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Toucans 2.6.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 2nd Jun 2020 @ 8:38am
Toucans Blog Tuesday 2nd June
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Take a look at the attached Wellbeing Calendar for June. There are some great ideas on here. I’m going to try as many as I can. I may change the order and just do my favourite ones but plenty to keep us busy. I’m sure you will enjoy these.
ENGLISH
Like yesterday, I would like you to focus on ensuring that you can spell the majority of spellings from the Year 5/6 spelling list. Remember to make it interesting for yourself. You can use the attached ‘Make Spelling Fun’ document to help you. Also continue working through the other activities in the attached ‘Spellings at home’ booklet.
Make sure you have completed your green Read Write Inc spelling book, if you brought it home! Also try one of the Sats styled spelling tests from your CGP books.
MATHS
Today we will continue to work on developing our Maths Fluency skills. Again continue to work through the activities in your CGP books, if you have not completed these already. Also ensure your Times Tables are fluent by regularly going on Times Tables Rock Stars.
Using today’s fluency grid, decide on your own numbers to work with (e.g. 4, 50, 86, 700 etc) and just do a variety of the activities. Can you remember what a factor is, a prime number, how to find a percentage?
See the attached Home Learning Timetable for today’s lesson PSHCE – No Outsiders
Can I accept being different and being proud of who I am?
Mrs Powell’s Worship
Pause for Thought: Be Kind
Click here to watch the following video: https://youtu.be/Qcyc68d6OAk
We should be kind because we care about other people. However, the video that we just watched suggests that kindness is also good for us. Ask the children to think about why this might be. You might like to start by revisiting the ideas suggested in the video (go to 0.20 minutes and play the following ten seconds).
Can you make a list of something kind that you could do each day of the week?
Dear God,
Please help us to be kind to those around us.
Please help us to think about the needs of other people.
Please help us to seek to live in peace.
Amen.
Remember we are so proud of everything that you do and I’d like to give you all a gold star!
Best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick
Toucans 1.6.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 1st Jun 2020 @ 8:40am
Toucans Blog Monday 1st June
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Take a look at these video clips if you haven’t already
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evfOzPrzIu0 I Am With You At Home with Olaf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PnnFrPaRgY&fbclid=IwAR1R5JmXr7NHJ-krywFwv883lVzoK9Qjk0yRaA7x2w1-sMJao7oUxfmONdM While we Can’t Hug
ENGLISH
Today and tomorrow I would like you to focus on ensuring that you can spell the majority of spellings from the Year 5/6 spelling list. You will see it on page one of the attached document – Spellings at Home.
Start by making sure you can read all of the words. Then make sure you can explain what each word means.
Take a look at some of the suggested activities and try and complete all of these over the next 2 days. I know some of you have done these already but it is important that you regularly revise these words so that you will spell them correctly in Year 7. You can always come up with some of your own activities.
MATHS
Over this half term, we will be focusing on ensuring we have covered everything on the Year 6 curriculum so that you are ready for Year 7. Continue to work through the activities in your CGP books, if you have not completed these already. Also ensure your Times Tables are fluent by regularly going on Times Tables Rock Stars.
Over the next 3 days, I will attach some Fluency Grids, that we began to work on in class before the lockdown, as these will remind you of the key facts that you need to know. Decide on your own numbers to work with (e.g. 4, 50, 86, 700 etc) and just do a variety of the activities. Today you will revise place value and fractions.
See the attached Home Learning Timetable for today’s lesson Art – Drawing - become an illustrator
Lostock’s Lockdown Story
Take another look at this wonderful video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPp5GuVgkVg&feature=youtu.be
Wishing you all the best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick
Toucans 25.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 25th May 2020 @ 9:06am
Toucans Blog Monday 25th May
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Good morning!
As we enter the start of what should be another half term, and we embark on another, tenth, week of lockdown, we wanted to thank you all for the amazing work you have done to keep your children safe, support their home learning, and communicate with us here at school. You have done an incredible job and we want to make sure that you are looking after your own mental health needs in this time of uncertainty.
It is important that we take some time to do something that will make us smile. That will make our children smile and that will bring us together at such a tricky time. So have a look below at some of our suggestions and choose one thing every day that brings happiness.
- Enjoy a yummy breakfast together; pancakes, boiled egg and soldiers, bacon sandwiches or maybe your favourite cereal.
- Have a carpet picnic, or a garden picnic at tea time
- Make something that shows off what makes you special for the school sharing window and deliver it to school on Monday or Wednesday this week.
- Draw a picture for somebody in one of our local care homes
- Tell us about something you have done in lockdown that you’ve never done before. Have you learnt to ride your bike, or tie your shoelaces? Have you baked bread for the first time? Have you planted some seeds and nurtured them into flowers?
- Talk about your favourite things to do and have a favourites day. Eat your favourite breakfast, listen to or dance to your favourite song, sing your favourite songs together, play your favourite game, watch your favourite movie or tv programme, read your favourite book or comic, wear your favourite outfit, arrange a video chat with your favourite friends or family member.
