St. Augustine's Catholic Primary School

PE Challenge

Take a look at this challenge and see if you can hit the target 15 times in a row. How could you make it more challenging?

Target Practice

Write a recount of what you day would have been like.

What animals did you see? What were their habitats like?

Don’t forget, we have certain words we must use when writing a recount. I’ll give you a clue… (first…)

If you’re feeling creative you could design your recount as a postcard.

Create a poster advertising the park for potential visitors.

You can visit the Longleat website to find out information you will need to include, such as:

Price of entry
Opening times
Address
Attractions at the park

Longleat Safari Park was the first drive-through safari outside of Africa when it opened.

Imagine you are a reporter who visits the safari park to write an article about how amazing the park is.

You can visit this Wiki to help you find some information about the park that you could include.

Turn your article into the front page news!

Take a look at the reading comprehension activities on the below PDF.

There are two pictures for you to choose from, you can done one or the other (or both if you would like).

Complete these in your English books in your best handwriting. Write out the question and your answer underneath it before moving onto the next one.

1)Take a look at the Fronted Adverbial Powerpoint to remind yourself what they are and how we use them in a sentence.

Then complete the Fronted Adverbial Activity. You can print this out, or write the sentences into your English book before underlining the correct parts of the sentence.

2) Write a recount of what you day would have been like.

What animals did you see? What were their habitats like?

You will need to think about how you are starting your sentences – look at the fronted adverbial table on the Powerpoint from yesterday.

Year 4 Home Learning (13.7.2020-17.7.2020)

WEEK 7 - Topic Activities

WEEK 7 - Fronted Adverbials

WEEK 7 - Fronted Adverbials Activity

WEEK 7 - Reading Comprehension

WEEK 7 - Crossword Activity

Dear Parents /Carers

TERM 6 - WEEK 6 - 6th - 10th July 2020

I hope you are all keeping well as we go into week 6 of the term. Summer is almost upon us and it has been great to see all the children still motivated to complete their MyMaths. Well done to the children (and you parents!)

Maths this week is a mixture of things, some revision of times tables and symmetry with some challenges to complete at the end. As ever, if you want to do something different, I welcome that.

This week I have found some great resources from The Book Trust that you may be interested in. I am not able to set them as learning tasks as they require using social media, but they look too good not to share with you in case you wanted something different to do. Their resources page is here and their quiz page is here.

I hope you are managing to enjoy the lovely summer weather and getting out and about. Keep safe and well.

Best wishes, Amy Neale

A : Home Reading each day

Please do some form of reading for 20 minutes per day.

Other ways to ‘read’:

B : English based activities

Pick one of these activities each day to complete for your English learning.

C : Maths based activities

All of your maths learning this week will be tasks in MyMaths. Log into there each day to see that day’s learning.

For lots of fun maths games you can do after you have completed your lesson, take a look at www.mathsisfun.com. There are so many activities and games to have fun with there!

As ever, keep practising your times tables with a focus on getting your speed down as much as possible. Times tables rock stars, hit the button and daily10 are all great places to get your practise in!

D : Topic Learning

Please see the below PDF that will give you a pick ‘n’ mix selection of activities that you can complete in place of what would have been your project time.

Useful Subject Links:

Watch Cressida Cowell read her story ‘How to speak Dragonese’. You can choose to watch more than one chapter if you would like.

After you have watched the video/videos, write or story board to predict what you think will happen next.

If you have already read the book, you can storyboard to summarise what has happened so far.

Visit BBC Bitesize and complete the learning on synonyms and antonyms.

Afterwards create a mind map with synonyms in one colour and antonyms in another.

Have go with these words: happy, big, walk, pretty and sad.

Practice the spellings from the year 3 and year 4 spelling list.

If you know these very well already, pick ten and think about what their definition is. If you are unsure, have a look in a dictionary or check on the internet.

Now that you have found out about different habitats and other animals, you are going take on the role of an intrepid nature explorer like Bear Grylls, discovering a new land for the first time! You will be writing a story.

Use the internet to carry on any further research you feel that you need. Gather together some pictures that you could include with you story.
Story board or story map your adventure. Remember, you are the main character in this, so you can say ‘I can see’ or ‘I felt…’ – this is called writing in the first person.
Write your beginning and build-up of your story
Write the problem section of your story. With all the animals you will encounter, this should be the biggest section of your story.
Write the resolution and ending of your story.

