Well – you’ve DONE IT!! It’s been the most bizarre end to our year but we’ve finally made it to our summer holidays. So for today, as we always would, I want you to have FUN!

Some ideas:

🌟 Write a letter to your future self! What advice would you like to give yourself for September? What kind of things do you think it would be worth remembering on your first day back? What have you been proud of and what would you like to achieve next?

🌟 Create a piece of art that shows something about you right now; perhaps things you’ve been doing or something to reflect your feelings.

🌟 Bake / cook something to celebrate your final day!

🌟 Enjoy a walk where you can think about all the things you have achieved at Ruyton (you might need a very long walk to remember them all!)

🌟 Watch your favourite film or listen to your favourite music 🎶  I’m loving Moana at the moment!

🌟 Turn off your computer screens… challenge yourself to go make some memories!

Thank you for giving me such a lovely year of teaching. I’ve got such happy memories teaching you all and you’ve just added another year of reasons why I have the best job in the world. I can’t wait to see you all become Owls in September; have a happy, healthy and fun-filled summer and I’ll see you soon.

Lots of love,

Miss Whit xx

Good morning all,

Today we will be holding the Year 6 leavers assembly online; I will say a big “good luck” to our Year 6 from you all! I am sure they are all looking forward to their next step and starting Year 7 – the Purple Bubble in school are looking so grown up!

We’re missing you very much in school this week – it is probably my favourite week of the school year but it is not the same without a class full of Dragonflies! I’d love to hear some of your summer plans? I currently plan to pick up my guitar again (which I haven’t practised in ages) and hopefully get away camping with friends 🤞 fingers crossed the sunshine comes back!

Here’s today’s activities:

1. Spellings: Here are the word mats for each year group in KS2. This week I’d like you to gain confidence in the Y3/4 one then if you’ve cracked many on this list, start to look at some Year 5/6 words.

In Orange Bubble we are going to make a wordsearch with them!

Year-5-and-6-word-mat

Years-3-And-4-Word-Mat

2. Maths: White Rose Maths links can be found below. I’ve also added Lesson 4 for this week as we will not be doing normal maths in lessons tomorrow.

Year 3

Year 3 Lesson-3-Pictograms

Year 3 Lesson-3-Answers-Pictograms

Year 3 Video Links

Year 4

Y4 Lesson 3 Answers – Describe position

Y4 Lesson 3 – Describe position

Y4 Lesson 4 Answers – Draw on a grid

Y4 Lesson 4 – Draw on a grid

Year 4 Video Links

Year 5

Y5 Lesson 3 Answers – Converting units of time

Y5 Lesson 3 – Converting units of time

Y5 Lesson 4 Answers – Timetables

Y5 Lesson 4 – Timetables

Year 5 Video Links

3. Reading : Enjoy your own reading books this week – get ready for a summer of reading!

4. English: 

Bitesize – Bitesize English

Have a great Wednesday.

Miss Whit 🙂

Good morning all,

Here’s today’s activities:

1. Spellings: Here are the word mats for each year group in KS2. This week I’d like you to gain confidence in the Y3/4 one then if you’ve cracked many on this list, start to look at some Year 5/6 words.

In Orange Bubble we are going to make a wordsearch with them!

Year-5-and-6-word-mat

Years-3-And-4-Word-Mat

2. Maths: White Rose Maths links can be found below. I’ve also added a block of work on My Maths for those of you who enjoy it too. Remember to watch the video and learn first!

Year 3

Year 3 Lesson-2-Answers

Year 3 Lesson-2-Add-and-subtract-capacity

Year 3 Video Links

Year 4

Y4 Lesson 2 – Complete a symmetric figure

Y4 Lesson 2 Answers – Complete a symmetric figure

Year 4 Video Links

Year 5

Y5 Lesson 2 Answers – Imperial units

Y5Lesson 2 – Imperial units

Year 5 Video Links

3. Reading : Enjoy your own reading books.

4. English: 

Bitesize – Bitesize English

Have a great Tuesday!

Miss Whit 🙂

Good morning all,

And here we are – our final week of term of this very bizarre year! You have all done brilliantly during this time and here in school we can’t wait to have you all back in September – it’s just not the same without each and every one of you.

Here’s today’s activities:

1. Spellings: Here are the word mats for each year group in KS2. This week I’d like you to gain confidence in the Y3/4 one then if you’ve cracked many on this list, start to look at some Year 5/6 words.

Year-5-and-6-word-mat

Years-3-And-4-Word-Mat

2. Maths: White Rose Maths links can be found below. I’ve also added a block of work on My Maths for those of you who enjoy it too. Remember to watch the video and learn first!

