Summer Term leading into the Summer Reading Challenge 2020

The Summer Reading Challenge is back with Silly Squad!

It’s almost time for this year’s Summer Reading Challenge, and for 2020 it’s all about funny books, happiness and having a laugh!

The Silly Squad is a team of animal friends who love to go on adventures and get stuck in to all different kinds of funny books. This year, our Challenge

features extra special characters designed by the award-winning author and illustrator Laura Ellen Anderson, who you’ll know from amazing reads like

Amelia Fang and Evil Emperor Penguin!

https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk

Click on the above to join the challenge at home or in school.

Here are some examples of the books and activities available:

www.worldofdavidwalliams.com

THE WORLD'S WORST TEACHERS

Think your teachers are bad? Wait till you meet the line-up in The World's Worst Teachers!

Mopsy, Claudette and Fabio are modelling the very

latest pug fashions! You can help by colouring in their outfits and adding some

stylish patterns

So much more on the website: Get involved…..

Let us use the books to be more physically active:

Ronaldo Rules:

Dribbling Cones are spaced out 3m apart in a zig zag formation

2 4

1 3 5

Start behind the start line with a football at your feet.Dribble around cone 1, then repeat around cones 2, 3, 4 & 5. After dribbling around cone 5, return to the start line and repeat the course.Each time the ball goes around a cone score 1 point.Each complete lap of the course is worth 5 points.

Turning

A3m

BHow many turns can you do in 30 seconds?Start at can A, dribble your ball to cone B, turn and dribble back to cone A, turn and repeat.Each turn is worth 1 point.

www.wizardingworld.com

Have you finished listening to Whoopi Goldberg read Chapter Ten of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s/Sorcerer’s Stone? Well then, you’re ready for this

Chapter Challenge! How many house points can you collect? And can you complete your secret quest?

Welcome to your tenth Chapter Challenge! If you need a reminder of Chapter

Ten, you can watch Whoopi Goldberg, reading 'Hallowe'en' any time you like

here.

Write down whether you would prefer to be faced with the giant three-headed dog or the mountain troll? Why have you made that choice?

Walk or jog around your table shape- each time you pass your table items pick one up and place on/in your table. You have finished when you have

walked/jogged around the Hogwarts table and collected all your table items. Now time how fast you can do this activity.

Angry Cookie Laura Dockrill, Maria Karipidou

OH NO! Barbra the cactus won’t stop playing her recorder, the yummy strawberry toothpaste has run out, and now – to top it all off – Cookie has to have his hair cut! Which all makes for one VERY

Play Harry Potter and Hogwarts Great Hall

Create a table shape with pillows, cones, rugs etc.

Place five items on the floor in a hoop or in a space. (table items)

ANGRY little cookie… But perhaps you, the reader, can find a way to turn his grumpy frown upside down?

Let us play Hopscotch

All children know that Show and Tell day is the best, and every member of Class 2L is sure they’ll BE the best…But who, and what, will really impress

the teacher and win the prize? From aliens and parrots to robots and carrots, there’s an impressive collection on show. But can this small class

learn a big lesson in what really matters?

Show and Tell Rob Biddulph

Step 1: Use chalk and draw a hop scotch similar to the picture.

Step 2: Use a stone/bean bag and play the game of Hop Scotch.

Step 3: When you finish the Hopscotch eat the cookie.

Many libraries may be closed due to many issues- so how can we as a school help all of our young people to get

reading/listening/watching before the summer break…..

During July could we develop a theme around Silly Squad Reading/listening/watching and all the activities that can

work with the books.

Copy Cat 2020 ___________________________________________________________________________________

This is for you to try at home or in school.

Step 1 : Stand 2 metres away from a friend/partner

Step 2 : Number yourselves 1 and 2

Step 3: No 1 creates six moves. Every three moves you have to do a silly action /or pull a silly face. No 2 copies the moves.

Step 4: No 2 creates six moves. Every three moves you have to do a silly action /or pull a silly face. No 1 copies the moves

Have lots of silly fun!!!

Physical, Emotional, Science, Design, Technology, Music, Dance, Play, Numeracy

Can We

loan books, audio books, podcasts, extracts, magazines – get our pupils reading (looking, hearing, sensory) and loving ‘story’ before

the summer break.