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Kahoot- the results! 01/05/20, by Miss Isbister

Date: 1st May 2020 @ 3:07pm

And the Battle of Marathon Kahoot results are in.........

3rd- Allanah

2nd- Noah

1st- Katy

WELL DONE TO YOU ALL! Will 6B beat 6I to first place next week?! 

Kahoot- The Battle of Marathon, by Miss Isbister

Date: 29th Apr 2020 @ 8:39am

Code: 06333584

You have until Friday at 3pm to complete the challenge!

Monday 27th April, by Miss Jones

Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 9:14am

Good morning Year 5 :)

Were on to a new week of home learning, below are the tasks that we would like you to compete this week. You must try your best to complete all activities. 

Here are your activities for this week:

1. Two pages from both your new Maths and English books each day.

2. Geography revision on BBC Bitesize followed by the Kahoot! quiz on Google Classroom.

3. Times Table Rockstars battle between Year 5 Boys and Year 5 Girls

4. Your google classroom weekly assignment

5. Mymaths

Feel free to leave us a comment on here or the school website if any questions or to post pictures, pupils too.

Have a great week,

Miss Jones and Miss Horvath

Monday 27th April Year 4, by Miss McEvoy

Date: 27th Apr 2020 @ 9:10am

Good morning Year 4.

We hope you had a fantastic week with the lovely weather. It has been really nice speaking to a lot of you over the google classroom. This week we would like EVERYONE to log on, if they can, it is a nice way focus all to keep in touch and see what each other are doing. 

This week the tasks we would like you to complete are:

• Complete AT LEAST 1 page in your English and Maths CGP books
• Complete 2 MyMaths activities which are: dividing by 10 and 100, interpreting pictorgrams and bar charts
• Practise a time table of your choice using either TTrockstar or www.timestable.me.uk Once you have practised the timetable of your choice go onto timetable me and try and do a test. Remember it is 25 questions (times and divide) in a minute and a half. Let us know how you do :)
• Research our new Geography topic which is called all about volcanoes. We would like you to research 1 or more than 1 volcano and create a fact file. It would be interesting to look at volcanoes from around the world. You can present your fact file in any way you like; PowerPoint, document, poster. Then submit this on the google classeoom to the Volcano Research Assignment post. We will then mark your work and give you feedback. We would like this to be submitted by Friday 1st May.
• Like with every other week, if you do any other fun activities or work that you would like to show us then tell us on the google classroom on the Home Learning Week 3 assignment. You can post pictures, videos or work to show us. 

**Remember to keep active by doing Joe Wicks or other fun games/sports in the garden.

**Also go onto bbc bitesize daily lessons if you would like to do extra work. There are lot's of interesting things on there each day. If we see something we would like you to have a try at we will post it to the google classroom. Otherewise just have a look and see what you would like to do.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/z63tt39/year-4-lessons/1

We hope you have a fantastic week, and we look forward to speaking to you on the google classroom.

Miss McEvoy and Mr Tarry

Monday 27th April- Year 6, by Miss Isbister

Date: 26th Apr 2020 @ 5:21pm

Hello Year 6! 

Here's an overview of this week's tasks. Take a look at the video for more details.

1. English and Maths workbooks (if your books say 'stretch' on the front, look at the stretch column)

2. Kahoot- (Wednesday - Friday)

3. Google Classroom- Battle of Marathon task (turn in by Friday)

4. MyMaths task and TT Battle (complete both by Friday)

5. Anything else you are up to - exercising, baking, getting creative- please let us know!

Have a great week and comment below :)

Miss Isbister and Mr Boyer

Kahoot- the results!, by Miss Isbister

Date: 24th Apr 2020 @ 2:08pm

The Athens V Sparta Kahoot results are in! Drumroll please...

1st place....Noah

2nd place....Zaky

Well done to you both! Whilst Noah was in first place, there was somebody above him called 'M' and another person called '???' Since you have not entered your name, we cannot give you 1st place, so Noah gets it! 

