Welcome to our Remote Learning Zone
Children this is the area where we will post information about the activities, we want you to complete at home.
Don’t forget the link to all the websites you might need can be found under Children / Useful Websites for Children: click here.
Keeping Your Child Safe Online
Remote Learning Advice for Parents
Sites to help with Remote Learning
- The National Academy Online Classroom – Three hours of lessons each day for children in Years 3 to 6. Please click on the right year group to access the lessons.
- White Rose Maths – Click here to access daily maths lessons for each year group.
Helping your child with maths
Helping your child with grammar
- Reading ideas – Ways to encourage your child to read
Other Areas of the Curriculum
Please click on the Musical note to take part in music lessons with Shropshire Music Service.
Please click on the Rounders Bat to take part in PE lessons with Mr I from ActivSports.
Music
Mrs Alston has created some lessons for you to follow during the lockdown period.
Lesson 1
Hello Children,
Some of you had fun with this activity just before Christmas, when we were all together.
I thought you might like to have another go at home and even teach it to your family.
If you haven’t seen the Uptown Funk Basketball clip before, don’t worry, just read the instruction below and away you go!
Uptown Funk Basketball
Feel the beat and explore rhythms. Enjoy!
Watch the video. Pick a part to play (the one in the centre is the easiest!)
Ball to the floor – tap your knee
Ball tapped by hand – clap
Try all three parts (one at a time!), ask your family to join in! Have a go at the patterns with a basketball/ football outside!
You might find it interesting to follow the notation worksheet.
Have fun!
Ball Percussion (Uptown Funk)This video is designed to make three groups in class and divide the different rhythm patterns for each group. Preschool and elementary music teacher Mr. Noé …
Lesson 2
BBC Ten Piece Special New Report
Hello Everyone,
Here is a music lesson idea to try at home, or in school this week.
- First, click on the link and watch the fun and interesting clip about classical music.
- Don’t forget to read the news bulletins! This clip is packed with information.
- When the clip has ended, scroll down to find five artistic activities linked to the music that you have listened to.
Choose one of the activities to work on and remember to take a photo of your finished work, we would love to see what you create!
Choose one of the activities to work on and remember to take a photo of your finished work, we would love to see what you create!ActivSports
ActivSports Sessions
Mr I is going to be sending out weekly PE / Games / fitness sessions for you.
We hope you enjoy taking part.
Session 1
Ball skills (Football)
Session 2
Speed, Agility and Quickness (SAQ)
Session 3
ACTIVSPORTS Olympic Athletic challenges!
5 Athletic events to try at home against parents/siblings.
Session 4
ACTIVSPORTS Kicking
Keep Active
Keep Active – Mrs Taylor wants to encourage us all to stay fit with the launch of the School Games Active Championship. Shropshire School Games have launched their own challenge through the TopYa! App. Please click the following links to find out more and have fun.
School Games Challenge – Click here to find further details of how to log in.
Virtual School Games
The Virtual School Games is a competition for primary school aged children who are educated in Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin. The Virtual School Games will consist of 6 weeks of sport specific personal best challenges commencing on the 18/05/2020. Each following Monday new challenges will be set leading to the ‘Shropshire Homes Virtual School Games’ celebration week on the 29/06/2020. The following sport specific personal best challenges will be released on these dates:
- 18/05/2020 – #DodgeballChallenge
- 25/05/2020 – #NAKChallenge (New Age Kurling)
- 01/06/2020 – #AthleticsChallenge
- 08/06/2020 – #BocciaChallenge
- 15/06/2020 – #CricketChallenge
- 22/06/2020 – #TennisChallenge
- 29/06/2020 – Shropshire Homes Virtual School Games Celebration Week
All the challenges have been created by our six School Games Organisers. Demonstrations of each challenge are shown by our Young Sporting Champion Dani Hales who is an Under 20 athletics national hurdle runner – just click on the link on the challenge sheets to view the demonstrations. You can also adapt the challenges if needed, this could be using different equipment you have at home or even making them harder!
Attached below is a PDF with all the information on what is happening and how the children can get involved. The key points are:
- They are looking for children to enter by sending videos and photos of them undertaking the challenges (all with parental / carer consent) whether they are at home or at school.
- Along with the sport-specific personal best challenges they are also looking for talented acts for their virtual opening ceremony and are inviting children to send videos of them performing their talents.
- The week beginning 29th June will be Shropshire Homes Virtual School Games Celebration Week and will kick off with the ‘virtual’ warm up and opening School Games has Got Talent acts.
- Winners for each challenge will be announced on Friday 3rd July.
MoneySense Activities
MoneySense Home Learning
Click on the link below to introduce money topics at home.
The following topics are covered:
- Frauds and scams
- Budgeting basics
- Introducing savings
- Home Learning Money activities – Click here to access some activities to help you learn about money
STEAM Activities
Staffordshire University in association with Big Bang
An invitation to enter a competition (Big Bang STEAM Event) in collaboration with Staffordshire University. Click here:
Explore at home competition
This year the topic revolves around halting the loss of biodiversity and sustaining our wildlife. We want you to help tackle the problem and use Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) to propose solutions to this challenge.
Ideas for Science
Road Safety
Our Road Safety Office, Mr Hughes, has sent the information below to help you all continue the work you have been doing on road safety. Please have a look at the activities to help you stay safe.
- Road Safety Resources for Children – More resources to help you keep safe on the roads
Non screen activities you can do at home
Useful websites:
Please click on the relevant image below to access useful websites for your child. Thank you.
English Websites
- Storyline OnlineStoryline Online features accomplished actors and actresses reading some of their favourite children’s books. Each story comes with a free Activity Guide and can be viewed on YouTube or SchoolTube.
- Phonic letter soundsVideo to help with pronunciation of the sounds.
- Oxford Owl Free Reading SupportFree reading materials.
- David Walliams activities to do at homeSome fun activities to try at home.
Other Subject Websites
- BBC Learning – Covers all areas of the Key Stage 2 curriculum.
- 12 Famous Museums offer Virtual Tours you can take from your home
- Activity Village – For those who enjoy crafts a great resource for ideas and templates to develop creativity at home.