St. Cuthbert's Primary School Seaham
Our lovely staff have been in a group chat and put together lots of activities for you to try over the holidays. Click on the links under each category below to access them. The Home Learning page and google classroom will be back after Easter.
Enjoy your break!
RE
- It is still Lent for another week – can you pray, fast and give?
- Take some time to share the Easter story with your family [Click Here]
READING IDEAS
- Firstly – read every day!
- Read a story your parents loved when they were a child
- Make a story sack [Click Here]
- Read a map – we don’t just have to read stories!
- Draw a map – of somewhere in a story you are reading about
- Read a recipe – and enjoy the results!
WRITING IDEAS
- Go on a hunt for a different colour or letter of the alphabet every day. Can you collect 15 things? Can you write them down and add an adjective?
- Write a letter or make a card and post it to someone you’re missing
- Write a journal – this will be your very own piece of history
- Make up your own board game and write some rules for it.
- Take some photos throughout the day then use iMovie or another movie creator on a tablet or phone to make the movie of your day with your voice narrating over the top.
- Create a map for writing a story
MATHS IDEAS
- Practise telling the time – it isn’t something we get to spend a lot of lessons on in school and it is so important!
- Play board games with dice
- Play darts or make a target throw with different scores to add up
- Use coins. Dig out the change in your house, Count it up and bag it. Invent a treat shop and have an allowance each day – for children and grown ups!. Play shops and use the money.
- Use coins to help you count in 2s 5s 10s 20s and 50s
- Find shapes all around you. Go on a walk to spot triangles or pentagons.
SCIENCE IDEAS
- Find out how to make your own bath bomb
- Help with the gardening.
- Go for a walk every day and take a photo of the same plant – notice how it changes over springtime
- Find out about the planets, the moon and space travel. How do astronauts eat? What is a space nappy??
- Try some experiments at home [Click Here]
ART IDEAS
- Learn how to improve your drawing skills [Click Here]
- Make paper beads [Click Here]
- Find out about an artist your family like – can you copy their style?
- Look and draw. As often as you can. Use pencil, pen, chalk, crayon…. whatever you have.
- Can you do a continuous line drawing – drawing without taking your pencil off the paper?
- Sculpt out of cardboard. Use slots to help you
GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
- Make it your mission to learn something – flags of Europe, capital cities of South America, kings and queens of England, Prime Ministers. Make it your mission to know more than your teachers.
- On your walks, look for signs of history – older buildings, buildings with dates or blue plaques.
- Watch some David Attenborough documentaries – Mrs Parlett’s favourite!
- https://www.3dgeography.co.uk/ have some amazing project ideas!
DT AND PRACTICAL SKILLS
- Build with Lego, cardboard, marble run, twigs anything you can find!
- Learn to cook with your family
- Help to wash the car and learn how to change a bed
MUSIC & FILM
- Listen to some film soundtracks and classical music – what do you like about them?
- Watch a film that your mam, dad or grandparents loved when they were growing up.
- If you have an instrument – practise!!
