RYE SMARTMINDSET

CHALLENGESummer 2020

Rye SmartAt Rye College we believe in the values of Rye SMART:

• Standards: The quality of our work and conduct.• Mindset: How we think about challenges and difficulties.• Attributes: Our personal skills.• Rye Community: Supporting our peers and the wider community.• Teaching and Learning: Knowing our strengths and weaknesses.

By focusing on these areas, you will develop a range of skills that will not onlysupport your learning within your lessons, but will also help you develop a rangeof attributes that will benefit you throughout your life.

This booklet is designed to provide you with a range of activities and challengesthat you can take over the summer. The challenges are intended for you torepeat so you can improve upon your scores, because our successes are builtupon practicing, repeating and never giving up.

MemoryWorking memory refers to how we hold on to and work with information thatshort-term memory stores. (In the past, the term working memory was usedinterchangeably with short-term memory.) It’s part of a group of skills calledexecutive function.

We use working memory all the time to learn. It’s needed for things likefollowing multi-step directions or solving a math problem in your head. You canhelp improve your working memory by building simple strategies into everydaylife.

1. Work on visualization skillsTry to create a picture in your mind of what you have just read or heard.

2. Teach someone elseTry to teach someone what you have just learnt, read or heard. Being able toexplain how to do something involves making sense of information and mentallyfiling it.

3. Try games that use visual memoryThere are lots of matching games that can help work on visual memory, like theclassic game Concentration (or Memory).

4. Active readingTalking out loud and asking questions about the reading material can also helpwith working memory.

5. Chunk information into smaller bitesWhen doing a task, break it down into smaller chunks helps you.

6. Make it multisensoryUsing multiple senses to process information can help with working memory andlong-term memory.

7. Help make connectionsTry to form associations that connect different details and make them morememorable.

Memory-boosting tricks and games are just some of the ways to help your childbuild executive functioning skills.

Art: 30 Day Challenge

This challenge is aimed at developing your mindset and your perseverance overthe 30 days. We would like you to draw these items on a single piece of A3paper. You can create an A3 piece of paper by joining to two pieces of A4together. We would love to see how your piece of art develops over the courseof the holidays. An additional challenge, is to create time-lapse video of your artin progress and share it with us.

• Draw Your Favourite Season• Draw something BIG• Draw your favourite ocean animal• Draw your favourite food• Trace your hand and then turn it into an animal• Draw an eye• Draw a flower• Look at your window and draw what you can see• Draw the moon• Draw a tree• Look in the mirror and draw yourself• Draw a farm animal• Draw a leaf close up• Draw a landscape• What’s your favourite book? Draw a picture that shows this book• Draw something colourful• Draw something you love• Draw something you hate• Draw something you find on a walk• Draw your favourite memory• Draw someone you love• Draw something that flies• Draw something that swims• Draw something that has no legs• Draw the first thing you see when you wake up• Draw a bear• Draw a lion• Draw a monkey• Draw the north pole• Draw your first day of year 7

Engineering: Marble Run Challenge

This challenge is to work on your mindset and attributes. It would also be best towork with a parent on this challenge.

Can you build a run that keeps the marble going for at least a minute?

Watch the video to see how Dyson engineers have tackled the problem,including an impressive run made from Dyson parts;

https://www.jamesdysonfoundation.com/resources/challenge-cards.html

We would love to see pictures of your marble runs, so please share them withthe office.

Top Tip: Draw a design before you start to make it, then you can be able toidentify areas to change to improve your time.

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English: Vocabulary Challenge

Your English Challenge is to learn a new ambitious piece of vocabulary eachweek. You will:

• Research and write the definition (using a dictionary or the internet)• Learn how to spell the word• Use it in a sentence

Week 1 Convalescence (write a definition):Use it in a sentence:

Week 2 Misogyny (write a definition):Use it in a sentence:

Week 3 Pedantic (write a definition):Use it in a sentence:

Week 4 Preposterous (write a definition):Use it in a sentence:

Week 5 Rigorous (write a definition):Use it in a sentence:

Week 6 Ominous (write a definition):Use it in a sentence:

Food Preparation & Nutrition:Upside Down Cake Challenge

Food Preparation & Nutrition:Upside Down Cake Challenge

Food Preparation & Nutrition:Upside Down Cake Challenge

Food Preparation & Nutrition:Upside Down Cake Challenge

French: Phrase Learning Challenge

Read through the table on the next page and learn the French words, you canpractise saying them with the pronunciation column to help you. To learn them,you can hide the words and say them, then check if you got it right, you can alsocopy the words several times until you remember them. You will see that somewords are similar to English, which will make it easier to remember.

