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! |
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Mondays |
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9.00am | Board Meeting film with KBS |
9.30am | Year Group – Live Check-in Meeting
Class teacher weekly intro screencast:
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9:30am | GPS
Writing
– 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.
– 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
– 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.
– 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?
– 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.
– 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:
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10:00am | Writing feedback
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10:30pm | Spellings /Phonics (Y1)
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11:00am | Creative Task
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12:30pm | Guided meditation |
3.00pm | Class Book
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Tuesdays |
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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
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
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11:00am | Science
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12:30pm | Guided meditation |
3.00pm | Class Book
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Wednesdays |
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9.00am | SMSC by KBS
(KBS SMSC Writing Task week 1 only) |
9:30am | Reading Tree
Feedback:
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10.30am | Arithmetic Quiz & Mathletics
Mathletics
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11:00am | Art/ Creative Task
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12:30pm | Guided meditation |
3.00pm | Class Book
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Thursdays |
GREENSIDE FILM CREW DAYS 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! |
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Week 2 | Travels / Journeys
World Book Day |
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Week 3 | Dinosaurs |
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Week 4 | Science / Scientists |
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Week 5 | People / Careers |
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Fridays | |
9.00am | Big Write
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9.30am | Messy Maths
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10.00am | Mr Yeats’ Quiz – A Google form wll be shared |
12.30pm | PE
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3.00pm | Class Book
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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.



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