Morning Elms,

Hope you are all well!  It was so nice to see more of your work this week. Thank you, Rayann, Jahmal, Danial and Joe! I really hope you enjoyed learning about volcanoes, I know I did! If you haven’t sent it work, I would really like to see your information leaflets on Volcanoes so please send them in!

I’ve seen amazing maths from Rayann and Jahmal.

Danial has been working hard completing lots of the tasks, including the RE.

Joe even attempted the volcano experiment!

Continuing to think about our mental health but this time here are some top tips for being kind to ourselves!

1. Put it on paper. Writing or drawing a picture that says “I like you” or “thanks for coming to my house to play” are easy things to write down and can mean a lot to the person you are writing to. You can even try writing a note of kindness to yourself!
2. Talk about the good things. Ask each person in your family to say one good thing about their day. This helps us to identify and focus in on positive experiences from the day. “I had fun playing soccer at recess” or “My lunch was extra-yummy” are all examples of good things you might say.
3. Lend a helping hand. Helping others can be a great way to show kindness – and it can make you feel good too! Help your little brother get dressed, clean up your books, or help mom wash dishes or set the dinner table.
4. Be kind to your body. Eating healthy foods, like fruits and veggies, and being active by riding bikes, kicking a ball or playing on the playground are all ways to show our bodies kindness. Getting lots of sleep is important too.
5. Encourage yourself. Go me! It can be easy to say unkind things about ourselves when we make a mistake or do not do well on a test. Instead, try saying encouraging things like “At least I won’t make that mistake again!” or “I just need to keep practising and I’ll be better every time.”

THINKING TIME…

Finally,

Word of Wandsworth are launching an exciting poetry competition in schools across the borough, for children in KS1 and KS2. The theme this year is ‘happiness’.

To enter the competition, write a poem all about happiness. It can be written in any style you like, the only rule is that it can’t be more than 20 lines long.

For more details of the competition and how to enter click here: WoW Poetry Competition

Good Morning Elms,

Another weekend at home but now we are allowed to exercise more, which has been really nice as I’ve been trying to do more walking and I even went swimming at my local lake! It was pretty chilly but really nice to go swimming. This weekend I have done lots of painting and continued doing the Active May Challenge! What did you do this weekend, anything different? I know some of your birthdays were last week or were still completing Ramadan – I hope they were all wonderful, regardless!

Last week, our theme was all around the fact it was SATS week and it was really nice to see work from Jahmal and Joe- well done boys! I would love to see more of your work this week so please send it in to:
admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk and put Elm in the subject line.

This week our work theme is Volcanoes!

Volcanoes are so unusual and there is so much to learn about with them. I’ve always loved learning about volcanoes so much that I even went and climbed one! It was called Mount Rinjani (picture below), can you find out where it is? Or what type of volcano it is? Is it active or dormant? They are the questions you should be able to answer by the end of this week!

Elm Week 9 Timetable

And this week for the maths, the worksheets are attached below:

Maths Lesson 1 – Multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1,000

Maths Lesson 2 – Multiply decimals by integers

Maths Lesson 3 – Divide decimals by integers

Maths Lesson 4 – Decimals as fractions

This week is also Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme is kindness!

In Elm class, I know how kind you all already are but during this difficult and strange time we need to be extra kind to ourselves and to others! This week, to continue our amazing work around mental health here is some activities but before you complete these activities, Ms Morgan has kindly made a little story reading on the book, which is linked to Mental health, so please go and watch that first!

Mental health awareness week activities

To remind ourselves what mental health is, watch the video below:

To get the week going, here is our brain teaser challenge of the week, can you solve it?

Have a fantastic week, keep doing the Active May Challenge, keep being positive, looking after yourself and your family members and we will all be together before you know it! I look forward to seeing your amazing work this week 🙂

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a good week and enjoyed completing the silly SATS tasks earlier on in the week. Please make sure, this week, you send in your work to admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk with Elm as the subject- I haven’t seen some of your work and it would be really nice to see what you are doing!

So time for something to get us thinking…

Can a robot be human?

1. What can your computer do that humans also can?
2. Is there anything that humans can do that computers cannot? Name as many things as you can.
3. Does your computer have feelings? What makes you think so? Can you be sure?

