HzG@Home
Welcome to HzG@Home
As promised in our Remote Learning Guidelines, this is the page where we will gather our extra tutor activities to encourage all of our children to look at what they are doing and celebrate everything that they are achieving in these challenging times. This can also include the children trying some things on which they might be less keen but which will be good to do. This is all about building wellbeing and community and encouraging the children to Go For It!
We will be so pleased to hear and to see how you are doing and to talk about it online at our Friday Celebration Assembly each week.
Social Media Guide for Parents
Click here to discover more about Hazlegrove's Remote Learning provision.
Mr Edwards' Top Books
How to make a Memory Wall
How to make Speedy Banana Ice Cream
Happy Half-Term Hazlegrove! We hope you have a relaxing week away from screens. Here are a selection of ideas, competitions and challenges to keep you busy through half-term.
Spring Photo Competition
Sounds of Spring
The Great Hazlegrove Toss Up - Pancake Day 2021
The Marble Run Challenge
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Mr Edwards' Top Books
Build a Playing Card Tower
Create a structure made out of playing cards, either flat across the floor like Mrs Thomas has done, or as tall as you can get it (much harder than first thought by Mr and Mrs Thomas and Mr Thomas is an engineer!) You could even build something totally different with cards. The only rule - no glue or sellotape or other means of getting them to stick together!
Send your creations to [email protected]
Make a Bug Hotel
Year 4 have been designing bug hotels after Mr White spoke about the decline of insects, in his assembly, and how important they are for our environment.
A great challenge for any and all year groups is to make a bug hotel at home and put it in the garden.
You will need to think about where it will go in your garden, what you will have in your hotel and why? Which types of insects do you want to attract? Will you offer them some flowers / food?
Send photos and videos of your bug hotels to [email protected] and even apply for Blue Peter Green Badge by sharing your efforts with them. Click here for more info.
Create a New Winter Olympic Sport
With the next Winter Olympics set to take place in 2022, Year 3 have were challenged to create a brand new winter Olympic Sport.
Any and all year groups can take part in the challenge to design and demonstrate their new sport! Will there be snow or set indoors? How about a snowman building competition or an obstacle course? Think about which muscles your sport would work and what skills a competitor would need.
Send any photos and videos of your Olympic sport to [email protected]
Send a box of classic British snacks to friends and family that live abroad
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Here’s a lovely idea from Tilda D’s family. We all know Zoom calls to family and friends are the new normal for now. Make a call abroad more interesting by seeing what your loved ones think of jaffa cakes or Cadbury chocolate! For our overseas families, why not try sending traditional foods from your home to family or friends in the UK?
Tilda's family discovered prawn cocktail flavoured crisps are not normal in The States and no one liked liquorice!
Mr Edwards' Top Books
National Geographic Kids Competitions
National Geographic are consistently posting competitions for kids with epic prizes. Head over now to find this month's competitions including a World Book Day special!
Mrs Bartlett's Post Initiative
Mrs Bartlett introduced 'Send Post for the Toasty Feeling' to Years 3 and 4 in her Lower School assembly this week. Create a package of lovely things to send to a grandparent, family member or friend. Socks, tea, biscuits, sweets, books etc and of course a card to let the recipient know you are thinking of them. A positive way to help others and keep busy. Do let Mrs B know if you send post for the toasty feeling!
Mr Edwards' Top Books
KIDZ IN SPACE - Reading Challenge
Now that we are settled back, we thought it would be “cosmic” to introduce an “out of this world KIDZ IN SPACE” reading challenge between now and the end of term. The idea is that as the children read and quiz, their word count would transmute into miles travelled out into infinity and beyond.
No retrospective quizzing please! Just on books read from now……
Treats for inter-galactic travellers when we are all back together.
Happy quizzing!
Virtual School Library
The National Literacy Trust has set up a Virtual School Library
https://library.thenational.academy/
Every week a popular children's author or illustrator provides free books and their top three recommended reads. This week is Jacqueline Wilson.
