Topic / PE

For suggested PE Activities, please see the 'Wellbeing' page of our website:

https://www.lansdowneprimary.co.uk/wellbeing/

Survey from Sports Wales:

https://wh1.snapsurveys.com/s.asp?k=161047206882 

​​​​Week Beginning:  8th March 2021

Thursday 11^th March

LO:      To create your own food web

Task: 

Think about the videos that you watched earlier this week about food webs.

Now create your own food web using animals of your choice.

You may wish to start by thinking of a particular type of habitat and finding some of the  apex consumers that live there and then  work backwards.

You need to go right back to the producers that those animals rely on.

Wednesday 10^th March

LO:      To create a food web

Task: 

Think about the videos that you watched yesterday (you can scroll down to watch them again if you wish).

I would like you to organise the following plants and animals into a food web:

• Lion
• Acacia tree
• Grass
• Giraffe
• Zebra
• Hyena
• Gazelle
•  

You may need to do some research to find out what each animal eats.

Hint: start by placing the producers, then primary consumers and build up from there.

You may do this work digitally on PowerPoint or Word or using J2E or you can do it in your Home Learning Book.

You may use pictures and labels or just the words but your work must be neat and lines drawn with a ruler with arrows showing the transfer of energy.

Extra challenge:  Can you add some more plants or animals into the food web?

Tuesday 9^th March

LO: To understand what a food chain and a food web are and be able to explain one     

Task: 

Watch the videos below which explain food chains and food webs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvW4Cg-1g4U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NcPs_SG7fQ

Answer the following questions:

1. What is a consumer?
2. What is a carnivore?
3. What is an omnivore?
4. What is a decomposer?

Look carefully at the food web above

      5. What animals does the snake eat?

      6. Which animals are the apex consumers?

      7. Who could the caterpillar be eaten by?

      8. Is the raccoon a herbivore?

Submitting your work:  You can either write your answers in your Home Learning book and take a photo or type them on to Word then email them to your teacher.

Monday 8^th March

LO:      To create a branching key of animals

Task: 

Choose 5 or 6 animals and create your own branching key. You may do this digitally on PowerPoint or Word or in your Home Learning Book.  If you cannot print pictures, you could draw and label them instead.

Please watch the video below for a more detailed explanation.

Week Beginning: 1st March 2021

Friday 5^th March

LO:      To understand how branching keys work

Task:  A branching key can be used for sorting and classifying.  We often use them for identifying animals according to their features and characteristics.

On this task you need to follow the clues in the branching key to find the name of each alien. Look at each alien one-at-a-time across the top of the page and follow the key to find the name.

Write the name of all 12 aliens.

Submitting your work:  Write the letter of the alien and their name either in your Home Learning Book or on a Word document then email it to your teacher.

Thursday 4^th March – World Book Day

LO:        To read aloud to others

              To create a toilet roll model of a book character

Task:  We want you to spend lots of time today enjoying reading books and sharing them with others.  Choose a book to bring with you to our live lesson.  We’ll be asking everyone to share a page or 2 from their book with the class and what they think of the book.

Take a photo of you reading and sharing books with others (parents, siblings, pets or teddies!).

Don’t forget to enter the competition that Mr McInnes sent out on ParentMail.  You need to use a toilet roll tube to create a model of a book character, take a photo of it and send it to your class teacher.  The winner for Key Stage 2 will get a £25 Amazon gift voucher!

Submitting your work:  Email your pictures to your teacher and remember to bring the book to the live lesson in the afternoon.

Tuesday 2^nd March

LO:      To understand the terms predators and prey

Task: 

Find out what the terms ‘predator’ and ‘prey’ mean. Split a page into 2 columns, label one ‘Predator’ and the other ‘Prey’ then write the definition underneath.  Then make a list of animals in each column.  Some animals can be both prey and predator.  You should have at least 10 animals in each column. Draw small images of the animals to go with them.

Submitting your work:  You can complete your work in your Home Learning Book or on Word and then email it to your teacher

Monday 1^st March – St David’s Day

LO: To create a scrapbook page all about Wales

Task: 

Look at the PowerPoints about Wales.  Create a double-page scrapbook page or PowerPoint presentation (minimum of 4 slides) about Wales. It should include maps, pictures, diagrams and information and should be bright and interesting.

Submitting your work:  If you do a scrapbook page in your Home Learning Book, take a photo and email it to your teacher.  If you do a PowerPoint presentation, email it to your teacher.

