Welcome to Queen Elizabeth 2 Class

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Welcome all Year 6 parents and pupils.

Class Teacher: Miss Blackford

Teaching assistants: Mrs Jackson & Mr Cellmer

 

Recommended reading books for Year 6:

Best Books for Year 6 | Ages 10-11 Recommended Reads | BooksForTopics

Expertly selected books for 9 and 10 year old children (lovereading4kids.co.uk)

Expertly selected books for 11, 12 and 13 year old children (lovereading4kids.co.uk)

Year 6 learning – week beginning 13th July

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Please keep checking Class Dojo for the most up to date information on our leavers arrangements.

20th July – Zoom Party (3pm-3:40pm). All school bubbles will be dismissed around 2:30pm on this day.

21st July – Last day of school for children

English

This week, our focus is going to be on writing ‘A guide to Year 6’. In preparation for next year, we would like our lovely Year 6s to create a poster or leaflet detailing what you think the Year 5s should know as they move to their new year group.

Year 6 - St Thomas' CE Primary School (VA)

Day 1 – L.O. I can plan an information text. 

What do you think are the key pieces of information that the Year 5s should know as they enter QE2 and Tower Class? What would you like to have been told before you came in to Year 6? Top tips and useful information?

Use the template below to record your notes.

English – Day 1

Days 2 + 3 – L.O. I can write an information text. 

On lined paper, create a first draft. Edit and correct so that it meets the Year 6 writing expectations.

 

Day 4 – L.O. I can publish an information text. 

Design and create your final piece. Make it eye-catching and informative and appealing to your target audience (the Year 5s).

 

RE/Art

Go Light: 7 Ways to Start Inspiring & Stop Exhausting Your People ...

This week we will create a piece of artwork for entry into the Spirited Arts competition based on the planning we have done over the last two weeks and the theme “inspiring”.

Artwork should be accompanied by a short written commentary of no more than 400 words written on one side of A4. There are prompts available in the document attached, together with further details of the competition.

If you are entering the competition from home we would love to see photographs of your work. This can be posted on Class Dojo or e-mailed to Mrs Fallon on howardyear3@gmail.com

Spirited Arts 2020 competition details

Maths

Lesson 1 – Introducing the ratio symbol

Lesson 2 – Calculating ratio

Lesson 3 – Using scale factors

Lesson 4 – Ratio and proportion problems

Year-6-Summer-Week-10

 

Answers to last week’s maths:

Lesson 1 Answers Vertically opposite angles 2020

Lesson 2 Answers Angles in a triangle 2020

Lesson 3 Answers Angles in a triangle – special cases 2020

Lesson 4 Answers Angles in a triangle – missing angles 2020

 

Geography

Lesson 3 – What is a population pyramid?

 

In this lesson we will be exploring a new type of graph called a population pyramid. These special graphs help us to see what the breakdown of a population is in terms of gender and age.

Click here to watch the lesson.

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Lesson 4 – What challenges can a growing population present?

 

In this lesson we will explore how rapidly growing populations in certain areas can present challenges, especially around infrastructure and resources.

Watch this lesson here.

PSHE

Transition to secondary school

Click here for resources to help our lovely Year 6s feel more settled about the transition. PowerPoint and accompanying video help you explore with your child the challenges that can arise with the transition from primary to secondary school, and help pupils identify strategies for managing the change.

 

Reading

Click here for your latest copy of First News.

 

 

 

Year 6 learning – week beginning 6th July

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Maths

Year-6

Lesson 1 Vertically opposite angles 2020

Lesson 2 Angles in a triangle 2020

Lesson 3 Angles in a triangle – special cases 2020

Lesson 4 Angles in a triangle – missing angles 2020

 

Answers to last week’s maths:

Lesson-1-Answers-Solve-two-step-equations-2019

Lesson-2-Answers-Find-pairs-of-values-2-2019-1

Lesson-3-Answers-Convert-metric-measures-2019

Lesson-4-Answers-Miles-and-kilometres-2019

 

English

Home - CBBC Newsround

Keeping up with the news – Check Newsround daily to find out what’s happening in the world!

