Waterloo

Welcome to Waterloo Bridge Class

Class teacher – Miss Brown

Teaching assistants – Mrs Preston and Mrs Patel

We are pleased to welcome your child to Waterloo Bridge class and are grateful for your help and support.

Recommended reading books for Year 3:

Best Books for Year 3 | Ages 7-8 | BooksForTopics

Expertly selected books for 7 and 8 year old children (lovereading4kids.co.uk)

Reading

Children are asked to read at home on a daily basis and their book should be brought to school each day. It is helpful if parents can comment regularly in their child’s Reading Record, particularly when their child has finished their book. Children are responsible for changing and selecting their own books in the morning.

Homework

Children will be given homework each Friday to be handed in by the following Tuesday. Children are also asked to learn spellings and times tables at home. They are responsible for recording their homework in their homework diary.

Other

Children are asked to bring to school a water bottle. They should have a waterproof coat when it is raining or the forecast is for rain.

Week Beginning 6th July

July 3, 2020

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#efec4f” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#dddddd” ]This week we are looking forward to seeing children in school on Monday (Waterloo Class) and Tuesday (Blackfriars Class). We will also be inviting children to attend some Zoom sessions. It is a long time since we have seen most of the children so we are really looking forward to it![/dropshadowbox]

English

Spelling and Grammar – Follow the lesson below from BBC bitesize on using prefixes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z4k6wnb

Persuasive Writing – This week the children will work towards being able to create a TV advertisement for their soup. They should use the following daily activities;

  • Lesson 1 – Look at slogans PowerPoint below. Think about what makes a good slogan and have a go at writing a slogan for your soup.

Slogans

Use the planning document below. Write in a rhetorical question (you can use one you planned last week) and a slogan for your soup.

TV advertisment planning sheet

  • Lesson 2 – Listen to some advertising jingles (a jingle is a short song or tune used in advertising.) You can listen to some jingles using the link below or use some of your favourite TV advertisements.

http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2012/06/the-brit-list-britains-10-catchiest-ad-jingles

Now have a go at writing a jingle which could be used in an advertisement for your soup. Think about using rhyme, repetition or alliteration. You could set the jingle to a well know tune. Add the jingle to the planning sheet you started yesterday.

  • Lesson 3 – Have a look at the soup advertisement below. Compare it to other advertisements on TV or on-line.  What do you notice about the advert? Is there a voice over? Is there a script? Can you see the product clearly? Is there a slogan? What about a jingle?

Complete your planning document by writing a script for your TV advert. Include a voice over and dialogue between characters.

  • Lesson 4Practise performing the advertisement for your soup using the planning document
  • Lesson 5- Perform your advertisement. If possible ask someone to video you and then edit your video using movie maker or imovie.

Reading

The school now  have a subscription for the Reading Planet Online Library for KS2 which allows us to allocate appropriate levelled books for each child.

The child should use their first name as their log-in and their class name as their password (either Blackfriars or Waterloo).  They will need the centre ID 211526. The website address is;

https://my.risingstars-uk.com/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f

Maths

  • Day 1

Video:

Worksheet: Lesson 1 – Measure mass

  • Day 2

Video:

Worksheet: Lesson 2 – Compare mass

  • Day 3

Video:

Worksheet: Lesson 3 – Add and subtract mass

  • Day 4

Video:

Worksheet: Lesson 4 – Measure capacity (2)

Answers

Maths – Prism group (Waterloo) and Blue group (Blackfriars)

Please complete the following INSTEAD of the above work if you are in Prism group or Blue group. If you have completed the work above, the following does not need to be completed.

  • Day 1

Video:

Worksheet: Lesson 1 – Compare mass

  • Day 2

Video:

Worksheet: Lesson 2 – Measure mass in grams

  • Day 3

Video:

Worksheet:Lesson 3 – Measure mass in kilograms

  • Day 4

Video:

Worksheet: Lesson 4 – Compare volume

  • Day 5

Video:

Worksheet: Lesson 5 – Milliltres

Answers

Science

L.O: to find out about animal’s diets.

Watch quick video: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/go/resource/tgv2-sc-19-quick-facts-herbivores-omnivores-and-carnivores-video

Children to draw table on a piece of paper/ in book, with the 3 headings: herbivore, omnivore and carnivore

Herbivore Omnivore Carnivore

Children to use following website to find out about animal’s diets and put them in the correct column of their table: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/facts-pictures/ 

Topic/Design and Technology

This week the children will be making a moving picture based on a sport of their choice. They should start by practising making some of the mechanisms. from the attached document.