Week Beginning:  8th February 2021

Wednesday 10^th February & Thursday 11^th February

Task:  We would like you to look at and research  ‘The Rainforest’  habitat. Create a  ‘Scrapbook Page’ on the rainforest.  It should include:

• A large title
• A labelled picture (photo or drawing) of what a rainforest looks like
• The location in the world of rainforest habitats (a map would be useful here)
• Information about the conditions in a rainforest Eg temperature, weather, rainfall
• Examples of plants and animals that live in the rainforest and why they are suited to that particular environment (include some pictures too)
• Some information on the eco-system / food chain in this habitat Eg who are the predators that live there and who is they prey!
• Some ‘Wow facts’ in their own little boxes.

*Remember our scrapbook pages (like the ones we did in school for ‘Savage World’ should have lots of headings and boxes of information. They should be bright and colourful and interesting to look at and read

Monday 8^th February & Tuesday 9^th February

Task:  We would like you to look at and research  ‘The Coral Reef’  habitat. Create a  ‘Scrapbook Page’ on the coral reef.  It should include:

• A large title
• A labelled picture (photo or drawing) of what a coral reef looks like
• The location in the world of coral reef habitats (a map would be useful here)
• Information about the conditions in a coral reef Eg temperature, type of water etc
• Examples of plants and animals that live in the coral reef and why they are suited to that particular environment (include some pictures too)
• Some information on the eco-system / food chain in this habitat Eg who are the predators that live there and who is they prey!
• Some ‘Wow facts’ in their own little boxes.
•  

*Remember our scrapbook pages (like the ones we did in school for ‘Savage World’ should have lots of headings and boxes of information. They should be bright and colourful and interesting to look at and read.

Friday 5th February

Continue with your Savannah scrapbook page.

The work that we've seen so far is great but remember that your page should be full of boxes of information and should be well-decorated with illustrations and colour.

Thursday 4^th February

Task:  We would like you to look at and research  ‘The Savannah’ (also known as Savanna) habitat. Create a  ‘Scrapbook Page’ on the Savannah.  It should include:

• A large title
• A labelled picture (photo or drawing) of what the savannah looks like
• The location in the world of savannah habitats (a map would be useful here)
• Information about the conditions in the Savannah Eg temperature, weather, rainfall
• Examples of plants and animals that live in the Savannah and why they are suited to that particular environment (include some pictures too)
• Some information on the eco-system / food chain in this habitat Eg who are the predators that live there and who is they prey!
• Some ‘Wow facts’ in their own little boxes - this could be anything that you have found particularly interesting that doesn't fit with the information above.

*Remember our scrapbook pages (like the ones we did in school for ‘Savage World’) should have lots of headings and boxes of information. They should be bright and colourful and interesting to look at and read

Some useful websites that you can use for your research:

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/home-is-good/savannah-habitat/

https://kids.kiddle.co/Savanna

https://www.ducksters.com/science/ecosystems/savanna_biome.php

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zx3hqty/revision/1

https://study.com/academy/lesson/african-savannah-lesson-for-kids-facts-habitat.html

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/african-savanna-illustration/#:~:text=The%20African%20savanna%20ecosystem%20is,sunlight%20to%20reach%20the%20ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savanna

Submitting your work:  Scrapbook pages usually take up a double-page-spread in our books.  You can do this in your Home Learning Book, take a photo and send it to your teacher.  Alternatively, you could create a digital scrapbook page.  It would be lovely to create a main page on PowerPoint which has hyperlinks to other slides with more information.  We will demonstrate how to do this at the end of our maths lesson today.

Tuesday 2^nd February

LO:      To understand what a habitat is and identify different types

Task: 

Find out what a habitat is and write it in the middle of your page.  Around the explanation find out as many different types of habitat as you can and create a mind map around your explanation.  Please make this page bright and colourful and add some small pictures.

Submitting your work:  This work can be produced on a Word document (text boxes will be good for this) or can be written in your Home Learning Book. Please email your work to your teacher.

Monday 1^st February

Welsh

Task: 

*Fingers crossed the PowerPoint should work better this week as it doesn’t rely on sound!

Have a look at the PowerPoint below.  Revise the terms for ‘I like…’, ‘I dislike…’, ‘I love…’ and ‘I hate…’. Then copy the table (either on to Word or draw it in your Home Learning Book) and complete it for the different titles about yourself.  There is a vocab sheet on the last slide of the PowerPoint.

Submitting your work:  The table can be copied and pasted into a Word document or can be drawn in your Home Learning Book. Please email your work to your teacher.

Week Beginning: 25th January 2021

Thursday 28^th & Friday 29^th January

Task: 

Following on from this weeks work, we would like you to look carefully at your favourite animal’s habitat. Research it on the internet and look at pictures.

