I have been teaching at Greyfriars since 2004 and am very proud of being part of the Greyfriars team. Also I am one of the school’s Assistant Head Teachers. I currently teach year 6’s and I am in charge of literacy throughout the school. In Winterton class we try to make the most of every learning opportunity and strive to do our best. Outside of school I enjoy reading, going to the cinema and spending time with my family!
Welcome Winterton to the second half of year 6!
Posted on Monday, February 22nd, 2021
Hello everyone
Welcome back to school and I hope you all had a relaxing break, or that you caught up on missing literacy and numeracy.
This half term will see changes to your remote learning. We will have registration and live lessons every day on Teams via the General channel in our class team. You should have received a notification for our first meeting on Tuesday 23rd at 9.30 am. This will be a meeting to say hello to every one and talk about what will be happening the rest of the week. Also this will be the last blog you will access via our website. From next week all your work will be in our class team. Try logging into Teams using your Microsoft 365 account to see what it looks like.
You will be expected to log in to all our meetings and live lessons every day from Tuesday. I will schedule them after our meeting on Tuesday, so you will receive notifications of these as I do that. Remember if you have a problem with devices or broadband connections, contact the school office and they will see if they can help.
OK now here is this week’s work:
Monday 22nd February
Numeracy
Sapphire maths group:
Power Maths – Algebra, Unit 9 Lesson 10, ‘Solving Equations (4)’
(These are key words you need to know how to read AND spell.) Write them out for handwriting, put them into sentences for spelling and test yourself every day.
Topic: Ancients Got Talent! THIS LESSON IS SO MUCH FUN – DO NOT MISS IT!!
Key question: What are Ancient Civilisations and did they all know each other?
In this first lesson, you will be introduced to the concept of chronology and will conduct a rather unusual investigation to discover how everything fits together historically. Be warned – this activity requires two toilet rolls! Follow the instructions for this fun activity! Note on Printing – you don’t have to print anything for this – you can open the images on the screen and draw/write labels at home if you prefer. It will explain how to do this on the instructions.
Yeah! This term we’re leaving Music for a while and are studying French. We start by looking at French culture and where it is in located in Europe. We then move on to learn how to introduce ourselves and greet people.
You will need to open this to see your work for this week
Reading comprehension:
Teal and Emerald reading group:
Please finish and mark yesterday’s reading comprehension. If you have already done this, make sure you have emailed it to me and then sit down and read a book/comic/magazine of your choice!
In RE this term, we will be looking at different explanations given for our creation – both religious and scientific. This is linked to our science topic this half term.
Today, the lesson starts with an overview and discussion plus video. You then have a powerpoint lesson to follow.
You will need to use your Microsoft 365 account to access this work on Teams. It will be in the enrichment channel.
Thursday 25th February
Numeracy
Sapphire maths group:
Power Maths – Measure, Unit 10 Lesson 1, ‘Metric Measures’www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0(This is the work you need to do and send to me every day.)
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/reading-weighing-scales-with-different-intervals-c4rk6c (This is additional work)
Blue maths group:
Power Maths – Unit 10 Lesson 4 ‘Decimals as Fractions 2’ (This is the work you need to do and send to me today.)
For your science work this week you will need to use your Microsoft 365 account and go onto Teams to access your work. It will be in the ‘science’ channel.
Friday 26th February
Numeracy
Sapphire maths group:
Power Maths
Measure, Unit 10 Lesson 2, ‘Converting Metric Measures’ www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0(This is the work you need to do and send to me every day.)
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/weighing-and-comparing-masses-in-mixed-units-c8tpcd (This is additional work)
Please finish and mark yesterday’s reading comprehension. If you have already done this, make sure you have emailed it to me and then sit down and read a book of your choice!
Congratulations Winterton for all the great learning many of you have done this half term! We are now half way through your final year at Greyfriars. Thank you to all of you that have been in school. You have worked really well, behaved sensibly and haven’t moaned about having to be here at all!!