Activity: I would like you to draw or build a robot, you can use any materials in your house, and I want you to pretend it is alive… I know a little strange… But do you treat it differently knowing it is alive?

Reading

I know some of you would have seen but for those who haven’t, Mrs Levy has shared an exciting reading challenge. I know what great readers you Elms are so have a go at completing it:

Reading challenge 9-11 years

A moment to reflect

Joe has written a lovely prayer from the RE lesson this week. Have a moment to yourself and read it through. You can share it with your family.

Joe’s Prayer

Finally, I know this is a very strange time and you may be feeling a little worried. Have a read of the book below and remember it is okay to worry!

Good Morning Elm, I hope you are all doing well after a lovely long weekend with possibly some celebrations; who had a VE day social distancing street party? Please make sure you go and watch Ms Steward’s collective worship on VE day, it is a good one!

Now for us, today is a very strange day to be at home as today would have been the start of SATS. So here is a poem for you all to remind you that we are still so proud of you and the journey you have been on through school at St. Anne’s…

To all our wonderful year 6’s,

As SATS week arrives it is not quite the same,
the tests that were printed this year never came.
The displays all still up; walls with our maths ‘rules’,
but Year 6 very different, at present, in schools.

For some of you, happiness, lots of relief,
for other a sigh of pure disbelief,
that you worked really hard in advance of this week,
expected and greater depth marks you did seek.

Algebra, fractions, the time table drills,
inference, retrieval, in-depth reading skills,
past, present, progressive… and all the SPAG terms,
you’ve practised and mastered them over the years.

Fear not tough, the SATS, yes, won’t happen this term,
but remember tests don’t measure everything you learn.
Primary subjects are varied, you’ve always tried your best,
and many of those skills that you’ve gained can’t be defined by a test.

So, here at St. Anne’s, you’ve made us so proud,
we sit here with pride and we shout this out loud…
“Year 6 you amaze us, you’ve come incredibly far…
and we don’t need a test to see how amazing you are.”

I hope you are all really proud of yourselves and can see  how much progress you’ve made in your learning but also in growing up to being at the top of the school because all the staff at St. Anne’s can see it. As it is SATS week, here is some silly SATS questions for you to do, I hope you enjoy them and they make you smile!

Silly SATS Maths paper

Silly SATS Grammar paper

Silly SATS Reading paper

This week, I wanted to make sure we focused on those subjects we would have done more of post SATS… So you have music, art, ICT, P4C, and some RE, without forgetting your ACTIVE MAY. Please enjoy these lessons, its a chance to learn a new skill or develop on one. Next week we might start doing some more acting, which could be interesting at home!

Elm Week 8 Timetable

Now, as with my Monday theme I have a question for you.. Today it is an odd one out, can you work out why one of them is an odd one out!

1. Rotator
2. Reviver
3. Reorder
4. Radar
   This link will help you, if you can’t work it out!
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QC20PBvunI

I miss you all so very much Elms, and hope to see you all soon. If you haven’t already, please watch the video message we created for you:

In this time when you are stuck at home and not having as many opportunities to exercise, does making something fun more appealing?

Watch this video, with your family members!

1. If you saw some piano stairs, would you walk on them? Why or Why not?
2. Is making things fun a good way to change behaviour?

Activity: Think of one thing you would like to change about your behaviour towards something, can you find a fun way to make it achievable for yourself this week?

Don’t forget it is Active May… Are you keeping yourself accountable? I’m getting my sister to video each day to make sure I do it (or at least attempt it) I will post my video tomorrow of this week’s activities!

Active May Challenge

Finally, tomorrow is VE day! What preparations have you done? Have you made any bunting or attempted any of the war baking? I look forward to seeing all it it when you email me! 🙂

Remember to send all work to admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk

Good Morning Elms,

Can you believe it is now May? Crazy to think that we are now fully in spring and you can really notice it with all the blossom on the trees and my sunflowers have started to sprout! Luckily, this week the weather is meant to be much better than last week, which always keeps me more positive.

This weekend, I had a really lovely celebration for my birthday. I went out cycling, put face masks on with my sister, as if we were at a spa, dressed up in fancy dress and spent the evening singing my heart out on the karaoke machine. A very good birthday considering I couldn’t see my friends! What did you do this weekend? Have you all started the Active May challenge? We made an obstacle course in the garden and even attempted to get the dog to join in, she didn’t want to though. I hope you are all challenging yourself and attempting the gold challenge. I will be uploading videos of my attempts this week!

