Hamsterley, Bishop Auckland, DL13 3QF
We have a new challenge for you. Write a letter to your friends at school, telling them what you have been up to since school was closed. If you’re not sure what to write, these questions might help as a prompt:
What new things are you finding to do? How are you passing the time? What do you miss most? What will you do when you are allowed to socialize again?
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We hope everyone had an enjoyable Easter weekend.
School would have been restarting today (Monday 20th April), and we have updated our home learning links for the summer term.
For English and Maths, we are using the Hamilton Trust ‘Learning at Home’ packs.
This week is Week 3 (they started with Week 1 and 2 as revision packs before the Easter holidays).
In Science in Class 2, we will be looking at the Earth in Space. The moon restarts its phases with a New Moon on Thursday 23rd this week. Keep a diary of the moon phases over the next month. Draw them as accurately as you can Which way is the crescent pointing? Which side of the gibbous (one of my favourite words) moon is more rounded? Key vocabulary: crescent, gibbous, quarters, waxing, waning, new moon, full moon. If you have binoculars you should be able to make out the dark areas which are called the moon’s ‘seas’ (which aren’t really seas).There are good resources for the Earth in Space on the BBC Bitesize website. The file Space Projects has a list of a few ideas for extra home projects linked to Earth in Space.
In History, we will be looking at the Romans in Britain. Again, the BBC Bitesize website has some great resources to get you started. See the file Romans in Britain Projects for some ideas for home research. To get you started this week, find out about Julius Caesar’s attempted invasions of Britain in the years 55 and 54 BC. There are some questions to answer here: Julius Caesar’s Invasions of Britain
The BBC Bitesize website has also launched daily lessons in Maths and English for each year group.
Finally, we have been asked if we have more CGP books for Maths and English, as many of you have completed the ones sent home last month. Unfortunately, it would not be practical for us to get these out to you, but you can order them yourselves from the CGP website.
Update Monday April 27th.
We are now on week 4 of the Hamilton Trust ‘Learning at Home’ packs. Remember, you can email school if you are stuck on anything.
Hamsterley Primary School Rainbow 🌈 Competition (with thanks to Tracy Dutton for the idea).
The challenge is to create a rainbow. You can paint it, draw it, bake it, flower arrange it, make a real one with spray… the choice is yours.
Photograph your child waving to the camera with the rainbow they have created, and email the photo to hamsterley@durhamlearning.net. Please also confirm whether or not we have permission to add the photo to the this page on the school website.
There will be prizes for all participants when we return to school.
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Hamsterley and Bedburn children’s Easter 🐣 egg decorating competition.
Post a photo of your child’s decorated egg on the Facebook page that is called ‘Hamsterley and Bedburn villages’ along with their age in the comments.
Two categories age 8 and under, and age 9 and above.
Closing date 9th April, winners announced 10th April.
Judged by David Crook
Prizes winner of each group £10 Amazon e voucher
Runner up £5 e voucher
While we are on our enforced closure, there are a number of websites that we use in school which the children can access from home. UPDATED 28th March – new sites at bottom of page
The children from Y1 onwards have their own username and password for this. If they have forgotten, email us on hamsterley@durhamlearning.net and I can remind them.
www.purplemash.com/sch/hamsterley
The login details are the same as the pupils use for Accelerated Reader in school (name, initial).
A great site for learning coding – the Class 2 pupils should remember the details for the MrHamsterley account.
In school, we often use the Twinkl site for curriculum resources. While schools are closed due to Covid-19, they are offering free registration to all.
https://www.twinkl.co.uk/offer
Offer code: UKTWINKLHELPS
And the Hamilton-Trust website, an excellent curriculum site which we use frequently in school, is producing weekly ‘learning at home’ packs for each year group in Maths and English. You can download them here: https://www.hamilton-trust.org.uk/blog/learning-home-packs/
Sir Linkalot is a great spelling website / app, and they are allowing free access for home educators while schools are closed.
TTS (an educational supplies company) have produced Home Learning Packs for Reception, KS1 and KS2.
White Rose Maths Hub have produced weekly lessons for each year group, with short videos explaining that lesson.
BBC Supermovers have produced a series of videos which combine learning with movement – great for when you’re stuck indoors.
Dr Chips does a daily Science, Technology or Computing activity. A new video is released at 10:00 AM each weekday, but past videos and ideas are all available to do on the website.
The Scouts: The Great Indoors is a wonderful collection of interesting activities for children to do at home.
Cambridgeshire LEA have a website with a host of ideas for home learning across all subjects and ages
The National Schools Partnership have a page of challenges linked to industry.
Well done to the following pupils for receiving the following awards this week:-
Class 1
Headteacher Award – James
Tidiness Award – Charlie
Kindness Award – Jamie
Year 3/4
Headteacher Award – William
Tidiness Award – Jeh
Kindness Award – Aadi
Year 5/6
Headteacher Award – Rory
Tidiness Award – Ava Sc
Kindness Award – Matthew
Well done to the following pupils for receiving the following awards this week:-
Class 1
Headteacher Award – Emily
Tidiness Award – James Henri
Kindness Award – Xander
Year 3/4
Headteacher Award – Luke
Tidiness Award – Christina Jayne
Kindness Award – Lily
Year 5/6
Headteacher Award – Seb
Tidiness Award – Nicholas
Kindness Award – Clay
Today is world book day, all the children have put in lots of effort and been super creative with their costumes. We have horse riders, prisoners, harry potters, princesses of all kinds, the millionaire boy and many more great book characters. The Staff have also put in such a good effort, today we have:
Mary Poppins
Minnie Mouse
The Paper Bag Princess
The Rainbow Fish
Chewbacca
scarecrow
skullduggery pleasant
Dorothy
Hermione Granger
Hamsterley recently entered a dodgeball tournament and due to one team dropping out of the tournament, we had the chance to enter 2 teams, because of this opportunity, one of our Hamsterley Teams finished second and the other finished 5th. What a great result for both of the teams!
Well done to the following pupils for receiving the following awards this week:-
Class 1
Headteacher Award – James
Tidiness Award – Dylan
Kindness Award – Iona
Year 3/4
Headteacher Award – Mirren
Tidiness Award – Alfie
Kindness Award – Ewan
Year 5/6
Headteacher Award – Matthew
Tidiness Award – Finn
Kindness Award – Ava
