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Welcome to

Charing Cross.

Monday 1st February 2021

Hi Charing Cross

At the start of this new week, it's hard to believe that we have moved into February already. As a school, we will be participating in Children's Mental Health Week, so many of our activities will be linked to this including: cooking, outdoor art, music and a range of PSHE themed lessons. There is also an additional activity as we would like you to complete a PSHE questionnaire, which can be found in the assignments section on Teams.

Last week, it was lovely seeing so many of you joining me for registration and Q&A sessions - I look forward to catching up with you this week too. I think you are doing a great job with online learning and have been completing lots of work, which is brilliant.

A big thank you to all parents and carers for your help and support during these difficult times - it is very much appreciated. If you have any questions or queries then please don't hesitate to email me at silvercharing@connectedlearningmat.co.uk.

Enjoy your week.

Take care.

Miss Wright

Friday 22nd January 2021

Hi Charing Cross

It's Friday again!

Today's lessons are:

PE

Art

Music

French

Have a good day.

Take care of yourselves.

Miss Wright

Thursday 21st January 2021

Hi Charing Cross

Today's lessons are:

English

Maths

Science

Computing

Have a good day.

Take care.

Miss Wright

Wednesday 20th January 2021

Hi Charing Cross

Today's lessons are:

English

Maths

Theme

Have a good day.

Take care.

Miss Wright

Tuesday 19th January 2021

Hi Charing Cross,

Today's lessons are:

English

Maths

RE

TTRockstars (20 minutes)

Spelling Activity/ Monster Multiplication (2Dos in Purple Mash) (20 mins)

Enjoy!

Take care.

Miss Wright

Monday 18th January 2021

Hi Charing Cross,

We start a new week and today all learning will be back on Teams, so please ensure that you log on and complete today's lessons which are:

Maths

English

PE

Drama (under the BBC folder)

It is important that you all continue to use TT Rockstars (whenever possible) and make sure that you are reading every day as well for at least half an hour.

Hope you enjoy the lessons this week. 

Take care.

Miss Wright

P.E

Joe Wick's Workout

If you can stream it live, then please take part in Friday’s lesson.  Joe has said he is doing ‘Dress-up Friday’ again!

If you would like to do one of the previous sessions, then click the link on the attached document.

Mr Mead has added a throwing challenge for you to complete afterwards. Either look at the Powerpoint or play the video extract where Mr Mead explains all.

Art

Mrs Crockett has produced three videos for you to watch. You will need a pencil, some paper and some colours.

1) Watch the first video - Guided drawing

2) Watch the second video about James Rizzi.

3) Watch the third video - Guided drawing

14.1.21

Hi Charing Cross,

Thank you to all of you who engaged in yesterday's lessons - as expected we encountered a few teething problems (and I am sure there may be a few more yet) but we all showed great resilience to overcome these so well done everyone!!!

Tomorrow's lessons are as follows:

English (1 hour)

Maths (1 hour)

Science (1 hour)

ICT (1 hour)

Parents - if you wish to contact me by email with any questions/ queries then please can you send them to: silvercharing@connectedlearningmat.co.uk

Good luck!

Miss Wright

13.1.21

Hi Charing Cross

Today we launch Teams for children's remote learning, both an exciting and nervous time! Using your login details, you will now be able to access your lessons online. There will be English and Maths lessons Monday - Thursday with afternoon lessons incorporating our Theme, Science, P.E, ICT and PSHE/ RE.  On Fridays, there will be lessons for Art, Music, French and P.E, which will be delivered by specialist teachers in these subjects. 

When you log in to Teams, you might be able to see videos and resources for future lessons, but please do not rush ahead as there is plenty for you to do each day in the work that has been set. Also, many of the lessons are chronological and therefore need to be completed in the correct order.

Today's lessons are:

Maths (1 hr)

English(1 hr)

Theme (1-2hrs)

Remember that you can still access TT Rockstars and need to quiz your reading book using Renaissance Reading.

Keep an eye on the CBBC channel (am) and BBC2 (pm) as there are many educational programmes on at the moment each day, which can be watched in addition to the lessons provided to support and extend learning.

Remember that you can email me on silvercharing@connectedlearningmat.co.uk

Good luck and take care of yourselves.

Miss Wright

11.1.21

Hi Charing Cross

Thank you for all your hard work last week - it was great to see so many of you engaging in the activities on Purple Mash and the Maths and English tasks set here on our class page. 

This week, on Monday and Tuesday, I have once again set you work to complete on Purple Mash including: spellings, reading comprehension quizzes, Monster Multiplication, a leaflet about electrical safety and a history task linked to Queen Victoria. From Wednesday, we will be using Teams to deliver online learning, which is not only new to you but it is also new to us, so we will learn and work together through any initial problems!! Thank you in advance of your patience during this time. Your work will be set on Teams and, when you log in using the details you have recently received, you will be able to access relevant video links, documents to help with your learning and activity sheets to be completed.

If you need to contact me about work then the class email address is silvercharing@connectedlearningmat.co.uk . This week, I will be available Monday to Thursday, but I am working in school on Friday, so please bear with me as responses to any completed activities and replies to emails may well be delayed on this day.

Take care and keep up the good work.

Miss Wright

5.1.21

Hello Charing Cross,

I hope you had a lovely Christmas break and enjoyed watching some festive films, going on wintery walks (without the snow!) and, of course, eating a couple of mince pies! 

Unfortunately the new year has not started as we would have wished and, rather than seeing you back in class, we are going to have to use online learning again for a few weeks. Over the next three days (6.1.21 - 8.1.21), I will be putting the work you need to complete on this class page - there will be all the links you need to access relevant websites, powerpoints and documents. Some of the activities will be set as 'To Dos' in Purple Mash.

If you have any problems or questions then you can email me via Purple Mash. I am working in school on Friday this week, so will only be available on Wednesday and Thursday.

Good luck with all the tasks - challenge yourselves and be resilient!

Take care.

Miss Wright

SCIENCE

Our theme this term is history based and we shall be studying life in Victorian times and learning about major developments that happened during this period.

To begin with, over the next three days, we would like you to complete two tasks:

Task 1 is to research the life of Queen Victoria and make notes using the following headings:

- Early life & childhood

- Early adulthood

- Married life & children

- Key events during her reign e.g. The Great Exhibition

- Later life

Make sure you record the notes in your own words and include as much detail as possible as we will be writing a biography of Queen Victoria over the coming weeks and these notes will be very useful. I have added links below to a couple of useful websites but there will be plenty of others.

Enjoy researching and discovering.

Reading is very, very important so read, read and read a bit more! You can read books, magazines, comics, blogs, newspapers etc and you can read to yourself, anyone at home, your pet or even the flowers in your garden so no excuses - keep reading! Don't forget that you can still quiz books at home using the AR quizzes.

TT Rockstars

Remember to log in to TT Rockstars each day to practise your times tables. Play against yourself or set up battles between each other. Knowing your times tables will make every other topic in maths much easier so get practising Year 5 & 6.

PURPLE MASH

Winter Reading Challenge 

This year's Winter Reading Challenge launches this Saturday, the 5^th of December, in all Essex County Council libraries.

• To take part in the challenge children will be encouraged to collect their free giant bookmark from any Essex Library or mobile library. The theme is winter woodland animals. 
• There is no sign-up process or form filling.
• The giant bookmark has 6 blank spaces on the front and once children have read a book or books (preferably books they have borrowed from their local library!) they can then collect a stamp on their card. There are also additional gold stickers when the challenge has been completed.
• The reverse side of the bookmark is a black and white scene that children can colour in at home. 
• The challenge will run until February next year.

See below for a poster explaining the challenge in more detail.

OUT OF THIS WORLD RESOURCES

Came across this set of resources produced by NASA and thought it looked interesting - lots of different elements to the website so make sure you have a good look.