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Remote Learning – January Lockdown

GREENSIDE FILM FACTORY

Remote Learning – Weekly Timetable

Big Film With Big Experiences

Spring 2 2021

This half term as we continue with our Home Learning programme alongside our work with VSKW students on site we are returning to one of our favourite Greenside Learning Experiences – those wonderful 

Big Questions. We will be inspired by so many different big screen movies that explore and celebrate 

Big Experiences. We will be going on exciting adventures and our hooks will link us with the World!

Each week our students are invited to join the Greenside Film Club, watch some classic films at home and send a review and/ or recommendation to share with all their Greenside friends and peers.

We have planned for all eventualities as we await information on possible return to Greenside in early March!

Mondays

9.00am Board Meeting film with KBS
9.30am Year Group – Live Check-in Meeting 

Class teacher weekly intro screencast: 

  • Welcome to the week!
  • Good week ahead
  • What’s coming up
  • Trying your best
  • Don’t forget to press the arrow in the corner when you open your Slide
  • Esafe reminder: Don’t forget to log out when you are finished
9:30am GPS

  • Google Slide for GPS and Writing task all in one. 
  • Linked to what is needed for the writing task for each year group.
  • GPS screencast model with questions to answer on the Slide. 

Writing

  • Same task across our cohorts.
  • Week 1: Animals / Nature – Madagascar

– STAR Day Write – a newspaper article about .. a group of animals escaping from a zoo and heading off on a journey to the wild! 

– Big Write – ‘The adventures of …’ Write an adventure story of one of the characters from the film as they leave the zoo and arrive in Madagascar. 

– Film Club – Madagascar, Happy Feet, any of the National Geographic animal films, anything from David Attenborough. 

– Creative Task 1: Design a poster advertising a local zoo that has come to town!  What wonders will you see? 

– Creative Task 2: Use Book Creator, Strip Designer or draw on paper to create a comic strip about a group of animals escaping from a zoo and heading to the wild.   

  • Week 2: Travels/Journeys – Mary Poppins (World Book Day)

– STAR Day Write – a newspaper article about .. Mary Poppins – a nanny  who stepped into a chalk drawing on the streets of London and embarked upon a magical journey. 

– Big Write – ‘The adventures of … imagine you have stepped into your own chalk picture and gone on a wonderful adventure with Mary. Where did you go? What sort of adventure did you have? Who did you meet?

– Film Club – Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, The Muppet Movie, The Wizard of Oz, any of the Paddington films. 

– Creative Task 1: Create a drawing that you will jump into on Friday for the Big Write.

– Creative Task 2: Imagine you are going on an incredible journey. You can only take 10 items with you. Draw your list and tell us why you chose what you chose. Choose wisely!

* World Book Day – other activities posted for Reading Tree

  • Week 3: Dinosaurs / Prehistory – Jurassic Park

– STAR Day Write – a newspaper article about … how a group of scientists have created a theme park of real life dinosaurs!

– Big Write – ‘The adventures of …one of the scientists who was able to bring a dinosaur back from extinction. 

– Film Club – Jurassic Park, The Land Before Time, The Flintstones

– Creative Task 1: Invent a new dinosaur! Draw it and make sure to give it a cool name. Tell us what makes it unique. 

– Creative Task 2: Create a new theme park and all the rides and activities you can think of! You can draw it and tell us all about why it is so awesome. 

  • Week 4: Science / Scientists – Back to the Future

– STAR Day Write – a persuasive piece about this brand new invention of a car that can travel back in time! Tell us why we should buy it!

– Big Write – ‘The adventures of …the time travelling scientist who traveled to the future’.

– Film Club – Back To The Future (some scenes not appropriate), Honey I Shrunk The Kids, Hidden Figures, Flight of the Navigator, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

– Creative Task 1: Design your own time travelling car. What will it do or what problem will it solve? 

– Creative Task 2: Make your own time machine at home. Where will you go? What will you see? 