If you are behind with your learning, now is the time to catch up. Next week is half term so there will be no blog until the week beginning Monday 22nd February, leaving you the whole week free to catch up on whatever you need to. If you haven’t been sending me your literacy and numeracy work every day, go back to each week’s Monday blog and see what you need to do.
It is important you do not miss chunks of your learning as you will need the knowledge for High School in about 28 weeks!
Back to this week.
Here are some photos of our fun in the snow!
Firstly, we have our snowman that Winterton Lockdown bubble made and some photos of us outdoors; then we have a photo of Isla and Colin (who is being very responsible and wearing a mask!)
I hope you have managed to have some fun in the snow.
After the half term holiday we will be doing some live lessons. We will begin with a register each day, then move onto our numeracy lesson, then our literacy lesson. You will be expected to attend each lesson! Watch out for the blog on Monday 22nd February for the times these lessons will happen and for more details. I will send you an invite through Teams and the invitation will pop up on your screen. I am really looking forward to seeing you all again! Tell your parents to look out for a message from school giving them more details.
Here is a short video saying exactly what I would say if I could!
Have a lovely break ready to start our live lessons next half term.
We have more work to get through this week. Please make sure you send me your work daily where you can. It makes it so much easier to open each email, open each piece, save it and give you any feedback required. So many more of you are sending all your work in each day (at least maths, literacy, spelling or reading comprehension every day). Well done to you all. If you have a problem with anything, email me.
Just a reminder to complete your Education City work if you can, as it follows the work we are doing in literacy and maths. Also I am pleased to see many people are working on Tackling Tables and really improving their accuracy and speed.
Where can I find the Power Maths resources?
Both maths groups will need this link from now on.
The practice book and the text book are now available directly from the website: www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Click on ‘Log in’. Your username is your first name, plus the first letter of your surname – all lower case, no spaces. (For example, if your name was Sam Brown, your username would be samb). Your password is your class name, all lower case (winterton). School code: HCCT
I have included the presentation we will be using in class this week for literacy. You can view it here to see the whole week of literacy work in one presentation if you would rather. PP for Literacy
Education city – please make the effort to do this work – it will help you learn 🙂
I have included the presentation we will be using in class this week. You can use this to see the whole week of literacy work in one week if you would rather.
Today we are going to read as a reader. You will need to complete a Tell Me Square. (Divide your page into 4 equal rectangles. In the top left rectangle write ‘Likes’; in the top right rectangle write ‘Dislikes’; bottom left write ‘Links’ – have you read or heard any other balanced arguments? If so what?; and finally bottom right rectangle ‘Questions’ – what would you like to ask the writer of this text about his writing (not about Daleks!)
When you have finished this, move onto your next piece of work which is to write out the points in 2 lists: 1 list of the points for letting Daleks live on Earth, and the other list against letting them live here. These points are to come from the text – not your opinions.
(These are key words you need to know how to read AND spell.) Write them out for handwriting, put them into sentences for spelling and test yourself every day.
Topic:
Our key question this week is: How are British animals affected by global warming?In this lesson, you will find the answer to this question and will create poster There will be a focus on key vocabulary too.
There is one lesson presentation with tasks included on it. There are videos to watch and a fact sheet you will need (see link below).
Today you will reading as a writer. You will need to do your boxing up for ‘Should Daleks be Allowed to Live on Earth?’ I have attached a copy of this for you to use to check your work. Do not use it just to copy otherwise I have done the work and not you!
In previous weeks, we have studied how performers sign songs rhythmically with hands, bodies and expressions in order to communicate a message. This week, you will choose another song of your own and create signed movements of your own to effectively convey the message of the song. If you did one last week, that is very good experience that you can put into use today – getting better at it!
You can perform the song to an adult or sibling. Alternatively, ask an adult to film it and send it to me! I would love to see some.
Computing: Touch Typing
We are moving away from coding for a while due to some issues we have been having with the Scratch website. Instead, you will be able to brush up on your touch-typing skills – this will be invaluable as you move forward in your education. Typing at speed will really set you up well for all those assignments you’ll need to write in secondary school!
