Contacts
Eagles: rgidley@white-rock-primary.torbay.sch.uk

Owls: saldredge@white-rock-primary.torbay.sch.uk

Hawks: pnoble@white-rock-primary.torbay.sch.uk

Useful Websites

Week Beginning 29/06/2020

Week Beginning 22/06/2020

07/05/20 

The Sunflower Challenge - Eagles

Here is the leader board so far. I will continue to update it throughout the day with measurements and photos. 

1st - Layne - 36.4cm
2nd - Will - 24cm
3rd - Daisy - 21cm

4th - Cassie - 13cm
5th - Alfred - 16cm and William G - 16cm
6th - Mrs Gidley - 14.5cm
7th - Freya - 8cm 
8th - Alesha - 7cm and Ethan - 7cm

07/05/20 

VE Day Baking

Here is the final Victoria Sponge. I hope to see some of your baking today if you have decided to have a go. Have a nice weekend. 

07/05/20 

Literacy - The Ancient Greeks - Lesson 4

07/05/20

Year 6 Book - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

07/05/20 

Maths  - Mixed Addition and Subtraction

Please find this week's Maths learning under 'Summer Term - Week 3 (w/c 4th May)' - links to the video and activity can be found below.

06/05/20 

Daily Hellos

06/05/20

Year 6 Book - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

06/05/20 

Literacy - The Ancient Greeks - Lesson 3

06/05/20 

Maths - Add and Subtract Fractions

Please find this week's Maths learning under 'Summer Term - Week 3 (w/c 4th May)' - links to the video and activity can be found below.

06/05/20 

Science - Light - Lesson 2

06/05/20 

Guided Reading

06/05/20

Computing - the link is at the bottom

05/05/20 

Daily Hellos

05/05/20

Year 6 Book - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

05/05/20 

VE Day Events 

05/05/20 

Literacy - The Ancient Greeks - Lesson 2

05/05/20

Maths - Compare and Order Fractions

Please find this week's Maths learning under 'Summer Term - Week 3 (w/c 4th May)' - links to the video and activity can be found below.

05/05/20 

Dance

05/05/20

Art - Session 5

05/05/20 

Makaton - Sign of the Week

04/05/20 

Daily Hellos

04/05/20

Year 6 Book - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

04/05/20 

Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Time! Competition 

The Cracking Ideas competition is a brilliant initiative from the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) to get children aged 4-11 creating their very own inventions - just like Wallace and his trusty companion Gromit! 
This is a chance for you to get creative and is a great way to keep you busy at home.
To take part, download the worksheet (linked below), then upload your entry here: https://crackingideas.com/ideasgallery

There are some incredible prizes, including:

- An Aardman model making workshop for your school, 

- Your invention will be made by the Kids Invent Stuff team and featured on their Youtube channel, 

- Your invention will be featured in an exciting new Wallace & Gromit Augmented Adventure, The Big Fix Up. 

04/05/20 

Literacy - The Ancient Greeks - Lesson 1 

04/05/20 

Maths - Simplify Fractions

Please find this week's Maths learning under 'Summer Term - Week 3 (w/c 4th May)' - links to the video and activity can be found below.

04/05/20 

Guided Reading 

04/05/20 

Spanish 

01/05/20 

Daily Hellos

01/05/20

Literacy/History - The Ancient Egyptians - Lesson 5

Year 6 Book.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

From Monday, Year 6 can listen to a reading of 'The Graveyard Book' by Neil Gaiman - the author of 'Coraline'. Here is the blurb from the back of the book:

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead.

There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.

But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.

 

01/05/20

Maths - Friday Maths Challenge

Please find this week's Maths learning under the fourth tab, 'Summer Term - Week 2 (w/c 27th April)' - the links to the activity can be found below.

01/05/20 

SPaG

01/05/20 

Computing 

30/04/20

Daily Hellos

30/04/20

Owls' Class Book

30/04/20

Literacy/History - The Ancient Egyptians - Lesson 4

30/04/20

Maths - Problem Solving

Please find this week's Maths learning under the fourth tab, 'Summer Term - Week 2 (w/c 27th April)' - links to the video and activity can be found below.

