Week beginning 11th May

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Friday 15th May: LOCKDOWN SATs ANSWERS HERE! Marks out of 118. Let us know how well you did!

Certificates to download here or please ask at school and we'll print you one off.

It would be lovely to see some of your pictures from either the scavenger hunts, weird and wonderful hair and clothes or drawings incorporating household objects. Please share via Twitter or send to info@riddings-jun.derbyshire.sch.uk

Welcome to another week of home-learning - you're all doing a brilliant job.

Thank you to those of you who have already collected CGP books or exchanged reading books for your care in maintaining social distancing and keeping everyone safe. This has been much appreciated. It has also been lovely to see so many of you and have a chance to catch up too.

CGP books can still be collected from school.

If you wish to change reading books, please give us notice by phoning or messaging on Twitter as we have limited staffing capacity in school.

 

We hope you've had an enjoyable Bank Holiday and are all ready for the week ahead. For Y6s, it would have been SATs week. Please click HERE (Y6s only - no peeping anyone else!) for a fun and slightly silly Lockdown SATs Challenge. Let us know if you'd like a copy printing out as you can always pick it up during your daily walk. The spelling words are HERE and will need reading out loud.

You have from 9 am Monday morning until 4 pm Thursday afternoon to complete these SATs - answers will be published on Friday.

Parents of Y6s, we would normally cook and serve them breakfast, sneak them sweets and spoil them with ice-creams; I think you may have to do that for us this week. 

For everyone else (who, of course, won't have peeped at the Y6 Lockdown SATs Challenge!) please continue with regular reading, maths (White Rose Hub have slightly changed their access arrangements so please see the new Maths at home page) and writing activities (Pobble) using the links to the right. You should also now have your CGP books too.

The links to this week's learning projects are below.

If your child (or you!) fancies something different, there are links at the bottom of the page to computing, drawing or cookery.

The links below will take you to the new Robin Hood MAT family learning projects although previous ones remain available. This week's learning links to RAINFORESTS.

 EYFS            Y1/2          Y3/4       Y5/6

 

Feedback from teachers, the children in school and a number of you at home continues to be generally positive about both BBC Bitesize Daily lessons and the Oak National Academy online resources. 

 BBC Bitesize daily lessons

Oak National Online Academy

 The former seems to work better as a resource to dip into whilst the second offers a more structured 'timetabled' approach with daily English and Maths (which could be used to supplement White Rose Maths) and weekly History (called Humanities on the website), Art, Music and Spanish lessons. 

Having looked in some detail at the Oak National Online resources, our suggestion would be that you don't be overly influenced by the year groups and instead choose an area that interests your child or you as a family. For example, there's a great topic on the Shang Dynasty (something we don't cover in school) that's aimed at Y2 but would be of interest to many children.

Brief details are given below to make navigating the Oak site easier.

Year 2:

Reading Comprehension using The Firework Maker's Daughter

Science - 1) Light and 2) Space                    Humanities - Shang Dynasty

Year 3:

Instruction Writing

Science - 1) Plants and 2)Sound                    Humanities - Norman Conquest (which we cover in Y4 so would give some background knowledge)

Year 4:

Poetry

Science - 1) Optics, mirrors and light and 2)Adaptations                    Humanities - Henry VIII

Year 5:

Writing descriptions of settings

Science - 1) Rock cycle and 2) Electricity                    Humanities - Middle Ages 

Year 6:

Newspapers

Science - 1) Fossils and animals overtime and 2) Physical and chemical changes                     Humanities - WW1

For some of our Y6s, they may find the Y7 English unit on Greek Myths interesting or the introduction to Latin : )

 

 Computing

If you'd like to try some different Learning at Home this link has some great Scratch ideas that will enable you to refresh your skills and learn some new programming techniques.

 

Art

Try Drawing with Rob Biddulph - lots of easy step-by-step guides.

 

Cookery 

Try some recipes from Kidadl - maybe you'll discover a new family favourite!