Today we will be identifying discursive sentence signposts(If you look at the powerpoint presentation. you will see there is a table for you to complete making this activity easier to follow)
Sort them into those that signal:
Introducing a point
Adding on more information
Introducing a different point of view
The conclusion
Imitate sentence patterns using examples from the text such as …
Since the arrival of the Daleks on this planet, there has been much discussion about whether or not they should be allowed to live on earth
Since the arrival of the new players to the team, there has been much discussion about whether or not the transfer fee was money well spent
Since the introduction of healthy eating to the school, there has been much discussion about whether or not it is a good idea etc
In this lesson, we will be finishing our Philosophy unit by reflecting upon what you have learned over the weeks and doing some art work to express our thoughts.
Mondrian was keen to create the effect of balance and harmony in the way he painted. Rather than looking like nature, his paintings explored how colour and line worked together. He changed the thickness of his horizontal and vertical lines and placed them closer together or further apart. For explanation and examples follow the Power-point and then design your own piece of Mondrian inspired art Art Powerpoint
POP task Use Mondrian’s design as inspiration and change the location of colours and lines for different effects. Experiment with the thickness and location of the lines in your own abstract design in the style of Mondrian.
Today we are going to write our first draft of our invented text. You must write a balanced argument, with points for and against your point, just like in ‘Should Daleks be allowed to live on Earth?’ model text.
It could be on:
Should children have to wear school uniform?
Should we work a four-day week?
Should we look after our environment?
These are just a few ideas…
Remember this is your ‘rough’ version (your ‘thinking’ piece not your ‘scruffy’ piece!). Don’t forget to use the discursive sentence signposts, toolkit and boxing up that we have done this unit. When you think you have finished, go back with your polishing pen and edit. Watch these short videos to remind you how to edit. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zmbr47h
In Science this term, we have looked at the human circulatory system and we have also recapped the skeletal and digestive systems. This week, we will end the term with a look at Healthy Lifestyles. The aim of the lesson will be to recognise the impact of diet and exercise on the way our bodies function. Follow the PP presentation. Not all the additional resources will be needed. Children will choose what to focus on during the lesson.
Today you will write out your final version of your Hot Task, with all the editing done (with your improvements and corrections done) and send it to me.
We really have done well this week with lot of work coming in and I can really see the progress some of you are making with your numeracy, literacy and spellings.
This week I would like to praise Brodie in particular. Every week she sends in all her work for the week. It is neat and organised and of a good quality. There are other children who even though they don’t manage to send in every piece of work, they do always send in at least their literacy and numeracy every day. Well done to Isla, Grace, Joanna, Nikola, Theo, Arminas, and Klevi for this. Everyone in the class who has access to the internet is sending in something every week – WELL DONE TO YOU ALL!
Here is Brodie’s work for this week so you see how hard she is working every week.
Maths
Literacy
Spellings and reading comprehensions
Science, topic, art and RE
science
topic 1
topic 2
topic 3
art 1
art 2
RE
Education City and homework grid
Ed City
Homework
Brodie has also improved her Tackling Tables score this week; she has done 2 lots of PE; learnt the Ed Sheeran song and done her touch typing which she is enjoying (so am I!)
So much work Brodie!
Also I was sent in a really detailed diagram of the heart by Isla for her science this week
I mustn’t go without saying well done to Noah, Joanna, Sophie, Erin, Enija, Evelyn, Amanda, Emilijus, Madalin, Lillymay, Gracie, Azuolas and Stephanie who are in school learning and also doing very well.
Look out for next week’s work in Monday’s blog and have a lovely weekend
Welcome Winterton to week beginning 1st February 2021
Posted on Monday, February 1st, 2021
will soon be here!
Welcome to the first week of February!
We have more work to get through this week. Please make sure you send me your work daily where you can. It makes it so much easier to open each email, open each piece, save it and give you any feedback required, if I only have up to 6 pieces from each of you. So many more of you are sending all your work in each day (at least maths, literacy, spelling or reading comprehension every day). Well done to you all. If you have a problem with anything, email me.
