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Wynstream News & Events
Year 6 Home Learning
Mar 27, 2020
Dear Parents and Carers
Here are some suggestions from your child’s teacher of activities to help you keep your children occupied during the day. Please remember that they are indeed only suggestions and we do not want you to feel pressured in any way to turn your home into a home school. Do what works for you and your family and let us worry about getting your children quickly back up to speed when everything returns to normal. If you do only one thing, it would be best to keep your child reading. Reading to them, listening to them read and talking about what’s been read will be hugely beneficial. Beyond that, do what is easy, stress free and comfortable for you and your family.
English
There are a wide range of suggested writing activities within your pack, which you can complete either on the notes/word app on your tablet or phone, or you could use the handwriting pen we gave you and write into the yellow books we sent with your work. If you aren’t a fan of the longer writing tasks, have a go at just a paragraph or so a day to keep your hands and imagination working. We expect everyone to complete writing once a day as it is an important skill that you will need when back at school. Once you have completed those, http://www.pobble365.com/
has some great pictures with ideas for story starters and other writing ideas. Don’t like the picture? Skip on to find one you like.
Maths
You know the drill. You have the maths revision guide with activities based on your previous learning (place value, calculation, algebra, fractions etc.) as well as areas we have not taught you but you may have learnt in year 5. Work your way through as much as possible. On top of this, it would be great for you to complete tasks on Mathletics as well as completing as many sessions as you can on Times Table Rockstars per week.
Spelling
We’d love you to log into Readiwriter on a regular basis, practising different spelling rules. You could also use the menu on the left of your screen to toggle between different spelling rules. The more you practise, the easier they will become. If you are unable to get onto it for now, you can have a go at these (see next page). Make sure you ask a parent to test you. They could also ask you to put them into sentences to check you understand the context in which the spellings should be used.
Reading
Reading is essential! Like we said in our last letter, reading will open up the world to you! You can read alone, read out loud, read to a sibling, facetime a friend and read to them… the ideas are endless. You could even mute the television and put on subtitles (Miss Williams sometimes needs these when Luna is playing too loudly and something important happens on the programme). However, if you don’t have anything much to read at home, try these audio books. David Walliams is releasing a new audio book daily for a month and we know that lots of you love his writing. We believe this is the correct link https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/. Mrs Ridler is in the process of setting you all up with a scholastic account. You will then have free access to all of their online books and can take quizzes on them once you are finished – it’s similar to Accelerated Reader. Finally, you should all have logged on to Read Theory by now. It is a great activity to complete with an adult at home.
In your next homework, we are planning some activities based on a new science unit – light. Alongside this, cast your mind back to what we have learnt so far about the Anglo-Saxons in history. We suggest that you start thinking about light (sources of light, how we see things) and think back through the learning we have done so far on the Anglo-Saxons. This website is good for a relatively simple overview http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/saxons.htm. They also have lots of information about many areas of the curriculum.
Finally … Easter is coming up but how much do you really know about Easter except that it’s a good excuse to eat chocolate for breakfast. What can you find out about the Easter story for RE? Your job is to research the history behind Easter, a Christian occasion. You can present your learning however you wish – a cartoon strip, poster, story, fact booklet, a video made on your tablet.
Make sure you stay inside and stay safe. Enjoy being able to spend time with your family and keep yourselves busy.
We miss you and hope to see you soon,
Miss Williams, Mrs Ridler and the rest of the year 6 team.
As you are aware there is currently an amber weather warning in place as storm Ciaran moves towards Devon. An amber warning presents a risk to life, but there is also a large amount of uncertainty about this weather front which means it could increase to a red warning overnight. The combination of wind, rain, and the storm moving over warm sea waters increases risk of very high wind speeds, flooding and trees falling. An emergency strategy meeting has taken place today and it was agreed that we need to ensure school leaders fully appreciate that the current weather warning presents a risk to life and could worsen. Based on the information we have, Devon County Council have taken the decision today to ask all staff where possible to work from home. We are asking all schools to consider the high level of risk presented by this storm and make a decision today about their operations tomorrow. This potential risk to life means that we have taken the regrettable decision to close schools tomorrow. We do not do this lightly. The school will be shut to all pupils and staff. Information on work provided will be sent out later this afternoon Schools will be open as normal on Friday 3rd November. Thank you for your understanding.
On Wednesday 19th April our children began to think about ‘rights’ and what being a ‘Rights Respecting School’ means. We will be looking for parents, carers, staff, governors, and children to help us on this journey. Please speak to Ms Redman or Miss Humphreys if you are interested in helping. Please look at the following for more information: What is a Rights Respecting School? - UNICEF UK
A message from our Chair of Governors. Hello. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you all back to the school after the Easter holidays. As you are aware Wynstream is now part of Education South West Academy Trust. The school has already been working with the Trust for the past year. Together we are continuing to deliver support, exciting opportunities and high quality of teaching and learning across the school and the community. I hope you will all join me in embracing this new journey of Wynstream's future. Your sincerely Michaela Young Chair
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Do you know anybody who would make a great Community (Co-opted) Governor for our school? There is a vacancy on Wynstream's Local Governing Body and we are inviting nominations. Governors are welcomed as valued members of the governor team and play an important role. Life as a governor is interesting and varied. Meetings are at least once every half term. Training and support will be available. Please do let friends and family know, and ask anybody who is interested to pop into school for more information, or call 01392 284990. More information as well as the nomination form can be found by clicking here. Thankyou.
#LetGirlsPlay—Following on from the success of our #Letgirlsplay Girls football event last Wednesday, we have compiled a list of local girl’s football teams. We have also provided a list of other local football teams as a lot of teams will train girls and boys in mixed teams. Most Girls only football teams start at U12 (Year 7). Exeter City Girls development centre https://exetercct.org/courses-events/girls-development-centre-2/ Central FC Wildcats - Wednesdays Contact - jendixon@centralfc.co.uk https://find.englandfootball.com/provider/2311p1204304 Whipton Youth - Thursdays Contact - davidsherriff81@gmail.com https://find.englandfootball.com/provider/409p30007915 Weetabix wildcats https://www.devonfa.com/players/youth/weetabix-wildcats Other local teams Exeter Panthers – https://www.exeterpanthers.co.uk/ Heavitree Youth – https://www.heavitreeyfc.co.uk/ Central - https://www.centralfc.co.uk/Home Stoke Hill – https://www.stokehilljuniorsafc.co.uk/ Whipton – https://www.whiptonyouthfc.co.uk/ Alphinton – https://www.alphingtonafc.com/ West Exe – http://www.westexeyouthfootball.org.uk Broadclyst – http://www.broadclystfootballclub.com/ Cranbrook – https://cranbrookunitedyouth.co.uk/
We will shortly be recruiting for Co-opted Governors (non-parent, non-staff but members of the wider community.) Please speak to Ms Redman, our Headteacher if you know someone interested in this role and we can direct them to our Chair, Vice Chair or Clerk who can provide more information. Full information will be provided when nominations open.
Published by the National Online Safety Team.
Tuesday 7th February is Safer Internet Day 2023. We will be taking some time in the afternoon of Tuesday to watch this very informative video https://youtu.be/RmFxemdPCtM and discuss the question points within our classes. Do take a look at the video at home too. Thankyou!
Do you know what your child is watching on Youtube? National Online Safety have sent out some useful information for parents whose children have access to Youtube.