Week 2 – We are continuing our news writing project with The Guardian (News Wise) this week.

NewsWise | The Guardian

Lesson 1 –  

Each team must now find the key facts and interesting details about their chosen happy news story. See our planning a news story lesson for tips and planning templates to help with research.

Click here for the lesson plan

Report plan

 

Lesson 2 – Identifying the key features and language used

Read the articles below and identify the structural and grammatical features for newspaper reports. Once finished, up level your plan with useful vocabulary you may use.

 

Lesson 3 + 4 – Write and edit your news report

Year 6 writing

Using the Year 6 expectations, and your planning sheet, write your newspaper article draft. Once complete, think about how you would like the final draft to be (what pictures you will need). Sketch the layout and then put your final piece together.

 

Science

What impact are humans likely to have on life in the future?

News - The Future is Bright at Heartland | Heartland Institute

In today’s lesson, we will learn about some of the impacts that humans have on life on this planet. We will look at pollution, global warming, hunting and deforestation. We will learn what happened to the dodo bird and about some amazing organisations that are working hard to ensure that other species do not become extinct.

Click here to watch the lesson. 

 

Geography

Why does population change?

EHR Data Reveals Racial Disparities in Emergency Pain Treatment

In this lesson, we will examine how population has changed over time, how birth rates and death rates affect populaton, and how the population of the UK has changed.

Click here to watch the lesson.

 

History

Did you know that it was the NHS’ birthday on 5th July? To celebrate this occasion our History lessons this week will focus on the creation of the NHS and how it helped to rebuild Britain.

Join us on our 72nd birthday for the biggest NHS Thank You clap ...

[dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”5″ border_color=”#3a95f7″ ]This year has been the most challenging in NHS history, with staff displaying extraordinary dedication, skill and compassion to care for the 100,000 patients with COVID-19 who needed specialist hospital treatment and many others besides. During this testing time our nurses, doctors, physios, pharmacists and countless more colleagues were sustained by the support of the public, not least through the weekly applause for key workers. No health service, not even the NHS, could have coped alone with this coronavirus pandemic. From bus drivers and teachers to care staff and food retailers and, of course, the public who took action to stay at home to stop infection spreading, everyone played their part. The NHS’s birthday this year not only offers the opportunity for us to say thank you to the nation, but for us all to come together … to pause and recognise all the work which has taken place in the last months and say a heartfelt thank you.

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Rebuilding Britain Plan4

Rebuilding Britain Slide4

Rebuilding Britain Work4

RE/Art

Inspiring and Uplifting Background Music For Videos ...

We will continue to plan a piece of art work linked to the theme “inspiring” for entry into the Spirited Arts competition.

https://www.natre.org.uk/about-natre/projects/spirited-arts/spirited-arts-2020/

This week children should do an initial pencil sketch of their idea. They should annotate their work showing what colours and materials they will use in their final piece.

PSHE

Please complete the activity sheets about the dangers of alcohol and the effects that it can have on the human body.

PSHE – Alcohol PowerPoint

 

Reading comprehension

Celebrating the NHS

SPAG

Year-5-6-Spelling-List-Crossword-Initial-Sound-Followed-by-Double-Consonant

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year-6-summer-term-2-spag-activity-mats-2

 

 

 

Week beginning 29th June 2020

English

The Guardian - BIRNNewsWise | The Guardian

 

 

This week, we have teamed up with The Guardian and Newswise’s new project from promoting the teaching of news in schools. It is called The Happy News Project. It has a focus on wellbeing with uplifting stories, and developing teamwork, speaking and listening and news writing and reading skills.

How it works (from their website):

Organise your pupils into editorial news teams and set them the challenge of researching and reporting a happy news story to share with others.