Year 4 Home Learning (6.7.2020-10.7.2020)

WEEK 6 - Bee Information

WEEK 6 - Topic Activities

Dear Parents /Carers

TERM 6 - WEEK 5 - 29th June - 3rd July 2020

Children, this week you will become budding conservationists. You will be discovering more about the wildlife around you and what we can be doing to make a difference. I’m so excited to see what you all get up with this project – please share on 2 Build a Profile.

For the English tasks there is an author study. Onjali Q. Rauf is familiar to the children as we loved reading her first book ‘The Boy at the Back of the Classroom’ in school earlier on in the year. I highly recommend it!

I have planned away from MyMaths this week for a bit of variety. There are games on MyMaths the children can play if you would still like to keep to the routine, but I thought it might be time for a little bit of a shake-up. The children have done fantastically so far, I am so impressed with their perseverance.

I hope you all have a wonderful week, keep safe, healthy and happy.

Best wishes, Amy Neale

A : Home Reading each day

Please do some form of reading for 20 minutes per day.

Other ways to ‘read’:

B : English based activities

Pick one of these activities each day to complete for your English learning.

Visit the National Literacy Trust where they have done an author study on Onjali Q. Rauf who wrote ‘The Boy at the Back of the Classroom’.

Choose one of the activities below based on her books.

C : Maths based activities

I have put the link and directions for these activities onto MyMaths, but should it not appear on the dashboard, I have detailed them here also.

Monday

This activity will see you investigating several different flags and the shapes within them. There are some flags on the page for you to start off with, but you may like to find your own choice of flag to investigate.

Tuesday

Lots of fun playing with triangles today.

Look at this activity.

Wednesday

Have a go at playing Nim with a sibling or parent at home. This is a great game as once you figure out the winning strategy you can baffle your friends and family members that don't know you will always win - it's like a maths magic trick! And in case you are wondering, I know how to always win so you can't try and trick me! 😊

Thursday

You will need to open the Minecraft PDF (below), this can be printed if you are able to, but it can also be completed easily on the screen with you answers jotted on a piece of paper.

You can use this same activity on your Lego creations too. Look carefully at the shapes you have used, how many faces/vertices or edges do they have?

Friday

Have a go at playing a game of chess.

D : Topic Learning

Please see the below PDF that will give you a pick ‘n’ mix selection of activities that you can complete in place of what would have been your project time.

Useful Subject Links:

Ahmed in ‘The Boy at the Back of the Classroom’ is given a pomegranate to remind him of home.

What reminds you of your home? Write a description of it and why you chose it.

Draw a beautiful picture to go with it.

Before you read the first chapter of ‘The Star Outside my Window’, make a prediction about what you think the story will be about.

Once you have done that, read the first chapter.

You all listened to ‘The Boy at the Back of the Classroom’ in school.

Write the blurb that could go on the back of the book.

Remember the point of the blurb is to make whoever picks up the book want to read it – use persuasive language to convince them.

Complete the activity for ‘The Star Outside my Window’.

You will need to use the internet to research some constellations and write a description of them. Can you accurately sketch them?

Read an extract from ‘The Boy at the Back of Classroom’ here.

Answer these questions:

Why do you think Brendan-the-Bully behaves the way he does?
How does he make the narrator feel?
How does he make you feel?
Have you seen this sort of behaviour before?

Home is important to us, especially now when we have spent so much time there.

Explain what ‘Home’ means to you.

Does it mean family? Safety? Where fun happens? What makes your home special to you?

Ahmed had to make a new home for himself in another country, is home to him just a house? Or more than that? Consider this when writing about your own idea of ‘Home’.

Year 4 Home Learning (29.6.2020-3.7.2020)

WEEK 5 - Topic Activities

WEEK 5 - Thursday Minecraft

Dear Parents/Carers

TERM 6 - WEEK 4 - 22nd-26th June 2020

Hello again and here we are going into week 4 of term 6. The summer holidays are in sniffing distance and promise everyone a well-earned rest from all your hard work teaching your children at home. I hope everyone is still getting on okay and you are managing to maintain momentum with all your other commitments. With the risk of sounding like a broken record, please only do what you can, there is no expectation that all of the activities I set are completed and I welcome any alternatives that you would prefer to do that would suit your family better. One little wish is that your child is reading regularly as it really is the life blood of writing and will help them hugely when they come back to school.

