The last couple of weeks

What a return it has been! The children are excited, they are engaging and we have had some really lovely lessons. They seem brimming with home learning knowledge that they want to share and socially seem to have fallen right back into being friends all over again. Below you will find a bunch of photos taken over the last two weeks. Underneath is a ‘year in lockdown’ video that has almost everything you have sent me over the last 3 lockdowns just to give you a glimpse of what the children have achieved over what has been, let's say, a 'turbulent' year.

Spring Home Learning Week 8

And here it is, the (hopefully) last Home Learning pack ever! The pack follows pretty much the exact same format as last week, live sessions are listed on the contents page and all nearpod codes are printed on the lessons that are needed. One final push before we welcome everyone back next week, please try and get onto the daily Team calls so we can hopefully keep you up to date with all the amazing things we will be taking part in when we return!

Monday Kahoot: 06704324

Monday Activity: https://world-geography-games.com/world_seas.html

Tuesday Kahoot: 03675899

Tuesday Activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VdtT0vQUY

Wednesday Kahoot: 09380296

Wednesday Activity: https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/fraction-matcher/latest/fraction-matcher_en.html

Thursday Kahoot: 06430806

Thursday Activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WZsxVDTqcU

Friday Kahoot: 01452848

Friday Activity: https://bookcreator.com/        Invite Code: S25KC9D

Spring Home Learning - Week 7

We're back! I hope you have all had a wonderful half term, have refreshed your batteries and are ready to start our next topic, Blue Abyss. We genuinely have some wonderful ideas for this topic and the hope is obviously we are back for some it to do together in the classroom. In the meantime the pack is below, it is a pretty hefty pack this time round as this is only a 5 week term. Usual live timetable applies with Mondays now being a live Geography lesson with Mr Young and this Friday we have a live Aquarium lesson for us all to take part in. As always any questions feel free to get in touch!

Monday Kahoot: 07210113

Monday Activity: https://www.artforkidshub.com/how-to-draw/animals/ocean/

Tuesday Kahoot: 01538978

Tuesday Activity: https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/fractions-equality/latest/fractions-equality_en.html

Wednesday Kahoot: 03590925

Wednesday Activity: https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/fractions-intro/latest/fractions-intro_en.html

Thursday Kahoot: 09744313

Thursday Activity: https://world-geography-games.com/oceans/

Friday Kahoot: 01197394

Friday Activity: https://bookcreator.com/      Invite Code: S25KC9D

Spring Home Learning - Week 6

The last week of this half term is live! Once again a massive thank you to both children and parents for your continued effort, a few more days and well deserved break is yours! The only worthwhile mention this week would be the addition of pre-recorded Math's videos that are now available in our Team. I will continue these as long as needed. Remember we will be live every morning and afternoon this week as usual with the schedule on the pack, any questions of course ask! :)

Monday Kahoot: 0927047

Monday Activity: https://bookcreator.com/     Invite Code: S25KC9D

Tuesday Kahoot: 04171230

Tuesday Activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr7FdxPU8V8

Wednesday Kahoot: 03753656

Wednesday Activity: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/street-art

Thursday Kahoot: 09036390

Thursday Activity: https://bookcreator.com/

Spring Home Learning - Week 5

And here we are, week number 5 is live! This week will see us move away on from Area in Maths and spend the next few weeks looking at fractions. In English we are writing our journals and we have a very practical project for you to engage with over the next two weeks! Remember we will be going live every morning and afternoon this week with a variety of different sessions, the timetable has been emailed to you and is on the contents of the pack. As always any questions send a quick email :)

Monday Kahoot: 09557726

Monday Activity: https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/

Tuesday Kahoot: 09774013

Tuesday Activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VdtT0vQUY

Wednesday Kahoot: 0562992

Wednesday Activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02E1468SdHg

Thursday Kahoot: 08959802

Thursday Activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFdZXwE6fRE

Friday Kahoot: 05534673

Friday Activity: https://bookcreator.com/

Spring Home Learning - Week 4

Another week, another pack, Week 4 is live and ready! This week will see us move away from Multiplication and Division in Maths and spend a week looking at Area. In English we are looking at journal writing and there is a lovely project in our Monday's Geography lesson. Remember we will be going live every morning and afternoon this week with a variety of different sessions, the timetable has been emailed to you and is on the contents of the pack. As always any questions send a quick email :)

Monday Kahoot: 02623793

Monday Activity: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/street-art

Tuesday Kahoot: 0495995

Tuesday Activity: https://www.games.co.uk/game/pixel-art-3d

Wednesday Kahoot: 05528748 and 06590382

Wednesday Activity: Mrs Langford's Amazing Science Live at 1.30pm

Thursday Kahoot: 06152019

Thursday Activity: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Vlhde7N5uGDIFXXWWEbFQ

Friday Kahoot: 07552934

Friday Activity: https://bookcreator.com/  Invite Code: S25KC9D

Spring Home Learning - Week 3

In all it's glory, the week 3 Home Learning pack. Extremely similar to last weeks with Reading, Writing and Maths each morning and any lessons that we would be doing in school catered for with a mix of online, video, live and worksheets. We hope to go live for a few afternoons this week with some of our lessons so keep a look out on your Teams calendar, as always any questions send a quick email!

