St Teresa's Catholic Primary School
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Remote Learning
CHECK OUT SOME OF THE PICTURES OF OUR CLASS LEARNING FROM HOME...
HIDDEN TALENTS...
Move over Beethovven
Have a go at Kian's number hunt...
LEARNING FROM HOME
To build upon the learning children are currently undertaking in the classroom, we have compiled a menu of activities that aim to motivate the children's curiousity about some of the current topics being investigated and build upon their knowledge, skills and understanding. These activities shall be added to over the next couple of weeks however, as several are project-based, the children can, with support of parents, direct their own learning. Click on the Home Learning document to discover the activities.
WEEK COMMENCING 8TH JUNE
WEEK COMMENCING JUNE 1ST
Here are this week's maths activities linked to White Rose's lessons:
WEEK COMMENCING 18TH MAY
Here are this week's Mathematics lessons via the brilliant White Rose. NOW complete with supporting activities.
WHITE ROSE MATERIALS TO SUPPORT ONLINE LEARNING
WEEK COMMENCING 11th MAY
SCIENCE
WRITING
Pobble 365 is a fun way to inspire your children’s creative writing. Every day, a new thought-provoking image appears on the website, along with a few lines of a ‘story starter’ and a drawing activity.
KID NORMAL
Greg James and Chris Smith are authors of the Kid Normal book series, an four-part adventure about a superhero kid… with no powers! Watch their video guide to making up your own superhero story, then try the activities below. You can also download a free audio version of Kid Normal. What will your weird and wonderful superpower be?
MATHEMATICS
Here are this week's Mathematics lessons via the brilliant White Rose:
Week Commencing 4th May.
SCIENCE
STORY WRITING
Mr Aaron knows only too well about how great our class are with their story writing skills. Who gets goosebumps when he reads your writing? He would love to read your writing to some of the below creative writing prompts.
CREATIVE WRITING
FURTHER MATHEMATICS WITH WHITE ROSE
The briliant White Rose continue to provide informative and vital teaching and learning opportunities for Year 5. These materials form the cornerstone of our mathematics teaching in school and so are extremely beneficial to children during this time of home learning.
READING CHALLENGES AND ACTIVITIES
Literacy Trust has put together some superb materials, some of which are below:
It’s not that easy to travel at the moment but we are thinking about people all over the world. Why not read your way around the world with the Reading Miles Global Challenge.
Collect 500 reading miles for every 10 minutes you spend reading, either alone or with a parent, carer, or your brother or sister. You could even video call your relatives and read aloud to them. Collect reading miles in a special reading passport on your very own reading world tour - a whopping 33,000 miles (or 11 hours) in total!
The challenge is split into seven journeys, each of which finishes in a ‘checkpoint city’.
The following resources are available to download and print off to enable you to take part in the challenge.
- A wall map of the world charting the Reading Miles Global Challenge route
- A passport to record the reading
- A certificate for when you complete the challenge
- Postcards which you can complete when you reach checkpoint cities
Send Mr A your completed challenges.
Before there was Messi, there was Diego Maradona.
Complete these reading challenges to get videos on how to do amazing freestyle football tricks, beatboxing and breakdancing.
- Go to the Skills Academy website www.skillsacademy.org.uk and choose the family log in option.
- You will be asked for your name and an email address. You should be aged 18 or over to register.
- You will be sent an email with a user name (your email address) and a password. Keep this email safe!
- Go back to the Skills Academy website www.skillsacademy.org.uk and log in.
- Choose a theme: Freestyle football, or Beatbox and Breakdance! The reading challenges use texts that are about these subjects.
- Encourage your child to take the challenges. Why not join in? When you complete them you will unlock a video teaching a trick or skill relating to your chosen theme.
- Turn on the music, find somewhere to practise the skills and try not to wreck the joint!
Premier League stars are encouraging children to take part in a poetry challenge. Click on the link below and get reciting.
https://plprimarystars.com/resources/premier-league-writing-stars-poetry-challenge
Become a journalist! Can you spot fake news? Can you write your own report? If so, send it to Mr Aaron and he will try to secure its publication in the local paper.
FURTHER MATHEMATICS WITH WHITE ROSE
The briliant White Rose continue to provide informative and vital teaching and learning opportunities for Year 5. These materials form the cornerstone of our mathematics teaching in school and so are extremely beneficial to children during this time of home learning.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/
SCIENCE
STEM have launched their free home-learning resources and have employed astronaut Tim Peake to blast it off. Check out the first two science-led activity menus below. Mr Aaron shall upload two menus every Monday morning.
LEGO CHALLENGES
BE TAUGHT BY A PROFESSIONAL ILLUSTRATOR! LET'S GET DRAWING AND SEND THE PICTURES IN TO SCHOOL.
SPELLING SUPPORT
Useful websites for home-learning
CAFOD
The Catholic international development charity have set up a page with links to resources for children and young people to work through with their families - including worksheets, prayers, films and activities. https://cafod.org.uk/Education/Resources-for-school-closures
National Association of Teachers of Religious Education (NATRE)
A compilation of superb resources, including the yearly Spirited Arts & Poetry competition school takes part in, to support children's learning around Easter and other subject areas can be found at:
https://www.natre.org.uk/about-natre/free-resources-for-you-and-your-pupils/key-stage-2/
Online lessons to support children in the next sequence of teaching mathematics to learners:
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/
Great Reads...
If you and your child are looking for some inspiration for reading at home, Book Trust have put together some great reads for children. Of course, children are hooked on Anthony Horowitz's 'Alex Rider' series too...
FITNESS AND WELL-BEING
Celebrity fitness guru, Joe Wicks, has put together a daily workout to do as a family. Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ
MINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION
There are a wealth of free apps and websites available. Below are a selection of the best:
Calm: https://www.calm.com/
Headspace: www.headspace.com
100 Things to do Indoors
