Welcome back to week one of the final summer term. Below you will find the home-learning activities that will also be used by pupils who are coming back to school.

PE Days

Year 6 children will have PE in the afternoon on Mondays and Thursdays. Please come to school in your PE kit on those days.

If you are learning from home, your teacher will be in touch with you during the week; you are still encouraged to email in one example of your work that you are proud of.

MATHS

Monday /Task One

Click on the link below and work through Monday Lesson 1, Maths – To recognise 3D shapes.

https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/maths/coordinates-and-shapes-to-recognise-3-d-shapes-year-6-wk5-1#slide-1

There are extension tasks here:

Faces vertices edges extension tasks

Tuesday /Task Two

How did task one go? If you are ready to try task two – To recognise nets of 3d shapes  – click below:

https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/maths/coordinates-and-shapes-to-recognise-nets-of-3-d-shapes-year-6-wk5-2

If you feel you can imagine the nets in your head quite easily, try these extension tasks:

Nets of shapes extension tasks

Wednesday / Task Three

Today’s lesson builds on yesterday’s learning– To solve problems involving 3d shapes. Click below to get started.

https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/maths/coordinates-and-shapes-to-solve-problems-involving-3-d-shapes-year-6-wk5-3

Get your reasoning head on by finding all the possibilities in this Nrich maths problem : https://nrich.maths.org/761

Thursday / Task Four

Task four requires you to  – Illustrate and name parts of a circle. You will need a pair of compasses to complete question 5.

https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/maths/coordinates-and-shapes-to-illustrate-and-name-parts-of-a-circle-year-6-wk5-4#slide-1

Feeling confident? Why not convince Thinking Tom if he is correct in this statement:

Thinking Tom circle extension task

Friday / Task Five

It is Friday! Log in to MyMaths and complete the assessment quizzes that have been set. There is one for 3d shape nets and one for properties of circles. Play Sumdog to practise these skills more too.

ENGLISH

Guided Reading (Grammar and Vocabulary too) (30 minutes per day)

Monday

• Task – Watch the video ‘The Great Realisation’ by Tom Roberts (Google ‘The Great Realisation YouTube’ and click on the first link). It is about Coronavirus.
• Read the opening extract below from the video-poem and then answer the questions that follow.

The Great Realisation, by Tom Roberts

“Tell me the one about the virus again, then I’ll go to bed”.

“But, my boy, you’re growing weary, sleepy thoughts about your head”.

“That one’s my favourite. Please, I promise, just once more”.

“Okay, snuggle down, my boy, but I know you all too well.

This story starts before then in a world I once would dwell”.

“It was a world of waste and wonder, of poverty and plenty,

Back before we understood why hindsight’s 2020.

Looking at the opening lines of the video-poem

• Looking at the words above, how can you tell that this opening part of the video-poem is between two people? Explain your reasoning and thinking.
• What does the man mean when he says, ‘…but I know you all too well.’

What is he getting at?

• Look at the extract. What does the word ‘dwell’ mean in this extract?
• What does the line ‘It was a world of waste and wonder, of poverty and plenty’ mean?

THINK – break this line down. What does ‘It was a world of waste and wonder’ mean?

THINK – what does ‘…of poverty and plenty’ mean?

• Having watched the video, what would you say was, ‘The Great Realisation?’ What did he realise?

Tuesday

Re-read the extract above and then answer the questions below.

• How can you tell that the boy is tired? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.
• What words and phrases show that the boy is trying to persuade the father that he wants to stay up and listen to the poem again? Give three different words or phrases.
• What one word shows that the father ‘gives in’ and allows the boy to listen one more time? Write the word only.
• What does the father think will happen to the boy during the reading of the poem? What makes you think this? Use evidence from the text to support your view.
• What words show that the story started in the past, years before now?
• Read the second-to-last line of the extract above.

Which words on this line could show that humans have acted poorly in the past towards themselves, the world and other people?

Which one word on this line could show that humans are fascinated by the world and everything in it? Why did you choose this one word?

Wednesday/Thursday/Friday

Task – Read the next part of the poem below and then respond to the questions that follow.

You see, the people came up with companies to trade across all lands

But they swelled and got much bigger than we ever could have planned

We always had our wants, but now, it got so quick

You could have anything you dreamed of, in a day and with a click

We noticed families had stopped talking, that’s not to say they never spoke

But the meaning must have melted and the work life balance broke

And the children’s eyes grew squarer and every toddler had a phone

They filtered out the imperfections, but amidst the noise, they felt alone.

Questions

• What is a synonym (a word that has the same meaning as another word) in the extract for the word ‘bigger?’
• What made you decide your choice for (Q1)? What clues did you use from the extract to help you?
• ‘You could have anything you dreamed of, in a day and with a click…’

What is this line above getting at? Explain.

• Give a real-life example of this line in action – ‘You could have anything you dreamed of, in a day and with a click…’
• ‘We noticed families had stopped talking, that’s not to say they never spoke…’

What is this line getting at, as the poet says on the one hand families had stopped talking but actually they still DID speak? THINK – what is the deeper meaning here from the poet? Explain your thoughts on what the line is getting at.

• ‘…but amidst the noise, they felt alone.’

What was the ‘noise’ in the line above? What could the ‘noise’ have been?

• Why would the child feel alone when on the mobile phone? What is the word ‘alone’ getting at?
• This contrast between all the noises the phone brings and the child still feeling alone when on it is really effective in its message. How is it effective?
• Is the idea of the child or person feeling ‘alone’ when playing with the phone an accurate image of how it can sometimes feel when having a phone-to-hand? Why?
• From the line in Q6, is it a fair statement by the poet? Why? Why not?

Writing (40 minutes per day)

Monday

Look back in your writing book through all of your writing pieces from last half-term.