Monday Kahoot: 01023033

Monday Activity: https://www.games.co.uk/game/skribbl-io

Tuesday Kahoot: 02981289

Tuesday Activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_oIssULEk0

Wednesday Kahoot: 04236895

Wednesday Activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM_uiHA3CEw

Thursday Kahoot: 06341923

Thursday Activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr7FdxPU8V8

Friday Kahoot: 02167098

Friday Activity: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/rocket-rounding

Spring Home Learning - Week 2

Here it is, the week 2 Home Learning pack. Extremely similar to last weeks with Reading, Writing and Maths each morning and any lessons that we would be doing in school catered for with a mix of online, video, live and worksheets. There is also an updated guide to Teams, it will hopefully help those of you who are having any issues with uploading work to your folder at home. Any questions, feel free to ask!

Monday Kahoot: 07792425

Monday Activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VdtT0vQUY

Tuesday Kahoot: 01412031

Tuesday Activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02E1468SdHg

Wednesday Kahoot: 08439552

Wednesday Activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFdZXwE6fRE

Thursday Kahoot: 04779893

Thursday Activity: https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/games-quizzes/street-art

Friday Kahoot: 04446752

Friday Activity: https://www.games.co.uk/game/pixel-art-3d

Spring Learning - Week 1

Hello everyone,

Below you will find this weeks Home Learning pack, the work enclosed will follow closely what we will be teaching in school. Underneath is also a daily activity and Kahoot. Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible tomorrow on our call!

Tuesday Kahoot: 01101921

Tuesday Activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td6zFtZPkJ4 

Wednesday Kahoot: 05265762

Wednesday Activity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O29e4rRMrV4

Thursday Kahoot: 08389401

Thursday Activity: Nearpod Collaboration Board - Code: 2BQ78

Friday Kahoot: 07383284

Friday Activity: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/mental-maths-train

Bubble Learning  - Christmas 

This is the last little pack that will be made available until the new year, it has pages of activities and links all relating to Christmas.  There is also the  home learning ideas for out next topic 'Flow' alongside a 'useful stuff' document for the topic.. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas, a Happy New Year and I will see you all when we arrive back in 2021!

Bubble Learning - Day 7

Good morning Mosaic,

I'm sure some of you might still be staying at home for the next few days, you have the learning pack for today and another one will be dropped on our class page tonight for the rest of the week. Below is a lovely Nearpod on the Great Pyramids of Egypt, another special Christmas Kahoot and a printable Christmas booklet to finish the day off, enjoy!

Today's Nearpod: LAZDV

Today's Kahoot: 04012190

Today's Activity: See Document below

Bubble Learning - Day 6

Good morning Mosaic,

Today, we have some Nearpod Meditation, a Christmas Kahoot and a special Grich Coding activity. You will find the next two days of learning in the pack further down the page. Enjoy!

Today's Nearpod: H3T6Q

Today's Kahoot: 05271205

Today's Activity: See Link Below

2 Day Christmas Bubble Pack 

Here it is, your final mini pack for the last two days of our isolation. This pack should serve Monday and Tuesday with Reading, Writing and Maths as well as two 'afternoon' activities. Since it is our last week the activities have a heavy Christmas theme on them, there will  also be a Nearpod, Kahoot and Activity uploaded for each day on our class page, enjoy!

Bubble  Learning - Day 5

Good morning Mosaic,

We made it to Friday! Well done everyone this week on the all the amazing work you have been doing, only a few more days to go! Today we have our virtual school trip, after looking at the votes I have deducted we are going somewhere warm, South Africa it is! You also have a fresh Kahoot on division today and then when you are all done I thought a trip to SantaLand would be fun, enjoy!

Today's Nearpod: MRP8T

Today's Kahoot: 04910245

Today's Activity: See Link Below

Bubble Learning - Day 4

Morning Mosaic!

Welcome To Thursday, alongside your learning pack today we have; a narrative writing Nearpod, designed to get you thinking about your descriptive writing, another Kahoot with this one being on fractions and to finish off a bit of Christmas yoga. Final day for Christmas song videos and Mosaic Challenge entries!

Today's Nearpod: CZ35I

Today's Kahoot: 0122917

Today's Yoga: See link below

Bubble Learning - Day 3

Good Morning Mosaic,

Half through our Bubble week! Well done everyone! Today we have a Nearpod on the senses surrounding some wonderful pieces of Poetry, another Kahoot for you to complete and of course, it is baking day! Send me lots of lovely photos of what you create! I have placed a simple recipe for cookies below. Remember your Mosaic Challenge and Christmas Videos please!

Today's Nearpod: 8VCLB

Today's Kahoot: 01978412

Today's Baking: See Link Below

Bubble Learning - Day 2

Morning Mosaic!

Today I have another Kahoot for you to enjoy as well as a very Christmassy Nearpod for you! There is also a cool Santa Coding lesson for you to take part in below as well. Remember to send me over anything you have completed for the Mosaic Challenge, some of your entries are already looking amazing! See you all at 9.30!

