Home Learning Friday 7th March

Reading Plus and Timestable Rockstar- Details below.

Maths - Use the digits 3, 4,5, 6,7 and make as many 3 digit x 2 digit sums as you can e.g. 345 X 67, 453X67 etc. Arrange your answers in ascending order. How many different answers can you make.

English

Modal verb exercise - See link below.Read the learning objective and watch the video, do the grammar page and the Whiteboard challenge.

P.E. At the village playing field at 1pm. 

Home Learning Thursday 6th March

Reading plus and Timestable Rockstars - Please do the Gig if you haven't already done it. Login details below.

English - How many words can you make out of "World Book Day"

              Write a short story with the title, "The Stink"

              World book day- snuggle up with your favourite book and enjoy.

Maths - revision of factors , multiples and prime numbers. Use the links below.

Home learning Wednesday 5th March

Timestable Rockstars - children will know their logins

Reading plus  - site code rpstpet13     children will know their logins.

Geography - We have been learning about tectonic plates. The children can research what causes volcanoes and find out about the different types of volcanoes.

They can make a fact file about 5 volcanoes: Vesuvius, Krakatoa, Mount St.Helens, Kilimanjaro, Mauna Loa.

They can include the type, height, location, eruption history and then rank them according to their destructive power.

Earthquakes can strike with little warning. In areas of frequent earthquakes, buildings are constructed to withstand earthquakes and people can purchase emergency earthquake kits. Design your own emergency earthquake kit thinking carefully what would need to be included.

Maths

Design your own arithmetic test with a separate answer sheet. Think about the types of questions we usually have in our arithmetic tests and think about the layout. These can be brought into school for us to use.

English

Write a story about 

There is a Wizard in My Potting Shed

Imagine you discover a'shed' at the bottom of your garden, What is inside?  I can imagine it's magical inside, much bigger than it seems on the outside.  Perhaps lit by candles, strange instruments on the tables, cobwebbed and dusty.
Behind you the door closes gently and you spy a man sat in emerald green robes, peering at you over his glasses, the candles flicker and die out.  It's pitch black and he whispers....

We are exploring the food of different cultures to help develop healthier eating habits. Today we took inspiration from the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean diet to create our Mezze bowls. We thought about the visual appeal of the food as well as its nutritional value. See what you think of our Mezze bowls.

In this block, pupils looked to different countries to see what can be learnt from different cultures. The recipes chosen showcase how certain foods can contribute to good health and wellbeing. We made Summer rolls, stir-fry and Bombay potatoes.

During the past 50 years, the British diet has not changed a great deal, but our society has. People’s lives – particularly in relation to their work – are much more sedentary than before and so the British diet, which is traditionally high in carbohydrates and animal fats, is no longer as suitable as it once was. Currently, most wealthy countries around the world are suffering from an obesity crisis. This is not the case in West African and some Asian countries. This block looks to different countries for ideas on how we might adapt our diets and how we can use food as a medicine, not just fuel. Ingredients like turmeric, ginger, spices and fresh herbs have been used for their medicinal purposes for centuries..

Dale Chihuly is an American glass sculpture. The children have created 3d pieces of art inspired by Dale Chihuly’s glass work. They used papier-mâché with tissue paper and pva glue. A selection of bowls were used for armatures. They used coffee filters and water based markers and acetate sheets moulded using a hot air gun. The results were fabulous.

In design and Technology we have been investigating gears. 
We learnt about driven gears which is a gear wheel that causes other gears in a gear train to rotate.

We discovered that if we turn a gear clockwise the adjacent gear will move in the opposite direction.

We used our knowledge of gears to design a windmill powered by gears.

In our anti-bullying workshop, we talked about what bullying is, who can help and why bullying might happen. 

In design and technology, we are studying street foods from different cultures. We are using this knowledge to consider our own diet and snacks. We are thinking about how these may be improved. We are learning skills such as finely dicing vegetables using a claw grip, folding and shaping a tortilla, grating and ribboning. Today, we made burritos. When we evaluated them most of the class enjoyed them, but there were things we would do differently like using less chilli!

On Tuesday 13th June ,Class three set off on our residential to Lake Windermere. We had studied the Lake District, in Geography, in the Autumn Term . The sun shone for the four days we were there. We went on a boat trip across Windermere and had a 5 mile walk. We visited the Beatrix Potter Experience and found out about how Beatrix Potter had helped to conserve the Lake District so that it is as beautiful today as it was when she was alive. We visited the motor museum and saw how cars had changed over time. We also visited the exhibition about the Windermere Children who were evacuated from concentration camps in 1945 to WIndermere.  Approximately 300 children were given hope of a new life. This linked with our History and RE studies in the Autumn Term. We had a lovely time.

Everybody who met us, especially the staff and public at the hostel all commented on how well-behaved and polite the children were.

We enjoyed West Bridgford junior school visiting us. We did lots of drama activities which helped us to get to know each other a little bit better. Lots of us felt nervous and a little bit excited about meeting the children from West Bridgford. It didn't take long to discover that there were lots of similarities and some differences. We are really looking forward to visiting Nottingham and further developing our friendships.

  We managed to make a profit of nearly £150 to go towards the cost of the coach.