The children this week have been thinking about the power of the media in a range of different ways.

We have been unpicking aspects of recent speeches given by Joe Biden and how his message of peace and unity relates to the ideals of our Creation Unit in RE – this has been an interesting exercise and the children enjoyed applying their Creation knowledge to current, real-world issues. On top of this, Year 6 have written a persuasive letter to the BBC requesting that more documentaries and television programmes reveal wolves in a more positive light. Again, this has been an enriching process where the children have acquired new subject-specific knowledge about wolves. Their composition and output has really ramped up!

Children have continued to develop their sending and receiving skills in netball, practising ‘the pivot’ to orientate their position better before passing. The girls certainly ‘out pivoted’ the boys this week!

Reminders

• There are still a couple of weeks until the reading passports are due in. Get stuck into it!
• It has been great to see what children have been reading at home through their on-going book reviews – keep aiming to complete a review every two weeks.
• Ideally, children should be making their way through their second ‘must read book’ of the year (out of six books)
• If you have yet to book your virtual parents evening slot, remember to!

 

Have a good weekend,

The Year 6 Team

 

Having had a lovely (if slightly wet!) half-term break, the children settled down into their learning without a break in their stride from last term.

This week we have learnt how we can use factors to help with dividing by two digit numbers. For example, 388 divided by 12 can be solved by first dividing by 3 and then dividing the answer by 4. Have a go yourself – it really is very efficient. Next week we will be learning ‘old school’ long division. It may help to have a reminder of this method here

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGqBQrUYua4

In our English learning we have been generating reasoned arguments to put in a letter to the BBC to encourage them to portray wolves in a more positive light.

Next week we were looking forward to listening to Debbie from the Waterlooville Foodbank and asking her some questions around their work. Unfortunately this can no longer happen but we have emailed her them instead and are looking forward to her responses.

We finished this week by taking a detailed look at the role of women in Ancient Greece, comparing their lives to those of modern women. This provoked some excellent discussion around what is ‘normal’ for women in today’s society and some outrage at the way in which Greek ladies were generally tied to the home!

Reminders

Please can all children continue to practise their times tables and related division facts. The lockdown period definitel impacted the recall of these.

The ‘Autumn Reading Challenge’ is still ongoing. Well done to Caitlin Meechan for completing hers this week.

 

Have a lovely, restful weekend.

 

The Year 6 team.

 

 

 

After a really productive final week of term, we are all very much looking forward to some time at home to recharge and come back stronger in Autumn 2!

Our English learning this week was woven into our grammar studies where the children honed their skills in unpicking word, phrase and clause choices of the writer. It culminated in them independently writing a non-chronological report on wolves, where new facts were learned such as the fact that a wolf’s howl can be heard up to ten kilometers away.

Finalising our study of Creation in RE, the children have been thinking about whether it is easy to be a person of God. Unfortunately there are many problems and conflicts affecting the world, with many of God’s people making sacrifices to try and address these. The Year 6 children went on to think about who else could help make a difference and what they themselves could do.

This links nicely into a pupil driven project we will be undertaking in November to collect foodstuffs and monetary donations for the Waterlooville Foodbank. More information will follow when the children have prepared it.

The major focus in maths this week has been to secure a formal method for multiplying a four digit number by a two digit number. Great progress has been made and we would encourage all Year 6 children to keep dedicating ten minutes a day to pracise recall of their number facts on Sumdog and TTRockstars.

REMINDERS

Peter Ashley Centre trip 

Tuesday 10.11.20 (6Land) and Wednesday 11.11.20 (6Pratley)

Please make sure you have paid and completed the form which was sent out via parentmail.

All children will require a packed lunch on this day.

 

 

 

A great time was had by all on Tuesday during our Harry Potter day of learning! The young wizards really stepped-up their efforts with a fantastic array of costumes and their efforts during the day. Dumbledore and Hagrid really hope they enjoyed it…

As you would expect, much of our English work revolved around a scene from Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone and the children loved watching the opening forty minutes of the film.

We have moved onto refining our skills in multiplication and division this week, where the children have tackled real-life problems and they have considered how drawing a table can help them see a pattern in the problem. Of course , knowing your number facts is a real help for these types of problems – please encourage and make time for your children to practise these as part of their home learning.