Today's Nearpod: LT2C8

Today's Kahoot: 02726427

Today's Activity: See Link Below

Bubble Learning - Day 1

Good Morning Mosaic,

Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible at 9.30! Alongside the Bubble pack you have already, there will be daily activities posted here to keep you all going. Today we have a Nearpod consolidating our learning on Teeth, A Maths Kahoot and this afternoon (2pm) Chester Zoo will be going live for a tour and a lesson. On Friday we will also have a virtual school trip, but I thought I'd let you decide, so below there is a mini nearpod which has one slide for you to say where you would like us to go! Also remember that your Mosaic Challenge - Christmas Edition is posted down below!

Nearpod: E95YC

Kahoot: 01242623

Chester Zoo: See link below

Virtual School Trip Vote Nearpod: T8BGI

Bubble Lockdown

You all should have received an email by now detailing a little more about how Home Learning will take place from next Monday. Below you will find the pack for our first week, the pack is both printable and editable. Some of the lessons may send the children onto Nearpod and others might require the odd external resource but the vast majority can be done from the pack alone.

I will also be going online on Teams every morning from 9.30am, I will send the first invite out on Sunday. You do not have to join but I will be going through the pack and a little more about how to use it. It will also be a zone where children can ask any questions they would like and to generally just have a check-in. Mrs Eddison will also be running Team calls at 10.30am each day for children to drop into and ask questions or do some small intervention tasks.

Alongside the pack I will also be uploading daily Kahoots and activities for the children onto our class page so keep your eyes peeled each morning! There will also be a Mosaic Challenge - Christmas Edition uploaded on Sunday for the children to take part in during the week! As always, any questions feel free to contact me on michael.young@camulosacademy.co.uk

Home Learning Pack

Below you will see an attachment for a Home Learning Pack, these were made for any children who had to self isolate at home. The pack was for the week beginning 30th November 2020, it will have a piece of Reading, Maths, English and Topic for each day. Some of you may wish to download this pack as well as the Bubble Learning pack. While the pack is still completely relevant, just a heads up that some of the Nearpod links may have expired.

Christmas has arrived in Mosaic

This week saw the children undertake decorating our classroom, turning it into a winter wonderland! Every child was given the chance to decorate a part of the Christmas tree and tables were set up for the children to make Christmas decorations. We also decided to go for a little Reach2 record of longest paper chain made by a class, the class' hard work gave them a 135m long chain which can be seen in all of it's glory below!

Pudsey!

Another lovely week in Mosaic, ending with our big pyjama day on Friday. We decided to spend a little bit of time researching Children in Need, it's history and some of the amazing things that the programme has contributed to. The children then turned this information into the beautiful two-page spreads below.

Autumn 2 - Week 1

Well we made it another week! The children once again have had a lovely week back in the classroom, we have done a little bit of fantasy novels, learnt a little about measurement and picked apart the history of nursing and the NHS. To finish it off we decided to make a lovely little display to commemorate Remembrance Day next week.

Recovery Pack

Some of you have raised a few concerns over 'gaps' that might have occurred during the children's time away from learning. We currently have a recovery curriculum in place to hopefully fill as many of these gaps in school and go over a few skills that might have been missed, the children sometimes are aware they are re-doing some skills and other times they are seamlessly embedded within current learning.

For any parents who would like to enhance their children's learning, one of the best things you could do is to re-enforce some of the Year 3 learning that they might have missed or forgotten with their time away. Below is a learning pack with the vast majority of learning that took place during last year, each page has a few simple questions for each skill, they shouldn't take longer that a few minutes per skill. The pack is huge and by no means is anyone expected to complete it all, but if you think it would be a help then it can be downloaded below, there is also a guidance pack to help with each skill as well as the answers for each question. Any questions feel free to contact me!

The Final Day

And here we are, at the end of our first half term! What a 7 and a bit weeks it has been! The children have been absolutely amazing, they have come back ready to learn, enquire and investigate! For our final day it only seemed right that since we all won't be having a 'normal' Halloween this year, for the children to have a Halloween day at school. We have spent the day making Halloween masks, doing some mindfulness colouring and finished it off with a 'treasure hunt' trick or treat whereby the children had a grid map of the school and had to find the clues that would spell out their answer. Once they had their answer they had to read it back to me and retrieve their goodie bag! An amazing day had by all!

Surreal Science

This week has seen the children really become mini scientists for our topic, with a mucky lesson learning out how a stomach works and re-creating one using bags, orange juice and crackers. Our main investigation this week was how to make toothpaste, rather than follow instructions or work together, I simply provided the children with the ingredients needed and allowed them to use a trial and error method of making their toothpaste. The children had a great time having to actually work things our for themselves and being really happy with the end creations!

Practical Packaging

The children today devised packaging in the shape of a lunch box. The packaging was for a healthy meal that the children came up with during a Science lesson, it was meant to hold one of each of the food groups to create a healthy, balanced meal.

This Week in Mosaic

Another well-rounded week in Mosaic class. We have completed some beautiful art inspired by Vincent Van Gogh, learnt about negative numbers by playing a board game backwards, learnt a new programme on the computers and written some amazing letters! The children are really settling into their learning again, their stamina for writing is better, their confidence in class discussions is showing and they look like they are really proud of the work they are producing! I am looking forward to seeing what next week brings!

Another Great Week!

