Day: April 21, 2020

Activities for animal lovers

These activities are nice for you to do at home. Pick and choose what you would like to do. Click on the link below.


With many schools and kids at home, we’ve been looking at new ways to keep kids learning, thinking and having fun – and we’d like to share them with you

Introducing our Young Vets Club Daily Challenges!

Every day of the working week, we challenge young animal enthusiasts with a daily task; research, craft, outdoor challenges and more. Each task is designed to challenge young minds and help develop their research, literacy and communication skills whilst using their imagination.

To give teachers and their students the chance to join in the fun, we’ve put together a handy document with a week’s worth of animal-related challenges.

Download Animal ChallengesTHE BEST PART: We can do this for you every week. Click the button below to receive each week’s daily challenges first thing on Monday, direct to your inbox. Sign Me UpFeel free to forward this email to help encourage your colleagues to get involved.Thanks,

Nicky

Nicky Cook
International Education Manager
Worldwide Veterinary Service

https://0e43b566-d0ce-4349-b353-c9a2b967755b.usrfiles.com/ugd/0e43b5_ced76806a25c4f6390acfe02ef72bce7.pdf

Number of the Day

Good Morning Copper Base,

This is a fun activity to do daily. You can choose any number you would like. It can be up to 10, up 50 or even in the hundreds. This will build up your children’s number sense and understanding of where numbers are places in the number system. 5 – 10 minutes a day doing this activity a day is great or what you can manage.

Either print this sheet or write down answers on a piece of paper that you have at home. Choose the version you like…

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/c4eb8e_aa537cd4712e439fb8302dff9dd2d6bc.pdf

Earth Day TOMORROW!!

Good Morning Copper Base,

Earth Day, Wednesday 22nd April 2020
Earth Day is celebrating its 50th anniversary on Wednesday 22nd April. It is a global event that happens every year. More than 1 billion people in 192 countries  take part in what is the largest civic-focused day of action in the world.  Usually, people march, sign petitions, meet with their elected officials, plant trees, clean up their towns and roads. Environment Organisations and governments use it to make pledges and announce sustainability measures. 
The theme  this year is Climate Action. Earth Day is running a Climate Action Challenge which you might like to get involved with at home. https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-challenge/
We would like you and your child to take part in this day if you can. You may want to link it with Mrs Smith’s assembly task this week to make it even more relevant. You could:

  • Plant a vegetable from seed
  • Reuse an item like newspaper, carton or toilet roll tube to make a plant pot or maybe upcycle something in your house giving it a new life as a plant container
  • Reduce your food waste
  • Create a healthy snack
  • Make a meal from locally sourced food 
  • Try a plant based meal for lunch or dinner if you’ve never tried one  
  • Make your own wormery  
  • Make a bug hotel or a bird box using recycled items that could be found around the home 
  • Sow wildflower seeds to create a habitat for bees and insects
  • Make a pledge linked with protecting our environment
  • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair, Refuse, Rethink! 

You might have your own ideas about what you could do on this day.  Please send photos with a short explanation of what you did along with any environmental pledges to earthday@damers.dorset.sch.uk by Friday. 

Finally, you could watch Jane Goodall: “The Hope” documentary on Wednesday 22nd April at 8pm on National Geographic and Nat Geo WILD.
Have a great Earth Day, we look forward to seeing what you got up to.