Thank you for continuing to send in your home learning – solar system creations keep coming in as well as other creative homework in the form of board games and newspaper reports (see below). Also some great examples of home learning have been uploaded such as brilliant problem solving in Maths, detailed scientific diagrams and presentations about the Earth and Moon’s orbit and Space and some excellent ‘recipe’ poems inspired by Benjamin Zephaniah.  The children have once again enjoyed Mrs Pearson’s art project- see the brilliant pieces of art on the Art blog and continue to email them to Mrs Pearson.

We are so thankful for all the effort you’re putting in with your children – it is not easy juggling working from home as well as supporting your children’s needs however we do really appreciate the commitment you are showing to ensure your child maintains a learning routine at home in order to ensure a smoother transition back into school.  We will continue to respond giving feedback to work that it sent in. You can upload work daily to the assignment page or class email. All English and Maths work should be submitted by Friday 12 noon and foundation subject work should be submitted by Friday 3pm.  Thank you for your continuing support.

PE for next week is on Wednesday 3rd February only. 

Homework:

Sumdog has been set, with a multiplication task and an arithmetic task. It’s good to keep times tables and mental arithmetic ticking over. This is due on Thursday 4th February.

** Something we’ve learnt this week on Teams – remember to save the Word doc/ PDF to your device before you overwrite/ add to the document otherwise you will save your changes to the main folder on Teams and the work is then lost for others to use.

The reminders when working on Teams:

1. Even if you are working through the Oaks videos, you must record all your answers. (In a book, on paper, on a word document, powerpoint – however you want to record it.) All the support and challenge tasks are on word documents and you can record your answers on those as well.
2. Please ask your child to check the POSTS section as that is where we will post additional information or videos for your child to access.
3. If you cannot access the work via the ASSIGNMENTS tab, go to the FILES tab and find the work in the January 2021 folder.
4. Next week each work documents will be saved in a Word and PDF format to ensure that all children can access their learning from a variety of devices. If you cannot open the Word document then please try the PDF version.
5. Please try to check in at least once a day on a class video call.
6. Class chat is for work purposes not for sending messages or emojis to each other – all your chat conversations are visible to staff and chat notifications can be very distracting for children who are trying to concentrate on their work.
7. English and Maths will be uploaded daily.
8. Foundation subjects will have four days worth of work uploaded on Monday. There will be four subjects/tasks over Monday – Thursday. Use Friday afternoon to catch up on any work you have missed during the week.
9. We only need ONE photo/ uploaded piece of work per day for English and Maths.
10. English and Maths should be uploaded by 12 noon on Friday and Foundation subjects should be uploaded by 3pm on Friday.
11. If you have any technical issues with Teams that you are finding hard to fix please phone the office and they can support you to resolve these.  Issues with broadband – unfortunately we can not resolve these problems in terms of making Teams work on your device. Thank you for your understanding.

As in previous weeks, next week, you may not receive a message back from your teacher immediately as we are also teaching children who are in the classroom at the same time. We will respond to work sent by the end of the week.

No formal work will be set for Friday afternoons – please use this time to finish any incomplete work.

Have a great weekend,

Year 5 Team