Welcome to The Keller Class...
...and our very own web page for family and friends to see what we've been doing in our class.
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Welcome to Keller Class - Helen Keller, born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama. At 19 months old, Keller contracted an unknown illness which left her both deaf and blind. She lived, as she recalled in her autobiography, "at sea in a dense fog." Despite this she became the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. She went on to campaign for many causes which she deeply believed in and was a prolific author. Her attitude in overcoming adversity in order to campaign for the rights of others is one that reflects many of the Christian Values that form the frame work and foundation for life at Culworth Academy.
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Autumn Term 2021 - Lest We Forget
Summer Term 2021 - Sail Away
Rhythmic, Rhyming Rivers and Magnificent, Monet Masterpieces!
Keller Class spent a few weeks before half term exploring Monet's water garden. Alongside this, in literacy, they studied the poem by Valerie Bloom, called The River.
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The children looked at the rhythm and rhyming pattern of the poem and noticed how each verse had a theme. Using a Jane Considine approach, they worked together sharing ideas, to create their own wonderful poems!
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In art, the children looked carefully at Monet's water garden series of paintings and carefully explored his use of painted brush strokes. They practised mark making in his style with a variety of media (see below) They looked at colour blending and layering and considered the light and reflection synonymous to Monet. To conclude, they pulled together their well practised skills along with some acrylic paint and oil pastels to create their very own Monet masterpieces.
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Preliminary colour mark making
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Pencil and charcoal mark making
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Felt tip mark making
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Mothers' Day Cards and Easter Cards
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Spring Term 2021 - Lockdown 2 - Fire of London
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Hello to everyone. We shall be posting the weekly plans here for children working at home. There will be a half hour Google Meet meeting at 9.15 every day when the children will be told what is expected of them that day. The format is different from before because work has been allocated to each day. Please contact a member of the teaching team if you have any issues accessing the work. You will need to click on the main plan for links to websites and the work sheets will be listed below this. Please remember to watch the math's videos alongside doing the worksheets.
Week 8 Plan
Monday English |
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Monday PHSE |
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Tuesday Art |
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Wednesday English |
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Thursday Science |
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Friday Comprehension |
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Year 3 Maths
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Worksheets
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Answers
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Year 4 Maths
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Worksheets
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Answers
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Week 7 Plan
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New session for Monday 22nd February at 3p.m. Home learners shall be reading the book Phyllis and the Fossil Hunters. This is a link so you can download it as an ebook. Don't worry if you can't. I hope to be able to share my screen so that we can all read it together.
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Monday Literacy
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Monday PHSE |
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Tuesday Literacy
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Tuesday ArtFinished Gargoyles done by home learners. Click on them to see complete picture.
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Thursday SciencePowerpoint
Choose from one of these activities.
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Friday Comprehension |
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Friday R.E. |
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Year 3 Maths
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Worksheets
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Monday
No work sheet. Activities are part of the video. |
Tuesday
No work sheet. Activities are part of the video. |
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Answers
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Year 4 Maths
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Worksheets
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Week 6 Plan
Monday PHSE |
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Tuesday Art |
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Tuesday and Wednesday
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Friday
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Friday RE
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Year 3 Maths' resources
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Worksheets
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Monday
No work sheet. Activities are part of the video. Please make sure yo.u do them |
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Answers
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Year 4 maths' resources
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Week 5 Plan
Monday English |
Poster to help remember how to punctuate direct speech
Year 3 and 4 worksheet for direct speech task
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Tuesday Art |
Have a go at Samuel Rolle inspired art. Warning! There are some gruesome facts in the introduction to this art!
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Keller Class finished Samuel Rolle inspired art - home and school
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Friday English |
Comprehension on garden birds. Choose your level. "One star" is more straight forward. "Three star" is more tricky. he stars are at the bottom of the sheets
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Friday R.E. |
The Parable of the Talents. A Flip book.
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Year 3 Maths' resources
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Worksheets
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Thursday
No work sheet. Activities are part of the video. Please make sure you do them. |
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Answers
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Year 4 Maths' resources
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Questions
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Week 4 Plan
Book Review Template |
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Monday I.T. |
Powerpoint on London Past and Present to support I.T. work
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Tuesday Art |
Have a go at creating a marbling effect. It looks like great fun!
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Keller Class finished marbling - home and school
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Wednesday Topic |
A power point about life in the 17th Century
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Thursday Science |
Science with eggs!
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Friday Comprehension |
Text and questions on Marcus Rashford
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Year 3 Maths' Resources
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Worksheets
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Year 4 Maths' Resources
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Week 3 Plan
Art |
Here are the art activities in detail along with examples of what you can do.
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Keller Class finished illuminated letters - home and school
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Topic |
Fact file needed for Wednesday afternoon topic work
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English Tuesday |
Power point needed for Tuesday English lesson.
Character feelings activity sheets
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Year 3 Maths' Resources
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Power points
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Week 2 Plan
Art |
Here are the art activities in detail along with examples of what you can do.