Well, another wonderful week has gone with the children all seeming to be be settling down really well. Work is flowing, the children are engaging in classroom discussions and the work is coming our at a very high quality! This week we created a wonderful two-page spread using information we collected about Teeth and how to look after them. The children researched the information using their laptops, created a fact file during English and then used this information to help create their amazing spreads!

Well what a first week it has been! 

Mosaic have come back ready to go, their behaviour towards learning has been outstanding in their first week back. I have been blown away by how quickly they have dived back into their learning, this can be shown by the image above of our beautiful Hall of Fame which is already showcasing some of the amazing fact files that they have all created this week in English.

Welcome Back!

Hi Mosaic,

Tomorrow is the day! I can't wait to welcome everyone back into the classroom, Mrs Eddison and myself are very excited to see everyone and just thought we would share some notes that might help:

• Our P.E day is on a Thursday, children are to arrive and stay in their P.E kit, no need to get changed while restrictions are in place. Please dress for outdoor P.E as we will be taking almost all of our P.E outside where available. P.E starts next Thursday so no need to send them in kit tomorrow!
• Pencil cases are welcome in the classroom at the moment, if you don't have one please don't worry, we have set up resource packs for those who need them.
• Children will not be using the pegs outside the classroom to hang anything up, coats will be on the back of chairs and bags underneath, for this reason could I ask that children bring in as little as possible to minimise clutter. There will be a table for our class to place their brought in packed lunches.
• As much as I would love to see anything they have done/created during their time away, can I ask the children not to bring anything in to show and tell just yet while restrictions are still in place, hopefully we will find a time for this in the near future!

Obviously with everything changing so quickly this information is subject to change, both the school and myself will try and keep you informed as quickly as possible!

If you have any questions over the coming days or weeks, please feel free to email me with any worries/queries/questions. I will try and get back to you as soon as I can although please understand I might not be as quick as during lockdown.

Looking forward to seeing all of you tomorrow! :)

End of Term/Summer Learning

Hello Everyone,

Here we are, the last day of term! I just wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone, parents and children alike, for persevering through this difficult time. You all showed true Mosaic spirit both while in school and at home!

Below you will find a video made up of every image you have sent me since the start of lockdown, which added up to a cool 587 pictures! It is a testament to just how awesome you have all been and I hope you enjoy looking through the unique year we have all had.

Underneath the video are some summer packs for English, Maths and Topic alongside a document that holds links to various different online learning platforms should you want any summer learning to take place, there is absolutely no requirement to use them and in fact I would urge you all to enjoy the holidays as much as possible! There are also links, documents and platforms that will still be readily available through the Home Learning page.

I cannot wait to see you all in September! Enjoy the video :)

Special End of Year Kahoot: 09731244

15th July Home Learning

The last two days of school! I am going to do things differently today.  This is our last week with our free subscription of Nearpod (they gave us 4 months instead of 4 weeks!) so if there are any that you haven't looked at or been on any of the trips then be sure to use any codes still active (they each last a month!)

Your task over the next two days is to pick something you have really enjoyed during the whole of our Home Learning, any lesson, topic, subject that you enjoyed. I then would like you to create me a piece on it, it can be via a two-page spread, PoewPoint, poster or a piece or art, anything really! Pick something that really stood out for you over the last 15 weeks and use the next couple of days to really turn it into a nice little presentation. As mentioned earlier, you can use any of the nearpod codes going back up to 1 month if you need to recap anything.

Tomorrow, I will post our "home learning" activities for our new topic alongside a little Summer activity pack to keep those of you that would like such a thing busy!

Today's Kahoot: 09731244

14th July Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

Your digestive system is amazing, almost everything you put into your mouth gets used somehow and whatever is left.....well I am assume you know what happens to that! Your topic Nearpod today talks through your amazing digestive system.

Today's English: UHARI

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Topic: NHJOC

Today's Kahoot: 0279414

13th July Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

Welcome to the last week of school!  This week, the topic activities are an introduction to our Autumn topic which is "Burps, Bottoms and Bile".  Sounds gross, don't you think?  We will have a Science focus on teeth and the digestive system. Hopefully if all goes well in school this week our final video call will be from a newly decorated classroom to let you have a quick look!

Also, thank you to so many off you that have sent me in photos for the end of term video, if you haven't already but would like to be in the video please send me a few pictures as soon as possible.

Today's English: PZGQK

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

Today's Science: LZABD

Today's Kahoot: 062721

10th July Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

Happy Friday to all, our third Teams call is today at 4.00pm, I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible! Also a reminder for any Mosaic Challenge pieces in by tonight and if any of you would like to send me any pictures during lockdown you still have time before the video is created!

Today's English: See spelling pack below

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Trip: RITNO

Today's Kahoot: 047869

9th July Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

An Arty Thursday today, alongside your normal English, Maths and Kahoot is an Art session dedicated to some wonderful murals found in toilets, yes you read that right, toilets, enjoy!

Today's English: HVYDP

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Art: FEBQY

Today's Kahoot: 08748821

8th July Home Learning 

Good morning Mosaic,

Happy Wednesday! A simple day of English, Maths, Coding and a Kahoot! The links for Espresso Coding and Hour of Code are underneath the work below, enjoy!

