EWHCF Class of 2021

Mr Atkinson’s Comment

Well done P6B for another brilliant week of learning through Google Classroom and at the Hub! I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your comments and looking through your Home Learning Logs to see what you all have been up to this week. My top contributors for the week are: Simone, Dhruv, Chloe, Tristan, Millie-Anne, Matthew and Blake. Simone recorded a wonderful video for her reading task. Chloe has been busy answering some of the questions posted by other pupils in the stream. Dhruv created an engaging and very descriptive piece of writing. Tristan, Millie-Anne, Matthew and Blake all responded to some comments shared in the Daily Check In documents, demonstrating some of the school values – kindness and friendship! This week I asked some of the boys and girls of P6B to write about their week for the class blog. Thank you again for sharing your experiences of home learning, Google Classroom and the Hub.

Austin

“I have had a great week learning new things. I am still enjoying the Stormbreaker book and look forward to finding out what will happen next. I really enjoyed making a zip line in my garden for science. I played with my guinea pig for HWB and also helped my dad demolish some decking in the garden in preparation for some new grass. I got to use a hammer, mallet and tenon saw.”

Rachel

“I have had a great week! From playing in my garden to planting! Currently, I am Sewing a doll for HWB and I’m nearly done!”

Abi

“This week has been a great week! My favourite subject has to be Expressive Art, this week we were able to make a song on Chrome Music Lab. I’m sure everyone has enjoyed this week! I have been reading Stormbreaker and it is so interesting! I’m looking forward to what is going to happen next! I am enjoying being able to go to the hub and see people! This week has been a blast and I can’t wait to see what we have planned for next week!”

Dhruv

“I have had a lot of fun this week. I enjoyed making a zipline on the stairs for science, making songs on chrome music lab and practicing for Crookfur’s Got Talent. I am looking forward to learning more.”

Euan

“This week has gone really quickly! It has been good to have new grids to work with and I made paper chains for science. Stormbreaker is getting very interesting. I am looking forward to what happens next. I am looking forward to the weekend as we are going to watch the new Scooby Doo movie.”

Ayaan

“I enjoyed this week very much. I have had a lot of fun in science where I did the fireworks experiments. I am very excited to see what will happen in Stormbreaker. I also enjoyed expressive art a lot because I made a Gravity falls theme song and I really liked it. I am very excited for the week ahead.”

Aryan

“I have had a lot of fun this week doing HWB and I have also started my pre-season football training. I enjoyed reading chapter 6 of Stormbreaker as I am intrigued to find out what will happen next. I like doing codecombat and doing chrome music lab. I am looking forward to next weeks work.”

Owen

“This week has been cool. We got a hot tub for the garden so that is my new favourite thing. I like doing the music lab and creating songs. I am really missing all my friends at school this week. We done a science experiment and made lava lamps, that was awesome.”

Zara

“This week has been a good week. I enjoyed making a big paper chain in science with my sister. I also helped my dad plant three big garden pots. I really enjoyed reading Stormbreaker and I am excited to see what happens next week.”

Mr Atkinson’s Comment

Well done P6B for another fantastic week of learning through Google Classroom and at the Hub! I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your comments and hearing about all of the wonderful activities you have been up to. My top contributor for the week is Ruby as she has been keeping her Home Learning Log up to date. This week I asked some of the boys and girls of P6B to write about their week for the class blog. Thank you again for sharing your experiences of home learning and the virtual classroom.

Dhruv

“This week I have had lots of fun. I have made my family happy by sending jokes to them and I have enjoyed reading Alex Rider. It has been great.”

Euan

“This week I have enjoyed doing Nessy Spelling and reading the next chapter of Stormbreaker. I also made a giant cookie for scouts. It was yummy!”

Austin

“I really enjoyed reading Storm Breaker this week as the story is getting very interesting. I also planted potatoes this week for health and wellbeing. I am waiting for them to grow. I have enjoyed playing outside this week as the weather has been very sunny. I am going to help my mum make dinner later today.”

Ruby

“This week I had lots of fun trying to make dance monkey on song maker in chrome music lab. It actually sounded like it. I also enjoyed reading chapter 5 of Stormbreaker.”

Orla

“I really enjoyed doing our comprehension this week because we found out lots of more information about the book. I also enjoyed doing our Art because I got to draw different things.”

