Good morning! It was good to see Boris Johnson back at his desk yesterday – he had a clear message: be patient! You are doing fantastically well, but you may feel like you are fed-up with the restriction on you. As Boris has said, remain patient, continue with your learning and spend time doing things you enjoy within your home with your family!

I know we studied the effect of the wildfires on Australian animals earlier in the school year. You did some excellent writing about it! Newsround has put together a special report about the improvements seen in the wildlife in Australia after the wildfires: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/52410744 It’s worth a watch – there’s some good news in there!

PLEASE remember this week to read Chapter 1 of the new book on Fiction Express. Year 5 pupils should read The Last Guardian and Year 6s should read Neptune’s Trident. Also, please do the quiz and the vote closes TODAY for what happens in the next chapter! Only 3 of you have read these so far! Please read them this week as they are fab books and Chapter 2 is out on Friday!

TT Rockstars Update: Year 5 are winning by 700 points! Lots of you have been on there – well done! “Trent” is the top Year 5, whilst “Axel” is leading the way for Year 6!

• Joe Wicks had his ‘Wheel of Fortune’ out yesterday to pick his activities! I wonder what he will have today? https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1
• Year 5  Maths is subtracting decimals and Year 6 is calculating angles in polygons!
• There is some additional maths here:
• You will find an English revision lesson about paragraphs and punctuation here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhy72sg
• There is more English here: apostrophes! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdsthbk
• Finally, you can learn about atlases and maps in Geography! https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4dxt39

Have a fab day – you are all superstars! Keep up the great work!

Mr F

Hey all! I hope you’ve had a pleasant weekend! We finally got some rain – it was long overdue and we did need it on the gardens! This week will be wetter and cooler than we’ve seen in a while.

I know that you have been trying hard on the White Rose Maths. There were a few tricky questions on the Friday Challenge – we have not covered how to approach some of those later questions! I should have told you that the Friday Challenges are given to all year groups up to Year 10 – so they get tricky rather quickly! If you can get to Challenge 4/5/6, that’s great! I’m sorry if anyone got worried about their maths on Friday.

I have set a Year 5 vs Year 6 battle on TT Rockstars! Who will win? It opens today until Friday – I will reveal the results next week!

So onto today’s work!

• https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1 Start the week with Joe!
• Year 5  maths is adding decimals (Week 2, Lesson 1) whilst Year 6 is angles in quadrilaterals. You could do them both if you want a challenge!
• Don’t forget to keep your speed up on TT Rockstars
• Extra Maths: Square Numbers
• English – Inverted Commas
• History – The life of the Ancient Exgyptians Write a report with at least 4 sub-headings about the life of the Ancient Egyptians – I’d love to see them!

Did anyone watch Primate on BBC last night? It was quite remarkable! There were some amazing, and some quite strange, primate behaviours going on! It’s worth catching up on iPlayer.

Have a great day – it seems strange I won’t be seeing you – as I would usually be preparing you for SATs tests this week, but keep you heads held high and put your efforts into your work and enjoying your family time!

Mr F

Good morning! It’s Friday! I do hope you have had a good week. The weather has been excellent this week, but it is going to be more cloudy and cooler next week – so make the most of today and the weekend!

Have any of you been growing anything in the garden? I’d love to see it!

Your work today will follow the same structure as the rest of the week:

• Your maths today is again from White Rose and is the Friday Challenge!  Year 5 and Year 6. If you want to, you could do both!
• In English today, you have  a reading activity about To Be A Cat:https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zn8bgwx
• Your extra lesson is PSHE and about Teamwork: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zdq3bdm
• On Fiction Express https://en.fictionexpress.com/ the BRAND NEW BOOK is released at midday! So log on and Year 5s read the Level 2 book and Year 6s read the Level 3 (if it is too tricky to read, please do the level below!) Remember to vote on what you want to happen on the next chapter!

Have a great day and weekend!

Mr F

Good morning – I hope all is well! It’s going to be pretty hot today! Maybe you could enjoy your Fiction Express work outside with a nice cold juice and an ice-lolly!