- Find a new way of hugging! Right now, hugging is a tricky thing because we have to keep our distance. Can you find a new way to send a hug to somebody? Perhaps send a postcard, or create a picture or video of you doing something funny/showing off a new skill.
- Facetime, zoom, whatsapp – keep in touch with those people closest and most important to you.
- Create a calm box, a little like the Christmas Eve boxes that so many of us use, put your favourite snacks, pyjamas, movie inside and settle down together for a soothing evening.
Remember, we are collecting photos of you doing wonderful things during lockdown so send your photos into school so we can share them as a whole community.
Look after yourselves, be kind to yourselves and have a wonderful week.
Remember Mrs Whittingham, Mrs Downing and Mr Beswick are very proud of each of you and also thought you would enjoy watching these….
Toucans 22.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 22nd May 2020 @ 8:37am
Toucans Blog Friday 22nd May 2020
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ENGLISH
Today I would like you to do this writing activity. Hopefully you can use everything that we’ve been revising recently – expanded noun phrases, figurative language and semi-colons.
Mental Health Awareness Week - Kindness
I’d like you to take a look at the kindness chart attached. How many ways could you show an act of kindness today or over the weekend?
MATHS
Today we will have our final lesson on coordinates and shapes from the Oak Academy. https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6/maths#subjects
Click on the link and scroll down until you see lesson 5 – Calculate unknown angles in quadrilaterals
See the attached Home Learning Timetable for today’s lesson Music – pulse and rhythm?
Virtual PE Assembly
Check out this virtual assembly where Mr Russell interviews Jenna Downing – inline Skating World Champion. https://youtu.be/-7MJlYa9yEA
The Great Realisation
Here is another treat from all the staff at Lostock – we are missing you lots and hope you enjoy this.
Have a fantastic weekend, best wishes from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick
Toucans 21.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 21st May 2020 @ 8:37am
Toucans Blog Thursday 21st May 2020
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ENGLISH
Today I would like you to do this SPAG lesson on Semi-Colons from BBC Bitesize. Will be great to then use a semi-colon more regularly in your own writing to up level it.
No Outsiders
I’d also like you to complete a No Outsiders lesson. Today’s story is about finding out who you really are and accepting that, being comfortable ‘in your own skin’.
Please watch this video clip first as the author Katie Brosnan reads her story ‘Keith among the pigeons’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duVG4uucAJ4
Then have a go at one or more of the attached activities. They are for both KS1 and 2 so just choose one or more that you feel happy to do.
MATHS
Today we will continue with some work on coordinates and shapes. We will continue to follow the sequence of lessons from the Oak Academy. https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6/maths#subjects
Click on the link and scroll down until you see lesson 4 – Find unknown angles in triangles
See the attached Home Learning Timetable for today’s lesson and resources Science – Everything Changes – How does the environment affect plants?
Message from Mrs Powell
The definition of wise in the Oxford English Dictionary is ‘Having or showing experience, knowledge and good judgement’. When have you been wise, maybe you have been lost in a shop. This experience should have taught you always to stay near to the grown-up you are with, or should have led to you to learning exactly what to do if you got lost again. Being wise means learning from past experiences and carefully thinking about decisions that we make and things that we do now. What mistakes have you learnt from? I think we learn far more from the mistakes we make rather than the things that we get right!
Dear God
Please help us to be wise.
Help us to realize that there are consequences to everything that we do.
Please help us to make good decisions that will work out best for ourselves and for other people.
Amen
Wishing you all the best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick
Toucans 20.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 19th May 2020 @ 5:32pm
Toucans Blog Wednesday 20th May 2020
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ENGLISH
Today I would like you to have a go at this writing task. Think about expanded noun phrases to describe the character. Can you use a relative clause? What about a semi-colon?
MATHS
Today we will continue with some work on coordinates and shapes. We will continue to follow the sequence of lessons from the Oak Academy. https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6/maths#subjects
Click on the link and scroll down until you see lesson 3 – compare and classify quadrilaterals
Transition message from Hartford
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Toucans 19.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 6:22pm
Toucans Blog Tuesday 19th May 2020
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ENGLISH
We will have another lesson from BBC Bitesize today. This one is on using figurative language; hyperbole, similes and metaphors and is great preparation for your English lessons that you will have in High School.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-and-p7-lessons/1
MATHS
Today we will continue with some work on coordinates and shapes. We will continue to follow the sequence of lessons from the Oak Academy. https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6/maths#subjects
Click on the link and scroll down until you see lesson 2 – to translate simple shapes
Have a go at this Active Maths activity
See the attached Home Learning Timetable for today’s lesson and resources Science – Everything Changes – Why Do Living Things Vary?
Message from Mrs Powell
Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach every morning before he began his work. Early one morning, he was walking along the shore after a big storm had passed and found the vast beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in both directions.
Off in the distance, the old man noticed a small boy approaching. As the boy walked, he paused every so often and as he grew closer, the man could see that he was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea. The boy came closer still and the man called out, “Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?”