TTRockstars is a great resource – maybe you could challenege one-another!

Plans have been finalised for a morning of adventurous activities at The Peter Ashley Centre. A Parentmail has been sent with full details. If you need further information, do contact the school office.

 

Have a great weekend!

The Year 6 Team

What a wet week! Torential rain stopped play on Tuesday afternoon during PE, which was a shame as the children were collecting data using the school’s Garmin GPS watches to be able to input it for their computing lessons later in the term. Therefore, we will have a longer PE session this Tuesday afternoon.

Writing this week has finished off studying Narnia and the children have thoroughly enjoyed writing from Lucy’s viewpoint as she explored the wardrobe and the winter wonderland. This learning will prepare and heighten their senses for Harry Potter week next week. Tuesday is Harry Potter dress-up day where children are encouraged to dress-up as a character from the film series. This is NOT mandatory however. Please be aware that they will be doing PE in their outfits, so trainers are best suited for the day.

Do ask your child to explain ‘Stefan’s Method’ for subtraction to you – they have been applying this nifty strategy to their maths this week.

Please keep up with the reading passport challenge and book reviews to help with your child’s self-reflection of their text. It has been great to see so many of the ‘must read’ books gracing the children’s tables. Keep it up!

Have a restful weekend.

The Year 6 Team

 

What a busy week! The children have started to settle into the learning pattern of the week and their new learning environment. We have finished our first mini-unit  in English and we are now practising our skills in some writing based on ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ by C S Lewis. This will be followed quickly by another piece based on ‘Harry Potter’. These units will focus on developing the children’s control and use of a range of clauses within sentences and their precision within this. Hopefully they will be fired up by the settings that are revealed.

The children enjoyed their PE this week where they played football in small teams and focused on their spatial awareness and the pitch around them. By the end, they looked ready for the England Team!

In maths we are coming to the end of our unit on number and place value, and have been developing our skills in rounding and using negative numbers in context.

It has been good to see so many children in possession of the ‘Reading Passport’ books and the ‘Must Reads’. We have been fortunate enough to have Mrs Porter, the school librarian, visit our classes each week to enable children to take out books of interest. She has also been inspiring us with classic tales such as ‘The Lady of Shalott’. Great intonation Mrs P!

We are looking forward to the Year 6 Mass with Father Jeremy next Tuesday.

Please keep encouraging your children with the home learning tasks. These are marked in class every Friday and should be in school on that day (or before).

Have an enjoyable weekend.

The Year 6 Team

 

 

Welcome to our first Year 6  blog post for the new academic year 2020-2021. We hope you visit this site on a regular basis to keep up-to-date with current events and notices regarding pupils in 6P and 6L.

The Year 6 staff team have enjoyed getting to know the children better in these, the first few days of term. We have been very impressed with the speed with which they have settled into new routines, particularly when many have been away from the school environment for some time now. Of course we would have liked to have met the parents to say hello and share important information for the year ahead. As this has not been possible, we have prepared a short(ish!) video presentation which can be found by clicking on the link below:

We continue to work on our presentation skills!

If you do require further clarification on any aspect please contact us via the school office email.

PE Days

PE in Year 6 takes place on the following days:

Tuesday – Every week.

Thursdays – Every other week beginning 17/9 (1/10, 15/10).

Children should wear their PE kit to school on the days they have PE

 

Reading Journals

We have had a great response to the Reading Journal ‘Create your own cover’ competition. Winners have been chosen and will be announced next week.

TTRockstars

To improve children’s speed of recall of number facts we would be very happy if they could spend 10 minutes practising on TTRockstars at  least three times per week. They have their logins in their maths homework books. The programme is set to automatically increase the challenge when a child can answer questions within a certain time-frame so it will ensure they keep progressing.

 

Have a great weekend

The Year 6 Team

 

Hello everybody! Here it is then, the last week!

To close with for the year, all we can say as a Year 6 team is that we know you are ready for the next stage of your school life. In class, there have been such mature, positive and forward-thinking views held in the last three weeks relating to your transition and this demonstrates what a solid position you are ALL in to move forward in terms of your mind set and outlook.