In future, please make sure you enter your first name. If you would like a second attempt, put your name as 'Name attempt 2.' 

Well done everyone!

Monday 27th April Year 3, by Mrs Edwards

Date: 23rd Apr 2020 @ 1:19pm

Hello everyone!

This week is action packed with activities. Do not worry if you do not get through them all, they are just some ideas to help you keep busy while at home.

English/Maths

• Workbooks - 1 or 2 pages in English and Maths books
• MyMaths - fractions activitiy finishes Friday 1st May
• TTRocks - boys v girls finshes Friday 1st May
• Kahoot - https://kahoot.it/challenge/08417302?challenge-id=6e1c9a2b-6f0d-4cd4-ba65-1ac0ca6f8961_1587907603338 Y3 spellings finshes Friday 1st May

Topic - Spanish

• Hola!
• Enjoy finding out about a normal day at school in Spain.
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/z2vtsbk
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/clips/ztrs34j
• Now try the Kahoot quiz!
• https://kahoot.it/challenge/01538751?challenge-id=128e06f3-d600-4990-8687-17b4b32fce7f_1587744778719
• Let me know how you got on! Would you like to go to a school in Spain?

Creative

• Have a look at the book ' You Choose' by Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart. Here is a youtube link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x9B0uMeyQM 
• I have taken inspiration from a particular page in this book and have added a picture of it below. 
• Can you draw a picture of all the places that you and your family would like to visit? Create your family’s adventure world.
• Can you find pictures or photos of the places you like to visit? Share them with us… talk about the things you do there, the memories you have of that place. 

We hope you have fun and enjoy.

Mrs Edwards, Miss Higson and Ms Butler

Kahoot- Athens V Sparta, by Miss Isbister

Date: 22nd Apr 2020 @ 10:12am

You have until 2pm on Friday to complete the Kahoot!

Code 02369850 

Visit Kahoot or follow the link: https://kahoot.it/?_ga=2.134596657.1344676309.1587546371-581794162.1569401200&deviceId=0eba3325-865e-415a-b394-1cb27b3f7283R&sessionId=1587546374860

Week 3 Home Learning - Monday 20th April, by Miss Horvath

Date: 20th Apr 2020 @ 11:44am

Good morning Year 5!

Below you will find a summary of the key points from the newest video. Unfortunately, we are having some issues uploading the video to the blog. However, you can find it on the school's new facebook page and it has also been uploaded to Google Classroom. 

From TOMORROW an adult can go and pick up your new CGP English and Maths books between 1:00pm-3:30pm. 

This week we would like you to:

• Complete 1 page in your new English and Maths book each day
• Go onto TTrockstars to practise and compete in the class battle!
• Go onto MyMaths and complete the 2 activties which have been set for you this week
• Revise for the Forces Kahoot! quiz and complete by Thursday lunchtime
• Post a picture, doc or slide of something creative you have completed this week to the Home Learning Assignment section on Google Classroom!
• Keep active, this could be by doing Joe Wicks each day, playing in your garden or going for a daily walk.

Keep up the hard work and take care,

Miss Horvath and Miss Jones X

Monday 20th April Year 3, by Miss Higson

Date: 20th Apr 2020 @ 11:03am

Good morning Year 3! Miss Higson here with this week's tasks.

1. One or two pages of both your new Maths and English books each day, when you have collected them from school (Tuesday 21st April 9:30am-12:30pm for Year 3).

2. Science Kahoot quiz on Google Classroom.

3. Times Table Rockstars battle between 3H and 3E.

Paper aeroplane game optional!

Feel free to leave us a comment on here or the school website if any questions or to post pictures, pupils too.

Thank you and have a lovely week!

Miss Higson and Mrs Edwards

Monday 20th April year 4, by Miss McEvoy

Date: 20th Apr 2020 @ 8:48am

Good mornng Year 4,

Below you will find the video for this week's home learning. It was nice to speak to you all last week on the phone and it has been great to see some of you posting pictures of what you have been up to on the Google Classroom.

