Good morning!

I hope you have all had a lovely weekend. I spoke to some of you last week about the introduction of ‘theme weeks’. This week I will be setting different activities all to do with the theme of music.

Here are some activities that you could be doing:

• Plan a sound walk. Can you draw a map to show where you could go? Could you use Google Maps to guide you?
• Go on a walk and take a note book or clipboard with you (if you are able to). Listen carefully for the different things you can hear. Record them on your paper. Were there any sounds that surprised you? What was the loudest sound you heard? What was the quietest?
• When you get home, see if you can recreate any of the sounds you heard. What could you use to help you? Think about how quiet or loud the sound was and what made the sound.
• Get active! Search on Youtube for Just Dance workouts. Which song did you choose to dance to today? Why?
• What is a “musical note”? Ask people in your family and research it. What did you find out? Record in your red book.
• Bug Club. A new book and activities have been allocated.
• Maths. Have a go at the Comparing Capacity (click to open PDF) activities. You can have a go at creating this activity in your kitchen with real cups of water and different sized containers!

Most importantly, make time to do things that make you happy today. I look forward to seeing the wonderful things you have been doing!

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Remember all of your activities can be shared through the school website.

Best wishes

Miss Hall 🙂

Good Morning!

As always, I hope you are all well and looking after yourselves and those around you. We have had a lovely week at our house; we’ve managed to see Olivia a bit more than usual and have enjoyed more time with our pets!

Today is the start of a new way of us providing you with ideas/suggestions of activities. Each week, we will have a whole school theme (e.g. music for this week) that we will provide you with and suggest activities for you to do at home. Our hope is that this keeps things interesting for you all, takes some pressure off of downloading activities/worksheets and creates some enjoyable memories for you and your family!

Monday – Have a look at BBC Bitesize: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zwxhfg8

Explore the website and choose some of the videos to watch, music to listen to and activities to complete!

How about? Teach your parents the chorus of your favourite song.

Tuesday – Discovery Espresso: https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/modules/subject/index.html?subject=862650&grade=ks2&&source=espresso-home-keystage2subjects

Espresso provides you with the opportunity to listen to pieces of music and sound from all around us to learn about musical features such as pitch and tempo. It also has activities where you can listen to a well-known piece of music and record when you hear particular sounds, what the mood of the sound is and how the music makes you feel.

How about? Learn the chorus of your parent’s favourite song.

Wednesday – A challenge to listen to music from as many different genres as you can think of! Between us here at school, we have thought of: Rock and Roll, Blues, Jazz, Pop, Dance, Country and Western, Soul and Reggae…but we know there are plenty more we have missed! Talk to your parents/siblings as much as possible about the music you are listening to, why you like/dislike it and how it makes you feel. I wonder if there were particular dance trends to go with the music styles?!

How about? Find and decide as a family, on your favourite lockdown song and dance.

Thursday – From yesterday, you are probably a little clearer on the music you like/dislike! Today’s suggestion is all about your favourite artist. Music Research Project

How about? Have a go at Youtube Karaoke with your family. 

Friday – Have a go at making your own music! We have been investigating some website over the weekend and our suggestions are:

BeepBox is an online tool for sketching and sharing instrumental melodies. It gives you the option to choose from lots of different instruments and layer them onto the arrangement page to play simultaneously and make a tune. https://beepbox.co/#8n31s0k0l00e03t2mm0a7g0fj07i0r1o3210T1v1L4u99q3d7f6y3z1C0c0AcF8BcV9Q4200P6789E0000T0v1L4u12q1d1f7y1z1C0w2c0h2T1v1L4uc0q1d2f6y2z1C0c0A4F3B5V9Q0506Pd474E0912T2v1L4u15q0d1f8y0z1C2w0b4h400000000h4g000000014h000000004h400000000p16000000

Incredibox is available online or to download as an app. This works by dragging and dropping different beat samples to the characters on the screen to play. You can start and stop the sample by clicking on the character.

I liked how easy it was to record and save the tune that I made (click on the three lines to select record, save it by giving it a name when prompted to and then enter your/your parent’s email address and it will send directly to the inbox.)

How about? Teach your parents the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Rap that you started learning with Mrs Cousins. 

As always, keep up the reading! If you can have some routine around reading at home you are more likely to keep your interest in the book you are reading.

