Good Morning,

It looks like it’s going to be a lovely day again today, so do your best to be spending some of your day outside.

Well done to everyone who has taken part in the TTR battles so far. You are all doing really well! Remember to keep up all your daily activities too.

English

For your English learning today I want you to go back to The Queen’s Knickers. I want you to think about the time that the Queen’s knickers went missing. The story tells us that it was sorted out just before the News at Ten. I’m going to give you two writing activities. You can do one today and the other tomorrow. The order is your choice:

1. Create a missing poster including details such as descriptions and where they were last seen.
2. Create a newspaper report reporting on the missing knickers. In this one I would like you to include an interview with Dilys. Bonus points if you remember speech marks.

I’ve also been asked about handwriting sheets that you could use to practise with. If you would like some, have a look at these https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/first-100-high-frequency-words-handwriting-activity-sheets-t-l-9435

Maths

Yesterday I set you some learning related to telling the time. I am putting some more activities for time on Education City for you to complete and then tomorrow I am going to set you a more practical activity.

Computing

I know how much you all enjoy coding, so I’ve chosen the unit 1B on Espresso Coding. It’s the one called Simple Inputs and has a picture of a wizard. You should be able to access it on tablets as well as on a computer. As you know this is more than one lesson, but you can work through it at your own pace until you have completed it. Google Espresso Coding. Our username is student26770 and the password is bomere

Have a lovely day!

Mrs G

Good morning and welcome to a brand new month!

Thank you to everyone who sent in things for me to see yesterday. I’m going to spend some of the morning putting a post together of all your learning to add to the Haughmond News part of the website.

Maddy, I really enjoyed reading your letter and hearing about all the things you have been up to. Your joke did make me smile!

Jess, what a lot you have done! I agree that your Rapunzel picture is fab and you should be proud of it.

Indi, you’ve done loads too! I particularly like your review of Chirk Castle. What a lot of writing!

Lara, I’ve seen how hard you are working on TTR. Well done! Keep it up! I was really pleased to see that you included division in your maths today.

Dom, The Quangle-Wangle’s Hat is one of my favourite stories, so it was lovely to read your review. I also love your snail picture and I’m really pleased with your effort on TTR. It’s lovely to hear you keep on getting quicker.

There have been lots of excellent knicker designs too! Thank you all for your hard work. I miss you all lots too and am looking forward to when we can all be together again.

English

Please carry on with your phonics activities on Education City and practising your spellings and handwriting.

Today we are going to take a pause from The Queen’s Knickers because I’ve got an idea from something Jess did on Monday and therefore am today launching ‘Haughmond Film Club!’ If you can choose a film that you would recommend to others to watch then write a film review. Similar to when you wrote your book reviews, but you need to include a plot summery and you could also include details such as who the actors are. Then, when I have got all of your reviews, I will put them into one document that you will be able to download and pick a film out of.

Maths

For Maths today I have set you some activities on Education City. They are related to learning to tell the time, which is a really good skill that you can keep on practising while we aren’t in school.

History

Today would have been our last lesson learning about Kings and Queens. I would like you to find a bit out about our current Queen and her family, and create a family tree for her. You could extend this, and create your own family tree too. There are some different resources you could use on this page if you wanted: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/search?term=royal+family+tree

I’ve not given you a recommendation for Audible for a few days, so today I am recommending Winnie-the-Pooh. It’s a long one at nearly 3 hours, so I’m going to keep it as my recommendation for the rest of the week.

Keep up the good work, I’m proud of you all.

Mrs G

Good Morning Haughmond!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend and managed to spend some time outside as well as doing activities with your family.

Well done to all of you for the effort you put into your learning last week. It’s been lovely to see examples of your work. Archie and Harrison what an excellent stadium you made, and Jess it was lovely to receive an e-mail telling me about how you are getting on too.

Congratulations to Year One who won last week’s Times Tables Rockstars battle, with Serena getting the most points out of everyone! Well done to Obosa for getting the most points in Year Two. I have set you up different battles this week. Year Two you are against Year Five and Year One I’ve pitted the boys against the girls. Remember it is the Year Ones in Pimhill too. Enjoy the battles, but remember to have a go at the other activities on there too so you can increase your rock status! Numbots is always available for you to practice your skills too.

Keep going with Reading Eggs as well. I can see that some of you did extra last week, so instead of setting you specific lessons, I want you to spend at least 15 minutes on there each day. Over the week try and get a mix of the different types of task; including Storyland lessons, driving tests and spelling lessons, as well as the next reading lesson on your maps.

Remember that even if I can’t comment on what you have done on one of our websites, I can still see what you achieve and am proud of you.