Today's English: UJCWS

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Kahoot: 03039670

7th July Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

Thank you for those who have started sending the extra pictures for the end of year video, remember you can send as many or little as you want! A consolidation nearpod today going through a whole lot of Predators and Prey. Keep going everyone, you're doing amazing!

Today's English: BOQLA

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Topic: MIVTH

Today's Kahoot: 09111609

6th July Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

Your last week of Predators! We are working on some nice 'end of term' activities for next week but in the meantime it's time for you to demonstrate your knowledge from the last 5 weeks. I still aim for holding another Mosaic Team Call this Friday and will send out the invitations as soon as I am sure, make sure to check the Mosaic Challenge below for this weeks activity, enjoy!

Today's English: YNWUT

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Topic: CGFXR

Today's Kahoot: 01825583

3rd July Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

It's Friday! That means it is time for our second video call with everyone, I look forward to seeing you all at 4.00pm today, if you have any issues or haven't tried logging in yet, please try beforehand so I can help before the meeting starts! :)

It is also the last day to get your Mosaic Challenge in, you have until tonight to send them to me to be in the video tomorrow.

Today's English: See document below

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Trip: ZBSIK (can be done anytime)

Today's Kahoot: 06670816

2nd July Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

Mrs Langford has again been very kind and provided us with some more interactive French activities to do. Use the link below to access the activity for today.

Teams meeting tomorrow at 4.00pm as well as the Mosaic challenge in by tomorrow night for those who are participating :)

Today's English: ZDHMS

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's French: See link below

Today's Kahoot: 05650507

1st July Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

You should all have received your invitations via Teams for our next video meeting at 4.00pm on Friday, if you need any help with logging in or haven't taken part in the previous one, please get in touch and I'll get you sorted!

Thank you to those who have sent in their Mosaic Challenges, remember you have until Friday night to send them in!

Wednesday means it's Computing! Choose from either the Espresso Coding or Hour of Code links below, enjoy!

Today's English: UXEMN

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Kahoot: 02865066

30th June Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

For all you little monkeys at home (the mast majority at this point, i'm sure!) we have an afternoon lesson on the Amazon Monkey Calls. You are going to learn all about how animals communicate and how Monkeys use their calls in the wild.

For English, Mrs Langford has prepared something quite special, a lesson all about Superheroes!

Today's English: OTSEG

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Topic: YELMN

Today's Kahoot: 09724732

29th June Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

An so we begin another week, as it stands the plan is still to hold another video session this week. As soon as I have a time locked down I will send it out so you can get ready with as much time as possible.

Keep going, I know there are only a few weeks left and working at home is never as easy, but you are all doing so amazing! Keep the pictures, photos and messages coming in, I love to see every one! Also a reminder of your new Mosaic challenge video below with the creation of your dream playground, deadline is this Friday night!

Today's English: BZCTF

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Science: THJSC

Today's Kahoot: 05947695

26th June Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

It's Friday, I have seen a lot of you have made the attempt to log into Teams to get ready for our video call test this afternoon at 4.00pm, thank you. Again, this is a test of the platform so I anticipate a few niggles along the way. But it will be lovely to see as many of you as possible.

Also, a reminder of the 'Ideal House' projects for this week if you are taking part, they need to be in my midnight tonight please.

Today's English: See spellings below

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

Today's Trip: BQNYO (can be completed anytime)

Today's Kahoot: 06106354

25th June Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

As the weather keeps on giving I hope you have all had some wonderful time in the sun, I also hope that you haven't turned in little Tomatoes! I hope you are looking forward to our virtual session tomorrow after school, if you have some time today please attempt to login and test that you can at least access Teams so that you are ready when the time comes.

Today's English: QHZPE

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's French: See the PowerPoint Below

Today's Kahoot: 08052805

24th June Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

Wednesday, half way through the week! You're all doing such an amazing job of keeping up with your work with all the beautiful sunshine outside, well done! Make sure to enjoy the weather and get some time out in the sunshine again!

Computing today, remember to select from either the Espresso Coding or Hour of Code from the links below.

Today's English: KCLQN

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Kahoot: 03519355

Tuesday 23rd June 2020

Good morning Mosaic,

Another beautiful day, make sure to spend some time outside, I assure you I will be outside as much as possible today with my little bubble in school! A nice Art lesson to make up your afternoon learning today, enjoy! :)

Today's English: IQVYN

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Art: DGKJS

Today's Kahoot: 09645829

Monday 22nd June 2020

Good morning Mosaic,

We are in for a lovely week of weather this week, make sure you spend some of it outside and enjoy the sunshine! 3 weeks left out home learning topic, Predator. You are all doing so well, keep it up! There is a new challenge below, remember you have until Friday night to complete the challenges now.

Today's English: EHAQG

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Topic: FLRPJ

Today's Kahoot: 07107683

19th June Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

It's Friday, Yay! As usual we have our school trip today, however as I am in school now I can't run it live at 11.00am like we normally would, so today the trip will take place at 4.00pm with the codes being sent out at 3.50pm. You also have another day to complete your Mosaic Challenge as the video will now be uploaded on a Saturday rather than a Friday.

As is now the norm of Friday, your English is in the form of a spelling back seen below, have a wonderful Friday and I will hopefully see a lot of you on the school trip later!

