Aims:  These tasks are designed to be done with your child. Blue coloured tasks are aimed at Pathway 1 pupils as well as pupils who prefer more interactive activities and require a higher level of support. These are tasks we hope you will enjoy, please select the ones you feel are most appropriate for your child.

Thinking

Literacy Focus

Building confidence
and communication
skills ready for
September.

Speaking, Listening & Communication, Reading and Fun Holiday Activities

Resources:  Come and collect FREE bag of soil and seeds from school.

Powerpoints -

W10 Leisure Jasper’s Beanstalk BLUE as

W10 Leisure Biscuit Goes Camping BLUE as

Videos - 2 x signed stories -
Jasper’s Beanstalk,

Biscuit Goes Camping [Mrs. Sugden]

Instructional - Miss Lennon teaches how to plant a seed

Focus: Observational skills- take photos / draw your plants as they grow - email to  meadow@meadowhighschool.org and we will put them on the website.

Focus:  Teamwork - take photos / draw the camp or den you made.  If you want to you can list the things you used so that others can have a go too! email to  meadow@meadowhighschool.org and we will put them on the website.

Signed Story video - Biscuit Goes Camping:

Signed story video - Jasper's Video

Information video:

Maths Focus

• Do you like listening to maths stories? Listen below:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbi_mhNEwdU&t=197s

• Look at the images below: Draw your own house, boat and person by drawing shapes only.
  • Now: Can you draw a robot by drawing shapes?
  • If you like, paint or colour your shapes in the end. Count how many different colours you have used. Count how many yellow triangles you have. Count how many red squares you have. Compare the size of your shapes.
    
     

• Play shape hunt at home or school. Look at the 3d shapes below.
  • Can you remember their names?
  • Look around in the classroom and try to find objects that have these shapes.
  • Record your answers on the sheet using tally marks (III)
  • Compare the answers with your classmates. Who found most of the cubes?
  • Who found most of the cuboids? Who found most of the spheres?
  • Who found most of the cylinders?
  • Who found most of the shapes altogether?

If you are at home, move around in different rooms and find objects with these shapes. You could play with a parent, sibling or carer and compare your answers with them.

• Design an ice cream cone using line and colour patterns.
  • Watch the video and listen to instructions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InLkKxyxdrU
  • Now: Can you design the ice cream cone using the same line and colour patterns?
  • When you finish, try to design another ice cream cone using your own line and colour patterns.

• Make your own emoji face!
  • Also downloadable on Twinkl

Science Focus

Music Bottles

Task: Create a water xylophone and explore the science of sound.

●Explore the sounds- Do they sound different?

●Can you hear a high and low pitch?

●Does the amount of water change the sound ?

What you will need:

-5 identical bottles (or jars or glass cups)

-Water

-Spoon

-Food colouring (optional)

Website: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/science/sounds-great--bottled-music/

https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/water-glass-xylophone/

What's happening:

Changing the amounts of air and water in the bottles lets you change the pitch—how high or low the sound is. When you blow across the tops of the bottles, you're making the air inside vibrate. In bottles with more air, vibrations are slower, so the pitch is lower.

Creativity

Cooking/Technology 

Create a video game character

 Attached: PDF - Create-A-Video-Game-Character-Activity-Sheet

Tropical Granola Lollies - Simple fruity lollies that count as one of your five-a-day, topped with rich dark chocolate and crunchy cereal for a moreish frozen treat.

Link:https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/tropical-granola-lollies

Here are some brilliant website for you to look at different recipes that you may choose to make:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/school-holiday

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/summer-family

https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/fun-recipes-for-summer-vacation/

Drama / Arts / Music

Art:

Task 1: Watch video - Just Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G74_o_43_RQ

Task 2: How did the video make you feel? Select and draw the emoji

Task 3:Listen to the song again and this time see if you can dance in time to the music. Who can you ask to dance with you?

Task 3: Draw the things make you happy

Other ideas for wider learning

1.   Try the different holiday colouring activities

PDF - Underwater

PDF - Piglet

PDF - Sandcastle

2.     Listen to the summer songs, sing along and sing about what you like to do in the summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVhh0oATqBI

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

3.  Hand print Art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNhfGyi0Hwo

Play musical status and sleeping lions to your favourite song

We hope you enjoyed the Arts Activities
Looking forward to seeing you in school again in September

Health & Wellbeing 

Physical Activity

The PE staff have uploaded lots of videos of circuits training or challenges to the youtube channel. Have a look and have a go. Keep active!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQVlu1D0XnL-bwjaXIzbZxQ/videos

ThisIsPE: Updated 3 times a week. Fun and easy activities to be done at home. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thisisPE

Using ideas from the “This is PE” link, try and create your own game using things you can find at home. Write down the rules and play with your family. If you can, upload to Twitter and tag “@MeadowPE” so we can see it.