  • Week 5: People / Careers – Ratatouille

– STAR Day Write – a review for Tripadvisor about a restaurant where the chef has been discovered to be a rat!  

– Big Write – ‘The adventures of …’ A rat who has big dreams to be a famous chef.

– Creative Task 1: Create a poster that advertises the opening of a new restaurant where the chef is a rat!

– Creative Task 2: Turn your house into a restaurant. Set the table, plan the menu and serve the guests. Take a photo to show us. 

  • Week 6: Me and My Fmaily – The Wizard of Oz

– STAR Day Write – this week we will write the final installment of the adventure story series. ‘The adventures of …’ A tornado has blown your house away and you wake up in another world. What did you find there? What was it like? Who were the characters you met? How did you get back?

– No Big Write this week school finishes on Wednesday 31.03.21.

 – Creative Task 1: Draw the world where you ended up on your adventure. 

– Creative Task 2: Create a picture that incorporates a rainbow and a yellow brick road – just like the picture from the Wizard of Oz!

Feedback:

  • Monday is the key day for writing detailed, purposeful feedback with an expectation that students will revise/ add to their draft using Teacher comments.
  • 12.30pm is the main cut off for ‘instant’ feedback but Teachers will still provide feedback after that as we know not everyone will be working to the same timetable. 
  • WWW/EBIs will focus on the SC/WILF
  • Teachers will challenge the volume of writing being produced as well as offering a general encouraging comment. 
  • Friday provides an opportunity for positive acknowledgment of engagement – equivalent of our independent Big Write – how well did students incorporate the skills this week. 
10:00am Writing feedback

  • Teachers will make comments as the work comes through.
  • End of feedback slot is 12.30pm.
  • All students to get feedback before the close of the day
10:30pm Spellings /Phonics (Y1)

  • Screencast spelling test
  • Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check sheet released as per homework. 
  • Use National Curriculum Spellings. 
  • Screencastify quiz.
11:00am Creative Task

  • Recreate a painting using anything you have in your house. 
  • Share pictures with your Class Teacher. 
12:30pm Guided meditation
3.00pm Class Book

  • Each class will share & enjoy a novel 
  • There will be a screencast recording of Class Teacher reading the book. 

Tuesdays

9.00am SMSC – start the day with a World Ready idea/ theme with KBS!
9.30am Year Group Live Check-in Meetings
9:30am Maths

  • Screencast model with examples will be posted
  • Google slide for students to complete or they can do so on paper and post a photo. 
  • Questions will be posted on the slide. 
  • Answers will be shared on a later slide. 

Feedback:

Students will be challenged to attempt all the questions. 

Tuesday feedback will redirect them back to the film or a particular point in it and/or pose a key question or discuss common identified errors. This can also be about reinforcing the strategy e.g. don’t forget to divide first and then multiply using your column method. 

Messy Maths: More detailed feedback to be given on steps needed to answer the questions. Teachers to add a helpful comment in ‘Hint’ section or slide to support thought process.

10.30am Bug Club

  • Students will be checking the levels are correct for individual students and answers.
11:00am Science

  • Google Slide will be posted with info to read about the topic.
  • Questions to be answered on slides.
12:30pm Guided meditation
3.00pm Class Book

  • Screencast recording of Class Teacher reading chosen book.

Wednesdays

9.00am SMSC by KBS

(KBS SMSC Writing Task week 1 only)

9:30am Reading Tree

  • This will be based on Class Books and presented on a Google Slide.
  • There will be a picture of a page in the book.
  • Questions will be linked to that page under each picture with a space indicated for the answer. 

Feedback:

  • Feedback will direct students to certain sections of the page or a sentence starter to help them look in the right place. 
  • Teachers will use key questions to refocus student thinking and support.
10.30am Arithmetic Quiz & Mathletics

  • Google Forms quiz will give the results automatically. 
  • There is an option to go back and change answers.

