Summer Term

As well as the learning projects on this page, check out the Computer Coding page for extra activities to complete. Computer Coding

Week 7: 13th July - 17th July

Fascinating Forces: Part 3

Monday: Watch the video.

Can you think of some everyday items that use pulleys, levers or gears?

There might even be some in your house or garden!

Tuesday: Machines are devices that make it easier to do work by increasing the force you can apply.

There are three types of machine to learn about:

1. Levers

These use a long pole and a pivot point to increase a force

2. Pulleys

These use a rope running over a pulley wheel to increase a force

3. Gears

These use cogs with teeth in to increase the force and also transit it from one part of a machine to another.

Below is a video of a Rube-Goldberg machine. It is a very complicated arrangement of moving parts that make up a large machine. See if you can spot examples of levers, pulleys and gears as you watch.

Thursday: Design your own Rube Goldberg Machine from yesterday's video.

Friday: Can you make your own Rube Goldberg machine? Upload a video of it to your portfolio.

For more ideas you can watch this video and this video.

Week 6: 6th July - 10th July

Fascinating Forces: Part 2

Monday: Do heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects?

Tuesday: Neil Armstrong tested Galileo's theory on the moon in 1969. Before you watch the film clip, make a prediction:

What happens?

A) The hammer will land first.

B) The feather will land first.

C) The hammer and feather will land at the same time.

Thursday: Watch the video below about air resistance.

Now let’s look at the air around objects and what happens when air moves.

A) Take a short strip of writing paper and blow over the top of it – why does the paper lift?

B) Place a sheet of A4 paper to make a ‘bridge’ between two books on the desk (see diagram). Blow underneath the paper. Why does the paper bridge drop down?

What happened?

Why do you think this happened?

Friday: When a skydiver jumps out of an aeroplane, they open a parachute. Air resistance causes them to parachute slowly to the ground.

Design and make your own parachute that will prevent an egg from smashing when it lands.

Record your investigation, like in the video below, and share this on your portfolio.

If you want to (and your egg didn't break), experiment with different parachute designs.

Which design caused the most air resistance and slowed the egg's fall the most?

Which design caused the least air resistance and didn't slow the egg enough, causing it to smash to the ground.

Week 5: 29th June - 3rd July

Fascinating Forces: Part 1

Monday: In this first task, you will be investigating the effects of gravity and air resistance on moving objects.

Read the instructions below first, then write a prediction that answers this question:

How does the size and weight of a ball affect the force needed to hit a target?

Investigation:

Set up a target in your garden.

Hit the target with a variety of balls of different sizes and weights. For example, a football, a tennis ball, a rugby ball, a cricket ball, a beach ball (inflatable ball) etc.

Consider the following questions:

Do you need to throw with more or less force to hit the target with a heavier ball?

Do you need to throw with more or less force to hit the target with a smaller-sized ball?

1. What did you find out?

2. Was your prediction correct? Why/why not?

Share your findings on your portfolio and add a photo of the investigation.

Tuesday: Today you're going to compare the flight of a ball and a Frisbee by throwing each at the target. If you don't have a Frisbee, you could try a plastic plate instead.

Observe what happens then answer these questions on your portfolio.

1. Did they both reach the target?

2. What forces were acting on the ball and the Frisbee? Choose from these forces: gravity, friction, air resistance.

3. Is the difference in their shape and weight significant? How and why?

4. Which has the biggest surface area? Use your knowledge of area and volume to help you estimate this.

Thursday: The Frisbee has a thin pointed edge that helps it to slice a path through the air but it also has a large surface area underneath that provides an ‘uplift’, lifting the Frisbee in the air so that it appears to be floating.

When anything travels through the air, the air flows around it and slows its speed. Objects that are streamlined in shape will travel faster through the air because of reduced air resistance (drag) acting on them. Planes, trains, cars and birds have smooth surface shapes, often narrow with a pointed front end (or nose) to cut through the air.

