Cila Primary School
Ysgol Gynradd Cila
Class Resources
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Patchwork Paper Patterns
Have a go at folding different polygons, using coloured paper .
Use the shapes you create to explore tessellating or layering polygons of various shapes and sizes to achieve a stunning 'patchwork' effect.
Interactive Maths Challenges
Virtual Habitat Creative Writing Prompt
Imagine it’s 2034, and advanced technology allows you to preserve your favourite habitat in a special room in your home. You can enter this incredibly realistic virtual world any time you like. It is a perfectly safe and customizable habitat.
Describe the initial moments of stepping into your habitat—bring the burst of sensations to life as the door closes behind you. Detail the stunning visuals that greet your eyes, the cascade of familiar and comforting sounds, and the presence of any animals or features that make this place uniquely yours. Don’t forget to include how your thoughts, senses and emotions change as you enter through the door of your favourite room in the house.
Before you begin your writing, please contribute to the Padlet HERE, to help you to plan what you will write.
Painted Candles
Painted Rocks
Greetings Cards
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/115/sorting_3d_shapes_on_a_venn_diagram#
https://www.nctm.org/Classroom-Resources/Illuminations/Interactives/Cube-Nets/
Week beginning Monday 10th June 2024
Maths and Numeracy
Recap areas and refine skills by playing the maths games on the school website (capacity, countdown, mystic numbers and guess the number)
Maths and Numeracy
Have a go at tessellation on the website below. Complete the sheet with your predictions and findings, then stick it into your Maths book with the L.O: To explore and understand tessellation
https://www.nctm.org/Classroom-Resources/Illuminations/Interactives/Tessellation-Creator/
Maths and Numeracy
Once you have completed the tessellation sheet and stuck it in, have a go at creating your own tessellation masterpiece, inspired by Maurits Cornelis Escher (see the PowerPoint below). Carefully measure and draw a rectangle, using card. Cut out a section on one side, and stick it on the opposite side - this will create an interesting shape that tessellates. Draw around your shape to show how it tessellates in your maths book. Colour it in to complete your masterpiece.
L.O: To create tessellating artwork, inspired by Escher
Literacy
Observe, Infer, Wonder. Look carefully at the image on the page (it also below on this page).
- What can you actually see in the image? Write it in the 'Observe' section.
- What do you think is going on here, based on what you can see? Write it in the 'Infer' section.
- What questions pop into your head about this picture? Write them in the 'Wonder' section.
Please stick the sheet into your Literacy book, with today's date and the LO below;
L.O: To analyse, infer and question, based on a picture
Literacy
Write a story about the Flotsam image. Remember to include
- SENSES
- INTERESTING VOCABULARY
- SUPER SENTENCES
- GOOD PUNCTUATION
L.O: To write a story, using a picture prompt
Literacy - Welsh
Read the Mistar Urdd letters then complete the table to show your understanding of what you have read.
L.O: To read, understand and identify key information
Health and Wellbeing
Create your 'One Page Profile' this profile will include information on what others like about you, your hopes and wishes, things you love and how you like to be supported in class. You can personalise your profile so it reflects your interests (maybe you want to include colours / pictures of things you like). Please complete your profile on Word or J2e5, and send it to me when you have finished. There are some examples of One Page Profiles below to help you.
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Maurits Cornelis Escher
Volume and Capacity games
Countdown
Guess the number
Mystic Numbers
Year 4 Capacity
Wednesday 5th June
Good morning Year 4 and 5!
We began to look at different story genres yesterday, which generated some amazing discussions. Today, I would like you to contribute to the class Padlet here to consider some questions about the image below, then share and discuss your thoughts.
Next, you will be writing your own story, based on the prompt and image below. Please write your story in your Literacy Book, with the
LO: To write a story, using a prompt.
Remember to include interesting vocabulary and good punctuation! I look forward to reading your stories.
Have a great morning, Mrs Williams 😊
The Enchanted Library Narrative Writing Prompt
In an old library filled with ancient books, one book stands out. Write a story about a child who discovers this book and is whisked away to the stories within its pages. What wonderful world do they find, and what challenges do they face?
Wednesday 22nd May
Maths
You worked hard on mass yesterday! Well done 
Today, please have a look at the mass problems below - choose the one that will challenge you appropriately and write the answers in your maths book.
Science and Technology
Please continue with your Gower coastal creature food web. Once you have written it in your Topic Book, please create it on J25.
*Remember - you only need to write and draw each creature once, but there may be several arrows to and from some of them*
Cool
Medium
Spicy
Extra Spicy
Tuesday 21st May 2024
Maths
We began to look at mass using kg and g yesterday. Today, Y4s will be working on equivalent mass and Y5 will be converting kg and g. There is a video to watch below, and a presentation to work through that will support your learning this morning.
Click on the scales to watch the video.
Year 4
Year 5 Cool/ Medium and Medium/ Spicy. Please copy and complete the table in your maths book.
Science
Gower Coastal Creatures Food Web
We have been learning about food chains and food webs in Science. Please choose one creature from your research on Gower coastal creatures (e.g: a grey seal) then research what it eats (prey) / what eats it (predators) in our local area, to create a food web! Please research carefully, to ensure that you are only including the predators and prey of your chosen creature in our part of the world. Draw your Gower food web in your topic book, then create it on J25.
Wednesday 8th May 2024
Good morning Year 4/5!
Literacy
This morning you will be continuing with your own explanation texts (the ones we started yesterday).
Please remember to include the following:
An introduction paragraph to introduce your explanation
Step by step / broken down explanations of each part
Written in present tense (as though it is happening now)
Formal language
Impersonal language (don’t use ‘I’)
Technical vocabulary
Time conjunctions
Cause and effect conjunctions
Maths
We have been looking at reflectional symmetry recently.
Year 4
Today, the Year 4s can try to complete the shapes on the sheets, then try to colour the squares in to create a symmetrical pattern. The sheets you will need are in front of Joe - please stick them in your maths books with the
L.O: To compete shapes and patterns using reflectional symmetry
There are mirrors to help you, if you need them (Lina and Lucia can show you where they are).
Year 5
You have a challenge today - look at the images below. You will need to create boxes in your maths books, using the squares that are on the paper in your books.
When you have completed one, see how many designs you can come up with in your maths books!
Extension:
What designs can you make with a bigger square? One that is 4 x 4 squares in size?
Please write the L.O: To investigate reflective symmetry, in your books.
Have a lovely morning!
Craig Jones - Gower poster artwork
What did you find out about Peter Rumble in his visit yesterday? Write your thoughts/ feelings and some facts on the Padlet HERE
Click HERE to write questions that you could ask Peter Rumble
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Wednesday 24th April 2024
Good morning Year 4/5! I am on a course this morning, but will be back at lunchtime 
Your challenge this morning is to write an explanation on how to tell the time!
Imagine you are writing a guide for someone who has NO IDEA how to tell the time at all.
*How would you explain it?
*How could you show it?
*How could you make it as clear as possible to understand?
Try to make your guide detailed; clearly explaining all that you know about telling the time. (Write your explanation to the level that you can tell the time to. E.g: if you are most comfortable with reading time up to the nearest 5 minutes on an analogue clock and 12 hours on a digital one, then write your guide to that level. If you can tell the time on an analogue clock and digital 24 hours, then do that).
Please use J2e5 or PowerPoint to write your explanation. Send them to Williamse1735@hwbcymru.net once you have finished.
I look forward to reading them!
Mrs W 
Creatures that live on the coast of Gower
Click on the image to access our Padlet
Click HERE!
Tuesday 16th April 2024
TIME! 
