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For parents of children with SEND please see the information posted by our SENCo here.

This page will be updated every Wednesday with new learning activities. 

Diversity:

Where Everyone Belongs

At Djanogly Sherwood we know that things are challenging and different right now we wanted to help by sharing some good resources. Here is a video you could watch and share with your children explaining how to talk to children about race and diversity. We will also be sharing lessons on Seesaw through some great books about diversity. We hope that this helps. Remember our strapline at Sherwood is ‘Where everyone belongs’.

How to talk to children about race and diversity: https://youtu.be/QNEKbVq_ou4

Hello everyone,

We are continuing to phone up families to make sure you are all okay and if anyone needs any support with home learning. Don't forget we have home learning packs that can be sent home, if you aren't able to access the website or Seesaw.

This week, we are focusing on; online safety. We believe now we are using the internet more than ever, children should know the importance of staying safe online! 

Here is a link for your child to visit, to play a fun game about online safety. 

https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en_uk/interland

Thanks to Akhand in Falcon class for producing this lovely poster about online safety. 

  Zip it (close it), Block it and flag it (tell your parents)

A huge thanks to Praaket in Falcon as well, for your lovely bubble art design (to symbolize that we are all kept safe in our bubbles here at school and in our homes)

Any further queries please contact: admin@sherwood.djanogly.org

Take care,

Mr. Barrass, Mr. Carrette, Mrs Wardle and Miss Chapman

Who you will meet:

Mr Carrette - Alma Class Teacher 

Mr Barrass - Falcon Class Teacher

Miss Wardle - Teaching Assistant

Miss Chapman - Teaching Assistant

Mrs Christensen - Assistant Head (PPA Cover Teacher)

Home Learning Activities Summer 2

Maths Resources

• Times Tables Rockstars 
• Use BBC Bitesize to multiply and divide by 8. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zvvsy9q)
• Try a new baking activity- Find a recipe and measure out the quantities accurately - What are the different measurements used?
• Try Brainpop for a range of activities within Maths  https://www.brainpop.com/
• NEW: Range of resources at Nrich which offers puzzling maths activities to promote higher level thinking    https://nrich.maths.org/14600
• NEW: Learning resources for outdoor education. Why not try some outdoor Maths?   https://outdoorclassroomday.org.uk/resources/
• NEW: Seesaw activities everyday! These include links to outdoor maths, interactive games and resources similar to school style questions from Classroom secrets. 

English Resources

• Nottingham City Library are offering free ebooks to borrow to support reading at home. If you register online for free, you can get access to the online library services.

https://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/libraries/ebooks-emagazines-and-eaudio/

https://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/leisure-and-culture/libraries/libraries-special-events/

• New: Listen to a teacher reading a story over on Seesaw 
• Read your own story - Create a book review 
• Revise the Year 3/4 spelling list - remember to sound out the syllables and sound buttons
• Try completing the home learning diary found in the links above
• New: Try Brainpop for a range of activities within English  https://www.brainpop.com/
• New: Why not listen to a story being read? Find theme here:  https://www.storylineonline.net/
• New:  Listen daily to the Newsround broadcast designed for children.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news/watch_newsround
• New:  David Walliams Activities -  https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/activities/

Curriculum Resources

• New on Seesaw: Complete 2 activates or exercises this week - Try to complete 20 minutes each session
• Fill in the exercise diary to record your workouts!
• Look at the Oak National Academy website for Music lessons: https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-3/foundation#subjects
• Paint a rock and leave a picture/message on it for someone to find 
• Look at the website found above for some interesting outdoor learning activities!
• Why not try lots of different art activities?   https://artfulparent.com/
• Try Brainpop for a range of activities within Science, Art and Music  https://www.brainpop.com/
• NEW:  Science - Look at the STEM website for a range of high-level activities!  https://www.stem.org.uk/remote-lessons/key-stage-2?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=Key%20stage%202%20lessons&utm_campaign=Remote%20CPD%20-%2005.05
• NEW:  Try Drawing activities -  http://www.robbiddulph.com/draw-with-rob
• NEW:  In to cooking? Try Jamie Oliver cooking with kids  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJIVlY6DvU4
• NEW:  Learning to sing  http://www.bbc.co.uk/sing/learning/
• NEW:  Activities from RSPCA - animal welfare  https://education.rspca.org.uk/home-resources