Nike Move Crew: Fun games and dance activities led by Nike athletes.  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nike+move+crew

Go Noodle I Get Moving: Lots of videos to get children moving, dancing and exercising with lots of music and singing. https://www.youtube.com/user/GoNoodleGames

Fitness Blender: Build your own circuit training session

https://www.fitnessblender.com/videos

Lawn Bowling: Find 10 empty bottles and arrange them into a triangle. With a ball or rolled up socks roll/throw the object to knock down as many “skittles” you can in 2 rolls/throws. 1 game is made up of 10 turns (2 rolls/throws each turn). Count up your total score and see who wins.

Target Throw: Find 5 containers (they can be the same size or different sizes) and roll 5 pairs of socks up. Place the containers in different spaces and give them points based on how difficult they will be. Take a turn to throw the rolled up socks into the containers and count up your points.

Just Dance: If you like dancing or just want to keep moving. Use Just Dance’s youtube page and enjoy their videos.

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

Using your leisure time to keep active is a way of creating and maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle. Find ways to enjoy keeping active!

Can you participate in some kind of activity that raises your heart rate for 30 minutes per day

Aims: These tasks are designed to be done with your child. Green coloured tasks are aimed at
pupils in the main body of the school. Tasks are a mixture of interactive tasks  and tasks which
build core skills. These are tasks we hope you will enjoy, please select the ones you feel are most
appropriate. 

Thinking

Literacy Focus

Maintaining and building key skills including communication skills and confidence ready for September.

Speaking, Listening & Communication, Reading and Fun Holiday Activities

Resources:  Come and collect FREE bag of soil and seeds from school.

Powerpoints -

W10 Leisure HH Holiday GREEN as

W10 Leisure Activities GREEN as

Videos - 

1 x story - Horrid Henry’s Holiday  [Full Text] read by Miss Barratt

Instructional - Miss Lennon teaches how to plant a seed

Remember:  Take photos / draw the camp or den you made. 

                       Take photos / draw your seeds as they grow.

Email meadow@meadowhighschool.org and we will put them on the website

Maths Focus

• Break the emoji code… they get harder, attempt as many as you can!
  
  

PDF - Emoji Code Breaking Sheet 1

PDF - Emoji Code Breaking sheet 2

PDF - Emoji Code Breaking Sheet 3

• Emoji craft

• Emoji co-ordinates

PDF - Emoji Coordinates

• Emoji multiplication mosaic - pick your level they get harder!

 PDF - Emoji Multiplication Mosaic 1

PDF - Emoji Multiplication Mosaic Sheet 2 

PDF - Emoji Multiplication Mosaic 3 

Science Focus

Task: Making ice cream in a bag!

There is actually a lot of interesting chemistry that goes on behind making ice cream. How do the ingredients change during this process? How important do you think it is that they are cooled to a certain temperature? How does the salt cause the ice to melt? Record your observations on the worksheet

What you will need:

• Sugar, milk /heavy whipping cream, vanilla extract, salt, ice cubes, sealable bags

Website:

https://www.sciencebuddies.org/stem-activities/ice-cream-bag#summary

https://aroundthekampfire.com/2020/01/ice-cream-bag-changing-matter-experiment-second-grade.html

Recording worksheet:  PDF - Recording worksheet

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-cVjZBMBNNXdTFWaC1XNTd6bE0/edit

Creativity

Cooking/Technology 

Pass Time

Think about your favourite pastime activity. Is it sports? Making art? Going to the park?

Brainstorm what you like about the activity and then write a blog styled piece on Word or by hand describing the activity and your favourite memory with it

Mobile Device - Wordsearch 

Attached: PDF - Mobile devices word search

Holiday Pizza - The latest in our cooking with kids series looks at kneading, rolling and sauce skills- then let your child build their own pizza from their favourite toppings

Link:https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipe/summer-holiday-pizzas

Here are some brilliant website for you to look at different recipes that you may choose to make:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/school-holiday

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/summer-family

https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/fun-recipes-for-summer-vacation/

Drama / Arts

Task Focus: Learning to draw body poses

Information:

Art: Keith Haring was a famous American Graffiti Artist who liked to draw people who looked like they were moving.

Do you like to do lots of things and keep active when you are on holiday? What sort of leisure activities do you do?

Look at the image below:

What are the figures doing?

Task 1 Describe his style- Simple lines and pattern, bright colours, body poses

Task 2: Draw dancing figures and add colour.

Task 3:  Put on some American music you think Keith Haring might like, pretend you are on holiday at the beach!