I enjoyed the teacher quiz (Kailah)

I also enjoyed the teacher quiz- Muskaan 

The teacher quiz was good fun.  Some of the photos were more challenging than others.  I found it easy to guess Miss Estlick as she still looks the same!  I also found it easy to guess Miss Muir, Miss Amin, Miss Wallace and Mrs McKim.  I really enjoyed the quiz and the interesting facts at the end.  Miss Estlick’s video this morning was hilarious and I have watched it many times.  I even showed it to my parents and we were all laughing.  The Number Ninja’s have now finished their workbook on area.  I wonder what we will be doing next?  (Lewis)

In Writing this week, we were to write a sequel to a famous fairytale like Little Red Riding Hood or Jack and the Beanstalk. We all had lots of fun turning these famous stories into our own. It was quite challenging thinking of a clear problem and solution, but in the end our stories turned out great and we had lots of fun writing them!-Ayla 

For our comprehension we had to answer questions on Alex Rider, my groups reading book. – Cole

Today as it is Monday we have Maths first thing in the morning.For Maths we have to do sumdog/123 maths and one workbook page.Then later on we have to do some spelling.In the afternoon, we add some more information into our personal project/solo talk. I am doing a personal project and I am adding a lot of detail to my answers as I know that later on I will be making posters, slides and much more! I hope everyone is enjoying everything as much as I am! Stay safe – Aizah.

Today it is wednesday and it is the 29th of april and we have all been working hard. This morning we have had to read our books. The authors editors and illustrators read alex rider while the publishers (i think i got it right) have been reading charlie and the chocolate factory. We had to answer 8 questions to do with our books as well. After that we had HWB (health and wellbeing). We had lots of choices for it as we could have done a task from the HWB grid or our daily joe wick, i done joe wicks (and died it was so tiring). Then we had 20 sumdog questions and a sheet from our maths booklets. Finally we had our daily wraparound spelling. We all miss school but we have to do this for our own safety. Stay safe and stay happy. – oscar.

In our Writing this week, we created a recipe that includes fairtrade products. We were also allowed to try our recipe at home and see how it turned out. Lots of us took inspiration from different websites which developed our researching skills as well as writing skills. We needed to include bossy verbs ( like put, pour, cut) and put our recipe in bullet points or numbers and also make a list of the equipment and method. I really enjoyed looking at different websites to find the perfect recipe and I can’t wait to try it out soon!-Ayla

For our literacy comprehension we had to read chapter 4 of storm breaker and we had to answer 8 questions on the chapter (I recommend stormbreaker it is a very good book ) . – Cole

For Science we could choose an activity from the science grid.  One of the choices was making a shadow puppet show. It was good fun! (Andrew)

For math we had to find thing around our house and find out the shapes (Kailah)

In maths the mathletes have been completing a page of there decimals booklet every day and also doing there 20 Sumdog questions.( Louis)

I enjoyed doing the Science Experiment today.  I filled the sink and then tried over 20 items to see if they would float or sink.  Some of the results surprised me.  It was good fun.  I think I’m going to make the Fairtrade Brownies once my mum gets all the ingredients.  (Lewis)

For our reading task we have to find out about the main character of our book and write down his name, age ect. And for art we can draw paint or do anything related to art. We also have other challenges as a task for that task we could do anything challenging like do a puzzle or  check the oil level in a car.   ( Rokaia) 

Mr Atkinson’s Comment

Well done to everybody in P6B for an excellent week! I continue to be impressed with all the Google Classroom submitted work and activities some of the P6B pupils have been doing in the local ‘hub’. It was great to see some of you on Wednesday at the ‘hub’ and hear what you have been up to. My top contributors for the week are: Harry and Boyd, well done! In addition, congratulations to Rachel, Dhruv and Austin for being nominated at the achievement assembly. This week I asked some of the boys and girls of P6B to write about their week for the class blog. Thank you again for sharing your experiences of home learning and the virtual classroom.

Dhruv

“This week has been a lot of fun. For science I had a great time learning about gears on a website and doing an experiment from Glasgow Science Centre. For HWB I decided to be a good help and cleaned the house with my mum. I have also enjoyed listening to the daily Millions chapter that gets read by the P6 teachers.”

Chloe

“This week I really enjoyed writing because we got to write our own Fairtrade recipe. I decided to do a recipe for Fairtrade chocolate truffles. We were going to make them but we didn’t have the right Fairtrade ingredients. We also did comprehension on Stormbreaker and I couldn’t stop reading chapter four because it got so interesting. When I finished my work I FaceTimed my family. Today I am doing a reading task on Stormbreaker. I’m doing a character profile on Alex.”