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KS2 Finished artwork - home and school
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Machines |
Topic work for Wednesday afternoon
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Year 3 Maths Worksheets
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Week 1 Plan
Year 3 Maths Worksheets |
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ANSWERS
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Year 4 Maths Worksheets |
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ANSWERS
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Science Tasks |
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Autumn Term 2020 - Our theme was India!
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Click this link to find out about the kinds of things we planned for Keller Class on the topic of India.
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Batik
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Keller Class have spent time working on two whole class batik collaborations. In between sketching landmark studies in class, with coloured biros and pencil, all the children had the chance to draw in glue on top of the elephant and peacock batik designs, before painting once the glue had dried. After the designs were washed to remove the glue, they could decorate the batiks with metallic shapes and sequins to pick out the patterns and details.
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Landmark studies
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India influenced Creating Christmas |
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Rajasthani Puppets
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Keller class have been exploring Rajasthani Puppets.
They have spent time designing, creating and finally making their very own Rajasthani puppet characters. They began with pencil sketches taking care to include the puppet's well recognised feature of large, prominent eyes before considering further the details they would add for their character. They modelled their puppets out of papier mache. |
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They dressed their puppets with a base fabric before adding extra details on top. They included sequins, braid, ribbon and felt amongst other suitable decorations. They used metallic pens and sticky gems to accentuate further features. I'm sure you'll agree they look wonderfully theatrical and every puppet oozes it's very own distinct personality and mischievous character!
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The finished gallery!
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Our Favourite Reading BooksOn Children in Need day we all brought in our favourite reading books and shared with the class why we had chosen them.
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Science - Sound
Sounds are vibrations. The bigger the vibrations the louder the sound. The size of a vibration is its amplitude.
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We can change the pitch of a sound.
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Sound travels.
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We made our own instruments for homework.
Can you spot who made his flute out of a carrot? |
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Summer Term 2020 - Our Lock Down Home/School Project was JAPAN!
A warm welcome (if a little belated) to Martin Luther King class! For a while, your home learning suggestions can be found here. We would love you to share your art work with us and a big thank you to the Year 6s who have been doing the art projects in school and have kindly allowed me to add them to the galleries. Any art work that isn't part of the week's planning can be found in the Home Art and Craft Gallery towards the bottom of the page.
Home Learning Support - Week beginning 13/07/20Kokeshi Dolls
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Mrs Nichol's - Japanese tiger water colour and pen sketches - week 16 art activity on our face book page.
Perspective drawings.
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Home Learning Support - Week beginning 06/07/20Mrs Taylor's Art Project
Writing an Imaginary Setting
Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths
Finland Photo
Year 3/4 Reading
Year 5 Reading
Maths
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Decorated Tanabata Tree - Mrs Nichol's Week 15 Art Activity on our Facebook Page
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Home Learning Support - Week beginning 29/06/20Mrs Taylor's Art
R.E.
Year 3/4 Reading
Year 5/6 Reading
Year 3 Maths
Year 4 Maths
Year 5 Maths
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Home Learning Support - Week beginning 22/06/20Mrs Taylor's Art
Reflection
Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths
Year 3/4 Reading
Year 5/6 Reading
Year 3 Maths
Year 4 Maths
Year 5 Maths
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Mrs Nichol's Art Project - Week 14 Facebook Page
Work done by some of our KS2 Keyworker Bubble
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Home Learning Support - Week beginning 15/06/20Mrs Taylor's Art
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Year 3/4 reading
Year 5/6 reading
Year 3/4 Grammar
Manga Drawing
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Congratulations to Lauren for winning the Royal British Legion poster competition!
Home Learning Support - Week beginning 08/06/20Grammar
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Reading - 60 second reads
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Maths White Rose Work Sheets
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Home Learning Support - Week beginning 01/06/20 |
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Maths Yr 3 |
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Maths Yr 3 Alternative |
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Maths Yr 4 |
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Home Learning Support - Week Beginning 18/05/20 |
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Names in Japanese - can you guess who is who? (Ok - so there's one that you don't need to guess!)Japanese Fans - see link above for Japanese fan art project. |
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Home Learning Support - Week Beginning 11/05/20 |
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Home Learning Support - Week beginning 04/05/20 |
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Here is Mrs Taylor's art project for this week
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Original designs
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Repeating Patterns - thank you Mrs Taylor!
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TANKAS
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Home Learning Support - Week beginning 27/04/20Here is Mrs Taylor's art project for this week.
HAIKUS
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Home Learning Support - Week beginning 20/04/20 |
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One of our parents came across this as an idea which you might want to have a go at. It's a time capsule for what you were doing during this time of lock-down.
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Here is an excellent suggestion, made by Mrs Taylor, of an art activity based on our Japan theme. Any photos of completed projects gratefully received!
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Here are our Japanese Blossom Art projects. Thank you Mrs Taylor for the idea. The children have used a range of materials that they could find to make the blossoms, from the suggested tissue paper to wrapping paper and sugar paper.
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Keller Newsletter Spring 2020 - Africa is not a country!
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Examples of Art Work on our theme of Africa.
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Examples of some Art work as part of our Space topic in the Autumn term. They were pictures inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night"