Outdoor/online creative tasks and games

• New:  Look at the range of activities on the scouts activities site  https://www.scouts.org.uk/the-great-indoors/
• New:  Why not try learning how to play chess? https://www.chessinschools.co.uk/
• New:  Different online games including card games  
• New:  Adventures at home, a range of activities - https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/what-we-do/adventures-at-home/for-ages-7-10/
• New:  How about some colouring?  https://lol.disney.com/games/coloring-pages
• New:  A range of arts and crafts ideas:  https://www.creativebug.com/
• New:  Fan of Lego? - Look at the online games, building tutorials and images online  https://www.lego.com/en-gb/kids/games
• New:  Animals Games - https://switchzoo.com/
• New:  60 second mindfulness  https://www.pixelthoughts.co/
• New:  Explore different areas of the world using maps   https://www.mapcrunch.com/

Miss a Topic? Not to worry, here are some of the suggestions we made in the previous weeks of home learning:

• Purple Mash - All of the activities are still set and available to try (Your teachers will be able to see this work and give feedback online)
• Reading - Book reviews (these can be found under the English Section along with comprehension questions
• Spelling (week 1, words with 'le')
• Handwriting 
• Times tables (TT Rockstars)
• Mindfulness - Take a moment to Stop, Breathe and Think
• Create a timetable to keep you into routine, help do some cleaning and cooking in the house
• Complete the Home learning pack 2 
• Get outside - Write down your senses - What can you; hear, see, feel, smell?

Summer 2

English          

This term we are looking at the gaps that we have yet to teach in school. We would suggest looking at the topics listed below. These will be topics the children may have some knowledge on before we left, or from year 2 but these areas will need to be developed. 

• Poetry look at examples 
• What types of poetry are there? 
• Compare poems, how are they different? 
• SPaG - Editing written pieces of work (proof read and check spelling/punctuation/grammar)
• Using paragraphs correctly to change scene, part of the story or description
• SPaG - using a and an in sentences correctly 
• SPaG - Subordinating and coordinating conjunctions
• SPaG - Using inverted commas (speech marks) correctly

We encourage you to read any books you have at home or ones that you can access online. There are suggestions below for online reading...

Reading skills we need to strengthen:

• Prediction – Using evidence from the text to suggest what might happen next e.g. I think he might run off because it says in the text 'he looked nervously at all of the exits'. 
• Author/Illustrator - Find who wrote the book and who created the pictures
• Vocabulary - Pick out key words, what do they mean? e.g. what does the word 'conflicted' mean? Read the sentence to help you make sense of the word. 
• Retrieve - Ask questions within the story where children have to find the information to give you an answer e.g. how many bears were there in the story, can you find where it says the answer?

Have a look at the VIPERS poster below. This will help you understand what skills the children need when reading in KS2. 

Maths

In Maths we are looking at the topics we have not covered yet in school: 

• Measures - Mass and Volume (g, kg, ml, L)
• Multiplication - 8X table 
• Time - Telling the time to the nearest minute 
• Time - Days, Months, Weeks of the year
• Geometry - perimeter of shapes 

Curriculum                      

Here are the skills we have yet to look at (topics marked with a * need to be reviewed the most): 

Art- Continuing to develop skills with printing, sketching. 

Geography - Map work - creating a map using a key, looking at the terms latitude and longitude

History - Continue to put events in order using a timeline 

*Science - Plants (describe parts of a flower and explore what plants need to survive), animals including humans (classify different animals based on their characteristics and nutrition that humans need) 

RE- Christianity (Explore what prayer means and what traditions Christians have)

PSHE- Friendship (how to be a good friend, what bullying is), resilience (how to stay happy and keep going when things get tough) 

*Computing - coding (algorithms and debugging), using technology safely 

*Music -  Listen to different songs to hear the musical instruments within them

Additional Home Learning Activities 

Outdoor Nature challenge

Why not take part in the city nature challenge? Get some fresh air and look around Nottingham using the map to record sightings of wildlife across the city. 

http://www.wildlifeinthecity.org/sightings/city-nature-challenge-2020/

Or how about the the RSPB Family wildlife challenge?

https://www.rspb.org.uk/fun-and-learning/for-families/

Music

Explore the stories and secrets behind the magical pieces of music...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/all-resources/zdg3t39

Resource Ideas

https://themuddypuddleteacher.co.uk/product-category/ks2-shop-all/