Mr Edwards' Top Books
Mr Edwards' Top Books
PE and Games
We have been delighted to see our Strava Challenge growing – please join the ‘club’ #HazlegroveFamily on Strava
It is great to see our HZG children all joining in their live workouts in their PE lessons and also joining in with the fun challenges and tasks that are happening in Games lessons.
We have some super action photos and videos coming in and will be sharing these with you in the coming weeks.
Miss Morton Makes Vanilla Shortbread
Reception teacher, Miss Morton, has been busy creating a 'Bake Along' video for the Pre-Prep children to follow to make Vanilla Shortbread. We are sharing the link here in case any of our older pupils would like to make the delicious shortbread too! This link goes through to Microsoft Stream and will require you to log in if you haven't done so already. Happy Baking!
Video Link: Vanilla Shortbread Bake Along
Recipe Card Link: Vanilla Shortbread Bake Along
Storyline Online
This award-winning children’s literacy platform is perfect for bored children. Listen and watch popular children's stories read by famous faces like Oprah Winfrey and Kristen Bell.
Hazlegrove Strava Challenge
The Sports department have set the #HazlegroveFamily an active challenge. We are trying to get families up and moving during lockdown. The children (and family members!) can use their Games lessons and any other spare times to Run and Walk as far they can. We are aiming to get the equivalent distance from Lands’ End to John O Groats which is 603 miles (970 km)!
Our Club name is: #HazlegroveFamily
For those not familiar with Strava – it is an App that can be downloaded on to a mobile device. You do need to create an account with an email address and password. For this purpose you can use the free Strava service.
Ask to join the #HazlegroveFamily Club (when your app is open, click Explore at the bottom, then click Clubs at the top and enter #HazlegroveFamily into the search bar. If you are either walking or running – use the running option and it will log the miles.
Good luck.
Mr Edwards' Top Books
We’re so frustrated that we can’t offer our normal library service, but please rest assured that we will continue to recommend, and we are always here to help. There are lots of ideas on the parent portal, arbookfind.co.uk is a super-helpful resource, as you can search by author, age, genre, topic etc, and Books for Keeps is a WONDERFUL website, brimming with help and ideas. Here are three of my favourites:
Super Great Kids’ Stories Podcast
http://wardourstudios.co.uk/supergreat-kids-stories/
Super Great Kids' Stories is a free-to-download podcast of fun, traditional folk tales with some of the best UK storytellers recommended for ages 5 to 105!
Launched last September by BBC Radio 4 producer and storyteller, Kim Normanton, it’s been hitting the top of the apple podcast charts for education.
The tales are organised into topics: How and Why Stories, Fairy Tales, Winter Tales and the current theme is Trickster Tales.
The stories are interactive and last between 5 and 15 mins.
PE with Joe Wicks
The Nation's PE Teacher, Joe Wicks, is returning with his live PE lessons. The sessions will run at 9.00am on Monday, Wednesday, Friday throughout lockdown and can be accessed via The Body Coach YouTube channel: The Body Coach TV - YouTube
The videos can also be viewed after the 9.00am airtime so there is plenty of time to catch up!
More info from Joe below:
Mrs Spilsbury's Rocky Roads
Mrs Spilsbury keeps it short and sweet this week with her delicious Rocky Roads. Follow the recipe video below. Send in a photo or video to Mrs Spilsbury at [email protected] or by tweeting us @HZG_FoodTech making sure to use #HazlegroveFamily.
Class of '21's Village Show
Year 7 have been working hard at their village show including flowers and veg, art, cooking and photography.
Mr White's ‘Kitchen Fever’ – a selection from Mr White’s singles’ collection to dance around the kitchen to
Mrs Spilsbury's Fruit Slices
Mrs Spilsbury brings us a recipe for a fruit slices. Follow the recipe video below. Send in a photo or video to Mrs Spilsbury at [email protected] or by tweeting us @HZG_FoodTech making sure to use #HazlegroveFamily.
