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Mrs Cuthbert - Curiosity Class 10

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Mrs Morris - Opportunity Class 9:

opportunity@st-marys-purton.wilts.sch.uk

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Piper Pimble(less than a year ago)

I have just finished reading Dork Diaries, Frenemies Forever.

Ollie Pulllen(less than a year ago)

i beat the computer on the maths game loads of times

Phoebe D(less than a year ago)

The maths on track is missing 7812 and 9680 on the answers. They are before 17425

Tilia(less than a year ago)

Well done Mrs C for finding seesaw it is a great app . I love it. See you very soon. Tilia

Heidi(less than a year ago)

Hi sorry about so many comments I can not do the maths on track because we don’t have any dice.

Noah Cuthbert(less than a year ago)

Hello Sam I think Diary of a wimpy kid The Meltdown is a great book.

Happy Heidi(less than a year ago)

Hi I am reading Code name bananas

Isabelle(less than a year ago)

Please do the cups thing on zoom call

Joshua(less than a year ago)

I am reading Christmasaurus and the Winter Witch

Mrs C(less than a year ago)

Thanks Isabelle, I have included it on our bookshelf on the top of the page.

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Year 4's Home Learning Hub

VIRTUAL CLASSROOM

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You can see our curriculum overview by clicking the image above.

You can read more about our curriculum here: www.st-marys-purton.wilts.sch.uk/our-curriculum

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Welcome to Year 4's Learning Hub.

You will find lots of ideas to support your learning this year on this page.

You will also see suggested activities you can complete if you are unable to come to school.

Our class reader this term is:

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.

If you have a copy of this book, feel free to bring it to school with you and use it as we read it together.

Click on the book image to find an online version if you would prefer.

Our Big Questions for this term are:

1) Is everlasting ice possible?

2) Is it better to be an insider or an outsider?

3) What makes a good leader?

Our values for this term are:

Hope and Humility

Clicking on the values will take you to some activities you might like to share together.

Remember to add any reading you carry out onto your Go Read account.

We continue our 50 reads challenge in Year 4. You can find the list of our books here

Spellings for Week Beginning 24th January 2022

Subject

Activity

Notes

Maths

(10 minutes a day = 50 minutes)

Spellings

(50 minutes each week)

You can use Edshed spelling games to help support spellings this week and the new spelling focus in class this week.

Your spellings for this week are:

scent

science

scene

scissors

fascinate

muscle

ascend

descend

HANDWRITING

On the left hand menu, select 'harder words' or 'harder letters' and use the to learn the letters or joins you know that you find tricky.

Go to - Resources - Dictation and have a go at writing down a list using legible, joined writing.

READING

(20 minutes day)

You should now have login details for Goread - our digital reading record.

STORY TIME ONLINE. Extracts from books recommended for your age group are available to watch. A few of our 50 books are represented. Click on the image to see the links to follow. Let us know which you listen to!

CURIOSITY CLASS USE:

username: curious 4

Password: shine

OPPORTUNITY USE:

username: opp 4

Password: Shine

Monday 24.1.22

Subject

Activity

Notes

Mathematics

(30 Minutes + 15 Minutes)

You can find your maths tasks for the week here

You can find your maths on track work here

English

(45 minutes writing time)

Today we are looking more closely at being an 'insider' or 'outsider' in Narnia. Being on the side of side of the 'White Witch would be considered an 'insider' as she is in charge, whilst being one of the children etc. would be an 'outsider'

Today we would like you to list all of the positives and negatives for being on each side. Start thinking about which side you would choose!

CURIOSITY: Can click here to return your work

OPPORTUNITY: Can click here to return your work

You can find additional work here

Reading

(20 minutes)

You can find your reading tasks for the week here

Remember that you can use the link above to keep reading the story or follow the story with the television version here

Keeping Active

(40 minutes)

Remember you bike rides, walks and runs all count towards keeping active. Our bank of 5 will help you with some more ideas.

