Good morning Cedars,

I hope you are all well.  We seem to have a few more weeks of learning from home so hang in there make sure you are keeping to your home learning routine and we hope to see you back in school in a few weeks.

In the meantime I have set some more work for you, thanks and well done to Nour for sending her work in to me.  If you do have work send to :

admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk and out Cedar in the subject box.

This week we are looking at mental health.  It has been a strange and for many people an anxious time. We have focused on our physical health but making sure that we are keeping active and rightly so, but it is equally important that we make sure that our mental health is good and that we feel strong and able to cope with these difficult days. There are some activities for you to do in your weekly work and it would be a great activity to do with your family.

I hope that you enjoy the home learning this week,  Please make sure that you are reading every day and if you can make sure you are reading as wide a range of books as possible.  Remember Sumdog has Spelling and Grammar as well as Mental Maths open on the site, so log in and have a go!  If you want to practise your times tables log in to your Times Tables Rock Stars account or try Hit the Button.

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As we are still in May, please make sure that you are staying fit and active and keep going with the Active May challenge.

Good morning Cedars and Happy Friday to you all!

I hope that you have had a good week and that you have enjoyed the home learning tasks set. Well done to Kye, who has been really busy this week with his maths, well done, Kye also answered some reading comprehension questions on the Amazon rain forest and made some marshmallow crispy cakes which sound absolutely delicious. Thanks for sending this in Kye and I would love to see any work from the rest of the class:

Send to admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk and put Cedar in the subject box.

Remember that although there is no challenge this week, you can still go onto Sumdog, we have access to not only the maths site but also the Grammar and Spelling areas of the site too! Well done to Louis, Melissa, Youssef, Rashida and Olivia for getting in the zone and practising their mental maths skills.

READING

It is really important to make sure you are keeping up with your reading and this time has given us a really great opportunity to read some new and challenging books. I have started to read a book called Sapiens which is a history about Humans over the last 70,000 years. It is a really long book!

If you a haven’t already done so, please have a go at the Reading Challenge set by Mrs Levy.

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Here is a silly challenge for you. 

Challenge: If the answer if yellow, what is the question?

Have a go and send me your most ridiculous and funny ideas!

Reflection

I understand that these are strange times for us all and that it may be making some of us anxious.  If you are, have a look and try the worksheet below.  It will help you start to make sense of what is happening and give you some ideas how to cope and feel more in control.

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Good morning everyone, I hope that you had a great weekend, did  any of you have a VE Day celebration?  I did with my family, we made a delicious cake and had tea in the back garden. Have a look at Ms Steward’s VE Day collective worship if you have not already done so.

I have set some more work for you this week.  There has been a problem with accessing the White Rose maths so there is a link to the National Academy site, I hope that you are continuing with Active May, there are some activities with the Tokyo Ten for you to try at home.  There is also a great home experiment that you can try; growing crystals.

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Please send in any work that you would like to share to:

admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk and put Cedar in the subject box.

I hope that you are all staying safe, the new measures broadcast yesterday by the Prime Minister mean that we are allowed outside more but please make sure that you and your families are following

Good morning everyone and Happy VE Day!  I hope that you all have a great day celebrating the amazing and courageous feats of the armed services that led to the end of World War 2. Did any of you decide on a recipe to make and celebrate this important day?

I hope that you enjoyed the message that we sent out earlier this week.  We all had such great fun coming up with ideas for the photos, it really got our creative sides working.

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It’s going to be a beautiful few days, so get out and keep active.Make sure you give some attention to your sunflower if you have planted one, keep it watered as they can get dry very quickly in this weather.

I was in school with Miss Wainwright yesterday and we we both excited by Miss Stewards Bedtime Stories, make sure you tune in from 6 o’clock each weekday evening.

I know that many of you love to try your hand at some coding and I have found the Google code (you remember the one with the jumping bunny?) I I have had a quick look and the projects look exciting!

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Good morning everyone.

I hope that you are all well, staying safe and staying active, both mind and body!