The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the youth replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”
The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”
The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”
We all have the opportunity to help create positive change. You might not be able to change the entire world, but at least you can change a small part of it, for someone. Break the big challenge down into smaller pieces and then take those one at a time – like one starfish at a time. Remember you can achieve anything!
We hope you all have a lovely day, best wishes from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick
Toucans 18.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 18th May 2020 @ 8:29am
Toucans Blog Monday 18th May 2020
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ENGLISH
We will start this week with a Reading lesson from https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-and-p7-lessons/1
MATHS
This week we will do some work on coordinates and shapes. We will follow the sequence of lessons from the Oak Academy. https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6/maths#subjects
Click on the link and scroll down until you see the lessons on coordinates and shapes.
Have a go at this Active Maths activity
See the attached Home Learning Timetable for today’s Art lesson – Drawing Toucans
I’d love you to create some Toucans that we could display on our Sharing Window in school or at home in your own windows.
Message from Mrs Powell
Sometimes we are faced by big challenges, reading a large book, completing a big piece of writing or even learning to ride a bike can seem a huge task. Problems and difficulties can seem really big but if we break them down to small steps we can make progress and achieve anything we set our mind to do!
Dear God
When we find things difficult, help to keep us going.
Thank you for all the people who help us to take the small steps to overcome our problems. Please help us be there for others.
Amen
We hope you all have a lovely day, best wishes from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick
Toucans 15.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 15th May 2020 @ 8:46am
Toucans Blog Friday 15th May 2020
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ENGLISH
We will do some diary writing today. Remember, Think, Say, Write your sentences. Then reread your diary and see if you can edit and improve it. Firstly, watch this video called: ‘Lighthouse’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HfBbSUORvo&t=11s
MATHS
This week we will continue with the lessons from www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
click on Year 6 and then see below.
Also have a go at this Maths activity whilst out on your daily walk.
Look at the car registration plates and multiply the numbers together. E.g. 6 times 6 is ? Great way to revise your multiplication facts.
See the attached Home Learning Timetable for today’s RE lesson – What is Judaism?
Message from Mrs Powell
Louis Braille was born in France in 1809 and was three years old when he lost his sight in one eye. By the age of five, he was completely blind. At that time, there was no help available for blind people and many of them would end up begging for food on the streets. Louis’ parents didn’t want that to happen to their son, so they continued to educate him in every way possible.
When Louis was 12 years old, he met an army captain who showed him a way of sending messages at night using raised dots and dashes. Louis saw the potential for a communication system for blind people and, by the age of 15, he had found 63 ways to use a six-dot cell in an area the size of a fingertip. In this way, he created Braille, a form of written language for blind people, which they can ‘read’ by feeling the raised dots of the Braille characters with their fingertips.
Let’s try to be people who have the courage to move forward, no matter what happens. At the same time, let’s remember that there are many people who can help us if we need to talk about our worries.
Prayer
Dear God,
Whether I’m big or whether I’m small,
Sometimes I’ll try to be ever so brave,
And think about what God sees in me
And aim to be the best that I can be.
Amen.
Watch Mrs Powell’s Worship on-line by following this link.
Friday 15th Worship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El7P2W7XrYo
Also here is a little Friday treat from all the staff for you to enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIxUWOYwTn0
We hope you all have a lovely weekend, best wishes from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick and keep smiling!
Toucans 14.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 14th May 2020 @ 8:41am
Toucans Blog Thursday 14th May 2020
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ENGLISH
I hope you are all keeping up with your reading at home. Today we will do a reading lesson. Click on this link to access the lesson. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdnkd6f
MATHS
We will continue our work on fractions with this lesson from https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6-and-p7-lessons/1
Also have a go at this Maths activity - collect the information when you are out on your daily walk
See the attached Home Learning Timetable and resources for today’s lesson Science – what does the road around our body look like
Message from Mrs Powell
Squirrels are often seen hanging on birdfeeders, trying to grab as much food as they can. Sometimes they even hang upside down while they feed! Sometimes they fall off, but they soon come back again to try to get more! Often birds can’t get to the birdfeeders because the squirrels are already feeding from them! The poor birds have to wait, even though they are hungry! Sometimes they fly away and perch in the trees, watching the squirrels feed. When the squirrels have finished, then the birds can have their turn to feed, even though the seed and nuts are really put there for them. It could be that the squirrel is trying to keep the food for itself. It could be that the bird is challenging the squirrel for the food. It could be that they are sharing!
There are times in our lives when we all find it difficult to share! Christians believe that God has given us the world and everything in it - it is a gift from God that we are all to share with each other. Christians also believe that it is good to share what we have with others. We can share our possessions, food, money, friends, talents, even our love.
Time for reflection
Let’s think about a time when someone has shared something with us.
Let’s take some time to thank God for that person. Let’s also think about ways in which we could share with others during the day ahead.
Watch Mrs Powell’s Worship on-line by following this link.
Thursday 14th Worship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nxCpz4FPL8
All the best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick and keep smiling!