Create a 3D model of the habitat that your favourite animal would naturally live in.  To do this you may use junk modelling items that you find at home (ask for permission first) that are painted, decorated or have printed images stuck on or other types of media such as plasticine or lego. Be as creative as you can.

Write a few sentences telling us how you have made your model and what sort of things you have included and why.  Think about why this animal is well-suited to this environment Eg think about food sources, camouflaging colours etc.

This activity will take quite some time so we have allowed two topic sessions for this.

I’ve included a few images below to help inspire you.

Submitting your work:  Take a photo of your model and send it to your teacher.

Wednesday 27^th January

Task: 

Following on from your sketch of your favourite animal yesterday, I would like you to create a factfile about your animal.  It is up to you if you want to do this on Word or PowerPoint or write it into your Home Learning Book.  You can decide how to set it out but it must include:

-A title

-Photos / Images

-Headings (Eg appearance, breeds, food, natural habitat, behaviours, fun facts etc)

Try to make your fact file as interesting and as bright and colourful as possible.

Submitting your work:  Please email your work to your teacher

Tuesday 26th January

Task:  Draw a detailed sketch of your favourite animal.

I strongly suggest that you YouTube how to sketch your chosen animal to watch a tutorial about detailed animal sketching.

By detailed, I mean that I would like your drawing to be a realistic (not cartoon style) image where I am able to see their features and be able to see the texture of their skin/fur/feathers.  If you are drawing a detailed sketch then it will take you a long time. You will need a loose grip on your pencil and draw light lines in order to build up your image.

This video gives you lots of tips but it is quite long so skip to the bits that are useful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA77noU56_8

Your sketch should be about A4 size so make sure that it is nice and big on your page.

Submitting your work:  Take a photo of your work and send it to

Here are some examples of sketching tutorials on YouTube but please feel free to find your own:

Parrot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0-JgcckxxM

Lion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nict2InQ4A8

Elephant - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p7PqR1jI2A

Snake - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B53TkIyeCkQ

Wolf - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz_c2BRaG6U

Bee - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMzxlV59mSE

Lizard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPNJwPBntjw

Monkey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyY9DGgW8jU

Here’s a link to a playlist with lots of animal sketching tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBiW8y5LSHK5D-eaX6QqD5NM8B-Tpmvew

Monday 25^th January

Welsh

Task: 

Look through the Welsh PowerPoint on ‘mewn ysgol’. Copy the table into your Home Learning Book or copy and paste it into Word and then listen to the sound clips to complete it

Submitting your work:  Email a picture of your table in your Home Learning Book or email the Word document.

All Week

Explanation:     

Watch the videos below about classification:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zn22pv4/articles/z3nbcwx

https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=HQdiSMUZEDA

Carry out your own research about mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds and fish.  What is unique about each group?  What animals belong to each group. 

Task:  Each day this week you are going to complete a fact file about each group of animals

You can create your fact file using PowerPoint and build up one fantastic presentation with all 5 groups, or use a separate page in your Home Learning Book for each type of animal.   You should include

• the name of the group
• a description of the features
• a list of at least 5 animals which belong to the group
• pictures of those animals which belong to the group
• Cool facts and information about those animals

Suggested sequence:

Monday – Mammals

Tuesday – Reptiles

Wednesday – Amphibians

Thursday – Birds

Friday - Fish

Submitting your work:   Please email your work each day to your teacher

Friday 15^th January

Explanation:      We will be moving on to a different topic next week where we will explore our class novel and we will be looking at habitats.

Task:  Paignton Zoo have a live lesson at 11am on Teams which can be accessed via the link below.  Try to tune in to the live lesson.  If you can’t, I will post a link to the recording later in the day.  Please watch the lesson then create an information page with headings, pictures and written information about what you found out about habitats. Your information page will ideally be created using Word or PowerPoint and emailed digitally but if your device does not allow this then please create a double-page spread in your Home-Learning Book.

Link to the video:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0HJKLutHlM&feature=youtu.be

Submitting your work:  Email the digital version or a photograph of your work to your teacher.

Thursday 14^th January

LO:  Write an acrostic poem for DYSTOPIA

Task:  Using all of your knowledge from your research and thinking about dystopia, create an acrostic poem. Decorate your page with mages that show what your dystopia would be like (these can be digital images).

Submitting your work:  You could type your poem on Word and email it to your teacher or hand write it on paper or in your Home Learning Book then photograph it and email it to your teacher.

Wednesday 13^th January

LO: Record your ideas about a dystopia

Explanation:      Just as you looked at utopia in detail last week, now we will look at dystopia.  Remember that a dystopia is a hellish place where people would hate to live.  It would look physically unattractive but also the way of life would not be very nice at all.

