Home Learning - Kestrels
Home Learning during School Closure
Home Learning: Week beginning 13th July 2020
Please find this week's home learning activities and worksheet/resources on the links below:
Kestrels Structured Home Learning w/b 13.07.2020
Kestrels English worksheets and answers w/b 13.07.2020
Kestrels year 3/4 statutory word list
Kestrels year 3/4 statutory words spelling challenge
Kestrels other maths activity w/b 13.07.2020
Kestrel Science w/b 13.07.2020
Kestrels Geography w/b 13.07.2020
Kestrels PE activities w/b 13.07.2020
Kestrels White Rose worksheets Monday and Tuesday
kestrels White Rose worksheets Wednesday and Thursday
Kestrels White Rose answers Monday and Tuesday
Kestrels White Rose answers Wednesday and Thursday
Home Learning: Week beginning 6th July 2020
Please find this week's home learning activities and worksheet/resources on the links below:
Kestrels Structured Home Learning w/b 06.07.20
Kestrels English worksheets and answers w/b 06.07.20
Kestrels other maths resources w/b 06.07.20
Kestrels White Rose worksheets Monday and Tuesday
kestrels White Rose worksheets Wednesday and Thursday
Kestrels White Rose answers Monday and Tuesday
Kestrels White Rose answers Wednesday and Thursday
Home Learning: Week beginning 29th June 2020
Please find this week's home learning activities and worksheet/resources on the links below:
Kestrels Structured Home Learning w/b 29.06.2020
Kestrels English worksheets and answers w/b 29.06.2020
Kestrels other maths resources w/b 29.06.2020
Kestrels White Rose worksheets Monday and Tuesday
kestrels White Rose worksheets Wednesday and Thursday
Kestrels White Rose answers Monday and Tuesday
Kestrels White Rose answers Wednesday and Thursday
Kestrels climate change poster
Home Learning Week Beginning 22nd June 2020
Please click on the links below for this week's structured home learning activities and resources.
Kestrels Structured Home Learning w/b 22.06.2020
Kestrels English resources w/b 22.06.2020
Kestrels Topic resources w/b 22.06.2020
Kestrels White Rose worksheets w/b 22.06.2020
Kestrels White Rose answers w/b 22.06.2020
Home Learning Week Beginning 15th June 2020
Please click on the links below for this week's structured home learning activities and resources.
Kestrels Structured Home Learning w/b 15.06.2020
Kestrels English worksheets and answers w/b 15.06.2020
Kestrels Topic resources w/b 15.06.2020
Kestrels White Rose worksheets Monday and Tuesday
kestrels White Rose worksheets Wednesday and Thursday
Kestrels White Rose answers Monday and Tuesday
Kestrels White Rose answers Wednesday and Thursday
Home Learning Week Beginning 8th June 2020
Please click on the links below for this week's structured home learning activities and resources.
Structured home learning yr 4 wb 08.06.2020
Structured home learning yr 4 English activities w/b 08.06.2020
Structured home learning yr 4 English answers w/b 08.06.2020
Structured home learning yr 4 Spelling activities w/b 08.06.2020
Structured home learning yr4 White Rose worksheets wb 08.06.2020
Structured home learning yr 4 White Rose answers Monday and Tuesday wb 08.06.2020
Structured home learning yr 4 White Rose answers Wednesday and Thursday wb 08.06.2020
Structured home learning yr 4 PE activities w/b 08.06.2020
Structured home learning yr 4 topic activities w/b 08.06.2020
Structured home learning yr 4 topic answers w/b 08.06.2020
Home Learning Week Beginning 1st June 2020
Please click on the links below for this week's structured home learning activities and resources.
Structured home learning year 4 w/b 01.06.2020
Structured home learning year 4 maths activties w/b/ 01.06.2020
Structured home learning year 4 maths answers w/b 01.06.2020
Strucured home learning year 4 other maths activities w/b 01.06.2020
Structured home learning year 4 English activities w/b 01.06.2020
Structured home learning year 4 topic activities w/b 01.06.2020
Structured home learning year 4 topic answers w/b 01.06.2020
Home Learning Week beginning 18th May 2020
Please click on the links below for this week's structured home learning activities and resources.
Structured home learning year 4 w/b 18.05.2020
Structured home learning year 4 maths activities w/b 18.05/2020
Structured home learning year 4 maths answers w/b 18.05.2020
Structured home learning year 4 reading comprehension w/b 18.05.2020
Structured home learning year 4 spelling activities w/b 18.05.2020
Structured home learning year 4 topic activities w/b 18.05.2020
structured home learning year 4 PE activities w/b 18.05.2020
Home Learning Week beginning 11th May 2020
Please click on the links below for this week's structured home learning activities and resources.