Toucans 13.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 13th May 2020 @ 8:43am
Toucans Blog Wednesday 13th May 2020
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ENGLISH
I’d like you to do something a bit different for English today. We will be using some resources provided by Chance to Shine, who usually deliver our cricket sessions in school. Focus will be on poetry – poems about cricket. See the attached work for more detail and the poems that we will read today.
I’d like you to read and reflect on the poems attached. Think about which one is your favourite and why? Think about the structure and style of each poem. Practise reading one or two of them aloud using expression. Then finally try composing your own cricket poem. It would be fantastic if you could share your poem with me by emailing it to admin@lostockgralam.cheshire.sch.uk so I could use some in next week’s newsletter.
MATHS
This week we will continue with the lessons from www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
click on Year 6 and then see below.
Also have a go at this Maths activity. – all you need is a pack of cards
Try this Geography lesson today from the BBC Bitesize website - Geography – The World
Can you name and locate the seven continents and five oceans?
What are your mapping skills like? Can you use maps, atlases and globes to locate places?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4dxt39
Message from Mrs Powell
In 1984, Chris Baines actually sent out an invitation to his friends asking them to meet him at 4 am. His birthday plan was to have all his guests listen to the dawn chorus together. The dawn chorus is the singing of many birds before dawn each day.
This all happens about an hour before sunrise. At this time of day, it is too dark for the birds to search for food, but also too dark for them to be spotted by predators. There is less background noise, too, so the air is still and sound carries for a greater distance. There is a sequence to the dawn chorus. Robins, blackbirds and thrushes start first, which may be because they have biggish eyes to see in the dark and because they like to look for worms. After a while, all the other birds join in. Have you noticed the birds singing? I think it is lovely to think that we are all listening to the birds and enjoying their bird song even though we are apart.
Watch Mrs Powell’s Worship on-line by following this link.
Wednesday 13th Worship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUfvYnMRuDI
All the best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick and keep smiling!
PS We wish 2 of our lovely Toucans a very happy birthday. We hope you have a fantastic day with lots of great memories created.
Toucans 12.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 12th May 2020 @ 8:46am
Toucans Blog Tuesday 12th May 2020
We hope you enjoyed watching the ‘When I Grow Up’ video yesterday. Today Mrs Downing and myself have recorded a little message for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_b5kfSWE0k&feature=youtu.be
ENGLISH
Today we will have our final lesson on Newspapers from the Oak Academy - lesson 5.
https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6/english#subjects
MATHS
This week we will continue with the lessons from www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons
click on Year 6 and then see below.
Also have a go at this Maths activity. – all you need is a pack of cards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlmEN4lxnTA
See the attached Home Learning Timetable and resources for today’s Science Project – Body Pump – What happens to water in our bodies?
Missing our usual worships? Follow this link to some lovely ones that I’m sure you will enjoy.
https://vimeo.com/channels/picturenews
Message from Mrs Powell
This story of Steven Bradbury highlights the benefits of sticking with it in the long run. You never know what might happen.
Steven Bradbury was an Australian speed skater. He had been to 3 Olympic games already - he hadn't won a medal. Over the past 12 years of training and racing he had suffered some horrific injuries, during which he nearly died. He was financially struggling and had to borrow money from his parents in order to survive.
In the 2002 games he was the oldest competitor in the event. People didn't think he stood a chance, including himself. He had managed to scrape through the heats but had what he describes as the best race on the way when he finished second in the semi-final. He realised he didn't have the raw speed of the younger racers so he employed a tactic of just hanging in there. This worked and got him to the Olympic final.
What can we learn from this?
- Stick with it, who knows what might happen.
- You can get a huge sense of satisfaction and a big boost from trying your best.
- Just how much we can endure and overcome if we want to.
Bradbury trained for 12 years for the Olympics We can all benefit from his approach and learn his lessons if we get in there and have a go ourselves. Go on, go for it!
Watch Mrs Powell’s Worship on-line by following this link.
Tuesday 12th Worship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scxc9RKJ2vM
All the best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick and keep smiling!
Toucans 11.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 11th May 2020 @ 7:11am
Toucans Blog Monday 11th May 2020
Good morning lovely Toucans. I hope you all had a great weekend and enjoyed the VE Day celebrations.
It was lovely to talk to your parents last week and to hear how fantastic you have all been at home. Keep up the positive attitude and keep smiling! We are very proud of each of you! Please start this morning by clicking on this link to enjoy a little video that the staff at Lostock have put together for you! Lostock Gralam C of E- When I Grow Up
ENGLISH
We will start this week by completing the unit of work that we started last week on Newspapers from the Oak Academy. Today you need to do lesson 4.
https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6/english#subjects
MATHS
This week we will continue with the lessons from www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons click on Year 6 and then see below.
Also have a go at this Maths activity. – I have loved seeing all your amazing ‘Arty Maths’ activities on Twitter. This week, I would like you to try some Maths activities using a pack of playing cards.
