Home Learning

Dear Parents,

As we enter this time of uncertainty and enforced school closure, I am coming across all sorts of online home learning ideas through social media, as I am sure you might be too. Keep a regular eye on this blog, as I will post ideas as they come in, or feel free to add your own!

Here are some for starters:

Audible has placed a number of books online that are free to access. You can find them here:

https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

The Book Trust website if full of reading ideas and recommendations:

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/

Joe Wicks, the Body Coach, will be streaming a PE lesson each morning from Monday:

https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/19/joe-wicks-holding-live-pe-classes-keep-kids-fit-school-closures-uk-12424288/

I also suggest that the boys keep a diary during these strange times. What a record it would be to look back on in years to come and show their children and grandchildren!

For some kitchen science, take a look at:

http://carmelothesciencefellow.com/videos/

For art:

https://www.youtube.com/user/ArtforKidsHub/playlists?app=desktop

And if your child loves lego:

https://www.freehomeschooldeals.com/free-printable-30-day-lego-challenge-instant-download/

Keep healthy and keep in touch!

Can you use your initiative?

Are you up for a challenge? Following on from Mrs Whinnett’s PSHEE lesson on initiative, you have been set the challenge of showing us how you use your initiative outside school. Ask someone to take a photo of you to show us how you have completed the challenge and add it to this post with a description of what you did.

Top tips:

Don’t wait to be told – be a Self starter!

So…. Here are seven ways that you could show initiative

  • 1- organise something
  • 2-do it yourself
  • 3-Try something new (something you wouldn’t normally do)
  • 4-Add something
  • 5- do what needs to be one
  • 6- go above and beyond
  • 7- Be a self-starter

 

Our first full week back.

We have had a busy week. We started the week with a superb assembly. Thank you for all boys who contributed to this. Congratulations to all the boys who received their Tae Kwondo certificates.

 

In our English lessons we have started our new text the Iron Man and completed work linked to this. We have looked at Literary Techniques used by Ted Hughes; such as similes, metaphors and personification. The boys have completed work using powerful verbs.

We have also started our new focus in History this week. We have now moved onto Anglo Saxons. We have learnt where they came from and why they settled in Britain.

In Science we have begun to look at light and have learnt about different light sources. In our Investigative Science lesson we have learnt about air resistance.

Our Maths focus this week was division and next week we will continue to reinforce fractions of number.

Our Maths and English Puzzles have now been released and entries have started to come in.

Wishing you a superb weekend!