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Wednesday Home Learning 13.03.2024

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Home Learning – Wednesday 13th March 2024


This Wednesday afternoon we would like you to complete some of the following tasks.
When you complete a task from the list below, you should upload it to your portfolio on your dojo account or you can bring in anything completed on paper into school tomorrow.

Reading:
Can I remind parents and children that we expect three signatures a week from parents in your child’s reading record to show that children have read at home either to a parent, a sibling or independently.

Book Review
If you have read a good book recently and you’d like to recommend it to others, write a book review which we can share with the rest of Westgate.

Maths:
To support your child’s learning please use the following links. Year 6 are learning about ratio and proportion. Follow the link to explore ratio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsq7hyc
Year 5 are going to be learning about measure and conversions, please use the following link to support your learning: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4nsgk7

Please use TTRS to practice your times tables: https://www.ttrockstars.com/login

Internet Safety – Health and Wellbeing
Please use the questions below to spark conversations at home surrounding internet safety, health and well-being:

  • Do you always have a choice in what you do/see online? Why/why not?
  • Have you ever seen something online that never ends?
  • Why do you think apps and sites do things for us sometimes or encourage us to spend longer on them?
  • What do you think persuasive design is?
  • What do you think a nudge technique is?
  • What could you do to reduce the effect that persuasive design techniques can have on you?

History
What is the digital revolution? How has it impacted the way we live today? Complete some research and present it however you choose to inform the rest of Westgate about the Digital Revolution.

Thank you for your cooperation,
Miss Taylor and Miss Southam

Home Learning – Wednesday 6th March 2024

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Home Learning – Wednesday 6th March 2024


This Wednesday afternoon we would like you to complete some of the following tasks.
When you complete a task from the list below, you should upload it to your portfolio on your dojo account or you can bring in anything completed on paper into school tomorrow.

Reading:
Can I remind parents and children that we expect three signatures a week from parents in your child’s reading record to show that children have read at home either to a parent, a sibling or independently.

Book Review
If you have read a good book recently and you’d like to recommend it to others, write a book review which we can share with the rest of Westgate.

Maths:
To support your child’s learning please use the following links. Year 6 are learning about ratio and proportion. Follow the link to explore ratio: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsq7hyc
Year 5 are learning about measure and conversions, please use the following link to support your learning: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4nsgk7

Please use TTRS to practice your times tables: https://www.ttrockstars.com/login

Internet Safety – Health and Wellbeing
Please use the questions below to spark conversations at home surrounding internet safety, health and well-being:

  • How much time do you spend online in one day? In a week?
  • What is a healthy ‘digital’ balance?
  • Do you think that people can be pressured into behaving differently online than offline?
  • How can you balance your online life?
  • Can your online experience ever stop being ‘fun and enjoyable’?

History
What is the digital revolution? How has it impacted the way we live today? Complete some research and present it however you choose to inform the rest of Westgate about the Digital Revolution.

World Book Day
Tomorrow is World Book Day, which you are welcome to come to school dressed as a book character or in your pyjamas. We will focus on a book called Flooded and spend time discussing books we enjoy. You could create a poster about your favourite book or the character you are coming to school as.

Thank you for your cooperation,
Miss Taylor and Miss Southam

Home Learning – Wednesday 8th November

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Home Learning – Wednesday 8th November
This Wednesday afternoon we would like you to complete some of the following tasks.
When you complete a task from the list below, you should upload it to your portfolio on your dojo account or you can bring in anything completed on paper into school tomorrow.

Reading:
Can I remind parents and children that we expect three signatures a week from parents in your child’s reading record to show that children have read at home either to a parent, a sibling or independently. Also, we have our reading café this morning where you can come and join your child to listen to them read and listen to our class reader.

Handwriting:
Please complete the handwriting sheet you will be given today.

Spelling:
Your child will come home with a spelling sheet. It will have one of the key stage two statutory words and will encourage children to think about the word in lots of different ways. If you aren’t sure how to complete this, please ask.