Mathletics

  • This will be linked to Maths concepts from the week. 
11:00am Art/ Creative Task

  • This will be linked to the Film themes of the week. 
  • The same task will be set across Y1 – Y6.
12:30pm Guided meditation
3.00pm Class Book

  • Screencast recording of Class Teacher reading chosen book. 

Thursdays

GREENSIDE FILM CREW DAYS
Introduction and Brief for Students

On our Special Film Crew Thursdays we would like you to think and learn in a different way this half term.

The idea is for you to try to spend some time on Thursdays working on Learning Experiences that are not entirely based on your iPad. 

Each Thursday will have a theme linked to the rest of your STAR Day learning for the week.

You should spend approximately three hours working on these tasks and you can choose to present them in whichever format you like. The idea is that these tasks are more independent and less reliant upon adult supervision/online access. It’s the time for our Greenside students to show us all your World Ready skills!

We would love you to share the outcomes with us throughout the day so we can see, enjoy and celebrate all of your fantastic work. 

Take the time to relax and enjoy working on the activities. You can choose to do all of them or just a few – whatever works for your family schedule and, of course you can do some of them with your sisters or brothers!

3.00pm – Cosmic Kids Yoga.

3.00pm – Students to upload and share their work from the day. 

Week Theme Creative Tasks
Week 1 Nature

* Do check out our SMSC this week and see if your February Photograph can capture our local nature with colour!

  • Scavenger hunt – find as many things connected to nature as you can either inside your home or in your local area and present it beautifully. 
  • Design an outdoor space. This could be a cool garden or chillout zone, a reading area or a play park. Anything you like. It’s your space! 
  • Carry out a creative research project on a river, a mountain or another natural feature. Present it in any way you like.
  • Create an art piece using natural materials from your daily walk outside.
  • Create a game of Top Trumps using the animals from the film Madagascar. Challenge your family to play the game! 
Week 2 Travels / Journeys

World Book Day

  • World Book Day – can you find books in your house that relate to travel and transport? 
  • Design a bookmark showing how books can take you on ‘journeys’ to many different places. 
  • Imagine you are an author! Come up with your own idea for a book and design the front cover. What will it be about? Where will it be set?
  • Dress up as a character from a book and share a picture of you. 
  • Recreate a scene from your favourite book. Choose your favourite story and recreate a scene from it in any way you like.
  • Plan the trip of a lifetime! It could be to a particular place or a round the world trip. Where would you want to go? What would you want to see? Where would you stay? 
  • Recreate a map of the world and show on it the features and landmarks that interest you. 
  • Choose a country that interests you or that you have been to and design/make a souvenir that you might bring home. It might be an item of clothing, some jewelry, a fridge magnet etc.
  • Create a leaflet or a guidebook for a country that interests you. What are the key sites you would want somebody to visit? What should a visitor pack? What would they eat?
  • Design a flag for your very own new country. 
Week 3 Dinosaurs
  • Make your own dinosaur mask or costume. It could be an actual dinosaur or your own dinosaur creation. 
  • Make your own dinosaur skeleton art work. You can use anything you can find that it white for the bones. See how close you can make it to a real dinosaur skeleton. 

  • Create your own Jurassic Park diorama in a box.

  • Curate your own Natural History Museum. What creatures would you choose to preserve in a museum and why?
  • Dinosaur the Musical! Have fun coming up with a song and dance spectacular all about the amazing world of dinosaurs. 
Week 4 Science / Scientists
  • Produce a technical drawing of a plant and label the different parts. You could do this outside or take a photo of the plant while on your daily walk or exercise. 

  • Draw an eye using a parabolic curve. This takes some patience but looks amazing! 