Today's English: See document below

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Trip: VNQPE (for anytime use now)

Today's Kahoot: 01799095

18th June Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

Mrs Langford has been kind enough to make us another lovely French activity document, simple open the document displayed below and everything in the picture is a link to a fun, French activity.

A small reminder that if you are taking part in the Mosaic Challenge that your projects are in by the end of tomorrow, so you have an extra day from now on to get those projects created and in :)

Today's English: ELQFS

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's French: See document below

Today's Kahoot: 07878371

17th June Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

Wednesday today (I think!), ICT this afternoon, as usual you may do a project on Hour of Code or Espresso Coding, both of which have their links placed below.

Today's English: FQHKB

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's ICT: Links Below

Today's Kahoot: 03905259

16th June Home Learning 

Good morning Mosaic,

A big challenge for your afternoon lesson today. You are going to pick a predator and make a two-page spread on it. There is a nearpod to go through a little bit more with you and explain it further. I look forward to seeing your results! :)

Today's English: FJRIH

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Topic: SAXYI

Today's Kahoot: 06792328

15th June Home Learning 

12th June Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

It's Friday! Virtual school trip time! We are heading to Scotland today with views of castles, lochs and mountains incoming. Same as always, the codes will be placed on here and sent to you at 10.50am with the plan of starting shortly after 11.00am when I feel everyone is online.

Shortly after the trip the challenge video will be uploaded for you to see with next weeks challenge included as well. This week we are also starting a new TimesTables Rockstars Tournament between Mosaic and Vista, It starts today at 3pm and runs until next Friday at 3pm. Let's make sure we win Mosaic!

Today's English: See Document Below

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Trip: OFEAI

Today's Kahoot: 02978339

11th June Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

Apologies for the delay today! I had some Wifi issues at home, below is all your learning for today as a well as a small reminder for your Challenge projects in by the end of the day please. thank you to those who have already sent theirs in.

Today's English: YDLXC

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Topic: GYXBM

Today's Kahoot: 05307563

10th June Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

Wednesday means it's ICT today, or you can have a look through a little 'special' nearpod we have today. It is full of collaborative boards for you to share what you have been reading during lockdown with everyone else.

Today's English: AFUWV

Today's Math's: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Special Nearpod: NJSQR

Today's Kahoot: 09520916

ICT below

9th June Home Learning

Bonjour Mosaic,

We have French today, Mrs Langford has made a special document that has pictures and links to various different French activities. Simply look around the picture and click on one of the objects and it will take you to one of the 11 different activities.

Today's English: BMNLZ

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's French: See document below

Today's Kahoot: 09693039

8th June Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

Today we have our first Art lesson of the topic, you are going to take some of the knowledge you have from last weeks 'Birds of Prey' lesson and do some creative Art with it. 

A reminder that there is a new challenge to complete this week with deadline back for the Thursday evening again, another Art project as well (you could even use a good piece of your lesson today for your project this week!)

Today's English: TRQOF

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Art: VDWYX

Today's Kahoot: 01154127

5th June Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

It is Friday! That means we have a completely new virtual trip to look forward to at 11.00am! The trip will work the same as before, just I will be in school controlling it this time! As always, the code will be sent out and placed on the class page at 10.50 with the trip starting just after 11.00 when I feel everyone who wants to be online is here.

Also from now on Friday's will be spelling days for our English lessons, there will be a pack each week placed on Friday's lesson.

Today's English: See document below

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Trip: WEIGJ

Today's Kahoot: 06210467

4th June Home Learning 

Good morning Mosaic,

A little reminder about this week's challenge for tomorrow, I know it was late but the video is up so if you want to do a little Show and Tell can you have your entries in by tomorrow at 3pm.

Today we have a little afternoon lesson on Birds of Prey with a small fact file to make at the end.

Today's English: PMWCY

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Topic: RSXCN

Today's Kahoot: 03965143

3rd June Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

It is Wednesday which means Computing! The links to Espresso and Hour of Code are below and you can do either as your Computing lesson today.

There is also a Challenge below (sorry I was late uploading it this week!) if you would like to take part before Friday.

Today's English: SDIWV

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Computing: See Links Below

Today's Kahoot: 06872759

2nd June Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

Well done on getting so involved yesterday with your new topic! Remember if you want a different set of Maths work to that linked there is an alternative plan below for you to work from as well.

Today's English: WFZTR

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's French: See document Below

Today's Kahoot: 0125980

1st June Home Learning

Half Term

Hello Mosaic,

Below are some links and exercises for you to dip into during half term, there is no pressure to do any of this, it is purely for those of you that would like a little extra or something to do during this week. The links to the Kahoots will be added daily.

EYOCU - Iron Age Hillfort Nearpod (Final chapter in our Tribal Tales with an activity book to make at the end)

JEONC - Creative Art NEarpod (A pre-made Art lesson by Nearpod, slightly adapted by myself for home learning)

VWTON - French Nearpod (A slide with various activities for all years groups, simply scroll and find an activity you would like to try and click to open)

Kahoots

Monday: 08293189

Tuesday: 05479066

Wednesday: 03019492

Thursday: 08084256

Friday: 01882738

22nd May Home Learning

Good Morning Mosaic,

I hope you have all been able to enjoy some of the sun this week, it's Friday which means it is time for another school trip! Because I have been in school this week the trip sadly doesn't have the little bits of my audio over it as I did forgot to record them this week (sorry!), but everything else should be exactly the same! The code will be sent out at 10.50am with the trip starting a little after 11.00am.