Ayaan

“This week has been very exciting and fun. Writing was very good because we made our own Fairtrade recipe. Stormbreaker has been very interesting to read. This week has been very good and I am very excited for next week.”

Millie-Anne

“This week I enjoyed comprehension as I am really enjoying the book and I want to watch the film too as I searched online and found out there was one. We are going to rent it online this weekend and watch it as a family. The Fairtrade recipe was good too as I am enjoying baking with my Mum.”

Zara

“This week I enjoyed reading the next chapter of Stormbreaker as it was interesting. I also enjoyed doing the questions in maths. I really enjoyed ICT this week as I did hour of code. I got to experiment with new dances and songs. This week I got to bake with my mum which  I really enjoyed.”

Euan

“This week I enjoyed the writing task especially as I got to make my pancake recipe. The pancakes were yummy! I am enjoying the Stormbreaker novel. The story is getting exciting. I want to watch the movie. I have been playing Just Dance today it was fun and I beat my sister!”

Mr Atkinson’s Comment

Welcome back P6B, I hope you all had a wonderful Easter break! I have been impressed with how you have all settled back into using Google Classroom. I have also heard about all the great work and activities P6B pupils have been doing in the local ‘hub’. My top contributors for the week are: Owen and Chloe, well done! In addition, congratulations to Molly who won our Google Classroom banner submission! I was delighted with all the submissions and it made it exceedingly difficult to select just one. Also I am pleased to announce that the winning App – ‘The Global Game’ which was created by Huang is now live and available to download in Appstore (for Apple) and Playstore (for Android)! This week I asked some of the boys and girls of P6B to write about their week for the class blog. Thank you again for sharing your experiences of home learning and the virtual classroom.

Dhruv

“This week I have had fun doing a floating and sinking experiment, creating a quiz with my spelling words and listening to the daily millions chapter. It has been a fantastic week!”

Ayaan

“This has been a really fun week, from doing different science experiments, playing with our spelling words and reading/listening to Stormbreaker. This week has been amazing and I’m excited for the week ahead.”

Austin

“I am really enjoying Strombreaker and can’t wait to find out what happens in Chapter 4. I have enjoyed a lot of the maths challenges this week especially the measuring one. I spent my ICT time doing the hour of code all about Minecraft. It was really fun.”

Olivia

“This week has been good. I have been so interested in Stormbreaker and can’t wait to find out what happens in chapter 4. For science, some of us have been experimenting with floating and sinking and others have been making paper aeroplanes (putting coins on and seeing how far they will fly)! For writing we wrote a diary entry explaining our Easter holidays. Also we have added to our personal projects and solo talks! I enjoyed this week.”

Abi

“The first week back from the Easter holidays has been great! From a great session of maths to a fabulous session of art. In writing, we have all written a diary entry to explain what we have done at home during the Easter holidays. In ICT we have been doing hour of code, chrome music lab, code combat and other activities. Also, it was fun finding out what happened in the 3rd chapter of Stormbreaker. This week has gone so fast but has been so fun. I’m really looking forward to the week ahead!”

Lois

“This week was so good. We had a lot to do like writing, maths and spelling. My favourite bit was my PE with Joe Wicks. Next week I am excited to read chapter 4 of Stormbreaker because the last chapter was so good.”

Aryan

“This week has been great, we did Joe Wicks for P.E, maths, literacy and made a comic strip based on our novels. I cannot believe that this is the last term before the Summer holidays! I enjoy the questions and feedback from the daily check-ins and it is also interesting to see what the others write.”

Zara

“This was the first week back from the Easter holidays. We had a very fun week! I really enjoyed doing art and maths. For writing this week we all wrote a diary about what we did over the Easter holidays. We also got to read chapter three of Stormbreaker which I really enjoyed. I’m looking forward to next week to see all our different activities.”

Orla

“The beginning of term 4 was amazing! At the start of the week we did maths/numeracy, comprehension, ICT, Sumdog and Expressive Arts. Mr Atkinson has also been giving a lot of lovely feedback to us, through his Daily Videos, comments and our Top Contributors that are announced every Friday! Before the Easter holidays we were also given a task (optional) to create a banner for our Google Classroom and Molly was the winner! Well done Molly!”

