During these unusual times our teachers are thinking of new ways to connect with their classes, this is increasingly involving new technology! Please understand that our teachers are working hard to regularly set work for children online and to virtually monitor and possibly interact with the children. This may look slightly different for each class at the moment, as each teacher is navigating their own journey with this new technology. Therefore, we ask that you continue to be supportive during these unprecedented times and not necessarily expect instant replies to queries and understand that sometimes feedback may just be a "like or a smiley face"! If we all work together we will come through this stronger and with an increased sense of community! Happy learning!
Welcome to the Stingrays Class page
We are a Year 4 Class and Mrs Banks is our teacher.
School is now closed for most children, until further notice. I will post work on this page every week for your child to complete. Each child has received an orange home learning exercise book in which they can complete the activities. They have also received login details for Purple Mash and ReadTheory. When your child returns to school they can bring in their home learning book for me to look at. Children can also post stories, pictures, and videos of their work on ClassDojo, either in their portfolio or via a message for me to put on Class Story.
This page will be updated weekly on Monday morning.
I hope this is helpful to you and your child.
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Dear parents and carers,
We are now at the end of the strangest school year ever and I am deeply saddened to be saying goodbye to Stingrays Class. It has been a pleasure and a privilege to call myself your teacher and I wish you all the very best as you continue on your academic journey. Many of you have returned to school and proven that no matter which bubble you are in and who your teacher has been, your strength and resilience has shone through, and I know you will continue to remain motivated and excited by your new teachers and classes as you move into year 5. Those of you still home learning I am proud of how hard you have worked and kept up with your learning despite the challenges that you faced, you are an inspiration to future generations. I cannot help but think of you all whenever I hear Titanium by David Guetta ft Sia, you truly are 'bullet proof'! (Please check with a grown up before watching this as at the end of the video it will lead into another track automatically).
Quite a few parents have asked for summer holiday work and we have found some activities for your child to complete at their leisure, recapping some of the essential learning for this year, for every year group. If the work for your child is too hard or not challenging enough, please feel free to download a pack from a different year group. There are also lots of online activities that will still be accessible over the holiday, the links to these are further down the page.
In the year 3/4 class bubbles we will be doing some fun challenges until Wednesday lunchtime. You will find some of these listed below too in case your child would like to participate remotely. I'm looking forward to seeing pictures of dens and Taskmaster challenges on ClassDojo.
If you haven't already done so, please watch our 'See You Soon' video.
Stay safe and have a brilliant summer!
Mrs Banks x
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Home learning activities for Summer
Write a book review about a book you read over the summer. Remember reviews can be positive or negative Book review
Den building idea 1, idea 2, idea 3, idea 4, idea 5
Rye Writers: A Time Capsule
Please take a photo or email your letter over so it can be added to our collection. It will be buried in the allotments and hopefully discovered in the future! Keep your letters creative and imaginative.
Letter to my future self template, Questions for capsule letter
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Mental Health and Well Being
A book for children to read, explaining the Coronavirus, how to deal with the impact physically and mentally. 
Headspace meditation and mindfulness. There is also an app
Young MInds a website offering support
Back to school resource
My Back to School Bubble is a FREE e-storybook which aims to help children understand the new protective measures that may be in place at their school, in an age-appropriate way. It reinforces public health messages including the importance of hand and respiratory hygiene, while reassuring children that everyone makes mistakes, helping to combat feelings of anxiety, that have been reported by parents.
More information can be found on the E-Bug website.
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Staying active
Join the nation doing PE with Joe at 9:00 am every day!
Premier Sports, who provide our school PE provision with Mr Sayer each week, are releasing a daily video at 3:30pm on their YouTube channel. The idea is that this can act as an after school home learning activity and replace the exercise children would normally get during extra-curricular clubs. Sessions will focus on activities including dance, football, fitness, gymnastics, basketball, tennis and yoga and more. So far they have filmed five weeks’ worth of content, and sessions include “Personal Best’ challenges so they can be completed again and again as children keep trying to improve.
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Useful resources to download
Conjunctions and other connectives word mat
Sentence Starters (Non-Fiction) word mat
Maths objectives year 4 number and other maths
Writing objectives year 4
Reading objectives year 4
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Online lessons and web-based activities
For children who would like to do a little more or something different that fits the year 4 curriculum objectives.
Maths
White Rose Maths
How to help your child with maths at home
Maths Reasoning lessons Home learning challenges for year 3 & 4 by Gareth Metcalfe.
Third Space Learning offers a range of home learning resources with a maths focus.
Times Tables Rockstars
ICT Games
Top Marks (where Hit The Button can be found but also lots of great tips and resources)
English
Oxford Reading Owl
Teach handwriting
Pobble 365 English and writing activities
RadioBlogging Writing lessons and word games led by Pie Corbett, especially for KS2 children. Pie Corbett is an expert at teaching writing. The radio show is co-hosted by different famous guests each day.