We are going to start using Friday's for spellings again, instead of an English Nearpod on Friday you will now have a little spelling pack sent out, there is a some handwriting with them as well as a game and a word search to do.

The Challenge Video will be uploaded this afternoon as I need to record some information about next terms work to add to it.

Today's English: See Document Below

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Trip: DMZAF (Non-Live version)

Today's Kahoot: 09433113

21st Home Learning

20th May Home Learning 

Good morning Mosaic,

It's Wednesday, which means you have the options for your coding this afternoon (or whenever you choose to do your work!).

Today's English: RLSFT

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Kahoot: 09968417

19th May Home Learning 

Good morning Mosaic,

Great to see some of your Iron Age work yesterday, well done everyone! Enjoy today's codes and remember to send me your weekly challenge projects! :)

Today's English: KCFEZ

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Topic: RIUXP

Today's Kahoot: 05587907

18th May Home Learning

15th May Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

It's Friday which means we are heading on our school trip today! We are going to the Keukenhof Gardens in the Netherlands for something a little different. As always I will send the code out for the trip and post here at 10.50am with the lesson starting a few minutes after 11.00am when I am sure everyone who wants to take part has joined!

For English today instead of a Nearpod we have a little writing practice, practising writing numbers as words, it was a key target for us all to hit in Year 3 so a little practice on paper at home would be fantastic!

Thank you for all your lovely projects once again this week, I will look to have the video ready with all the pictures and next weeks challenge on as soon as possible today :)

Today's English: See document below

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Trip: ZHVYO

Today's Kahoot: 0152157

14th May Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

A little extra today, as well as our English and French that we had planned, there is an extra Nearpod on Art for those who want a little more to do today (or over the next month, remember the Nearpods stay open for 29 days now). 

Remember you don't need to complete everything, think of the list below like a pick 'n' mix :)

Today's English: DQCIA

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's French: JCLGX

Today's Art: UTCKH

Today's Kahoot: 08545622

13th May Home Learning 

Good morning Mosaic,

Wednesday means it is Computing, your afternoon lesson is to complete either a module on Espresso Coding or hop onto Hour of Code and attempt to finish an activity (remember you don't have to complete it!)

Today's English: BPLVT

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Kahoot: 06587119

12th May Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic, 

Thank to those who sent their challenges over yesterday, it's wonderful to see how creative you have been with nature!

Today's English: YLCTH

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Topic: QMLVW

Today's Kahoot: 04860297

11th May Home Learning

8th May Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

First things first, there is apparently a flyby of the Red Arrows over Colchester this morning, they should be reaching us for about 10am, so if you have a few minutes and would like to see the flyover pop your head out a window or head into your garden to try and see. (I hope we get a good view!)

Virtual School Trip - Arc de Triomphe - The trip has happened but can now be accessed by anyone using the code at home, you can go through the trip at your own pace this time or if you missed it this morning.

Today's English: DOTGL

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Trip: YZRPE 

Today's Kahoot: 02709714

7th May Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

As we near the end of another week, a small reminder for any rainbow projects for tomorrow's challenge video that you would like to send over. The ones I have had so far have been lovely and very creative! Also a reminder that we are having a TTRockstars tournament with Vista this week that ends tomorrow at 5pm, we are currently losing so let's go Mosaic, get cracking! :)

As tomorrow is VE day I have uploaded a few activities that you might like to partake in over the weekend, we will still do our virtual school trip tomorrow and I will still have a Kahoot and an English nearpod ready. Tomorrow's school trip is to the Arc de Triomphe (Holland is next week for those I mentioned this too, sorry!), it will run like last week's in that you will be sent the code at 10.50 with the trip starting around 11:00am.

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's French: PCTFB

Today's Kahoot: 09045963

6th May Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

It's Wednesday which means we have our English, Maths and then this afternoon is Computing! This means that you can either go onto Hour of Code or Espresso Coding (links are below). Also another reminder to get your rainbow inspired projects in by tomorrow evening and that we are in the middle of a TTrockstar tournament with Vista, don't let them win!

Today's English Nearpod: UTJSC

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Kahoot: 01134919

5th May Home Learning

Good Morning Mosaic,

Today we have our standard English in the morning followed by a Bronze Age trip to Stone Henge in the afternoon. Remember if you want to complete this weeks challenge and have your work in the Friday video you need to send me the best rainbow inspired piece of Art by Thursday!

Today's English Nearpod: SRULP

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Topic Nearpod: NVKLP

Today's Kahoot: 06671191

4th May Home Learning

Good Morning Mosaic

I hope you have all had a lovely weekend! 

I hope you enjoyed the video from last Friday, at the end was the introduction to this week's challenge of creating me something do do with the rainbow of colours, if you're confused have another watch of the video or feel free to ask me via email. I will be working on creating another virtual school trip for Friday, this time me might venture to another country!

Today's English NearPod: KFLBV

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Topic Nearpod: SVCUK

Today's Kahoot: 01012283

We are also challenging Vista to another week long tournemount of TimesTable Rockstars, class with the most points wins! If you need your login reset just send me an email! Get going Mosaic!