Lostock C of E - When I Grow UpSee the attached Home Learning Timetable and resources for today’s Art lesson - Add texture to your artwork - Artist – Vincent Van Gogh
Message from Mrs Powell - Flowers
Have you planted your sunflower seed? All flowers are different and amazing, so, too, people are all different, but all wonderfully made. Just as flowers can brighten our day when we see them, so, too, each of us can brighten other people’s days by our care and our attitudes.
We thank you, God, for the beauty of flowers.
Giving flowers shows that we care.
Flowers can brighten our day and fill our hearts with gladness.
Please help us to be like flowers to other people,
Brightening their day and bringing joy to those around us.
Amen.
Why don’t you give flower-pressing a go! Instructions are available at: https://tinyurl.com/y9hgtkjz
All the best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick and keep smiling!
Toucans 7.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 7th May 2020 @ 8:30am
Good morning Toucans. I hope you are all keeping well. The celebrations over the next few days’ tie in nicely with everything that we have been doing with our Conflict Topic this year. I would start with looking at the PowerPoint and maybe watching some of the video clips to give yourself some background knowledge to this important day. Then over the next 2 days, just choose some activities that you would like to do, either by yourself or with other family members. I’ll also be doing many of these activities with Aoife. I look forward to seeing what you do on Twitter.
Whole School VE DAY ACTIVITIES
As Friday is our special VE Bank Holiday, we would like the children to try out some fun VE activities today. Choose a few which take your fancy and have fun learning about why we will be celebrating VE Day tomorrow.
Some of the activities you can try:
- Learn the Lindy Hop Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=1TmPHBgn1Es&feature=emb_title
- Watch BBC Newsround to learn about VE Day:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/48201749
- Listen to the Horrible Histories VE song:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/horrible-histories-songs-ve-day-song
- Send love to our NHS heroes:
Nurses and others - employed by the NHS and any other part of health and care - we have never needed them more. So let’s show them some love, and create a living map of gratitude from every corner of Britain. By dropping a heart on this map, you’re saying you appreciate the efforts undertaken daily in the NHS.
- Do your hair in a victory roll:
This rolled and pinned hairstyle was popular during the war and became associated with the victory
manoeuvre of fighter aircraft during the Battle of Britain in 1940. Watch the tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=22&v=JiNuMHD_vcM&feature=emb_title
- Visit an online museum:
The Imperial War Museum is inviting people to 'visit' from home by listening to a soundscape it has created to commemorate VE Day. ‘Voices of War’ is a four minute work featuring first-hand accounts of VE Day selected from IWM’s vast sound archive. It will be available to listen to at iwm.org.uk/history/victory.
- Cook a 1945-style meal by following these recipes:
Most food was rationed during the war and often cooks had to get inventive with their recipes. Meat shortages meant things like Spam or corned beef hash became staple dishes, while carrots were used to sweeten cakes and biscuits in place of sugar. Other commonly-eaten dishes included the potato, cheese and onion-filled homity pie, supposedly first made by the Land Girls. And where would any British occasion be without scones?
- Join in a national sing-along with Dame Vera Lynn:
The 103-year-old singer will perform from a window at her Sussex home just after 9pm, following the Queen's special address to the nation, and viewers are encouraged to join her.
- Make your own VE Day Anniversary Colour-in Bunting:
Celebrate 75 years of VE Day by decorating your home or classroom with this DIY downloadable colour-in pictorial bunting. https://www.bakerross.co.uk/craft-ideas/teachers/ve-day-anniversary-colour-in-bunting/
- Complete this VE Day Quiz:
- Which came first – VE or VJ Day?
- Which Prime Minister led Britain through WW2?
- Who were Britain’s allies during WW2?
- Where did crowds mainly gather to celebrate the end of the war?
- What happened to Adolf Hitler following the end of the war?
- Choose from some of the attached sheets from Twinkl:
Including make your own Spitfire plane, Morse code-cracking, fact files, themed colouring pages, reading activities etc.
- Look at the English Heritage for some fun activities:
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/siteassets/home/visit/ve-day-75/eh-ve-day-at-home-pack.pdf
On VE day itself join in with the celebrations:
- At 11am, a national two-minute silence will be held to reflect on the sacrifice of those who fought in the war.
- At 3pm, Britons are being invited to take to their doorsteps to raise a glass, cheer and clap during The Nation's Toast to the Heroes of World War Two. The official VE Day website reads that there'll be a chant of the phrase: "To those who gave so much, we thank you."
- A pre-recorded speech by the Queen will be broadcast at 9pm, the very moment her father, King George VI, addressed the people over radio on May 8 1945. It will form part of televised musical event VE Day 75: The People's Celebration on BBC One from 8pm.
Message from Mrs Powell
Just over 80 years ago, the Second World War began. It was a huge war that involved most nations of the world. On 8 May 1945 at 3pm, Winston Churchill, the UK prime minister at that time, announced to the nation that the war in Europe was over. This meant an end to nearly six years of war that had cost the lives of millions of people and had destroyed families, homes and cities.
