P6/7 Bishopmill Home Learning Week 9
Good Morning and welcome to Week 9! Yes Week 9 of Home Learning. I would like to let you all now how proud and impressed I am with your effort, contributions and attitude to everything you have been set, and how wonderful it has been to see different side of your personalities. Your resilience, perseverance and determination continue to be incredible. Please take a moment to give yourselves a pat on the back, round of applause and a fist bump. To your parents and carers, thank you for your patience and support as we have adjusted and endeavoured to maintain some sort of normality. The school website, GLOW, Teams, Twitter and email have been utilised to different degrees, so thank you for your dedication in these strange times.
Please see below for updates and then Week 9 Home Learning.
General Information
Article of the Week – Article 15 Freedom of association
Every child has the right to meet with other children and to join groups and organisations, as long as this does not stop other people from enjoying their rights.
Of course, this has been restricted during lockdown, however children have the right to gather in groups to enjoy activities and belong to clubs, societies, groups or organisations. These groups should be safe, encouraging, fun and not too expensive or prohibitive. If there is something they feel strongly about they should be able to start a club of their own. Thinking ahead to S1, there are a lot of clubs run by various members of staff which pupils will be welcome to join. They have the right to do so.
Uploads
Your Yearbook should have been uploaded by Friday 5th June. If you are adding finishing flourishes, please upload ASAP as we need to get them printed.
There is also the EA Library Book Poster to complete and upload too.
The EA Fact file (sent by EA Admin) & the Positivity Jar (Assignments tab on EA Transition Team) should be completed by Friday 12th June & uploaded to the various Team locations.
If you have any questions regarding this please get in touch. My email is
kevin.stuart7@moray-edunet.gov.uk
Team Meeting
This weeks meeting will be at 11:30 on Wednesday 10th June. As well as playing a game, we’ll be discussing Article 15 – which clubs pupils used to be part of, are part of now, any clubs they might join in S1 or beyond. Plus dream holiday destinations, HWB and anything else that comes up.
Health Week
More details of Health Week continue to be added to the page. Please check it out. Just a reminder that teachers won’t be posting work W.B. 22nd or 29th of June as these will be replaced by Health Week and you will find all the information on the HW page.
https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/my/bishopmill/bishopmill-primary/health-week-2020/
Home Learning Week 9
Literacy – Travel Brochure for an out of this world destination.
Watch the following 12 minute animation
https://vimeo.com/channels/theplanets
These 12 planets all have unique features and reasons to visit.
Your task is to choose one of the planets and create a travel brochure advertising it as a holiday destination. You’ll need to consider the following
- Name of your planet
- Colour Scheme – use the planets theme colours
- Layout – Pictures, text, mascot, titles, font, size & spacing
- Reasons to visit – landscapes, activities, landmarks etc
- Mood – is it an exciting holiday, relaxing, adventure etc.
You can complete this on blank paper or use your ICT skills to make a digital version.
Feel free to upload them onto the P6/7 Team, email it to me or share on Twitter.
Literacy – Reading & Mindfulness
Please continue to read your chosen novel and keep up with current affairs through youth newspapers or Newsround. https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround
Another way to enjoy stories is to listen to audio books. Aside from relaxation and its support of mindfulness it can help pupils learn writing techniques and develop other skills. Audible is one example of a company who offer free audio books for children. David Walliams is also releasing free audio listens each month.
Numeracy – Holiday Plans
A little bit of escapism this week with planning a holiday to France or Germany with a budget of £500. This will incorporate Budgeting from last week plus some time work with calendars, dates, times and decision making. Your budget is £500 per person, so you could plan a solo trip, go with a friend or everyone in your house. 1 person = £500, 2 people = £1000 etc. You will need to consider;
- Transport- Flights, trains, buses, boats
- Accommodation – Hotel, Hostel, Camping, Renting a house or villa
- Attractions – Sights like the Eiffel Tower, Museum entry, Tours, Theme Parks
- Daily Budget – Food, souvenirs, treats, shopping
You must remain under budget, so this will determine if you stay for 1,2 3+ nights and remember to budget for return flights, trains, boats etc. Don’t get stuck! Use websites such as Easyjet, Ryanair, hotels.com etc.
Sumdog & HAM will have more skills games set, and please contact me with any skills you wish to practice.
Health & Well-Being
This week we are encouraging you to visit different places to walk around Elgin and the local area. You can now travel up to 5 miles around Elgin. Previously people were going out on lots of walks but were finding the same walk quite repetitive. Can you share some of the places you go on walks to so that others could possible find new walks. We are very lucky to have such wonderful walks in close proximity to Elgin. Please share them on Twitter so we can share with others.
Miss McNab’s Wednesday Challenge is available plus Travel to Tokyo is active. The school postcode is IV30 4DY. Track and record your activities.
Miss McNab Twitter Link + Travel to Tokyo link.
Article 15 Task
The Right to Association covers joining groups, clubs, societies and orgnisations. While it is quite tricky to meet as normal just now for Scouts, football teams, gymnastics, cheer etc can you make a list of 5 children that you would like to get in contact with. Who haven’t you spoken to in a while from your clubs or groups or school? You could write them a letter, arrange a video call with them this week or maybe a socially distanced chat from your garden or theirs. See what they have been up to and how their week is.
As always, I’m here if you need anything so please get in touch.
Have a great week,
Mr K.Stuart