Today, you're going to test out air resistance (drag). Watch the video below to learn more about air resistance before you upload your answer to the question below.

Design and make 4 different paper planes which have different surface areas.

What affect does the surface area have on the air resistance?

A) The greater the surface area, the smaller the air resistance.

B) The greater the surface area, the greater the air resistance.

C) The smaller the surface area, the greater the air resistance.

Answer the question on your portfolio and if you want to, add a photo of each plane.

Friday: Choose some objects you could test that are of different weights and shapes, e.g. a feather, shuttlecock, paper circle, crayon, marble, table tennis ball, golf ball, football.

Select two objects and drop them both at the same time from the same height.

Which will hit the ground first?

Did your result surprise you?

Week 4: 22nd June - 26th June

Rainforests

Learning Project 8 - to be done throughout the week

The project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to learn more about the world’s rainforests. Learning may focus on the plants, animals and insects that inhabit the rainforest, food that originates there and weather patterns. It could look at plants and animals that can be found in the garden too.

Destroying Animal Habitats and The Homes of Humans:

Deforestation occurs in rainforests throughout the world. Trees are cut down on a huge scale, often to create space for grazing livestock or buildings. As part of this process, animal habitats and the homes of native people are often destroyed. Create a poster highlighting the impact of deforestation on both humans and animals. Think of possible solutions to some of these challenges and include these solutions on your poster.

Welcome to The Jungle:

Henri Rousseau was a French painter from the 19th Century who created many paintings inspired by jungles and rainforests, although he never actually visited one. Explore facts about this famous painter and create a jungle/rainforest piece of artwork in his style. You could draw, paint or create a collage, depending on the resources you have available at home.

Discovering Far off Lands:

In the 16th century, Sir Walter Raleigh sailed the Atlantic Ocean in search of a place called El Dorado. His expedition took him to Guyana and his search led him to discover the country’s rainforest. 400 years on, a group of children have taken on the challenge to follow in Sir Walter’s footsteps in their own expedition to Guyana. Watch this clip and explore the others on the BBC Teach website.

Plan your own expedition and consider what you would need to take with you.

Rumble in The Jungle:

Get that Heart Rate Going! Increase your heart rate by challenging yourself and members of your family to mimic the actions of animals which inhabit rainforests. Actions could include jumping over logs, ducking under branches, high knees through quicksand, running from a tiger etc. Record your heart rate (beats per minute) after each activity. Which activity increased your heart rate most?

Week 3: 15th June - 19th June

Under the Sea

Learning Project 8 - to be done throughout the week

The project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to learn more about life in and around the sea. Learning may focus on the strange and wonderful creatures and plants that occupy our oceans, their habitats and how human beings affect this environment.

Working Together to Save Our Oceans:

The BBC programme Blue Planet 2 sparked an outcry about the health of our oceans and the huge threat caused by plastics, but lots of people around the world are working hard to help solve this problem. Direct your child to read about Madison Edwards, a 12 year old environmental activist. Encourage them to do their bit to help preserve our oceans by asking them to keep a ‘plastic diary’ recording how much single-use plastic the family uses. Ask them to write down one thing that the family will do to use less plastic.

Speeding Through The Seas:

Sailfish are the fastest fish in the ocean. Challenge your child to be just as speedy and complete the following 5 activities as fast as possible: Star jumps, tuck jumps, press-ups, squats and lunges. Ask them to record how many repetitions of each activity they can perform in 1 minute. Can they beat their personal best? Challenge them to record their heart rate (beats per minute) after each activity. Recommendation at least 2 hours of exercise a week.

Pirates:

Daring Figures of History or Brutal Sea-Thieves?- Many books have been written and movies made about pirates. But who were the real pirates of the past? Direct your child to explore these facts about real pirates from history. They could create a fact file or information report about what they have learned, including key dates and figures. Alternatively, they could create a ‘wanted’ poster for a pirate, including facts about his/her deeds and adventures.