Live writing lessons To help the children continue to grow as writers and improve their writing skills, they can take part in these daily (live) writing lessons. The sessions are led by Jane Considine, who devised the writing approach we have adapted at Rye Primary School. The aim is to write a story with all the children in the UK every day. The sessions start each day with a short lesson and instructions at 9.45 am. Then you can watch the movie of the day and choose a chunk to write nine fantastic sentences. The deadline for entries is 2 pm each day. A round-up of entries and the finished story will be shared on YouTube at 3.30 pm.
Other Subjects
BBC Bitesize provides lessons in all subjects from 20 April.
Oak National Academy daily lessons in all subjects. Good for English grammar and maths revision
STEM go here for home learning activities involving science, technology and maths.
Twinkl (use code UKTWINKLEHELPS for one free month of ultimate membership)
Things to do:
I'm sure you have lots of activity ideas but I know as a parent these run out quickly!
Here are a few of my tried and tested activities that you might like to have a go at.
- Make playdough (good for strengthening muscles which in turn helps to improve handwriting - watch Dough Disco)
- Make Oobleck and find out about this weird Non - Newtonian Fluid
- Make slime
- Bake cookies or cakes. Write up afterwards as a recount.
- Painting and drawing
- Gardening, weeding, planting vegetable seeds, flower bulbs
- Play board games and card games
- Make up a new board game and card game. Write up the rules and explain it to your family.
- Put on a talent show. Dress up, perfect a talent, song or skill.
- Do a crossword/ Wordsearch. You can even make up your won for others, using the Common Exception Words or Topic Words.
- Visit a museum. Many museums have opened their virtual doors, now the physical ones are closed. What surprised your most? What was your favourite thing to see or learn about?
Archive
Term 6 Topic overview 15/06/2020
Home learning overview w/c 13.7.20
Music and French are on the weekly overview
English overview, Poem and Colour mats
Reading comprehension - beginner, easy, tricky, expert
Rye Writers: A Time Capsule
This week, we'd like you to create a letter to your future self to be buried in a time capsule. Please take a photo or email your letter over so it can be added into our collection. It will be buried in the allotments and hopefully discovered in the future!
Keep your letters creative and imaginative.
Letter to my future self template
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Homelearning overview w/c 6.7.20
Maths day 1 PowerPoint, fluency and reasoning
Maths day 2 PowerPoint, fluency and reasoning
Maths day 3 PowerPoint and fluency
Maths day 4 reasoning and extension
English overview, Poem and Colour mats
History PowerPoint and fact poster task and match up cards
Beach safety guidance, leaflet, poster, spot the danger activity
Science PowerPoint, activity planner and results
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English overview, PowerPoint and writing sheet
Grammar: commas lesson, commas in clauses
Rye Writers: Write a Newspaper Report on a Rye Primary sporting event of your choice.
Newspaper features, newspaper planning sheet and writing tips
The mystery of the... Maths
Rounding to the nearest 1000 with activity and answers
Time problems, matching activity and task sheet
Sport Day activities and score sheet
Art PowerPoint and activity cards
Beach safety guidance, leaflet, poster, spot the danger activity
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English Reading comprehension
English grammar (speech)
Persuasive writing day 1 and 2
Maths day 4 instructions, statements and grid
Science only complete the task, if you have the equipment
Homelearning overview w/c 22.06.20
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Homelearning overview w/c 15.6.20
English overview
Rye writers task is a continuation of last week's task. (See below for details)
Maths Day 1 PowerPoint
Maths Day 2 PowerPoint and task
Maths Day 3 PowerPoint and task 1 and task 2
Maths Day 4 Player 1 and Player 2
Maths Day 5 Task sheet
History PowerPoint and task sheet
Roman empire map and task
PSHE (parental guidance required)
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Week 08/06/2020
Home learning overview w/c 8.6.20
Maths day 1 activity
Maths day 2 PowerPoint and activity
Maths day 3 PowerPoint, activity 1 and activity 2
Maths day 4 activity
Maths day 5 activity and squared paper
PSHE (parental guidance required)
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Home learning overview Term 6, week 1 w/c 1.6.20
Maths day 1 PowerPoint and activities
Maths day 2 PowerPoint and activities or alternative
Maths day 3 PowerPoint and activities
Maths day 4 PowerPoint and activities or alternative
Maths day 5 Problem-solving task
English lessons overview
Your Rye Writer's Task this week is to write a poem of any length or genre. The only requirement is that it has to be based on nature. Resources have been included below to help you get ideas, plan and write your poem. Please remember to share these with us on our Dojo page!
Britain before the Romans and activity sheet
Roman Mosaics and activity sheet
Art Roman Mosaics and activity sheet
ICT creating a PowerPoint master template
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Weekly overview Term 5 week 5 18/05/2020
Non-Chronological report powerpoint
Differentiated reports (choose 1)
Lesson powerpoint day 1 and Activities day 1 or Alternative Consolidation pack (use this if your child is already confident telling the time).
Lesson powerpoint day 2 and Activities day 2
Lesson powerpoint day 3 and Activities day 3 (or use these if your child can't yet confidently tell the time) Alternative powerpoint and Alternative activities
Lesson powerpoint day 4 and Activities day 4
Lesson 5 Time reasoning cartoons or if your child found yesterday's lesson a bit tricky, try this Converting time sheet.
Geography:Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPbesdTRV6Y and complete the Journey of a river sheet .
PSHE: Keep calm and relax powerpoint and personal weather activity and mindfulness activities
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Home learning overview T5, week 4 w/c 11.5.20
Grammar PowerPoint and activity sheet 1 and activity sheet 2
The Great Kapok Tree week 4 and model text
Lined rainforest paper (for writing up) plain rainforest paper (for picture if required)
Rye Writers (story writing competition)
Maths lesson 1 PowerPoint and activities
Maths lesson 2 PowerPoint and activities
Maths lesson 3 PowerPoint and activities
Maths lesson 4 PowerPoint and activities
Maths Reasoning: Coin investigation and activity sheet
Geography water cycle PowerPoint and activity sheet
PSHE PowerPoint and activity sheet
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Home learning overview Term 5, week 3 w/c 4.5.20
Bunting sheet 1, sheet 2, sheet 3, sheet 4 or sheet 5
Maths lesson 1 activities and answer sheet (Pounds and Pence)
Maths lesson 2 PowerPoint and activities (Pounds and Pence)
(or try 'I know... so...' (28th April) on this page http://www.iseemaths.com/lessons34/)
Maths lesson 3 activities and answer sheet (Order money)
Maths lesson 4 PowerPoint and activities (Order Money)
(or try 'Comparing prices' (2nd April) on this page http://www.iseemaths.com/lessons34/)
The Great Kapok Tree week 3
GPS PowerPoint with activity 1 and activity 2
Rye Writers (Printable)
Science (Habitats power point to guide you through the learning and explain the activity)
Term 5 (Summer 1) 27/04/2020
The Great Kapok Tree lessons for week 2
There is one English lesson per day on the Great Kapok sheet with links attached.
Rye Writers.Where could this mysterious, woodland pathway take you? What might you find along the way? Where could it lead? What problems might you encounter? Create an adventure story imagining your journey began here, at the start of the path.
Grammar worksheet (choose one level to complete)
Day 1
Day 2
Video (week 1 lesson 4)
Day 3
Worksheet (Order decimals- problem solving)
Day 4
Video ( week 2 lesson 1)
Day 5
Worksheet (Round decimals- problem solving)
Science
Our topic is 'Habitats'. Download and complete the activities below.
How are animals and plants adapted to their environment?
Humanities
PSHE (Time capsule activity to be completed AFTER reading the Covid-19 story)
Week Beginning April 20th 2020 (Summer Term 1)
The Great Kapok Tree There is one English lesson per day on the Great Kapok sheet with links attached.
The Fantastics Thesaurus Jotter
Grammar sheet (choose 1: either D, E or GD)
Please create a newspaper report, reporting on a mysterious sinkhole that near the school's playground.
When did it appea
r?
What caused it?
Who first spotted it? (use dialogue to show what they said).
What will happen next?
Features of a newspaper article
Remember to use the adjective word mats and non-fiction sentence starter in the 'Useful Resources' section further down
Day 1
Work sheet (Make a Whole)
Day 2
Worksheet (Make a Whole - problem solving)
Day 3
Day 4
Worksheet (Write Decimals - problem solving)
Day 5
Worksheet (Compare Decimals)
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Easter Holiday Work 6.04.20
Home Learning Pack W/C 30.03,20 (overview letter and work for this week)
Maths (addition and subtraction work)
Fluent in Five (mental arithmetic)
Rapid Reasoning reasoning and problem solving. This requires written answers explaining how the children worked out the answer.
Sentence starters such as 'I know this because... this is true here because... this can't be true because...' should be used.
Take One Sentence (sentence improvement work)
Science (Habitats power point to guide you through the learning and explain the activity)
Rye Writers Can you write a story about the picture?
Easter craft ideas are in the 'Things to do' section further down.
Easter maths mosaic (a multiplication challenge)
Easter arts and crafts
Easter mindfulness colouring (bookmarks)
Easter mindfulness colouring (greeting cards)
Easter jokes matching activity
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year4 Home Learning letter self isolation
Science: for science this week watch Steve Backshall at 9.30am 25.03.20 on Instagram, Facebook and Youtube where he will be discussing habitats, holotypes parasites and much more as he attempts to bring the wild world into our living rooms, Yikes!
timestables fun sheets
Fractions consolidation pack
Fluent in Five week 1
Rapid Reasoning week 1
To help the children continue to grow as writers and improve their writing skills, you can take part in these daily (live) writing lessons. The sessions are led by Jane Considine, who devised the writing approach we have adopted at Rye Primary School. The aim is to write a story with all the children in the UK every day. The sessions start each day with a short lesson and instructions at 9.45 am. Then you can watch the movie of the day and choose a chunk to write nine fantastic sentences. Deadline for entries is 2pm each day. A round-up of entries and the finished story will be shared on YouTube at 3.30 pm.
Watch this link to find out more about how the sessions work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMVpipnXrDc
Follow this link to the live daily sessions .https://www.youtube.com/user/Devouefrenchbulldogs
You could even take a photo of your work and upload it to the Class Dojo page for me to read. I can't wait to see your amazing writing!