PE and Games Answer Sheets - Week 8
Prep Week 8
Can you name where in your body you would find these muscles?
Pre-Prep Week 8
Which Olympics do the following sports feature in – Winter Olympics or Summer Olympics?
J.K. Rowling releases original fairytale, The Ickabog
To help children and families during lockdown, J.K. Rowling is publishing her original story, The Ickabog, online for free! Set in an imaginary land, The Ickabog is a stand-alone fairy tale.
A new instalment of the story will be revealed daily at 3pm, Monday to Friday, throughout the course of seven weeks.
You can read the story online at www.theickabog.com/read-the-story/
Budding artists aged 7-12?
In addition, J. K. Rowling is inviting parents and guardians to submit their children’s The Ickabog illustrations for a chance to be featured in the printed book!
www.hachettechildrens.co.uk/theickabogcompetition
Mrs Spilsbury's Simple Stir Fry Recipe
Mrs Spilsbury brings us a recipe for a stir fry. Follow the recipe or video below. She also challenges you to create some spectacular vegetable art. Send in a photo or video to Mrs Spilsbury at [email protected] or by tweeting us @HZG_FoodTech making sure to use #HazlegroveFamily.
PE and Games Answer Sheets - Week 7
Prep Week 7
Pre-Prep Week 7
Mrs Thomas' 5:5:5 Challenge
Over half term Mrs Thomas has invited you to be part of a global challenge called Run For Heroes, known as 5:5:5. The challenge is simple: to run (or walk) 5km, donate £5 to the NHS and nominate 5 other people to have a go. Over £5 million has been raised so far for this great cause. Mrs Thomas wants you to consider taking part – in your local countryside, down your road, round you garden or you can even rack up the tally jogging around your house (safely of course!) It is not essential to donate, although would be a lovely gesture, and you can of course walk, or run a shorter distance like 1km if that is what you can manage.
Mrs Thomas wants to receive as many photos as possible of you all taking part, in your BRIGHTEST most colourful t-shirts so a collage can be made in the shape of a rainbow in honour of all the NHS staff and key workers. (She thinks that the most common colours might be pinks, greens and blues, so if you have any t-shirts in the other colours please consider wearing them so we get an even spread of rainbow colours for the collage!) Please send them in, either to Mrs Thomas at [email protected] or Miss White [email protected]
Create Your Own 'Supersaur' Competition
Many of you may remember the author Jay Jay Burridge visiting us last year with amazing book series: The Supersaurs. Now it's your turn to design your very own supersaur! It could be a drawing or built of lego or an animation or comic strip or anything you would like. All you need to remember is….IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE DINOSAURS SURVIVED
The competition is open to children aged 3 - 15 and the closing date is Monday 1st June 2020.
Please send your entries to [email protected]
Jay is going to help us judge and there will be THREE TOP PRIZES of : A personalised Supersaurs poster, set of signed books, sketch book, set of postcards and a zoom chat with our Dad to ask him anything you like about Supersaurs!
Good luck!
Mrs Spilsbury's Carrot Cake Recipe
Mrs Spilsbury brings us a recipe for Carrot Cake. Follow the recipe or video below. Send in a photo or video to Mrs Spilsbury at [email protected] or by tweeting us @HZG_FoodTech making sure to use #HazlegroveFamily.
Mr Edwards' Top Ten Book for Half Term
PE and Games Answer Sheets - Week 5 and 6
Prep Week 5 and 6
Pre-Prep Week 5 and 6
Art World Record Attempt
At home? Break a world record drawing with Rob. On Thursday 21 May, 4- 4.30pm, learn to draw with World Book Day author and illustrator, Rob Biddulph, break the Guinness World Records title for largest online art lesson ever and raise money to fight COVID-19! Click here for more information.