Ask someone (for example you parents or siblings) to quiz you:

a) They ask you for the English meaning (for example they say ‘bonjour’ youmust say ‘hello)

b) They ask you for the French meaning (for example they say ‘hello’ you mustsay ‘bonjour’)

See how many you can remember!

Bonne chance! (=Good luck!)

French: Phrase Learning Challenge

French Pronunciation English

Bonjour [bonshoo] Hello

Ca va? [sah vah] How are you?

Ca va bien [sah vah bee-uh] I am well

Ca va mal [sah vah mahl] I am not well

Je m’appelle [je mah-pale] My name is

Comment t’appelles-tu? [comuh tah-pale tew] What is your name?

J’ai onze ans [jay onz an] I am 11 years old.

J’ai dix ans [jay diz an] I am 10 years old

J’aime [jaym] I like

le foot [le foot] football

la danse [la danse] dancing

le chocolat [le shokolah] chocolate

les bonbons [lay bonbon] sweets

J’habite [jabeet] I live

en Angleterre [an agluh-tayr] in England

Je suis [je swee] I am

anglais [anglay] English (if you are a boy)

anglaise [anglayz] English (if you are a girl)

content [kon-tan] happy (if you are a boy)

contente [kontant] happy (if you are a girl)

en colère [an koh-layr] angry

triste [treest] sad

C’est [say] it is

super [sew-pair] great

génial [jaynee-ahl] awesome

délicieux [day-lee-see-er] delicious

amusant [amusan] fun

nul [newl] rubbish

Merci [mayr-see] thank you

Au revoir [oh revwar] Good bye

Geography: Capital Cities Challenge

This challenge is to work on your mindset and perseverance. Below is a list ofEuropean Countries and their capital cities. How many can you learn? Ask yourparents to help you.

Top Tip: Make this multi-sensory by learning them with a picture of map of Europe. This helps makes associations and connections.

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History: English Monach Challenge

This challenge is in two parts. First, you need to research the kings and queens of England. Below you have a list of dates and Houses they belong to. Secondly, you need to see how many you can remember in chronological (Date) order.

Top Tip: To help remember the order, chunk them into groups of three. Just as you would do a phone number. Then practice the three in sequence, and then add on another three and so on.

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Maths: Times Table Minute Challenge

This challenge looks to help improve your memory. Below are the times tablesfrom 1 to 15, how many can you remember in 60 seconds. Working with yourparents learn to memorise these timetables over the week, and then get yourparents to see how many you can remember.

Top Tip: Focus on one row or column at a time. Read it out and then cover it. Write down what you can remember. Do this at least 5 times. When moving on to a new row or column don’t forget to go over the ones you have already learnt.

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Music: No.1's Challenge

This challenge is to develop your attributes and your research skills. We would like you to firstly research the biggest selling hits of the last 50 years, from 1970 to 2019. We would like the title and the artist.

We would also like you to listen to these songs and create your top ten favourite playlist, and share it with us.

1970 1980 1990

1971 81 91

1972 82 92

1973 83 93

1974 84 94

1975 85 95

1976 86 96

1977 87 97

1978 88 98

1979 89 99

2000 2010 1.

01 11 2.

02 12 3.

03 13 4.

04 14 5.

05 15 6.

06 16 7.

07 17 8.

08 18 9.

09 19 10.

MY TOP 10

PE: Exercise Challenge

This challenge is to work on developing your resilience and perseverance. Howmany of the different exercises can you complete in 30 seconds. Ask yourparents to count how many you do in 30 seconds. Try to beat your score eachweek.

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Star Jumps

High Knees

Squats

Sit-ups

Press-ups

Top Tip: This is all about having a positive mindset, believe and be confident in yourself and dig deep. Anything is possible!

Science: The Periodic Table Challenge

The Periodic table is a list of all the elements known to man. Your challenge istwo-fold:

• How many names of elements can you write down in one minute?• Using the symbols for the elements how many words can you make? (You

can use each symbol as many times as you like).

(e.g.) Barium – Potassium – Einsteinium is Bakes

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Number of elements

Number of words