For this week’s home learning, please access your Teams accounts each day. Any problems, email either myself (Mon-Wed) on: hollis.c@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk

Or Miss Horton (Thursday and Friday) on: horton.z@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk

A daily suggested timetable structured around the Teams meetings will be posted the night before on the Timetable section. Generally, we will be having 3 meetings per day (9.15am, 1pm and 2.50pm). However, this may differ on a Thursday due to spelling tests and music lessons.

See you soon on Teams!

Mrs Hollis

8 days ago
Posted on January 15, 2021 by Zoe Horton

Owls Home Learning – Friday 15th January

Hello Owls Class! Well done for making it through a full week of online learning – you’re all doing so well and becoming technical experts on Teams!

Here’s an idea of how you could structure your day:

9.15am – Morning chat and register (meeting)

English

10:30 – Breaktime

Maths

12noon – Lunch

1:10 – Chat about afternoon activities (meeting)

PSHE

2.50pm – End of the day catch up (meeting)

English:

Follow this link: To edit a recount (thenational.academy)

In this lesson, we will look at the purpose of editing and why it is important. Then, we will break the editing checklist into two parts: one that checks for punctuation, spelling and sense; and the other for language choices, sentence types and structure. After we have practised editing, the children will be expected to edit their recounts from the previous lesson as their independent task.

Edit your recount on Onenote from yesterday – if you handed your work in I’ve had a look at it and I may have suggested something you can change to get you started.

Change your font colour when you are editing.

Maths:

Y5 LO: To identify, describe and represent the position of a shape following a reflection or translation, using the appropriate language, and know that the shape has not changed

Y6 LO: To describe positions on the full coordinate grid (all four quadrants)

Today we will be looking at all four quadrants Watch the PowerPoint attached and then complete the worksheet for your year group. The stars tell you how difficult the sheet will be (*=developing **=expected ***=greater depth). You must do one reasoning & problem solving sheet and one varied fluency sheet. You can mark your work using the answers provided.

You can take a picture of your completed maths sheets and attach them to the assignment by clicking ‘Add work’. Remember to press ‘Hand-in’ so I know when you have completed your work.

*If you are finding this tricky, have a go at the Y4 work about position and direction to refresh your memory.

Y4 – RPS – Draw on a Grid

Y4 – VF – Draw on a Grid

Y4 Powerpoint – Draw on a Grid

Y5 – Powerpoint – Reflection

Y5 – RPS – Reflection

Y5 – VF – Reflection

Y6 – Powerpoint – Position and Direction

Y6 – RPS – Four Quadrants

Y6 – VF – Four Quadrants

RE:

In RE today I want you to think about what you already know about the religion of Islam. It might have been a while ago since you covered it at school so you’ll have to dig deep into your memory!

You can choose how you display your knowledge of Islam (e.g a mindmap, a poster, a powerpoint, a leaflet etc). If you’re really stuck have a look at this BBC Bitesize page for some help What is Islam? – BBC Bitesize.

*Keyword clues: Allah, Muhammad (pbuh), Qur’an.

Please attach your work to the Teams assignment by clicking ‘Add work’.

PSHE:

Today I would like you to think about how we care and show responsibility for others and how we show our concern.

Have a look at the document attached to see what your task for today is.

PSHE 14.1.21

PE:

Have a go at completing this circuit. You can set a timer on Alexa/Ipad/Computer for one minute for each exercise. Count how many repetitions you do for each exercise.

1. Core: Plank

2. Legs: Squat hold against the wall (backs straight against the wall and knees together, bend legs so knees are at a 90 degree angle and hold)

3. Cardio: Shuttle runs

4. Core: Arch hold (lying on tummy, hold arms above head and lift straight legs off the floor like superman)

5. Arms: Push-ups (can decide to go on knees or feet)

6. Cardio: Star jumps

7. Core: Sit-ups

8. Legs: Rock back jumps (on a mat – sit down, rock to shoulders, rock back to stand up and do a straight jump, repeat)

9. Cardio: Burpees

10. Core: Tuck hold (on a mat – sit back and lift feet off of floor in a tuck shape and balance)

11. Arms: Tricep dips (on a chair or step– sit down, hands facing forwards, lift bottom off chair and move feet away, bend at the arms and push back up again)

12. Cardio: Skipping

You can record your number of repetitions on the Circuit record sheet

Have a good day, and a lovely weekend!