As a group of children, you have shown such good learning behaviours this year, where you have had to be resilient and reflective throughout, as a result of the many challenges faced. BUT remember, this has only made you stronger and ‘tougher’ in how you are able to deal with things and this is a great recipe for you moving forward into new territory. Overall, you have shown a really strong commitment to ‘wanting’ to improve and this has been shown in the learning that has taken place from September through to this last week. Keep being curious and resilient! Keep pushing forward!

We will miss each of you greatly!

This will be our last home-learning blog for the Summer Term. Should you want to keep yourselves ‘ticking over’ during the summer break, please be assured that the learning will remain on these pages for you to dip into as you see fit. In addition, you will have access to all of our online learning resources such as SATSBootcamp, MyMaths, Sumdog and TTRockstars until the end of August! 

Monday – Please reflect and look back briefly over the learning that has taken place last week relating to your Transition. You should have finished up to and including Session 6 last week – if you have not, then you will need to complete these sessions before moving on to Session 7, 8 and 9.

-Please complete the Session 7 part of the booklet and read the accompanying material.

Session-7-What-is-normal-anyway

Tuesday – Please complete the Session 8 part of the booklet and read the accompanying material.

Session-8-Friendships-and-fallouts

Wednesday – Please complete the Session 9 part of the booklet and read the accompanying material.

Session-9-Living-well 1-13

Session-9-Living-well to end

Thursday – Today is a day to catch up on any transition work you have not been able to complete yet! Please ensure your reflection has been thorough and that you have discussed your thoughts, feelings and outlooks for the year ahead with your parents or family members. Remember, if you have any older siblings at secondary school, then they can be a great ‘sounding board’ for you as they are ‘living’ the secondary school life as we speak…

Maths

I thought we should apply our number sense to a few warm-up problems. Click on the link below to see the questions:

Maths warm up questions

For our final three days we are going to continue to build on the work we have done on statistics last week. You wil need to print the questions off so that you can interpret the graphs properly.

The tasks are here: Statistics

Links to the Oak National Academy online lessons can be found here:

Monday: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/interpret-line-graphs

Tuesday: https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/construct-line-graphs

Wednedsay https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/interpret-pie-charts

RE

As we approach the end of the school year and consider our journey in faith towards God, now is a great time to reflect upon each of the Sacraments that form a special part of this journey. Please choose ONE of the seven Sacraments below: Baptism, Holy Communion, Confirmation, Marriage, Holy Orders, Reconciliation or Anointing of the Sick.

With your chosen sacrament, have a go at ONE of the following tasks…

· Write a prayer or poem about your favourite Sacrament. How could you ask for God’s blessing and guidance throughout your Christian journey? Describe how you would feel during the Sacrament.

· Create a stained glass window to represent the key symbol(s) of your chosen Sacrament. What do these symbols mean and why do you think that they are they important?

· Can you find any photographs at home from when you or a family member took part in any of the Sacraments? Discuss what the experience was like and what you can both still remember.

 

Family Science Activity 10.7.20

Spaghetti Towers https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental/spaghetti-towers – to watch the video

The activity:

· Make a tower from spaghetti and marshmallows.

· ExpeRiment with the construction of your tower to find out which shapes are best for building with.

· Learn why some shapes are more stable than others when you build a tower. https://www.rigb.org/docs/spaghettitowers_infosheet_0_1.pdf – for the full information on the activity and questions to ask your child(ren)

You will need:

Packet of spaghetti (uncooked) • Packet of marshmallows

What to do:

Challenge a child or children to use marshmallows (whole ones or pieces) to join lengths of spaghetti together to make the tallest tower possible. You could start by building a simple cube and seeing what you need to do to make a taller structure that remains standing.

Going Further challenge:

· Instead of building a tall tower, you could try to build the strongest bridge from spaghetti and marshmallows.

· You could limit the amount of spaghetti and number of marshmallows to make the task more difficult.

· You could give children a budget with which to ‘buy’ spaghetti and marshmallows and make the ‘cost’ of the tower another element they have to consider.

· Try out this interactive ‘shapes’ lab to see how forces affect different shapes: http://bit.ly/ShapesLab

 

Music

Think back over the past school year which started in September 2019. What can you remember doing? Make a list of these things.

Now think of a tune you know well.

Using this tune and the list you have written, can you compose a song about this school year? Perhaps you could record yourself singing it.

