Stanmore Post - 24 April 2020
Dear Parents,
I hope that you are all well and that you have found your way around some of the home learning tasks this week. The children that are attending school have also been completing these tasks and have also enjoyed some baking and pond dipping.
We are continuing to see regular submission of great work and we are proud of the effort going into this. We know that three quarters of our children are completing work and I expect there are others getting on with their own home learning in addition to this. Managing the demands of home working, home learning, shopping and living through this pandemic is a huge challenge. If you are getting children to complete some work that is good, remember there is no pressure. We are now able to provide more direction for you but this is not intended to be overwhelming. If you can help maintain your child’s motivation to learn and some stamina for working then you are doing a brilliant job.
This week the Government launched the Oak National Academy which provides a bank of high-quality, sequenced video lessons and resources for schools to complement their own lesson planning. We intend to make use of some of these resources over the next few weeks.
If we can help your child to access work in some way, please get in touch by sending an email to stanmoresupport@stanmoreprimary.com
Year R - All learning tasks are set on Tapestry
Year 1 and 2 can find their work here
Year 3 and 4 can find their work here
Year 5 and 6 can find their work here
We would love to see examples of the work that your child has completed. To submit work, please email it to stanmoresupport@stanmoreprimary.com This can be a photo of the work, or a Word / PowerPoint / pdf file (or similar). Please note any photos submitted should meet safeguarding requirements. Children should not be identified by their address or personal details in the photo and children should be appropriately dressed.
Examples of children’s work will be published on the website at the end of the week. House points may be awarded for work submitted.
During this time all home school learning enquiries should come via the stanmoresupport@stanmoreprimary.com email address. Unfortunately queries and comments posted through Purple Mash, Dojo or school social media site will not be addressed. A teacher from your child’s year group will review all work submitted by 2pm each day and provide an acknowledgement so that your child knows that the work has been received. We are sorry but we are unable to provide precise feedback or 1:1 tuition at this time.
General School enquiries that are not related to home school learning should be sent to adminoffice@stanmore.hants.sch.uk
Please let us know if you believe that, as a result of changes in your circumstances, you may now be eligible for Free School Meals. We can apply on your behalf.
Year 5 and 6 - Home Learning - 27 April 2020
Curriculum for the week commencing 27 April 2020
Each day:
Log in to Purple Mash and complete the activities in the ‘To do’ section
Complete fifteen minutes of Times Table Rock Stars
Complete one task from the Curriculum Jigsaw Challenge (see below)
Complete one of the Literacy Tasks (see below)
Year 5 pupils should complete thirty minutes of Reading Plus and Year 6 pupils should read a book for thirty minutes
Over the week:
Take a look at some of our links to other educational sites and ideas and get creative!
Try a task from the Humankind Big Challenge
Curriculum Jigsaw Challenge
Click to open the Year 5 and 6 Jigsaw for this week
Literacy task
Click to open literacy task where you will find the five activities for you to complete this week
Use this setting description file and this improving vocabulary file for the activity on Monday
Use this using senses to write a description for the activity on Wednesday
Use this figurative language checklist and the poem The Ridge for the activity on Thursday
Use this narrative planning file for the activity on Friday
Year 5 and 6 - Home Learning - 20 April 2020
Curriculum for the week commencing 20 April 2020
Each day:
Log in to Purple Mash and complete the activities in the ‘To do’ section
Complete fifteen minutes of Times Table Rock Stars
Complete one task from the Curriculum Jigsaw Challenge (see below)
Complete one of the Literacy Tasks (see below)
Year 5 pupils should complete thirty minutes of Reading Plus and Year 6 pupils should read a book for thirty minutes
Over the week:
Take a look at some of our links to other educational sites and ideas and get creative!
Try a task from the Humankind Big Challenge
Curriculum Jigsaw Challenge
Click to open the Year 5 and 6 Jigsaw for this week
Literacy task
Click to open The Lego Story where you will find the link to the film and the five activities for you to complete this week
Use this file for the activity on Monday
Use this file for the activity on Tuesday
Use this file for the activity on Wednesday
Use this file for the activity on Friday
Year 3 and 4 - Home Learning - 20 April 2020
Curriculum for the week commencing 20 April 2020
Each day:
Log in to Purple Mash and complete the activities in the ‘To do’ section
Complete fifteen minutes of Times Table Rock Stars
Complete one task from the Curriculum Jigsaw Challenge (see below)
Complete one of the Literacy Tasks (see below)
Complete twenty minutes of reading
Over the week:
Take a look at some of our links to other educational sites and ideas and get creative!
