All Saints’ School Home Learning Guidance Moving forward after the Spring Half Term Holidays.

Dear parents, The government is requesting that Reception Class, Year 1 and Year 6 return to school after the May half-term holiday. I will be teaching some of the Year 1 children every day. However, I also want to continue to send planning for Year 2

each week. I will also endeavour to continue to phone families, although I will call every two weeks instead of each week. Of course, you can always call school or email admin@allsaints.suffolk.sch.uk and leave a message for me any time and I will be happy to contact you to offer help and support. With kind regards, Mrs Jordan

All Saints’ will continue to assist you in providing the most effective home learning provision for your children with manageable, valuable, structured learning tasks, relevant to them, while also trying to ensure there is some sort of consistency across the school and within individual classes. By everyone following the same suggested learning tasks, the children and the teachers will be more prepared and equipped to effectively restart formal learning when we eventually all come back to school. Each week every class will have a Learning Menu of work to help focus learning.

• Blue tasks are to be completed daily: Monday to Friday. • We would like Yellow tasks also to be completed daily (Monday to Friday) if possible, but if not at

least three times a week. These tasks are really important in supporting your child’s on-going Maths and English learning.

Although these websites provide ‘worksheet’ style activities, they do not need to be printed out. The tasks can be completed from the screen mentally and answers discussed orally with parents; they can be typed and saved to a computer; they can be done on paper or in the exercise books that the children were provided with before school closures; or even in chalk on a pavement if you fancy doing something different.

• Green tasks will focus on broader areas of learning and will cover a different foundation subject (science, history, geography, art, design technology) each week. There will be a selection of tasks to choose from, but please don’t feel like you have to complete them all. If you have more than one child in school, then maybe siblings could work together on one of these tasks. Also please feel free to follow your child’s own interests, as we are sure that you and your children can think of many great and innovative ideas of your own!

Although we love to see what learning the children have been doing at home through our school Facebook page, at the end of school closures, we are not going to expect your child to come back to school with reams of paper and evidence of their work and learning. Not everything a child learns can be evidenced and written down. Lots of learning happens through everyday life experiences and even through play.

As everyone has differing views on how much home learning primary aged children should have, we are taking a balanced approach to the work we are suggesting, but this is an unprecedented situation and everyone’s main focus is rightly on family security, health and well-being. TOP TIPS

• Try to stick to a routine and include plenty of breaks, free time and fun! • Drink plenty of water and eat healthily throughout the day. • Try to monitor the amount of ‘screen time’ your child has. We understand that given the

circumstances there may be slightly more of this, but please remember online safety guidance- www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/

Year 2 Home Learning Menu Week beginning: 1st June 2020

Blue tasks- Daily 1. EXERCISE: Complete 30 minutes of daily exercise.

Suggestions:

• Joe Wicks daily workout – live at 9am on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

• Daily Dance Class with Oti Mabuse – live at 11:30am on YouTube. • https://www.gonoodle.com/good-energy-at-home-kids-games-and-videos/ • Yoga: https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

2. MATHS GAMES: 5 minutes every day Complete www.TimesTables.me.uk. You can choose which times table to take a test on. The order we have learned them is x10, x5, x2. For a challenge mix up two or all three tables or, choose one times table but choose both the ‘Times By’ and ‘Divide By’ options! When you can do all of these, learn x3 and then x4 and their division facts. OR Complete TTRockstars 3 times a week. https://ttrockstars.com/ (Please ask for log in details when I call if you would still like them.) Don’t forget you can also access Numbots with the your TTRockstar login https://play.numbots.com/#/intro Please note - https://play.edshed.com/ is no longer available.

3. READ: 15 minutes every day- either using a book from home or online.

https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/portal.aspx Collins Connect – Big Cat Books. Choose Student sign in and fill in the required boxes with your child’s details. https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/please-log-in?open_loginbox=true Log in - year 2 mrs jordan Password - All Saints (please use capitals letters and spaces as shown here) www.renlearn.co.uk/keep-reading Click on the ‘click here to start reading immediately’ tab. Click on ‘start reading’ and choose a category of books. Click ‘read’ under your chosen book or click the ‘info’ tab to see which year groups this book is most suitable for. 4. SPELLING PRACTISE: 10 minutes every day.

Please see the list at the end of this information. Remember to look up words you do not know the meaning to! Get someone in your home to test you at the end of the week!

Yellow tasks - Daily if you can, of not at least three times a week MATHS: Visit White Rose Maths, watch the daily tutorial on https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-2/

• Each lesson starts with 4 or 5 recap questions from the year so far and talks through each answer.

• The lesson then goes onto explain another small part of a maths unit followed by a few questions, which get progressively harder.

• All of it is done and explained via a video PowerPoint, so super easy for use. • The lessons do not take very long to complete and it is all prepared and ready to go for you.