Design a circuit at home to challenge someone.
You can log onto the oak academy and choose a PE lesson to try. You can find the link here
Try a Go Noodle or Just Dance routine
We are using the lockdown challenges here. There are loads to choose from.
You can find some fantastic challenges here to try

Other Learning

(30 Minutes)

PSHE: We are looking at resilience today and how to overcome disappointment. You can find the lesson here and resource here. You might also find the scenarios from last week useful

Tuesday 25.1.22

Subject

Activity

Notes

Mathematics

(40 Minutes + 15 Minutes)

You can find your maths tasks for the week here

You can find your maths on track work here

English

(40 Minutes)

Following on from your ideas yesterday, we would like to write full sentences detailing your decision to be an 'insider' or 'outsider'

We would like you to use some of these subordinating conjunctions in your work

You can find sentence stems here to help you

You can find additional work here

Reading

(20 Minutes)

You can find your reading tasks for the week here

Keeping Active

(45 Minutes)

See our Bank of 5 for Monday.

Other Learning

(45 Minutes)

RE: today we are exploring the Buddhist 8 Fold Path.

You can find the lesson here.

Wednesday 26.1.22

Subject	Activity	Notes
Mathematics (40 Minutes + 15 Minutes)	You can find your maths tasks for the week here	You can find your maths on track work here
English (45 minutes)	Later this week we are going to write a diary entry in character (insider or outsider) about your experiences in Narnia. We are going to start with a story board to generate ideas. What might your day look like in Narnia. You find your template here	You can find additional work here
Reading	You can find your reading tasks for the week here
Keeping Active (45 Minutes)	See our Bank of 5 for Monday.
Other Learning (40 Minutes)	Geography: We are exploring the geography of the artic and Antarctica today, you find your lesson here

Thursday 27.1.22

Subject

Activity

Notes

Mathematics

(40 Minutes + 15 Minutes)

You can find a lesson to help you apply addition questions to word problems and challenges.

The video above will help you to apply addition methods to the word problems here.

You can find your maths on track work here

English

(50 Minutes)

We are going to write our diary extracts today. You can use your storyboards from yesterday to help you. You can find diary writing help here

You can find examples of diaries below to help you

Example one

Example two

Example three

You can find additional work here

Reading

(20 Minutes)

You can find your reading tasks for the week here

Keeping Active

(45 Minutes)

See our Bank of 5 for Monday.

Other Learning

(50 Minutes)

Science: Today's lesson focuses on the different melting points of materials

We will be comparing the temperature ice, chocolate and butter melts at - you may like to explore this at home.

You can also complete this activity to find out about the different melting points of metals.

This video can help show this.

Friday 28.1.22

Subject

Activity

Notes

Mathematics

(45 Minutes)

You can find your maths tasks for the week here

Here are a selection of Maths addition challenges you can use today.

Addition challenge 1

Addition challenge 2

You can find your maths on track work here

English

(40 Minutes)

We are having a free write Friday, these really help with your imaginative writing and stamina for writing.

You can choose to continue with your diary, write about what might happen next in 'The lion, the witch and the wardrobe', a story of your choice or even a poem. It is up to you.

You can find additional work here

Reading

(20 Minutes)

You can find your reading tasks for the week here

Keeping Active

(20 Minutes)

See our bank of 5 on Monday

Other Learning

(45 Minutes)

Music: we love this lesson using body percussion, we hope you do too!

GoNoodle

www.gonoodle.com/goodenergy

Get moving and keep fit with these great videos and activities for children of all ages.

Khan Academy

https://www.khanacademy.org

Especially good for maths and computing for all ages but other subjects at Secondary level. Note this uses the U.S. grade system but it's mostly common material.

BBC Learning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/coursesearch/

This site is old and no longer updated and yet there's so much still available, from language learning to BBC Bitesize for revision. No TV licence required except for content on BBC iPlayer.

Futurelearn

https://www.futurelearn.com

Free to access 100s of courses, only pay to upgrade if you need a certificate in your name (own account from age 14+ but younger learners can use a parent account).

Seneca

https://www.senecalearning.com

For those revising at GCSE or A level. Tons of free revision content. Paid access to higher level material.

Openlearn

https://www.open.edu/openlearn/

Free taster courses aimed at those considering Open University but everyone can access it. Adult level, but some e.g. nature and environment courses could well be of interest to young people.

Blockly

https://blockly.games

Learn computer programming skills - fun and free.

Scratch

https://scratch.mit.edu/explore/projects/games/

Creative computer programming

Ted Ed

https://ed.ted.com

All sorts of engaging educational videos

National Geographic Kids

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/

Activities and quizzes for younger kids.