So today I am going to give you some activities for English, Maths and Science.

English

• In your Phonics cities on Education City I have given you another series of tasks. As with last week, these cover all five days this week.
• If we were still in school, the book we would be learning about is The Queen’s Knickers by Nicholas Allan. If you have the story at home I would like you to share it with the other people in your house. Otherwise, here is a link so you can hear it being read https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlKtVg0GXAc Today I would just like you to enjoy the story and talk about it with your grown up.
• Please practise your spellings, and use this an opportunity to practise your handwriting too. Write each word in a sentence.

Maths

For your Maths lesson today, I would like you to log on to the Home Learning Hub on Twinkl https://www.twinkl.co.uk/home-learning-hub. If you haven’t signed up yet, the code for your grown-ups is in the pack that I sent home with you. In the 5-7 section there are activities for Year One and Year Two maths. Some of them are going to be a challenge for you, but you should all at least be able to achieve the ‘Diving’ task. Some of you will be able to move through to complete the ‘Deeper’ and ‘Deepest’ sections too.

Remember, if you cannot print the activities off, just copy the bits you need into your exercise books.

Science

For your Science activity today, I would like you to use the Twinkl Home Learning Hub again. They have got a game and activities linked to recycling different materials. Can you use your learning from these activities to help with the recycling at home this week?

Happy Learning!

Mrs Gregory

Good morning!

I hope you all managed to spend some of yesterday outside in the sun.

Remember you have your daily activities: spellings, Reading Eggs and TTRockstars. You can also log on to a website called Numbots (https://play.numbots.com/#/intro ) using your TTRockstars login and play some activities on that too.

English

Today I need your help. My littlest boy, Joe, wants some new stories for bedtime, but I can’t decide which ones to get. Can you make some recommendations for me? Choose your favourite story, or stories, and write me a book review so that I can choose the best ones to read to him. You can either set it out in your own way (try and remember paragraphs), or if you can and want to, you can download a template from here: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t2-e-055-book-review-booklet

Year Two – I would also like you to start one of your reading booklets that you took home.

Maths

Please continue with the activities set on Education City. If it doesn’t work when you first try, don’t worry, just try again later.

Year Two, remember that you have your extra packs. You can complete some activities from those.

Lastly in maths, on TTRockstars there is a section called Studio. This may be a challenge, but once you have completed it 10 times you earn your Rock Star status and will appear on the school leaderboard. I’m not suggesting you complete it ten times today, although you can if you like, but I would like you to make a start on it please.

DT

Today I thought that I would set you a mini project. You don’t have to do it all today, because you are going to need to spend some time planning it first.

All the details can be found here:  https://www.shrewsburytowninthecommunity.com/build-a-replica-stadium-challenge/

I look forward to seeing pictures of your models!

Enjoy your learning and make the most of the lovely weather!

Missing you all,

Mrs Gregory

Happy Wednesday!

Halfway through the week and what a lovely sunny day! Make sure you manage to get outside into the garden today and enjoy some sunshine while we’ve got it!

Today I am going to give you activities based on English, Maths and History. I know that some of the websites are proving a bit tricky to load, so I’m going to try and balance things out a bit more.

First of all, please remember to do your daily activities: Reading Eggs and TTRockstars. You can also log on to a website called Numbots (https://play.numbots.com/#/intro ) using your TTRockstars login and play some activities on that too.

English

Some of you will remember Mrs Sivri who used to be the teacher in Pimhill. Well, she now works at Lymehurst Care Home and has asked me if some of us would like to write letters and draw pictures for the residents there as they can’t have any visitors.

When you have written your letter you have three choices. You can either:

• post it directly to Mrs Sivri at Lymehurst, 112 Ellesmere Rd, Shrewsbury SY1 2QT
• post it to school and we will send them on
• e-mail it to school and I can forward them to Mrs Sivri.

Maths

Year One – Please continue with the activities set on Education City. If it doesn’t work when you first try, don’t worry, just try again later.

Year Two – Please do some of the Maths from the activity pack that I sent home with you.

History

Try to teach one of the other people in your house the Horrible Histories Monarchs song from https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/watch/horrible-histories-song-the-monarch-song .

Then, I would like you to choose any King or Queen since 1066. Please draw a picture of them and create a factfile of their life. Remember you need to include things like the important dates, who they were married to, their children and any other interesting or relevant information about things that happened when they were on the throne.

Finally, instead of an Audible recommendation today, I’m going to suggest that you listen to one of David Walliams’ stories from The World’s Worst Children 2. You can find them at https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/ .

Enjoy your learning!

Missing you all,

Mrs Gregory