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Dear splendiferous UJS Pupils,
Once again, thank you so much for all your contributions—you are the ones that really make this
newsletter so special. Our inbox has been positively inundated with your news and photos!
As well as finding out about some amazing acts of kindness, you will also be treated to all the
other wonderful activities that your school friends have been up to at home—including instruc-
tions so you can have a go too! Also this week, Mrs Willis-Fisher poses more questions and chal-
lenges for you to investigate in your garden as well as a craft activity. Our links this week are all
about space, and of course we have the next instalment of our series and Word Wizard.
Don’t forget to keep sharing: [email protected] and keep smiling!
UJS Newsletter Take Over Team
PS The Well-Wishing Wall will return next week if we get enough messages!
Find out inside why Jamie (5 Silver Birch) is learning his spellings with a baby blackbird!!
Acts of Kindness Congratulations to everyone who submitted their ‘Acts of Kindness’ competition entries!
When Jamie found this injured baby blackbird, he and his family rescued it, fed and watered it and took care of it. As you can see, the blackbird is now recovered. Jamie and his family have released it back into the
wild. Guess who now wants a pet bird?!
Kaysie (5 Oak) misses her best friends so she has made Naomi a
card with a best friends poem that she got from her iPad.
Below: This is Bradley’s (5 Oak) picture of his Act of Kindness: he makes his family cups of
tea every day!
Above: Isla (4 Rowan) enjoyed making this collage to send to her Great-Auntie who
lives in a local residential home where she can’t be visited at the moment.
Tillie-Belle, 3Yew, has been busy in the kitchen enjoying baking and cooking for her family. She has made dinner, homemade pasties and also some cakes, cookies and cheese twists.
Below: Maisie, 4 Elm, is missing her friends so she made them a picture with a few sweets and then delivered them on her daily exercise with her family. It was great fun and good to catch up on the doorstep keeping social distance.
Reece (6 Holly) rustled up this exceptional breakfast for his parents!
Above: Molly (3 Yew) has made this fantastic ’Random Acts of Kindness Selector’. Spin the wheel!
Above and left: The birds will all be flock-ing to Bradley’s (5 Oak) garden, where he has been making these marvellous bird boxes. Right: Grace in 4Elm has been very busy planting and looking after seeds for her veggie patch. She has grown tomatoes, peppers, cucumber and pumpkin plants and also planted potatoes, onions and carrots into the garden. She has also grown lots of sunflower plants from seed.
Below: Maisie (5 Pine) has been helping Dad build decking in their garden.
Above: Molly (6 Holly) creates a delicious Caesar salad. Create one yourself using her recipe!
Below: Pizza making with Kaysie (5 Oak) and brother Jayden (4 Rowan).
Fletcher (5 Oak) has also been creating this Italian delicacy (below)!
Left & right: Caleb (5 Oak) makes ‘smiley’ cakes.
Below left & centre: Harry (3 Yew) bakes with his sister and makes edible magic wands.
Below right: Freya D (4 Rowan) shows us her deli-cious Victoria sponge cake.
Above: Harry (6 Willow) and his sister Ellie (4 Rowan) show us their recipe and the finished product.
Left: Maisie (4 Elm) enjoyed baking with her big sister, Geor-gia. She has made chocolate nests, chocolate cheese-cake, mini eggs cook-ie dough and helped decorate this trifle.
Right: Jess (3 Chestnut) making egg-free peppermint creams. Recipe: https://www.netmums.com/recipes/peppermint-creams
Left: Kenny (4 Rowan) has been learning how to cook some pesto pasta and chocolate cookies.
Below: William (3 Hazel) has made Rocky Road Crunch Bars from his instructional text, which were delicious!
Left: Reno (5 Oak) has been using the rhubarb he has grown in his allotment to make rhubarb crumbles!
Left: Harry (6 Willow) and Molly (6 Holly) share their Magical Door poems from this week’s home learning.
Right: A new instalment from James’ (5 Pine) diary series.