Working in teams: organise pupils into teams so they have the opportunity to work together to research and produce their final report. Use the suggested roles below to give pupils additional responsibilities:

  • Desk Editor: acts as team leader and makes the final decisions, including which story to report.
  • Reporter: researches key witnesses for the story and/or conducts interviews.
  • Subeditor: proofreads the report, checking for grammar, spelling and punctuation errors – as well as checking the facts! Subeditors also write the headline.
  • Picture Editor: selects the most interesting and appropriate pictures to use in the report. They can also write the captions.

Create a real audience: decide who your audience is and how your pupils can share their happy news stories with them. Could it feature on the school website or newsletter? Could you create a printed version to share with families? Remember, it’s all about spreading happy news to others!

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Day 1 – News and wellbeing:

Begin the project with a focus on wellbeing – see our PSHE
lesson on managing feelings to explore how news can affect emotions and different
strategies for managing wellbeing – of course, focusing on happy news is one of
them.

Day 2 –  Roles in a newsroom:

Try out the different roles in a newsroom in our lesson on
how news is produced. Pupils can have a go at different roles from reporter to
subeditor, and practise the skills needed ahead of producing their own reports.

Day 3 –  Newsworthy or not:

Explore how journalists choose which news stories to report
in our newsworthy news lesson, preparing pupils for selecting their own news
stories.

Day 4 –  Find a story:

Allow time for pupils to research possible happy news stories to
report, remembering what makes a newsworthy story. Once teams have decided on
one, hold a news conference where they share their chosen story with the rest of the
newsroom, justifying how it will help to spread joy and why it is newsworthy for
their audience.

 

 

Maths

This week’s learning:

Video links

Lesson 1 – Solve two-step equations 2019

Lesson 2 – Find pairs of values (2) 2019

Lesson 3 – Convert metric measures 2019

Lesson 4 – Miles and kilometres 2019

 

Last week’s answers:

Lesson 1 Answers – Area and perimeter

Lesson 2 Answers – Area of a triangle (3)

Lesson 3 Answers – Area of a parallelogram

Lesson 4 Answers – Volume of a cuboid

 

Science

What impact have humans had on plants and animals?

More than 1,000 species have been moved due to human impact ...

In this lesson, we will look at how humans have changed over time and use the theory of evolution to explain these changes. Learning how to make and use tools, shelter, fire and language has enabled humans to spread all over the world. We will start to look at the impact that humans have had on some species of plants and animals.

 

Watch lesson 5 here

 

Reading

First News - First News is an award-winning national UK newspaper for children, read at home or in school, with 2.2 million readers every week.

 

Read last week’s copy of First News. Once complete, tell us on Dojo what your favourite article was and why…

Click here for last week’s copy.

 

Geography

Where are all the people?

where-is-everyone-charlie-brown-cartoon - API Connect

In this lesson, we will be starting a new topic all about population! We will consider how many people there are on the planet, how this has changed, and where populations are distributed.

Click here to watch lesson 1. 

 

PSHE

P.S.H.E. Curriculum

This week, we will be exploring the dangers of smoking. Have a look at the PowerPoint and complete the activities.

Dangers of smoking Powerpoint resources

Art

Please follow Mrs Glenn’s lesson plan on ‘The Fauves’.

All about the Fauves – PowerPoint

Examples:

              

               

            

 

RE

The National Association of Teachers of RE are running their annual Spirited Arts Competition. Full details of the competition can be found at the link below.

https://www.natre.org.uk/about-natre/projects/spirited-arts/spirited-arts-2020/

Over the next three weeks children in year 6 will plan a piece of artwork around the theme “inspiring”.

The video clip below explains a little more about this theme. The video is long but you only need to watch the part from 12:04 to 21:12 to see examples of work connected with this theme.

https://youtu.be/HHyx3XgGfhw

Think about a person, place or quotation you would like to focus on.  It can be linked to a religion but it doesn’t need to be. The attached PowerPoint may give you some ideas.