Bioluminescence (Lighting up Our Oceans):

Many sea creatures possess a fascinating light-producing ability called bioluminescence. Some fish dangle a lighted lure in front of their mouths to attract prey, while some squid shoot out bioluminescent liquid, instead of ink, to confuse their predators. Direct your child to find out about bioluminescence and how some sea creatures rely on this for their survival. They could then choose a sea creature which uses bioluminescence (like the anglerfish) and create a poster fact sheet about it, including what bioluminescence is and how their chosen sea creature uses it.

Week 2: 8th June - 12th June

Celebrations

Learning Project 7 - to be done throughout the week

This project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to learn more about celebrations. Learning may focus and different types of celebrations that take place and who may celebrate them. It could look at how people celebrate different events differently in other parts of the world.

Planning a Celebration:

It’s time to plan a celebration event of your choice. This could be a birthday party, an Eid celebration, an Easter hunt or anything else you wish to plan. You have £150 to spend and 25 guests will be attending. What will the money be spent on? Plan the celebration considering the location of the event, how you will decorate the venue, what your guests will eat and drink and how you will entertain your guests. Detail the timings of the event and any timings for preparation.

Time to Design:

Can you imagine your perfect celebration outfit? What would it look like? What would it be made from? How comfortable would it need to be? Design a costume for a celebration of your choice. Think about the patterns you would like to incorporate on your design and the cultural traditions.

Birthdays around the World:

Birthdays are celebrated differently in different countries. Write an information report detailing how birthdays are celebrated in the following countries: China, England, Spain, Italy and Mexico. Which country would you like to celebrate your birthday in based on your findings? Why?

What’s the same and what is different?

Select a holiday/festival of your choice and research how different countries around the world celebrate this event. You could compare whether it is celebrated at the same time, the outfits people wear, the food eaten etc. Make a video, poster or report of the things you have discovered.

British Celebrations:

In Great Britain, Valentine’s Day, St Patrick’s Day and Bonfire Night are just some of the celebrations that take place. Choose one celebration day and research how the celebration came to be. Using the information you have found, plot the events on a timeline and include dates, details and pictures/sketches.

Now create a poster advertising the celebration day. This could be done on a computer programme of your choice or on paper.

Week 1: 1st June - 5th June

Food

Learning Project 6 - to be done throughout the week

The project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to learn more food. Learning may focus on where different foods originate from, what makes a healthy meal, opportunities to cook etc.

Which Foods Contain the Most Sugar?

You must choose a selection of food items from the food cupboard, fridge and freezer. You will then identify the nutritional label and record the amount of sugar that each food contains. Once they have gathered the information, record the sugar contents in a bar chart and evaluate the data. How will your findings change what they eat?

Plough to Plate

Choose a food from any of the 6 main food groups. Locate the country/countries of origin on a world map and work out how far the food item travels to get to your plate. Following this, sketch a diagram detailing the journey the food has taken and add captions and time frames. What could we do to reduce how many miles our food travels? You could use the food calculator we used in our Going Global unit https://www.foodmiles.com/ to help you.

Come Dine with Me

You are responsible for creating a three course meal for your family. You need to create the recipes for a starter, main meal and dessert. Think about what ingredients you will need to make your recipe and write a shopping list of items. Research how much the ingredients will cost using a supermarket website of your choice. Where is the most cost effective place to buy the ingredients? You could then test out a recipe by making it for dinner that evening. Family members may even wish to score each course!

A Balanced Diet

Think about the food a toddler might eat compared to an adult athlete. Choose five different types of people (e.g. a child, teenager, athlete, teacher etc.) and draw a plate of food that will ensure they are eating a healthy, balanced diet. Underneath each plate, you must justify why you have chosen these foods. Think about the calorie intake each of these individuals might need. Can some people have more of one type of food group? If yes, why can they? https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrffr82/articles/zppvv4j

Learning Project 5 - to be done throughout the week

The project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to learn more about the environment. Learning may focus on changes to different environments, the impact of humans on environments, climate change etc.