Today an adult can go and pick up your new CGP English and Maths books between 9:30-12:30. 

This week we would like you to:

• Complete 1 page in your new English and Maths book each day
• Go onto TTrockstars to practise and join in with the Girls V Boys battle.
• Go onto Mymaths and complete the 2 activties which have been set for you this week.
• On Google Classroom Mr Simons and Miss Jones have set you a challenge, each day you will get another clue. You need to problem solve for thsi activity so you wont be able to get the asnwer straightaway- don't give up!
• Keep active, this could be by doing Joe Wicks each day, playing in your garden or going for a daily walk.

If you want to share any pictures, videos or tasks with us that you have done at home please add them to the Home Learnign 2 assignment on the Google Classroom.

We look forward to speaking to you on Google Classroom over the week.

Miss McEvoy & Mr Tarry :)

Monday 20th April Year 6, by Mr Boyer

Date: 19th Apr 2020 @ 1:25pm

EDITED

Hi all,

Welcome back to the blog. Here you will find information about this week. Please post all messages under this blog and we will reply as soon as we can. We have also posted a video on our new Facebook page, have a look: 

https://www.facebook.com/Moss-Park-Junior-School-102993841384502/

Today we would like you to start the Google Classroom assignment on 'Athens v Sparta'. You log in by putting your username (that you used to log onto the Chromebooks at school) with @mpjs-trafford.co.uk followed by your password e.g. tjones@mpjs-trafford.co.uk. If you have forgotten your password please post a comment below and I will reset it and text the new password to your parent/s. You do not need the classroom code as you are already assigned to the class. 

For Maths we'd like you to have a look at BBC Bitsize as they're starting their daily lessons today https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrjx6v4 This is brand new this week and we'll monitor the content as we go on. 

For the rest of the week (once you have collected your new workbooks from school), follow the schedule below. Most of you have the books that say 'Year 6' on the front. A few of you have the books that says 'Year 6- Stretch' on the front (if you can't see the word 'stretch,' then you just have the Year 6 CGP one). 

Also, look out for the home learning tab on the website - here you'll find lots of ideas and websites that you can use during your 'school day'. Miss Higson is working on adding it.

Any questions, comment below!

Mr Boyer and Miss Isbister

Easter Holidays- Year 4, by Mr Tarry

Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 4:07pm

We hope you have enjoyed the sun today and managed to do some fun activities.

Over the Easter holidays try and keep doing some of the outdoor activities from the picture below.

Remember if you create any fantastic creations outside take a picture and put them onto our google classroom. There is an assignment set up called home learning so post anything on there for us to see. If anyone hasn’t managed to get onto their google classroom yet-give it a try! Follow these steps:

1. Go to www.google.com
2. On the right hand side you will see the 9 dots that is a place to sign in.
3. Your username is your chrome book log in with @mpjs-trafford.co.uk at the end. If you need help check the front of your homework book, we wrote this in there before we finished school. Your password is the same password as you use for the chrome books in school.
4. Then to get onto the classroom click the same 9 dots and go to the classroom icon (yellow and green square)

We have set 2 my maths activities today, we will check these have been completed the first Friday after Easter (17^th April).

Keep up with reading over the holidays, we are still aiming for 3 reads a week. This does not have to be your school book, use your reading record (as usual) to write down anything you read and to tell us about the book. We are excited to give out lots of raffle tickets when we get back to school so keep up with your reading!

Most importantly- spend time with your family and enjoy the outdoors. We are excited to speak to you all again after the Easter holidays and see what you have all been up to.

Happy Easter.

