Year 6 Home Learning

Week beginning:  Friday 27^th March 2020

All of the year 6 teaching staff hope that you and your family are safe and well, and we do hope that you have been accessing this blog each day to continue, and build, on your thorough learning that was taking place before last Friday. Remember how much progress you made during this current term and if you can carry out this learning from home, then this will only consolidate and cement your learning and it will really secure the position you are all in.

Again, we are really proud of your achievements so far this year. Stay safe and keep in contact with each other – pick up the phone and SPEAK to each other!

The Year 6 Team

 Guided Reading (Allocated time for task = 30 mins per day; Reading for enjoyment = 30 mins per day)

Monday – Rooftoppers – read pages 28 – 29. Respond to the questions in your book.

Reading task – A diary entry (from Sophie’s viewpoint):

Writing as the Reader: Imagine you are Sophie writing in your diary to your mother. What would you say to her? What would you ask her? Reflect about your life, now, as it is with Charles and write about your hopes and dreams for the future.

THINK – What feeling do you want to have ‘indented’ in the mind of the reader? What feelings do you want to put across to the reader? Think about where your life is now and how far you have come, but also about the fact that you have not seen mother since that fateful day…

You have a one-and-a-half page limit. You have Tuesday to complete the diary entry too, so don’t rush – ‘STOP & SMELL!’

Tuesday – Continue and finish your diary entry (written from Sophie’s viewpoint) from yesterday.

Wednesday – Rooftoppers – read pages 33-35. Respond to the questions in your book.

Thursday – Read pages 33-35 again. Write what happens next in the story. A one page limit.

Think – how could you carry the end of the chapter on and continue the story? Make it as impactful and relevant to the story as you can and think about what feeling you want to put across to the reader. DO NOT just write a list of things that then happened between Sophie and Charles. Imagine you are the author – Rundell – and that, as the writer, you are thinking creatively about what aspects to describe and pick upon as Rundell is a very creative writer. Remember, think laterally and sideways in your writing and not just about what is going to happen next. Ensure you include action, description, dialogue and character thoughts and feelings.

Friday – Finish the continuation of the story. Proofread, edit and re-read for sense to ensure you have not left out any words and check silly errors within your spellings.

Writing (1 hour a day)

Monday – Turn to your writing work. Continue and finish your piece from Friday, ‘Most important and valuable job in the world is…’ sheet. Proofread, edit and re-read for sense to ensure you have not left out any words and check silly errors within your spellings.

Tuesday – Turn to your writing sheet, ‘The world was a better place for children before the Internet.’ Read the information and notes that have been made about both sides of the argument. Choose your viewpoint.

Plan and jot things down around this planning sheet that match your viewpoint.

Choose your viewpoint and begin writing. You have a two page limit.

Wednesday – Continue and finish writing your piece from yesterday. Check and edit your piece and check for silly spelling errors.

Thursday – Look at your Alex Honnold sheet that is in your writing book.

Watch the video again (the one we watched in class). This can be found by typing into Google ‘Alex Honnold North Face video el sendero luminoso.’ Press Enter and then click on the first video that is 6:12 long (6 minutes 12 seconds long). Jot down words, phrases and clauses that are used, for example, ‘sub-optimal.’ Use the space on the sheet for this.

Complete Activity 2 too. Think about your flow of thinking and WHEN you will exactly begin your suspense story. Think about when you will start writing – will you start when he is on the wall or will you start when Alex is walking with Cedar to the base of the cliff? THINK – How do you want the reader to feel? How can you build this feeling up within the reader?

Friday – Start writing your suspense story.

Remember, STOP and SMELL as you are describing things within the scene on the wall. Use your senses to elaborate on your thinking and build a ‘sense’ and ‘atmosphere’ when Alex is on the wall. THINK – listen for the wind when Alex is on the wall. How could you hook this into your writing?
Make sure you balance suspense (shorter sentences) with description (longer sentences) to keep your sentence structure varied, purposeful, precise and effective. Consider your word and verb choice to ensure you are precise and accurate.