● Let’s Wonder:

What is the weather like around the world? Which countries are most likely to have a snowstorm, torrential rain, heatwaves etc.

Find out about natural disasters such as forest fires, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and tornados. Where are these common?

Create a world weather map or select a country to create a weather report about.

How is climate change (video here) having an effect on the weather and natural disasters?

● Let’s Create:

What materials can we recycle? Have a look (using gloves) in your bin. Pick out some of the items and have a think about what they could be used for. Your challenge is to create a piece of art using recycled materials (examples). You could create a piece of art that is an image (flower, rainbow, animal) or that is a message or a sculpture.

● Be Active:

For peace of mind and strengthening, give yoga a try.

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

Fancy learning some dance moves? Have a look at Go Noodle.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2YBT7HYqCbbvzu3kKZ3wnw

Recommendation at least 2 hours of exercise a week.

● Time to Talk:

Discuss environmental issues in the UK. Air pollution, climate change, litter and waste are all examples of human activity that have an impact in the UK. What are the global environmental issues? What happens if we pollute the air? What happens if there is too much waste? Decide as a family how you can ‘do your bit’ to look after the environment e.g. you could set up a recycling station at home or have an earth hour each week.

Create a poster, a video advert or write a letter to a member of parliament to encourage others to use less electricity or use less plastic.

● Understanding Others and Appreciating Differences:

Culture and experience shapes our world views. Children growing up in the Netherlands, for example, have a much different understanding of the role of water in their lives than children in the Sahara Desert.

Think about food. How do people view food in the UK compared to those living in Ethiopia for example? Research a country where food and water are scarce. Find out about charities that help people in need, Red cross, Christain Aid, Islamic Relief or other charities.

Additional learning resources parents may wish to engage with

Classroom Secrets Learning Packs - These packs are split into different year groups and include activities linked to reading, writing, maths and practical ideas you can do around the home.

Twinkl - to access these resources click on the link and sign up using your own email address and creating your own password. Use the offer code UKTWINKLHELPS.

Week 4: 11th May - 15th May 2020

Animals and Habitats

Learning Project 4 - to be done throughout the week

The project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to learn more about key animals they are interested in. Learning may focus on exploring the physical aspects of an animal, their habitat, categorising animals etc.

● Let’s Wonder

Create fact files about deadly predators (a predator is an animal that eats other animals).

Draw pictures of the predators and label them with information you find out.

Where does the predator live?

Why does it live there?

What does it eat?

How does it capture its prey?

What special qualities do these predators have?

• • You could make a food chain to demonstrate why a predator is at the top of the chain.

  • You could make a set of top trump cards using the information you've found out.

● Let’s Create:

Explore the artist Franz Marc. Find out who he was and what type of artist he was. What did he like to create pictures of? Look at some of his paintings online. What do you notice about them?

Choose an animal to draw and add colour to, in a similar style to his.

● Be Active:

Get out into the garden and make a bug hotel.

Go on a mini beast hunt around your garden and any fields or woods if you can get out. Record what you find (drawings or photographs). If you find any minibeasts you haven’t seen before, you could always look it up online.

You could also create a branching database using Power Point, like we did in Computing.

Recommendation at least 2 hours of exercise a week.

● Time to Talk:

Find out which animals are your family members' favourites and why. Have a family debate about whether zoos should exist? Discuss whether you agree/disagree and why? Do your family members have a different opinion to you? Why not debate whether animals should be kept as pets?

● Understanding Others and Appreciating Differences:

Which animals are considered to be sacred around the world and why? Sacred Animals. Create a world map showing which animals live on which continents.

Who admires cows? Lions? Wolves? Which animals were important to the Egyptians and why?