Where can I find the Power Maths resources?
Both maths groups will need this link from now on.
The practice book and the text book are now available directly from the website: www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Click on ‘Log in’. Your username is your first name, plus the first letter of your surname – all lower case, no spaces. (For example, if your name was Sam Brown, your username would be samb). Your password is your class name, all lower case (winterton). School code: HCCT
I have included the presentation we will be using in class this week for literacy. You can view it here to see the whole week of literacy work in one presentation if you would rather. PP for Literacy mine
Education city – I set some assessments for you a few weeks ago. These should have automatically given you work that you needed to do from your assessment. Apparently this is not happening, so I have set up work this week for reading, maths and GPS. Please make the effort to do this work – it will help you learn 🙂
www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 Click on ‘Log in’. Your username is your first name, plus the first letter of your surname – all lower case, no spaces. (For example, if your name was Sam Brown, your username would be samb). Your password is your class name, all lower case (winterton). School code: HCCT
Blue group – you need to go onto the active learning website above. You have work allocated for you. You will find it in ‘my stuff’. In there will be the textbook pages for the days lesson and the practice book pages which you will need to complete every day.
Power Maths – Unit 10 Lesson 1 – tenths (1) (This is the work you need to do and send to me today.)
Literacy:
I have included the presentation we will be using in class this week. You can use this to see the whole week of literacy work in one week if you would rather.
Write a Cold Task for a discussion text. Remember that this is a non-fiction task where you write a balanced argument such as – Should Children Be Able To Go To Bed At Any Time They Want To? You need to write points for and against the argument, saying why it is a good idea and why it is a bad idea. You can watch this video clip if you don’t know what the Daleks are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqFz4BrrLn0
(These are key words you need to know how to read AND spell.) Write them out for handwriting, put them into sentences for spelling and test yourself every day.
Topic:
Our key question this week is: How is global warming affecting Arctic life and the environment there?
In this lesson, you will find the answer to this question and will create an impact report. There will be a focus on key vocabulary too.
There is one lesson presentation with tasks included on it. There are two videos to watch.
Power Maths – Unit 9 Lesson 1 – Algebra Finding a rule 1 www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0(This is the work you need to do and send to me every day.)
(This is additional work)
Blue maths group:
Power Maths – Unit 10 Lesson 2 – tenths (2) (This is the work you need to do and send to me today.)
In previous weeks, we have studied how performers sign songs rhythmically with hands, bodies and expressions in order to communicate a message. This week, you will choose a song of your own and create signed movements of your own to effectively convey the message of the song.
You can perform the song to an adult or sibling. Alternatively, ask an adult to film it and send it to me!
Computing: Touch Typing
We are moving away from coding for a while due to some issues we have been having with the Scratch website. Instead, you will be able to brush up on your touch-typing skills – this will be invaluable as you move forward in your education. Typing at speed will really set you up well for all those assignments you’ll need to write in secondary school!
It’s an absolutely brilliant way of learning to touch type by having fun. I’ve tried it and really enjoyed it.
Wednesday 3rd February
Numeracy
Sapphire maths group:
Power Maths – Unit 9 Lesson 2 – Algebra Finding a rule 2 www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0(This is the work you need to do and send to me every day.)
https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/expressing-missing-numbers-algebraically-ccwpcc?from_query=algebra (This is additional work)
Blue maths group:
Power Maths – Unit 10 Lesson 3 – tenths (3) (This is the work you need to do and send to me today.)
Literacy:
Complete: cloze procedure: (This will make you think of good vocabulary that you can use.)
Cloze procedure
_____________________ there is a hardcore section of the community who think that the idea of aliens visiting King’s Lynn is ridiculous. ____________________, these people believe that it is hard enough to encourage visitors from local towns to visit and shop, let alone anyone from a million light years away! _____________________they believe that the crop circles are man-made ______________ ,they suggest that sightings of spaceships are caused by atmospheric pressure changes ___________________ they dismiss reports of alien abduction as being impossible.
