Monday 1st February

 Good morning everyone! 

I hope that you had a good weekend! 

This week is mental health awareness week. Mr Staley has made this assembly for you

Here are your tasks for today: 

Reading 

We are going to use Reading Plus again today. Today's task is to use the vocabulary section for 20 minutes. 

Click lessons at the top and then the Vocabulary option that you can see above. 

Spelling Task

Here are your spellings. Complete rainbow words using these spellings

English Task 

Remind yourself of the features of formal reports

Having looked at features of blog and report writing, today we are going to begin by analysing a more formal report. Start by looking at this example of a report. It is about cats and bird populations. 

You can see that there are subheadings for each paragraph. There is also a main point at the beginning of every paragraph. This main point is then expanded on with evidence and facts to back it up. Notice that there aren't any opinions in this report. It is all facts. Have a look again at the features of a report.  

Task: 

Read the report and highlight all the different features that you can see. Pay close attention to the first sentences that introduce the paragraph and the sentences that follow which contain lots of facts, evidence and quotes from other people. 

Also notice the difference between the formal vocabulary of the report and the informal language of the person speaking. 

Practise writing a formal report paragraph with a strong opening sentence followed by further information to back up your main point. The topic of this paragraph is...Home learning. I will discuss with you on the Zoom meeting how this might look. 

Maths Task

Begin with your fluent in 5

Today we are going to be looking at solving simple one step equations using formula. 

Watch this video carefully. 

Then your worksheet is here 

The answers are here 

You have some further challenges here if you need them. 

Geography 

Today you are going to be thinking about how people use waterways and the impact on the local environment. 

Follow the activities on this PowerPoint

Then there is a sheet here for you to use. 

You need to think about the effects that people can have on the river. For example: 

Fisherman: Positive effects - can control fish populations, can report any problems to the local council, as they are by the river bank, they can help people if they get in trouble on the river, they can keep an eye out for local crime, they might clear up any litter that they see. 

Negative effects - they may over fish and fish stocks will decline, they may drop litter and spoil the countryside, they may get in the way of other river users, discarded fishing line my endanger local birds

Long term effects - Fish stocks may be protected or decline, the local environment could continue to improve as fishermen/women report issues to the local council 

CPSHE 

This week is mental health week. We are going to have a well being task for you to do every day but today we are going to focus on mental health and what is physical and what is mental health.

Although physical and mental health are different, for example breaking your leg (physical health) and feeling sad or worried (mental health), they are very closely related. 

Here is a good video that explains the link between physical and mental health. 

If we are feeling low, sad, stressed or angry about something, it can affect our physical health too. We might lose sleep, stop eating, lose weight or sweat more than usual. This is also true for our physical health! If we are feeling ill, say we have had a cold for more than a week, it can affect our mood, we can feel fed up, sad or angry. So you can see that physical and mental health are very closely related. 

I would like for you to think about signs of positive and negative mental health. Use these gingerbread people and write or draw signs of positive and negative health (both physical and mental). Do as much as you can in and around the gingerbread person.