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.


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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

Lead Pencil

Listen

Activity

  1. 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:


  1. research stories from different cultures

  2. summarise key aspects of stories from other cultures

  3. 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?

Year 7 - Week B - Monday

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 problems

You will need

Paper

Book

Lead Pencil

Activity - Strange Bank Account

Main Task


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Questions to support my thinking

Activity too hard?


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Activity too easy?


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Brain Breaks





Be sure to take a break at least every hour or so.


There are some ideas in the slideshow, but feel free to come up with your own activities.

Week B Brain breaks S4