Millions rejoiced at the news that Germany had surrendered, relieved that the intense strain of war was finally over. In towns and cities across the world, people marked the victory with street parties, dancing and singing. Can you imagine how it felt? What could you make today for a street party? My Gran Peggy told us that she danced all through the night as she had really missed dancing!
We hope you enjoy these VE day celebration activities and have a great weekend, love from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham and Mr Beswick
Toucans 6.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 6th May 2020 @ 8:43am
Good morning Toucans! I hope you are all still dancing, ‘dance like no one is watching you’, and singing too! This is fabulous for our mental health and keeps us physically healthy as well. Missing our sporting competitions in school? I hope some of you are having a go at our daily active challenges. Also has anyone tried out the tri-golf game for the School Games? Have a go today and don’t forget to Tweet your achievements. Keep an eye out on Twitter for the basketball challenge that will also appear later today.
ENGLISH
Today you will complete lesson 3 from the Oak Academy on Newspapers.
https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6/english#subjects
MATHS
This week we will continue with the lessons from www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons click on Year 6 and then see below.
Also have a go at this Maths activity.
See the attached Home Learning Timetable and resources for today’s History – Conflict. Here is another great History lesson from the Oak Academy on Western Front.
The Western Front
Message from Mrs Powell
What did the world look like on VE day? What were people eating? Over the past few months, you might have had to eat something different because shopping is a little more complicated. What food did people eat on VE day? Lots of you have been growing your own fruits and vegetables; I’m growing tomatoes, herbs and strawberries and waiting to see if my peppers will grow! During the war, food was rationed so people grew as much food as they could. Another one of my Gran’s favourite foods was liver and she would make me and my brothers and sisters eat it all the time because she said it was good for us! We really didn’t like that but I like the ideas of some of these war time food; my Gran Peggy would have loved the liver casserole!
Here's some of the popular foods eaten during World War II and the sort of dishes that featured in VE Day celebrations. Do you fancy trying any of them?
- Dripping sandwiches with beef fat
- Lord Woolton pie (cauliflower, potatoes, parsnips, oats)
- Pork faggots with onion gravy and mash
- Homity pie (potato, onion and cheese)
- Corned beef hash
- Liver casserole
- Eggless fruit cake. Why do you think it was eggless?
All the best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick and keep smiling! Tomorrow I will set the VE whole school project to be done on Thursday and Friday to mark VE Day.
Toucans 5.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 5th May 2020 @ 8:38am
Good morning to all our lovely Toucans. I hope you are all keeping well. It is fantastic to see your work on Twitter and to hear from your parents how well you are all doing. We are so proud of you.
ENGLISH
Today you will complete lesson 2 from the Oak Academy on Newspapers.
https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6/english#subjects
MATHS
This week we will continue with the lessons from www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons click on Year 6 and then see below.
Also have a go at this Maths activity.
See the attached Home Learning Timetable and resources for today’s Science – What is blood?
Message from Mrs Powell
Please watch this clip and think about what we talked about yesterday http://tinyurl.com/qbkaq75
I love this story. Do you think Mr George likes cabbage now? Can you imagine how he felt? Victory in Europe (VE) Day marked the end of the Second World War in Europe in 1945. Friday 8th May 2015 was the official 70th anniversary of VE Day. VE Day is another day that many people will never forget as it marked the end of a terrible war in Europe, though there was still fighting in Japan until later that year. Mr George’s memorable day was one of great danger followed by relief at still being alive. This is one type of memorable day although hopefully no one present will experience such a day! My Gran Peggy used to tell me when she had her very first orange as you couldn’t get them during the war; she used to make lots of marmalade as oranges became her favourite fruit! Mr George’s story reminds us that we all have special days that will stay with us forever. We don’t know when they will come or what they will be.
All the best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick and keep smiling!
Toucans 4.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 4th May 2020 @ 8:49am
Good morning everyone. I hope you all had a lovely weekend and are set for the week ahead. I can’t believe it is the month of May already! You have all been fabulous with your home learning and we are so proud of each of you.
ENGLISH
This week I would like you to join in the English lessons from the Oak Academy on Newspapers.
https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-6/english#subjects
I’d like you to start today with this lesson.
MATHS
Make sure you check your answers from Friday’s challenge.
This week we will continue with the lessons from www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons click on Year 6 and then see below.
Also have a go at this Maths activity.
See the attached Home Learning Timetable and resources for today’s Art lesson – Texture Treasure Hunt
https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/foundation/texture-treasure-hunt-year-6-wk1-5/
(you might enjoy hearing the Irish accent!)
Message from Mrs Powell
Good morning! This week we are going to think about V.E day. I’m going to tell you little stories that my Granny Peggy told me; she lived in London during the war and my Grandad was an RAF pilot. First of all, I want you to think about a day you will always remember, happy or sad. A birthday, a family event, something you shared with friends. Is there a special food that reminds you of that day? My niece Edith is now 3 and I was lucky enough to visit her in hospital when she was a few hours old. I remember that gorgeous feeling, how hot the hospital was and helping my sister eat the chocolate I had brought for her! What special memory do you have? What reminds you of that? Some memorable days are happy and some are sad. Each of us will have our own experiences and our own reactions to them. There are as many different sorts of memorable days as there are different sorts of people.