• Log in to Fiction Express and read a chapter from an existing book! https://en.fictionexpress.com/
• Your maths today is, again, at White Rose Maths. Year 5  will be adding decimals and Year 6 will be finding missing angles in a triangle!
• An extra maths lesson about factors and multiples can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zfchpg8
• In English, you will be extended your skills in expanded noun phrases https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4d6t39
• I have not set you any music so far so here is a lesson to help you with singing – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z44x6v4 (Sorry if it upsets the neighbours!)
• As it is a nice day and you may be in the garden or be out on a walk – try to find as many different leaf shapes as possible. Can you make a picture of them?

Have a fab day, Mr F

Good morning – it’s a wonderful Wednesday out there!

Have you been able to use your mobile device/tablet to do Joe Wicks outside yet? Today might be a good chance to do that!

Here are some activities to keep you busy and learning (remember to use your exercise books to write your sentences and science work up!):

• Maths – Year 5 Click Here and Year 6 Click Here . Remember to do Summer Term, Week 1, Lesson 3!
• Maths – Addition and Subtraction Problems and Negative Numbers
• English – Active and Passive
• Science – Science – Solar System
• Reading – Use https://en.fictionexpress.com/  Fiction Express to read Chapter 3 and answer the quiz questions!

Have a good day! I am in school this week with some pupils whose parents are key workers – it is quite quiet, but we are all keeping busy!

Mr F

Good morning!

I hope you received your Fiction Express passwords yesterday – I think it will be a really good resource – as you will be able to read the chapters of a new books, then vote on what happens in the next chapter! You can do activities and quizzes linked to the book too!

Right then – what shall we do today?

• Joe Wicks Workout – get those squats and press-ups in early! YouTube – The Body Coach
• Maths – White Rose Daily lessons (remember to use the Summer Term lessons!) Year 5: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/  and Year 6: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/ Please do Lesson 2 for your year group (the answers are there and you can copy the work into your exercise books of you cannot print it!)
• English Reading – Fiction Express https://en.fictionexpress.com/  Log onto the website and have a browse around! There is a new book coming out on Friday – we will really focus on that then, but in the meantime, please start to read a Level 2 or 3 book from the list on the home-screen. Start with Chapter 1, then do the activities that go alongside it! I get to see a cool table of what you have read and your scores when I login – so make me proud! You can easily read the books on a tablet or phone outside, so you could enjoy the sunshine whilst getting on with your work!
• English Grammar – BBC Bitesize Daily Lesson – Modal Verbs This lesson is a good revision for Modal Verbs, including 2 videos then 3 activities to do in your exercise books!
• Geography – BBC Bitesize Daily Lesson – Settlements Check out this fab lesson from BBC Bitesize (in their new range of online daily lessons). It gives you a video and information about types of settlements, before you have to do an activity in your exercise books!

Keep up the good work Wrekin! I am missing you!

Mr F

Good morning and I hope you had a happy Easter (I got a fantastic Maltesers egg; I was very happy!) I hope you managed to have a little chocolate too…

We will continue using online resources to help you continue to learn and keep busy over the next few weeks. We will be using some of the same resources, but we have also found some new one, which will be interesting.

• Start the Summer Term with Joe Wicks!  https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1
• I will be posting Maths each day from White Rose – it seems to be the best resource available as it explains the concepts really well! There is a Year 5 and a Year 6 lesson (SUMMER TERM!) in the link below (click on Lesson 1 only – you will do the rest throughout the week!)  https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/ or https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/
• BBC Bitesize are complimenting the White Rose Work and have a daily Maths lesson here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p089ny58/bitesize-911-year-olds-maths-1-lesson-1
• English work will be a poem today. I have been completely inspired by Captain Tom Moore, who has raised over £23 million for the NHS. He is 99 and has been sponsored walking up and down his garden! What a hero! Click here for more info: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52333127 Write a poem that shows what a wonderful man he is – it could be an acrostic or rhyming….it’s up to you! Please send them into Mrs Winwood, who will pass them on!

Have a fantastic day! The weather will be good too, so remember to get outside (safely) and get some fresh spring air.

Mr F