Mrs Spilsbury's Italian Frittata
This week, Mrs Spilsbury brings you a recipe for an Italian Frittata - perfect for lunch. Follow the recipe or video below and look out for Blue's top tips. Send in a photo or video to Mrs Spilsbury at [email protected] or by tweeting us @HZG_FoodTech making sure to use #HazlegroveFamily.
Mr Edwards' Top Ten New Direction Books
Miss Rudd's VE Day Challenge
As we raise a glass at 3pm on Friday 8 May to undertake the ‘Nations Toast to the Heroes of WW2’, why not go one step further (well quite a few steps) over the bank holiday weekend to honour those who gave so much. I would like to encourage you to take part in a virtual VE Day parade, an appropriately socially distanced event to help commemorate this significant day. Ordinarily, I would have been marching with my side drum through the streets of Yeovil as part of the HMS Heron Royal Navy Volunteer Band to commemorate VE Day, however, the current situation requires a dash of creativity!
As it is the 75th anniversary, I challenge you to complete a 7.5km parade over the Bank Holiday weekend. This could be a walk/march/jog/run either as part of an extended ‘Boris walk’, or it could be around your own garden. Share a picture of you and your family to let us know how you got on. Make sure you tag it with #VEDay75 and #HazlegroveFamily. This event allows us to reflect together through common endeavour, as we take time to remember and pay tribute to the many millions at home and abroad that gave so much to ensure that we all enjoy and share the freedom we have today.
Mrs Spilsbury's VE Day Scones
This week, Mrs Spilsbury brings you a simple recipe for scones - perfect for a VE Day "street party". Follow the recipe or video below and look out for Blue's top tips. Send in a photo or video to Mrs Spilsbury at [email protected] or by tweeting us @HZG_FoodTech making sure to use #HazlegroveFamily.
Mrs Spilsbury's VE Day Gingerbread Bunting
This week is a double bill! Mrs Spilsbury brings you a recipe for gingerbread bunting- perfect for a VE Day "street party". Follow the recipe or video below. Send in a photo or video to Mrs Spilsbury at [email protected] or by tweeting us @HZG_FoodTech making sure to use #HazlegroveFamily.
Mr Edwards' Top Ten Books for VE Day
PE and Games Answer Sheets - Week 3 and 4
Prep Week 3 and 4
Pre-Prep Week 3 and 4
Mrs Arnold’s Community Dance Challenge
Hello everyone, Mrs Arnold here! I have a little dance challenge for our wonderful pupils and families.
Please take a look at the below video. It is a wonderful piece of film put together by some of the professional ballet dancers from L’Opera de Paris. It is a joy to have the opportunity to watch them keeping fit and healthy at home.
If you would like to take part in this challenge, all you need to do is;
- Choose a clip from the video
- Find a similar location in or around your home
- Try and be as accurate as possible by looking at what the dancers are wearing and what they are doing.
- Look at the camera angle and direction of the shot.
- The whole family can take part and have a huge amount of fun putting together your chosen shot.
- Record it and email to [email protected]
We will then take a look at all the submissions, piece the shots together and fit your footage to the music during editing as accurately as we can.
Hopefully we will end up with our very own piece of film which looks something like the original from our professional ballerinas!?
Miss Rudd's VE Day Challenge
As we raise a glass at 3pm on Friday 8 May to undertake the ‘Nations Toast to the Heroes of WW2’, why not go one step further (well quite a few steps) over the bank holiday weekend to honour those who gave so much. I would like to encourage you to take part in a virtual VE Day parade, an appropriately socially distanced event to help commemorate this significant day. Ordinarily, I would have been marching with my side drum through the streets of Yeovil as part of the HMS Heron Royal Navy Volunteer Band to commemorate VE Day, however, the current situation requires a dash of creativity!
As it is the 75th anniversary, I challenge you to complete a 7.5km parade over the Bank Holiday weekend. This could be a walk/march/jog/run either as part of an extended ‘Boris walk’, or it could be around your own garden. Share a picture of you and your family to let us know how you got on. Make sure you tag it with #VEDay75 and #HazlegroveFamily. This event allows us to reflect together through common endeavour, as we take time to remember and pay tribute to the many millions at home and abroad that gave so much to ensure that we all enjoy and share the freedom we have today.
