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HeartSmart for the family

The last few weeks have been strange and quite unsettling for our children.  At school we use HeartSmart as one of the tools to help children explore feelings and find ways of coping in different situations.

For just under the last 2 weeks Boris the Robot and Dave have recorded a daily message to try to share some ideas and ways to cope in these unsettling times.  They are taking a break over Easter but you can find Friday’s film by visiting https://www.heartsmart.family/

Here is a video clip from the past week which discusses ideas of things that could help children feel more settled –  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSqL6gnKgJI&t=

If you want to catch up with past daily videos you can find them on this you tube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCtplPW0JUOfN-J6-rnK4wA?sub_confirmation=1

As some children will be more aware of the challenges that are going on around us, it may be beneficial to watch the clips first to ensure you are happy with the issues being discussed in some of the clips.

Year 6 – Tuesday, 7th April, 2020

Good Morning Year 6! Happy First Tuesday of our Easter break!

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We hope you are all well and enjoying the beginning of your Easter holidays so far. Are you counting down the days to getting some Easter eggs? 

We have added a few extra activities to today’s post. Remember you can check back through yesterday’s post if you didn’t have a chance to look yesterday. There’s nothing here you have to do. It is all just a bit of fun.

Have a lovely day! 

Mrs Silvester, Miss Pettitt and Mrs Chapman 

Some Easter Holidays Activities

 

Daily physical activity of some sort is still very important (and can be fun too!) so make sure you get your body moving at some point today. Go out on your bike with a family member, a lovely springtime walk or some PE exercises in the lounge or garden. Some of you might have a hoola hoop – how many twirls around your waist can you do before it falls?

Mrs Silvester is still up for a times table battle on TT Rockstars – she will be in the Year 6 Arena every day at 11am if you fancy joining her. Her Rockstars name is Harmony Powers. 

Some colouring-in fun

You will need a printer for this activity. There are seven different sheets so choose the one you want before printing.

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Try to create a Kevin the monster – thank you Lexie for this great idea.

 

Easter Bake Off

How many of you have tried making the bunny pancakes on Monday’s page? We’d love to know how they turned out.

Here’s another baking project you could try. Remember to work with an adult when baking.

Easter brownie bites

Easter Maths Fun

For all you budding mathematicians, there will be some maths tasks you can get involved with each day.

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If you fancy a maths game why not try BBC’s Guardians?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/guardians-mathematica?exitGameUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fbbc.com%2Fbitesize%2Farticles%2Fzn2y7nb

Spring time English

Why not write a letter to someone you don’t live with and post it to them? It will make their day!

 

Some more jokes for you.

  • What do you call a rabbit with fleas? Bugs Bunny.
  • What do you get when you pour hot water into a rabbit hole? Hot cross bunnies.
  • What did the Easter Bunny say to the carrot? Nice gnawing you.
  • What is Easter Bunny’s favorite kind of music? Hip-hop!
  • What do you get if you give an Easter Bunny a pair of socks? A sock hop!
  • How does an Easter Bunny keep his fur looking so good? Hare spray.
  • What’s the Easter Bunny’s favorite restaurant? IHOP.
  • Why was the Easter Bunny so sad? He was having a bad hare day.
  • How does the Easter Bunny stay in shape? He eggs-ercises.
  • How does the Easter Bunny stay fit? Hare-obics

 

 

The End!

Year 5 – Tuesday 7th April

Good Morning Year 5 – Happy Easter!

Good Morning Year 5! 

We hope you have been able to enjoy some of the beautiful sunshine over the last few days. The weather forecast for the next two days looks particularly amazing so if you can do it safely, why don’t you try and spend some time getting some fresh air? Remember to apply your sun cream though – Mrs Poole and Miss Thomas both got a little bit burnt on Sunday as they didn’t realise how hot it really was!

Each day of the Easter holidays, we are going to pop up to say hello, share some of our Easter craft with you and also maybe share a joke or riddle with you too. Have a look at the riddle below (you will need your usual video password) – if you think you’ve solved it, email in your answer!