 

 

 

 

 

Hello everybody! We hope you are well.

This week for English, we will be focusing on our speaking, listening and reflecting skills. We will not be carrying out Guided Reading, so you will have a good chunk of time for English.

We will cast our minds back to two weeks ago, where we commenced our ideas and thoughts of ‘Transition,’ what shape that takes for us in this current situation, and what that looks like for us when thinking about secondary school. We will also reconsider our mind set, and how possessing a positive, growth mind set could lead us on a similar path that Kid Awesome took from our book study, ‘You Are Awesome’ by Matthew Syed.

ENGLISH (1 hour and 20 minutes each day)

This week you will need to print off this workbook to complete the relevant sections each day:

Be-Awesome-Go-Big-Workbook pages 1 to 12

Be-Awesome-Go-Big-Workbook pages 13 to 16

Be-Awesome-Go-Big-Workbook pages 17 to 20

Be-Awesome-Go-Big-Workbook pages 21 to 22

Monday – Read the Session 1 powerpoint attached and, in the booklet that is in this blog or printed for you in class, complete the session 1 questions and tasks from the booklet.
You should really take your time to reflect first and not just commit to the first thought or idea that pops into your head. Take your time!

Session-1-Being-awesome part one

Session-1-Being-awesome part two

Tuesday – Read the Session 2 powerpoint and complete the Session 2 booklet. Then, move on to the Session 3 powerpoint and complete the Session 3 section of the booklet.

Session-2-Unlocking-your-mind

Session-3-Dare-to-take-risks

Wednesday – Read the Session 4 powerpoint and then complete the Session 4 booklet. The powerpoint and the booklet that you are completing should, we would imagine, run alongside each other as some of the advice from the powerpoint should be thought about and considered when you are completing each section of the booklet.

Session 4 Making the Change

Remember, you will get more out of this Transition process if you are honest and reflective about yourself as a person, as a learner and how this could look when you look at yourself as a ‘future self.’ This ‘future self’ of you could be ‘you’ in a day, a week, a month, six months…There is no time frame, but if you can think about how you can grow, and grow into a Kid Awesome way of thinking, then transition to secondary school and ways of overcoming obstacles could become smoother for you. This is because you will be open to persevering with tasks and you will be open to making mistakes and thinking about how to improve upon things. If you have read this blog to this point, well done! Great persevering!!!!!! 

Thursday & Friday – Read the Session 5 powerpoint and at the same time, complete the Session 5 booklet. Then, move on to the Session 6 powerpoint and complete the Session 6 booklet.

Session-5-Lost-but-not-lost.pptx

Session-6-Bouncebackability

Make sure, by the end of Friday, you have completed the first six sections of the booklet!

 

SPELLINGS (10 minutes; three times this week)

Look back within your English book. Write down 10 spellings that you got incorrect, whether they were silly or you did not know how to spell them.
Re-write them correctly five times each.

Then, create a Wordsearch for a parent or sibling at home that has all of the 10 spellings in. I would make perhaps a 100 square grid, so that is 10 squares wide and 10 squares high.

 

Maths

This week in our maths learning we are going to revisit fractions, decimals, percentages and statistics.

Remember to warm up with 5 arithmetic questions everyday:

Arithmetic

This week’s lessons are here:

Monday  https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/understand-percentages

Tuesday https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/equivalences-between-fdp

Wednesday https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/problems-with-percentages-of-amounts

Thursday https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/interpret-mean-as-an-average

Friday – Go to MyMaths and complete the assessment that has been set.

The tasks for the whole week are here:

Maths tasks

 

Geography

In this, the final lesson of the unit, you will have an opportunity to demonstrate your acquired knowledge and understanding whilst also developing your independent learning and research skills.

Your role – A Brazilian Tourist Guide

You will be taking on the role of the Brazilian tourist guides who have the responsibility of attracting tourists to visit Brazil.

• What do you think this job role entails?

Answer – being very persuasive and attracting tourists to visit Brazil

Think about the following questions and jot down your ideas:

• Why would you want to visit Brazil?
• What would attract tourists to Brazil?
• What do you think we would have to create to attract tourists to Brazil?