Choose one writing piece and proofread, edit and improve it. This should take the whole session if done properly. You should be checking for sense, for punctuation, silly-error spellings and for any sentence improvements you think are possible.

If you have not written a piece yet, you need to look on the year 6 Blog from the last half term and carry out a piece of writing of your choice.

Tuesday & Wednesday

Choose the piece of writing you are most proud of over the last half term from your writing book.

Publish this piece – either type it up on a computer or write it, using your best handwriting.

Thursday & Friday

-Plan points for a diary entry. Make your notes and points about how you have been staying positive in your own life during your time at home.

-Now, write a diary entry using more informal language and using a more informal tone.

-Write about how you have been trying to stay positive during these testing times.

-Write about the things you have carried out to remain positive and how these things have made you feel inside.

-You could close the diary with what you hope for the future and what the future will bring. You could use some ideas from the poem we have studied this week, The Great Realisation, to look ahead to the future and consider the world we live in.

– Use paragraphs to section your thinking and writing.

GEOGRAPHY (for the week)

This week we continue our study of Brazil, focusing on its climate. When the Football World Cup tournament was held in Brazil in 2014, the England squad did not want to have to play any matches in Manaus – can you think why not? Explain to someone your thinking using PEE (Point,Evidence, Explanation).

Now watch the following video where England manager Roy Hodgson discusses his reasons.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25420450

Can you now extend your initial response supported with evidence from the video?

CLIMATE

What is meant by CLIMATE? Look up the dictionary definition for climate. How is this different from ‘WEATHER’?

Write your own definitions for both CLIMATE and WEATHER that will help you remember them.

Within this lesson you will be comparing the climate of different locations in Brazil in order to find a more suitable location for the England football team to play.

• Why do you think geographers compare the climate of different locations?
• What will this information teach them?
• What climate do you think the footballers would prefer? Why?

You  will be focusing on: Brasilia, Manaus, Salvador, Rio de Janeiro, and Curitiba. Can you locate these cities on a map?

Now that you have seen the different locations on the map, how do you think their climates will differ? Why?

CLIMATE DATA

How do you think geographers present climate data? How would you present it? Why? Climate graphs are used to represent the rainfall and temperature of a certain location over time. You will be studying the average data from each of the locations. Some climate graphs show the highest and lowest temperatures and rainfall as a line graph (because temperature is continuous), although you will be focusing on the average. Precipitation is always shown as a bar graph. Look through the following powerpoint.

Brazil Lesson 2 The Brazilian Climate ppoint

MAIN TASK

Using the climate data sheet (below), your task is to choose one location and produce a two different climate graphs for it. If you are very confident, you can try and present two types of climate data on one graph.

Brazil Lesson 2 Climate Data

Success criteria:

• Title
• Bar chart for rainfall and line graph for temperature
• Label the x axis- months

• Label the y axis – rainfall in millimeters (mm)  – temperature in Degrees Celsius

• Include a key

Analysing the data.

Your final task is to write a  concluding paragraph about your climate graphs. This paragraph should describe and explain what the data shows you about the climate of Brazil. The following key questions will help guide your thinking and ideas:

• When is the rainfall highest/lowest in your location?
• When is the temperature highest/lowest in your location?
• Does this differ to the other location you have studied?
• Do you think that this would be a better location for the England football team to play? Why?

MUSIC

Johannes Brahms

Go to the website below and watch Radzi Chinyanganya’s video about Johannes Brahms.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/classical-music-johannes-brahms-hungarian-dance/zfj4y9q

Why was Brahms considered to be a musical trailblazer?

Now listen to the whole piece in the second video.

• Can you spot the changes in tempo? When is it fast? When is it slow? Try moving to the music.
• Find 2 objects that you could use like drums- 1 should have a high sound (pitch), 1 should have a low pitch.
• Practise playing them- left, right, left, right – create a steady pulse in time with the music. Does the pulse change?

ART

ANIMAL MAGIC!

For this week’s Art Challenge I would like you produce some art that is linked to ANIMALS! Your animal can live on the land, in the sea or the sky. If you prefer, you can make your own mythical animal from your own imagination… or even a fusion of two animals. It can be a drawing, a painting, it can be made from a kitchen roll tube, a painted stone, made from things you find in the woods or at the beach or anything else that you can think of. I’m sure you will create something ‘magical’, as always!

Ideas to inspire you:

However, if this doesn’t appeal to you can still send any other art work to me and I will post that on the Blog too.

Please email your artwork to me:

n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

Thank you

Keep creating and keep safe!

Mrs Pearson

The Year 6 Team hope you are having a super relaxing break this week. We really do want you to make the most of the superb weather so, with that in mind, we will leave our weekly home-learning update until Sunday evening this time.

We look forward to seeing many of our pupils back in school on the 1st June. Home-learning will continue to be posted here for those working from home.

The Year 6 Team

A belated congratulations to both 6P and 6L in what was as close a contest as it would be possible to have!

Unfortunately, there can only be one winner…… 6P!

You can see how close it was…

6L – you have the chance to reclaim your honour between 9am and 3:30pm Friday!

Welcome to another week of home learning for Year 6 pupils. The Year 6 Team are very proud of the commitment and effort you are putting in to this work whilst at home, where there are many other distractions to deal with. All of the tasks you are being provided with help maintain your achievements and progress over the year to date – so keep going!

Once again, focus on the maths, reading and writing first and then pick from some of the wider curriculum tasks 🙂 If you still have a task you would like to complete from last week – that is fine. Keep sending in one example of a piece of work you are proud of to the addresses below:

penguinclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

sealclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.ukv

MATHS

This week we will be revising and deepening our understanding of: co-ordinates in all four quadrants, reflections and transaltions of shapes. Work through each task using the link. If you want to do a little more, there is an additional, ‘optional‘, task each day to test your understanding.