Use the planning grid to plan out your artwork.

 

Inspiring PowerPoint

Planning Document

Year 6 learning – week beginning 22nd June 2020

If you are still working from home, please do make sure that you are sending us your work on Class Dojo. We love hearing from you so please stay in contact regularly.

English

This week, our English is going to be based on our Geography topic of The Lake District. We are going to be creating a travel guide for those wishing to visit.

Lake District (Lonely Planet Country & Regional Guides) (Travel ...

 

Day 1 – L.O. I can identify WMG travel guide.

Read examples and identify common features. Create a mind map of WMG travel guide. Split the features into structural and grammatical.

Example 1

Example 2 – look at the Scarborough, Whitby and Filey features.

 

Lesson 1 – WMG Travel Guide

 

Day 2 – L.O. I can research and plan a travel guide using condensed notes.

Think back to our Whitby travel guides. What sections did we think your reader wanted to know more about?  Use the template to structure your notes into more of a plan. Fill in the key vocabulary section, once completed. Think about impressive and persuasive vocabulary.

Link 1

Link 2

Lake District PDF

Lake District – Powerpoint

Lesson 2 – Researching and planning

 

Day 3 – L.O. I can write and edit my travel guide.

Use the plan, and our key features, to write your travel guide. Remember to use the Year 6 expectations.

 

Day 4 – L.O. I can publish my travel guide.

In neat, create an effective and eye- catching final draft of your travel guide. You may want to do this in poster or leaflet form.

 

Day 5 – L.O. I can independently write a travel guide.

Using the key features that we have learnt about this week, we would like for you to choose your dream destination and create a travel guide. It could be a place that you have previously visited, or somewhere that you have always wanted to visit. Remember to use the Year 6 expectations throughout your writing.

 

SPAG

This week, we shall be revisiting modal verbs and looking at persuasive language to help us when we our writing our travel guides to the Lake District.

Modal verbs – PDF

Modal Verbs Worksheet

Modal-Verbs-Mat

 

Persuasive language – Powerpoint

Persuasive language – Worksheet

Geography

An expert guide to a weekend in the Lake District | Telegraph Travel

 

This week, we would like for you to create a case study about the Lake District. Watch the documentary below and make notes using the sheet beneath the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVopblJdAL4

Case study – The Lake District

Maths

Year-6-Summer-Week-9

Lesson 1 – Area and perimeter

Lesson 2 – Area of a triangle (3)

Lesson 3 – Area of a parallelogram

Lesson 4 – Volume of a cuboid

 

Answers from last week:

Lesson 1 Answers – Fractions to percentages 2019

Lesson 2 Answers – Equivalent FDP 2019

Lesson 3 Answers – Order FDP 2019

Lesson 4 Answers – Percentage of an amount (2) 2019

Art

This week, we would like for you to have a focus on how and why we use complementary colours. Please have a look at the colour theory below and then create your own monster artwork (as shown below) based on the complementary colours. Remember to sketch it out first! You can use colouring pencils, paints, crayons, chalk or felt tips to create your work. We would love them to be sent to us on Class Dojo! (Why don’t you include your Dojo monster as one of the 4?)

Complimentary colored Monsters (With images) | Color art lessons ...

From BBC Bitesize: Complementary colours

Complementary colours sit across from each other on the colour wheel.

These are often referred to as opposite colours and even contrasting colours. Don’t be confused by the three different names, they all mean the same thing.

When complementary colours are placed next to each other, a very strong contrast is created. The colours appear more vivid and brighter. Some people say these colours clash when used next to each other and create very visually stimulating artwork. The complementary colours are:

  • Green and red
  • Orange and blue
  • Yellow and purple
  • Yellow-green and red-purple
  • Yellow-orange and blue-purple
  • Red-orange and blue-green

In Van Gogh’s Self portrait (1889), the blue of his shirt matches the background colour.