Travel Brochures

Travel brochures are designed and written in a way that should persuade the reader to want to visit the places they are showcasing. Spend some time exploring the features of this travel brochure for Latin America. Brazil can be found from page 40 onwards. What does it include that helps to  ‘sell’ the location?

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/images.cloud.kuoni.co.uk/brochure/2018/Latin%20America%202018.pdf

Use your ideas to form a success criteria for the creation of a successful brochure/ tourist information guide. Compare what you have come up with to this list:

Brazil Lesson 6 Success Criteria

Task

Pick one task that you would like to complete from the following options:

1. A city escape brochure

• As a member of the Rio de Janeiro tourist information board your task is to attract tourists to visit your city. Your guide should include the following information:

• The location of the city
• The major human and physical landmarks
• The best places to visit and explore in the city
• The food and drinks you should try
• The best cultural events you should attend

 

2. A beach resort brochure

• There are hundreds of beautiful beaches around the world which people should visit. As a member of the Brazilian tourist information board you have discovered that people are opting to visit beaches in other parts of the world rather than those in Brazil.
• Your task is to create a beach resort brochure that will encourage tourists to visit the beaches of Brazil. Your brochure should include the following:
  • Images and descriptions of the best beaches
  • Maps and directions of the beaches showing people how to reach them
  • The best human and physical landmarks found close to the beaches of Brazil
  • The best places to stay, visit, and eat whilst visiting Brazil’s beaches

 

3. The natural wonders of Brazil information guide

• Many people have heard about the natural wonders of the world however very few have the opportunity to visit them. As a member of the eco-tourism board in Brazil your task is to create an information guide to share with tourists who want to visit these places.
• Your guide should include information about the following:
  • The Amazon Rainforest
  • The Pantanal
  • The Cerrado
  • The Caatinga
  • The Mata- Atlantica
  • The Pampas

 

4. A guide to the Amazon rainforest

• As one of Brazil’s most well-known natural environments, many tourists want to visit. As a member of the Amazon rainforest tourism board your task is to create a tourist information guide to help visitors find out all they need to know about the Amazon.
• Your guidebook should include the following:
  • The location and size of the Amazon rainforest
  • The plants and animals of the rainforest
  • The indigenous people of the rainforest
  • The cities of the rainforest: Manaus

You will find the following website useful to support this task:

• Brazil Fact File on the National Geographic site:  http://ngkids.co.uk/places/country-fact-file-brazil , ICT (computers/IPads etc.).

Remember we would love to see your finished work! Email it in please 🙂

 

Art

Art Challenge For Father Jeremy:

Father Jeremy has got a very special celebration coming up on 26th July this year. He will be celebrating 45 years since his ordination into the priesthood. I think this is a remarkable achievement and should be marked by your incredible artwork. Therefore, your Art challenge for the next fortnight is to produce a piece of art for Father Jeremy. This can take any form you like from street art, a drawing, collage or even some edible art! As well as being a priest, Father Jeremy has a wide range of interests including walking, reading and nature. So let you creative juices flow and come up with something spectacular….I know you will!

As I have mentioned, this is a two week challenge and I would ask that, as well as me displaying your art on the Blog, would you please keep hold of it (yes even sculptures you may make), so that I can collect it from you, when we are all back in school and put it in a book and then present in to Father Jeremy.

As always, 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

 

Music

Over the past few weeks, you have listened to 10 pieces of music composed by Musical Trailblazers. Go to the website below and listen to them again.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/ten-pieces-trailblazers/zfpy7nb

Which was your favourite and why?

Which was your least favourite and why?

 

Family Science Activities

If your child has an allergy to eggs – please choose another exciting investigation from https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental

Bouncing Eggs https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental/eggsperiments – watch the video

· Make an uncooked egg bounce!

· Experiment with different liquids to see what effect they have on eggs.

· Learn how the acid in household liquids like orange juice and vinegar react with eggshells and make them dissolve, leaving the inside of the egg intact. https://www.rigb.org/docs/dissolving_eggs_infosheet_v2_0_1.pdf – download worksheet for instructions and questions to ask before and after the investigation.