Following the close-fought  TTRockstars Battle of the Bands tournament, you will be pleased that another has been set for this week. Will it be 2 in-a-row for 6P (in the lead at time of writing this), or will 6L make a comeback?!?

Monday /Task One

Click on the link below and work through Monday Lesson 1, Maths – To describe co-ordinate positions on a grid.

https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/maths/to-describe-coordinate-positions-on-a-grid-year-6-wk4-1

There are two extra questions here Task one explain co ordinates

Tuesday /Task Two

How did task one go? If you are ready to try task two – To translate simple shapes – click below:

https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/maths/to-translate-simple-shapes-year-6-wk4-2

If you would like to, work out what has gone wrong with this Task two explain translation mistakes

Wednesday / Task Three

Today’s lesson is – To reflect simple shapes in the x and y axis. Click below to enjoy.

https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/maths/to-reflect-simple-shapes-year-6-wk4-3#slide-1

You can work backwards to find the starting point for a reflection with this task Task 3 reflection reasoning

Thursday / Task Four

Task four requires you to  – Solve practical coordinate problems. You will be able to use what you have revised/learnt this week to help. Click on the link below:

https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/maths/to-reflect-simple-shapes-year-6-wk4-3#slide-1

If you found that a breeze, there is more of a challenge here Task 4 co-ordinates reasoning

Friday / Task Five

It is Friday! Log in to MyMaths and complete the assessment quizzes that have been set. There is one for arithmetic and one for reasoning 🙂

Guided Reading (Grammar and Vocabulary too) (40 minutes per day)

Monday

1) Read the extract below and then answer the questions that follow.

An extract from Chapter One – Moodial, by Helen Cresswell

Even before she came to Belton, Minty Cane had known that she was a witch, or something very like it. She had known since she was tiny, for instance, about the pocket of cold air on the landing of the back stairs. She knew that other ‘happenings’ had taken place within the house she lived in. She did not talk about these things for the simple reason that they did not strike her as remarkable. Their appearance was as commonplace to her as that of the milkman. The only difference was that the milkman did not cause her spine to prickle.

Now, she and her mother were living in a different, smaller house, and her mother was working full time at the hospital. Minty would now come home from school and find the house empty. The weekends, once oases, were now deserts.

“And when it comes to the summer holidays, we shall have to do something about you,” her mother said.

“What?” demanded Minty. “Post me off somewhere like a parcel?”

“That’s an idea,” said Kate. “Registered, of course.”

In the end it was decided that Minty should spend the holidays in the village of Belton, and stay with Kate’s godmother, Mrs Bowyer.

Looking at the prologue of ‘Moondial’ and the start of Chapter One of ‘Moondial’

2) Skim and scan the ‘prologue’ again from last week’s learning (it can be found in last week’s blog).

Is the ‘tension’ and ‘mystery’ that is shown in the prologue kept up within chapter one above? How? Explain your thinking and use evidence from the TWO TEXTS to show HOW the two texts might or might not ‘sound’ and ‘feel’ similar when read.

3) Skim and scan chapter one above.

Where in the text does the atmosphere and setting of the story change?

Mark with a line where it changes.

4) Why did you mark this part of the text to show where the atmosphere and setting change?

THINK – what clues helped you think, “Ah, I can see that the atmosphere and mood of the writing changes at this point here in the text…”

Explain your choices and thinking.

Tuesday & Wednesday

Re-read chapter one above. Answer the questions below.

1) Did Minty think that the ‘happenings’ that had taken place in the house were ‘normal’ to her? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

2) Did Minty think that the things she saw were scary? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

3) Look at the paragraph beginning, “Now, she and her…”

What is meant by the phrase, “The weekends, once oases, were now deserts.” Explain.

4) So, what do you think the word, ‘oases’ means?

5) Minty was not impressed when her mother said what she would do with her in the summer holidays. Find the words in the text that show Minty was not impressed and quote the words only.

6) How do these words you chose show that she was not impressed?

Thursday

Reflecting on the use of dialogue within a chapter and its purpose

1) Look at the extract above from chapter one again.

Why might the writer have used dialogue after the opening paragraphs of the chapter? Give three possible reasons. (Think about what the job of the dialogue can do…)

2) How does the opening speech of the mother set the ‘tone’ of the dialogue that follows? Explain your thinking.

3) From the dialogue in the extract, do you think the mother and daughter have a good relationship? Why or why not? Use evidence from the dialogue in the text to support your answer. Use more than one piece of evidence to show your view.

4) The atmosphere, tension and mystery within the text changes once the dialogue starts. How does this dialogue change the atmosphere, tension and mystery? Explain.

5) Would Minty have wanted to go somewhere other than her house for the summer? How do you know? Use evidence from the text to support your view.

6) Did Minty like coming home from school to find the house empty? How do you know?

Friday

Read the continuation of the chapter below.

“You’ll like that,” Kate told her, and Minty agreed that she probably would.

Mrs Bowyer lived in an old stone cottage right opposite Belton House, which was golden and beautiful and had once belonged to Lord Brownlow. Now it was owned by the National Trust, and was open to visitors from April to October.

“I’ll get in free, I expect,” said Minty, “whenever I want to, with Aunt Mary working at the House, and that. What I’m dying to see is that secret tunnel.”

Task

Questions

1) “How does the house Mrs Bowyer lives in differ from the two houses Minty lived in before the summer holidays (at the start of chapter one)? How are they different from each other? Use the text as evidence to support your thinking in how they are different.”

2) Look at Friday’s extract above.

What impressions do you get of the experience Minty was going to have when she stayed with Mrs Bowyer? Give three impressions, using evidence from the text to support each impression.

(THINK about the opportunities Minty was going to have and her surroundings she was going to be living in and be around…)

Writing (50 minutes per day and only one task this week as Guided Reading is quite ‘meaty’)

Monday

Finish your sensory setting description from last Friday. If this only takes 10 mins then move on to Tuesday’s writing learning straight after.