The blue complements the bright orange of the beard and hair and the greenish colour of Van Gogh’s face.

The painting palette and brushes are similar colours to the artist’s skin. There are patches of orange, green and pink paint on the palette. These make a visual link between the artist and his work that stands out against his surroundings.

Self-portrait, Vincent van Gogh, 1889, oil on canvas, GL Archive / Alamy Stock Photo

Self-portrait, Vincent van Gogh, 1889, oil on canvas, GL Archive / Alamy Stock Photo

Science

Which organisms lived during each era of time?

The Natural History of Model Organisms | Collections | eLife

In this lesson, we will learn what the fossil record has taught us about the history of organisms that have existed on our planet. We will learn what a geologist is and what they can tell us about the organisms that have lived during each geological era of time. For this lesson you will need a piece of paper, a pencil and a ruler.

Watch lesson 4 here.

History

LO: To investigate and interpret the past.

Source Skills Audit for History Students | Teaching Resources

Success Criteria: I can make deductions about artefacts from the Benin Kingdom

 

Key Question: What can we learn about Benin society from images and artefacts that have survived?

Starter

Run through key vocabulary, then show children image on slide 3, which they first saw in the last lesson. Give each child an image.

Task 1: Play Fastest Finger First – pupils take it in turns in their pairs to find something in the picture that they think tells us a fact about 11th century Benin.

Task 2: Now ask your child to come up with their top 5 deductions from this artist’s illustration. You may like to use the animations on the slide to draw attention to the most significant. The sort of things you might expect them to say might include:
1 Oba’s palace
2 One of the Oba’s important officials
3 A sun-shade for important people
4 The Oba
5 Leopards. These show that the Oba was powerful and strong
6 Rattle stick
7 Blowhorn
8 Villagers watching the procession

 

Input and Development

Next, ask the question, How did the artist know what to draw? Ask the pupils to think about the sorts of evidence an historian covering this period might use. As a gentle way into this demanding, but important question, ask pupils to consider the wealth of evidence available to historians in the future who might want to study Nigerian society of today. This will get them talking freely. Now return to the original question.

Task 3: Listed on Sources for the Artist sheet are 10 possible sources. Which do they think would have been available to historians studying the 11th century Benin? Ask your child to complete the list but ask the more able to consider which would have been most useful. Rank them 1-5 the most useful being 5. Discuss their ideas using slide 3 to help. Now tie the your child’s thinking on evidence to a more physical image. How did the artist know about each of the features numbered on slide 3?

Slide 5 and 6 helpfully shows some examples: a photograph of a figure blowing a horn; a bronze plaque of an Oba; a model of a leopard. Slide 7 shows a Dutch engraving from the 17th century. Can your child see the ways in which the modern artist has used its detail?
Task 4: Now it is time to play Call my Bluff, the history version. Show your child four mystery objects singly on slides 9, 10, 11, and 12 and then as a composite slide 13. Ask your child to come up with a possible plausible identification and explanation of use for the object that you have chosen. This presents a wonderful opportunity to develop pupils’ persuasive sentences. Pupils will benefit from you having modelled this. Three objects they are given are sufficiently similar to things they might have seen in the world around them today to enable them to make an educated guess.
Image 4 is designed to be more obscure, offering greater challenge to the more able. Ask your child to write their explanation on a sticky note, and collect these in. Discretely, add the REAL explanation to the pile for each object.
For each image, read out all the suggested explanations, including the correct one.  You can then use slides 16-20 to give an explanation of each item (horn, altar bell, armlet and rattle staff).

Notes on each object are included in the lesson folder for further information.
Task 5: Ask your child to draw a museum exhibit showcasing these four objects, writing a quality caption underneath, using the stem phrase. This object is… It comes from (place and time). You can see the detail such as…It tells us that…
NB: Sketching the objects may seem like a redundant task when you could print out the images, but it’s actually an excellent activity during object work since it requires the children to look much more closely at each artefact, observing the details which are going to give them the clues they need to make deductions.