Mr Brown's Iso-Fari (Isoloation Safari) Challenge
Are you able to search and find The Big 5?
There are 3 categories to find the big 5 for:
- Invertebrates
- Birds
- Mammals
So check the list, grab a camera if you can, and get snapping!
Share your best photos with me or, like me, put together a video of your 'Iso-Fari' adventure. Email in to [email protected] or tweet us at @HZG_Sciences making sure to include #HazlegroveFamily
Best of luck!
Mr Shaw's Maths Puzzle
Join all the dots using four straight lines and without lifting your pencil. If you think you have the answer, please send it to Mr Shaw at [email protected]
Mrs Spilsbury's Easy Flapjack
This week, Mrs Spilsbury and Blue, the Food Tech mascot, bring you recipe for Flapjack. Follow the recipe or video below and look out for Blue's top tips. Send in a photo or video to Mrs Spilsbury at [email protected] or by tweeting us @HZG_FoodTech making sure to use #HazlegroveFamily.
Mr Edwards' 10 Top Books for Teens
PE and Games Answer Sheets - Week 1 and 2
Prep Week 1 and 2
Pre-Prep Week 1 and 2
Miss Rudd's VE Day Challenge
As we raise a glass at 3pm on the Friday 8 May to undertake the ‘Nations Toast to the Heroes of WW2’, why not go one step further (well quite a few steps) over the bank holiday weekend to honour those who gave so much. I would like to encourage you to take part in a virtual VE Day parade, an appropriately socially distanced event to help commemorate this significant day. Ordinarily, I would have been marching with my side drum through the streets of Yeovil as part of the HMS Heron Royal Navy Volunteer Band to commemorate VE Day, however, the current situation requires a dash of creativity!
As it is the 75th anniversary, I challenge you to complete a 7.5km parade over the Bank Holiday weekend. This could be a walk/march/jog/run either as part of an extended ‘Boris walk’, or it could be around your own garden. Share a picture of you and your family to let us know how you got on. Make sure you tag it with #VEDay75 and #HazlegroveFamily. This event allows us to reflect together through common endeavour, as we take time to remember and pay tribute to the many millions at home and abroad that gave so much to ensure that we all enjoy and share the freedom we have today.
Mr Shaw's Maths Puzzle
Move only three coins to turn the triangle upside down. If you think you have the answer, please send it to Mr Shaw at [email protected]
Mr Edwards' 10 Best Children's Books Ever
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Mrs Spilsbury's Simple Shortbread
This week, Mrs Spilsbury and Blue, the Food Tech mascot, bring you recipe for Shortbread. Follow the recipe or video below and look out for Blue's top tips. Send in a photo or video to Mrs Spilsbury at [email protected] or by tweeting us @HZG_FoodTech making sure to use #HazlegroveFamily.
Michael Blyth Young Photographers Club
Photographer Michael Blyth has been looking at ways to offer something fun and creative for young people to do during this time of ‘restricted freedom’ and beyond.
The Young Photographers Club is free, online, and encourages children to make use of their ‘daily Boris Bumble’ to look at the world around them through ‘new eyes’ and to capture it with their camera (phone camera is fine!). Michael Blyth will be offering a number of suggested subjects, following some initial online ‘mentoring’.
If you are interested please complete the Contact Us form ticking the appropriate boxes, and you will receive an information pack.
Enjoy a Night Out at Home!
Have a meal with the family where you pretend you don’t know each other. You will have had a lot of meals together and lots of you have not been able to go out and bring back new things to talk about. So what if you were someone new? What will you talk about? How will you introduce yourself? Decide the rules beforehand – are you all going to be yourselves but pretend you don’t know each other at all? Will it be more fun to be a very inventive alternative version, or will you be yourself but have had a completely different day from the one you really had? You might not want to photograph this but you could write a funny piece about it and send it in by emailing your tutor or tweeting us @HazlegrovePrep making sure to use #HazlegroveFamily.