Please note, it is no longer possible for you to access the daily worksheets online. They are all added below this week’s spellings, followed by answer sheets. Remember, you don’t necessarily need to print anything off as you can read the questions and answer them by looking at them on the screen!

This week we would like to use the Summer Term Week 6 planning. Day 1- The ten times table. If this is too easy, challenge yourself and change each ‘ten’ into a ‘three’ or a ‘four’. Day 2 – Making equal groups - sharing Day 3 – Making equal groups - grouping Day 4 – Odd and even numbers.

ENGLISH: Visit Hamilton Trust, and complete the daily task. https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/learning-home-packs/ Scroll down the page and pick the correct year group. Each weekly pack includes reading (including answering questions), writing, grammar, spelling and handwriting and covers a range of text genres. You can write in the exercise book I sent home.

This week we would like to use the Year 2 Week 8 planning. The lessons cover a book about a Wombat. Year 2 really enjoyed reading this with me! Day 1 – Read a page about wombats and identify the text as factual, non-fiction, information writing. Answer questions. Day 2 – Watch a reading of Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley. Read, spell and sequence the days of the week correctly. Write about incidents detailed in the story from different points of view. Day 3 – Re-watch Diary of a Wombat. Learn to distinguish between the simple and progressive forms of the past tense. Convert wombat-related sentences from one form of the past tense into the other. Day 4 – Listen to a different reading of Diary of a Wombat and compare it with the first. Use a variety of conjunctions to link ideas in extended sentences. Plan a story similar in style and content to Diary of a Wombat. Keep this for tomorrow Day 5 – Read a diary entry written by a kangaroo. Confirm the presence of key diary language and layout features in the text. Using the plan from yesterday, write and illustrate a humorous diary entry.

Green tasks- for fun and creativity

• Keep a diary of everything you’ve been up to and how you are feeling. You could even draw pictures. • Continue your coding journey using https://code.org (Extra Year 2 coding ideas were sent with Week

2 13.04.2020 plans). • Practical hands on maths - through cooking, in the garden, telling the time, measuring and comparing

the height, length, volume, capacity or distance of things or through physical. • Play board games and do jigsaw puzzles. • You Tube ‘Shimpling Park Farm News’ - Alice continues to post video diaries. There are lots of lambs!

This week’s tasks will have a History and R.E. Focus.

History R.E. The Value of HOPE is very important to all people of all religions especially in difficult times. Christians believe that Jesus teaches about hope as something that can grow with encouragement and faith. Hope is to be shared. Unlike the other subjects, you all might like to have a go at all of the different activities this week rather than just your age group. They are all themed around HOPE.

Key stage 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HK-mhT4jsA Watch the video about the Terracotta Army. Use the question grid (below spellings and all the Maths question sheets) to create some questions you might have about the Terracotta Army. Extension: Use your research skills to find answers to your questions.

READ, watch or listen to ‘The Parable of The Mustard Seed’. There are plenty of videos on YouTube or it can be found in the bible Matthew 13 v 31-32. ACT Perhaps you’d like to act out making yourself into a tiny seed – as small as you can possibly squish yourself. Now stretch up as tall as you can, like the tallest tree you have ever seen. This is what hope is like. It starts really small. We only need a tiny bit to get going. Seeds are hope carriers. If we keep hold of our hope it starts to grow… little by little… until before we know it, it’s grown into something huge – like an enormous tree! (Pachelbel’s Canon in D would be a great piece of music to do this to- you can find it on YouTube) LISTEN to the following two songs: ‘Cornerstone’ song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izrk-erhDdk This song is an encouragement to hold on, regardless of our circumstances – even in ‘every high and stormy gale’, to hope. For Christians, this hope is placed in Jesus Christ, whom they call ‘The Cornerstone’. Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRONFXoXsJ0 For many people, looking at the wonder of nature can give them a new perspective and a renewed sense of hope. Where do you go to find new hope?

Lower Key Stage 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HK-mhT4jsA Watch the video about the terracotta army and then read the information sheet below. Discussion Do you think the terracotta army should have been excavated (dug up) and shipped to museums around the world? Or should it have been left undisturbed? Explain your answer. Extension: Read the information below about the tomb of Emperor Qin. If you were an archaeologist, would you want to open the tomb? Explain your answer.

WATCH the following two video clips 1. What is your hope?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlcU5uHMdTM This clip shows children answering the question ‘What is your hope?’ – you can do the same, draw a picture or create a list of your hopes for the future. Then take some time to ask your family ‘What is your hope?’ They may tell you their hopes for themselves, for you or for the whole family.

2. Germination of a seed (time lapse) https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=oDBX2 gCXxYw&feature=youtu.be How about planting a seed and watching it grow for yourself? You could use a seed from a piece of fruit, like an apple, or seeds you have in the garden. Plant it in soil, or on cotton wool. Make sure you water it a little bit each day and give it some sunlight. As you watch it grow, remember that your hope can grow like this too. If you are comfortable to do so, you may like to ask God to help you hold on to your hope, and for your hope to keep growing.

