Facebook
National Geographic Kids
For the next three months, National Geographic Kids is offering free digital access to it’s magazines.
To claim your free access, please click here: National Geographic Kids
Take care and stay safe.
Mrs Greer :)
Mr Applegate
About Mr Applegate
Posts by Mr Applegate:
Year 1, Spring 2 Learning Fun!
Although we have not been in school, the children have produced some fantastic learning during Spring 2. Here is some of the learning they have been doing linked to our project, On the Move! There are some great stories about Mrs Armitage and we have loved seeing all your creative thinking about her new vehicles. We have also loved seeing all the maths learning you have been doing. Keep up the great work Year 1 and thank you to all the parents who have helped them achieve so much over the last couple of weeks.
Year 1 Team
Newsletter – 6th April 2020
Message from Mr Applegate
Summary
- Easter home learning activities are not compulsory – they are just fun suggestions!
- Thank you for your generosity in the FOSM fundraiser.
- Virtual Easter Egg Hunt on our website.
- Happy Easter everyone :)
Go Fund Me – FOSM Top Up Fundraiser
As we can’t run any FOSM events at school, the FOSM team are running a GoFundMe donation page. If you are able to donate, then please click on the image below. Thank you :)
If we get to £1500, Mr Applegate will shave his hair, using No1 clippers!
Virtual Easter Egg Hunt
Our website is hiding 12 eggs! They all look like this!
If you can find them, click on them and fill out the form (hint – they may behind a ‘tab’). You get 1 RP for each egg found, and if you’re the first one to find the egg, there will be a nice chocolate prize for you when we return to school.
Happy virtual hunting!
Good jokes, bad jokes!
Why did the book join the police? Because he wanted to go undercover!
How do celebrities stay cool in this hot weather? They have many fans.
Why are spiders so smart? They can find everything on the web.
What’s an astronaut’s favourite part of a computer? The space bar.
Have a good joke? Email them in and we may use them in our next newsletter!
National Geographic Magazine
You might like free access to this resource!
FoodBank
Get in touch with us
Year 6 – Monday 6th April – Easter Holiday
Hello Year 6 and welcome to our Easter break!
We hope you all enjoyed your weekends. You worked so very hard last term, making your teachers and family incredibly proud of you. Well done! Now it’s time for a little bit of rest and relaxation.
For those of you who have woken up bright and early and are already twiddling their thumbs, we have found some activities that you might like to do at home for fun. If you have a great activity idea that you would like to share with other Year 6 children, just send us the details in an email to year6@stmarksce.org.uk and we will try to add it to our webpage. We hope to change our page daily with some new ideas.
Have a great day today and we all hope this is the start of a very happy Easter holiday for you and your families.
Mrs Silvester, Miss Pettitt and Mrs Chapman
Some Fun Activities – Part 1
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 trampoline – tell us what you can do on it.
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.
Check out this link to read the National Geographic Kids magazine online for free. There’s a great article about jaguars!
https://digital-uk.partica.online/uk/uk-april-2020/flipbook/1/?mc_cid=ce6e8b0ff0&mc_eid=e2a4bad6cd
Some colouring-in fun
Unfortunately, you will need a printer and some colours to complete this activity. However, we know how resourceful and creative many of you are so you could just use these ideas as a stimulus for making your own drawings. Do not print the whole document – just the black and white version of the one you want to colour. You’ll waste of lot of your printer ink otherwise.
Try to create a 3D effect in your drawings
Do not print this. Just have a look at how the lines have been created and have a go at reproducing this idea. You can use any colour when you colour it in. I have had a go at drawing one and you can see the order I followed by watching the YouTube video at the end of this post. We’d love you to send us a photo if you manage to do this one.
Yummy Healthy Pancakes
This link will take you to the BBC Good Food site and they have a great recipe for pancakes to make them a little healthier by adding some wholemeal flour as well as white flour. Remember from our learning on healthy eating that fibre is really important in a healthy diet. Well, whole wheatmeal has more fibre than white flour. It you don’t have whole wheat flour, you can just use your regular pancake mix. I just thought the pancake bunny was a really fun idea to get busy with and become a master baker.
Remember, you must have adult help to supervise your baking. Keep safe!
Why not make some special Easter bunny pancakes
Easter Maths Fun
For all you budding mathematicians, there will be some maths tasks you can get involved with each day.
