Reception

This week children in Penguins and Turtles

have enthusiastically taken part in a range of

Discovery Time challenges including:

gardening, bike riding, ballet, birdwatching,

football, cooking, model-making, painting,

mini-beast finding, shop keeping, zoo keeping and Lego building! (To name but

a few!). There have also been many more creative reading ideas like this lovely

Firefighter's tent!

Year 3: Egyptian Project

Last week, Year 3 was set an Egyptian project.

There were so many fantastic examples from

mummified teddies to mummy jam strudels! This

is Kyle’s recreation of Tutankhamun’s mask and

as you can see he put a lot of time and effort into

it, and it looks amazing! It was extremely difficult

to pick just one example (you can see more on

3R’s blog) Well done 3R!

Extreme reading! Year 3 have been

sharing their more unusual (and rather

terrifying) reading places check out these

photos from Henry, Sophia, Kyle (with

ferrets!) and Oliver.

Year 3 in Action!

Well done to everyone who completed the challenge of doing a dramatic reading

of a book! Finty, Oliver and Alice were some of the ones who made it extra

dramatic by dressing up, acting out and singing! Watch them on our blog!

Year 3 were also asked to design an obstacle course around their home and

gardens. These have been absolutely amazing to see. Harry,

Chloe, Imogen and Ralph made some excellent examples and

are just a few of all the

incredible ones that we’ve

watched! The children

have also been creating

rainbows as a sign of

Hope for when we can all

be together again.

April 2020 Week 2

Headteacher: Sara Willoughby B.Ed. Tel: (01489) 572393 Fax: (01489) 570316 www.hookwithwarsash.co.uk

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Don’t try this at home!!

Our School Values: LIGHT

Even though we are not all together at school we

think it is even more important to demonstrate that

we are thinking of others and showing our school

values of Love, Independence, Growth, Happiness

and Trust. Many children have been sharing

examples of this at home.

Reception pupils have enjoyed responding to the

R.E task about ‘New Life’ with drawings,

photos, dances and videos as well as continuing

with their topic about the farm (one family even went on a pretend school

trip to the farm in their back garden!) We have seen lots of examples of

times that they have been ‘shining lights’- showing our school values- and

responding to our theme last week with 'forgiveness hearts'.

The Great Year 6

Bake Off

Year 6 were challenged to bake cakes with

whatever they had left in the cupboard.

Here are a

few of their

amazing

creations.

Year 1

Year One have been

busy this week doing all

sorts of activities

including maths

investigations, writing, collective wor-

ship, light values and a scavenger hunt.

Zosia writing

The Very Hungry

Caterpillar

Ted from 1EH and his

sister after

decorating some

brilliant Easter cakes.

Year 5 and

the Easter Story

Year 5 have been

thinking about the

Easter story and all

the different events

that happened to

Jesus. They have

created story boards

to represent the sto-

ry. Here is just one

of many excellent

examples that were

shared on Seesaw.

BREAKING

NEWS

FROM MRS

NICE: Our next show has been

booked at the Nuffield City Theatre

for the week beginning 5th July 2021.

Musical yet to be decided. Why don’t

you put your suggestions on Seesaw–

maybe even sing one of your

favourite songs! So exciting!

Mathletics and the Mathletics Fairy

Well done to everyone who has been keeping on top of their Mathletics

tasks. It really will make a difference to you in the future if you can keep on

top of your Maths! Congratulations to 1H and 2H who have topped the

leader board this week-joint first! The school has

achieved an amazing 209 certificates this week! That’s

incredible!! Keep it up!! Well done!!

Some of you may have already had

a visit from the Mathletics Fairy.

This magical being

delivers Gold Medals

directly to the houses of

those children who have

achieved a Gold Medal. So keep

working hard at earning your

points and you might get a

delivery from the Mathletics

Fairy too!

Maths links: Nrich have put

together a selection of Maths

links that they feel would

work well for pupils working at home. It is quite simply

called: Nrich Maths at Home and can be found on this link

-https://nrich.maths.org/14600. Some of these include

online interactive Maths games and some are simple

pencil and paper games– have a look!

Spellodrome and Readiwriter

I hope you are enjoying the games on Spellodrome. You

will be pleased to know that the school has now purchased

this resource so we will continue to use it for the coming

year. Log on and play some games.

Year 4 Shopping Challenge

One of the tasks for Year 4 this week

was to create their own shop.

Children had to make price labels,

receipts, coins and choose a shop

name. This helped them work out the

total price of items their customers were buying and the amount of change their

customers required. On Wednesday, we had a discount day where each shop had to

reduce their items by a chosen percentage. We were really impressed with the chal-

lenges they set themselves with some children reducing their items by 20% and 30%!

Art Research

This week we set the year 4 children the

challenge of researching the artist, Andy

Goldsworthy. They found out that he was born

on 26th July 1956, he lives in Cheshire and

creates art using natural materials. They then

had a go at creating some of their own artwork

using materials found in the garden.

Year 4 were also set the task of creating their name

using different PE exercises. It was quite a

challenge but good fun! Even the teachers created

their names and shared their videos too.

Class This Week (209)

1H 21

2H 21

3J 18

6P 17

6J 17

This week’s mystery…

Who is the Mathletics Fairy??

Year 2 Maths Challenge

Richard the Tiger has 29 pieces of meat. He

wanted to split it between his 2 friends- Lee the

Lion and Catherine the Crocodile.

Year 2 had to show how many ways this could

be done using a whole-part model.

Reading like a Teacher in Year 2

We challenged year 2 to read like a teacher!

They had to hold the book so their class could see, they had to read clearly with

expression, show pictures, explain the meaning of new words and ask questions

about the book. They could even set up

their own class of they wanted!

As Easter is

approaching we

wanted the class

to start making

Easter cards to

give to their

families as it is still important to

remember Easter and everything it stands for despite not being

in school.

Year 6 have been writing Spring Poems. Have a look at this

lovely example below by Izzy:

TOP TIPS FOR WELL-BEING FOR YOUR FAMILY

STAY CONNECTED: Stay connected with fr iends and family.

LAUGH: Laughter is a huge release of endorphins-share those silly memes and awful jokes.

BE CREATIVE: Take a chance to do something creative-such as gardening, get your hands moving.

BE SELECTIVE: Try not to spend too much time on social media or watching the news.

EXERCISE: Again- releases those natural happy endorphins- run, walk, cycle, skip

GET OUTSIDE! If you can' t go outside open the window and breathe in the

fresh air. KEEP WASHING YOUR HANDS! HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

A few useful links for parents:

If you enjoy the world of Harry

Potter have a look at this link: https://

www.wizardingworld.com/collections/

harry-potter-at-home.

Some more links that could keep you

busy: