Work Updates pt 1

By Mr A Cooke4th May 2020

This is a super bumper edition of work that has come in.  I apologise for the massive delay since the last post.  I also apologise if I’ve missed anything out or duplicated work that others have already posted.  We really do appreciate how hard our children (and parents!) are working and love receiving work and photos of what you are up to.

I’m going to start with some updates from Early Years!

Firstly from Jakob:

and from Seth:

and Harrison too:

and here’s some lovely photos from Scarlett:

and from Aine:

and Aurora:

and Sarah Maria:

and Nathan:

and James:

and George:

and here’s some from Milosz:

 

Freya:

Jonah:

Austin & Flynn:

Rafferty:

Rudy:

Wren:

 

Fourth Week of Home Learning For Year Four

1st May 2020Ella Hands

Oliver has worked hard this week. He has answered comprehension questions and he has kept a food diary for science. Also, he has practised his spellings, certain letter joins in handwriting and, in grammar, the use of apostrophes to show single possession. Oliver has made a map of the street that he lives in and the streets around it. His mum said how positive he is about his home learning which is good to hear. Well done and keep up the fantastic work, Oliver!

The children have been busy sketching a portrait of somebody in their house. Olivia chose to sketch her sister, Rebecca. What a great portrait! We are sure Rebecca was very pleased with your efforts, Olivia.

Lottie chose her dog, Fergi, to sketch. Fergi looks well-behaved sitting giving his paw but Lottie told me he isn’t most of the time! I think you’ve tried really hard and produced an excellent portrait, Lottie.

Below is a sketch of Ted’s baby brother, Barney. I love how Ted has drawn his brother’s eyes in great detail and how he has included all of the ‘out of place’ hairs. Well done, Ted!

Olivier sketched a portrait of his mum.

Also, Olivier kept a food diary for science, practised using apostrophes to show single possession in grammar and drew a map of the street that he lives on and the streets that surround it. He continued to train daily with Joe Wicks and he trained hard in Taekwondo via ‘Zoom’. Olivier enjoyed riding his bicycle to Jacob’s house so that he could see him from a safe distance. I’m sure Jacob was pleased to see you too!

Alicja has continued to work extremely hard at home. In maths, she has been busy converting units of length, mass, volume and capacity. In science, she kept a food diary and, in art, she sketched a portrait of her baby brother. Alicja answered comprehension questions and, in R.E, she explored the Gospel accounts of the resurrection of Jesus. Well done, Alicja! You always try your hardest.

 

The week from Year 5

By Mr T Rolison1st May 2020

I hope you all had a restful Easter break and I was glad to catch up with some of Year 5 through phone calls in the break. Look out for a post on the front page for a Zoom call to join in with next week.

 

This week, lots of excellent work has been sent in to be shared – I’m glad to see lots of you working hard from home.

Archie G has shared his fitness routine as well as his reading den. Take a look at his first poem created during the holiday as well as his poem based around the moon.

Cerys had a busy week. Here is her maths multiplication work, tanka poem about the moon, texture patterns for Art, research into some key terms about space and comparing two Bible passages for R.E..

Daniel G has been getting stuck into landscaping! I wonder how long before he starts demanding a wage? He’s also worked on Geography research, a Moon poem and shown a comfy spot to read.

Darci showed a creative side through her diagram of our solar system, her prime and square numbers poster, a range of pencil techniques and a brilliant tanka poem. She also found time somewhere to get a workout in each day!

Niko has found many favourite spots around the house to get stuck into a book detailing how space functions. This has been very useful for his research into some key terms for our solar system.

Roza had a creative Easter break, resulting in some great looking sushi, a very colourful dog and a chain reaction marble run.

Check out her marble run here.

Taya has shown her favourite reading spot as well as the research into different mountains she has carried out this week for Geography.

*Year 6 – Home Learning – Week 4!*

By Mrs J Hartwell1st May 2020

I absolutely loved catching up with most of you on the phone last week – it was great to hear you all enjoyed the Easter holidays with your families!

Now it’s back to home learning and already we have had lots of fab photos emailed in. Keep them coming!

Liam LJ created this stunning timeline to reflect on the events of Holy Week:

He has also been busy making Oreo desserts that look delicious!

