Easter Holidays

The Easter holidays were scheduled to run from Monday 6th April until Friday 17th April this year. Even though children are learning from home at this time, we feel that it is important to honour these dates as designated holiday time, whilst also giving you some fun activities which may be helpful if you're trying to stick to a clear structure to your day. We will not be setting home learning tasks for the children to complete. Instead, we have put together two lists of activities for your children to continue with throughout the next two weeks. 

Highly recommended activities

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In line with our homework policy, we would strongly recommend that throughout the two week Easter break children continue to read at least five times a week and use TTRockstars on a regular basis.

Each year group has TTRockstars battles set up for your maths class to battle another maths class within your year group. All you need to do is play TTRockstars as normal and get as many correct answers as possible. At the top of the screen, you will see which other maths group you are competing against and which band is currently in the lead. The maths class in the battle with the most correct answers at the end of the holidays wins!

UPDATE:
The TTRockstars battles have now ended. Well done to all who took part and added to the total of correct answers for their maths class.
​The results are as follows:
Miss Spray's group beat Miss Cooper's group
Miss C Evans' group beat Miss J Evans' group
Miss Lush's group beat Mr Jones' group
Mrs Bamber's group beat Miss Mackness' group
Mr Whetton's group beat Miss Abbott's group
Mrs Sleight and Mrs Wickham's group beat Mr Purdew's group
Mrs Johnson's group beat Mrs Mussellwhite's group
Miss Ford's group beat Mr Harding's group

Ideas to keep you busy

Please find below a list of fun activities that we have put together to help entertain your child. There is no expectation that any of these activities should be completed. We have simply put the list together to help you should you need it. You can also find daily PE challenges from Mr Showell on the Southwater Junior Academy Facebook Group.

Easter themed ideas:

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  • Make an Easter card for someone in your house 
  • Write a story, wanted poster or comic strip for ‘The Missing Egg’ 
  • Design a home, garden, playground, gym for an egg (even if you don’t actually have any!), make it from recycled materials you have in the house or even the garden! 
  • Create your own Easter related word search (you could list all the different types of chocolate Easter egg!)
  • Run an egg and spoon race competition (you might have to be resourceful with your equipment – what could you use instead of an egg? Could you make your own egg shape using recycled materials?) 
  • Create an Easter inspired Joe Wicks work out (You could start with bunny hops, what else could you include?) 
  • Research how Easter is celebrated around the world. What traditions do other countries have? What do they eat? Do they wear special clothes? How do they celebrate? 
  • Create your own ‘bunny bowling’. You could do this using empty bottles. Maybe you could decorate these to look like bunny rabbits! What can you find in your house to use as the bowling ball? Make sure you find a sensible place to play this. 
  • Decorate an egg. Hard boil an egg (or papier mache a balloon) and then decorate with paint, sharpies or collage with coloured paper or tissue paper. Did you know, you can also dye hard boiled eggs with oil, vinegar and food colouring?
  • Bake an Easter cake for your family to enjoy. What ingredients will you need? You could make something large to share or mini, individual cakes. Try using shredded wheat and chocolate to make a nest and then add some mini-eggs to complete. Or make cake toppers such as bunnies, chicks or eggs to stick in to the top of a sponge cake – simply draw your figures, colour, cut out and then stick onto a cocktail stick.

Other suggestions:

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  • Create a treasure hunt with clues for other members of your household
  • Create an assault course in your garden
  • Create a Spring themed piece of art. What materials will you use to create your scene? You could paint, colour or even create a collage using recycled materials.
  • Create a digital piece of Spring art using a program on your computer or tablet.
  • Take a Spring picture
  • Create a Spring themed game in Scratch
  • Press some Spring flowers
  • Make daffodils out of egg boxes
  • Write a Spring themed story
  • Play a board game with your family
  • Create your own board game for your family to play
  • Build a den either in your house or garden
  • Before you go for a walk, write a list of things you think you might find. Then, whilst you walk, tick off the items as you see them.
  • If you have a garden, get outside during the warm weather and do some gardening.  If you have seeds, now's the time to plant them...and then watch them grow over the coming weeks. 
  • Make some no-cook fudge with this recipe from Good Food