Additional learning resources parents may wish to engage with

Classroom Secrets Learning Packs - These packs are split into different year groups and include activities linked to reading, writing, maths and practical ideas you can do around the home.

Twinkl - to access these resources click on the link and sign up using your own email address and creating your own password. Use the offer code UKTWINKLHELPS.

Week 3: 4th May - 7th May 2020

Different Viewpoints

Learning Project 3 - to be done throughout the week

The project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to learn more about different viewpoints. Learning may focus on physical viewpoints in terms of what you can see outside of the window at home, what others can see looking into your home and then progress onto personal viewpoints and of others.

● Let’s Wonder:

Draw a picture of yourself and label their drawing with the qualities and skills you have.

How do others see you differently? Ask people at home to add onto your picture what they think

you are good at. You could ask a friend what they think you are good at.

Watch this video (link) about Xinh. What words would you use to describe her? What is the same and

different about your lives?

● Let’s Create:

Complete an observational drawing of what you see outside a window in your house. Then get out into the garden and draw what you can see. What is the same? What is different? Find natural forms such as stones, leaves, flowers and animals. Complete sketches, showing an awareness of different viewpoints of the same object. Remember to concentrate on tone (light and dark) and shading.

● Be Active:

Joe Wicks is providing daily fitness sessions which can be watched live at 9am or saved for later.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

For peace of mind and strengthening, give yoga a try.

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

Fancy learning some dance moves? Have a look at Go Noodle.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2YBT7HYqCbbvzu3kKZ3wnw

If you can safely get outside you could try moving around with a ball, riding a scooter or bike, jumping on a

trampoline or going for a run or walk.

Recommendation at least 2 hours of exercise a week.

● Time to Talk:

Talk about keeping safe. Discuss different ways to keep safe. Basic hygiene rules, road safety, internet safety, water safety, being safe around the home, stranger danger. How do different people view this?

● Understanding Others and Appreciating Differences:

Listen to different pieces of music from around the world (Music). Which styles of music do you prefer and why? Can you learn a nursery rhyme or song from a different culture?

● Reflect:

Design your own ideal world. What are you going to include? Will your world contain the same things as other people? Which things are most important to you? You could compare you world with one that a friend has designed.

Additional learning resources parents may wish to engage with

Classroom Secrets Learning Packs - These packs are split into different year groups and include activities linked to reading, writing, maths and practical ideas you can do around the home.

Twinkl - to access these resources click on the link and sign up using your own email address and creating your own password. Use the offer code UKTWINKLHELPS.

Week 2: 27th -30th April 2020

Where do you live?

Learning Project 2 - to be done throughout the week

The project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to learn more about the area in which they live. Learning may focus on your local area, famous people, key landmarks and links to your city

● Let’s Wonder:

Think about your street. What type of houses are on your street? What type of house do you live in? What other buildings are close by? Find out about your local area, what different buildings does it have? How old are some of those buildings? How have they changed over time? Use a map to locate different places. Look on Google Earth. Draw your own map of your local area.

● Let’s Create:

Choose a building you most admire in your local area. Make a model of that building using materials of your choice (Playdough, junk modelling, lego etc…..) How well did you do? What would you do differently next time? What have you learnt?

● Be Active:

Get out into the garden, pull up some weeds or mow the lawn? Does your garden need a tidy up? Maybe you could plant some seeds.

Recommendation at least 2 hours of exercise a week.

● Time to Talk:

Were your family members all born in this local area? If not, how is their place of birth different to your own local area? If they were, how different is the local area since they were born? Talk about their memories of how it has changed.

● Understanding Others and Appreciating Differences:

Research different places of worship that can be found in your local area. Can you find your nearest Church? Mosque? Synagogue? Temple? Gurdwara? What can you find out about them? Draw pictures and label them with any information you find out.

● Reflect:

Think about what would improve your local area? What is your local area lacking? What spoils your local area? What could be done?