Grammar (3 times a week – 1 ½ hours total)

Please visit www.Satsbootcamp.co.uk

(30 mins) Click on Literacy bootcamp and select Day 3: Apostrophes.

Explore the Learn, Games and Tests and Quizzes options. Play around with these links and test yourself!

(30 mins) Then, go to Practise SATS tests link in the top right corner. Click on the SPAG Short Answers link. Please carry out the SPAG short answers Test 10. It says to give yourself 45 minutes, but you should be fine with 30 mins for the test!

(30 mins) Go to the Practise SATS tests link in the top right corner. Click on the SPAG Short Answers link. Please carry out the SPAG short answers Test 9. It says to give yourself 45 minutes, but you should be fine with 30 mins for the test!

Spelling (15 minutes every day)

Apply the words below into a range of different sentences.

bruise

sensibly

violence

disobeyed

thorough

monarch

sympathetic

originally

percussion

coarse

Challenge! What are the antonyms (opposite meaning of a word) of ‘sensibly, violence, thorough, sympathetic and coarse.’ List them in your book!

Maths

 This week, we are going to have a go at solving a real-life investigation!

Monday

First, go to BBC Bitesize to revise adding fractions:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhdwxnb/articles/z9n4k7h

OK? Now have a go at this activity

Shawn is helping to build a swing-set. Your task is to help him decide how much of each product (chains, wood etc) he will need.

Now visit https://teach.conceptuamath.com/client/PremiumMats.html#activity=Frac040102w  (you will need to allow pop-ups and enable flash on your device).

Work through the slides, reading and following the questions on the post it notes before you move on to the next slide. You will need some paper to draw out the table (I cannot attach it to the blog for you to print).

Good luck! We will post the answers at the end of the week 🙂

Tuesday

Today we will continue with the swing set problem, but this time you get to decide which types of swing you will include! There is room for 6 swings in total.

Go to this link https://teach.conceptuamath.com/client/PremiumMats.html#activity=Frac040103w   and work through the slides and post-it notes as before. I wonder which combination you will choose and how you will add the different amounts of equipment?

Wednesday

Today is the final day of our swing-set problem! You now get to decide which swings you will include in a new set for the school. You can use some of the swings we have already seen, but you can also design your own swings that you know St Peter’s pupils will enjoy. Of course, you will then have to decide how much of each item such as chains, rope, wood your new swing will need. Be creative and have fun!

The lesson slides can be found here: https://teach.conceptuamath.com/client/PremiumMats.html#activity=Frac040104w

Thursday and Friday

Use Satsbootcamp and complete arithmetic test 2 as quickly and efficiently as you can.

Also visit Sumdog  and MyMaths 

Some tasks have been set.

Science

Research about different theories of evolution and how thinking has changed over the centuries.

Some useful links are:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvhhvcw/articles/z9qs4qt

Well done for getting stuck-in to your learning. We will be setting some geography topic work next week to liven things up for you and are currently investigating a different learning platform for sharing the resources, as the blog is limiting in what we are able to upload. We would also like to communicate with you all more easily. Watch this space.

Year 6 Home Learning

Week beginning:  Friday 20^th March 2020

Guided Reading (Allocated time = 30 mins per day)

Monday – White Fang text. Read the text that is slipped inside your book. Respond to the White Fang questions that are slipped inside your book. Give yourself 30 minutes to respond to the questions.

Tuesday – Rooftoppers – read page 4-6. Respond to the questions in your book.

Read page 8-11. Respond to the questions in your book.

Wednesday – Read pages 18-19. Respond to the questions in your book.

Thursday – Read pages 18-21. Respond to the questions in your book.

Friday – Read pages 24-27. Respond to the questions in your book.

Writing

Monday – Turn to your writing work. Respond to the Grammar fluency sheet and answer the task about where the paragraphs end and begin. All you need to do is use a pen to mark where the paragraphs end, and thus, begin.