This week we have another week where I am available to speak with parents (or the children, if they would like to). Thank you to all of you who have booked a slot for a telephone call, it’s been lovely to hear how the children have been getting on after a little break from calling.

This week’s activities are centred around our new topic of Habitats (the unit is actually called A Place for Everything). The children will be exploring the different habitats of the world and making their own fact file based on what they discover. There have been some lovely programmes on lately that will suit this learning, Springwatch is on the BBC iPlayer and if you have access to Netflix there are tonnes of nature documentaries that can form part of their research.

If your child is particularly keen on using the computer, we have been having fun in school learning touch typing and seeing how fast we can get. Here are some useful links if your child (or you) would like to give it a go:

I’m wishing you a peaceful week and hope that you will be able to enjoy the nice weather together with family and friends (see Mr McConnell’s Pings for useful update on the guidance).

Best wishes, Amy Neale

A : Home Reading each day

Please do some form of reading for 20 minutes per day.

Other ways to ‘read’:

B : English based activities

Pick one of these activities each day to complete for your English learning.

Don’t forget, there are lots of ways you can be practicing your writing, you might be writing a story or letters and postcards to family members. The activities below aren’t the only way you can putting pencil to paper (or typing on the computer).

C : Maths based activities

Please continue to visit your MyMaths account to see your maths learning for the day.

There are some activities on MyMaths that should appear on your dashboard. Some of them will be using the PDFs below. Take a look at these instructions should they no appear on the MyMaths dashboard.

Monday

Have a look at the 3D shapes that are around your home (or classroom if you are in school today). Can you name them? You may need to research 3D shapes on the internet if you are unsure what the shape is.

Then watch this video.

Your challenge today is to look carefully at the items you have found and draw the net of the shape.

Tuesday

Watch this video

Find the TUESDAY Lines of Symmetry PDF below. Can you accurately draw all the lines of symmetry for these shapes? You will need to label them as well. If you do not have access to a printer you have an extra challenge of drawing the shapes out too - remember to use a ruler :D

Wednesday

Have a watch of the symmetry video again

Your challenge is to sort the shapes from the WEDNESDAY Shapes for Sorting PDF below. You will need to sort the out into how many lines of symmetry do they have. You can print this out or you can copy them out from the screen - I'd like you to challenge yourself by accurately drawing the shapes and labelling them when you sort them.

You can sort them however you like, into groups or in a table - the choice is yours!

D : Topic Learning

Please see the below PDF that will give you a pick ‘n’ mix selection of activities that you can complete in place of what would have been your project time.

Useful Subject Links:

PE Challenge

Take a look at the Just Dance YouTube channel. Can you challenge someone in your house to a dance off?

This week’s writing task is something you can work on over the course of the week. You are going to be creating your own non-fiction book based on animal habitats.

If you have some non-fiction books at home, take a look through them to remind yourself what a non-fiction book looks like. If you don’t have any at home, take a look here at some online ones (you will have to ask a grown up to sign up to it for free).

Research the different habitats that animals might live in throughout the world. Create a concept map (please see PDF for examples) detailing the different habitats but also what animals live there, what makes that habitat unique and why is it a good habitat for those animals. You will need to include at least 3 different habitats.

(To be completed over 3 days) For each of the habitats you are going to write a draft fact file for each habitat you have research. If you have researched more than three habitats then you may do more than this, but the aim at the end of the week is to have at least three habitats in your ‘book’.

The final part of your writing task for the week is to publish you work in best. You can design yourself an eye catching front cover. Think about what else non-fiction books have, here are a few ideas to help you:

Contents and Index
Glossary
Key words in bold for the glossary
Section headings

Year 4 Home Learning (22.6.2020-26.6.2020)

WEEK 4 - Tuesday - Investigating Lines of Symmetry

WEEK 4 - Wednesday - Shapes for Sorting

WEEK 4 - Habitat Map

WEEK 4 - Topic Activities

Dear Parents /Carers

TERM 6 - WEEK 3 - 15th-19th June 2020

I hope you are still well and keeping happy and healthy. I can tell how hard everyone has been working on their MyMaths, I’m so proud of all the children’s efforts. Thank you all for your fantastic support in your children’s home learning, I know that it’s not always easy. As ever, please just do what you can and if you come up with something off the wall to do, well done!