Tuesday and Wednesday (Research and plan a Persuasive leaflet for Belton House)

Research Belton House, the setting for the opening of our Guided Reading book, Moondial.

Type into Google – ‘Belton House National Trust.’ Click on the first link available (https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/belton-house).

Research information about Belton House and what is has to offer the public. As you research, choose three or so areas that your persuasive leaflet will focus on. (Writing about the directions and ‘How to get there’ WILL NOT hook me in and make me want to come really!!!)

THINK about what are the KEY things to be researching and looking for information about…(for example, what is there…Our cause…etc…etc)

On their website, they even have information about their Medieval Gardens and what these were used for during this period in British history! SO, if the Audience you are writing for like their history of Britain, then this could be very persuasive and capture their interest straight away!

Really THINK about who will be reading this and who your audience would and could be…families? People who like their history? People who like their nature and wildlife?

Really think about whether the notes you are making will really add VALUE to what you will write about next and whether the notes you make will tickle the interest of the reader.

Task for Thursday and Friday

WRITE your persuasive leaflet for Belton House!

Think about what sub-headings you will use and what persuasive language and techniques you will use to hook the reader. Think about the direct address to the reader and the use

ART CHALLENGE!

Art Challenge: UNDER THE SEA

The title for your art this week is ‘Under the Sea’.  This can take the form of a drawing, a painting, a sculpture,  a collage or anything else that you would like to create. As always, I’m sure you will impress me with your creativity!

Click the link for further details and inspiration – Under the Sea Art Challenge

Family Science Activity – Friday 15th May 2020

Balancing Structures

The activity – Make a balancing toy.

Experiment with the design of your toy to find out what affects whether or not it balances.

Learn about the centre of mass of an object and how it relates to whether or not something balances. https://www.rigb.org/docs/balancing_sculptures_infosheet_0_0.pdf – activity worksheet in full

What you need:

· A carrot or similar vegetable

• Kebab skewers

• Marshmallows and/or other jelly type sweets, or small pieces of carrot or similar hard vegetables.

• Plasticine or blu-tac

• 500ml soft drink bottle or washing up liquid bottle

Stage 1: Cut a piece of carrot about 3 cm long. Stick a kebab skewer into one end of the piece of carrot and break the skewer so that you have only 2 or 3 cm of it sticking out. Try to stand the carrot piece up on the end of the kebab skewer – you should find this very difficult, if not impossible to do.

Stage 2: Stick a kebab skewer into each side of the carrot so that they point downwards at about 45 degrees. Then stick a marshmallow or other jelly sweet onto the ends of the skewers, as shown in the picture below. Place this on top of a bottle and you should find that it balances.

Get children to investigate what happens when you slide the marshmallows up and down the ‘arms’ of the sculpture and if you add more marshmallows. Stick an additional two or more kebab skewers into the carrot and challenge children to add at least one item to each skewer and still keep the sculpture balanced.

Questions to ask children: With just central part of the sculpture: why doesn’t this stay balanced? Before showing them stage 2: do you think we can use more kebab skewers and anything else to help it balance? Why do you think it balances like this? What can we change? (position of skewers, items pushed onto the skewers, position of things on skewers) What do you think will happen if we change these things? What do you think we need to do to make sure our sculpture balances?

Going further:

Try making some animal-shaped balancing toys: http://bit.ly/AniBalance

Make a balancing butterfly: http://bit.ly/BalanceButterfly

MUSIC

Ravi Shankar

Go to the website below and watch Naomi Wilkinson’s video about Ravi Shankar.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/classical-music-ravi-shankar-symphony-finale/znk8bdm

Why is Shankar considered to be a musical trailblazer?

Now listen to the whole piece in the second video. Make a list of the different instruments you can see. Choose 1 and find out 3 facts about it.

RE – Pentecost

Although this was posted last week, we are still celebrating Pentecost so, if you have yet to try one of the suggested activities, why not have a go this week?!

As part of your RE learning, we would like you to focus upon the upcoming celebration of Pentecost – this day is celebrated fifty days after Easter Sunday, to remember how the Holy Spirit appeared to the Apostles of Jesus and gave them hope while they were in Jerusalem.

Can you complete ONE of the following activities, to develop your knowledge of this special time in the Liturgical Year?

– Create a religious crossword that includes the following key words and symbols: wind, flame, tongue, Holy Spirit, disciples, Jerusalem. Can you add more of your own? Don’t forget to record your clues!

– Design a celebration card to spread the Good News at Pentecost – could you post it to a friend to spread joy and hope at this difficult time?

– Write a drama script to ‘act out’ the scene of the disciples as Pentecost with your family at home – what happened to the followers of Jesus?

– Make 10 quiz questions about the Pentecost story. Could you ask a friend or family member about them when you next chat on the webcam/internet, or over the phone?

– Imagine you are a news reporter who has been sent to Jerusalem to find out more about the events that took place at Pentecost. Which 5W questions (who, what, where, when, why) would you ask the disciples?

– Build a model of one of the following Pentecost symbols (flame, wind, speaking in tongues, Holy Spirit) to put on display and remind you that Jesus is near. Which resources could you use from home? Plasticine, recycled plastic, painted cardboard?

– Research the story of Pentecost on the internet, from a Biblical website. Can you draw a thought bubble and record how the feelings of the disciples changed throughout the story?

With three days to go, 6P have taken the lead in the TTRockstars battle of the Bands!

Keep up the good work 6P, and come on 6L – this is not an insurmountable lead – you can catch and beat them!

There is now a class vs class Battle of the Bands set for the whole of this week.

Login to your TTRockstar account and start scoring some points for your class.

Mr P says ‘Come on 6P!’

Mr L says ‘Come on 6L!’

Put on your game face and get playing!