All the best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick and keep smiling!
Toucans 1.5.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 1st May 2020 @ 8:59am
Happy May Day! Thank you for all the effort that you have been putting into your home learning. Remember to make sure your home learning fits in with your family life. I hope you are all listening to your parents and showing our Christian values at home.
“Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.” Roald Dahl
You are amazing and you are doing something very special; by not leaving the house you are keeping safe. We have talked about making one small change that can change the world and actually that is what you are doing right now. I’ve said this a lot but future children will be reading how you made the world a safer place by staying inside. Mrs Powell
English
For English today, I would like you to continue to spend some time working on your spellings. How did you get on yesterday spelling the words from the Year 5/6 list?
Do some spelling work from your CGP book or the ReadWriteInc spelling book or the spelling at home booklet that you have (I’ll also attach this today). Make it fun! Remember the activities that we did in class; draw around the word, colour it, draw an image, trace the word, look for smaller words within the word etc.
Maths
I’d like you to Log onto this website https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons click onto Year 6 and have a go at the Weekly Maths Challenges. Remember if you click on this lesson again on Monday, the answers will be revealed.
Also have a go at this Maths activity.
See the attached Home Learning Timetable and resources for today’s Geography – South America – Physical Features
Have a great weekend, relax, enjoy the outdoors (no matter what the weather is) best wishes from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick. Remember if you have anything for our ‘Sharing Window’ in school please drop it off at school. Also keep an eye out for the postman…
Toucans 30.4.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 30th Apr 2020 @ 8:53am
Good morning everyone, I hope you are all keeping well. It is very important that we keep active even though the weather is not great at the moment. I have sent an email to your parents making them aware of lots of active activities that you could be doing at home. Take a look at these:
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/pe-home-learning
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/60-second-physical-activity-challenges
https://www.youthsporttrust.org/active-learning
“It doesn’t matter who you are or what you like, as long as somebody loves you.” Roald Dahl
We always say that everyone is special and that we are all unique. During the past few months, you have been surrounded by love and we have all been reminded just how special those people around us are. Who are you going to tell how special they are today? Mrs Powell
Today I would like you to have a go at Maths lesson from www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons click on Year 6 and then see below.
Please remember, I don’t expect you to complete every activity sheet/game that is attached to each lesson, just do as much as you can. You may decide to spend an hour on each subject, like we do in school, or break it up into smaller time slots to fit in with what you are doing at home.
English
For English today, I would like you to spend some time working on your spellings. How many of the words from the attached Year 5/6 list can you spell? Do some spelling work from your CGP book or the ReadWriteInc spelling book or the spelling at home booklet that you have (I’ll also attach this today). Make it fun! Remember the activities that we did in class; draw around the word, colour it, draw an image, trace the word, look for smaller words within the word etc.
See the attached Home Learning Timetable and resources for today’s Science Project – Body Pump – What is a heart and what does it do?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01198ld - how the heart works
All the best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick and keep smiling!
Toucans 29.4.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 8:46am
Good morning to all our lovely Toucans. 
We hope you are all keeping well and managing to get your home learning done, well at least some of it! We had a busy morning in the Whittingham house yesterday; doubling in Maths, phonics, handwriting and story writing so we were glad to just chill out in the afternoon. Aoife found some fabulous stories on this web link https://stories.audible.com/discovery and we had a lovely time cuddled up on the couch listening to them. Have a look yourself, especially under the ‘Elementary’ section.
“No book ever ends when it’s full of your friends.” Roald Dahl
Do books ever end if you have really loved them? Are there books you just love and don’t want to ever end? We remember stories forever; I still remember reading The Enchanted Wood when I was little, and when I read it to my daughter Emily it felt like I was visiting friends again. What book will you read when you are older? Maybe you are being read a book that someone loved when they were little. Mrs Powell
Today I would like you to have a go at the English and Maths lesson from www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons click on Year 6 and then see below. I don’t expect you to complete every activity sheet/game that is attached to each lesson, just do as much as you can. You may decide to spend an hour on each subject, like we do in school, or break it up into smaller time slots to fit in with what you are doing at home.
Also have a go at this Maths activity.
See the attached Home Learning Timetable for today’s History lesson – World War 1
All the best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick and keep smiling!
Toucans 28.4.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 28th Apr 2020 @ 8:50am
Good morning Toucans. I forgot to remind you yesterday to check your answers from Friday’s Maths Challenge. They put them on the BBC website on a Monday. If you click again on the Weekly Challenge from last Friday, you will find them. Here is a screen shot of them for you to check in case you can’t find them online.
“If you’re going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” Roald Dahl
What could you read today? I’ve realised that I’m always talking about reading but that is because books are brilliant and you can learn so much without realising it. You learn lots of new words, visit new places, learn new skills or just get lost in a wonderful story. Mrs Powell
Today I would like you to have a go at the English and Maths lesson from www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons click on Year 6 and then see below
Also have a go at this Maths activity.