Maths:
Complete the times table colouring sheet to reveal the hidden picture.
Y6:  Formal Methods of Multiplication: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z36tyrd/articles/z973f82
Y5: Strategies for Addition and Subtraction: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zy2mn39/year/zhgppg8
Please use TTRS to practice your times tables: https://www.ttrockstars.com/login
You can also use arithmequiz 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 to practice a variety of arithmetic style questions to improve your fluency.
https://www.candomaths.org/arithmequiz1.html
https://www.candomaths.org/arithmequiz2.html
https://www.candomaths.org/arithmequiz3.html

History – Power and Conflict: The Gunpowder Plot
This week we have been learning about the Gunpowder Plot, how it began, what happened and how it ended. Create a drawing or sketch to show one of the events in the story of the Gunpowder plot.

Internet Safety – Online Relationships
This week we have been learning about how to create a positive online profile. Create a poster or a leaflet giving advice on how to create a safe and positive online profile.

Value – Service
This term our Value is Service. What does it mean to serve someone? How do Christian’s show God that they serve him? How do you serve your friends and family? Why is this important?

Let’s Get Talking!
Next week is Anti-Bullying Week and Children in Need, spend some time talking to your families about how you are feeling. How was your day? What was the best part? What did you find difficult today? What are you looking forward to tomorrow?

Thank you for your cooperation,

Miss Taylor and Miss Southam

Home Learning Wednesday 25th October

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For this week’s learning, we will be recapping some of our learning this term as well as looking towards to our new learning after half term ‘Who are we?’

Please create a timeline of your life, start with date of birth and maybe some important milestones, maybe when you began to walk, talk, first birthday, holiday, celebrations, first day if nursery or school, finishing your timeline up until today. It can include photos and pictures. Feel free to bring it in to school or take photos and upload onto Class Dojo.

As it is Half term, feel free to complete our half term challenge – select as many or as little of the challenges to finish. Bring in evidence or take photos and share with your child’s Key Worker.

Next, do not forget to read your school books and possibly more! Read and share books from home together or visit the local library to borrow free books.

Have a happy and safe half term break, we look forward to seeing you all back on Monday 6th November.

Home Learning – Wednesday 7th June

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Home Learning – Wednesday 7th June 2023

This Wednesday afternoon we would like you to complete some of the following tasks.

If you complete a task, you should upload it to your portfolio on your dojo account or you can bring in anything completed on paper into school tomorrow.

Reading:

Can I remind parents and children that we expect three signatures a week from parents in your child’s reading record to show that children have read at home either to a parent, a sibling or independently.

Computing:

This term we will be focusing on Engineers and Pioneers. Research an engineer and write a short fact file about who they are and what they do in their role as an engineer.

Thankfulness

This term our value is thankfulness. This week, we would like you to make a thank you card for someone. You should make sure it has the reason you want to thank them inside. Please bring it in before you give it to them or upload a photo of your thank you card onto your dojo portfolio.

Maths:

This week year six are focusing on reading the time in different ways, follow the link below to help you recap time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkfycdm

This week year five are calculating with whole numbers and decimals. Use the link below to help with your understanding of this.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsjqtfr/articles/zsbd7p3

Please use TTRS to practice your times tables: https://www.ttrockstars.com/login

You can also use arithmequiz 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 to practice a variety of arithmetic style questions to improve your fluency.
https://www.candomaths.org/arithmequiz1.html
https://www.candomaths.org/arithmequiz2.html
https://www.candomaths.org/arithmequiz3.html

Jigsaw

In Jigsaw this term, phase three are focusing on Changing Me and Healthy Me. Follow the links below to explore self-awareness (Changing Me) and ‘What are medicines and drugs?’ (Healthy Me). Create a leaflet, a poster, a postcard, a letter, a stop motion animation, a news report or a newspaper report on either self-awareness or What are medicines and drugs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/znhmwty/articles/zrv67nb

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrsb87h/articles/zg982nb

Thank you for your cooperation,

Miss Taylor and Miss Osmond

Non chronological report – research

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This morning, the children in Group 3 the children used their kindles to research facts about King Charles to innovate our model text. First, the children identified that they needed to research: King Charles’ date of birth, line to the throne, why he became king and when his coronation is. The children were great, thinking about the reliability of sources (linking to their history and computing lessons). There were a few debates about how old King Charles is, so we had to complete some maths sums to work it out. We managed to work out that King Charles is 74 year old.

As a group, using the text for sentence structure support, Group 3 were able to write an innovated introduction paragraph ready for their fact file about King Charles.