The CSW Virtual School Games is an opportunity for pupils to engage in competition at home whilst still feeling part of their school team. All Competitions are open to pupils from KS1-KS4. Competitions will launch each Monday at 9:45am on Twitter (Danny Kingham @CGOCoventryWest) with entries closing at 1pm on Friday of the same week. You will have a week to practice and complete the challenges and enter the competitions through a Survey Monkey link. Results will be announced each Friday via the @ThinkActiveCSW Twitter page at 5pm. This week’s challenge is Tennis (see below)
Further information can be obtained from the Thinkactive website and results are recorded through Survey Monkey link (see below). Have a go at the Tennis challenge and remember to email some photographs of you taking part. Also remember to record and send your results by Friday 5th June at 1pm by the latest.
Welcome back Year 6! We hope you had a lovely half term break and are ready to begin another week of hard work. Thank you to everyone who has sent examples of their work in, we would like to hear from more of you though so keep emailing it through to us please. We will still be on Microsoft Teams every morning from 10am-12pm to support you with any questions you have about your learning. Whether you are in school or at home you will have the same work to complete throughout the week and as before it will mostly be using Oak Academy and BBC Bitesize. We are trying to include a wide range of curriculum areas and we hope you enjoy it. Stay safe and keep in touch!
For Spellings this week you can test your knowledge of the Year 5/6 words by being able to use them in context. Each page gets progressively harder from beginner through to genius! The answers follow each page but try not to cheat and aim to challenge yourselves!
Maths
For maths this week we would like you to revisit Fractions using BBC Bitesize. The focus will include simplifying, ordering, comparing and adding fractions.
In this lesson learn about how famous Portuguese artist Paula Rego uses her artworks to tell stories, learn some basic artistic techniques and create your own artwork.
As we get closer to a date for re-opening school, we wanted to explain to you how your first day will be organised when you come. The actual date to start is yet to be confirmed but it will involve arriving between 9:30 and 10:00. We are really looking forward to seeing you and welcoming you back to school.
You will come into school via Southbank Entrance based on the time that will be given to you (Mr Mahal and Mrs A-B will be making phone calls to share these). There will be a member of staff at the gate to say, ‘Good Morning,’ and you can then walk around to the year five classrooms as the year six classrooms will not be in use. You will have to remember to keep your distance from the other children as you walk around. If at any time you are asked to line up on the playgrounds you should see markers to help you to keep your distance.
You will be working in one of the year five classrooms with around 8 or 9 other children and two adults. This will be your ‘bubble’ group (either 6Red, 6Blue or 6Yellow). The two adults will be either Mr Scott, Miss Perrett, Mr Perkins, Mrs Howat, Mrs Goode or Mrs Medley. The classrooms have been changed so that it supports us in keeping a distance between us. Here is a photo so you know what it will look like.
You will have your own table to work at and your own resource pack which will include a pen, pencil, ruler, rubber, whiteboard and whiteboard pen among other resources. You will be able to put your school bag (with packed lunch) under your table and coat on the back of your chair. When you come in you will be asked to wash your hands – remember this is important throughout the day.
We will be completing a range of work that Mr Mahal and Mrs AB have set, but will also be spending time outside in our ‘bubble’ group. When we have our morning break this will be with our bubble group. You will have lots of space as break times will be staggered. Therefore, you will get to use the whole of the year 5/6 playground with your bubble group. At lunchtime there maybe two bubble groups out at once and we will be asking you to stay to one half of the playground in your ‘bubble’ group.
Each day we will also have an afternoon PE session (hopefully the weather says as nice as it has been) but you won’t need to worry about bringing in your PE kit. Alongside our learning we will also be doing craft activities too.
At the end of the day your teacher will walk your group back around to the Southbank entrance to say goodbye.
Please remember that it is essential that you come to school at the time given to you for arrival so that you do not have to queue with other people.
Young Voices are organising the largest choir in the world on Tuesday 2nd June. You can sign up for free but check with your parents first. Happy Singing!
Well done and thank you to Leila for writing her name using the Viking alphabet, which is also known as RUNES. Why not have a go at writing your name in RUNES and then emailing us a photograph. We would love to display them on here. Click below for a copy of the Viking alphabet.
Over the past few weeks, we have been extremely impressed by some of the Scratch Projects we have received. However, we all felt that the Scratch Project created by Max H has truly grabbed our attention. Have a go by clicking on the link below.
Yesterday was the national Thank A Teacher day and the staff were touched by the gesture emailed by Connor.It certainly put a smile on all of our faces 🙂
The CSW Virtual School Games is an opportunity for pupils to engage in competition at home whilst still feeling part of their school team. All Competitions are open to pupils from KS1-KS4. Competitions will launch each Monday at 9:45am on Twitter (Danny Kingham @CGOCoventryWest) with entries closing at 1pm on Friday of the same week. You will have a week to practice and complete the challenges and enter the competitions through a Survey Monkey link. Results will be announced each Friday via the @ThinkActiveCSW Twitter page at 5pm. This week’s challenge is Cricket (see below)
Further information can be obtained from the Thinkactive website and results are recorded through Survey Monkey link (see below). Have a go at the Cricket challenge and remember to email some photographs of you taking part. Also remember to record and send your results by Friday 22nd May at 1pm by the latest.
Real PE at home includes an online programme which supports families to be active, play and learn together. It includes a programme specifically for children in Early Years and Key Stage 1 with 12 themes, 6 areas, over 250 activities and challenges and 1000s of hours of fun and activity. This programme is great for family play and fun.
For children in Key Stage 2, there are carefully selected personal best challenges, skills and games designed for the home and garden.
Daily and weekly
guidance is provided for both programmes in addition to an option to choose
your own themes and activities.
There are so
many benefits to being active, not only to our physical wellbeing but also to
our emotional and mental health, especially in such testing times for all of
us. We hope that the ideas help support you and your family to
stay fit and healthy in the coming months. Here are the details to access real
PE at
home:
We are starting to have meetings with your new Secondary schools for September and would like you to be able to have some input. You have all had some questions emailed to you on your new school email accounts that we would like you to answer and send back to us if possible. We are speaking to Coundon Court tomorrow so ideally we would like them today (18th May) if you can. To access your email you can click the link below then go into Outlook from the Office page. You will need your email address and password we gave to your parents last week. We look forward to hearing from you and remember we are online on Teams every day from 10am-12pm