Above: Michael (left) and his sister Elliott (right) completed their afternoon art-in-the-style-of-Matisse task: ‘Beach with a Shark’ and ‘Blossoming Tree’.
Above: Tommy’s (4 Elm) transient art activity shares an important message.
Right: Molly’s (3 Yew) paper octopus, and rabbit made out of a sock and rice!
Sam (5 Pine) has been building a sports family console (below), and all sorts of Lego! His sister, Jess (3 Chest-nut) has also been working on Lego projects (boat, left).
Left: Aubrey (5 Oak) is a member of the RSPB and their magazine chal-lenge was to create a Green Man mask from gatherings from the hedgerows. Here is his creation!
Below: Jess (3 Chest-nut) renews her Scout promise on St George’s Day. She has also been busy learning some home cleaning (below left) and being creative with her multi-purpose vehicle.
Left: Introducing ‘Biscuit’, Emily A’s (6 Holly) adorable cat.
Bottom left: More chores! Fletcher (5 Oak) pegs out the washing with his brother.
Left: Kaysie and Jay-den doing their home learning.
Right: William (3 Ha-zel) calmly enjoying some reading in the sunshine. If you’d thought that breaking a wooden spoon during ‘Clap for Carers’ last week was a one off, think again… William not only damaged a second wooden uten-sil, but also the frying pan he was hitting! Enthusiastic work, William!!
Below: William’s kitchenware suffers another bashing…!
Below: Happy Birthday! From left: Bethany (6 Holly) celebrates her 11th; and Jamie’s (3 Hazel) Harry Potter birthday cake. Below: Harry (3 Yew)
Left: Game time!
Top: Oliver (4 Elm) and his sister do the £1 no hands challenge.
Bottom: Kenny (4 Rowan) and his brother do the ‘No laughing’ challenge.
Have you done any challenges?
Bethany says: “Thank you to everyone who Face Timed me to say ‘Happy Birthday’.” We hope you enjoyed your lockdown disco too, Bethany!
Left: Caleb (5 Oak) enjoying his daily exercise on the heath.
Below: Also enjoying family exercise on the heath is Frankie (6 Willow) on his new bike. He and his brother also spot-ted some resident cattle.
Above: Kaysie (5 Oak) and Jayden (4 Rowan) have learnt road safety riding their new bikes. (Don’t worry—they do have helmets, only not in this picture where they are just ‘posing’ for the camera!)
Below: Mia (5 Pine) and her brother have also enjoyed daily exercise on the heath—as well as some nature spotting. Here is an adder they saw—from a safe distance!
Dress-up Friday!
William (3 Hazel) and his sister (left), and Jude (3 Hazel) joining in with Joe Wicks.
Left: Isla (4 Rowan) has been enjoying a variety of exercise including Zumba with mum, bike rides and hopscotch. These photos show her enjoying an outdoor chal-lenge which included run-ning, jumping, star jumps and more hopscotch!
Left: Harry (3 Yew) on a family bike ride.
Right: Harry (6 Willow) and Ellie (4 Elm) completing their remarka-
ble bike ride all the way to Arne and back from Upton!
Ronnie (3 Chestnut) completed his afternoon activity: creating an obstacle course. To make your own, follow Ronnie’s instructions on the next page. Super work, Ronnie!
Above: Dylan (4 Ash) has been running a mile in his garden (100 laps) every day for his PE class.
Above: Freya (4 Rowan) has been keeping up with her Taekwondo lessons online.
Above & right: Oliver (4 Elm) finding out fascinating facts about electricity, and making electrical circuits with Dad.
Above: William (3 Hazel) has been making a bouncy ball out of crystals, which—as you can see—bounced really well!
I hope you have taken advantage of all of the lovely weather over the past couple of weeks and I am now hoping for a little bit of rain to water all of the things I have been growing .
Did you work out which seeds were which on the Wonderwall? I have planted these in my greenhouse and they have
A
B
C
D
EF
A. Runner Bean
B. Peas
C. French beans
I am still waiting for the others to germinate. They will take a little longer as they are in the garden.