Niamh has been busy making new tops, dinner for the family and cracking on with her maths:

Check out her fab poem too:

Harry has started the week with lots of enthusiasm:

Please take the time to read his beautiful poetry:

He has also been making time to go on adventures with his little brother:

I love Roisin’s mnemonics and her poem:

and Isla’s poetry:

Hannah created this beautiful rainbow outside her house (check out her dip-dyed hair too!):

She has also been busy helping Mum and Dad with the cleaning:

And of course working her way through this week’s task (I love the poetry!):

The card she made for her Nan is beautiful too:

Frank sent me a rather cheeky email to let me know that he enjoyed not doing any school work for the Easter holidays but ‘unfortunately’ has been busy with it this week. We know he’s missing us really!

I really loved his pop up card he created for DT. He chose to make a birthday card for Jan and delivered it as part of his daily exercise. I am sure it made Jan’s birthday extra special!

 

Ethan enjoyed a visit from Mr Cooke and Mrs Quinn this week and also has been busy practising his handwriting using the blurb of our new book – check out his tiger!

Ethan chose to make his pop up card for his mum to thank her for her support with his home learning – how thoughtful and what a beautiful card too!

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He has also spent lots of time working on these two stunning poems:

… and working his way through various other tasks:

as well as cleaning the whole house!

William has also been a busy bee working hard as well as dying his hair green, planting vegetables and working out:

Here’s Molly’s work and our weekly update from Bob the boxer too:

Look at her yummy cookies! Loving the Star Baker apron:

Here’s all of Emily’s hard work:

Here’s William’s work (and pictures of him helping with the chores, chilling and his gorgeous cats!):

Early Years

By All Sorts28th April 2020

I hope that you and your families are all keeping well.

It’s a very strange start to the Summer Term without your children here, we are missing them all and look forward to seeing them again as soon as it is deemed safe to do so.

Jo and I wanted to keep in regular contact with you all so will be sending out a newsletter via email in the coming days. We also felt it was important to give you some ideas of activities in line with the EYFS framework that you could do with your child whilst at home.

Each keycare group will recieve a sheet alongside the newsletter with some suggestions of Learning Objectives similar to those we would have been working towards within All Sorts. Make them as fun and exciting as possible, children learn best this way and of course if you are happy to share any photos we would love to see them.

Take care, stay safe and well

Jo and Sharon x

Good Friday

10th April 2020Miss R Corkerry

Today marks Good Friday, the day we remember Jesus giving up his life for us. It is important to remember that although today the sun may shine it is a day of sorrow, sadness and repentance. Today we should fast, pray and have some time of silence to commemorate the sacrifice that Jesus made on this day.

During this time in particular it is easy to think of how dark things are and feel sorrow for the things we are missing out on. However, it is always darkest before the light and during this special time it is possible to look past this dark time and focus on the light. Turn our heads away from the sad, worrying things happening in our world and search for the light that exists everywhere. Pray, ask for forgiveness and reflect on all the things to be grateful for.

Please try to live stream a mass at 3pm and encourage your children to take part in this and spend some time today in quiet reflection.

“On this Good Friday may be all be blessed with strength of spirit, hope in things to come and compassion for our worldly family.” Amen.

Week Three of Home Learning For Year 4

10th April 2020Ella Hands

Niamh has been busy. She has sequenced and explained the key events of Holy Week, the most sacred time of year. Also, Niamh drew a very impressive sketch of what she could see out of one of the windows in her house. I particularly like your image of the electric mini car in the garden, Niamh!

Patrick accurately sequenced and explained the key events of Holy Week and he presented his work well. Excellent, Patrick!

 

Eva has worked hard to create a timeline of events which happened during Ancient Greek times. Her timeline is bright, colourful and very well presented. Eva scored full marks when tested on the spellings of words that she had to learn. Well done, Eva!

Also, Lottie created a timeline of events from Ancient Greek times. She decided to present hers in her Home Learning Book. Accurate work, Lottie!

Ffion has, with the help of her dad, created a guitar using materials in her house. You look like you has great fun making the guitar and the final result is excellent. Also, Ffion baked an array of delicious goodies and completed the maths and English activities set. Good girl!