You will need:

5 eggs • Glasses or jars that an egg can fit inside comfortably • Cling film • Oil • Milk • Water • Vinegar • Orange juice

Going further challenge:

· You can use the shell-less eggs you make from this experiment to do another activity which will let you shrink and expand the eggs by placing them in different liquids: http://bit.ly/nakedeggs

· Watch a video of how to make a coloured bouncy egg, then try making one yourself: http://bit.ly/Rubbe

 

 

Hello everybody! Mr Pratley and Mr Land have both been busy getting a ‘Team Year 6’ haircut this week!!! It seems that the hair trimmers are getting used to their scalps but both hairdressers still need to work on their ‘blending’ around the sides and back of the head!!! Both Mr P and Mr L are enjoying the money they are saving from this!!!

This is our English home learning for the week ahead.

For Guided Reading this week, we are returning to ‘The Explorer’ as our text for the week.

Our writing continues to focus on Mount Everest and you will be researching and writing about an animal from the Himalayas!

Guided Reading

Book: The Explorer, by Katherine Rundell

Monday

Write a summary about what has happened in The Explorer so far. Use two paragraphs to summarise the story and start your second paragraph for the summary when you ‘feel’ it is accurate to, to show the shift in what happens in the book thus far. THINK – when is the ‘big change’ in the story so far? At what point does the story change? Which TiP (Time;Place) ToP (Theme; Person) strategy did Rundell use to create the ‘shift’ in the story so far? How do you know? Write and explain this thinking too within your summary…

 

page 12 – 17 PDF

 

Tuesday

Read page 12. Respond to the questions below.

1. ‘It was speckled brown and black, patchworked to match the jungle floor…’

Look at the extract above.

What makes this a clever and creative bit of writing? Within your answer, identify which words specifically make it creative and engaging – this will justify why it is clever and creative.

2.Look again at the extract in Q1.

It could be argued that there are TWO words that are the key to making the extract in Q1 creative. Which TWO words are they, that combine together to really make the reader visualise the image and relate to how the snake looked on the jungle floor?

3.Look at page 12.

What one word has been used as a synonym for ‘ran?’

4.What made you decide your answer for Q3? Give two reasons why you chose your word.

5.Look at the paragraph beginning, ‘The ground was sodden…’ to the end of page 12 only.

What indicates to the reader that Fred is running fast?

Give three different pieces of evidence from the text.

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Wednesday

Read page 13 – 17.

1.Look at page 14.

What took up most of the space in the sky above?

2.Look at page 14.

Fred was tired. Give two pieces of evidence that support this view.

3.Who says, “Now we’re even more lost?”

4.How do you know you are correct for Q3? Justify it.

5.‘There was bite to the question.’

What is the author getting at when they write this as a reflection of HOW Con says his previous speech? What do they mean by it?

6.Look at page 16.

What impression of Lila do you get on this page? Give two pieces of evidence from the text to support your impression.

Impression                                 Evidence

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7.Look at page 14 – 17.

What impressions of Con do you get from these pages? Give two different impressions and use evidence from the text to support each different impression.

Impression                                 Evidence

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Thursday

Thinking and reflecting question

Character analysis

Which character do you think will emerge as the hero and main character of the story? What makes you think this? Use evidence from pages 12 – 17 to support your view.

Also, within your answer, write about HOW you think they will go about becoming the hero and the main character within the story…What might happen and change in the story in order for them to emerge as a key character? Write around 120 words in total, developing points and justifying your views.

 

Friday

Read for enjoyment for 30 minutes.

 

Writing

Monday – Proofread, edit and improve your writing piece from Friday and check your spellings for silly errors AND for words you are NOT QUITE sure about. For your spellings, re-read your piece of writing from back-to-front, so that you read your last word first, and so on and so on. This way you do not just skim over your words, you look at them even more closely.

THINK – did you include most or all of the points that were made from the video last week? Did you elaborate on your initial point to then show logical thinking and logical reasoning as to why Jordan’s father should or should not have allowed him to scale the mountain? THINK – have you used enough of a range of synonyms for high frequency words or phrases that may appear in your piece, such as the word ‘mountain’ or ‘climb up it…?’ THINK – did you include a range of subordinating conjunctions to open sentences and paragraphs with? These were a part of your spellings list…

 

Tuesday – RESEARCH about the Himalayan animal that is a ‘yak.’ You can use the Internet to research information about this important and special animal AND/OR you can use the word document that is below. When planning and thinking about your Introduction for your Non-Chronological Report, you could write about why this animal is so important to people climbing Mount Everest and the surrounding landscape of the Himalayas. You should be aiming to find out a whole host of information about this animal as it plays an indispensable role in the successes and outcomes of people seeking to climb Mount Everest.