Try a task from the Humankind Big Challenge
Curriculum Jigsaw Challenge
Click to open the Year 3 and 4 Jigsaw for this week
Literacy task
Click to open Girl and Robot where you will find the link to the film and the five activities for you to complete this week
Use this file for the activity on Tuesday
Use this file for the activity on Wednesday
Use this file for the activity on Thursday
Use this file for the activity on Friday
Year 1 and 2 - Home Learning - 20 April 2020
Curriculum for the week commencing 20 April 2020
Each day:
Log in to Purple Mash and complete the activities in the ‘To do’ section
Complete fifteen minutes of Times Table Rock Stars
Complete one task from the Curriculum Jigsaw Challenge (see below)
Complete the RWI task (unless your child is in Mr. Read’s group or the Blue group) in which case they should complete one of these literacy tasks (see below)
Over the week:
Take a look at some of our links to other educational sites and ideas and get creative!
Try a task from the Humankind Big Challenge
Curriculum Jigsaw Challenge
Click to open the Year 1 and 2 Jigsaw for this week
Read Write Inc tasks
Click to open the Parents and Carers guide to teaching phonics at home
Read the instructions and ask your child who their Read Write Inc teacher is to work out which group they are in (if you need help identifying which group they are in you can send an email to stanmoresupport@stanmoreprimary.com)
Then complete the relevent group work from the list of downloads below:
Literacy tasks
Click to open Up in the garden and down in the dirt where you will find the link to the book and the five activities for you to complete this week
This file will help you with Activity 1
This file will help you with Activity 2
This template file and this alternative template file will help you with Activity 5
What wonderful work - 30th March to 3rd April 2020
It is lovely to see our children engaging in their learning this week. We would love to see what you have been doing, so please share your work with us by sending it to us by email to stanmoresupport@stanmoreprimary.com or if you’re in Catkins class keep continuing to upload your work to Tapestry.
When you share your work with us, you may well earn points for your House. The work below shows some of the fantastic examples of work you have been doing this week.
Spring Term House Points
The David Williams Challenge - No No Noe
Every day David Walliams will read aloud an extract from his book and we will set tasks for each year group to complete.
Your task:
YR – Noe’s favourite word is “no”, what is your favourite word? Why do you like it? Can you create a list of your top ten words?
Y1 – Noe thinks “yes” is a boring word. Can you think of any boring words? Can you improve them? For example, big -> colossal.
Y2 – Can you write a set of school rules that would confuse Noe?
Y3 – Can you write your own story using one of the other characters in the story, perhaps Raj the newsagent, or Mr Potts the Caretaker?
Y4 – Can you draw and write a comic-strip version of the story, to re-tell the key events?
Y5 – Can you create a ‘story mountain’ plotting the setting, build-up, problem, resolution and ending of the story?
Y6 – Write a diary entry from the point of view of one of the other characters in the book, for example, Mr Gubbins the Headteacher.
If you need an extra challenge:
Can you draw a picture of the different settings in the story, such as the school and the newsagents?
Don’t forget to send your work to stanmoresupport@stanmoreprimary.com and your work will be forwarded to your teacher!
Look out tomorrow after lunch for your next set of challenges.
Home learning #1
Throughout any period of school closure we will be publishing work for the children to help them maintain and continue their learning as best as possible during any disruption.
Please click on the appropriate links for your child below.
Year 1 and 2
Year 3 and 4
Year 5
Year 6
All is well with the aquatic creatures
Mrs. Horkan wanted to let Birch class know that Sonic and Lightening, the Birch class fish are being well looked after by Mr. Foard, the school site manager.
He is also making sure that the tadpoles are well fed and will be released back into the pond when they develop their legs.
Making use of our grounds and exploring art
The children in school looked at Andy Goldsworthy's work and then created their own artworks inspired by his sculptures using natural materials they found in our grounds. They set up an open air museum and presented their creations. We think they are really wonderful.