The home learning this week continues with a bit of a local history theme. There is no better way of exploring our local history than getting out and about in it, so I urge you to visit some of the amazing things we have on our doorstep. I’d love to see pictures of your visits shared on 2Build a Profile.

Please keep safe and well. You are all in my thoughts and prayers.

Best wishes, Amy Neale

A : Home Reading each day

Please do some form of reading for 20 minutes per day.

Other ways to ‘read’:

B : English based activities

Pick one of these activities each day to complete for your English learning.

C : Maths based activities

Please continue to visit your MyMaths account to see your maths learning for the day.

This time is a great opportunity to be embedding the ‘real life maths’ that we looked at over the past few weeks. Here are some ideas of what you could get up to:

Challenge yourself to tell the time and not ask a parent. Remember to try and use past and to when saying the time.

If you have a penny jar in your house, count how much is in there. Put the same coins into piles to help you.

Add up shopping lists and try and find the difference between food shops from previous weeks. Has the food shopping bill increased, if so, by how much? Look at the savings that were made on the receipt, how much would it have cost if your parents had to pay full price.

How much have you grown since you were last measured, can you work it out in millimetres, centimetres and metres. You will have to write some measurements as a decimal.

Weigh how much cardboard you recycle in grams and kilograms; can you beat it the next week?

D : Topic Learning

Please see the below PDF that will give you a pick ‘n’ mix selection of activities that you can complete in place of what would have been your project time.

Useful Subject Links:

PE Challenge

Take on the Power Jump Challenge

Spelling Challenge

Alphabet Spell

Can you write a collection of sentences that have a word from every letter of the alphabet from the year 3 and 4 spelling list?

Here is a link to the list to help you? Write the words from the list in a different colour. Ask someone else in your house to test you on the, afterwards!

Reading

Summarise the storyline of a recent book you have read.

You could do this in the form of a story board or write out the synopsis (a fancy word for what happens in the story) in your writing book.

Punctuation

Define what each of these punctuations are and what their job is in a piece of writing.

. , : ? ! () “

Create a poster for them with a drawing of the punctuation and your definition. You could even make them into funny characters.

Big Write

(This can be completely over several days)

Research some recent news articles that you may have heard about. Visit First News Happy News page to have a read of some if you aren’t aware of any.

Now is your chance to become your own newspaper editors and create your own newspaper. You will need a front page with an exciting story to hook your reader in. Inside your newspaper you might want to add news from your family, or things that have happened in your local community.

The First News newspapers we have in school also have fun puzzles and games to play so you could create your own versions of those too. A newspaper crossword puzzle is always fun to have a go at!

Year 4 Home Learning (15.6.2020-19.6.2020)

WEEK 3 - Topic Activities

Dear Parents /Carers

TERM 6 - WEEK 2 - 8th-12th June 2020

If we were at school, we would have been researching our local area. Our history learning would be been creating a research project on an aspect of our local history of your child’s choosing. We would have been going on walks investigating what historical evidence we can find in the area surrounding school, if you can, when you are out on walks talk about what you find.

For maths this week, we will be revisiting one of the four operations to make sure our mental maths skills are maintained. Doing these activities and tasks on MyMaths along with practising on Times Table Rock Stars or playing games like Hit the Button on Topmarks will help with quick recall. Putting calculations into word problems will help provide challenge in having to retrieve the right information to solve their calculation.

As ever, there is no pressure to complete all the learning every day, I know you will all have commitments you are continuing to juggle. There has been brilliant engagement on MyMaths, it is nice to be able to give feedback on this and for your child to know that I see how well they are doing – the children have been doing fantastically! Remember, any learning can be shared with me on 2BuildAProfile but it is better if this isn’t extended pieces of writing as I only get a thumb nail sized picture and cannot read it unfortunately, photos of you creative activities or science experiments are brilliant to see!

Please keep safe and well. You are all in my thoughts and prayers.

Best wishes, Amy Neale

Week 2 - Topic Activities

Week 2 - Inference Skill Questions

A : Home Reading each day

Please do some form of reading for 20 minutes per day.

Other ways to ‘read’:

B : English based activities

Pick one of these activities each day to complete for your English learning.

Don’t forget, there are lot of ways you can be practicing your writing, you might be writing a story or letters and postcards to family members. The activities below aren’t the only way you can putting pencil to paper (or typing on the computer).

C : Maths based activities

Please continue to visit your MyMaths account to see your maths learning for the day.