Miss Horton 🙂

9 days ago
Posted on January 14, 2021 by Zoe Horton

Owls Home Learning – Thursday 14th January

Good Morning Owls! It’s Miss Horton here 😊 I hope you’ve all had a good week so far, you can tell me all about it at our TEAMs meeting this morning. Mrs Hollis said you’re all getting to grips with using TEAMs now, which is great news.

Here is your timetable for today but remember this is only a guide and you can work through the lessons at your own speed. Please attend the spelling test meeting for your year group (don’t worry you won’t have to announce your scores to everyone!). I would like to see as many of you as possible at our 9am meeting so we can all say hello to each other.

I will be online all day to answer any questions or queries you have. If you have any problems please use the ‘Ask the Teacher’ channel.

9.15am – Morning chat and register (meeting)

9:45 – Y5 Spelling Test – bring your pen and paper! (meeting)

10:15 – Y6 Spelling Test – bring your pen and paper! (meeting)

You can fit your English lesson in between these meetings (they shouldn’t last too long)

10:30 – Breaktime

11am – Maths

12noon – Lunch

1:10 – Music with Mr Butler (meeting)

1:50 – Computing

2:30 – Reading

2.50pm – End of the day catch up (meeting)

English:

Follow this link: To write a recount (thenational.academy)

In this lesson, you will start off by investigating which sentence starters are appropriate for newspaper reports. Then, you will look over your plans from the previous lesson and use them to inform your writing when writing a recount. You will also be using the success criteria to support you in your writing. You will look at a shared piece of writing, followed by a modelled piece of writing. Both methods will support you to write your own recounts.

I have attached a notebook page to this assignment on Teams so that you can type your work on, alternatively you can write your work in your book and attach it to the assignment by pressing ‘add work’ and uploading a picture. Remember to press ‘hand in’ when you have completed the work so that we can see when you have done your work.

Maths:

Today we will be looking at position and translation in the first quadrant. Watch the PowerPoint attached and then complete the worksheet for your year group The stars tell you how difficult the sheet will be (*=developing **=expected ***=greater depth). You must do one reasoning & problem solving sheet and one varied fluency sheet. You can mark your work using the answers provided.

You can take a picture of your completed maths sheets and attach them to the assignment by clicking ‘Add work’. Remember to press ‘Hand-in’ so I know when you have completed your work.

*If you are finding this tricky, have a go at the Y4 work about position and direction to refresh your memory.

Powerpoint – The First Quadrant

Y5 RPS Position in the First Quadrant

Y5 VF Position in the First Quadrant

Y6 RPS The First Quadrant

Y6 VF The First Quadrant

Powerpoint – Describe Position (Y4)

Y4 RPS Describe Position

Y4 VF Describe Position

Music:

Mr Butler will be teaching a live music lesson at 1:10 via teams. Please follow this link to take part: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e83/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fteams.microsoft.com%2Fl%2Fmeetup-join%2F19%253ameeting_NTdhOTNkZjQtN2U2ZS00M2NlLWFiZmMtNzA5MmEwY2Y3YTg4%2540thread.v2%2F0%3Fcontext%3D%257b%2522Tid%2522%253a%25227b8dd277-fc97-449d-a6ac-0535e8bf8d69%2522%252c%2522Oid%2522%253a%2522fc02ea6d-9874-4af0-b55b-cacfb3eca8fe%2522%257d&data=04%7C01%7C%7C3b5c3b400fcc48abf23308d8b7d6c6c9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637461480363716608%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=SPWX49aYARW9D2YIwQrmwG4NU9Z2DRvzjsGLty%2B3b8k%3D&reserved=0

Computing:

Today you will be learning about stop motion animation, you will plan a storyboard for your own animation about online safety.