30/04/20 

SPaG

As the weather is due to be rubbish for a couple of days, I have written a short sports quiz for you. There are some current questions, some historical research for you to do, an anagram to solve and a follow up clip to watch if you wish.

Hopefully this will keep you busy and thinking about the history of sport until the good weather returns next week!

Feel free to email me to let me know what you found out and what you thought of the sports performance clip at the end.

Good luck from Mr Leaman!

29/04/20

Daily Hellos

29/04/20

Literacy/History - The Ancient Egyptians - Lesson 3

29/04/20

Owls' Class Book

BBC - Great British Bunting

With so many events cancelled or restricted for the commemoration of the 75^th anniversary of VE Day on 8^th May, BBC Radiowanted to come up with a way for people across the UK to mark the occasion and express their pride in our country and to remember and honour the men and women of WW2.

They have sent some guidance on making some bunting that you can display in your window, so we wanted to pass this on.

If you do make some bunting then we would love to see some photos of it.

29/04/20 

Maths - Problem solving 

Please find this week's Maths learning under the fourth tab, 'Summer Term - Week 2 (w/c 27th April)' - links to the video and activity can be found below. 

29/04/20 

SPaG

29/04/20 

Reading

Oxford Owl Login: Redwings Password: 1234

29/04/20 

Guided Reading

29/04/20 

Science - Light - Lesson 1

29/04/20 

Computing 

28/04/20 - Tuesday 28th April 2020

28/04/20

Daily Hellos

28/04/20

Literacy/History - The Ancient Egyptians - Lesson 2

28/04/20

Owls' Class Book

28/04/20 

Makaton - Sign of the Week

28/04/20

Art - Session 4

28/04/20

Maths - Angles in regular polygons

Please find this week's Maths learning under the fourth tab, 'Summer Term - Week 2 (w/c 27th April)' - links to the video and activity can be found below. 

28/04/20

SPaG

27/04/20 

Daily Hellos

Dan Boosey - The 2.6 Challenge

Ellie Goulding, Gareth Bale and Chris Froome are just some of the big celebrity and sporting names who took on the 2.6 Challenge this weekend.

It's been put together by organisers of some the UK's biggest mass participation sports events - including the London Marathon - and it's all for a good cause.

The 2.6 Challenge is aiming to help charities that are struggling right now, with many fundraising events being cancelled during the coronavirus pandemic.

Dan has completed his own 2.6 challenge of walking up and down stairs at home - 26 times! In doing this, he has raised an amazing £461!!!

Amazing Dan - We're all very proud of you! See his achievement on the video below:  Well done Dan!

27/04/20

Literacy/History - The Ancient Egyptians - Lesson 1

27/04/20 

Catch It - Narratives 

2704/20 

Maths - Angles in special quadrilaterals

27/04/20

SPaG

27/04/20

Guided Reading

27/04/20 

Spanish - Colours and Shapes - Flags 

27/04/20 

Science investigation - 5 minutes 

27/04/20

More virtual tours

Click on the links below to watch virtual tours of various attractions. During the tours, click on the information button ('i') to read more. Have fun! 

24/04/20 

Daily Hellos

24/04/20

Literacy - Narrative - Lesson 8

24/04/20 

Year 5/6 SPaG

24/04/20 

Maths - Maths Challenge

We are continuing with the White Rose Maths sessions that can be found under the third tab, 'Summer Term - Week 1 (w/c 20th April)' - please refer to the image below if you are unsure. Links to the video and activity can be found below.

24/04/2020

Science investigation - 5 minutes

24/04/20 

Guided Reading 

24/04/20 

Computing - Purple Mash

23/04/20 

Daily Hellos

23/04/20

Literacy - Narrative - Lesson 7

23/04/20

SPaG

23/04/20

Maths - Angles in a triangle - missing angles

We are continuing with the White Rose Maths sessions that can be found under the third tab, 'Summer Term - Week 1 (w/c 20th April)' - please refer to the image below if you are unsure. Links to the video and activity can be found below.

22/04/20 

Daily Hellos

22/04/20

Literacy - Narrative - Lesson 6

22/04/20

History - Session 2

22/04/20

SPaG

22/04/20 

Maths - Angles in a triangle - special cases

We are continuing with the White Rose Maths sessions that can be found under the third tab, 'Summer Term - Week 1 (w/c 20th April)' - please refer to the image below if you are unsure. Links to the video and activity can be found below.