Additional learning resources parents may wish to engage with

Classroom Secrets Learning Packs - These packs are split into different year groups and include activities linked to reading, writing, Mand practical ideas you can do around the home.

Twinkl - to access these resources click on the link and sign up using your own email address and creating your own password. Use the offer code UKTWINKLHELPS.

Headteacherchat - This is a blog that has links to various learning platforms. Lots of these are free to access.

Week 1: 20th - 23rd April 2020

Family

Learning Project 1 - to be done throughout the week

There are a range of activities to choose from. There is no expectation that you complete them all. Select a couple that most stand out to you and your family and have a go at these.

The project this week aims to provide opportunities for your child to gain a better understanding of their own family. Learning may focus on what different makeup of families, what traditions your family has, stories linked to your family etc.

● Let’s Wonder:

Who is in your child’s immediate family? What other relatives do they have? How does their family link together? How many people do they have in their family? Why not spend time looking through old photos and talking about the people in their families. What family stories can they tell? How is life different to their parents and grandparents?

Create a family tree.

● Let’s Create:

Create a piece of artwork entitled ‘Family’. Have a look at Picasso. He uses shapes and lines to create pictures of people. Start by drawing yourself in his style. Draw different members of your family - they could be sat with you or it could be from a photograph.

What do you like about your work? What would you change?

● Be Active:

Joe Wicks is providing daily fitness sessions which can be watched live at 9am or saved for later.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

For peace of mind and strengthening, give yoga a try.

https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga

Fancy learning some dance moves? Have a look at Go Noodle.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2YBT7HYqCbbvzu3kKZ3wnw

If you can safely get outside you could try moving around with a ball, riding a scooter or bike, jumping on a trampoline or going for a run or walk.

Recommendation at least 2 hours of exercise a week.

● Time to Talk:

Spend some quality time together. Could you learn a new skill together? Play some board games. Have a family dinner and help out with the cooking.

● Understanding Others and Appreciating Differences:

Discuss how their family is different to other people’s families. Discuss whether all families are the same. Does it matter? Do all families have the same faith? Do all families worship in the same way? You have already created your own family tree. Get in touch with a friend and share. What is the same? What is different?

● Reflect:

Find out what music your family members enjoy. Listen to each other’s favourite songs. What do you like about it? What don’t you like about it? Identify the instruments you can hear and describe how the music makes you feel. Create a piece of music as a family - look around at the objects you have at home and think about the sounds they can make. Will your song have a fast or slow tempo?

Additional learning resources parents may wish to engage with

Classroom Secrets Learning Packs - These packs are split into different year groups and include activities linked to Reading, Writing, Maths and practical ideas you can do around the home.

Twinkl - to access these resources click on the link and sign up using your own email address and creating your own password. Use the offer code UKTWINKLHELPS.

Spring Term

Science: The Bread Investigation

You will need:

• 5 ziplock sandwich bags.

• 5 slices of bread - ideally fresh.

• 1 set of tongs.

Method:

1. Transfer 1 slice of bread into a sandwich bag WITHOUT touching it. You could use tongs for this. Seal the bag. Label this bag 'control'.

2. Use your hand to transfer the second slice of bread into a new sandwich bag and seal it. Label this bag 'unwashed hands'.

3. Using the tongs, put a slice of bread on top of a computer keyboard or tablet or mobile then place it in the sandwich bag and seal it. Label this 'technology'.

4. Using the tongs, put a slice of bread on the floor then place it in the sandwich bag and seal it. Label this 'floor'.

5. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water whilst singing Happy Birthday through twice. Now, use your clean hands to place the last slice of bread in its sandwich bag. Label this 'washed hands'.

Each day, take a photo or draw your observations. After one week, compare your photos/drawings. What conclusions can you draw? Do you need to continue the investigation for a further week?

Share your findings on your ClassDojo Portfolio. I have not set this as a task, but you can add this yourself when you log on using the code XOG JWY.