D. Beetroot E. Spinach F. Carrot
Do you have any seeds at home which you could try and grow? Maybe you can find an old packet in the bottom of a drawer somewhere—the pea
seeds I used were 5 years old and they have still grown!
If you don’t, why not see if you can grow a seed from
some fruit or vegetables you might have around home?
There are some ideas here that I found in my kitchen. If you don’t have a plant pot you can use an old kitchen roll or toilet roll and fill it with soil from the garden.
Who can grow the most unusual plant? Send us a picture, or if we are back to school soon you could bring it in.
I have been looking at all of the amazing art projects you have been doing—you really are talented and have tried so many different things. Inspired by your examples, I thought I need to try some-thing new - so this week my daughter, Gemma, taught me how to do wet felting. It is best done outside, because it needs a lot of water and then dries really well in the sunshine.
First of all we made a white base layer and then gradually built up the layers of felt (which is actu-ally Merino sheep’s wool).
We then added more fibres to give de-tail to our work. We are now going to embroider some detail into the pictures.
A ladybird can eat about 50 greenfly in a day!
The root word for the term ‘compositae’ is composite, which means ‘ made up of several parts.
You need to count each of the
dark ‘rings’: one of these are
formed each year. Some of the
rings will be further apart if the
tree has grown stronger one
year than another. This tree is about 65 years old.
Angiosperms—these plants form seeds in a seed pod
Gymnosperms—these do not form a pod to protect their seeds e.g. ferns, pine trees
I found this egg shell when I was out for a walk. Can you find out which bird it is from? Why do we find the shells on the ground?
I find a lot of these holes around the edge of my garden, do you know the animal who lives and lays its eggs here?
What is the link between a character in Harry Potter and the animal who lives here?
Pear
There is a lot of blossom out on fruit trees at the moment. If you are outside have a careful look to see if you can work out what type of fruit tree it could be. These are three dif-ferent ones in my garden.
Plum
Cherry
How can you tell the difference between a fern and a bracken plant?
How many types of moss could you find in the United Kingdom?
These are some of the names for woodlice. How many did you come up with?
Woodpig Timberpig Cheesy bugs
Gramfers Chisel bobs
Word Wizard
How many words of three letters or more can you find in the grid below using the letters given just once?
Can you find the nine-letter word?
O W R
N F E
L D U
How did you score?
Wizard factor:
6: apprentice
12: magician
18: sorcerer
20+: wizardry genius!!
Well done everyone who found the nine-letter word ‘armadillo’ last week!
Snap Happy!
This week from ©Elsa Support (www.elsa-support.co.uk), we have a photo challenge! Each day you are prompted to take a photograph to help create a positive attitude. Follow their timetable below...
‘Once—Story of the Elements’, written by Izzy Crossley, 6 Beech, continues.
Chapter 5
The argument
Olympia was slouched at the royal children’s dorm window when Clementine, followed by Phoenix and Aquata, sashayed into the room giggling like mad. “What’s up with you?” Olympia questioned.
Aquata shook her head vigorously from behind Clementine, her eyes wide and pleading. Phoenix slapped her forehead groaning, “Oh no…not again.”
Clementine slid down onto her golden pouffe and sighed, blushing slightly. “Well… you know it’s mother’s anniversary and the new Legend choosing tomorrow….”
“WHAT!? WHEN!? WHY!?” Olympia panted. Did the elders really believe that her mother was dead? Why had they given up the search parties?
“Yes, don’t you ever pay any attention. It was announced this morning. Although you probably didn’t notice anything since you were leaning over the edge of a balcony!” Clementine snapped back. Aquata stifled a chortle. “Anyway, as I was saying…”
“She got a date.” Phoenix finished, as if to avoid a very long and boring story.
“YES!” Clementine squeaked.
“Not really…” Aquata shot Clementine a look.
“YES, IT IS!” Clementine sat up and crossed her arms.
“IS NOT!”
“IS TOO!”
“OH! YOU ARE SOOO ANNOYING SOMETIMES! JUST ADMIT IT!” Aquata stomped her foot.