We hope you enjoy the things that we share with you. Remember all the ideas are optional, just some activities you could do if you would like to join in. 

Remember to keep emailing us too at year5@stmarksce.org.uk. Miss Fowler and Mrs Poole will be replying to you this week and would love to hear from you. 

Year 5 Team

Ongoing Weekly Activity Ideas

Yesterday, we posted some ideas of activities that you could complete this week. Here is a little reminder of our ideas:

  • Baking – Can you bake a cake or pancakes?
  • Design an egg – Could you draw one on paper or maybe even draw on a real one?
  • Egg and spoon race – Who wins out of your family? Let us know!
  • Make a card – Could you maybe send it to a friend or relative that you are missing?
  • Have an egg hunt – Can you write some clues to go with it?
  • Make an obstacle course – Could you add exercise challenges too to each station? 
  • Research some Easter jokes – If you find some really funny ones, can you email them to us? We might pop some on our website!
  • Make an Easter game – What might the prize be?
  • Code breaker (on yesterday’s post) – If you completed the quiz, can you make your own?

Easter Craft Example

The teachers are going to be completing some of the activities this week too. Mrs Poole had a go at decorating an egg. She used sharpies to draw on an Easter bunny themed pattern. 

Can you decorate an egg too? Send us in your pictures!

Video Resources

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The End!

Year 4 – Tuesday 7th April

Good Morning Year 4!

 I hope you have had a good start to the holidays, I am missing you all. It is strange not seeing you all. We are planning some Zoom meetings after Easter if you are able to join that would be great. We will send the details of how and when after Easter.

That is just one way I have been keeping in touch with my family and friends, I expect you are using lots of ways too.  I hope you are finding lots of fun things to keep you busy. I am very lucky and have a nice garden so I am spending a lot of time out there and hope to grow some vegetables to eat later in the year. Hopefully they will be as successful as our oak trees which have been planted outside. I am also trying to get fitter and have been either out on my bike or walking in the countryside nearby, so when we get back I will be able to run faster and further than I did before. I wonder if 4SH will all be able to beat me?

I hope you are making preparations for Easter, making cards, decorating trees and maybe making or eating some sweet treats. Keep healthy!

From Mrs Happy

Working hard in my garden. I will show you the results later in the year.

Year 3 – Tuesday 7th April

Good Morning Year 3

Hello Year 3,

I hope you are all well and staying safe in this beautiful sunshine. Last week, I was in school helping the Year R’s which was something very different and exciting for me! It did feel very strange being in school without all of you there smiling back at me, but it just makes me look forward to seeing you all again even more. I have loved seeing your brilliant pieces of work that you have sent in through email and also some of the extra things you have been doing as well. I can’t wait to start seeing your Easter crafts and Lego competition entries through the week – do send them in to year3@stmarksce.org. 

I hope you have been finding ways to keep busy and enjoy this lovely, extra time we get to spend with our families. If you are a little bit stuck with things to do for fun, I have created a quiz for you to do. You can choose to be a team with your family and all work together or battle each other to see who can win Miss Barnett’s ultimate Disney Challenge! Why don’t you try and see how many of our learning behaviours you can use along the way?

Enjoy this time together with your families and I can’t wait to see you all soon.

Have a fantastic week and keep being superstars!
Miss Barnett 

Reminders for your parents this week – Do as much or as little as you would like 

The Easter activities are included in Monday 6th April Post. These are aimed to provide some down time or entertainment over the break. They are completely optional and can be used as you wish as a family – if you prefer some of the activities on different year groups, please do use these. This also applies to the additional daily activities that are included. You can do as much or as little as you like.

We are still regularly checking our emails over the Easter break, so please do not hesitate to email us with any questions, concerns, to share your work with us, or just to say hello. Our email address is: year3@stmarksce.org.uk

As stated on our website ‘The National Geographic’ are releasing a free children’s magazine online each day for the next three months. If you would like to access this resource, please click here.

Take a look here for some HeartSmart videos you may like to share as a family. 

Don’t forget our competition – There will be a prize on our return to school! 

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Have a super evening!

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