 

Some fab work from Y3!

By Laura McDonagh7th April 2020

A big well done to Thomas, Layla, Phoebe, Eden and Conor for sending some more fantastic work. Thomas has been working hard on his fact file, Layla and Eden have been learning about Palm Sunday, Phoebe has been researching greenhouses for DT and Conor has been working on his knowledge of time and building a camper van!

 

 

 

Easter Acitivities

6th April 2020All Sorts

10 egg-citing things to do during the Easter holidays - Go North East

In All Sorts this week we would have been offering children a variety of learning opportunities based around Easter and in our efforts to promote parental partnership we would have had our Easter craft morning for you all to attend with your children.

Therefore Jo and I thought it would be nice to share a selection of activities for you and your child to enjoy whilst at home:

  • Make and decorate an Easter bonnet.
  • Go on an Easter egg hunt; hide some eggs in the garden, let your child seek and find them, count how many they have collected.
  • Make some Easter nest cakes; melt some chocolate into a bowl, pour in some rice krispies or crumble in some shredded wheat, mix well to coat the cereal in chocolate, spoon the mixture into cake cases, top with chocolate eggs, allow them to set and then of course enjoy eating one or two!

There are also have some other activities that can be emailed to any parents that would like them, these include; Easter colouring sheets, an Easter shape chick to cut out and make and a decorate your own Easter egg sheet, please do let me know if you would like any of these emailing.

It would be lovely for you to share any pictures of your children enjoying these activities to [email protected]

Whilst this will be a very different one, we would like to wish each and every one of our familes a Happy Easter, stay safe and take care.

Sharon and Jo x

 

*Year 6’s second week home learning*

6th April 2020Mrs J Hartwell

Ethan’s been super busy this week working hard on his draft newspaper report and it has paid off – take a read here:

 

Here’s Molly’s update. She has been busy walking and cuddling the newest member of her family (Bob!) every day and found this particular question on SPaG hilarious:

 

 

She has also been practising her addition skills with some dart practice:

Simeon has been super busy this week:

Emily has taken a break from braiding to plan and draft her newspaper report – I am excited to see the final pieces next week:

Hannah has also been drafting hers: Newspaper Report

(and finding time to make banana fritters – yum!)

I am so impressed with Ethan’s stained glass window  – he has chosen an image which represents his Confirmation Saint:

He has also been busy with lots of the other tasks, including painting his recently constructed bird house that he is so kindly donating to school (thank you!):

(Love the Still Life picture!)

Rebecca and Hannah have prepared their chosen objects for their still life image –  ask them why they have chosen each object:

Isla started her week of home learning off with her Confirmation RE tasks. She has written out this beautiful piece of scripture from the Book of Isaiah in preparation for work around the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. She has also made a beautiful stained glass window representing the Holy Spirit.

She then moved on to her Geography, researching earthquakes. Her presentation of this week and last week’s Geography tasks is lovely:

Niamh‘s brain must be exhausted after her mathematical day:

She then made a great start on her newspaper report:

She has also been busy researching earthquakes, the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit and practising her very best handwriting using scripture from Isaiah (beautiful!):

In addition to dressing up and getting involved with Joe Wicks:

 

Assumpta has even found time to bake a cake with her siblings! Yummy!

Here is Helena’s collection of work:

Liam LJ has also started off with his Confirmation task, learning about the 6 gifts of the HS and decorating his stained glass window:

Despite finding them tricky to begin with, Hannah has persevered and completed this week’s maths challenge amongst many other tasks. She even found time for some baking with William (his chocolate cookie recipe!) via FaceTime!

Niamh has been back on it today mainly with some English and Science!

Emily must be all calculated out after today’s maths marathon:

She’s also been busy introducing her mum to Just Dance, learning how to dutch braid (missing Hartwell’s Hairdressers), walking11000 steps, making dens and sleeping in them and baking (not that she saved me any!)! Busy bee!

Maybe Hannah and Emily C could open their own hairdressers up:

‘O’Malley and Carter’

Harry has been busy completing his tasks but also taking some time out to do some baking, gardening, painting and climbing of trees:

And here’s all of Dhilan’s work: Dhilan

And Frank’s: