Netton Class

Welcome to Netton Class

Summer Term 6

We hope you enjoyed your half-term break and made the most of the wonderful sunshine! We enter this term with continued uncertainty but know the wonderful learning at home will continue! It is lovely to see our key worker children at school and hope it is not too long until we are all together safely again. 

This term we will continue with our topic, ‘Coasts’. Our learning will be based on the fantastic book ‘The Snail and the Whale’ by Julia Donaldson.  We will be looking at the descriptive language used in the story and using this in our own writing with projects including postcards and stories.  Phonics will continue to be set daily and it is really important to continue the repetition and activities given. Please also listen to you child read each day, either using a book from home or the online reading scheme.  We will continue to use White Rose for maths but have added extra optional daily activities to do if you need more practise or would like a challenge.  In the afternoons we have continued to set a topic or science based activity. Start collecting your plastic recycling now …! 

Each week the learning will be added below.  Please get in touch if you have any queries and please send any examples of work and photos that you would like us to share on our class web page.

From Mrs Higham and Mrs Clifford

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Learning for week beginning 29th June 2020

 

Overview Week 10

 

 

Please scroll down if you would like to see the work for a previous week.

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A SONG FOR WORSHIP

Reverend Perry has made a worship thinking about Justice. Click here to watch it.

 

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Have a look at what we have been doing at home this week!

 

​Watch this terrific film by Millie as she  explores the Ocean and the little crab she meets with an important message about recycling plastic.  Thank you!

 

The snail is off on an adventure! First stop, the Maldives.	A wonderful story about Mr Bump!
More crystal work!	Some powerful similes!	Thinking about the simple present and simple past tense….
Some very smart transport…	Terrific crystals!	Be very proud!
Look at this shimmery, slippery squid!	All aboard  the seagull!	How to travel by seagull.
Important messages about our oceans.	Save our seas!	Pollution of our oceans.  Really eye-catching work.
Some tricky phonics mastered!	Read this!	Great sentence opener, adjectives and similes.  Well done!
There are 7 continents and 5 oceans.	The snail is facing a dilemma…what will he do?	Finding out about the world – this work is so neat!
Great to see some phonics:)	Animals and their habitats.	Very sensible reasoning!

 

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Check out what we did at home during term 5!

Amazing alliteration.	A trimeran boat design!	A boat launch!	The pirates are coming!	Great example!	A future journalist?!	A fine ocean habitat.	Great ocean habitat!
A pond for the boat	challenge complete.	Great reporting!	With sand!	Love Gary the Gull.	Grace Darling ideas!
Great description.	Lovely labeling!	Bueno!	Interesting questions.	A moving Gull!	Muy bien!	Breath taking!	Great ideas.
Yuk!	Lovely diary entries.	Nice maths thinking.	Great detail.	Be proud!	Again, yuk!	A revolting sandwich!	Wowzer!
No one will miss this!	strong point of view!	Great!	Good work!	Letter skills!	Disgusting!	More letter skills!	Life at home!
Great use of materials!	Great instructions.	Lots of hard work!	Very thoughtful!	Great diagram and labels	Any left over?	Great labeling!	A micro habitat

 

George has made a PowerPoint that you can watch here.  WARNING! It is DISGUSTING! 🙂

 

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Home learning planning and resources:

Overview week 9

Overview Week 8

Overview week 7

Overview week 6

Overview week 5

Overview week 4

Overview week 3

Overview week 2

Overview week 1

 

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ART Challenge!

Last term we did some fantastic cross curricular work in Netton for the Take One Picture scheme for the National Gallery.  Mrs Hawkes came in and ran a portrait drawing session which everyone really enjoyed and we have had lots of additional portraits sent in from home as a result.  We were hoping to follow this learning up during Art Week in the Summer Term but just in case we aren’t all back in time, it might be nice if the children looked to the painting for inspiration for their own art project at home!  

Here are some of our studies of Passion fruit.  They are growing in the hedgerow of the painting and represent ‘life’.

Create your own masterpiece in response to the painting!

you may like the huge hat that our hero wears…. or feel inspired to create your own banner or heraldry….. you might like the use of nature in the painting and create your own response to flowers… you may think about the battles you face in life and what they look like (what’s your armour?)….. you might explore your favourite fruit and think what it represents for you…. you might like the repetitive patterns in the painting and create a response to this… the painting might remind you of another painting…….

The ideas are limitless and can be expressed in any medium – drawing, textile, sculpture, paint, film or even just yourself!

 

This years painting is The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello, 1438-40.  Please take a look on their website to become familiar with the scheme:

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/learning/teachers-and-schools/take-one-picture

 

Please visit the other paintings at the National Gallery and take a family trip around the artworks from your sitting room! Maybe also visit the Tate – can you find any other galleries to visit from the comfort of your home? Share your ideas please!

 

Check this out!

The Getty Museum in California are asking people to recreate famous paintings by using everyday household items.

1. Choose a masterpiece

2. Choose three items from around the house

3. Re-create the masterpiece

– please click on the link to see some amazing examples:

 http:/http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/getty-artworks-recreated-with-household-items-by-creative-geniuses-the-world-over/#tips

 

 

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