Mr Tarry and Miss McEvoy

Kahoot Results, by Mrs Edwards

Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 3:08pm

Well done everyone who has taken part in our Kahoot quiz. Here are the reults;

1st - Elliott

2nd - Autumn

3rd - Francis 

Easter Holidays, by Mr Boyer

Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 12:44pm

EASTER HOLIDAYS

Today we start our Easter holidays. There are 2 weeks when you don't have to do the sheets from your learning packs or anything on Google Classroom. Instead, myself and Miss Isbister would like you to have a go at some of your Pobble sheet activities that can be done as a family. We've also got a challenge against Year 4 on Times Tables Rockstars running until Tuesday 14th April.

Mrs Nunwick found this great list of activities to keep you and your family busy (while staying safe indoors).

Have fun everybody, we'll be back on the blog after the holidays!

Friday 27th March Year 3, by Mrs Edwards

Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 8:49am

Good morning 

How has your first week at home been? I hope you have all done well with Joe Wick every day.

Today's activity has a big number 5 in the corner.

Creative challenge

As most of us have been staying at home all day, it's nice to see some nature and wildlife. So I've found some zoos that are live streaming their animals! Have a browse of their websites and see what animals you can find. Maybe you could do some research on your favourite animals and write about them in your book.

https://www.dublinzoo.ie/animals/animal-webcams/

https://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/webcams/panda-cam/

https://www.dudleyzoo.org.uk/our-animals/webcams/

https://www.georgiaaquarium.org/

Chester Zoo is also running a virtual trip to the zoo today. Below is the list of running times.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2287733068192442/?active_tab=about

EASTER HALF TERM

After tomorrow, our Easter holidays start and there are 2 weeks when you don't have to do the sheets from your learning pack or anything on Google Classroom. Instead, myself and Miss Higson would like you to have a go at some of your Pobble sheet activities that can be done as a family.

Mrs Nunwick has also found this super list of activities to keep you and your family busy (while staying safe indoors).

Have fun everybody!

Happy Friday,

Mrs Edwards and Miss Higson

Friday 27th March , by Miss Jones

Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 8:45am

Good morning.. happy Friday! 

I thought I would come on and post before Joe Wicks goes live at 9am.. even us grown ups have been getting in to a routine of doing Joe Wicks every morning. 

I was so impressed with all of your beautiful creations from yesterday’s challenge.. I will post them on twitter later, if you didn’t get chance to yesterday have a go at the “natures art challenge” inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. 

Following the success or yesterday’s challenge I have been thinking about one that I could set you for today. Today’s challenge is to design and make a boat that will float on water, you can choose any materials that you have at home. You could use paper, newspaper, twigs or sticks I don’t mind! Don’t forget to post a picture of your marvellous creation on google classroom for us all to see. 

If you want to continue with daily creative challenges have a look at the ideas sheet that was in your pack to keep you busy over the holidays. 

It was great to see some more of you on Google Classroom yesterday, I enjoyed chatting to you all and answering some of the riddles you have come up with. If you haven’t logged on yet try and have a go today, it’s your Chromebook username with

@mpjs-Trafford.co.uk 

and your chrome book password. Have a look in the front of your homework book at the log in sheet we filled in last week if you can’t remember or get stuck. 

We hope that you have all been getting on ok with your learning packs. I will be checking on MyMaths later today to give those of you that haven’t completed it a chance to do it and setting another one for you to compete today or over the holidays. I will also set a battle on TT rocks for over the holidays between 5J and 5H.. come on 5J (sorry 5H!!)

And finally, don’t forget to read and record it in your reading records, we still want to aim for 3 reads a week with a grown up at home.. I can’t wait to have a look through your reading records when we go back to school.. imagine how many raffle tickets you could build up over the next few weeks!! Remember it doesn’t have to be your school reading book, it can be any books, comics, magazines, newspapers, recipes, instructions or online articles that you might have around the house.

Miss Horvath and I hope that you have a relaxing Easter break with your family, fingers crossed this lovely sunshine stays with us so we can spend lots of time outside and we look forward to hearing all about it and speaking to you all again after the holidays. 

Have fun and stay safe!! 

