Useful websites that we use in school and you might like to share at home.

• https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/ Great videos and activities relating to different areas on Maths. We have covered these in class so these would be great for revisiting your learning. Further down on the page, there is other resources you may enjoy.
• https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/year-4 The Oak National Academy has some great video lessons for English and Maths, along with a range of other subjects.
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons BBC bitesize daily lessons – a range of different subjects and topics.
• https://www.themathsfactor.com/ Join for free and play lots of different games and take part in different lessons, focusing on a range of Maths skills. Play the adventurer levels!
• https://www.topmarks.co.uk/Search.aspx?Subject=16&AgeGroup=3 Try out some of the maths games on this website.
• https://ttrockstars.com/ Please log on as much as possible and continue to practice your times tables. We will respond to your requests! Who’s up for the challenge?
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zv48q6f Some games and interactive activities to support English.
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/supermovers Be active and follow these videos to help you with your Maths and English.
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround Keep up to date with the world around you.
• http://www.pobble365.com/ A new picture every day with ideas you could follow. Click on pick a day and you can look at some great pictures.
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/ztyr9j6 Some interesting clips and games relating to our Viking work.
• https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/category/topics/traditional-stories
• https://www.tts-group.co.uk/home+learning+activities.html There are some resource booklets to use at home for different age groups.
• pstt.org.uk/resources/curriculum-materials/childrens-university-stem-clubs Some fun science investigations which can be done at home.
• https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/?view=image&query=&type=book&age_group=&level=&level_select=&book_type=&series=# If you create an account, then there is a wide range of e-books to read. This is free to set up and use.

As the Olympics are just around the corner, we are logging all of our physical activity, both in and out of school.

Please use this link to log any activity that your child engages in. It could be anything from: after school sports clubs, playing at the park or going on a walk.

https://www.getset.co.uk/travel-tokyo/queensway-school-ox16-9nh/team-work-makes-the-dream-work

Our team name is Team work makes the dream work.

This week we have started our learning about the water cycle. We will be conducting an experiment in class to see how the water cycle works and what affects the speed of evaporation.

Here is an experiment that can be carried out at home using either a bag or a bottle. https://www.rookieparenting.com/what-is-water-cycle/ 🙂

Today we have thought about different careers and what we might want to be when we are older. This morning we had a visit from Sian and Sasha who told us all about being an occupational therapist and showed us some of the equipment they give to help their patients.

After this, we looked at different job people could have and completed an a-z job hunt. Then we discussed gender stereotyping in jobs and looked at male and female jobs. As a class, we thought that everybody should be able to access each job.

Then we researched which jobs we’d like to do in 20 years time and applied for a classroom role. We had lots of fun on careers day!

The children worked hard to create sentences containing fronted adverbial. They recognised that the adverbial phrase went at the start followed by a comma. We also enjoyed singing along to the fronted adverbial song.

Thank you to all of the adults that came to our shared lesson. We really enjoyed making our crafts for the fair.

This week we are learning all about haikus and the children have been writing their own today based around an animal. We also created our own class haiku about a snow blizzard.

Swiftly swirling flakes, tumble on the frozen quilt, bare trees frozen still.

We can’t wait to share some of our own haikus with you!