Midgley School

Welcome to Class 4

Class Teacher: Mrs G Bennett

Teaching Assistant: Mrs S Grant

Class Governor: Mrs W Black

SPRING 1 2022

Please see below for home learning to complete if you are off school due to Covid.

Please get in touch using my school email address if you have any questions.

Mrs Bennett

Monday: 

Maths: Please use the links below to access the video to go with each worksheet. Year 5 have two Maths sessions today as Year 6 will be in Forest School this week.  On Tuesday, there won't be any additional work set as the children in school will be taking part in a safer internet workshop, so Year 5 children could save one Maths activity for Tuesday if you know you definitely won't be in.  There are also new Flashback 4 questions attached for Monday to Thursday this week.  Again, don't complete the activities beyond when you expect to be back in school.

Year 5 Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning?year=year-5&term=summer

Year 6 Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning?year=year-6&term=spring

English: Spellings for this week are attached. You could also ask someone to test you on your spellings from last week and let me know your score.  There are no additional activities for English today as we will be completing assessments for this half term in school during our English session.  Don't worry about missing these, you can catch up once you are back.  Please use your time to either work on your homework project (see below) or to continue with your 'Ice Matters' booklet.

Homework:

Year 5 Homework: 07.02.2022

FOR 14.02.2022

Maths – Place Value in Big Numbers, p.7

GPS – Adjectives, p.8

NO COMPREHENSION THIS WEEK.

Year 6 Homework: 07.02.2022

FOR 14.02.2022

Maths – Decimals (Revision Guide p. 8-9, Workbook p.6)

English – Summarising (Revision Guide p. 4, Workbook p.4-5)

NO SPELLING THIS WEEK

Year 5 & 6 Homework: 07.02.2022

FOR 18.02.2022

Carry out a research project about the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo. Why was this a significant discovery and what does it tell us about Anglo Saxon life? You can present your project in any way that you wish – you could make a poster, a book, a model, etc. Please bring your work into school by the end of this half term – Friday 18^th February. I would like to use your finished work to create a display in school.

Friday:

SPaG: Please work through the presentation about concise noun phrases and then complete the activities.

Comprehension:  Have a go at the comprehension activity about Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year was on Tuesday 1st February and 2022 is the year of the tiger!

Other Activities: Use the rest of today to complete anything that you haven't finished this week. Have another look at any maths that you have found difficult, complete your homework in your CGP books, continue with your 'Ice Matters' work. Or do something exciting at home and send me some pictures - you could bake a cake, create a piece of art work, play with a pet, play a board game...

I hope you have a lovely weekend and I will set more home learning for you on Monday. Mrs Bennett

Thursday: 

Maths: Please complete the maths activity for your year group as above, either in your book if you have it or using the attached worksheet.  You can find the videos using the links below...

Year 5 - https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning?year=year-5&term=spring

Year 6 - https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning?year=year-6&term=spring

Spellings: Please complete the word search for your year group.

Other Activities: Today you would also have PE and Music - maybe you could get outside and do something active in the garden if you are well enough, or you could listen to a piece of music and write about how it makes you feel.  You could also continue to work on thee extra activities from Wednesday - 'Ice Matters', CGP work, a book review. If you haven't finished your Anglo Saxons work you could complete that too.

I hope that you are all ok, Mrs Bennett.

Wednesday:

Maths: Please use the link below to access the video linked to the worksheet for today. You will need to click on percentages and then find the Equivalent FDP video.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning?year=year-6&term=spring

English:  In class today we will be using our planning from Tuesday to produce our non-chronological reports about Anglo Saxon Life.  You can produce your report in any format - either handwritten or on the computer.  Think carefully about your layout design and about how you organise your work. Remember to use the knowledge organiser to help you with vocabulary ideas.  You could also draw or print pictures to add to your work.

Spellings: The presentation and handwriting sheets to accompany Year 6 spellings for this week can be found above.

Extra Activities: You could continue to work on the 'Ice Matters' booklet if you have time.  You could also complete your homework for this week from your CGP books - the pages you need to complete are listed under the Home Learning for Monday 31st January. You could also write a review of a book that you are reading.

Tuesday:

Maths: Year 5 and 6 will be working on the same maths again this morning - please use the link for the Monday morning maths from yesterday.  The video is called Percentages as Fractions and Decimals.

English: In our English lessons this week we are going to be producing a non-chronological report about village life during Anglo Saxon times.  Please begin by working through the Anglo-Saxon Village Life presentation and then using the Non-Chronological Report planning presentation.  I have included the spider diagram and section planner sheets that we will be using in school today so that you can plan your report.  There is also a non-chronological reports knowledge organiser to help you with ideas for things to include and an example of a non-chronological report about The Industrial Revolution to give you ideas for layout etc.  We will be planning our reports in school today and will be writing them on Wednesday, so please don't start to write your report if you think you may be back at school on Wednesday.  In school we will be using books and the internet to help with our research for this project, so you might like to do that at home too.

You could also continue to work on your 'Ice Matters' pack and your CGP homework from yesterday.

Have a lovely day!

Monday:

Please find your Monday home learning resources above.  

Maths: On Monday morning, Year 5 & 6 will be doing their maths lesson together - please use the link below to access the video. On Monday afternoon, Year 6 will have an additional Maths lesson as Year 5 will be at Forest School. The video link for this lesson is also below.