22/04/20 

Guided Reading

22.04.20 PE

Basketball has always been a popular sport at White Rock, and our nearest professional team are the Plymouth Raiders. Some of their staff have released a number of videos designed to challenge and develop your skill set.

Work your way through the videos from number 1 onwards and see how many of these challenges you can complete using the correct techniques.

You may use a ball of your choice (the bigger the ball the harder it gets!) If you have a basketball - brilliant! But if you don't any ball will still create a challenge for you.

Enjoy the challenge, and whilst you are on the Raiders YouTube page, check out some of their game footage to see how the game is played at a pro level in the UK.

Mr Leaman.

21/04/20 - Tuesday 21st April 2020

21/04/20

Daily Hellos

21/04/20

Makaton - Sign of the week

21/04/20

Art - Session 3

21/04/20

Literacy - Narrative - Lesson 5

21/04/20

SPaG

21/04/20

Science - Lava Lamp

21/04/20

Maths - Angles in a triangle

20/04/20 

Daily Hellos

20/04/20 

Literacy - Narrative - Lesson 4

20/04/20 

Maths - Vertically opposite angles

20/04/20

SPaG

20/04/20

Guided Reading

20/04/20

Computing - Purple Mash

20/04/20

Spanish

17/04/20 

Daily Hellos

17/04/20 

Joe Wick - T-shirt competition 

This morning, Joe said that he would like his listeners to design a T-shirt to help support the NHS. The details are at the end of today's PE session. 

If you would like to do a design first then below is a template you can use. 

17/04/20

Virtual Tours

Click on the links below to watch a virtual tour of various attractions around the world and beyond! During the tours, click on the information button ('i') to read more. Have fun! 

17/04/20

Literacy - Narrative - Session 3

17/04/20 

SPaG

17/04/20 

Maths - Measure with a protractor

17/04/20

Guided Reading

16/04/20 

Daily Hellos

16/04/20

Literacy - Narrative - Session 2

16/04/20

History - Session 1

16/04/20 

SPaG

16/04/20 

Elevenses - David Walliams live read

16/04/20 

Maths - Ratio and proportion problems

15/04/20

Daily Hellos

15/04/20

Owls Class Book - The Boy in the Tower by Polly Ho Yen - Chapter 44

15/04/20

Makaton - Sign of the week

15/04/20

Literacy - Narrative - Session 1

15/04/20 

SPaG

15/04/20 

Maths - Calculating Scale Factors

15/04/20

Art - Session 2 - Renaissance Art and Leonardo Da Vinci.

30/03/20 - Daily Hello - Hawks

Good morning Hawks. I hope you are all well and have had a lovely weekend.

Apologies for no video this morning, unfortunately my internet is down again. As soon as it is back up and running I will record a video and post it. 

Thank you to everyone that has emailed over the weekend - I am really enjoying seeing your learning and all the activities you have been getting up to. Please keep sending me any learning you do or photos of anything you get up to. 

Have a great Monday and I will speak to you all soon, 

Miss Noble

Sunflower update

Good afternoon Year 6, I hope you are all well. 

Today is the day to plant your sunflower seeds, if you wish to take part.

Make sure you choose a suitable spot for them to germinate/grow and keep them well watered.

Remember to send your teacher weekly updates of your sunflowers - pictures and measurements. 

Happy growing!

Have a great weekend and Easter break, 

Miss Noble

26/03/20 - Daily Hello - Hawks

Good morning Hawks! 

I hope you are all okay and have been keeping yourselves busy. 

Unfortunately, my internet is down at the moment so I am unable to film my usual daily hello. Once the internet is back up and running, I will continue with the daily hello videos. I've had an email from Natalia today with a few jokes:

What's faster, cold or hot? 

Hot because you can catch a cold. 

What do you catch a rich elf?

Welfy.

Why did the golfer buy two pairs of trousers?

Because he got a hole in one!

Thank you for those Natalia.

I've got a long list of things to share with you, so I will make sure I share them in the next daily hello. 

Have a great day and I will speak to you all soon, 

Miss Noble. 