Examples_of_Children’s_Mechanisms

RE

Find out about the place where Christians worship using the following lesson from the Oak National Academy

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/where-do-christians-worship

Music

Practise singing the song Proud by Heather Small which featured in our closing ceremony on virtual sports week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4szP49_HKE

Proud

Children should continue their learning in Spanish using the Home School section of the language angels site. The children will need to use the password Howard1986 and the password lahome to access this part of the site. The children’s  topic is Puedo… which means I can and they should follow the lessons on this topic.

https://www.languageangels.com/schools/

Week Beginning 29th June

June 28, 2020

This week our learning will be as follows;

English

Spelling – Use spellzone to investigate words ending with the suffix ous.

https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/list-4644.htm

If you are in Violet group or Toy Story group have a go at the following activities to help you learn a range of suffixes.

https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/list-4614.htm

This week our grammar is an integrated part of our daily lessons. We will learn about expanded noun phrases and rhetorical questions.

In English this week we will work towards creating an advertisement for the soup which the children made last week.

  • Day 1 – Think of a name for your soup. Your name could include alliteration (e.g super soup) a rhyme (e.g chic leak soup) or a description (e.g spicy potato and chilli pepper soup.) Put the name of your soup in the middle of a spider diagram. Write around all the positive words you can think of to describe your soup (e.g healthy, crunchy, delicious).
  • Day 2 -Follow the lesson on expanded noun phrases from BBC bitesize.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/znpbgwx

Now think of some expanded noun phrases to describe your soup (e.g a healthy soup with sweet carrots).

Day 3 – Look at the PowerPoint on rhetorical questions.

rhetorical-questions-powerpoint

Now complete the attached sheets. The sheets are differentiated children in Violet Group or Toy Story Group should use the one star sheet. The two star sheet should be right for most children. If you really want to challenge yourself you could have a go at the three star sheet.

rhetorical-questions-differentiated-activity-sheets-english_ver_2

Now think of a rhetorical question you could use for your soup advert (e.g are you looking for a soup that’s both healthy and delicious?)

  • Day 4 – Plan a magazine advert for your soup using the persuasive words, expanded noun phrases and rhetorical question you have thought about this week.

Planning document

  • Day 5 – Now create your magazine advert for your soup using your plan and illustrations. You can use the template below or create your own.

advertisment template

Reading

Children should continue to read as much as possible. Don’t forget we have a free trial from Reading Planet which allows us to allocate appropriate leveled books for each child.

The child should use their first name as their log-in and their class name as their password (either Blackfriars or Waterloo).  They will need the centre ID 211526. The website address is;

https://my.risingstars-uk.com/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2f

Topic

Children should do the following activities;

  • Think about children’s menus. Why do you think children often have a separate menu to adults. Have a look at the attached menus. Highlight which items you think are healthy? Which are not healthy? What do you notice?

Children’s Menus

  • Design your own children’s menu make sure that you include healthy foods which children will enjoy.
  • Restaurant’s are opening on 4th July. If you are lucky enough to go to a restaurant over the summer  think about the menu. Can you make a healthy choice?

Maths

Test yourselves using the following games/worksheets: https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/category/23/measuring-and-time, watch the following videos https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkfycdm/resources/1 and then complete the worksheets:

  • Day 1

Worksheets: Y3 Summer Block 2 WO1 Months and years 2020
Y3 Summer Block 2 WO2 Hours in a day 2020

  • Day 2

Video:

Worksheets: Y3 Summer Block 2 WO3 Telling the time to 5 minutes 2020
Y3 Summer Block 2 WO4 Telling the time to the minute 2020

  • Day 3

Worksheets: Y3 Summer Block 2 WO5 Using am and pm 2020
Y3 Summer Block 2 WO6 24-hour clock 2020

  • Day 4

Worksheets: Y3 Summer Block 2 WO7 Finding the duration 2020
Y3 Summer Block 2 WO8 Comparing durations 2020

  • Day 5

Worksheets: Y3 Summer Block 2 WO9 Start and end times 2020
Y3 Summer Block 2 WO10 Measuring time in seconds 2020

Answers:

Science 

Video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/zpp6n39

Please research an organ of your choice (The brain, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines or skin) and answer the questions in the following worksheet with your findings.

Organ Research

RE

Learn about the sacred text of Christianity by following the link below;

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-is-the-sacred-text-of-christianity

The National Association of Teachers of RE are running their annual Spirited Arts Competition. Normally children can only enter through their school and entries are restricted. This year, due to COVID 19 they are allowing any child to enter the competition direct. Children are asked to produce a piece of art around one of five themes with a piece of writing of up to 400 words to accompany it. The themes are; Picturing faith. God’s Good Earth?, Inspiring. Holy Words and Where is God?

Full details of the competition can be found in the link below.

https://www.natre.org.uk/about-natre/projects/spirited-arts/spirited-arts-2020/

Music

Children can use resources from the Out of the Ark website

https://www.outoftheark.co.uk/ootam-at-home/