Year 6 Home Learning w/b 11th May

Welcome back after what was an amazing Bank Holiday weekend weatherwise. Did you celebrate VE Day in style? Maybe you enjoyed a socially distanced street party or had a get together with your neighbours across the garden fence! However you celebrated, we hope you had a good time.

Well done to all pupils who have managed to email in a piece of work that they are proud of – it has been great to see the variety of activities you have been undertaking whilst home-schooling. Keep them coming!

We are aware that there are many different tasks and activities posted for pupils every week, and that this could be overwhelming for those who feel that every task should be completed. Please do not worry if there is some work outstanding at the end of the week. Mr Land and Mr Pratley would like children to focus on completing the reading, writing and maths work first and then select from the choice of other subject learning. Perfect!

With that in mind, here are the tasks for this week:

MATHS

What can you remember about angles? Different types of angles and angles in triangles and quadrilaterals? Don’t worry if you have forgotten a little – you are going to access online lessons from the Oak National Academy which will recap all this knowledge. If you complete a task that you are pleased with, you could take a photo of the screen to share, or do a ‘screen print’ – then email  it in to either

penguinclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

sealclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

Monday /Task One

Click on the link below and work through Monday Lesson 3, Maths – Finding the value of missing angles:

https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/maths/find-the-value-of-missing-angles-year-6-wk3-1

Tuesday /Task Two

How did task one go? If you are ready to try task two – Compare and classify triangles – click below:

https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/maths/compare-and-classify-triangles-year-6-wk3-2

Wednesday / Task Three

Today’s lesson is – Compare and Classify Quadrilaterals. Click below to enjoy.

https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/maths/compare-and-classify-quadrilaterals-year-6-wk3-3

Thursday / Task Four

Task four requires you to  – Find unknown angles in triangles. Remembering the properties of the different triangles you met in task two will help here. Click on the link below:

https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/maths/find-unknown-angles-in-triangles-year-6-wk3-4

Friday / Task Five

Yay – it is Friday! Today is a repeat of yesterday’s lesson – but this time with quadrilaterals.

https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/maths/calculate-unknown-angles-in-quadrilaterals-year-6-wk3-5

Remember to visit  MyMaths, Sumdog and TTRockstars to complete this week’s challenges 🙂

ENGLISH

Guided Reading

Monday – Finish Friday’s learning for Guided Reading from last week.

Tuesday – Read for enjoyment for 30 minutes.

Wednesday – Read the prologue to Moondial, by Helen Cresswell, below. It is set in the grounds of a large stately home, Belton House.

It is midnight in that most dark and secret place. If you should chance – and why should you? – to be walking there, you would be blindfolded by the night. You would hear the hooting of a lone owl from the church tower, the scuff of your own steps on the gravel. You would smell the ancient, musty scent of the yews that line the path, and the curious green odour of dew on grass. You put out a hand. It gropes to find the ungiving touch of stone. The shock of it brings an uprush of fear so strong that you can almost taste it. At that moment your fifth sense is restored. A slow silver light yawns over the garden. Shapes make themselves, statues loom. Ahead, the glass of the orangery gleams like water. You notice the shadow the moon has made at your feet as you would never notice a mere daytime shadow. You stand motionless, with all five senses sharp, alert as a fox. But if by some chance you should possess another, a sixth sense, what then? First a tingle of the spine, a sudden chill, a shudder. You are standing at a crossroads, looking up at a statue. A huge stone man seems to be locked in struggle with another figure, that of a boy. But the presence you feel is all about you now, and with a lifting of the hairs at the back of your neck you are certain, certain that you are being watched. You turn slowly, half dreading what you might see. But the path before you is empty. Your gaze moves to the great, moonwashed face of the house itself. The windows are blank and shuttered, though that strange sixth sense is insisting on hints, whispers, secrets. The scene fades and you realize that the moon is going back behind the clouds, and then you run. And as you run through the disappearing garden you feel that a mighty wind is blowing and voices are clamouring in that empty place. What you also hear, and what you will remember ever afterwards with a shudder, even in the full light of day, is the lonely sobbing of a child.

Task

As you read, make notes.

1) Do you have any questions? What are they?

2) Is there any vocabulary you don’t understand? List them. Find out what they mean by Googling the word or phrase.

3) What does the text and setting remind you of?

4) How does the description, setting and plot make you feel? Why does it make you feel this way?

Thursday – Read the text again before you answer the following questions:

1)What does the inclusion of the question, “and why should you?” suggest about the house and its grounds?

2) What does the author describe as “your fifth sense”?

Friday – ‘Thinking about the reading as the writer’

Look at the extract from Wednesday again.

• The purpose of this writing was to build tension and to develop description and a ‘picture’ for the reader.

Give four examples that show where the writer tried to achieve this.

Quote the words or phrases only from the text for each example, and EXPLAIN HOW these words or phrases show ‘tension’ and ‘description’ for the reader. THINK – what does it get the reader thinking about?

• Exploring this text more deeply, what exact effects does the writer create in the prologue?

Tick two

It builds tension                             ………

It creates excitement                     ………

It hints at a mystery                       ………

Tick two options you feel are most accurate and explain your decisions. Why did you choose     these two options? Use evidence from the text to support your opinion. (4)

English writing

Monday – We will use the prologue from Moondial (in our guided reading) as our writing stimulus this week.

Read the prologue again. Read the text aloud and think about how different sections should sound to create atmosphere. The prologue uses vocabulary that appeals to the senses to place the reader in the setting. Record vocabulary from the text relating to the five senses in the table below.

Tuesday & Wednesday – ‘Exploring the writing.’

Read the prologue again.

1)The purpose of the writing is to entertain. But what is the effect the author creates? Where did they achieve this in particular?

2)Do they make the reader feel like they are there?

3)Do they create an atmosphere of suspense? How do they? How has the author achieved this? Collect examples that demonstrate how this has been achieved effectively in the text.