Everyone
Months of the year - Rank order (wordwall.net)
Group 1
Teaching Clock (topmarks.co.uk)
Match the Times - 5-11 year olds - Topmarks
https://wordwall.net/resource/53804973/telling-time
https://wordwall.net/resource/538529/maths/telling-the-time
https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/hickoryDickory/oldcdn.html
https://wordwall.net/resource/62655744/maths/sort-the-clocks-quarter-hours
https://mrnussbaum.com/clockworks-online-game
https://www.roomrecess.com/mobile/TimeTeller/play.html (click on 'quarter hours')
https://mrnussbaum.com/bedtime-bandits-online-game-telling-time
Group 2
Telling the time to 5 minutes - Maths - Learning with BBC Bitesize - BBC Bitesize
Teaching Clock (topmarks.co.uk)
https://ictgames.com/mobilePage/hickoryDickory/oldcdn.html
https://mrnussbaum.com/clockworks-online-game
https://www.roomrecess.com/mobile/TimeTeller/play.html (click on the 'nearest 5 minutes')
https://mrnussbaum.com/bedtime-bandits-online-game-telling-time
https://wordwall.net/resource/25766060/maths/time
https://wordwall.net/resource/298935/telling-the-time-e2
Group 3
Teaching Clock (topmarks.co.uk)
https://mrnussbaum.com/clockworks-online-game
https://www.roomrecess.com/mobile/TimeTeller/play.html (click on the 'nearest minute')
https://wordwall.net/resource/26062087/math/time-to-the-nearest-minute
https://wordwall.net/resource/58409512/maths/whats-on-the-clock
Mango mango
Monday 15th April 2024
Good morning Year 4/5! I hope you all had a lovely weekend. Have a look below to see what you are going to be doing today...
Language, Literacy and Communication
Nick Holly is a Swansea-born artist, known as the 'Welsh Lowry' - have a look the painting by C S Lowry (the late English artist) and the painting by Nick Holly below.
Discuss with your table: How are they similar? How are they different? Why is Nick Holly known as the Welsh Lowry?
Click on this link to write your thoughts on a class Padlet - remember to write your name in the title box.
https://padlet.com/MrsWilliams23/my-fierce-padlet-jfg2i20u4iqyb4ml
*You will need to press the
+ next to the question that you wish to answer in this Padlet*
Nick Holly
C S Lowry
At the back of the class are two photocopies of paintings by Nick Holly. One is of Caswell Bay, the other is Three Cliffs Bay. Choose the one you like most (though keep in mind that whichever you don't choose, you will be copying this afternoon in an art session).
Your challenge is to write a description of the scene in your Literacy book! Look carefully at what you can see in the painting -
*Who are the people?
*Imagine what they are doing and how they are feeling
*Why might they be at the beach?
*What is the weather like?
*What senses would be activated and how?
You have been looking at Super Sentences recently - look back over them in your Literacy books to remind you of how to use them and try to include AT LEAST two Super Sentences in your writing today.
Use the L.O: To write a creative description that includes interesting sentences.
I am really excited to read your work to find out how you have perceived the painting and to see the amazing descriptions you write!
You have until lunchtime to complete this work
Expressive Art
Look at your other photocopy of Nick Holly's work - how has he achieved the outcome? Is there lots of detail? Which parts of the piece really stand out?
Using coloured pencil / crayon or watercolours, can you recreate this artwork in your Creativity Book?
Classical Studies
Charlie and Alex will be in at 2pm to deliver their fantastic lesson on the Ancient World.
Have a wonderful day! See you tomorrow,
Mrs Williams
Fractions of amounts games
Wednesday 10th April
Good morning! Today you will be continuing with working on fractions in Maths.
Year 4:There is a PowerPoint below to develop your ability to calculate fractions of amounts, and an example of a fractions maze. Have a look at the maze and then have a go at the maze that has been printed out for you (please stick these in your maths books with the LO: To calculate fractions of amounts). Once you have completed a maze, try to create a fraction maze of your own on the blank sheet. You can ask a friend to find their way through your maze once you have finished making it!
Year 5: You will be further developing your skills of calculating fractions of amounts today. A toy shop is holding special sale - please calculate the new price for each item.
BE CAREFUL: Remember that you will need to first calculate the discount, then subtract the discount from the original price! Use the LO: To caluclate fractional discounts using money. Please cut each item out and stick it in your book - showing workings and answers clearly next to each one.