Plenary

Which object do you think is the most interesting?

 

Which object tells you the most about the Benin Empire?

 

Resources

Week 3 – learning from artefacts – powerpoint

sources for the artist

Notes on objects

 

 

PSHE

Friendships – establishing and maintaining

How Good Friends Are Good For Your Health : Shots - Health News : NPR

Using the sheet below, list was qualities you look for when making friends. Then narrow it down to what your most important qualities are:

What I want in a friend

Please read the scenario and then answer the question cards:

Scenario

Question Cards

 

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Windrush Day

Five Ways To Celebrate Windrush Day 2020 in London | Londonist

Did you know that the 22nd June is known as Windrush Day? Find out more here.

What is the Windrush Generation? Check out this newsround link to find out more.

Task: Create a poster and/or leaflet about the information you have learnt about the Windrush Generation from the links above.

 

RE

LO: To understand the importance of Hajj for Muslims.
Watch the video clip below to find out about the Hajj pilgrimage.
Think about what it would be like to go on Hajj using the five senses.
Think about what a Muslim would need to take on Hajj based on the video clip and the packing the suitcase resource sheet (attached).
Complete the artefacts sheet attached explaining why a Muslim would need to take each of the items on Hajj.

Artefacts follow up activity sheet _Days of Hajj

Latest issue of First News

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Week beginning 15th June 2020

Welcome to Virtual Sports Week

Sports Week - Notts TV News | The heart of Nottingham news ...

As this week is Virtual Sports Week, we have decided to theme our learning (where possible) around sports. For links to the activities (and video tutorials), please click here (https://www.howard.croydon.sch.uk/classrooms/virtual-sports-week-2020/) .

We have put together videos of Mr Sinclair showing how to do each activity, and there is a pdf document also explaining the activities and different scores to aim to get etc. which are on the Virtual Sports Week blog page.

There are 10 activities, children are to chose 5 activities out of the 10 activities ​and put these into the tracker (or they can create their own tracker) which is attached (pdf and word).

Sports-week-activity-tracker.docx-1

Sports-week-activity-tracker.docx-1 (PDF)

For each activity, the children have 60 seconds to complete as many reps of the activity as they can. The aim of the week is to beat their personal best, so we would like to see an improvement on their tracking sheet throughout the week. The PDF documents that explain the activities have Bronze, Silver and Gold targets for them to get. So there is also a section on the tracking sheet for them to tick if they achieve the Bronze, Silver and Gold. The tracking sheet also includes extra daily challenges for them to complete – they can chose which one they want to do each day – on Thursday there is an opportunity to dress up as their favourite character whilst practising.

 

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English

This week, we shall be focusing on biographies. We have been lucky to welcome Donna Fraser as one of our new school governors this year, so we thought it would be an excellent idea to get to know more about this sporting icon within our school community.

Donna Fraser – Interview | Female Coaching Network

 

Day 1 – What makes a good biography?

Go through the PDF slides and evaluate the existing biography. Mind map what you think the key features of a biography may be. Annotate the biography example on the slides below.

Lesson 1 slides

 

Day 2 – L.O. I can use condensed notes to plan a biography.

Using the research provided, write some useful, condensed notes. Don’t copy out whole passages! You may want to create a time line of Donna Fraser’s life and plot key events.

You may want to use the headings: Early life and childhood, Career, Achievements…

Donna Fraser 1

Donna Fraser 2 – Interview

Wiki link

Lesson 2

 

Day 3 – L.O. I can write a biography.

Using the key features, start to write your biography. Remember to use the Year 6 expectations.

Year 6 writing

Features of a biography

 

Day 4 – L.O. – I can write and edit a biography. 

Finish writing your biography and edit using the Year 6 expectations. You may even want to write it up in neat.