I have created a Onenote document on Teams for what you need to do today. You have some videos to watch and questions to answer based on the videos. Click on the links on the document to watch the videos and type your answer directly onto the onenote document. As soon as you start typing the document will starting saving your work so your work is being saved as you go along – very clever! You can take a picture of your storyboard and attach it to your assignment by pressing ‘Add work’. Remember to press ‘Hand-in’ when you have completed all your work

Please have a go at completing and accessing your work on teams. If you are really struggling to do this you can click on the link below which will take you to a word document with everything you need to complete.

Computing Task

Animation Storyboard

Complete your work in the exercise books sent home last term and/or upload photos of your work to each assignment if possible as introduced on Teams meetings this week. If you’re struggling, please send photos of what you have done to me at horton.z@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk or admin@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk.

Keep up the great work Owls – you’re smashing it!

Miss Horton 🙂

10 days ago
Posted on January 13, 2021 by Catherine Hollis

Owl Class Home Learning 13.1.21

Happy Wednesday Owls! Hope you are all ok – seeing you all again each day is certainly keeping me going.

Here is the timetable suggestion for today:

9.15am TEAMS meeting to introduce this morning’s activities.

Spellings – final chance for a practice before tomorrow’s test.

English lesson

10.30am Breaktime

11am Maths

12noon Lunch

1pm TEAMS meeting to catch up about the morning tasks and introduce the afternoon task

History

Reading time and Worship

2.50pm TEAMS catch up

Again, I have posted your tasks here in case of technical problems but hopefully soon, we won’t have to rely on it as much once we are really flying with TEAMS. Try to view your assignments on Teams please to get used to it.

*Spellings – continue to learn your spellings for tomorrow’s test. There is an optional wordsearch if you would like to use it and are able to print it out; you do not have to complete it.

Year 5 Word Search

Year 6 Word Search

*English – continuing the Oak Academy unit. Using the link below, follow the instructions in the lesson to work through the teaching video and the related activity.

To plan the recount of events (thenational.academy)

If the above link does not work, follow the link below to the Oak Academy, select Year 6 week beginning Monday 4th January and select Wednesday’s lesson. It is called to plan the recount of events.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/year-6

*Maths – Today, we are looking at fractions of an amount. There is a separate PowerPoint and worksheets for Year 5 and 6. Take a look at the PowerPoint/video before completing the worksheets for your year group.

Year 6 Maths:

Aut6.12.4-Fractions-of-an-amount-find-the-whole

Y6-Autumn-Block-3-ANS16-Fraction-of-an-amount-find-the-whole-2019

Y6-Autumn-Block-3-WO16-Fraction-of-an-amount-find-the-whole-2019

Year 5 Maths:

Year 5 PowerPoint – Fraction of an Amount

Year 5 fractions of an amount

Year 5 Answers – Fraction of an Amount

Year 5 and 6 Maths:

If either year group finds their work a bit tricky, try the maze activity below.

T2-M-223-Fractions-Maze

T2-M-223-Fractions-Maze-answers

*Reading – Make sure that you are reading for at least 15 minutes per day.

*History – We are going to begin our new topic which is all about the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. We are beginning with a focus on the Anglo-Saxons to begin with.

So, what do you know already? Perhaps you know of some famous characters/kings? Or are familiar with how they lived, where they came from and what evidence of them we have left behind. Today, I would like you to conduct some research including into the following areas:

Where did the Anglo-Saxons come from?

Why did they more to Britain?

What sorts of jobs did they do?

What language did they speak?

What did they believe in?

You can add other facts and pictures that interest you.

*TTRockstars – spend any spare minutes rocking on through those tables.

Complete your work in the exercise books sent home last term and/or upload photos of your work to each assignment if possible as introduced on yesterday’s Teams meetings. If not, please send photos of what you have done to me at hollis.c@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk or admin@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk.