Task 4: Can you draw someone at home while they hold a pose? Then colour in the figure

Remember to thank them, how long could they  hold a pose for, did you time them?

Materials you will need:

You will need:Pencils, colour pencils or felt pens

Task Helpful link to follow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7SnDuPX_JA

Keywords: Simple lines and pattern, bright colours, body poses

Other wider Learning

1.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i1XD2yN4Ug Watch the clip Yellow submarine, can you draw a submarine?

2.     How to make a Paper hot air balloon mobile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lOdTb5A6aw

You could bend a coat hanger or adapt plastic lid if you don’t have a fabric hoop

3.     Watch the link for some fun Summer craft ideas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7-okRDbdok

We hope you enjoyed the Arts Activities
Looking forward to seeing you in school again in September

Health & Wellbeing 

Physical Activity

The PE staff have uploaded lots of videos of circuits training or challenges to the youtube channel. Have a look and have a go. Keep active!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQVlu1D0XnL-bwjaXIzbZxQ/videos

ThisIsPE: Updated 3 times a week. Fun and easy activities to be done at home. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thisisPE

Using ideas from the “This is PE” link, try and create your own game using things you can find at home. Write down the rules and play with your family. If you can, upload to Twitter and tag “@MeadowPE” so we can see it.

Nike Move Crew: Fun games and dance activities led by Nike athletes.  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nike+move+crew

Go Noodle I Get Moving: Lots of videos to get children moving, dancing and exercising with lots of music and singing. https://www.youtube.com/user/GoNoodleGames

Fitness Blender: Build your own circuit training session

https://www.fitnessblender.com/videos

Lawn Bowling: Find 10 empty bottles and arrange them into a triangle. With a ball or rolled up socks roll/throw the object to knock down as many “skittles” you can in 2 rolls/throws. 1 game is made up of 10 turns (2 rolls/throws each turn). Count up your total score and see who wins.

Target Throw: Find 5 containers (they can be the same size or different sizes) and roll 5 pairs of socks up. Place the containers in different spaces and give them points based on how difficult they will be. Take a turn to throw the rolled up socks into the containers and count up your points.

Just Dance: If you like dancing or just want to keep moving. Use Just Dance’s youtube page and enjoy their videos.

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

Using your leisure time to keep active is a way of creating and maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle. Find ways to enjoy keeping active!

Can you participate in some kind of activity that raises your heart rate for 30 minutes per day?

Wellbeing

Useful links offering support and discussion:

https://youngminds.
org.uk/

https://www.time-to-change.org.uk/

MAKE TIME TO STAND UP TO STIGMA

Objectives:

• To help students feel a part of wider movement tackling mental health stigma and discrimination

• To inspire students to take the campaign message out into their community

Resources:

‘Week 4 make time to stand up to stigma’

‘Week 4 Powerpoint Final’

Task:

Work your way through this very reflective activity and think about how you can change the stigma! These activities can be done individually or as a family.

Aims:  These tasks are designed to be done with your child. Purple coloured tasks are aimed at pupils who would enjoy more of a challenge .  These are tasks where pupils should be working with greater independence, however  please take time to support pupils in starting the tasks and build communication skills. 

Thinking

Literacy Focus

Maintaining and building key skills including communication skills and confidence ready for September. Focus on reading, writing and following a sequence of instructions.

Speaking, Listening & Communication, Reading and Fun Holiday Activities

Resources:  Come and collect FREE bag of soil and seeds from school.

Powerpoints:

W10 Leisure Holiday Activities PURPLE as

W10 Leisure Research Project PURPLE as

Videos -  Instructional - Miss Lennon teaches how to plant a seed

Remember:  Take photos / draw the camp or den you made. 

                       Take photos / draw your seeds as they grow.

                       Send us your research project

Email meadow@meadowhighschool.org and we will put them on the website

Maths Focus

• Think like a mathematician videos https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zfxhfg8/resources/1

•  Maths quizzes on Kahoots!
  https://kahoot.com/

• Maths games

https://www.mathsisfun.com/
https://www.themathsfactor.com/games/

• Countdown maths
  https://nrich.maths.org/6499

Science Focus

Crystal Candy Rock

Task: Create candy rock crystals and watch them grow!

-Observe what happens over time

- Can you think of why this happens? (evaporation? precipitation, saturation?)

Equipment:

• Sugar, water, skewers, jar, clothespins

Website

https://www.growingajeweledrose.com/2015/02/rock-candy-experiment.html

https://sciencebob.com/make-your-own-rock-candy

What's happening: What makes the crystals grow?

You have a supersaturated solution that is unstable (in this case, sugar) more than can stay in a liquid form—so the sugar will come out of solution, forming what's called a precipitate.

