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-457200274320An unprecedented interruption to your child’s education is something we never anticipated at the beginning of the year. Whilst this is certainly inconvenient for everyone, we hope that providing work will help to minimise the impact of missed school time and help keep your children’s brains ticking over in the time between now and regular schooling being reinstated.We have tried to make the tasks as easy to understand as possible and have provided supporting material for these where necessary. Many of the activities involve online resources as we hope these are easily accessible from any location and have a minimal environmental impact when compared to photocopying packs of work for each child.We hope these activities are useful and are sure you’ll have many other ideas to occupy, have fun with, and promote your children’s learning. Any writing, reading, art, music or other areas of learning outside of the suggested tasks below are more than welcome in school upon return as we recognise that all children have different interests and we value each of these equally.020000An unprecedented interruption to your child’s education is something we never anticipated at the beginning of the year. Whilst this is certainly inconvenient for everyone, we hope that providing work will help to minimise the impact of missed school time and help keep your children’s brains ticking over in the time between now and regular schooling being reinstated.We have tried to make the tasks as easy to understand as possible and have provided supporting material for these where necessary. Many of the activities involve online resources as we hope these are easily accessible from any location and have a minimal environmental impact when compared to photocopying packs of work for each child.We hope these activities are useful and are sure you’ll have many other ideas to occupy, have fun with, and promote your children’s learning. Any writing, reading, art, music or other areas of learning outside of the suggested tasks below are more than welcome in school upon return as we recognise that all children have different interests and we value each of these equally.Year 4All children across the school have access to both Times Table Rock stars and Spelling Shed. The children know their logins (and these are written in the front of their planner/spelling book just in case).Times Table Rock Stars is available to play at: Shed is available to play at: Year 3s have a login for Lexia which helps them with their reading, grammar and spelling. We now also have logins for the children to access 10 ticks mental maths practice. This can be found at Children’s logins are the same as their SpellingShed ones just to try to make things easier for them.In addition, children now have access to some exciting reading books at Children’s usernames are their first name with a capital letter and the first letter of their last name (also a capital latter) eg: JoeBThe password is readAll children have a book allocated to read with some activities to do, and these will be changed regularly.The Twinkl website has a number of ebooks that the children can read as well. These can be found by typing “ebooks” into the search box on twinkl.co.uk Year 3 also have a 10 minute practice booklet for both English and Maths. All children have this in their bookbags and this can be used throughout any time away from school.SubjectSummaryTaskEnglishAs it will soon be Easter, it would be lovely if the children could watch the Easter Story on the BBC and then write a recount of this in their own words.The children should watch The Easter Story at longer version can be found at they have the information they should decide on a suitable heading and sub-headings for their writing. They should then write a recount about the Easter Story, setting it out with a main heading and appropriate sub-headings for each paragraph. A map of where Jesus went or appropriate illustrations could be included (children could draw their own if they would like to). A useful picture map can be found at the children have been learning about measurement in maths and have been finding out about weighing and measuring volume (liquids), they could apply these skills practically and make some Easter biscuits, rice krispie buns or other Easter recipes.Some great Easter kids recipes can be found at are some easy and fun science experiments that kids can try at home this Easter. Have a look at that is needed is some simple things that we all have at home for kids to learn about some really interesting and fun scientific facts. RELooking at the Easter story, children could find out about how Easter is celebrated in different parts of the world, Children should research Easter traditions around the world and create a presentation to show what they have found out. This could take the form of a poster or a powerpoint, or any other way that they would like to present this. Some useful information can be found at you know that there is an island called Easter Island?Children can find out where this is and some interesting facts about it. Find out where Easter Island is in the world Information for this can be found at: should make a fact file about the island includingThe island’s other namePeople who live thereAnimals and plantsAny other interesting factsSome pictures of the things they have found out aboutArt Easter is a great time for children to do some art and craft.There are many ideas on the internet for different arts and crafts for kids to do. Children could make Easter bunnies Easter chicks are other ideas for fun crafts to do with children at some Easter drawing lessons at it’s important that social isolation occurs when needed, it’s also important that we move and exercise as much as we can. Keeping healthy is key. There are many Joe Wicks videos which are all available via Twinkl () and additional videos can be found on YouTube. If you can’t get outside, these are a great way to keep active.For children who prefer dance, Strictly’s Oti Mabuse is doing dance workshops for kids at are activity cards available to complete different workouts without videos also available via Twinkl ().FrenchMany of us may not be fluent in languages other than English but there are free resources available whilst your children are away from school.Duolingo (a free app available on the app store or at ) is a great app to keep learning French independently.Throughout this tricky time, many educational websites are offering free online resources or access to help with home learning. Some recommended websites to help with additional tasks and activities include: (This is an American-based website but there are some interesting activities within the Grade 6+ section). ................
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