Week B
Stage 4
These learning activities are designed to be completed in sequence beginning on Monday
Daily Prayer
In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Loving Father, I gather in Your presence.
I invite stillness into my heart.
May I breathe in Your peace and breathe out all stress and worry.
Holy Spirit, speak to me through this time in prayer so that the ear of my heart may understand God’s will.
View the above video:
Cherish and Challenge:
Cherish: When have I felt inspiration, direction or guidance that thorough a feeling or experience?
Challenge: How can I increase my trust in God and make my time truly at His disposal so that He can speak to me in my heart? How can I prepare myself to accept what He asks?
Holy Spirit,
Help me to quieten the noise within me. Help me to give myself the permission to switch off long enough to pick up your frequency. To hear your voice. To feel Your movement within my life. Help me to see more clearly how you connect with me through the people and experiences around me. Help me to sense the sacred in the everyday. Holy Spirit, giver of life, ignite in me a spark for God son that my heart may burst with love for Him and all of creation.
We pray this through the giver of gifts, the flame of Pentecost,
Amen
Religious Education
Learning Intention
Students will learn about the Catholic Social Teaching (CST): Care for our Common Home and reflect on ways that we can live this social teaching in our lives.
Success Criteria
I will know I am successful when I can:
define Care for our Common Home.
identify key ideas from Pope Francis’ Encyclical Laudato Si
produce a present a video which reflects an understanding of the CST and how it can be realised in my life.
Outcomes
KS2.2 Sharing Our Story
Explains the moral imperative of ecological decision making for Christian adherents.
You will need
Device
Paper
Google Doc
Watch
Book
Listen
Activity
Complete the learning activities as directed using your copy of this document and the resources attached.
Questiupport my thinking
Activity too hard?
Focus on the needs of your local community what are the areas that need to be addressed.
Activity too easy?
Write a newsletter article addressing the urgent need for action and why is it so imperative we act now.
English
Learning Intention
We are learning to broaden our understanding of other culture's impact on our own lives.
Success Criteria
I will know I am successful when I
can research stories from different cultures
can summarise key aspects of stories from other cultures
can reflect on why understanding other’s culture is important to understanding our own world.
Aligned to English outcomes:
EN4-5C
Thinks imaginatively, creatively, interpretively and critically about information, ideas and arguments to respond to and compose texts.
You will need
Device
A copy of the Slideshow
Activity
Make a copy of the Slideshow to the right and save it to your Google Drive so you can work through the activities for the lesson. Today you will:
research stories from different cultures
summarise key aspects of stories from other cultures
reflect on why understanding other cultures is important to understanding our own world.
Questions to support my thinking
Activity too hard?
If you are not sure about the reflection questions, consider a friend who has a heritage which is different from yours, and write about how being exposed to your friend's heritage has impacted you.
Activity too easy?
If you found this interesting, write a reflection about the aspects of your culture that you would share with others in order to help broaden their world. How would understanding your cultural heritage help them to live their lives better?
Mathematics
Learning Intention
Add and subtract positive and negative numbers.
Success Criteria
I will know I am successful when I:
recognise when to add and subtract a negative number.
explain and record my solutions
Aligned to Mathematics outcomes
MA4-4NA compares, orders and calculates with integers, applying a range of strategies to aid computationMA4-2WM applies appropriate mathematical techniques to solve problemsYou will need
Paper
Book
Questions to support my thinking
Activity too hard?
Click on this link to access the task.
Activity too easy?