Keep going – you are doing brilliantly,

Mrs Hollis x

11 days ago
Posted on January 12, 2021 by Catherine Hollis

Owl Class Home Learning 12.1.21

Good morning lovely Owls. Well, we survived our first full day on TEAMS! Let’s go for it again today but in case of technology problems, today’s work is below.

Again, I have included a suggested timetable for how you could organise your day below. Remember that you can work at your pace through the activities.

9.15am TEAMS meeting to introduce this morning’s activities.

Spellings

English lesson

10.30am Breaktime

11am Maths

12noon Lunch

1pm TEAMS meeting to catch up about the morning tasks and introduce the afternoon task

Science

Reading time and TT Rockstars

2.50pm TEAMS catch up

So, here is today’s work:

*Spellings – use your spellings as a means of practising your handwriting as well as learning how to spell them.

Year 5 Handwriting Practice – Cursive

Year 6 Handwriting Practice – Cursive

*English – continuing the Oak Academy unit. Using the link below, follow the instructions in the lesson to work through the teaching video and the related activity.

To practise and apply knowledge of letter strings: ough, ear, ou, au, ice including test (thenational.academy)

*Maths – Today, we are looking at fractions of an amount. Take a look at the PowerPoint before completing the worksheets for your year group. Remember that the question sheets are divided into 2 strands :Reasoning and Problem Solving (RPS) and Verbal Fluency (VF) and into 3 levels of difficulty (developing, expected and greater depth. You only need to complete one of the three levels of difficulty for each strand i.e. Year 6 expected RPS and VF. The answers are included at the back of each set for you to mark your work.

Year-5-6-Spring-Block-1-Step-22-PPT

Year-5-Spring-Block-1-Step-22-RPS-Fraction-of-an-Amount

Year-5-Spring-Block-1-Step-22-VF-Fraction-of-an-Amount

Year-6-Spring-Block-1-Step-22-RPS-Fraction-of-an-Amount

Year-6-Spring-Block-1-Step-22-VF-Fraction-of-an-Amount

If the above is a bit tricky, try the sheets below.

Y3-Spring-Block-5-ANS7-Fractions-of-a-set-of-objects-1-2019

Y3-Spring-Block-5-WO7-Fractions-of-a-set-of-objects-1-2019

*Reading – Make sure that you are spending at least 15 minutes per day reading for pleasure. Keep a log of the title and pages read in your book.

*Science – Last week, I asked you to look at the work of Carl Linnaeus and his classification system of living things. Hopefully, you thought about how important it is to have a system of classifying livings things and what it would be like without it. Think of it as a filing system that helps with identification or a gigantic family tree.

So today, we are going to look at invertebrates.

Take a look at the following and write down the most interesting fact from either.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zmj8q6f

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/animals-and-nature/invertebrates/

Looking at the classification system, a wolf spider would fit as follows:

As you can see, a wolf spider is the species name but it also falls into the class of arthropods. This means it has some of the same characteristics as crustaceans like crabs i.e. a hard outside skeleton. Today, I would like you to us the sheets below to find out more about the characteristics of invertebrates. There are 8 different sections but you do not have to complete all 8, you can pick at least 4 of your choice.

ESResource6.3.3Invertebratesharder

*TTRockstars – spend any spare minutes rocking on through those tables.

Complete your work in the exercise books sent home last term and please send photos of what you have done to me at hollis.c@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk or admin@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk.

Have a great day and I will hopefully see you throughout the day on TEAMS.

Mrs Hollis x

12 days ago
Posted on January 11, 2021 by Catherine Hollis

Owl Class Home Learning 11.1.21

Good morning Owls. I hope you had a lovely weekend and managed to get out for some fresh air. It was fab to see so many of you on Friday for our first Teams meeting. Hopefully, you are joining our TEAMS meeting at 9.15am this morning; I can’t wait to see you all again. This week, we will be gradually getting to grips with using some of the features of TEAMS and holding 3 daily meetings. We will have a catch up TEAMS meeting at 1pm today to discuss the morning’s work and to go through the afternoon task with a final TEAMS meeting at 2.50pm to say goodbye and see how your day has gone. I have included a suggested timetable for how you could organise your learning below around the meeting and breaktimes.