1st May - Home Learning

Good Morning Mosaic

It's Friday! We are heading on our next virtual school trip today! The code will be sent out and posted here shortly before 11:00am and this time you should be able to hear my voice, on certain slides there will be a play button at the bottom, click and you will hear me speaking over the slides!

Thank you for all the challenge videos this week, I aim to have the video ready for early afternoon!

Today's English Nearpod: TXWVI

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's School Trip: HFJOD

Today's Kahoot: 04535967

30th April - Home Learning

Good morning Mosaic,

Please can I have your videos for my class project in today, the ones I have had so far have been so lovely! It would be great to have everyone in the video for tomorrow!

Tomorrow's virtual 'school trip' will go ahead at 11:00am again, same concept as last week's with me sending out the code just before, but I am looking to add my voice to make it easier for you to understand from home. As always, feel free to email me, send me work, ask me questions etc. :)

Today's English Nearpod: PJIKY

Today's Maths: https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-3/

Today's Topic Nearpod: ERCKU

Today's Kahoot: 02756060

29th April - Home Learning

Discovery Education login: Student71035       Password: discovery

Oaks Academy

Challenge V5

I would love to create a little message video of all of you, just like the teachers did. If you could all send me a small video (no longer than 30 seconds) saying hello or showing something you enjoy it would be lovely. I will then stitch them all together and create a nice video of all of us :)

Maths Home Learning 

White Rose are releasing daily lessons in weekly batches on their home learning website linked below. These lessons follow the exact day-to-day learning that we would be following in school for Maths. Each lesson has a video for input to go through the learning, a worksheet to demonstrate understanding and an answer sheet to check over at the end. I would highly recommend using this for your daily Maths lessons at home!

Immersive Experiences

Below are two links that I think the children will really enjoy at home, one is for Now>Press>Play, An immersive audio experience for the children to listen to experiences and act out the instructions given. Best to have a set of headphones on, even better if you have a set of wireless headphones for freedom of movement, but neither are required to use.

The other is for Audible, they are offering free audio books for children during this time away for school, simply click on the link and start listening for free!

New! - IT and Coding

I'm sure you are all keeping busy with the learning packs, books, Kahoot's and challenges on top of whatever else you are doing at home. I thought I'd throw a nice IT/Coding resource into the mix. Hour of Code is a great site that provides activities and games that require the children to code their way through levels. The games are all based on popular franchises/movies/games etc and the children receive a certificate upon completion! Simply click the link below, select a level (American Grade System - Grades 2-5 for Mosaic) and your sorted! Enjoy!

We have had a brilliant World Book Day! The children looked absolutely amazing in all of their costumes and accessories. We have spent the day learning more about the history of World Book Day while also making special, bespoke, mindfullness bookmarks to use in our reading.

Thank you to all the parents for sorting out such incredible costumes for the children and supporting such a lovely day!

The children arrived today to see the chairs had disappeared! A message was left on the board reading 'Mr Young has decided that you no longer need chairs in the classroom, so he has removed them. If you think that you do need chairs in the classroom, you will need to write a persuasive letter to to convince him to give them back!"

The children then set out planning, drafting and writing their letters to me. It was quite a chore finding a comfy position to write but as you can see they became creative with where they placed themselves. After reading some of their very convincing letters, I reluctantly decided that they do in fact require chairs in the classroom so returned them before break.

The children have really enjoyed developing their badminton skills this half term in our indoor P.E sessions. We have learnt some of the basic skills such as forehand and backhand grip as well as getting the serve right.

They have been extremely well behaved during these sessions, allowing us a lot more time to practice our learning each week. While the children are definitely improving, there has yet to be someone who can take on the mighty Mr Young!

The children have been exploring the world of Forces and Magnets during Science this term. Part of this topic involved us experimenting with friction and how it can affect the amount of force applied to make an object move. 

The children have really enjoyed their science experiments this term, we have looked at what items are magnetic, are two magnets stronger than one and does friction affect the force needed to make an item move.

Today the children took part in a Mediterranean food tasting in the classroom. They we able to try a range of meats, cheeses, breads and fruits all from countries bordering the Mediterranean sea, these included:

• Chorizo, Salami and Prosciutto Ham
• Parmesan, Mozzarella and Goats Cheese
• Foccacia, Sour Dough and Pitta
• Olives and Spanish Oranges

The children were brilliant throughout, they all were eager to try the new foods to them and really dived into the spirit of the afternoon. Some found new foods that they are eager to eat more of, some found hidden tastes that definitely didn't agree with them but all in all it was a wonderful afternoon. 

The children had an amazing time at Pizza Express today. They learnt all about Pizza, it's ingredients and a bit of its History before taking part in making their own Margherita Pizza fresh from the restaurants ingredients. Afterwards, they were treated to a Pizza and Movie lunch in the classroom where they tasted their creations. 

The children were incredibly well behaved, with the Manager and Chef commenting on how well they responded to instructions and composed themselves during the activities. I am extremely proud of them! 

World Book Day 2019

The children in Mosaic class looked fabulous in their costumes for World Book Day. We even had four Harry Potters! Together we read and then retold the story of The Enormous Turnip as well as making our own bookmarks and book front covers.