26/03/20 - Hello Eagles - Jokes

Apologies to Ethan and Ellie who sent in jokes. There was so much to talk about today! Here they are:

Ethan's joke

A man was fired from his banking job because he pushed over an old lady. When asked why he did it, he replied, 'I was checking her balance.'

Ellie sent in two jokes. 

What vegetables need a plumber? A leek!

Knock, Knock

Who's there?

Peas.

Peas who?

Peas let me come in. 

Remember if you have a joke please send me an email. Thanks all. 

I have added a wordsearch for Year 6 that is based upon the learning of muscles we have done this year. It might be a challenge so good luck, and let me know how you get on!

Mr Leaman

PE Challenge in Partnership with the Total 14 Football Academy!

Craig from Total 14 has today set an online challenge to his Academy players  which includes White Rock children as he comes in to provide us with our football coaching.

There are 20 football teams that Craig has described only by using emojis. He has not given us the answers yet - so between us do you reckon that we can crack the 20 and send them to Craig before anybody else can?

To help you out, I reckon 14 is New York Red Bulls...

Chat to family, FaceTime your friends and see how many you can get.

Email me your ideas ileaman@white-rock-primary.torbay.sch.uk.

Feel free to design any others and send them to me and I'll see if I can guess them!

Good Luck from Mr Leaman!

25/03/20 - Amazon - Free audio and book subscription 

Amazon have cancelled the subscription of books and audio stories for children and students of all ages as long as schools are closed, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of book. 

Check out the link below and enjoy!

25/03/20 - Remote Sunflower Challenge!

Year 6 have been inspired by a project that is going to begin in Year 3 this Friday... It's the Sunflower Challenge!

Sunflowers, with their bright petals and strong stems, are well known for being 'happy' flowers. We would like to challenge all Year 6 children to plant a sunflower seed on Friday 27th March and watch it grow.

We will be sharing photos and measurements every Friday so think carefully about where you plant your seed and what it needs to grow. Make sure to email your teacher with your photos and measurements so we can watch our sunflowers grow together.

Happy growing!

24/03/20 - Design and Technology - 30 Day Lego Challenge 

Here is a Lego Challenge to help you fill part of your day. Using Lego, helps to develop your creative and problem solving skills. 

Computing - 2Code

For this activity you will need a device which can access Purple Mash.

20.03.20 - Maths Early Morning Work

19.03.20 - Free English and Maths materials in Learning at Home packs

Hamilton Trust will be providing free packs for English and Maths for each year group so that these materials can be made available for parents and children at home.

Packs for Week 1 are being added as soon as they are completed and will all be available by the end of the week. Further packs will follow.

https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/learning-home-packs/?utm_source=Hamilton+Trust+Bulletin&utm_campaign=11c7161c6c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_16_12_55_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_24fafe3d7c-11c7161c6c-130149853

19.03.20 - Writing at Home

If you're looking for resources or activities for independent learning or home education, these YouTube Kids playlists have been created to make it easy for children to create some inspired writing. Scroll down to find each playlist and to download writing templates. Suitable for KS1 to KS3.

https://litfilmfest.com/playlists/

https://litfilmfest.com/home-ed/

19.03.20 - Year 6 SPaG Curriculum

Here's a knowledge organiser that outlines the Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar skills taught at Year 6, all handily set out on one page. These can support revision of the SPaG curriculum. 

19.03.20 - Maths Early Morning Work

18.03.20 - Maths Early Morning Work

17.03.20 - Maths online learning links

https://login.mathletics.com/

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student 

Battles have been set: Hawks vs Eagles and Hawks vs Owls and Eagles vs Owls.

https://www.purplemash.com/sch/white-tq4

17.03.20

Maths Activities -

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhdwxnb

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/ordering-and-sequencing-numbers

Learning Journey

https://www.literacyshed.com/home.html - Stories and clips for writing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhrrd2p - SPAG activities. 

Reading

Below is a link to free e-books available to parents, you can choose your child's level by clicking on 'levels' and find a book appropriate to your child's current reading level.  

https://connect.collins.co.uk/school/WHITEROC2/Student/

https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/ - Oxford Owl Login: Password: 1234

https://www.researchify.co.uk/audiobooks.html - Free children's books and audiobooks 

SATs Practice

If you wish to revise SATs papers, past papers are available to download for free here:

https://www.sats-papers.co.uk/