9.15am TEAMS meeting to introduce the morning’s tasks

Spellings

English lesson

10.30am Breaktime

11am Maths

12noon Lunch

1pm TEAMS meeting to catch up about the morning tasks and introduce the afternoon task

PE time

Reading time and TT Rockstars

2.50pm TEAMS catch up

In case the technology fails (or the teacher in my case), I am also posting copies of all of the links and resources as usual each day so that if things go wrong with TEAMS or you can’t find something, you know where to look.

So, here is today’s work:

*Spellings – spend some time today continuing to learning your spellings for the week (Miss Horton posted them last Thursday and is planning a spelling test this Thursday on TEAMS). You could use the PowerPoint below to look at the pattern/meanings of words.

Year 5 Handwriting Practice – Cursive

Year 5 spellings PowerPoint

Year 6 Handwriting Practice – Cursive

Year 6 spellings PowerPoint

*English – we will be continuing the unit begun last week on Oak Academy. Using the link below, follow the instructions in the lesson to work through the teaching video and the related activity.

To write the opening paragraph (thenational.academy)

*Maths – Year 6:

Today, we are looking at the four operations and fractions (+-x÷). Take a look at the PowerPoint before completing the worksheets. Remember that the question sheets are divided into 2 strands :Reasoning and Problem Solving (RPS) and Verbal Fluency (VF) and into 3 levels of difficulty (developing, expected and greater depth. You only need to complete one of the three levels of difficulty for each strand i.e. Year 6 expected RPS and VF. The answers are included at the back of each set for you to mark your work.

Year-5-6-Spring-Block-1-Step-21-PPT

Year-6-Spring-Block-1-Step 21-VF-Four-Rules-with-Fractions

Year-6-Spring-Block-1-Step-21-RPS-Four-Rules-with-Fractions

Maths – Year 5:

Year-5-Spring-Block-2-Step-18-PPT-Multiply-Mixed-Numbers-by-Integers

Year-5-Spring-Block-2-Step-18-RPS-Multiply-Mixed-Numbers-by-Integers

Year-5-Spring-Block-2-Step-18-VF-Multiply-Mixed-Numbers-by-Integers

If either of the above are too tricky, try a bit more practice subtracting fractions using the PowerPoint and sheets below:

Year-4-Spring-Block-3-Step-7-PPT-Subtract-2-Fractions

Year-4-Spring-Block-3-Step-7-RPS-Subtract-2-Fractions

Year-4-Spring-Block-3-Step-7-VF-Subtract-2-Fractions

*Reading – Make sure that you are spending at least 15 minutes per day reading for pleasure. Elevenses with David Walliams is also back, starting with The Boy in the Dress. These are audio clips of his complete stories, a few chapters a day.

*PE – As this afternoon is one of our PE afternoons, I want you to find something active to do. As with the last lockdown, you may have to get a bit creative! So, with that in mind, how about going for a family walk/bike ride, trampolining in the garden, devise a garden circuit and test it out, set yourself some 60 second challenges such as how many star jumps can you do in a minute etc? Also, Joe Wicks is posting new PE with Joe workouts on a Monday, Wednesday and a Friday (live at 9am or catch up on his YouTube channel). Remember that physical exercise and fresh air is as important as schoolwork.

*TTRockstars – spend any spare minutes rocking on through those tables.

Complete your work in the exercise books sent home last term and please send photos of what you have done to me at hollis.c@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk or admin@ruyton.shropshire.sch.uk. We are working on ways of you saving your work in TEAMS to save you having to send evidence to us but that is a work in progress so bear with us.

Have a great day and I will hopefully see you throughout the day on TEAMS.

Mrs Hollis x