Task:  Just as you did last week, complete each of the boxes by using bullet points to record your ideas.  Remember that you can type straight on to the sheet, print it out or just write the headings and your bullet points into your Home Learning Books.

Tuesday 12^th January

LO:  To begin to look at the topic ‘Mewn Ysgol’ in Welsh

Task:  Look at the PowerPoint below.  Have a go at all of the interactive activities.  In a Word document or in your Home Learning Book, write 5 things that you have learnt .

Submitting your work:  Email the Word document or photograph your Home Learning book and email the photograph to your teacher

Monday 11^th January

LO: Write an acrostic poem for UTOPIA     

Task:  Using all of your knowledge from your research and thinking last week, create an acrostic poem about utopia.  Decorate your page with mages that show what your utopia would be like (these can be digital images).  I’ve attached an example of an acrostic poem so that you remember how they are set out, using each letter of the word to start a sentence.

Submitting your work:  You could type your poem on Word and email it to your teacher or hand write it on paper or in your Home Learning Book then photograph it and email it to your teacher.

Week Beginning:  4th January 2021

Friday 8^th January

Task: Create a piece of art showing your utopia.  You may wish to draw or paint or create a model using clay or lego.  Be as imaginative as you want.  Don’t just show me your ideal home but your ideal local area. Include as much detail as you can.  Be prepared to talk about your art work when you return to school.

Please photograph your art work and email it to your class teacher.

Thursday 7th January

Task:  Continue with the ‘Utopia – Ideas Sheet’ from yesterday.  Complete the remaining 5 boxes with your ideas.

Remember that you are thinking about a perfect world where people would be happy to live but it also needs to be practical and realistic Eg everybody couldn’t have their own mansion with a swimming pool because there wouldn’t be enough space.

Submitting your work:  Take a photo of your completed work and email it to your teacher.

Wednesday 6^th January

Think:   What would it be like to live in an ideal world where everyone has everything they want and need and are happy?

Where would you live? Would it be in the city or the countryside?  Near the beach? Would there be lots of space or lots of buildings close together?

What would buildings, shops, schools etc look like?

How would you travel around?

What would the weather be like?

How would people get everything that they need to survive in your ideal world?

Task:  Complete the following 4 boxes only on the 'Utopia - Ideas Sheet' below:

• Appearance
• Transport
• Jobs & Education
• Buildings

*We will look at the other 5 boxes tomorrow

In school we would usually print this on to A3 paper for you to fill in the boxes.  If you can print it at home, try printing it on to 2 sheets.  If you do not have a printer write the headings on to paper or type them into Word.  Use bullet points to record your ideas. You should have 4-5 bullet points for each box / heading.

Remember that you are thinking about a perfect world where people would be happy to live but it also needs to be practical and realistic Eg everybody couldn’t have their own mansion with a swimming pool because there wouldn’t be enough space.

Submitting your work:  Take a photo of your work so far and email it to your teacher.

Tuesday 5th January

Explanation:      This term as part of our ‘Virtual World’ topic we will be looking at ‘utopia’ and ‘dystopia’.

Task:  Find out what the words ‘utopia’ and ‘dystopia’ mean. Find a definition and copy it out.  Find some pictures that show a utopia and a dystopia. Label them with adventurous vocabulary. Create a fantastic explanation page.

Submitting your work:  If you complete your page digitally on Word or Powerpoint then you can email it straight to your teacher.  If you complete your page in your Home Learning Book, take  a photo of it and email it to your teacher.

Week beginning 28.09.2020

Task 1

Follow the instructions below to make your own volcano. Take pictures and videos once completed.

Task 2

LO: Draw, label and justify the items you would put into an evacuation survival kit if you had to leave home after a natural disaster. It needs to have enough for your family to last three days.

Week Beginning:  21st September 2020

We have been looking at volcanos as part of our topic savage world. 

Creative Task 1

Learning Objective: Children use their research skills to create an interesting PowerPoint presentation using facts about volcanos. 

Things that could be included in the PowerPoint:

• Facts about famous volcanos from around the world
• Information about how volcanos are created
• Where they are located
• How they are formed
• What types of volcanos there are 

Remember to be creative, use pictures and words. 

Alternatively, if pupils do not have access to PowerPoint, they can create an information poster instead. 

Creative task 2

Create a self portrait showing your inner and outer self. 

Reflect on your inner-self. Pupils will draw and color what their physical face looks like on one side of a blank face. They will draw and color their hobbies, thoughts, and emotions on the other side.