Miss Jones and Miss Horvath x 

Ps. Don’t forget to comment below if you have any questions or just want to say hi, I will reply to you all throughout the day :)

Maths Kahoot Quiz- year 4, by Miss McEvoy

Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 8:08am

Mr Tarry has posted a Maths Kahoot quiz on both google classrooms. 

Go on and see what high score you can get. When you go on use your name so that we know who has achieved what score.

We will post the final results at the end of the day.

https://kahoot.it/challenge/657f6bf7-4a1e-467c-b537-a895ccbe9286_1585222759945

Friday 27th March- Year 4, by Miss McEvoy

Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 8:06am

Happy Friday Year 4 :)

We are both very proud of all the work you have been doing at home this week.

Finish the week off with a fantastic Joe Wicks work out. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ Then why not spend some time creating your own mini work out, we could try these out when we all get back to school.

Today’s learning pack activities:

Maths - The mystery of the missing horse challenge

English - Ancient Egyptian Dentists

Handwriting Practice - Year 3 & 4 National Curriculum words (1 page)

Don’t forget to record your work in your red exercise book.

This afternoon we would like you to think about this big question, this links to our last Science topic (states of matter)

Write your ideas in your red book and in the comments below. Ask somebody in your house as well and see what their ideas are.

Background science

Freezing is the term used to describe a liquid changing state into a solid when you cool it. It’s a reversible change, so if you apply heat to something frozen it will melt back into a liquid. Water usually freezes at 0°C, but its freezing point can drop below zero if it contains substances such as salt or alcohol. Seawater freezes at around -2°C, while antifreeze can stop the water in a car’s radiator from freezing even at -30°C!

Glacial ice (that is glaciers, ice caps, ice bergs and the sheets of ice that cover arctic regions) holds a vast amount of the world’s fresh water,  while salt water is found in the seas and oceans.

Think about:

• How would polar bears and penguins live?
• How could you make a cool drink without ice?
• What would happen to all the snow in winter?
• What would happen to the sea levels?

 We are looking forward to this discussion.

Mr Tarry & Miss McEvoy

Friday 27th March Year 6, by Miss Isbister

Date: 27th Mar 2020 @ 7:55am

Good morning everyone! The sun is shining- happy Friday! 

We have a few tasks for you today:

1. Complete your last arithmetic paper and comprehension. 

2. Go to https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvhhvcw and research the key concepts of adaptation, evolution and inheritance (our new science topic!)

3. On Google slides, produce an information slide show about your findings. It’s up to you how you present it, but it should be both informative and interesting- don’t just copy and paste! 

4. Chester Zoo are holding a virtual zoo today. If you can, visit their Facebook page to watch some of their animals live! You could add a slide about the adaptation of an animal you see in the virtual zoo. See the picture below for more details. 

Don’t worry if you cannot get on Google classroom / slides. Instead, you could use PowerPoint or just present it in your blue exercise book. 

Comment below with how you have got on with your work and new timetable this week :)

Miss Isbister and Mr Boyer 

Kahoot- the results! , by Miss Isbister

Date: 26th Mar 2020 @ 3:27pm

The results are in!

5th- Alfie

4th- Mahnoor

3rd- Harry

2nd- Mia (which one?)

1st- ???

The questions is- who is the mystery person who put their name as ‘???’ I have a sneaky feeling it is somebody who had another go..! 

Well done to everybody who played! Did you enjoy it and would you like to play more Kahoots? 

Thursday 26th March , by Miss Jones

Date: 26th Mar 2020 @ 8:59am

Good morning,

It looks like it's going to be another beautiful day! How many have you have been for a walk searching for rainbows in peoples windows? Why don't you go for a walk today and as your walking collect as many pieces of nature eg. Twigs, leaves and stones and when you return home create a piece of art work from all of these natural resources. Have a look at the artist Andy Goodsworthy for some inspiration! We would love to see your pieces of art, you can upload them to google classroom later today!!