Grammar ‘Play Around’

You are standing at a crossroads, looking up at a statue. A huge stone man seems to be locked in struggle with another figure, that of a boy. But the presence you feel is all about you now, and with a lifting of the hairs at the back of your neck you are certain, certain that you are being watched. You turn slowly, half dreading what you might see. But the path before you is empty. Your gaze moves to the great, moonwashed face of the house itself. The windows are blank and shuttered, though that strange sixth sense is insisting on hints, whispers, secrets. The scene fades and you realize that the moon is going back behind the clouds, and then you run. And as you run through the disappearing garden you feel that a mighty wind is blowing and voices are clamouring in that empty place.

Explain:

• What is the effect of the repetition of the word ‘certain’?
• The prologue is written in second person (“you”) and present tense. How does this add to its effectiveness?
• Change the underlined sections.
• Replace the underlined noun phrase with an alternative.
• Select synonyms for the underlined words.

Thursday & Friday

Create your own:

• Imitate the author’s style by writing a sensory setting description (using your five senses) in second person and present tense. Research and/or create your own setting. Look back at your work from the previous lesson, and the prologue, to help you create your own piece. You also had rehearsal time last week for writing a setting description too, so you should feel even more confident now.

Spellings and Vocabulary (15 mins x 3 days)

Learn these following words. Use your known strategies to help you memorise them.

whispers              disappearing          mighty              clamouring          scent        curious          odour

possess

Challenge – Create a sentence that includes all the spellings in! You can use other words too.

Speedy Spellings – Set a timer. How many times can you write your word correctly in the time you have chosen? Try this for your other spellings now.

Art Challenge 

Who’s YOUR SUPERHERO?

For this week’s Art Challenge I would like you produce some art that is linked to a superhero. Your superhero can be real, such as our key workers, or someone in your family, or a fictional character from a comic, film or your own imagination.  It can be a drawing, a figure made from a kitchen roll tube, street art or anything else that you can think of.

I hope this may inspire you:

This new Banksy artwork has appeared at Southampton General Hospital.

It shows a young boy kneeling by a wastepaper basket dressed in dungarees and a T-shirt. He has discarded his Spiderman and Batman model figures in favour of a new favourite action hero – an NHS nurse. The artist left a note for hospital workers, which read: “Thanks for all you’re doing. I hope this brightens the place up a bit, even if it’s only black and white.”

However, if this doesn’t appeal to you then you can still send any other art work to me and I will post that on the Blog too.

Please email your artwork to me:

n.pearson@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

Thank you

Keep creating and keep safe!

Mrs Pearson

FAMILY SCIENCE ACTIVITY – THE SCIENCE OF OOBLECK

https://www.science-sparks.com/how-to-make-oobleck/

Did you notice that if you make a ball with oobleck or gloop it feels solid, but if you drop the oobleck on the floor it turns liquid again? The slime is a non – Newtonian fluid as it doesn’t flow like liquids normally do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnd-2jetT1w

Cornflour gloop ( oobleck ) is made up of molecules arranged in long chains. When the chains are stretched the liquid will flow, but when you force them together they stick together to form a solid.

OOBLECK RECIPE

· Cornflour

· Water

· Food colouring – optional

· Ice cube trays – optional

· Mixing bowl

· Colander, funnel and beakers – optional, but great for messy fun!

INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING CORNFLOUR GLOOP

· Fill a cup with cornflour and add to the bowl

· Add water very slowly mixing with your hands, until you get a sticky, slimy gloop.

· If you want to make it coloured add some food colouring. ( be careful this can stain skin and clothes)

· Play with the slime and see how it behaves. Can you make it into a ball? and what happens if you throw it onto the floor?

· Can you squeeze the slime into a ball? What does it feel like? How long does the ball stay solid after you let go?

· If you used less water do you think the slime would fall faster or more slowly through the colander?

OOBLECK CHALLENGE  – Can you make a giant oobleck tray and walk on oobleck?

HOW TO MAKE A GIANT OOBLECK TRAY

To make our giant oobleck tray – pour about 1 kg of cornflour into a large black tray and slowly added water until the consistency was wet, but solid when squeezed.

Religious education

As part of your RE learning, we would like you to focus upon the upcoming celebration of Pentecost – this day is celebrated fifty days after Easter Sunday, to remember how the Holy Spirit appeared to the Apostles of Jesus and gave them hope while they were in Jerusalem.

Can you complete ONE of the following activities, to develop your knowledge of this special time in the Liturgical Year?

• – Create a religious crossword that includes the following key words and symbols: wind, flame, tongue, Holy Spirit, disciples, Jerusalem. Can you add more of your own? Don’t forget to record your clues!
• – Design a celebration card to spread the Good News at Pentecost – could you post it to a friend to spread joy and hope at this difficult time?
• – Write a drama script to ‘act out’ the scene of the disciples as Pentecost with your family at home – what happened to the followers of Jesus?
• – Make 10 quiz questions about the Pentecost story. Could you ask a friend or family member about them when you next chat on the webcam/internet, or over the phone?
• – Imagine you are a news reporter who has been sent to Jerusalem to find out more about the events that took place at Pentecost. Which 5W questions (who, what, where, when, why) would you ask the disciples?
• – Build a model of one of the following Pentecost symbols (flame, wind, speaking in tongues, Holy Spirit) to put on display and remind you that Jesus is near. Which resources could you use from home? Plasticine, recycled plastic, painted cardboard?
• – Research the story of Pentecost on the internet, from a Biblical website. Can you draw a thought bubble and record how the feelings of the disciples changed throughout the story?

