HOME LEARNING Summer Term 2020
This term, as a priority, we would like you to try to do the lessons and learning set on your class pages, which you can access with your passwords. This will help everyone to focus on the same areas of reading, writing and maths.
There will be a range of ‘levels’ at which to work - your teachers will signpost how to extend the lesson to challenge you and stretch your brains, but they will also support you if you find some things tricky. We all know that everyone learns at different paces and in different ways, and that real learning happens when we challenge ourselves and learn from mistakes. Practising things you are becoming confident in is important too - the more you practise correctly, the more skilled you will become.
Each week, we will provide themed or 'topic' learning in addition to reading, writing and maths.
We hope that our website will become more user friendly as we find ways of managing our own home internet capabilities, and through our own trial and error! Formative feedback will be gratefully received!
Have fun with the learning!
This term, our older children will be using an award winning children’s current affairs magazine for their learning. It is suitable for children aged between 8 and 14.
We hope that all of Chestnut and Beech Class will arrange for this magazine to be delivered to their houses, so that we can all use the same resources for our work.
The magazine is free for the first six weeks.
So there are six free magazines for you all to receive, just by signing up.
You can then cancel your subscription or keep it going.
(It is an excellent birthday present for aunties, uncles and grandparents to buy your children!)
It is very easy to subscribe to, so please do this as soon as possible so that your children can get used to the layout, the features and how to read a magazine.
https://theweekjunior.co.uk/subscriptions
Please arrange for this to be delivered to your KS2 children this week!
Some of this week's afternoon home learning will take you a fortnight to complete.
Take a look at these pictures - you will be designing and making models of dens :)
Top Tips - take your time and make sure you do a good job of each stage. We are all desperate to go straight home and make a model den.... and then perhaps a real one too!
Make sure you use all the technical design and make vocabulary whilst you are doing this activity.
Enjoy creating!
You may be wondering what is happening in school whilst you are at home.
We have been busy during the half term holiday.
Here are some of the things we have been doing so that the school will be lovely to welcome you all back,
whether this is on Monday 1st June, later this term, or in September.
Take a look at the gallery on the ‘What’s happening in school page’.
The gallery below shows the results of the half term’s growing - you can still have a go at this any time you like!
Lettuce after about ten days - small lettuce leaves!
The carrot tops will take a long time to grow enough leaves to make pesto, but these have grown in about ten days. Change the water every day.
Tiny salad leaves growing out of the celery hart after about ten days.