Then do What is good writing? Say which you think is the most effective writing AND why you think that – remember to use evidence from the text.
What makes ’good’ writing?
Text A: The most compelling argument against only providing healthy food at lunchtime is that many of us just don’t want to eat it. When you are picturing a luscious hamburger encircled by crisp golden chips’ it’s really depressing to know that all you have to choose from is limp lettuce leaves surrounded by assorted cold crunchy so-called healthy options. It’s enough to make you want to give up eating.
Text B: Well, most of us are fed up with having to eat salad and vegetables and healthy stuff like that all the time because it’s like boring and then you don’t want to be bothered with eating it and then you think why can’t I have crisps and chocolate.
Text C: A key problem with only providing healthy food at lunchtime is that many of us do not like it. We would much prefer to have some of our favourite foods like hamburgers, pizza, chips and chocolate, rather than having to eat salad and fruit all the time.
And finally
SEQUENCING TEXT – put these paragraphs in the correct order.
On the other hand, some people argue that Jack was on the edge of starvation and was forced to steal in order to save his dying mother. Furthermore, it could be argued that the giant was a danger to the local area and had been responsible for stealing sheep and cattle to feed himself and his wife, Indeed, some people believe that Jack should be further rewarded for ridding the locality of this terrible creature.
Having considered all the arguments, I believe that while stealing should normally be punished, on this occasion Jack acted in the best interests of his family and the local area.
Many people think that Jack should be sent to jail because he stole the giant’s magical goose that lays golden eggs. Additionally, he returned to the giant’s castle and took a never-ending purse plus the giant’s talking harp. Furthermore, he was responsible for killing the giant.
We have been discussing whether or not Jack should have been imprisoned for theft.
In this lesson, we will explore how we should treat people and reflect on our own views. We will also consider how Christians and non-religious people think we should treat people. Read through the lesson and complete the tasks on this worksheet. You will also need the story of the Good Samaritan during the lesson:
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was a Dutch artist who remains well known for his abstract paintings, many of which use squares and rectangles. In 1917, he was part of a group of four Dutch artists called ‘De Stijl’ who all worked in an abstract style and reduced their paintings to straight lines, plane surfaces, rectangles and primary colours combined with black, grey and white. Mondrian’s designs have been used as inspiration for fashion, including six cocktail dresses designed by the famous designer Yves St Laurent, in 1965
Watch youtube clip for a quick summary of Mondrian’s style. Then go through Tate presentation:
Give an example of how Mondrian’s use of media and materials has led to his art being used by a fashion designer.
Why did Mondrian use strips of transparent paper? What other materials did Mondrian use and how did he use them?
Why is Mondrian’s painting Composition C with Red, Yellow and Blue typical of his style?
Describe how Mondrian thought about his choice and location of colour.
What important effects did Mondrian try to create with his artwork?
Which two features did Mondrian continually explore with his designs?
What changes did he make to the lines he used within his designs?
Thursday 4th February
Numeracy
Sapphire maths group:
Power Maths – Unit 9 Lesson 3 – Algebra Using a rule 1 www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0(This is the work you need to do and send to me every day.)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkkts4j (This is additional work)
Blue maths group:
Power Maths – Unit 10 Lesson 4 – dividing by 10 (1) (This is the work you need to do and send to me today.)
Literacy:
Today you are completing a ‘Never heard the word before’ grid. Apologies in that you have probably done this before. I sent it by mistake with the Kidnapped work. Today, highlight the words in the text, then complete the grid. If you have done it before, can you remember what all the words mean? Can you put each word into a sentence of its own?
Today we are going to look again at the human circulatory system. But this time, we are going to focus on the functions of the heart, the blood vessels and blood by investigating how the different parts of the circulatory system work.
Follow the lesson powerpoint and the activities on it.