You should be thinking about what different sections are required to report about – this could range from their diet to what their job role is for climbers to their appearance and what makes their bodies so strong. Think about the effect that these physical qualities bring…

As you are researching, you need to start to PLAN and map out how your Non-Chronological Report will look. You can use a double-page spread within your English writing book so that you have space to write. You can draw a yak on your page too to show the reader the image of it.

Wednesday – FINISH PLANNING and START WRITING your Non-Chronological Report about the yak. I would write the Introduction and one of the sections today and I would ensure that I am writing enough for each section. Your introduction should aim to be around 80 – 100 words and then I would imagine that each different section after that should be at least 80 words per section to ensure some depth and purpose to the report. We don’t want one section being three sentences long!!! Think about the impact that their characteristics and features bring to the world (people) around them. You could maybe group some of their sections together in a sensible fashion…

Thursday and Friday – Continue and finish your Non-Chronological Report. I would be having maybe three other sections on top of the Introduction and ‘Closing’ section. So, it could be around five sections in total.

 

Spellings

Look; cover; write; check

aching                  feverishly                            tongue                 breathed             speckled

somersault        unbearable                         concussion

These are some words from ‘The Explorer.’ See if you can remember any similar words that follow the same spelling pattern. Do this for these words in particular:

Unbearable (-able ending words),

Concussion (-ssion ending words),

Tongue (-gue ending words),

Speckled (-ed ending words).

Make a table or a picture of your groups of words that have the same ending!

 

Maths

Our maths learning this week will continue to build on our work converting measures from last week. We will find the area of triangles and parallelograms and apply this to solving problems.

Monday

Answer Monday’s arithmetic here

Year 6 Summer week 5 Arithmetic

Click on the link to calculate the area of triangles and parallelgrams

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-calculate-the-area-of-parallelograms-and-triangles

If you would like to print out the tasks, they are here:

Monday tasks

 

Tuesday

Tuesday’s arithmetic is here

Year 6 Summer week 5 Arithmetic

The link to the lesson on solving problems with units of area is here:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/problems-with-units-of-area

The tasks can be printed off here:

Tuesday tasks

 

Wednesday

Today’s five arithmetic questions are here:

Year 6 Summer week 5 Arithmetic

We are going to learn how to calculate the volume of cubes and cuboids today. Click here for the lesson:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/volume-of-cubes-and-cuboids

The tasks are here:

Wednesday Tasks

 

Thursday

Your final 5 arithmetic questions are here:

Year 6 Summer week 5 Arithmetic

Our final maths lesson this week is looking at converting between standard units of mass:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/convert-between-standard-units-of-mass

Here are your tasks:

Thursday Tasks

 

Friday

Today is all about testing yourself to see how much of your arithmetic skills and knowledge you have retained!

Please complete the attached arithmetic test. Remember to think whether you are best to use a mental method, jottings or written calculation:

Y6_Core_Arithmetic_Test_10

WELL DONE!

 

Geography

This week, we are going to investigate people who may not want to migrate to the cities in Brazil: The indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest.

Work through the presentation pdf. Watch the two video clips and ask yourself:

• What do you think the lives of these people is like?
• How do you think they felt when they saw the plane filming them?

Brazil Lesson 5 Indigenous People of the Rainforest Presentation .ppt

The film footage you watched was of the Awa tribe. The Awa tribe are an uncontacted tribe which live in the Amazon. Brazil is home to the highest number of uncontacted tribes in the world (uncontacted means that the tribes have no contact with the outside, modern world). There are thought to be 77 isolated groups living in the Amazon.

Using the Indigenous people of the rainforest PPT and the Awa Tribe information page (Brazil Lesson 5 Awa Tribe Information Page,  collect information about the lives of people in the Awa tribe. You can also read a news report on the tribe here:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27500689

TASK

Your task is to use the information you have collected to create a short fact-file on the lives of the people in the Awa tribe. What areas of life will you focus on? What images will you use? How will you introduce your fact-file? Are there any threats to their lifestyle?