Take the Plastic Milk Bottle Challenge
If you don’t have a milk carton, any roughly similar sized box, fruit juice container or plastic bottle could do – be flexible and recycle! Create something - a game, something to wear, a decoration or piece of art, something useful like a bird feeder ……. There are lots of ideas online or you may have your own but the challenge will be to work just with what you have available. Take a photo and send it in by emailing your tutor or tweeting us @HazlegrovePrep making sure to use #HazlegroveFamily.
Share The Love
Write a letter or email or postcard, make a phone call, or send a video to someone who would really love an extra bit of unexpected but safe contact – a grandparent, a family friend, a cousin, a neighbour, or, if you have done quite a few already, just leave a cheery message as a surprise for someone you are at home with, somewhere they are sure to see it. What about the postman or your recycling and bin collectors, who just keep on working to keep things going? Let your tutor know how that goes by emailing your tutor or tweeting us @HazlegrovePrep making sure to use #HazlegroveFamily.
Weekly Task Challenge
Take on a task this week, something which you don’t especially want to do, but which really helps someone else, and take some photos of the job to show us. It could be bigger or smaller - tidy out a drawer, a toy cupboard, your bedroom or a shed, weed a flowerbed, mow the lawn, unload the dishwasher, hang out the washing, read to a sibling …… some of these may be more impressive with a Before and After photograph and we would love to see what you did! Send it in by emailing your tutor or tweeting us @HazlegrovePrep making sure to use #HazlegroveFamily.
Weekly Maths Challenge
Here is a little Maths puzzle to try; if you have enjoyed doing these for the Friday Assembly challenges, now is your chance to have another go and see if you might find a solution. If you think you have the answer, you should send it to Mr Shaw at [email protected] so that we can announce some winners in next week’s Assembly.
Turn the fish
Move three sticks and make the fish swim in the opposite direction.
Games Challenge
The Games Department has created a range of fantastic challenges beyond the normal Games programme. Have a go at one, take some pictures, and let us know how you get on. You can access them, if you are in Pre-Prep or Years 3 to 5, through the Parent Portal where you find all the Games and PE ideas, and, if you are in Year 6-8, on your PE Team. Send in a photo or video by emailing your tutor or tweeting us @HazlegrovePrep making sure to use #HazlegroveFamily.
#ClapForKeyWorkers
Most importantly, don’t forget to go outside on Thursday and clap all those NHS key workers. When you do that, make an extra effort this week to clap those Hazlegrove parents who are key workers, and, if you can, take a photograph of your family clapping and send it in, so that our own key workers know that they are that bit more special to us. Send in a photo or video by emailing your tutor or tweeting us @HazlegrovePrep making sure to use #HazlegroveFamily.
Mrs Spilsbury's Soda Bread
This week, Mrs Spilsbury and Blue, the Food Tech mascot, bring you recipe for Soda Bread. Follow the recipe or video below and look out for Blue's top tips. Send in a photo or video by Mrs Spilsbury at [email protected] or tweeting us @HZG_FoodTech making sure to use #HazlegroveFamily.
Mr Edwards' 10 Books to Read IF You're A Grown-Up!
Mr Capozzoli's HMS Warrior Cam
Hazlegrove has a long connection with the Royal Navy and we normally go to Portsmouth in the Summer term. HMS Warrior actually has a webcam which allows you to see the dockyard, including HMS Victory and HMS Prince of Wales, our new aircraft carrier. You can see them hoisting and lowering the colours on the aircraft carrier. The ceremony involves raising and lowering of the White Ensign and Union Jack. The morning colours ceremony takes place at 8.00am with sunset colours at sunset or 9.00pm. Ships at sea fly the White Ensign, with the Union Flag only flown when the ship reaches land.
You can find the link to the camera here: http://www.hmswarrior.org/webcam