Challenge – Look at the Busy Place sheet. Use the sheet to label thinking and develop thoughts about what is happening in your Busy Place. Follow the guidance on the sheet and create a set of mini-thoughts to write about. Refer to the LO in your thinking.

Tuesday – Write a detailed description about your Busy Place that follows the LO and write no more than two pages.

Consider the targets you have been working on in class and think about balancing action, description, dialogue and character thoughts and feelings. Use coordinating conjunctions to link independent clauses together and subordinating conjunctions (that create subordinate clauses) to start sentences in different ways.

If you are thinking of greater depth writing, consider the impact your writing has on the audience and the feeling you want the reader to have, as a result. Apply a range of punctuation, including parenthesis, in order to be precise and to clarify meaning.

Wednesday – Continue writing your Busy Place piece.

Thursday – Check and edit your piece.

Friday – On your small sheet, plan and think about your, ‘Most valuable and important job in the world is…’ piece of writing.

Use the one-and-a-half pages to start writing the persuasive piece. Follow the guidelines written on the sheet.

Grammar (once a week – one hour total)

Please visit www.Satsbootcamp.co.uk

Choose ‘revise/literacy boot camp/Day 12 –clauses and phrases.’ Play some games and take the tests.

Spelling –  continuous – 15 minutes every day

Please learn the following words, using your favourite strategies (e.g. Look, say, cover, write, check). Ask your parent to test you at the end of the week:

bruise

sensibly

violence

disobeyed

thorough

monarch

sympathetic

originally

percussion

coarse

Challenge! For each word, find two others that follow the same pattern. For these new words, look, cover, write and check them.

Maths

Monday

Please visit www.Satsbootcamp.co.uk

Go to Maths Bootcamp – Day 3 Multiplication. Watch the video on column multiplication.

Solve these with the column method:

• 874 x 33 2) 986 x 47              3) 573 x 87

Tuesday

Please complete Arithmetic test 1 (even if you have previously completed this).

Log into MyMaths website (you have your login details). Complete the line graph questions that have been set.

Wednesday

Please complete Practice SATS tests/Reasoning 1/ Test 1.

Allow yourself 40 minutes. You will need your book for workings.

Thursday

Spend 30 minutes on Sumdog.

Log in to My Maths online. Complete the two volume tasks that have been set.

Use your yellow maths book to record workings and show thinking.

Friday

Please complete Practice SATS tests/Reasoning 2/ Test 1

Allow yourself 40 minutes. You will need your book for workings.

What a fun, busy week in the middle of a hard-working week the children have had…

Not only have they grafted in the classroom, but they have also grafted on the field of play, representing the school in an interschool rugby competition. Those representatives really enjoyed competing under the guidance of Chief Kicking Coach Mr Crozier, and the children really sharpened their skills during the competition where the boys and girls came fourth and third respectively.

The week culminated in the Off-By-Heart Poetry Competition, where the three Year 6 children – Benita, Evie and Harry – gave their best in front of four hundred and seventy onlookers. A great job!

Have a great weekend.

The Year Six Team

This week, Year 6 children have developed their abilities to explain how they meet the requirements of a specific job role – MI6 Intelligence Officer. They have had fun playing around with the formal language while selling their skills using well chosen, targetted examples. Hopefully, the skills they are learning will come in useful later in life as they search for employment. Who knows – some may even become Spooks!

Maths work linked with our spy theme, as children have been refining their ability to work wth co-ordinates in all four quadrants.

Now we are in Lent, we have been focusing on the three key aims of this season – Praying, Fasting and Almsgiving. With this in mind, hopefully you have received the small donation envelope for the CAFOD Appeal; we will be very grateful for any monies that can be spared.

Have a lovely weekend. Fingers crossed the sun will continue to shine as it has today!

The Year 6 Team

Year 6 children applied their maths skills to solving a wide range of recipe based problems this week, from flapjacks and ice-creams to a meat-free-Monday lentil bolognese! This involved scaling up and down of ingredients to calculate how much of each item would be needed for a given number of people. We were impressed with the strategies children were choosing to find quantities for 3 when the recipe was for 5. Maybe they can help out at home this weekend?