Power Maths – Unit 9 Lesson 4 – Algebra Using a rule 2 www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0(This is the work you need to do and send to me every day.)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkkts4j (This is additional work)
Blue maths group:
Power Maths – Unit 10 Lesson 5 – dividing by 10 (2) (This is the work you need to do and send to me today.)
Literacy:
Today you need to retell the text from a Dalek’s point of view – how would they defend their right to be allowed to live on earth?
Well done Winterton. I have received work from virtually everyone this week!
You are getting good at this and seem to have a good routine in that you are doing your work every day and remembering to send it in to me. I enjoy speaking to you on the phone and having the opportunity to check that you are okay. If you do have a problem, let me know when I ring, or if it is urgent email me and I will usually answer you the same day.
We hope to be able to have live lessons very soon when you have been notified of your Microsoft 365 account. When this arrives you will be able to log in to watch literacy and numeracy lessons with me every day. We will even have a register every morning so I can see who is online ready for the lessons – such fun! This will make your learning easier as I will be here to answer any questions you have and guide you through the activities. Watch this space for more news soon!!
Here is just a tiny selection of the work we have been doing this week:
Stephanie’s comic strip part 1
… and part 2
Leon’s comic strip
Madalin’s comic strip
Isla’s art
Evie’s art
Stephanie’s art
Erin’s art
Amanda’s art
Enija’s art
Brodie’s art
Brodie’s topic
Joanna’s topic
… and more
Joanna’s science
… and more
… and more
As I said, this is only a small selection of the work I have had in. Well done again to Joanna, Theo and Brodie who have each sent in all 24 pieces of work for this week. To Brodie and Grace who have done all the Education City work and again to Brodie who has made fantastic progress in Tackling Tables this week.
Well done to all of you that have engaged with your learning this week.
Today you will plan a completely new time slip story using the boxing up method. Remember that you do not need to write your story, you are just planning your paragraphs today. Then you need to draw a comic strip that tells your new story.
light, might, money, number, often, outside, own, paper, place, right
(These are key words you need to know how to read AND spell.) Write them out for handwriting, put them into sentences for spelling and test yourself every day.
Topic:
Topic: Our key question this week is What is the environment of the Arctic and the Antarctic like? How do they differ?
In this lesson, you will find the answer to this question and will create a diagram. There will be a focus on key vocabulary too.
There is one lesson presentation to follow and some worksheets you will need for the tasks.
Fractions of an amount https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zjtg47h#:~:text=A%20fraction%20tells%20you%20how,%E2%80%9C%C2%B9%2F%E2%82%83%20free!%E2%80%9D
Literacy:
Today you will check and extend yesterday’s work. Have you used the same structure as the model text Kidnapped? Do you need to make any changes to your boxing up or comic strip? Can someone follow your story using your comic strip? Make sure your comic strip is colourful and appealing.
Play the song several times, join in whenever you can. Each time you play the song, you will pick up more signs.
Play mime games with an adult or a sibling – ask your signing partner to call a word from the song. You get a point if you remember the sign! Then do the same with the adult.
These are the lyrics you will need for the game: (worksheet link) Music lesson song
Computing: Touch Typing
This is an update to the previous post. There seemed to be quite a few problems for some parents with the Scratch programming and the Oak Academy link, so I have changed to this activity. Enjoy!
We are moving away from coding for a while due to some issues we have been having with the Scratch website. Instead, children will be able to brush up on their touch-typing skills – this will be invaluable to them as they move forward in their education. Typing at speed will really set them up well for all those assignments they’ll need to write in secondary school!
Write your first draft of your invented story. This is where you use the boxing up that you did on Monday to act as your ‘map’. You know what you need to write about in each paragraph, so this is where you need to think about the best words you can use to tell the story, paragraph by paragraph. Remember all the skills you have learnt in this unit: speech punctuation and its rules; how to write paragraphs and think about the toolkit you did – have you included all the things you need to to write an effective time slip story?
In R.E. this week we will continue to explore what Augustine of Hippo said. The work below is the same as last week’s. If you did not do it, or finish it, please do so this week.