Year 3

Year 3 Lesson-1-Answers-Compare-capacity

Year 3 Lesson 1

Year 3 Video Links

Year 4

Year 4 1-Lines-of-symmetry

Year 4 Lesson-1-Answers

Year 4 Video Links

Year 5

Year 5 Lesson-1-Answers-Metric-units

Year 5 Lesson-1-Metric-units

Year 5 Video Links

3. Reading : Enjoy your own reading books.

4. English: 

Bitesize – Bitesize English

Other ideas:

1. PE: Get outside and enjoy an hour of exercise today! Ride your bike, have a run or fins a football and see how many keepy-uppies you can do!

Have a great Monday,

Miss Whit 🙂

It’s Friday! Well done for logging in for another week and I hope you have lovely things planned for the weekend 😊Exciting news yesterday to hear recreational sports will be coming back – I’ve got my fingers crossed I’ll be playing netball again soon… What sports do you look forward to getting involved with?

Here are today’s activities:

1. Spellings: Look at the spelling lists for your year group  and choose 5 to learn. 

Years-3-And-4-Word-Mat

Year-5-and-6-word-mat

2. Maths:

For Friday’s fun challenges, you can spend your time on TT Rockstars or exploring Number Gym.

4. English: ..

Writing Challenge!

As we near the end of the term, I’m going to set you a writing challenge each day  to try and produce different types of writing linked to genres we have covered in Dragonflies.

Watch this video:

Rio Olympics

Challenge 5:

Can you create a short story linked to the video… it could involve dialogue between the characters or a cliffhanger ending! Good luck.

Other ideas:

1. Topic (Ancient Greece – Olympics!)

For a final project have a look at the links below; one shows you examples of Ancient Greek vases – you could carry out your own research to find out more about them.

Can you design your own Greek vase in this style? I’ve attached a template to help you if you need it.

T2-H-059-Greek-Vase-Template_ver_1

T2-H-4645-Greek-Vase-Olympic-Photo-Pack_ver_1

Have a super weekend, missing you all very much.

Miss Whit

Hi everyone!

I hope you’re all well on this soggy Thursday! I’ll be on my bike to school but don’t suppose I’ll be staying dry… I hope you have plans to get outside today too ☺️☔️💦

It’s music lessons with Mrs Hindson today – look out for the link below to see what lesson she has in store for you!

1. Spellings: This week’s lists are on the links below. Challenge: If you’re feeling confident on these, practise your Year 3/4 Spelling list (of approx 100 words in your Home Learning pack). 

Year 5 Spellings

Year 3 Spellings

Year 4 Spellings

2. Maths: White Rose Maths links can be found below. I’ve also added a block of work on My Maths for those of you who enjoy it too. Remember to watch the video and learn first!

Year 3

Year 3 Video Links

Y3 Lesson 4 – Measure capacity (2)

Y3 Lesson 4 Answers – Measure capacity (2)

Year 4

Year 4 Video Links

Y4 Lesson 4 Answers – Quadrilaterals

Y4 Lesson 4 – Quadrilaterals

Year 5

Year 5 Video Links

Y5 Lesson 4 – Translation

Y5 Lesson 4 Answers – Translation

3. Reading:  Check out Reading Eggs for this week’s book.

4. English: 

Writing Challenge!

As we near the end of the term, I’m going to set you a writing challenge each day  to try and produce different types of writing linked to genres we have covered in Dragonflies.

Watch this video:

Rio Olympics

Challenge 3:

Create a description of a creatures in the forest, developing show not tell before the reveal, for example describing the creatures eyes in the trees, their powerfully muscled shoulders covered in fur as black as the night before revealing it is a cheetah.

Other ideas:

Here is Mrs Hindson’s weekly schedule for Music:

Have a fabulous Thursday!

Miss you all,

Miss Whit xx

Good morning Dragonflies,

Here are today’s activities:

1. Spellings: This week’s lists are on the links below. Challenge: retest yourself and see how many you still need to master.

Year 3 Spellings

Year 4 Spellings

Year 5 Spellings

2. Maths: White Rose Maths links can be found below. I’ve also added a block of work on My Maths for those of you who enjoy it too. Remember to watch the video and learn first!

Year 3

Y3 Lesson 3 – Add and subtract mass

Y3 Lesson 3 Answers – Add and subtract mass

Year 3 Video Links

Year 4

Y4 Lesson 3 Answers – Triangles

Y4 Lesson 3 – Triangles

Year 4 Video Links

Year 5

Year 5 Video Links

Y5 Lesson 3 Answers – Reflection

Y5 Lesson 3 – Reflection

3. Reading : Check out Reading Eggs today or read your own books 🙂

4. English: 

Writing Challenge!

As we near the end of the term, I’m going to set you a writing challenge each day  to try and produce different types of writing linked to genres we have covered in Dragonflies.