Our English work is now focused on writing convincing applications for the role of Intelligence Officer with MI6. The children have perused the requirements of the role and identified the skills and qualities that they possess that will set them apart from other applicants. We are now working on embedding the formal language required to effectively communicate these ideas.

A highlight of the week was Art with Mrs Pearson, where the children have worked extremely well, applying their skills to develop pieces depecting scenes from Good Friday. We look forward to the finished pieces.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 6 Team

Our STEM day today, as the title alludes to, was shaped around designing and constructing bridges that would withstand a span across the Solent. A load was tested in the form of a thesaurus to see whether the infrastructure of the bridge was adequate enough. This was harder than it first appeared as the children could only use plain paper as their raw material. They had to consider the idea of scaling and scale factor to be able to think proportionately.

The children exhibited many of St Peter’s core values in the process, particularly being creative, reflective, cooperative, curious and resilience. There were definitely some youthful James Dysons in-the-making!

See below for some of their ingenious designs…

This week in Year 6 we have been focusing on ‘thinking about our thinking’, or metacognition for short. Pupils are striving to become more ‘self-aware’ of their preferred strategies in reading and maths, so that they can select from these more efficiently when required. An important element in this approach is spending time in reviewing how they did in a task, as this will inform future decision making. It is still early days but we can already see pupils being more considered in their working.

The sad passing of Kobe Bryant earlier in the week signposted us to his Oscar winning animated poem ‘To Basketball’, which he wrote upon his retirement. The children were amazed at the longevity of his career and his aspiration to become a professional basketball player from the age of six years old. His passion for the sport sings through the poem – we hope it may have encouraged some of our pupils to aim high with their personal goals.

Many thanks for your continued support in encouraging children to spend some of their time using SATSBootcamp, Sumdog, TTRockstars or their CGP revision books. We can assure you it is time well spent.

What’s on?

Please join us for the Year 5 and 6 Mass in school this coming Tuesday 4th February at 10:30am.

SATS information evening – Wednesday 12th February at 5:15pm.

Have a lovely weekend.

The Year 6 Team

This week we have enjoyed learning about the Battle of Marathon in Ancient Greece and the unlikely outcome that ensued. The children got to grips with the tactics and strategies used by the Athenians to outwit a Persian invasion. If you can, ask your child why the Athenians won!

On top of this, PE saw the children compete in some athletic try-outs in readiness for four teams to compete in the Interschools Indoor Athletics Championships being held at the Mountbatten Centre in early February.We wish to thank everyone that has taken part in the training thus far, led by Head Conditioning Coach Mr Crozier; many of the children complained about sore legs and spoke of muscles they didn’t know they had!

Rest up to ‘go again’ next week!

The Year 6 Team

This week really culminated on Wednesday when the Year 6 children were riveted by key note inspirational speaker Chris Lubbe, a former bodyguard to President Nelson Mandela. Chris captivated the children by sharing his challenging stories of life under Apartheid and how his life experiences have led him to spread the word of forgiveness to people all around the world. He spoke in-depth about equality, what this looked like in South Africa at the time, how racism is still prevalent in the world today and how we can combat this. Chris really strived to communicate these points to the children. We are sure they took away a lot of wisdom from the session.

Have a great weekend!

The Year 6 Team

The children seem to have come back with renewed vigour and have settled quickly!

We have enjoyed getting to grips with Wolf Brother – a mini unit for our writing – and have finished our guided reading novel ‘Oranges in no-mans land’.

Maths has continued to develop the children’s understanding and application of fractions within real-life contexts, where they are improving awareness of fractional parts and wholes of amounts.

Our PE topic is now hockey  – a new invasion game for many pupils to learn. PE kits do need to be in school at all times.

Please encourage children to make a start on their CGP revision booklets! 10 minutes a day would be sufficient. We would also be grateful if they spent time learning their times table facts through TTRockstars. Do get in touch if you require assistance with this.

Have a relaxing weekend.

The Year 6 Team