“Well you’re just jealous that I got a date with a cute water tribe warrior and your only friend is a bird!” Clementine boasted, sniggering slightly.
Aquata looked hurt and said, “W…w…well at least I’m not too proud to admit that I’m in love with the chef’s son! Oh, and Mystic is not just a bird, she’s an iguana jay, a rare bird of prey.” She sniffed.
“WHY YOU!” shouted Clementine, blushing. She lunged at Aquata. Olympia tilted her head towards the hallway door and Phoenix nodded. Then the two rushed out of the room, leaving Aquata and Clementine to throw things at each other.
Olympia sped down the corridor with Phoenix, leaving her cousin and sister bickering. She couldn’t believe the elders had given up on her Mum! If a new Legend was chosen…….NO! Her Mum couldn’t not be dead, she couldn’t be. She had to stop it. She had to save her Mother.
Continues next week!
TT Rockstars Leader Boards!
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Well done to all these superstar times tablers! There are no changes—we don’t think!—to the leader boards
this week, except we have published real names this time too...
Fabulous Freebies
Take a look at some of the links that the Take Over Team has been collecting for home
learning and entertainment:
Coronavirus a book for children—everybody is talking about coronavirus but you probably
have lots of questions. Follow this link and scroll to the bottom of the page to read a new book written especially for you.
https://nosycrow.com/blog/released-today-free-information-book-explaining-coronavirus-
children-illustrated-gruffalo-illustrator-axel-scheffler/
Exploring Space...
Online planetarium—if you are interested the night sky have a look at this online planetarium. On the right hand side click ’change
location’ and enter your nearest town. You will then be shown the different constellations and planets visible at that time Take a look
outside and see if you can see any of them.
https://in-the-sky.org/skymap.php
Star wheel—create your own star wheel to take outside and identify the
constellations in the night sky.
https://cf.ltkcdn.net/kids/files/2015-star-wheel.pdf
NASA kids club—NASA’s pages designed especially for you. Click on the
NASA STEM@home link to access even more activities including colouring, puzzles, stories, games and creative projects!
https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html
The Solar System—if you want to learn even more, BBC
Bitesize have created a lesson for you with video clips, quizzes and activities to teach you.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhk2mfr
Tim Peake—visit his website to find out more about him and see some
fantastic photos. Click on the ‘media’ link to watch video highlights of his mission.
https://www.timpeake.com/
Purple Mash—do you want to see what you would look like as
an astronaut? If you have access to a webcam or camera phone try this fun activity.
Can you recognise which teacher had a go?
Purple Mash >Home > Science > Space > Purple Mash Cams
Remember...stay safe at home and online.
Competition Corner This week’s theme… there is no theme!
This week, we are leaving you entirely to your own devices with regards to a theme. We know you have lots of home learning you are doing, so you could send in something inspired by that, or a favourite interest. Select whatever you like! There will be three categories: Art or craft
Pictures or models! Non-fiction/information writing
Fact file, report, or similar. Fiction/story writing
Story, diary, playscript, poem—however you would like to present it!
All entries should be submitted by midday, Tuesday 5th May and contain
your name and class, please. Use the email address:
Good luck!
Send in your contributions!
Please continue to send in your wonderful pictures, writing and photos*. We would love to see any work you’ve done about VE Day for the next issue!
All contributions should be sent to: [email protected]
If you have been inspired by something you have seen in the newsletter, please let us know! Don’t forget to send in any messages for the Well-Wishing Wall.
Newsletter deadline: Tuesday at midday each week.
* As the newsletter is uploaded to our website, if you do not want your face featured in a photo, please turn your back to the camera or just photograph your work!
Until we see you next time… keep smiling!
Have Charley and Ginger been doing the Jones’ family 1000 piece puzzle surreptitiously?
Mrs Jones and her daughter Abi started this puzzle. The follow-ing day, they found that unbeknownst to them, pieces have been added! Was it the mischievous Charley and Ginger? Or was it someone else?
Mr Jones—caught red-handed!!