Watch this video:

Rio Olympics

Challenge 2

Produce a poster to advertise the Olympic Games. In the video the theme is Rio 2016 (rainforest setting). This year’s Olympics should have been held in Tokyo but has been postponed to next year – what links will your poster have to Tokyo? How will you make people excited about the Games? What images / text could you use?

Other ideas:

1. Violins – spend time practising your musical instruments. Check out the music lessons we’ve posted too if you haven’t already.
2. PSHE – Check out Mrs Viner’s update for Wellbeing Wednesday.

Happy Wednesday!

Miss Whit 🙂

Good morning Dragonflies,

We tried out a times table grid in class yesterday – it really got us thinking! How well are you remembering your times tables?

Here are today’s activities:

1. Spellings: This week’s lists are on the links below. Challenge: write them out as handwriting practise today.

Year 3 Spellings

Year 4 Spellings

Year 5 Spellings

2. Maths: White Rose Maths links can be found below. I’ve also added a block of work on My Maths for those of you who enjoy it too. Remember to watch the video and learn first!

Year 3

Year 3 Video Links

Y3 Lesson 2 Answers – Compare mass

Y3 Lesson 2 – Compare mass

Year 4

Y4 Lesson 2 Answers – Compare and order angles

Y4 Lesson 2 – Compare and order angles

Year 4 Video Links

Year 5

Year 5 Video Links

Y5 Lesson 2 Answers – Reasoning about 3D shapes

Y5 Lesson 2 – Reasoning about 3D shapes

3. Reading : Read your own book for 20 minutes or so today.

4. English: 

Writing Challenge!

As we near the end of the term, I’m going to set you a writing challenge each day  to try and produce different types of writing linked to genres we have covered in Dragonflies.

Watch this video:

Rio Olympics

Challenge 1

Image Poetry: Can you create an ‘If I were…’ poem e.g.

If I were a monkey I’d climb the tallest tree

If I were a monkey no hunters would catch me.

If I were a monkey I’d swing from branch to vine.

If I were a monkey I’d be cheeky all the time.    But you could write this better!

Other ideas:

1. Science: Today we are going to think about muscles in the human body.

• Bitesize Muscles – learn about muscles here
• How many of your muscles can you name? Perhaps draw around yourself on some old wallpaper and label your body. Carry out research to learn new body parts.

Have a great Tuesday,

Miss Whit 🙂

Good morning all,

We’ve got two weeks left of our (very strange) summer term – I can’t believe July is already here! Well done to every single one of you who continues to log in and all those of you who carry on doing your own learning. I hope you’ve all enjoyed your weekends; mine involved plastering walls, cycling, running and tidying up after my four-legged friends who have been causing chaos! But I love chaos!

Here’s today’s activities:

1. Spellings: This week’s lists are on the links below. Challenge: ask someone to test you on how many you know BEFORE you start learning them.

Year 3 Spellings

Year 4 Spellings

Year 5 Spellings

2. Maths: White Rose Maths links can be found below. I’ve also added a block of work on My Maths for those of you who enjoy it too. Remember to watch the video and learn first!

Year 3

Y3 Lesson 1 Answers – Measure mass (2)

Year 3 Lesson 1 – Measure mass (2)

Year 3 Video Links

Year 4

Y4 Lesson 1 – Identify angles

Y4 Lesson 1 Answers – Identify angles

Year 4 Video Links

Year 5

Year 5 Video Links

Y5 Lesson 1 Answers – Regular and irregular polygons

Y5 Lesson 1 – Regular and irregular polygons

3. Reading : Bitesize Book Club

4. English: 

Bitesize – Year 4

Bitesize – Year 5

Other ideas:

1. PE: Sadly we’ve missed our Sports Day this summer term. But here is a great idea – hold a home sports day! Home Sports Day Let us know how you get on!
2. Mindfulness: Sports Day Mindfulness Colouring

Happy Monday,

Miss Whit 🙂

It’s Friday! Well done for logging in for another week and I hope you have lovely things planned for the weekend 😊

Here are today’s activities:

1. Spellings: Look at the spelling lists for your year group  and choose 5 to learn. 

Years-3-And-4-Word-Mat

Year-5-and-6-word-mat

2. Maths:

For Friday’s fun challenges, you can spend your time on TT Rockstars or exploring Number Gym.

4. English: Two options…

1) Find today’s Bitesize activity Bitesize English

2) Follow the link below for the final lesson of the Oak Academy lessons this week.

Final lesson

Other ideas:

1. Topic (Ancient Greece – Olympics!)

A MAPPING CHALLENGE

Practice your geography skills and learn more about where the Olympics have traveled — between the first games in Olympia and this summer’s competition which has now been postponed to 2021. Carry out research to find the locations – a quick google safe search will work. Mark all of the Olympic cities over the years on a world map – learn continent and country names as you work! 🌏

World Map

The Olympic Games

Have a super weekend, missing you all very much.

Miss Whit