The 5/6 spelling list is:Year-5-or-6-Spellings-Whole-Year-Tick-Box.docx

Prodigy Maths is available to all and I am setting some assessment questions (these just appear in your normal game) to ensure the questions are at the right level for each of you.

Most importantly of all – Keep Safe!

Speak soon, get in touch to let me know what you think of the activities (and your parent’s taste in music!) and how you’re are getting on at home.

Miss Shopland

Hello everyone!

I hope you had a nice weekend? I’ve attached an example of a ‘My News’ piece of writing if you wanted to write your own. My news example

Bug Club is all updated for reading, spelling and grammar and this week’s Math’s focus is remembering and reminding yourselves which methods and models help you work out answers. The problem booklet here is just lots of different sorts of sums. 2016 calculation Look at it together and talk about how you would find your answer. Could you estimate first and then think about what models or methods you could use to get your answer.

This week, the daily suggestions we will be giving will all be around music. I’ve made a sheet for today if you wanted to use it. Music Sheet

Monday: Find out what sort of music the people in your house like to listen to. Get them to play you their favourite songs or pieces of music and listen to it together. Ask them why they like it. How does it make them feel? Do they like different songs at different times.

One piece of music I like listening to is Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody. Look it up and give it a listen (especially with big headphones on!).

Tomorrow, we could have a go at trying to listen to as many different sorts of music as possible to find music we might like to listen to.

Have fun folks!

All the best

Mr F.

It looks like the plants are having a break from the sun and enjoying a shower of rain today. Have you been out on walk in the rain? Don’t forget your coat and wellies! On your walk see it you can collect different things on the way e.g. sticks, rocks, leaves… When you get home, get crafty! How many things did you find? Can you use them to make the shape of different numbers? What numbers can you make? What can you create with the things you have found?

Today I had some wonderful conversations with you! It was so lovely to hear your voices and hear about all about the wonderful things you have been doing. For those of you I wasn’t able to reach, I will try again when I am in school next week.

Thank you to those of you who have messaged through the website with photos, messages and learning. It’s great to stay connected and see what you have been up to. 

I hope you are all staying happy and healthy. Remember, we are still here to support you where we can.

Have a lovely weekend.

Miss Hall 🙂

Good morning  – hope you are all well. Shame about the rain outside but that doesn’t matter where we are going! Today we are off to Baltimore in the United States of America to have a look around the National Aquarium. It’s an amazing place and the web tour has a lot of interactive features so you can guide yourself around and find out more about the creatures there. Here is the link:

https://aqua.org/media/virtualtours/baltimore/index.html

Don’t forget to use the ‘view map’ and ‘explore scenes’ banners at the top of the page to find new creatures and areas of the building. Once you have had a good explore, pick one of the amazing animals you were interested in and explore that species further, just like you did with the platypus yesterday. Draw it, find out about what makes it special, its diet, its natural habitat, how are numbers of your creature in the wild? Is it endangered? How big is it? Find out as much as you can. Enjoy it!

We will be thinking about music next week – what you like, what the people around you like and who are the key performers of that musical style…

Mr Hankin

Morning all!

It is rather wet here in Torquay today. My first reaction was that it looked miserable so we should stay in – however, Arthur has brought me his wellies already and is currently wearing them with his pyjamas so I think he has other ideas!

I was in school yesterday, it still feels strange! It was wonderful to speak to a few of you on the phone though 😛

Today’s suggestions:

https://central.espresso.co.uk/espresso/primary_uk/subject/module/frontscreen/item316055/grade2/index.html?source=subject-Maths-KS2-Maths-Resource%20types

This is a tricky task for those that would like something to challenge them and get their brain working today – probably with an adult. You will need to watch the first three videos, up to Goal Difference – Negative Numbers in Football. Then, using the support from the video, complete the activity sheet attached. The activity appears tricky at first, but if you re-watch the video on Discovery Espresso, you will see what each column is e.g. Goals For and Goals Against and how the Goal Difference is calculated.

Login to your Prodigy maths account and find a friend to battle.

Write down the three things you have enjoyed most about being at home this week.

Use a Youtube clip to learn to draw something – we’ve enjoyed using draw with Dan (I think Jack might like it too!)

P.E. with Joe Wicks is still going. You can also find the archived ones from previous days on his youtube account.

Have another go at the Lucas Jet circus tricks.

Enjoy your day with your amazing family.

Miss Shopland