Task 1 – Find an everyday object you have at home. Use this as your measuring unit and do lots of exploring with it. For example, I took a tin of tomatoes (one of those very rare items in supermarkets these day) and measured it. It was 11 cms tall and weighed 456g. Then I discovered I was a little taller than 14 cans and a little shorter than 15 cans. I also discovered I weighed about 139 tins of tomatoes. (Yikes! Better hold off some of that Easter chocolate).
What can you find out and how will you discover your answers. I don’t have 14 tins of tomatoes so I didn’t find out my answers by stacking them up. What do you think I did to find out these facts?
Task 2 – Try this emoji puzzle – there are three levels so go straight to the last sheet if you are a maths whizz. You could even try creating some of your own emoji maths problems for someone in your family to solve.
ks2-emoji-code-breaking-activity-sheets
Writer’s corner
Why not be creative and think of a Spring or Easter themed poem? They could be acrostic or rhyming. They could be beautifully descriptive or they could be really silly. Have some fun and let your imagination run wild.
For those who love a word search here’s one with an Easter story theme. Only print page one.
Jokes of the Day
- Christmas does come before Easter in one place—but where? The dictionary!
- What’s the best way to make Easter easier? Put an “i” where the “t” is.
- How does Easter end? With an “R”!
- Where does Easter take place every year? Where eggs marks the spot!
- How can you make Easter preparations go faster? Use the eggs-press lane!
- What should you do to prepare for all the Easter treats? Eggs-ercise!
- What kind of jewelry is the best Easter gift? A 14-carrot gold necklace.
- What kind of bean can’t grow in a garden? A jelly bean.
- What happens if you get married on Easter? You live hoppily ever after.
Video of how to draw the man in a tunnel
[passster password=”StMarksYoutube*”]
[/passster]
The End!
Year 5 – Monday 6th April – Easter Holiday
Good Morning Year 5!
Welcome to your Easter Break, I bet you all are ready for some rest and relaxation. Since Christmas you have worked really hard, both at school and at home, making your teachers and family extremely proud of you. Well done!
Although this holiday may come with some disappointments of missed holidays or feelings of frustration about not being able to see your friends and family, try not to let it get you down. Remember to try and stay positive (even when it’s tricky) and think about the wide range of things you can do at home to keep you entertained.
We know that it can be tricky to think of things to do when you’re stuck at home so we wanted to help. We have found some activities that you might like to do at home for fun. Below we have listed some of the different ideas of activities that could be fun to do throughout the holiday. We will give you some ideas today, and then some more next Tuesday. This will replace the daily jobs we will set you. You do not have to complete them, but it is completely up to you whether you want to complete them or not.
If you have a great activity idea that you would like to share with other Year 5 children, just send us the details in an email to year5@stmarksce.org.uk and we will try to add it to our webpage. We would also love to see what you get up to, so please get in touch and share with us.
At the very bottom of this webpage, there is a leaflet linking to wellbeing, which you or your parents might want to take a look at at some point.
Well done to those children who contributed to our fantastic victory against the Year 4s on TT Rockstars. There were 22 children who helped towards our fantastic victory – so a massive thank you to those children.
Have a great day today and we all hope this is the start of a very happy Easter holiday for you and your families.
The Year 5 Teachers
Easter Fun Activities
Below is a list of things you and your family may want to do, but remember that they are optional,
- Baking – If you have the ingredients, why not have a go at baking an Easter Cake, some pancakes or the well loved cornflake cakes.
- Design your own egg – Draw an egg on paper or decorate a hard boiled egg using coloured pens.
- Egg and Spoon Race – Why not use hard boiled eggs or Easter eggs to have an egg and spoon race.
- Making an Easter card – Why not then send it to a family or an old peoples home. Cards are a good way to make people smile.
- Have an Easter Egg Hunt – If you don’t have Easter Eggs, why not draw some and then hide them around the house and garden for you or your family to find.
- Set up an obstacle course – In your home or garden, why not create an obstacle course and time yourself and your family and see who can get the quickest time
- Create some Eater jokes
- Create your own Easter game – This could be a board game or an outside game to play with your family.
- Crack the Easter Code Breaker – See document attached below
We are going to be holding a photo competition over the two weeks of the Easter Holidays!!
We would like you to take an Easter Photo. This could be something that represents Easter, or something that links to Easter in some way. Once you have taken your photo, send it into year5@stmarksce.org.uk. There will be a prize for the winner when we get back to school, and the top three photos will be posted on the year 5 webpost on the first Monday back after the Easter Holidays. We can’t wait to see them.
Loading…
Loading…