incredibly difficult times.

The video below (shared from BBC Teach) provides a first person insight into who exactly Florence Nightingale was:

For a slightly more fun perspective of the life of Florence, you could check out the ‘Horrible Histories’ video below:

 

Weekly Learning Guidance

As always, we have provided a weekly overview should you choose to follow a more structured week which includes daily Maths from White Rose (click here to access online videos); Fluent in Five and Rapid Reasoning; English tasks, using Serial Mash (Purple Mash) as a tool; Spelling practice from Oxford Owl Read Write Inc; and Grammar tasks from a selection of sources including Vocabulary Ninja and Purple Mash. We have also included the usual resources for you to complete Word of the Week, Spelling Menu practice, Number of the Day and ‘Something a bit Different’, which includes various activities for you to explore. We have also added one or two videos reminding you how to access online resources. Click here or on the image below to access the files.

You can also use BBC Daily Bitesize or Oak National Academy both of whom provide complete, daily lessons with video tutorials. We have included videos in the files to show how to navigate Oak National Academy. Don’t forget to continue accessing Lexia and Mathletics – and why not have a look at Education City as well. Do ask if you need any login reminders.

Project work

You can also keep going with your Titanic projects this week – all of the resources have been carried across for you to access should you need them, but do feel free to research the topic in any way which suits you.

PSHE (Personal Social Health Education)

This week, we have also added a file called PSHE which contains some resources kindly forwarded to us by Miss Stratford. The focus of this topic is to learn about what is important in the relationships of our Families and Friends, aiming to help us understand the qualities and values of positive relationships. Included in the file is a PowerPoint to learn from and three accompanying activities.

EAL

As well as PSHE and the usual resources, you will also notice a file for those students who receive support from EMTRAS under English as an Additional Language (EAL) guidelines. Our plan is to put in any resources shared with us from Helen at EMTRAS for those students who usually receive support from her. We hope you will find this a useful addition.

Home Learning Packs

As ever, we will provide access to Classroom Secret Home Learning Packs for all year groups to cater for your differentiation needs.

 

Please keep going everyone, we know we haven’t seen each other for what seems like quite a long time now! But do persevere. We are so proud of you all for trying hard to follow the government’s advice to stay at home and protect one another. Every little bit of learning you can manage really will help when we finally get back to school – whether you follow the guidance we have provided, BBC Daily Bitesize, Oak National Academy, or simply complete your basics in terms of reading, spelling and tables every day. It all counts.

Stay safe everyone, and don’t forget, you can contact your class teacher and ask to be added to Class Dojo on the email addresses below.

[email protected]

[email protected]

Here if you need us! Don’t be afraid to ask for help.

Miss Sanderson and Mrs Tuff 🙂

Year 5 Learning from Home Guidance Wk Beg: 4.5.2020

1st May 2020Natalie Jewitt

Greetings Year 5!

We hope you’ve all had a good week and managed to enjoy some quality time wherever you are. We are missing you very much!

Hopefully you are continuing to stay safe and well with your families, as are we. Please do keep in touch – don’t forget, you can be added to the Class Dojo for easier communication of support, resources and general chit chat, by emailing us at the addresses below. We can also send you certificates in this way from Mathletics and Lexia as well as provide any logins you need.

 

[email protected]

[email protected]

 

 

We are now entering week 3 of the Summer Term – we can’t quite believe it, but there we are!

Below, you will find the link to this week’s Home Learning Guidance and your new project, which is all about The Titanic! We are very excited by this one – I’m sure you can’t tell at all! There is literally so much scope for this project, and for you to make it ‘your own’. It covers so many different areas of learning, from English, Geography and History, to Art, Science, Computing and Maths: so it really can be lots of fun for everyone and informative at the same time.

Whilst we have provided an abundance of lessons and resources on this topic for you to use/look at/refer to, you can of course search for your own materials and use them to inform your work and activities. DO NOT feel like you have to do everything that is in the file for this!  It just won’t be feasible. Simply follow the basic guidance on the main project task sheet, the rest is ‘extra’ should you wish to use it: importantly, have fun!

Don’t forget, White Rose Maths provide really useful videos to help guide you through your Maths activities. See the link below. They are also beginning to align with BBC Daily Bitesize so further guidance can be found there. Any issues with the videos, let us know – we are aware that White Rose are working extremely hard to ensure their website can cope with the online traffic. However if you cannot access them, give us a shout – Miss Sanderson will do a screen capture for you.

 

CLICK HERE for Year 5 Home Learning Guidance Wk Beg 4.5.2020

CLICK HERE for this week’s Classroom Secrets Home Learning Packs (all year groups). I will add the updated packs as soon as Classroom Secrets release them 🙂

 

Useful Websites (usual sites are listed in the learning overview in the file above):

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zhgppg8/year-5-and-p6-lessons/1

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8mpfg8/articles/zng8jty

https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/titanic-history-detectives-lesson-6206428

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/history/general-history/would-you-have-survived-the-titanic/

This week will also see us celebrating something very important indeed : the 75th anniversary of VE Day.

There are so many people around the country planning on celebrating this in their own ‘lockdown’ ways and we thought it would be helpful to provide some simple resources so you can explore it at home as well. There are a mixture of learning resources as well as fun and colouring in – including some handy bunting for you to print out, colour and cut. If you do celebrate VE Day with your families, it would be fantastic to see some photos! Do share them with us via Class Dojo or our email addresses.

Finally, this week should have seen quite a few of us heading off to Thurston in the Lake District. We’re sure some of you are feeling quite disappointed that we haven’t managed to go this year – I know we are massively gutted by this! However, we are also sure you will agree, how important it is that we all do our bit in helping to protect each other and our NHS at the moment. Whilst it is sad we won’t be heading off on Monday and giving you the experience first hand, you can still take part in some Home Learning activities which Thurston are kindly sharing on their own website – do have a look. There are so many different activities to explore – map work, bug hotel making, flapjack baking! You name it!

http://www.thurston-oec.co.uk/thurston-fun-at-home/

As always, please do get in touch if you need any guidance or support. The resources we have provided are set as guidance only, and again, we reiterate the importance of making sure you tackle Home Learning in a way which suits your own personal circumstances: do try to keep up with daily reading, spelling practice and tables practice at the very least however as this really will help you when we get back to school. For fun and relaxation time, we have again provided a file of resources called  ‘Something a bit different‘ – including a piece of work about the wonderful Colonel Tom, who is an inspiration to us all.

Stay Safe year 5! Look after each other and your families.

Here if you need us,

Miss Sanderson and Mrs Tuff 🙂