Thank you to all the children who have sent work in, I always love to see what you have been up to whilst we have all been stuck at home.  This week is a very special week in that on Friday we have VE Day, which is the day we celebrate the end of the World War 2 in Europe.  If we were at school, we had planned to have a whole school tea party.  Sadly that is not possible but I hope that you can have your own celebration at home with your family; I have added some recipes that you may like to try.  I guess that there are some similarities between now and then.  Today we are having some trouble getting certain foods and ingredients and that was true back in 1945 as the country had 6 years or rationing, where many foods and ingredients were in short supply.

As I said earlier, it is important that we are staying active as much as possible, especially as we are now into our 7th week of lockdown.  Please make sure that you and your family are doing your very best to get some daily exercise and where possible you get outside to do it.  The weather is looking much nicer this week which makes it easier to do and the sunshine really lifts our spirits.  Please look at the Get Active in May post, there a lots of great activity ideas.

Here is your home learning for this week.

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Here are the links mentioned in your timetable of activities.

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KS2 VE Day Information PowerPoint

‘Code-Cracking for Beginners’ Morse Code Worksheet

Wartime Recipe Booklet

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P:lease remember to keep doing your daily reading and Sumdog.

Also, if you love bedtime stories (and we all do!) please listen in to Ms Steward’s bedtime stories on our Facebook page.

I hope you have a good week and I will be in touch later in the week. Oh and for those who are fans, it is World Star Wars Day – May the 4th! (and my dog’s birthday, she’s 2).

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Good morning Cedars, how are you all?

Have you all had a busy week?  The weather hasn’t been so warm this week but the rain should have helped the vegetables in my garden and hopefully your sunflowers too.

This week saw Captain Tom Moore’s 100th birthday and to celebrate his inspirational achievement of walking 100 lengths of his garden, here are some exercises that you can do, the aim is to do 100 repetitions of the activity.

Air Balloon Challenge Star Jumps Challenge Tap Up Tennis Challenge Catch and Clap – Copy

This links very neatly with Miss Beard’s Get Active in May.  Have a look at the Front Page News of the website for further information or click below:

Active May Challenge

A reminder too, for the Pyjamarama event happening today. Event’s take place until 6.00pm so it’s not too late to tune in!

I’ll be in touch next week with some more work to keep you busy over the week.  I hope that you enjoyed the project based work on the Olympics, Take care, stay safe and keep active!

Hi everyone, I thought I’d just write a quick note to let you know about this amazing man. You may have heard of him and what he has managed to do.  Read through the resources and see what you can find out about him.

Captain Tom Moore

As Tom Moore approached his 100th birthday, he set out to walk 100 lengths of his garden to raise money for the NHS during the corona virus outbreak.  He initially wanted to raise £1,000 but has so far succeeded in raising £29 million, a truly amazing amount of money.  To celebrate and in recognition of his achievement the Royal Mail has made a special post mark and any letters sent will be specially stamped until May 1st which would make a lovely memento.

To find out more about this remarkable man, please have a look at the resources below:

Picture News Special Resource – Captain Tom Moore 2020 (1)

Captain Tom Moore Resource – April 2020 (1)

Good morning everyone,

I hope this sunny morning finds you all well and happy.  It was wonderful to go out this morning walking my dog and I hope that you are all making an effort to go out and do your daily exercise.  Did you manage to dress up in red to celebrate St George’s Day?  If you did, I would love to see your photos, so please send them in.  I was in school earlier this week and I made some shields with the children who were in, which was great fun.

A reminder from Miss Thorn that the Wandsworth Sumdog challenge starts today.  Please do log in and keep your mental maths skills sharp.  I hope that we can do a bit better than last time, so please log in and get Cedar class onto the leaderboard!

I did not include this in your timetable but here is a link for P4C style ideas that you can use with your family.  It promotes discussion and thinking and would be an great activity to do as a whole family, there are different stimuli according to age, so have a look and let me know how you get on.

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It was really lovely to talk to some of you this week, you sounded like you were coping really well with the ongoing lock-down.  You told me that you were accessing the work on the website, doing lots of reading and getting creative.  Well done to you all and keep up the good work you are doing. If I have not called you this week, I will continue to make calls to the rest of you early next week. I am looking forward to speaking to more of you and finding out what you have been up to. If you have not done so, the workpacks  are still available for collection at the front desk, please ring the school mobile to gain entry into school.

To all those children and their families fasting during Ramadan, I wish you all the very best during this special time.