Active May Challenge

Last week, the theme was Pirates. I was really pleased to see some of your work this week and Danial wowed me! Well done to all of you for staying focused and completing the tasks, I know it isn’t easy but we have to stay strong and routine is key. Make sure you are completing one activity a day, minimum, along with the active may challenge and your daily reading to keep yourselves learning.

Below I’ve put two pictures from Danial’s work last week: well done Danial and keep it up!

This week the theme is World War 2, can you guess why? Yes, VE day is on Friday so I thought it was important to know a little bit more about the events that led to this celebration…

Elm Week 7 Timetable

The Wandsworth Sumdog challenge is now over but you can still keep playing on it. Well done to Amelia, Rayann and Joe for using Sumdog last week 🙂

If you want any extra learning this week, the BBC bitesize are doing three lessons a day, which look really exciting! Some great SPAG content and they have some lessons on Geography by David Attenborough

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons

Also, watch Ms Steward’s story time by going onto the St. Anne’s Facebook page. I saw that Wirda watched this week.  Following our new value of unity, it is always nice to come together for a story.

Follow our Facebook page: StAnnesSchoolWandsworth

As is becoming a regular theme, I have a little brain teaser, challenge for you to get you going. They are called Rebus puzzles and they are something that really can get you brain working and you have to work out what phrase the picture means… Can you guess these ones?

I look forward to seeing your work by the end of the week, all about WW2.
Send any pictures to:
admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk and put Elm in the subject line.

Hello my wonderful Elms,

Really nice to speak to some of you today, again or for the first time, lovely to hear that you are all healthy and able to do some work.

I’ve got some really exciting extras I’ve found this week…

1. On Thursday, the Chichester theatre are doing a broadcast of the Midnight gang production, which I thought would be really nice to watch as I know most of you have read the book! It is going to be available for 30 days so definitely check it out.
   https://www.cft.org.uk/the-midnight-gang-broadcast
2. I know how much you guys love dancing and exercise is really important.. Here is some Disney dance alongs for you to enjoy!
   https://www.thisgirlcan.co.uk/activities/disney-workouts/

3. 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. Why don’t you try writing a letter, and getting the special post mark, to a family member so they can have the memento to put in their time capsule as a way to remember these unusual times.

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

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

4. The Royal Opera house are providing some amazing craft ideas and I found one that links to our pirate theme. Why don’t you have a go?
https://learning-platform.roh.org.uk/adventures-on-the-high-seas/

I look forward to seeing your work by the end of the week, all about pirates, have any of you got the ingredients ready to attempt making a pirate cake? Send any pictures to:
admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk and put Elm in the subject line.

Hello Elms,

This week has been a really lovely sunny week, I’ve been going out on my daily walks to make the most of it, and I’ve been lucky enough to speak to lots of you this week which has put a big smile on my face! Well done to all of those who have been coming onto the school website to see what work has been put up here and well done to those who are continuing to work so hard at home. If I didn’t manage to speak to you this week, I will try again next week to make sure you are all doing well and able to access the school website.

I hope you all have enjoyed my magic themed week- I have made a wizard’s hat and attempted a magic trick, although I definitely still need practise. Again, thank you to those who have sent work in this week: Joe, it was really nice to see some of your writing!

The Door by Joe

Our school has been decorated with beautiful balloons to bring some happiness and joy to our community. Maybe you have seen these on one of your daily walks?

I hope you got to see Ms Steward’s special St George’s Day collective worship! If you have a photo of yourself wearing red remember to get an adult to email it to :
admin@st-annes.wandsworth.sch.uk
I will be making a collage over the weekend from all those who have already sent it in!

The Wandsworth Sumdog challenge starts TODAY! 🙂 Let’s get enough players this time to make it on the leaderboard and get Elm Class to the top!

This week I’ve been doing some painting and completing some maths puzzles; I’m trying to keep my brain switched on! Can you crack the code below?

To all those children and their families fasting during Ramadan, I wish you all the very best during this special time. To all of you, have a lovely weekend!