  • Design/create a new invention that solves a problem. What is it that you want to fix? How will you do it? What will the invention look like? 
  • Have a go at a science experiment or investigation at home: https://www.sciencefun.org/kidszone/experiments/
  • Choose an insect or creature that interests you. Try to draw as many of the different varieties in that species as you can. For example if you choose butterflies then try to draw as many different types of butterfly as you can. Maybe you could also draw the habitats that they live in.  
Week 5 People / Careers
  • Interview someone in your family to find out more about them. Come up with 10 really interesting questions. What did they want to be when they grew up? What were they like at school? What do they regret never doing? What do they do if they come up against something they find hard?
  • What do you want to be when you are older? Draw a vision board of you in the future in your new job. Where would it be? What would you be wearing? What are you doing? Who is with you? How does it make you feel? What impact does it have on the world? What did you need to do to get there?
  • It’s job interview time! You’re on the shortlist for your dream job, you just need to crack the interview and the job is yours. Prepare answers for these questions about why you should get the job and have someone interview you. Would they give you the job? –  Why is this job important to you? What skills do you have that would make you good for this job? What are your areas you need to improve on? If you get this job, what will you have achieved in 5 years? 
  • Draw a portrait of someone who is important to you. It might be family, a friend or someone in the world who inspires you. Add words or phrases that come to mind when you think of them. 
Fridays
9.00am Big Write

  • A Google Slide will be posted for each year group
  • A modelled example will be shared by each Teacher
  • Success Criteria & vocabulary will be shared around the side
9.30am Messy Maths

  • A sheet will be inserted into a Slide
  • The assignment will be linked to the Maths concepts from the week.
  • The answers will be shared on a later slide. 
10.00am Mr Yeats’ Quiz – A Google form wll be shared
12.30pm PE

  • Ms Webber’s Workout video. 
  • Just Dance video. 
3.00pm Class Book

  • Screencast recording of Class Teacher reading shared book. 

Home Learning

At Greenside we believe that home learning is an opportunity for students to further explore the learning that has inspired them in class and to create enthusiastic, independent learners.

Reading at home should be an enjoyable activity for all and we try to foster the idea of reading for pleasure through our Reading Tree at Greenside and by offering various reading challenges at home. We follow the National Curriculum spelling lists as part of the weekly home learning in all year groups and follow this up with weekly spelling tests and spelling bees across our GGL Federation academies. These spelling lists are included on our website.

Most classes receive their home learning assignments on the same day at the start of the week and hand it in the following week. To help Y6 prepare for the life at secondary school, they receive a single piece of home learning each night to be handed in the next day.

We are always willing to support students with time and a space to complete home learning tasks at Greenside before or after school should they need it. 

As well as reinforcing and extending our students’ Reading, Maths, spelling and grammar knowledge through home learning, we also like to provide regular creative challenges that allows the students, and the whole family for that matter, to produce something artistic linked to themes running through the whole of Greenside.

At Greenside ICT is also an integral part of our learning experience and this is mirrored through our home learning provisions.

Students are able to challenge themselves against the rest of the world through our Mathletics programme where they complete assignments to gain points and rise up the rankings.

Our students’ fluency of times tables is absolutely fundamental to their ability to tackle both arithmetic and reasoning problems. Therefore we give our students the chance to become a “Rock Star Legend”in Times Table Rock Stars!

Below is also a selection of websites we have found useful for home learning and are always looking out for other interesting ways to continue learning beyond the classroom.

ENGLISH

National Curriculum Spelling lists Y1 – Y6
National Curriculum English Y1 – Y6
Greenside-KS2-Reading-List-16
BBC Bitesize KS1
BBC Bitsize KS2
e-learning for kids

MATHS

National Curriculum Maths Y1 – Y6
Mathletics
Top Marks
Maths At Home
Mathspace
IXL
BBC Bitesize KS1
BBC Bitesize KS2
e-learning for Kids
Nrich

COMPUTING

LGFL KS1 Resources
LGFL KS2 Resources
LGFL Creative Tool Kit
Try some coding with Angry Birds, Frozen and Flappy Birds: http://studio.code.org/
The Hour of Code
e-learning for Kids

ICT Games

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