Water evaporates over time and the solution becomes more saturated and sugar molecules will collect on the seed crystals on the string. The rock candy crystals grow molecule by molecule. Your finished rock candy will be made up of about a quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) molecules attached to the string.

Creativity

Cooking/Technology 

Poster Activity

ICT has impacted our leisurely activities as it has developed through time.

From being able to communicate better and introducing new technology for fun, such as, gaming consoles, exercise machines etc.

-     Have a read about how ICT (pages 1 to 6) has changed and impacted lifestyles with the link provided https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z4s39j6/revision/1

-     Create a poster and illustrate 5 ways that ICT has changed our lives.

-     Do you think it is positive or negative and why?

Mobile devices - have impacted our leisure and lifestyle from the way we connect via social media or text, to how we can easily take pictures to capture a moment.

Read the information in the link below and answer the questions on the worksheet on how mobile devices have developed over time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z4p4jxs/revision/7

Attachment: PDF - MOBILE DEVICES research and questions worksheet

Jelly and Custard Trifle Tart - Create this retro jelly and custard trifle using cheat’s ingredients. It’s a completely make-ahead dessert, so ideal for a stress-free get together.

Link:https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/jelly-custard-trifle-squares

Here are some brilliant website for you to look at different recipes that you may choose to make:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/school-holiday

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/summer-family

https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/fun-recipes-for-summer-vacation/

Drama / Arts

Task Focus Learning to make predictions when reading an image and colour with a limited colour range

Information:

Reading what might be going on in an image requires some observation and imagination. It is good to practice. Degas was famous for his pictures of ballet dancers, look at his soft use of colour.

Art: Edgar Degas

Look at the image below:

What type of dance do you think the girl is going to do?

Task 1: Draw a light outline of the figure

Task 2: Add detail using a pencil. Add colour using only blue, brown and black pencil.

Materials you will needs:Pencil, blue, black and brown colour pencil

Task Helpful link to follow:

Watch the clip and discuss where Degas was from, how did Degas start his drawings of his Ballet class?

Degas for kids:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzL1nOXZI-I

Keywords:Degas, predict, limited colour range, Blue, Black,Brown

Other wider Learning

1.  How to make a Paper hot air balloon mobile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lOdTb5A6aw

You could bend a coat hanger or adapt plastic lid if you don’t have a fabric hoop

2.  Listen to the relaxing music and try designing summer themed letters or developing the beach seen with pattern and people

Staying out for the summer

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

3.    How to  make corner bookmarks

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

4.     How to make a magic card

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQRorab922I

We hope you enjoyed the Arts Activities

Looking forward to seeing you in school again in September

Health & Wellbeing 

Physical Activity

The PE staff have uploaded lots of videos of circuits training or challenges to the youtube channel. Have a look and have a go. Keep active!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQVlu1D0XnL-bwjaXIzbZxQ/videos

ThisIsPE: Updated 3 times a week. Fun and easy activities to be done at home. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thisisPE

Using ideas from the “This is PE” link, try and create your own game using things you can find at home. Write down the rules and play with your family. If you can, upload to Twitter and tag “@MeadowPE” so we can see it.

Nike Move Crew: Fun games and dance activities led by Nike athletes.  https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nike+move+crew

Go Noodle I Get Moving: Lots of videos to get children moving, dancing and exercising with lots of music and singing. https://www.youtube.com/user/GoNoodleGames

Fitness Blender: Build your own circuit training session

https://www.fitnessblender.com/videos

Lawn Bowling: Find 10 empty bottles and arrange them into a triangle. With a ball or rolled up socks roll/throw the object to knock down as many “skittles” you can in 2 rolls/throws. 1 game is made up of 10 turns (2 rolls/throws each turn). Count up your total score and see who wins.

Target Throw: Find 5 containers (they can be the same size or different sizes) and roll 5 pairs of socks up. Place the containers in different spaces and give them points based on how difficult they will be. Take a turn to throw the rolled up socks into the containers and count up your points.

Just Dance: If you like dancing or just want to keep moving. Use Just Dance’s youtube page and enjoy their videos.

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

Using your leisure time to keep active is a way of creating and maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle. Find ways to enjoy keeping active!

Can you participate in some kind of activity that raises your heart rate for 30 minutes per day?

Wellbeing

Useful links offering support and discussion:

https://youngminds.
org.uk/

https://www.time-to-change.org.uk/

MAKE TIME TO STAND UP TO STIGMA
Objectives:
• To help students feel a part of wider movement tackling mental health stigma and discrimination

• To inspire students to take the campaign message out into their community

Resources:

‘Week 4 make time to stand up to stigma’

‘Week 4 Powerpoint Final’

Task:
Work your way through this very reflective activity and think about how you can change the stigma! These activities can be done individually or as a family.