Remember - when logging onto to google classroom it is your chrome book username but you MUST add @mpjs-Trafford.co.uk so it appears like an email address, then use your chrome book password and you will be all set to go!! I have been replying to some children on google classroom.. it would be great to see more of you on there later today :) 

Don't forget to check your schedule to see which pieces of work need completing today.

Stay safe and have a lovely day in the sun!  

Miss Jones and Miss Horvath x 

Thursday 26th March - Year 4, by Mr Tarry

Date: 26th Mar 2020 @ 8:49am

Good Morning Year 4, we hope your week is going well and you are all staying safe.

Join in with Joe Wicks again today, this is a fantastic way to start off your day and it will give you lots of energy.  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

After a break complete the learning pack activities for today.

Maths - The mystery of the missing horse challenge

English - Non- fiction revision Mat

Handwriting Practice - Year 3 & 4 National Curriculum words (1 page)

After lunch let’s all go onto Times table Rockstars and go onto studio. Then try the game on Maths frame https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/477/Multiplication-Tables-Check

We want to try and get our speed as fast as we can while we are off.

Challenge for today:  find the most interesting fact you can about one of our past topics. Write it below in the comment box.

We have also posted on the classroom – please comment back with your name so we can see who is managing to sign in. It is exactly the same as your school log in, just add ‘@mpjs-trafford.co.uk’ at the end of your name!

We look forward to reading your ideas. Remember to write back to us on the blog! We want to hear from you all!

Mr Tarry and Miss McEvoy

Thursday 26th March Year 3, by Miss Higson

Date: 26th Mar 2020 @ 8:44am

Good morning everyone!

Miss Higson here. I hope that you are all OK and have been busy around your house. I'm just getting ready to start the Joe Wicks PE lesson but thought I'd write on here first.

Today's activities are the ones with a big number 4 in the corner of your pack. See if you can do all those and let me know how you get on.

Extra chellenges for today

I found this cool video on Youtube for drawing a 3D ladder. It doesn't look too tricky - see if you can try it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAq2X-0FbGM

Feeling creative? Why don't you take a look at the Wildlife Watch website - there are lots of fun activities to do in the garden/yard. While the sun is shining, why don't you try and attempt some of them? 

Here is the website: https://www.wildlifewatch.org.uk/activity-sheets

If you manage to complete one of the activities, we have set up a Google Classroom document for you to add a picture to so we can see. Do not worry if you are not able to do this. Instead, you could write today's date in your book and draw and label a picture of your creation.

Speak to you soon!

Miss Higson and Mrs Edwards

Thursday 26th March Year 6, by Mr Boyer

Date: 25th Mar 2020 @ 8:38pm

Hi Year 6!

Well done to everybody who got onto the Kahoot quiz yesterday - I was there too and also a bit bemused (I'm clearly not a good guesser as I came 9th!). Miss Isbister has set up a new quiz that you can do anytime before 3pm today. Here are the details from her blog post:

'Go to kahoot.it again and enter the game pin 0374915
You should be able to see both the questions and answers, and like normal, you will have a 5 second time limit for each question. The only difference is we will not be playing 'live.' You just have from now until 3pm tomorrow to complete it, then I will submit the leaderboard on the blog!'

In addition to this, I have set up My Maths for you all to do - have a look! Whilst on a maths theme - did you see we lost to Year 4 by nearly 8000 correct answers on Times Tables Rockstars last weekend? I'm going to set up a rematch this weekend to last until 14th April! Meanwhile, it's pretty close between 6I and 6B (this battle finishes at 3.30pm on Friday).

Did you have a go at the ancient Greece research yesterday? If not, have a look at yesterday's blog post and give it a go if you haven't already, or if you started you can add to it. Don't forget day 4 maths and English from your pack too.

Good luck on the Kahoot quiz! (Fingers crossed it works this time - we are all learning!)

Mr Boyer and Miss Isbister