Year 6 writing

Narrow Lined – Portrait

 

Day 5 – Independent biography of a sporting icon of your choice.

Choose a sporting legend and create your own biography using the Year 6 expectations. Send it to us on Class Dojo!

 

Maths

Lesson-1-Fractions-to-percentages-2019

Lesson-2-Equivalent-FDP-2019

Lesson-3-Order-FDP-2019

Lesson-4-Percentage-of-an-amount-2-2019

Year-6-Week-6

SPAG

Revise how to use relative clauses.

Relative clauses

 

Science

Myths and Truth about Animal world

Lesson 3 – What are the different animal kingdoms?

Watch online here.

Art

Follow Mrs Glenn’s art lesson instructions on relief work!

PSHE

This week we shall be look at healthy lifestyles and what makes a balanced diet. Have a look at the powerpoint and design your own balanced meal.

Balanced diet

Eatwell-Guide—Poster-100

Eatwell-Guide—Worksheet-153

Friday challenge: Have a go at making the meal that you designed.

 

Movement assembly – Watch here

 

History

The Story of the Olympic Games

Create a poster or a leaflet which explains the story of the Olympic Games.

 

RE

Think about places a Christian might visit on a Pilgrimage. Find out about places worldwide using the PowerPoint below;
The attached website also includes places where a Christian might go on a Pilgrimage in the UK.
Watch the video clip below.
Imagine you are a Christian making a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Write an itinerary listing 4 places in Jerusalem you would wish to visit. Include the reasons why you would include this place. You can use the document below or plain paper to write your itinerary.

Reading Comprehension

Mo Farah

Football comprehension

 

Geography

Olympic symbols - Wikipedia

Geography Map Challenge 5 – Olympics host cities

 

First News

An award-winning weekly newspaper for children | First News

 

Please see attached this week’s edition of First News;

First news – Week Beginning 8th June

Year 6 home learning – Week beginning 8th June 2020

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Maths

This week we are going to be looking at 3D shapes and nets.  These lessons have been set up to help support your home learning and are different from what you have been using! There is a quiz at the start and then a teacher will talk you through the lesson.  There are worksheets you can then have a go at.  If you can’t print the worksheets, just write them on paper, take a photo and post them on the Dojo.
Last weeks answers will also be at the bottom of this weeks work.  Have a look how you did!
Day 1-Recognise 3D shapes
Day 2-Recognise nets of 3D shapes
Day 3-Solve problems with 3D shapes
Day 4-Name parts of a circle
Day 5-Solve problems involving circles
Answers from last week’s work:

English

Day 1 – Using the 5 senses to build descriptive vocabulary.

Imagining that you are the dancer, fill in the 5 senses sheet for what she experiences in the clip. Use a code to indicate whether it was set before (b) or after (a) she left the clock tower.

Day 1 sheet – English – Day 1

Day 2 – Use figurative language to describe a setting.

Use figurative language to compare the two scenes. Remember to use ambitious vocabulary when describing the images.

Figurative language examples

Day 2 sheet – English – Day 2

 

Day 3 – Planning a diary entry 

Have a read of some good diary examples and mind map what makes a good diary entry.

Diary of a ghost

Stanley diary

Then, use the planning template to note down your ideas to write a diary entry as the clockwork tower dancer. Remember to use bullet points for your condensed notes. Use the word bank to list any appropriate pieces of ambitious vocabulary, including examples of figurative language.

Day 3 sheet – English – Day 3

Day 4 – Writing and editing a diary entry

Use the Year 6 expectations to help you write and up level your diary entry. Remember to include the key features of a diary.

Year 6 writing

 

Science

How do fossils provide evidence for evolution?

ᐈ Cartoon fossils stock illustrations, Royalty Free fossil ...

In this lesson, we are going to learn how fossils are formed and how they provide evidence for the theory of evolution. We will learn what the fossil record is and why there are parts missing from the record.