Structured home learning year 4 w/b 11.05.2020
Structured home learning year 4 maths activities w/b 11.05.2020
Structured home elarning year 4 maths answers w/b 11.05.2020
Structured home learning year 4 English w/b 11.05.2020
Structured home learning year 4 Englsih answers w/b 11.05.2020
Structured home learning year 4 topic w/b 11.05.2020
Home Learning Week beginning 4th May 2020
Please click on the links below for this week's structured home learning activities and resources.
Structured home learning year 4 w/b 4.05.2020
Structured home learning activities year 4 w/b 4.05.2020
Structured home learning activities Science year 4 w/b/ 4.05.2020
Structured home learning activities PE year 4 w/b 4.05.2020
We have had lots of positive feedback about the weekly thematic activities which families can engage in together – particularly appreciated by families where siblings can work together, rather than trying to juggle different learning activities for children of different ages. We will therefore continue to provide this option on the home page of our website. This week’s theme is ‘Trees’ – Mrs Grant has coordinated lots of lovely activities on this theme that we hope our children will enjoy.
We also had requests from a few families asking for more structured ‘lessons’ and ‘worksheets’ for their children so our teachers in Years 2 – 6 have been working at home to provide this option for those families. (Reception and Year 1 teachers are posting activities appropriate to their age group). These will be posted by Monday morning each week, with activities for English, Maths, PE and another subject each day for parents to set their children in each age group. We advise that no activity should be longer than a ‘normal’ lesson time of 60 minutes.
None of this is compulsory. Families should adopt what works well for them in their situation. They may choose either option or choose to do bits from both. It is completely up to them.
In our phone calls over the last fortnight many families apologized for not doing the ‘home learning’, telling us that they have been busy doing ‘other’ things like playing games together, baking, doing their own ‘projects’ according to the children’s interests, gardening together etc. This is absolutely fine! This is such a rare opportunity for families to spend quality time together – it is lovely to hear that you’re making the most of it.
There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ in this situation. Please don’t worry about your child falling behind others – everyone across the whole country is in the same boat. We will pick up from where the children are at when they return to school, whenever that may be. All schools will be doing the same.
Anyway – if you would like to engage in the thematic activities on Trees – please go to the Home Page of the website and click on the link there.
If you would like to engage in the more structured work for your child – please click on the links below:
Kestrels Structured Home Learning w/b 20.04.2020
Kestrels Structured Home Learning Worksheets/resources w/b 20.04.2020
Home Learning updated : 6th April 2020
I was really pleased to see that many of you have been on Mathletics again this week. With 6 bronze and 2 silver certificates and several really high scores, great work Kestrels J
The next two weeks are officially the Easter holiday so you will find some fun Easter themed projects on the school's homepage to keep you busy and having fun while at home over the next couple of weeks. If you would like something a bit different try some of this:
A craft project
Weave your own basket for an Easter egg hunt around your house and or garden. You will need 8 strips of paper 45cm long each, (you can sellotape 2 shorter strips together) 2 different colours look best if you have them. And some cardboard to reinforce the shape, (I used card strips from cereal packaging.) This video shows you how to weave the strips together and reinforce to make a very effective Easter basket to collect your eggs. (If you don't have any spare paper I have also seen these baskets made by folding newspaper pages into long strips and securing with sellotape.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEgEKwHOKSQ&feature=emb_rel_pause
A maths challenge
(I'll reveal the answer after the holidays!)
An English Challenge
How many words can you make from the phrase?
Eggstordinary Easter Egg Eggstravaganza!
Who in your family can make the most words in 1 minute?
Who can make the longest word?
Who can make an adjective, verb, noun etc?
How many words can you find that nobody else in your family can find?
Reading
I recommend that you spend at least 30 minutes reading, everyday. I know a lot of you were very keen to use the audio CDs we’ve been listening to in the classroom. There are a lot of audio books which can be easily downloaded at home. And don’t forget any kind of reading counts including; comics, annuals and magazines (like the Horrible Histories or Wildlife Trust magazines we have in the classroom.) These can also be full of puzzles, quizzes and fun ideas to keep you busy! Listening to and sharing a story is a lovely way to spend the 30 minutes.
For those of you who are members of the public library I have copied the link below from Mrs Smith's page; you can downlaod free copies of books and audio books to read at home.