Augustine lived in Roman Africa where people went in search of happiness. Very similar to modern day in Britain. Augustine believed in original sin.
What did he mean by that?
One day there will be a city of God established.
What did Augustine say our attitude should be towards this life? (momentary sufferings compared with what awaits us when we die.)
Look at this Week 3 St Augustine as an introduction to St Augustine of Hippo.
Watch video on St Augustine as an example of a Christian philosopher and discuss.
Can you explain why your own answers to ultimate questions may differ from those of others?
Can you explain your own values and remain respectful of those with different values?
Art: Colour theory
Colour theory is extremely important to fashion designers. Pairing the right colours for the right occasion and skin tone is seen as essential. Although experimentation is always encouraged, there are certain optimal combinations of complementary colours that are widely used such as grey/crimson, yellow/green, pink/white and tan/ maroon, for example.
Try out colour combinations in your art books/on paper.
POP tasks – choose as many tasks as you want from those listed below. They get progressively harder, increasing the level of challenge as you go.
Why is colour theory important for fashion designers to consider?
List some examples of complementary colours that are considered to be good combinations for fashion.
Copy the use of the suggested optimal complementary colour combinations in your own sketches for clothing designs.
Suggest reasons why experimentation with colour choices might be a good thing in fashion and why designers might choose not to experiment with colour.
Look at this statement: The colours used by Pop artists like Andy Warhol are not suitable for fashion designers to consider when creating their clothing collections. Is that always true, sometimes true or never true?
Thursday 28th Jan.
Numeracy
Sapphire maths group:
Equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages (2) Unit 8, Lesson 8
Today you will be writing your Hot Task. Firstly you need to edit your first draft from yesterday. Think about all the work we did on editing. You can watch the video we used last week again to remind yourself. Once you have edited your first draft, write it out in your best handwriting and you have finished your writing for this unit. Well done.
How does human anatomy compare to other animals?In this lesson, we will learn about the differences between humans and other animals. We will first learn about vertebrates and invertebrates, followed by the differences of animals who use lungs and gills to breathe. Then, we will briefly compare brains of animals. Finally, we will complete some application questions.
Well done to everyone that has sent their work in this week:
Theo, Evelyn, Leon, Kimberley, Amber, Grace, Isla, Evie, Klevi, Brodie, Emilijus, Kenzie, Arminas, Joanna and Nikola. Some of these people (Theo, Joanna, Brodie and Evelyn) have sent every single piece for every day! Some of you have sent in a lot of work, if not every piece. Don’t worry if you can’t send in every piece as I know some of you cannot download your work very well, some people have had problems sending it to me; and some of you simply can’t get it all done – I do realise there is a lot to do every day!
I do ask that everyone send in at least their maths and literacy every day. I will be chasing people who are not doing this.
Here are some images that Theo has sent in of him carrying out some exciting experiments:
carrying out an experiment to make ‘rain’ …
… and the results.
An art experiment …
… and the results!
Here is a weather mobile that Evelyn made at home:
It is hanging in the entrance to the classroom.
Lots of people have sent in images of their reading comprehensions this week. Here are some of them:
I have also has Power Maths in this week:
Here is a variety of all the work that has been sent in this week:
Here is Brodie’s obstacle course for PE this week:
If you send me work that you would like to appear in the blog next Friday, then let me know when you send it in and I will see how many I can include!
Thank you to everyone who reads the blog and makes their best efforts to do their work. If you do not keep up, you will then fall behind and not be in the right place in your learning when we all return to class. Also High School is very close – we’ve had nearly half your final year at Greyfriars – and you need to have been learning.
I will be calling you all again next week, so listen out for the phone to ring!
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I have been teaching at Greyfriars since 2004 and am very proud of being part of the Greyfriars team. Also I am one of the school’s Assistant Head Teachers. I currently teach year 6’s and I am in charge of literacy throughout the school. In Winterton class we try to make the most of every learning opportunity and strive to do our best. Outside of school I enjoy reading, going to the cinema and spending time with my family!
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