Fractions of amounts - Year 4
Example of a fractions maze - Year 4
L.O: To Simplify fractions
Fraction Games
Tuesday 19th March 
Think of two characters from the Deepwoods. How are their lives different? How are they the same? Using J2e, can you create a venn diagram to show their similarities and differences? Please share it with me (Williamse1735@hwbcymru) when you are finished.
Look at the example below to help you.
Angle Games for Year 4
Angle Games for Year 5
Perimeter of shapes
The tale of Devil's Bridge
Extra Spicy Extension - Are there any windows that use the same amount of glass? How do their frame lengths differ? Are there any windows that use the same amount of frame? How do their glass areas differ?
Medium Extension
Spicy Extension
Cool Extension
Tuesday 27th February 2024
Calculating the area and perimeter of compound shapes
Pets / Anifeiliaid Anwes
The body / Y corff
3rd Person
Beyond the Deepwoods Characters
Beyond the Deepwoods - Top Trumps
Working in twos or threes, can you design some Top Trumps cards, based on the characters in the Deepwoods. You’ll need to work together to agree on categories and scores, ready to make the cards next week!
TIP: Start by thinking of all of the characters you could include.
Friday 2nd February
Please fold your book back on itself, so you can’t see any of last week’s answers!
6 and 7 times table test
1) 6 x 6 =
2) 4 x 7 =
3) 5 x 7 =
4) 8 x 7 =
5) 9 x 6 =
6) 7 x 7 =
7) 6 x 7 =
8) 12 x 6 =
9) 7 x 6 =
10) 8 x 6 =
11) 0 x 6 =
12) 3 x 7=
CHANGE MY MIND CHALLENGES - Use your powers of persuasion!
Multiplying and dividing my 10, 100 and 1000
Welsh vocabulary for descriptions
Who wants to be a thousandaire?
Tuesday 16th January
We have come across lots of strange and interesting characters in our class book, ‘Beyond the Deepwoods’. Please collect data from the class to find out who their favourite and least favourite characters are, then compile your data into bar graphs. Remember to include labels, to present your graph clearly and use a sensible scale.
EXTENSION
Make your graphs on J2Data and send them to Williamse1735@hwbcymru.net
Pandora's Box
Festive Morning Challenge 
Try to find all the numbers! Click on the snowman
Orpheus and Eurydice
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Monday Morning
Good morning!
I know you are all very familiar with the story of Icarus and Daedalus (if you’ve forgotten it you can watch it again here). Today I would like you to rewrite the story from Daedalus’s perspective - imagine how he would have been feeling at different points in the story and make sure you include the main features of a recount:
*Opens with who, where, when and what
*Written in chronological order
*Written in past tense
*Include a range of time connectives
*Ends with a concluding paragraph
Have a chat on your table to share ideas and plan it out before you begin. You will need to write in your Literacy books. Today’s L.O is To write a recount of an event
Make use of your ‘Spellings to help me’ books to spell tricky words, and don’t forget to include punctuation!
Monday Afternoon
Isn’t it easier to remember something when you sing it? Listen to some of the times table songs below, then work in pairs to choose the times table you find most challenging (be honest!). Your task is to rewrite the words to a well-known song of your choice, to help people learn your chosen times table. Write the lyrics in your maths book, under the L.O: To learn tricky times table with music and share your song with the rest of the class when you are ready! If you have time, you can record them on iPads / Chromebooks too. I can’t wait to hear your songs!
2 x Table
How do planes fly?
Research Task
* When did the first aeroplane take flight?
* Who built the first successful aeroplane?
*What is the North American X-15?
*What type of force does a plane generate?
*What is the name of the force that makes an aeroplane move forwards?
*What is the average cruising speed of a passenger plane?
*What is the average cruising altitude (height) of a passenger plane?
*What is a seaplane?
*Is a plane heavier or lighter than air?
*What is a monoplane?
*What is a biplane?
*What does Air Traffic Control do?
Comparing decimal numbers
The Story of Icarus
Off we go!