Feel free to be as creative as you want in your presentation.

 

Music

Hans Zimmer

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

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/classical-music-hans-zimmer-earth/zh4k382

 

Why is Hans Zimmer considered a musical trail blazer?

 

Now listen to the whole piece in the second video.

Zimmer tells us to,

‘Do what you wanna do with it!’

How can you ‘play and get creative’ with this piece?

Religious education

Our school patronal feast day takes place on Sunday 28th June. In order to prepare for this special time of the year, please choose ONE of the following activities in order to learn more about St. Peter…

• Write a diary entry as St. Peter, when he escaped from prison. Describe how he felt when the Lord sent an angel to free him from the jail that Herod had cruelly locked him up in. How did they get out of the prison?

 

• Jesus told Peter, ‘I will give you the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven’. Design the keys and include as many symbols as you can to represent St. Peter and why he was so special. What would the keys be made of?
• Jesus said to Peter, ‘You are a rock, and on this rock I will build my church’. Could you paint or decorate a stone or pebble, to show ways in which to build God’s church? (e.g. by spreading love, faith and Good News).
• Create a selection of short prayers to ask for God’s guidance during the global pandemic. How could we demonstrate the courage, faith and commitment that was demonstrated by St. Peter, as we work to support others?
• Take a look at the St. Peter’s logo on our school website. Can you re-design the crest so it reflects the qualities of St. Peter? (e.g. trust,  hope, responsibility). Why did Jesus say ‘feed my lambs’? How might St. Peter ask us to continue God’s work on earth?
• Use the internet to research St. Peter – can you make a fact file about our school saint? Which key words might you use as part of your factual information page? Were there any articles about St. Peter that particularly interested or surprised you?

 

Family Science Activity – Friday 26th June 2020

Giant Bubbles https://www.rigb.org/families/experimental/giant-bubbles – watch the video

· Make a home-bubble mixture and wands. Use them to look more closely at the characteristics and behaviour of soap bubbles.

· ExpeRiment with different shapes and sizes of bubbles and see what you can and cannot control about bubbles. Learn how to make giant bubbles and find out why bubbles are usually round.

· Learn how to make giant bubbles and find out why bubbles are usually round. https://www.rigb.org/docs/giantbubbles_infosheet_0_0.pdf – details on the information sheet.

You will need:

• Good quality washing up liquid

• Water

• Glycerin (optional)

• Plastic tub or other container for bubble mixture

• Measuring jug (optional)

• Various things with holes in them for blowing bubbles with. Watch the video for ideas. Straws, pipe cleaners, paperclips, coat hangers, cookie cutters and cake tins with removable bottoms are all particularly good.

• For giant bubbles: wooden spoons (or other sticks), a couple of metres of string and a small weight you can thread through it, like a metal key ring or nut.

What to do:

A mixture we found that works is 1 litre of water, 100ml of washing up liquid and 30 ml (2 tablespoons) of glycerin. Blow some bubbles!

Put a straw into your bubble solution and try blowing gently into the liquid. You should be able to make a lot of bubbles very quickly. Then dip one end of a straw into the solution, take it out and blow gently through the other end. See if you can control the size of bubble you can blow out of the straw.

Try making bubbles using things with bigger holes, like a paperclip or pipe cleaner bent into a circle. Try poking a dry finger into a bubble, then try the same thing after dipping your finger in bubble solution.

Try making bubbles inside bubbles by poking a straw dipped in bubble solution into an existing bubble and blowing again.

Try out objects with different shaped holes, like cookie cutters or pipe cleaners bent into other shapes. Try objects with really big holes, like a coat hanger or a cake baking tin with its bottom removed. Try making giant bubbles with the special wand we show you how to make in the video.

Going Further:

· You can experiment with your bubble mixture and giant bubble wand to see just how big you can get your bubbles to be. There are lots of different bubble mixture recipes on the internet, just search for “soap bubble recipe”.

· You could try making two or three of them and comparing how good the bubbles they make are.

 

Art Challenge

Art Challenge:  The Great Getaway! TRANSPORT

The title for your art this week is The Great Getaway! TRANSPORT.  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!

Here are some ideas:

Art Challenge TRANSPORT