I know lots of you are probably beginning to think about high school as we are now in the summer term. I’m sure you have lots of questions. Hopefully, by completing this lesson from https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons it will help put some of your worries/queries to rest.
Have a great day and remember just do as much as you can, all the best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick
Toucans 27.4.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 9:05am
Good morning Toucans. I hope you all had a lovely weekend and are ready for another week ahead. The weather forecast doesn’t look as nice for this week but I’m sure we can still get out for our daily exercise. How many keep uppys did you manage? How many skips in 2 minutes? Maybe this week you will play some board games with your family or do some jigsaws, mindfulness colouring or crafts. Take a look at these websites for some ideas.
Blue Peter Badges - There are eight badges you can earn.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/joinin/about-blue-peter-badges
Red Ted Art - Easy arts and crafts for children
Colouring/puzzles and Games
https://www.kidspuzzlesandgames.co.uk/coloring-sheets/adult-colouring-coloring-sheets#colouring-page
“The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives.” Matilda
When you listen to a brilliant story or read a great book, do you think about the characters and imagine you are doing those exciting things? What would it like to be Harry Potter, to go through the Gruffalo wood or visit Narnia? Mrs Powell
Today I would like you to have a go at the English and Maths lesson from www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons click on Year 6 and then see below
Also have a go at this Maths activity.
See the attached the new Home Learning Timetable for this week. Have a look at any new websites that I have added onto the timetable and on page 2 you will see an overview of the lessons planned for this week in more detail. Today will you will have an Art lesson to improve your drawing skills.
Have a great day and remember just do as much as you can, all the best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick
Toucans 24.4.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 8:42am
I think you all deserve a hot chocolate today. Thank you for all the effort that you have been putting into your home learning. I’m sure you will agree that having some structure again this week, after the Easter Holidays, was needed. That said, please just do as much as you can at home. Make sure your home learning fits in with your family life. I hope you are all listening to your parents and showing our Christian values at home.
“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind, and the third is to be kind.” – Henry James
What have you done that is kind? What could you do today that is kind? Could you take a picture and put it on Twitter so we can all be kind like you. Mrs Powell
ENGLISH
We will finish this week with another writing task. I hope the tasks this week have reminded you how well you can write and that you are all great writers. Remember Read like a Writer, Write like a Reader!
Maths
I’d like you to Log onto this website https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons click onto Year 6 and have a go at the Weekly Maths Challenges. The answers will be revealed on Monday.
Also have a go at one of the attached Cooking with Maths activities over the weekend. Or just do some baking at home with one of your own recipes. Lots of Maths involved with home baking.
See the attached Home Learning Timetable and resources for today’s RE lesson – Why is Jesus, ‘Light of the World’, good news for Christians? This lesson will involve you producing some artwork.
Have a great weekend, relax, enjoy the outdoors and your family life best wishes from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick
Toucans 23.4.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 23rd Apr 2020 @ 8:20am
Good morning Toucans. I hope you had a look at the #KeepYourSpiritsUp keepy uppy challenge on Twitter yesterday. Mr Ault did very well. How about having a go at this challenge yourself today? Be as creative as you can. We would love to see how you do by posting it on Twitter.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.” – Albert Einstein
What do you really want to do? What are your dreams? Remember you can do anything, keep dreaming and if you want, tell someone all about it! Mrs Powell
Today I would like you to have a go at the English and Maths lesson from www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons click on Year 6 and then see below
Also have a go at this Maths activity.
See the attached Home Learning Timetable and resources for today’s Science lesson – Body Pump – What does my circulatory system do? There are step by step ideas on the Home Learning Timetable for this lesson, which I will attach today along with the resources needed for the lesson.
Have a great day and remember just do as much as you can, all the best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick
Toucans 22.4.20, by Mrs Whittingham
Date: 22nd Apr 2020 @ 8:38am
I hope you are all keeping well and active. Remember this is good for both our physical and mental health. Have you been going for a daily walk, run or cycle? Maybe doing some 5-A-Day activities, Go Noodle or Cosmic Yoga? Or simply putting on some music and dancing around the house, which I’ve been enjoying! We will continue to focus on our writing skills today, remember to think about your super sentences with expanded noun phrases, relative clauses, modal verbs etc. Maybe before you start today could you write out your own success criteria/marking ladder for what you think should be in your writing and then check afterwards to see how many you included.
“If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl
I love this and I love all of your smiles! When you think kind things, you spread that kindness for everyone to see. Tell someone special, three of your kind thoughts. Mrs Powell
English
Maths
I’d like you to Log onto this website https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons and have a go at today’s Maths activity. Click on Year 6 and then 22nd April Negative Numbers. Watch the video clips and have a go at the activities.
Also have a go at this Maths activity.
See the attached Home Learning Timetable and resources for today’s Geography lesson – South America – Counties and Cities.
All the best from Mrs Downing, Mrs Whittingham & Mr Beswick