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HOME LEARNING

DHJS Virtual Assembly 27th March 2020

Our latest Virtual Assembly, led by Mr Gold, about our practice of Daily Reflection and how children can continue to positively engage with this over the coming days and weeks.

A special street dance tutorial from our parent volunteer Yamina

Home-Learning Arrangements COVID-19

From Monday 23rd March 2020, school will ONLY be open for identified children and those of Key Workers, as listed by the government. During this time, we are providing parents and carers with home learning activities and tasks. These activities will mirror the activities we are providing to the children coming to school. We have compiled a short-term pack of work that will take your child comfortably up to the normal Easter break. Following this, we will be adopting our longer term home learning strategy which will consist of weekly activities for each year group. These will be posted on a weekly basis. This new web page will be your 'one stop shop' for our home learning programme.

Short Term Home Learning (until Easter holidays 2020):

  • Your child has been sent home with both a blank English and Maths exercise book to record learning
  • Firstly, look at the Homework Policy, then use the blank timetable to schedule daily activities in agreement with your child. Some of you have asked for a scaffold. We have included a mock-up timetable as a guide (please see link below)
  • Reading: 30 minutes per day - can be reading book or a suitable non-fiction text. Your child has been sent home with a couple of library books to get you started. Discuss any tricky vocabulary and make sure your child has a deep understanding of the text. Fill in the reading record, then use what you have read to inspire a writing activity.  
  • Spellings: Each day learn some spellings from this week, some from last week and some from last term. See the year group spelling letter below for weekly lists and suggested activities.
  • Maths: Doodle 7-a-day (20 minutes independent work) followed by the 'new learning content' which ideally should be worked through with an adult. TTRS every day (10 minutes)  - links to websites below
  • Knowledge Organisers (see below): you can use these as a basis for a quiz, but also to inspire more exciting home-learning activities that you can do with your child. 
  • Humanities Projects (see below): Year's 3-5 have a humanities project to research and complete. They have been provided with an A2 piece of card to present their work in an exciting and creative way.
  • Year 6 have their Holiday Reading Project (see below) to enjoy and complete. 
  • We have provided our April and May STEAM questions of the month for the children to research (please see link below)
  • Topic Grids (see below): each year group has a topic web with further ideas suitable for activities at home. 
  • Music: we expect all of our young instrumentalists to maintain their regular practice. During this time, practice can certainly be stepped-up, with a minimum of 10 minutes three times a week. Children can be encouraged to play current pieces, old favourites, and any new repertoire they wish to try. They can even compose their own pieces!
  • Physical activity: 
  • Coding: Each child has a class code and login for code.org. (See below) This is a very comprehensive website that progresses children through various elements of coding. The website can be used without logging in but progress will not be saved. Contact class teachers or Miss Campbell ([email protected])  if you have misplaced your password. 

​Homework Policy 
Blank Timetable 
Home School Suggested Schedule
Doodle Maths & TTRS​  (If you have problems logging in please email [email protected]) 
STEAM Question of the month (April & May) 

Year 6
Summer 1 Our Learning Grid
Summer 1 Spelling Letter
Holiday Reading Project – please note, books given out in class on 18/3/20. If your child was absent at this time please choose a book from home ‘slightly out of your comfort zone’ 
Everyone in Year 6 now has access to Reading Plus (If you have problems logging in please email [email protected]) ​

Year 5
Summer 1 Our Learning Grid
Summer 1 Spelling Letter
Humanities Project 
Useful Y5 websites:
Links for Egyptian topic: 
Year 4
Summer 1 Our Learning Grid
Summer 1 Spelling Letter
Humanities Project 
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Year 3
Summer 1 Our Learning Grid
Summer 1 Spelling Letter
Humanities Project ​
Links to websites:
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Maths
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https://www.khanacademy.org/ - excellent website packed with teaching videos and practice questions, suitable for every age-group
http://www.transum.org/Software/ - great website for suitable for Year 5 
https://corbettmathsprimary.com/ - brilliant website with ‘5-a-day’ regular practice sheets, videos and other resources, suitable for year 5 and 6. 

Knowledge Organisers: 
​Y4: Geometry, Measure & Statistics | Y4: Numbers & Fractions
​Y5: Fractions | Y5: Number | Y5: Measure & Geometry  
Y6: Fractions |  ​Y6: Measure & Geometry | Y6: Number |Y6 Flash Cards | Y6 Knowledge Quiz​
​English
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https://www.khanacademy.org/ - has grammar and punctuation tuition and practice, suitable for every age-group

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhrrd2p bbc bitesize spelling links

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html

https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/english/
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https://www.literacyshed.com/home.html

Science

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/ - full of interesting videos and clips linked to science around the world, categorised by music, technology, animals, space, art, animation, nature and more. 

https://www.science-sparks.com/science-experiments-for-kids/ - a website with many different experiments that can be completed at home to feed the curious minds!

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/category/discover/science/ - a website full of theories, facts, quizzes and experiments 

https://www.scienceforkidsclub.com/ - includes science games, quizzes, sheets and quizzes to help understand different science topics 

Knowledge Organisers: 
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​| Y3 - Knowledge Organisers  |  Y4 - Knowledge Organisers  |  Y5 - Knowledge Organisers  |  Y6 - Knowledge Organisers |​
MFL

Knowledge Organisers: 

Y6 Knowledge Organiser  |  Y5 Knowledge Organiser | Y4 Knowledge Organiser  |  Y3 Knowledge Organiser 

Art 
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​​​|   Activity 1   ​|    Activity 2    |    Activity 3    |    Activity 4 ​   |

TATE KIDS links:
Paint like Warhol:
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/make-pop-art-warhol
Create art like Van Gogh:
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/create-art-van-gogh
Art adventure:
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore
Paint like Turner:
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/paint-turner
Make a chocolate painting:
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/paint-draw/make-chocolate-painting
Make a kaleidoscope:
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/cut-paste/make-kaleidoscope
Make a robot:
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/sculpture/make-robot
Play Dough Sculpture:
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/sculpture/make-play-dough-sculpture 
Make a Venetian mask:
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/make/masks/make-venetian-mask
Computing
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Each child has a class code and login for code.org. This is a very comprehensive website that progresses children through various elements of coding. The website can be used without logging in but progress will not be saved. Contact class teachers or Miss Campbell if you have misplaced your password.
Class Codes: (3D VTPHGK) (3H ZZKTZP) (3TS VRFCRC) (4G QHJZLP) (4O LBVLNC) (4S KMTYDJ) (5G PFCQSX) (5N SNTPYH)
(5P RLGLZJ) (6B RQZVHN) (6GR FRYPDG) (6SP NLLNMX​)