Monday morning maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning?year=year-5&term=spring

Year 6 maths - Monday afternoon: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning?year=year-6&term=spring

If you are catching up on Maths from last week, you will need to continue to use the video links at the top of this page.

English: Your new spellings for this week are attached.  You could also ask someone to test you on your spellings from last week and let me know your score!

SPaG: Please use the PowerPoint presentation to learn about Noun Phrases and then complete Activity 1 and Activity 2.

Additional English: Please continue to work on the 'Ice Matters' booklet - if you haven't started this yet, the link to it can be found on the Home Learning list for Thursday 20th January below.

CGP Books: If you have your CGP books at home, the homework for this week is listed below, you could also work on this during the time that you are off school...

Year 5 Homework: 31.01.2022 - FOR 07.02.2022

Maths – Counting Backwards Through Zero, p.6

GPS – Modal Verbs, p.6

Comprehension – Portrait of a Dragon, p.2-3.

Year 6 Homework: 31.01.2022 - FOR 07.02.2022

Maths – Roman Numerals (Revision Guide p. 6-7, Workbook p.5)

English – Retrieving Information (Revision Guide p. 3, Workbook p.2-3)

Spelling – Plurals p.4-5

Friday: 

Hi Class 4!

There are a couple of activities attached above for you to complete today - a comprehension activity about Beowulf and some bullets points work linked to our learning earlier in the week.  Tomorrow is our maths revisit day in school, so this might be a good time for you to complete the homework for this week from your CGP books if you have them.  Don't worry if you haven't got yours yet - they are waiting in school for you when you return! I have also assigned you some activities on Classroom Secrets Kids to complete to revise some of our learning in maths and SPaG- please let me know if you are unsure of your password or are struggling to access these!  You could also use the time today to continue to work on your 'Ice Matters' booklet or to complete any unfinished work.  Have fun! I am looking forward to seeing most of you back in school next week! Mrs Bennett 

Thursday: 

Maths: Please complete the maths worksheet for your year group.  Year 6 children will need to use the following link for their video rather than the link above, as their work is a recap of learning from the Autumn term: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning?year=year-6&term=autumn

English: Please complete your Beowulf newspaper articles and continue to work on your 'Ice Matters' pack. There are also word searches linked to the spellings for your year group attached above.

Wednesday: 

Maths: There is no White Rose Maths activity for Year 5 today as normally you would be at swimming.  Year 6 - please use the worksheet provided and access the video with the same name from the link above.  I have also included some 7x table activities for both Year 5 & 6 to have a go at.  

English:  Please use the planning that you produced yesterday to write your newspaper report about how Beowulf defeated Grendel.  I would love it if you could email some of your finished work to me so that I can share it with the Class 4 children in school.  Year 6 children - you also have spelling and handwriting work to complete today.

You can also complete any unfinished work on your 'Ice Matters' booklet - some of you have already shared some lovely work with me linked to this project!

Tuesday: Hello Class 4!! I hope that you are all ok - we are really missing you in school. Please feel free to email us to say hello if you would like to!

The resources for your work today can be found above.

Maths: Please select the worksheet for your year group and use the link at the top of the page to find the video with the same title as your worksheet.

English: In school today we will be reviewing the story of Beowulf. We will be talking about how Beowulf defeated Grendel in Heorot Hall and will be thinking about how we could report this success to the people of Denmark.  We will be talking about the features of a newspaper report and will be planning our own report about Beowulf's success. You can use the PowerPoint and resources above to help you to think about newspaper report features and to start to plan your own report. We will be writing our reports on Wednesday in school, so save writing your actual report until then!  You can also continue to work on your 'Ice Matters' booklet if you have time today.

Year 5 Spelling: In school Year 5 will have a spellings focus session today and will complete their handwriting activity - these are attached above. Year 6 children will have this job to do tomorrow.

Science: Our Science lesson this afternoon will be our final one in this topic. We will be focusing on the lifecycle of a bird and will then be moving on to compare all of the lifecycles that we have learnt about.  Use the PowerPoint presentation to learn about the lifecycle of a bird. You could also watch this video to learn more about the different parts of an egg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDv0Nnyb1WA

Once you have done this, write a paragraph to compare the lifecycles of a bird, mammal, amphibian, insect and plant.

Don't forget to get in touch if you have any questions or if you would like to share what you have been doing! Have a nice day! Mrs Bennett

Monday: Your learning resources for today are listed above.  There is less Maths for Year 6 than Year 5, as Year 6 would be at Forest School in the afternoon this week and Year 5 have an extra maths lesson.  The morning Maths lesson is for Year 5 and 6 together as it is a recap session for Year 6.  Please use the Year 5 link to find the video.  Your Flashback 4 activities for the week are attached, please complete one each day so that you don't get ahead of when you will be back in school!  Your spelling lists for this week are also attached so that you can start to learn your words. You could also ask someone to test you on your spellings from last week too if possible - please let me know your score! For English, please complete the SPaG work attached for today and also continue with the 'Ice Matters' booklet. Have fun and remember to get in touch if you need any help! Mrs Bennett 

Friday: Please complete the correct spelling word search for your year group.  The SPaG work on writing notes links to the work that we completed in school earlier in the week - I have attached the PowerPoint from our last lesson to remind you what to do.  The reading comprehension links to our Science work on Jane Goodall - please read the information and answer the questions.  

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This week we received our certificate for the RSPB Big Schools Birdwatch - you can see it below.  Well done to everyone who took part and submitted their results!