Welcome to Blackfriars Bridge Class

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#e7ed19″ border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]It is the last week of the Spring 1 half term already. It is lovely to see how well the children are working at home. We have seen some amazing learning.[/dropshadowbox]

This week our learning is as follows:

English

Spelling – learn the following spellings: interest, important, accident, believe, strange,reign. 

Children who are in Violet group (Waterloo) or Toy Story group (Blackfriars) for English should work on: they, on, she, so, we, can.

All children should also revise the homophones there, their and they’re using the attached lesson from BBC bitesize daily.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zk2c92p

Information Texts – This week we will finish our research on Queen Boudicca and work towards creating an information leaflet. The children created information leaflets on volcanoes in February and these leaflets should be in a similar format.

• Day 1 – Think of two questions which would help you find out more about Queen Boudicca. Use the internet to find the answer to your questions. When you have done that look at the questions you wrote at the end of last week. Can you find out any more information that helps you answer those questions fully? The following websites may be helpful;

https://www.ks2history.com/boudica-info-guide

https://www.twinkl.co.uk/blog/who-was-boudicca-facts-for-kids

https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Boudicca/442493

• Day 2- Today you will draft the text of your information leaflet. Use the questions you wrote yesterday and last week as your sub-headings. Write your answer below each questions as fully as you can in sentences. Use your spider diagrams from last week and your research from yesterday.  If you find spelling difficult remember to use your sounds. You can also ask an adult for some key spellings.
• Day 3 -Today you are going to proofread, edit and up-level your work. Start by following the lesson from BBC bitesize daily on using your proofreading skills.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zryxt39

When you have completed the lesson carefully proofread the text you wrote yesterday. Edit and up-level your text. Remember if you aiming to be a greater depth writer you should be thinking carefully about the effect of your sentences.

• Day 4 and 5 – You are now ready to create your information leaflet about Queen Boudicca. Start by reminding yourself of the features of non-fiction writing.

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Now make your leaflet. You can make a simple leaflet or use one of the bookmaking examples in the attached document  (the second one might be best) You can now copy out the text you prepared over the last two days and include other features of a non-fiction text

such as pictures, captions, labels and maybe even a contents page.

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We look forward to seeing your leaflets.

Reading- Children should continue to read non-fiction texts. These can be traditional books or e-books (see link below).

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page?view=image&query=&type=book&age_group=&level=&level_select=&book_type=Non-fiction&series=

Try asking your child one of the following questions;

• What features of an information book can you see? (e.g heading, sub-heading, contents page, photograph, diagram, caption, label.)
• Can you write three questions then answer them using the book?
• How would you use the contents page to help you?
• Why has the author set out the book in this way?
• Is the layout of the page helpful to you in finding information? Why?

Maths

We are covering multiplication and division in maths this week. Please watch the videos and then complete the worksheets.

• Day 1 –

  worksheet: The 3 times table

 

• Day 2 –

Worksheet: The 4 and 8 times tables

• Day 3

  Worksheet: Multiplying 2 digits by 1 digit

• Day 4

Worksheet: Dividing a 2 digit number by a 1 digit numbers

• Day 5 –

Worksheet: Scaling

Answers

• Day 1 – The 3 times table
• Day 2 – The 4 and 8 times tables
• Day 3 – Multiply 2 digits by 1
• Day 4 – Divide 2 digits by 1 digit
• Day 5 – Scaling

Maths – Prism group (Waterloo) and Blue group (Blackfriars)

Please complete the following INSTEAD of the above work if you are in Prism group or Blue group. If you have completed the work above, the following does not need to be completed.

• Day 1 –

  Worksheet: Multiplication sentences

• Day 2 –

  Worksheet: Using arrays

• Day 3 –

  Worksheet: The 2 times table

• Day 4 –

  Worksheet: The 5 times tables

• Day 5 – Worksheet: The 10 times table

Answers:

• Day 1 – Multiplication sentences
• Day 2 – Using arrays
• Day 3 – The 2 times table
• Day 4 – The 5 times table
• Day 5 – The 10 times table

We can see that many children are using mathletics regularly. This is an excellent way of practicing their number skills. We would like to remind you that we have a trial (until 23rd June) for the numbots and times tables rockstars websites and all children have been issued with a log-in and password. These sites do not seem to be being used regularly – please get in contact if your child is not able to access the sites.

https://ttrockstars.com/

https://play.numbots.com/#/

Science

We have loved seeing photographs of your plants. Keep looking after them and recording progress in your diaries.

Follow this science lesson from the Oak Academy trust on the parts and functions of a flower.

https://www.thenational.academy/year-3/foundation/plants-what-are-the-parts-and-functions-of-a-flower-year-3-wk3-3

History/Art

Now that you have designed your Roman Shield you can make your own shield using cardboard. Here is a picture of last year’s Waterloo Bridge Class using their shields on our Roman dress up day during happier times. Blackfriars class had the more traditional red shields!

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The Muslim festival of Eid-al-Fitr is expected to begin on Saturday 23rd May (subject to the official sighting of the new moon). Many Howard families will therefore be celebrating at the weekend! Children can find out more about Eid-al-Fitr using the information and video clip below.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4cmkmnChil

Children may also enjoy having a go at the attached activities. If you do not have access to a printer they can adapt the Mendhi pattern activity by drawing around there hand and even have a go at drawing a cube template.

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T-T-4281-Mehndi-Design-Template

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Music

Croydon Music Service have put together music lessons for participating schools. This week’s lesson can be found below:

P.E

We can see that the Real P.E website is being logged into regularly, so we are very pleased that you are making sure you are staying active at home! Here is a reminder of the log in details for anyone wanting to access the Real P.E website:

Website: home.jasmineactive.com
Parent email: parent@howardprim-1.com
Password: howardprim

When we are at school we complete a ‘daily mile’ everyday to ensure children are staying active. We would like to encourage the children to continue with this ‘daily mile’ at home – this does not need to be running/ walking, it could include jumping, dancing, skipping etc. Anything that keeps the children active for 15 minutes. Please see the following leaflet: