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Children's Activities for school closure

If the school is closed or your child is off for a period of time but well enough to try some school work below are some generic activties children can be doing. There are also links to TTrockstars/numbbots for maths activites and Oxford Owl for reading. Please also look at your child's class page for information from the Teacher of what they will be learning.

Reading:

  • •Child reads to an adult
  • Adult reads to a child
  • Discussing illustrations, why an author is the child’s favourite, comparing stories by the same author and different ones
  • Paired reading (child reads a bit, adult reads a bit)
  • Asking questions about the text
  • Predicting what may happen Looking at how the author has described a person, place or event Finding features which keep the reader interested (description including similes and metaphors, a mix of long and short sentences, questions and that moment where you go wow! What is coming next).
  • Reading different texts (eg comics, newspapers, leaflets, dictionary, the Bible, advertising cards etc)

Writing:

  • Writing for different purposes (eg newspaper report, a diary, a poster advertising something, a persuasive letter, a factfile about something they are interested in)
  • Using key words from the statutory word lists Practising the cursive style of handwriting with the lead in and lead out stroke.
  • Punctuation – full stops, capital letters, commas, exclamation marks, question marks, speech marks, brackets, colons, semi-colons, dashes, ellipsis…
  • Spellings from their key words list (perhaps build up a bank of words relating to their summer term topic)

Maths:

  • Number bonds to 10 and 100
  • Times tables (upto 12 x 12 in Year 4)
  • Inverse operation (3+4=7, 7-4=3) to make links
  • Fractions, decimals and percentages (eg 50% = ½ = 0.5)
  • •Telling the time Comparing measures (cm – m, m – km, ml – l, g – kg etc)
  • Recognising 2D and 3D shapes

Additional Needs:

For children who are on the Special Educational Needs Register or who may need to access activities to support learning further, please follow the route below:

Go to 'About us' then to 'Key Information' and scroll down to Special Educational Needs.