This week was P6a’s first week after the Easter Holidays. We are doing lots of activities just like we would be doing at school. We have been completing Maths, Spelling, Writing, Health and Wellbeing, and lots more fun things while still at home. Here are some examples of the work we have been doing.-Ayla

In maths the Mathletes have been learning about decimal hundredths and how to put them in fraction form. The Number Ninjas have been learning about area. The Cool Calculators have been doing addition and subtraction. We have also been doing our sumdog like we do in class sometimes .- Rokaia  

This week in class we have been doing a banner competition. The winner will be announced on Friday and their banner will be chosen to be P6a’s google classroom logo. -Lewis 

In Writing, we all wrote a diary entry of what we did over the Easter Holidays. We had to make sure we could write in the first person, use an informal tone, and describe our thoughts and feelings about our experiences. I really enjoyed Writing this week and can’t wait for our next Writing assignment!- Ayla

This week we have been doing comprehension which I really liked especially doing the comic strip for the storm breaker novel.some of us have also been doing the joe wicks workout that I loved doing this morning as well as doing maths!-Ryan

Mr Atkinson’s Comment

Well done to all the P6B pupils who have completed or attempted some of the tasks on Google Classroom this week. I continue to be impressed with everyone’s positive attitude, dedication and eagerness. I have also seen and heard about all the great work our P6B pupils have been up to in the local ‘hub’, well done! My top contributors for the week are: Austin, Orla, Rachel, Abi, Euan, Molly, Dhruv and Aryan! This week I asked some of the boys and girls of P6B to write about their week for the class blog. Thank you again for sharing your experiences of home learning and the virtual classroom. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the parents and guardians for your continued to support with the new learning programme and for the kind messages I have received. Have a safe and enjoyable Easter break.

Millie-Anne

“This week was really good. Some people do Jo Wicks in the morning. We all had a really busy week. I really enjoyed Maths and HWB. Mr Atkinson puts up daily check ups and a new question every day. Mr Atkinson puts up videos every morning telling us what to do that day.”

Rachel

“It’s been a stunning week in Mr Atkinson’s homeschool! From making paper aeroplanes to Joe wicks fitness workout, everything has been interesting! Mr Atkinson will always put up some work for the day, and at the start of the day, he’ll post a video about what is happening for the day! We start at 9:00am and end at 3:00pm. It’s a day full of fun with Mr Atkinson!”

Zara

“This week we all got through a lot of work again. On Tuesday for HWB we did an assault course and skills challenge in the garden. My dad timed us to see how quick we were.This week for science I did the paper aeroplane challenge. My dad also did one and his plane went further. On Thursday me and my dad went for a long walk to Asda.”

Orla

“Another busy week has passed working at home, from a challenging comprehension to a Friday afternoon art session. Tuesdays persuasive writing was very hard, we had to persuade East Ren Council that we are or aren’t happy with future development plans! So far working at home has been good with amazing advice from Mr Atkinson, a daily video and a daily check in!”

Austin

“This week has been good and we have all worked really hard. On Tuesday for HWB I decided to get some exercise on my bike. On Thursday for Science I watched the Glasgow Science Centre video and learnt how to make a nebula, which was lots of fun.”

Euan

“This week has been quite good. I have completed a lot of work.  I started researching for my personal project, I am enjoying reading the Stormbreaker book and we made paper aeroplanes and flew them in the garden for science. I liked making my google classroom banner entry.  I have done Joe Wicks every morning now it is fun and we dressed up this morning to take part. My favourite daily check in question this week was what is your favourite movie I found that hard to decide! Hope everyone has fun during the Easter holidays!”

Dhruv

“It has been a great week. For expressive arts I made star wars on Chrome music lab. I also flew a paper aeroplane with coins on it to see if it would fly. This week has been very fun. I also like my reading book, Stormbreaker.”

This week was another fun week of learning at home on Google Classroom. There were lots more activities for us to complete, and I found them very fun! Today is the last day of learning at home until after the Easter Holidays, and I am sure we will all miss interacting with each other on Google Classroom. Now,we are going to tell you about some of the activities we did!- Ayla

Maths-in maths we have been doing our 20 questions of sumdog and 123 maths also we have been doing a page in our maths booklets every day. The mathletes did fractions the number ninjas have been doing functions and cool calculators and problem solvers have been doing a booklet as well-Louis 🙂

Science-in science we had to choose an experiment to complete from the science grid.  There were lots of cool experiments including “ fill your sink with water and look about your house for items to check if they float or not.” Another experiment we could do was build a tower with items around our house and check if the tower was earthquake proof.-Andrew 🙂

ICT – For ICT we have a variety of coding websites to choose from, including codecombat, hour of code, and tinkercad. They are all very fun and all have a different aim, for example codecombats aim is to code a person to play the game, but with tinkercad the aim is to create a game. – Eleya

Literacy- In Literacy, one of our groups have been reading the book “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, and the rest of our groups have been reading the book “Stormbreaker”. Both of the books are very interesting, and we have different questions about the books, and activities related to them as well. For Spelling, we had different sounds and we had to make words with them. We did some activities with them, such as, counting the syllables (Bluebell- Blue/bell-2 syllables), stretching the words ( Bluebell- b-l-ue-b-e-ll) and we had to grow the words too ( Blue-bluebell). It was very fun and I am looking forward to doing my spelling after the Easter Holidays.- Ayla 

Expressive Arts- For expressive arts we have got a grid with loads of fun artsy activities. These activities include; Drama, Dance, Music, Art, Photography.  For Drama we had to recreate a scene from our favourite movie. For Dance we had to select a Just Dance and dance along to it. Music had two things you could do for it, number 1: you can experiment with Chrome Music to try and make a theme tune to your favourite TV show, number 2: ask at least 5 people what their favourite song is and then listen to the songs and think about your senses. For art we need to collect 3 to 6 objects and arrange them in a specific way and then make a piece of artwork. And last but not least photography. For photography we had to create a photograph of an interesting moment. – Chloe

Miss Estlick’s Comment

P6A pupils are now experts of Google Classroom! I am so proud and impressed with everyone’s hard work, resilience, helpfulness and resourcefulness. It has been great to see pupils working together and demonstrating the school values at our ‘hub’ school. My Star of the Week this was Cara, well done! This week I asked some of the boys and girls of P6A to write about their week for the class blog. Thank you for sharing your experiences of home learning and the virtual classroom.

Ayla

This week was P6a’s first week of learning at home. We had lots of fun activities that we could complete, and used Google Classroom to access our work. We were all able to communicate to each other and complete our work properly even if we couldn’t see each other. On the first day, we were all a bit unsure on how things were going to work out, but after the first week, I felt that doing our work on Google Classroom was a great success!

We did lots of fun things to do with science, art, maths, literacy and more, and we will tell you all about them!

Aizah

Yes as Ayla said this was our very first week of home learning and what a week it was.As said we had a wonderful week with lots to do including Expressive Art,Science,Maths,literacy comprehension questions,Writing and much more.My favourite part was probably Expressive Arts because I made a big rainbow to thank the NHS for all their hard work!As we can’t meet each other Miss.Estlick posts a video every day which I find very interesting because I can see her again.So I,like Ayla, think that the Google Classroom homework is great!

Chloe

Yes, as everyone else said this was our first week of home learning. Every single activity we do for our learning keeps us from being bored in our house. As Aizah said, Miss Estlick posts videos every morning ( that would normally be a school day) saying good morning and telling us the subjects we are needed to do for the specific day. For our home learning we all do the subject we would do at school. Completing work is now  a lot faster since we can do most of the work on our computers. My absolute favourite subject we have done was ICT on Thursday. I think Home Learning has been a great success!

Cara

On Tuesday we had writing which I enjoyed so much! We had to pick a part of the body and find information for it. I picked organs because they are an important part of the body. Did you know the average adult’s heart pumps 70 beats per minute and over 5 litres of blood travels through the heart every minute! That’s a lot of blood! I have also been enjoying the book millions being read by Miss Estlick and Mr Atkinson. The story is really gripping and exciting, making me want to get the book myself! I was really pleased when Miss Estlick said I got star of the week. Thank you very much can’t wait for us all to be back in class!

Home Learning – Update

• Wraparound Spelling– Spelling for the week should be completed on the appropriate Google Doc, please submit at the end of the week and not on a daily basis.
• Answers– Answers have been provided at the back of the maths workbooks for all the groups. Please self-mark or, if possible, ask an adult to mark them for you. You can share your maths work by putting a photo in the appropriate Google Doc. If you are finding any of the questions tricky please post in Google Classroom and I will help out.
• Handing in work– Please hand in your work when you are finished for example when you have completed your writing. Please hand in your work when you have updated it so that I can check what you have updated (for example like your home learning log). The teacher can return it to you, but you can also un-submit it.