DRAW/CREATE Try drawing an El Savadorian cross (a cross which has bright, colourful pictures on it- google images for ideas), drawing your own images of things that give you hope?

Upper Key Stage 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgIQtO65WJQ Watch this video and then read the information below about Emperor Qin. Discussion 1) Do you think Emperor Qin was a good

leader? Why/ why not? 2) Do you think Emperor Qin was a kind

person? Why/ why not? 3) Do you think you need to be kind to be

a good leader? Explain your answer. 4) The story in the video is a traditional

story that has been told throughout China since 220BCE. Why do you think people in China have told each other this story for thousands of years?

Extension: At the end of the story, Meng’s tears bring the Great Wall crashing down. What do you think this symbolises?

GET OUTSIDE Do a SIGNS OF HOPE walk: as you walk around your area, look for things that are growing. What do you think they will look like when they are fully grown? Perhaps count them, and then tomorrow, see if you can find more! When we start looking for signs of hope, it can remind us of the reasons we have to be hopeful. REFLECT & ANSWER Take some time to answer these questions, you might like to write them down or just talk them through with somebody at home or even a friend from school over the phone: Do you ever find it difficult to be hopeful? What or who gives you hope for the future? Can you describe how hope makes you feel inside? Can you think of anyone who might need hope right now? What could you do to help their hope to grow? BE INSPIRED Using the theme of HOPE create your own expression of this important value. You may like to create a poem, a story, a song, a rap, a piece of art work, a cake… the list is endless! We would love to see your work. OTHER GREAT VIDEOS: Watch this inspiring video about The man who planted trees, Jean Giono https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTvYh8ar3tc Watch a film clip from ‘Despicable Me’. An act of sharing something small leads to the restoration of hope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFd-ubXcoyQ

Stay safe, take care of each other and keep washing your

hands! Always remember At All Saints’ We are ‘Children of God’. We wear our crowns with pride. Together, we are Included, Involved and Inspired. Let’s keep it that way!

Year 2 Spellings 1st June 2020 (Tested on Friday 5th June 2020 if you want to!)

15 words - the first 5 will recap phonics, the next five will contain Year 2 common words, and the final 5 will follow a spelling or grammar pattern. You can choose whether to try 5, 10 or 15 spellings. You can use your exercise book to write them or print this sheet.

look say cover write check

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

car

park

arm

start

garden

pass hour move prove improve

ice race cell city fancy

Can you read these words? though, although, thought, through

The Terracotta Army

In 1974, farmer working just outside the town of Xi’an in China unearthed several huge pits, containing nearly 8000 statues of soldiers.

Archaeologists investigated and found that these statues (made from terracotta) were part of the burial tomb of Emperor Qin, who was the first emperor of China.

Emperor Qin believed these statues would protect him in the after-life. He ensured they surrounded his grave so that he would always be safe.

After discovery, statues were repaired, examined and taken to museums around the world so that everyone could marvel at their individuality and design.

The tomb of Emperor Qin

In 2012, one of the most striking and exciting discoveries was made at the site of the terracotta army. A massive Imperial Palace was discovered under a huge soil pyramid. It is believed that this is the tomb containing the actual body of Emperor Qin.

This mega tomb has been explored using 3-D imaging and radar, but as of yet it remains sealed down there in the depths of the earth, creating endless debates as to whether to open it and what treasures may lie within. As far as we know, no human eyes have seen this place in thousands of years.

The tomb could hold historically important artefacts which may be damaged if people try and dig into it. More mysterious is that we have no idea what sorts of dangers lie in wait down there in the dark. There are written accounts that speak of enormous rivers of mercury, and detection equipment has indeed picked up dangerously high levels of mercury at the site, meaning that to open the tomb could put many at risk of poisoning and also cause serious environmental pollution. It is also thought that the burial palace is armed with intricate traps; we don’t know whether such traps would still be operational after millennia or not, so delving down into this subterranean realm could be a deadly.

Emperor Qin

In 220 BCE, China was made of many kingdoms and territories, with no single leader (like England before King Alfred the Great united the seven kingdoms).

The King of one kingdom, Qin (pronounced chin), started conquering a lot of the other kingdoms until he had conquered a large portion of what we now call China. He then declared himself Emperor.

But, he had a problem. A roaming tribe called The Huns were travelling all across Asia and Europe, attacking people and cities.

Emperor Qin decided to build a huge wall to keep the invaders out and keep his land and people safe.

His wall, which became The Great Wall of China, was over 3000 miles long and varied in height from 15 feet to 30 feet.

He needed three million workers to build the wall- nearly 70% of the population at the time- and it cost a LOT of money, so he had to increase taxes, which made life very hard for poor people.

At the wall, the workers had to gather materials, clear the land and build the huge structure. Nearly one million workers died building the wall and they were buried in nearby ditches.

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