MUSIC

George Gershwin

Go to the website below and watch Radzi Chinyanganya’s video about George Gershwin.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/classical-music-george-gershwin-rhapsody-in-blue/zkcy6v4

George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue (excerpt) – BBC Teach George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue is full of the sounds and energy of 1920s New York. Radzi Chinyanganya introduces the piece and tells us about Gershwin’s love of Jazz and Blues. www.bbc.co.uk

Why is Gershwin considered to be a musical trailblazer?

Now listen to the whole piece in the second video and create a cityscape as you listen.

Hello again Year 6! Thank you so much for keeping in touch via the new class email addresses. Be sure to check out ‘The Gallery’ post in this blog to see some of the great work that is taking place. If you are not sure of how to get in touch, the class emails are:

Penguins 6L:  penguinclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

Seals 6P: sealclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

You can take a photo of work you are proud of using your phone and share it to the above email address – simple.

What have you been doing to keep active this week? Are you still joining in with Joe Wicks or have you discovered a new way to keep moving? Mr Pratley is feeling proud as he completed a 266km virtual bike ride in five days, riding on Zwift online with some old cycling buddies from the 1980’s. Technology is pretty amazing in how it can bring people together. Mr Land has been faithfully following Mrs Land’s directions and lifted at least one tonne (how many kg is that?) of old paving slabs from his garden, readying it for a little bit of remodelling. He was definitely looking a little sore in school on Thursday!

Okay – we will start with English this week:

Guided Reading & Vocabulary/Grammar

Monday – Read the extract below from the book, The Clockwork Crow, by Catherine Fisher.

Chapter 1

Seren Rhys is freezing.

A clock ticks, frost is white. Stars travel through the night.

The railway station was deserted. The only thing that moved in its silent shadows was the big hand on the clock as it crept towards the hour of eight. Seren stared up at it, hypnotised and weary. How could it go so slowly? Had she really only been waiting half an hour? It seemed like forever. She was muffled in a heavy coat, a woollen hat, scarves and a shawl, but she had never been colder in all her life. Even with thick gloves thrust deep in her pockets she couldn’t feel her fingers. In fact, if she didn’t move right now she would probably freeze to the spot, so she jumped to her feet and began to stamp up and down the bare platform, the thump of her clumsy boots ringing in the bitter night. She stamped fourteen steps to the wall. Fourteen steps back. To the wall. And back. Over everything – the benches and the roof and the railway posters – a thin layer of frost shimmered like crushed diamonds in the light from the lamp. The night was so silent it scared her. She breathed out a cloud and then turned quickly as the stationmaster’s door opened.

Task – Respond to the questions below:

1. Where is Seren? (1)

2. How do you know time is passing slowly? Give two pieces of evidence from the text. (2)

a…………………………………………………………………………………………

b…………………………………………………………………………………………

3. The author says the frost ‘shimmered like crushed diamonds.’ What does this mean? (2)

4. List three different things that tell you Seren is freezing. List the words from the text only:

1. ______________________

2. ______________________

3. ______________________

5. Pick 5 words or phrases that you think are REALLY strong and are a deliberate choice of word or phrase by the author (the author chose them on purpose). Create a table with the headings below and write each word or phrase and its meaning, along with any synonyms.

Word Meaning Any synonyms?

Tuesday

Task – ‘Thinking about the reading as the writer’

Look at the extract from Monday again.

1) The purpose of this writing was to entertain the reader.

Give four examples that show the writer tried to entertain the reader.

Quote the words or phrases only from the text for each example, and EXPLAIN HOW these words or phrases show ‘entertainment’ to the reader. THINK – what does it get the reader thinking about?

2) Exploring this text more deeply, what exact effect does the writer create in chapter one?

Tick one

It builds tension ………

It creates excitement ………

It hints at a mystery ………

Tick one option you feel is most accurate and explain your decision. Why did you choose this option? Use evidence from the text to support your opinion. (3)

3) Which option from Q2 would be most accurate as a second choice for you? Explain your thinking and use evidence from the text to support your choice. (3)

Wednesday

Task – Exploring the writer’s use of sentence length and its effect and impact on the ‘rhythm’ and ‘flow’ of the writing

1) Find where the author uses longer sentences within the text. Give two examples where the author has used longer sentences for description.

2) Why are these accurate in how they have been used by the author? What is the author trying ‘to get at’ by describing in this way?

3) Find where the author uses shorter sentences. Give two examples where the author has used these short sentences for impact, tension or to show action.

4) How are these accurate in their use? Why do they work well? What is their job?

Thursday

Task – Imitating the author!

Re-read the longer and shorter sentences you chose for your answers from yesterday’s reading lesson. Rehearse and imitate (do sentences that are similar) these longer sentences and shorter sentences that you chose from the text yesterday.

Then, having imitated them a few times, write sentences that could follow on from your new, imitated sentences.

Friday

Did she get on the train? Why did she? Where was she going?

Write the next 100 words to the story, trying to stay in the role and ‘writing style’ of Catherine Fisher. Think about your responses from Tuesday and Wednesday to give yourself ideas of how she writes and how she engages the reader.

English writing

Monday & Tuesday – Find a picture that interests you that could work for an extract within a story. Use this picture of your choice to write an atmospheric setting description that also includes a character description woven within it. So, your writing WILL need a setting and a character involved within the plot and the scene.

DO NOT JUST MAKE A LIST OF THINGS THE CHARACTER CAN SEE!!! The writing needs to blend together a setting (what you can see and sense) AND the actions, physical features, movements and thoughts/feelings of a character (the character description).

You have a 1 ½ page maximum for this setting description/character description.

Wednesday – Read the extract below from the book, The Clockwork Crow, by Catherine Fisher.

The Clockwork Crow – Chapter 1

Seren Rhys is freezing.

A clock ticks, frost is white. Stars travel through the night.