This time is a great opportunity to be embedding the ‘real life maths’ that we looked at over the past few weeks. Here are some ideas of what you could get up to:

Challenge yourself to tell the time and not ask a parent. Remember to try and use past and to when saying the time.

If you have a penny jar in your house, count how much is in there. Put the same coins into piles to help you.

How much have you grown since you were last measured, can you work it out in millimetres, centimetres and metres. You will have to write some measurements as a decimal.

Weigh how much cardboard you recycle in grams and kilograms; can you beat it the next week?

D : Topic Learning

Please see the below PDF that will give you a pick ‘n’ mix selection of activities that you can complete in place of what would have been your project time.

Useful Subject Links:

PE Challenge

Try the ‘Teapot Challenge’. Search the internet for a video on how to do it.

Can you do 100 or even 1000 of a movement. For example, if you have a trampoline, challenge yourself to so 1000 bounces in one day or 100 skips with a skipping rope.

Spelling Activity

Get a big sheet of paper and draw a big scribble tangle like we did at school. Pick one of the words from the Year 3 and 4 spelling list and fill each section with that word over and over again.

This is one for the felt tips or colouring pencils, make it as colourful as you can!

Inference activity

Visit BBC Bitesize to watch this video to understand what inference is.

Spend 20 minutes reading your book and then answer the questions on the PDF below in your exercise book. You can either print it out or write the questions with your answers. You may want to talk this through with a grown up.

Book Review

Pick your favourite book of all time. This could be something you read when you were little, or one that was more recent.

Imagine you are a book publisher and you need to convince everyone to read this book. Write a review that will persuade me to buy it and read it.

*** Activity to be completed over several days. ***

You are going to write a portal story. Where your character will be transported from one world into another – a bit like Harry Potter when it goes through the wall at platform 9 3/4!

I want you to spend some time thinking about your character and the world they currently live in. It could even be you and your home if you would like. Draw what the character and what the world looks like. You can colour or paint this scene. Up to you.
Watch the video by Abi Elphinstone here. She will be challenging you to focus on the moment your character goes through the portal. I would be expecting lots of descriptive writing here.
Storyboard and write what then what happens to your character in this new world you have created.

Dear Parents /Carers

TERM 6 - WEEK 1 - 1st-5th June 2020

I hope you have had a restful half term break and managed to enjoy some of the extra time outside that we are now able to have.

You will notice that the grid has changed slightly and instead of the project that the children have been working on during term 5 I have included a menu of activities that would ordinarily be taught in the afternoon at school – it will be on the PDF underneath the grid. These won’t always be the same subject each week but aim to provide a balance of the curriculum for your child. Additionally, they are not compulsory, there are still many fantastic resources available that you may prefer to use and that is fine.

As a school we have worked hard over the last few weeks to on planning, so whilst I may be in school teaching children from those year groups that have been able to return, the remote learning will continue to be provided to you every Friday. Anything that is shared with me on 2BuildAProfile or via email I will endeavour to reply to as soon as I am able.

As ever, the wellbeing of your child and your family is the most important thing and I do not expect the completion of the home learning to cause any stress, frustration or upset. You and your child can only do your best. Thank you again for your unwavering support.

Best wishes, Amy Neale

A : Home Reading each day

Please do some form of reading for 20 minutes per day.

Other ways to ‘read’:

B : English based activities

Pick one of these activities each day to complete for your English learning.

C : Maths based activities

Please continue to visit your MyMaths account to see your maths learning for the day.

This time is a great opportunity to be embedding the ‘real life maths’ that we looked at over the past few weeks. Here are some ideas of what you could get up to:

Challenge yourself to tell the time and not ask a parent. Remember to try and use past and to when saying the time.

If you have a penny jar in your house, count how much is in there. Put the same coins into piles to help you.

Add up shopping lists and try and find the difference between food shops from previous weeks. Has the food shopping bill increased, if so, by how much. Look at the savings that were made on the receipt, how much would it have cost if your parents had to pay full price.

How much have you grown since you were last measured, can you work it out in millimetres, centimetres and metres. You will have to write some measurements as a decimal.

Weigh how much cardboard you recycle in grams and kilograms; can you beat it the next week?

D : Topic Learning

Please see the below PDF that will give you a pick ‘n’ mix selection of activities that you can complete in place of what would have been your project time.

Useful Subject Links: