27-4-20 Home Learning 

Welcome back to a new week of exciting home learning. What a great week of weather we had last week. It was great to see some lovely pictures and read some comments on how you are getting on. Thank you to everybody who managed. Unfortunately, we didn’t get too many dance moves so I got off the hook for my own attempt. We will continue to post weekly work suggestions on the school website and post on our Twitter too. We are trying to increase our communication and have began setting up Microsoft Teams to help with that.

Microsoft Teams & Communication

This week we are introducing our class ‘Teams’. Microsoft Teams is a secure platform we are using to further improve communication between teachers, pupils, parents and carers. The package ‘Teams’ is available through pupils glow account that we previously encouraged you to register. You should have received a text about this. Please email the school if you do not have this.

If you have not registered yourself/your child onto Glow that you will need to do this before you can access Teams. Please follow the video below to register your pupils Glow account. If you have previously completed this, please read the next paragraph.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItEbqOMTgyM

Please follow the video below to get yourself/your child onto your school class ‘Teams’ page. The teacher has previously created the class ‘Teams’ page and it is ready for you. This page allows teachers to use a chat room to speak directly to pupils or parents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I4Lq6rl5Z4

Please remember I am also contactable through Twitter and the school admin email. Please feel free to contact me regarding Home Learning support, sharing what you are up to or if you would like to catch up and speak to me about anything at all.

Twitter – @bish_p67

Email – admin.bishopmill@moray-edunet.gov.uk  or through Glow Mail. A new YouTube video explaining how to use Glow email is on its way. Please look at Bishopmill Primary YouTube channel for this video soon.

There is also a weekly newsletter sent out to with further information on it.

Parent/Carer Questionnaire

We are currently looking for feedback on some areas of support we are trying to provide. If you can please fill out the questionnaire linked below it would be HUGELY appreciated. It should take approximately 3 minutes to complete.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/9GCC7Q3

Home Learning – W/B 27.4.2020

STEM – Rainbow Jars – Density of Liquids

Liquids have various densities, meaning they weigh different amounts. 10 ml’s of water is lighter than 10ml’s of honey. This weeks experiment is to pour different liquids into a clear jar, glass or tub and stack them. The different densities should sit on top of each other and form colour blocks.

You will need : 1 jar (pasta sauce, jam etc from your recycling) 1 measuring jug or bottle so you can use the same amount of each liquid, honey, syrup, milk, washing up liquid, water, vegetable oil / olive oil. If you don’t have all of these don’t worry, just use what you have. Avoid using sauces like ketchup, brown sauce etc as they are made of lots of ingredients and may break up.

Here is a YouTube video to give you an idea of how to do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKHUNvMsF6U

You can add materials to your Rainbow Jar to see how they are supported by each layer.

Literacy – Writing a Scientific Explanation. 

After you have experimented with your Rainbow Jar can you write a step by step of how to conduct the experiment. Be as detailed as you can including measurements, adjectives and use of different connectives (Next, then, after that etc).  Try not to repeat or use the same words over and over such as pour.

Once you have written your step by step ask a family member to do the experiment and see how well they can follow your instructions. Do you need to add any materials or steps or change the order?

As this experiment will use scientific vocabulary, make sure you can spell them all. Any spelling mistakes or unfamiliar words use the spelling activity grid in the home learning pack to practice these words.

Literacy – Reading -Determining Importance 

Continue to read a chosen novel or nonfiction text of your choosing. Whether it’s the Guinness Book of Records, Ratburger or the Newsround website, can you determine the importance of what you have read.  There should be a minimum of three key bits of information.

What were the main action points, character decisions, revelations, story progressions or details that are important to know? If it is current affairs on Newsround what are the key points of the story?

Share these verbally with an adult or write them down in your jotter.

Numeracy – Making and Creating.

Can you find a recipe for a traybake, cake, pizza milkshake, smoothie, cocktail, or any item you want to make? Using your measuring skills can you follow the recipe and measure out the correct volume of liquids (ml and l) weight (g and kg), cook for the correct amount of time (seconds, minutes, hours) and on the right temperature (degrees). Please share your creations through GLOW or Twitter. I will be trying to make scones and will share this on Twitter 😊

Sumdog this week will have measurement. Measurement will focus on weight and liquid, converting units from g to kg and kg to g, ml to l and l to ml & some perimeter, area, and volume as these are part of measure.

Health and Well-Being – Alcohol 

Continuing with our exploration of substances misuse we will focus on alcohol this week. Similar to smoking it is an age dependant substance.  A starting point would be to discuss why there is an age dependant rule.

We often ask pupils to list the positives and negatives of consuming alcohol. We tend to explore this issue from an inward to outward fashion, so here is a suggested structure to explore.

What effect does alcohol have on your body (physical and mental)?

How can it alter your behaviour and choices?

Possible consequences if alcohol is misused – personal, relationships, society.

Similar to smoking you could investigate cost and health problems for different parts of your body.

Pupils could draw an outline of a body on paper, trace a body outline onto the ground or download a body outline and label from head to toe possible side effects. There are good videos on YouTube to support this, but I will let you choose the ones you think are suitable for your child.

 

Please rest assured there is no expectation to complete all these challenges. As we are at home for longer please be guided by your child’s interests and of course your home circumstances in this unprecedented time. If there is something they wish to know more about or prefer to engage with then we can support that aspect.

Have a great week,

Mr Stuart