The railway station was deserted. The only thing that moved in its silent shadows was the big hand on the clock as it crept towards the hour of eight. Seren stared up at it, hypnotised and weary. How could it go so slowly? Had she really only been waiting half an hour? It seemed like forever. She was muffled in a heavy coat, a woollen hat, scarves and a shawl, but she had never been colder in all her life. Even with thick gloves thrust deep in her pockets she couldn’t feel her fingers. In fact, if she didn’t move right now she would probably freeze to the spot, so she jumped to her feet and began to stamp up and down the bare platform, the thump of her clumsy boots ringing in the bitter night. She stamped fourteen steps to the wall. Fourteen steps back. To the wall. And back. Over everything – the benches and the roof and the railway posters – a thin layer of frost shimmered like crushed diamonds in the light from the lamp. The night was so silent it scared her. She breathed out a cloud and then turned quickly as the stationmaster’s door opened.

Task – Draw a picture of the scene using the words from the text to inform what is in the drawing and where it is positioned. Label your picture and try to be as accurate as possible. THINK – what objects are there? Where are they in relation to each other?

Thursday & Friday

Using the text so far and what you have learnt, choose one of the following two challenges to complete OVER TWO DAYS:

1) Continue the scene where Seren has just seen the stationmaster’s door open. Think about what you would describe and write about. Why had she got on the train? Was she meeting someone? Who? Why? Think – how could you develop the plot sensibly and realistically?

2) The Stationmaster is writing up his daily log. What might he have noticed and commented on from the evening shift? Was there anything routine and normal? Did anything strike him as strange? The Stationmaster would be elaborating upon his thoughts and thinking within his log.

Spellings (15 mins x 3 days)

Learn these following words. Use your known strategies to help you memorise them.

hypnotised       visualised      cryptic      weary      bleary      scarves      thrust      bare

Use Google online or a thesaurus to find two other words for each that mean a similar thing (synonyms).

Maths

Well done if you successfully solved the maths puzzles for last week. Check the post before this one for the answers.

Monday / Task One

Head over to MyMaths and complete arithmetic assessment 1 which has been set for you.

Have a closer look at your incorrect answers. Use Satsbootcamp to practice the skills you need.

Tuesday /Task Two

Today we are going to learn some simple algebra. Study the problem below and the worked example. Can you see how a bar model was used to represent the information? Which value was found first? Why? Practice the strategy used.

Now – apply what you have learnt to solve this one. Remember to show your workings – use a bar model to help.

Wednesday / Task Three

Visit MyMaths and complete ‘Mixed Assessment 1. This involves ordering decimals, fractions and finding missing angles. You can use satsbootcamp to revise these areas first if you need to.

Thursday / Task Four

Can you work out what is happening in each of these different sequences? Fin the next number and write the rule.

Friday / Task Five

Login to sumdog and complete the challenge you have been set.

History

This week we have a special piece of History learning linked to VE Day celebrations.

Click the link below to see the activities:

Home Learning Activities

The reading extracts can be found here:

Extracts to read

Have fun!

Music

Florence  B. Price

Go to the website below and watch Naomi Wilkinson’s video

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/classical-music-florence-price-symphony-no1/z48rscw

Florence Price – Symphony No. 1 in E minor (3rd mvt) – BBC Teach Florence Price’s mother was a music teacher and encouraged young Florence to learn the piano. After attending the New England Conservatory of Music, one of the few institutions at the time to … www.bbc.co.uk

Why is Florence B Price considered to be a musical trailblazer?

Watch the video again and practise the Hand Bone Dance with one, then 2 hands.

Now watch the 2^nd video. Can you perform the Hand Bone Dance in time to the music?

Art

Click on the link below to find details of this week’s Art Challenge.

Art Challenge Celebrations for VE Day

Well done if you attempted any of the maths puzzles for last week. See below for the answers 🙂

Task One

This is one out of many possible solutions! Hopefully this will help you decide if you were correct or not.

Task Two

For this task, the answer just had to be a shape with a number of sides equal to the number of sides in the two added shapes. So – any eight straight-sided shape.

Task Three

This was a tricky one. Some possible solutions are shown above. You can see that not all of these use four 4’s. Depending on how you read the question, you may have tried 44 div by 44 =1, or (4×4) div by 4 div by 4 = 1. If you email in your ideas we will share a few..

Task Four

This was pretty straightforward too.

Circle = 5

Square = 1

Triangle = 2

Task Five

Send in your own puzzles for us to share!

We thought it would be nice to share some examples of the excellent home learning that has been taking place. Maybe your work could make it onto this page next week?

The class email addresses  are:

PENGUINS CLASS: penguinclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

SEALS CLASS: sealclass@stpeterswaterlooville.hants.sch.uk

MATHS WORK

From our telephone chats we know many of you have enjoyed making your own smoothies.

Here is Joseph’s own recipe: Seed Extravaganza. Beautifully presented Joseph!

Love the jar mug Joseph!

Here is Islwyn’s equally impressive creation, named Pratley’s Passion in honour of his teacher!

ENGLISH

There has been a good range of English work submitted, all of which has been well planned and thought through. Keep up the good work!

Josh shows a solid understanding of Sophie’s thoughts and feelings in this diary entry.

A letter from Sophie by Siyon.

Josh sent in this explanation of how to ‘free solo’ a rock face. Sorry we cannot make it any larger.

Joseph sent in his Rooftoppers book review; he then had to answer more questions posed by his parents!

Well done Joseph for answering these questions.GEOGRAPHY

Many of you have been enjoying the topic work. Here are a few examples:

We love the way that Hayden has incorporated the different flags into his map of South America.

A very detailed map from Kian,

Seren persevered to paint this Brazilian flag!

Josh Smith made this fact file for Brazil

He also drew this map.

SCIENCE

We have also had some lovely science work on adaptation.

Beautiful artwork from Tilly.

Did you know there is a tree kangaroo? Ben does!

COME BACK NEXT WEEK FOR A NEW GALLERY OF WORK!