- There are lots of books which you can download for free if you are a member of Cambridgeshire libraries. Ask an adult to have a look for you using the link below:
- https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/residents/libraries-leisure-culture/libraries/library-online/ebooks
- You can also borrow audio books using the following link:
- https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/residents/libraries-leisure-culture/libraries/library-online/eaudio-books
Spelling
I have included below the statutory spelling list for years 3 and 4. These are the words that most children in year 4 should know by the end of the year. I would choose 5 a week you’re not sure of and practise for 10 minutes, everyday. You can use the different methods you’ve learnt with Mrs Read e.g. write the tricky bits in a different colour, pyramid writing etc. whichever method works for you. There are also spelling activities for words with specific spelling patterns e.g. tion endings, on purple mash.You could also play little games like hangman, word searches or this one sounds fun:
Spelling Battleship
In traditional Battleship, you sink your opponent’s boats. In this spelling version, you sink their spelling words. Each person needs two 10 by 10 grids. Have students start by labelling the rows letters A-J and the columns 1-10. Then each person writes the same set of 5-7 spelling words on one grid, in random order and location, either vertical or horizontal. On the other grid, he tracks his opponent’s words. Players take turns calling out a coordinate, for example D-5. His opponent checks his grid and announces whether D-5 was a hit or miss. The first player should mark that square on his blank grid – red for a hit and blue or black for a miss. Play continues until one person finds every letter of all the words on his opponent’s grid.
Maths:
Although the year 4 multiplication check has been cancelled you’ve all worked so hard to learn your tables facts that it would be a real shame to let them slip. Therefore, I advise you to keep practising daily using either purple mash multiplication monster (what level can you get yours to?) or Hit the button
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
Keep a record of your scores and see if you can improve your personal best or challenge a member of your family to beat your top score!
Keep going for a 1000 Mathletics points each week. I won’t be setting any specific tasks but you can choose which games and extra tasks you would like to complete. I suggest you choose a mixture of topics you feel really confident with and those that you find more challenging. You can print your own certificates off at home or we will print silver and gold certificates when we get back to school.
Purple Mash:
There are a lot of cross curricular activities and games you can explore on purple mash. A useful and fun skill, if you have a keyboard, is touch typing; again 10 minutes daily practise is the best way to learn this skill.
Other:
The government has recommended we all get outside for a bit of daily exercise (whilst social distancing,) however when it’s wet and cold outside this can be tricky. To burn off some energy whilst stuck inside try the “go noodle” site, we have used this several times in class the children particularly like the “Bananas, Bananas, meatball.”
https://www.gonoodle.com/for-families/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ9q4U2P3ig
Joe Wicks 5 minute classroom workouts may also be useful.
Art competition

Year 3 and 4 Statutory spelling list
accident(ally)
actual(ly)
address
answer
appear
arrive
believe
bicycle
breath
breathe
build
busy/business calendar
caught
centre
century
certain
circle
complete
consider
continue
decide
describe
different
difficult
disappear
early
earth
eight/eighth
enough
exercise
experience
experiment
extreme
famous
favourite
February
forward(s)
fruit
grammar
group
guard
guide
heard
heart
height
history
imagine
increase
important
interest
island
knowledge
learn
length
library
material
medicine
mention
minute
natural
naughty
notice
occasion(ally)
often
opposite
ordinary
particular
peculiar
perhaps
popular
position
possess(ion)
possible
potatoes
pressure
probably
promise
purpose
quarter
question
recent
regular
reign
remember
sentence
separate
special
straight
strange
strength
suppose
surprise
therefore
though/although thought
through
various
weight woman/women
Mathletics: Log on to www.mathletics.co.uk to find your personalised homework
Maths - Times Tables will be given out on Fridays and tested on the following Friday.
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Key Stage 2 Home Learning
In Key Stage 2 we will be setting home learning tasks each week in reading, spelling and maths. Home learning tasks will be set on Fridays, posted on our class webpage.
Reading: Every day
Spelling: practised as frequently as required
Times Tables: practised as frequently as required
Mathletics: 3 activities a week
I will talk to the children about their ‘home learning’ each week so that they know what they are doing. Some time the activities will be revising a concept, sometimes the activities will be practising something we are currently learning, sometimes the activities will be extending their learning.
Reading: At least 20 minutes a day. We will be regularly talking to your child about their reading and monitoring our AR system to ensure that children are reading regularly at home as well as at school.
In addition to the books on the AR system your child may read as many books as they wish- the more the better! If your child reads a book from home and would like to do a quiz on it, please send the book into school and we will be very pleased for them to take a quiz. They may also quiz on books that you have read together or books that you have read to them, perhaps for a bedtime story.
Please help your child by encouraging them to read quality books that they enjoy fiction and non-fiction. Also, by making time to discuss the book and any unfamiliar words they come across with you.
Mathletics: Please login to the system at www.mathletics.co.uk, to access the tasks set for your child. Your child’s personal username and password are stuck into the front of their reading diaries.
Studies have proved that children who engage regularly with Mathletics do significantly better in their assessments so please take advantage of this wonderful tool. If you encourage your child to complete more tasks and they gain a certificate these will be awarded in our Key Stage Assembly on Thursdays.
Your child will be set 3 activities every Friday to be completed by the following Friday