Watch lesson 2 online here

SPAG

Figurative language is when words and ideas are used to create mental images and give impressions.  When we use figurative language in our poetry it gives our ideas strength and helps the reader to understand what we mean.

Figurative language worksheet with answers

Reading

Book Cartoon clipart - Reading, Book, Emoticon, transparent clip art

Reading comprehension – Martin Luther King Jr

Choose which ability that you feel comfortable with. The one star questions are simpler and work their way up to the three star questions. Answers are included in the document.

 

PSHE

Why are there huge protests in the US and around the rest of the world at the moment?

Check out this Newsround article.

We have decided this week to revisit Martin Luther King’s famous ‘I have a dream’ speech. Go through the powerpoint and send us your poems on Class Dojo.

I have a dream powerpoint

Art

Understanding Color Theory - Design Wizard

We shall be looking at The Colour Theory this week. Read the attached powerpoint and then have a go at creating your own colour wheel using red, blue and yellow paint.

Art – Colour Theory powerpoint

 

Geography

Why should you visit the UK? | VisitEngland

Geography map challenge 4

 

History

LO: To build an overview of world history.

 

Success criteria:

I can order and list events in African history

I can explain why it is important to study the Benin Kingdom

      

Key Question: Why should we study the Benin Kingdom?

 

Read the powerpoint and complete the tasks below:

Task 1:  Cut up the events and put them in chronological order.

Task 2: Place the events in a Diamond 9 formation according to which is the most important event for Africa and its people and which is least important.  Ask them to explain their choices.

For Task 3, without telling your child what they depict, what can they deduce themselves about the Benin Kingdom from these images?  Talk through their ideas and share what the paintings are, using slides 6, 7 and 8.

On paper, write a Tweet to complete the statement: I think we should study Benin in our school because… This is a good exercise since it forces children to be concise and think carefully about their word choices.  They will only have 280 characters, they must include their key reason and hashtags of key words.

Send us your tweets on Class Dojo!

Week 2 – why study

Events in Africa’s History with diamond 9

RE

L.O. I understand the significance of going on a pilgrimage for believers.
Look at the PowerPoint (attached).
Think about special journeys you have been on. What made the journey special? What did you see and do on the journey? Speak to family members. Have they ever been on a pilgrimage or another special journey?
Create a story map of a special journey you have been on. It could be a journey for a family event or a special holiday. Draw and label yourself preparing for the journey, different stages of your journey and things you did at your destination. Annotate your story map to show how you felt on your journey.

Virtual Sports Week 2020

Year 6 home learning – Week beginning 2nd June 2020

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English

The Lighthouse

 

Day 1 – Create a story map of the key events from ‘The Lighthouse’.

English – Day 1

Using adverbials of time and arrows linking to each image, recount the key events of the clip. After, list what you think what could be some key vocabulary relating to this topic. Remember to use ambitious vocabulary, figurative language, expanded noun phrases or even some powerful verbs. Most importantly, make sure that you have checked the spellings by using a dictionary (if you don’t have one at home, you can use one online).

 

Day 2 –  Hotseating activity as the Lighthouse Keeper.

What sorts of questions would you like to ask him? Record your questions on a table with two columns:

Remember that open questions always require a longer answer.

After writing at least 5 questions for each, either with a parent or by yourself, answer the questions as the Lighthouse Keeper.

English – Day 2

 

Day 3 – Planning a newspaper report

Use the examples to refresh your memory back to our unit on newspaper reports we completed earlier in the year…

Newspaper report example 1

Newspaper report example 2

Y6 Example text

 

English – Day 3

 

Day 4 – L.O. I can write and edit a newspaper report.

Using your planning sheet and the resources below, write your newspaper report. Once finished, check against the key features to see if you can up-level any further.

WMG newspaper report

Word Mat

 

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SPAG

Formal or informal language 

Formal or informal language

Informal to formal letter

 

Spelling Frame – words ending in -cious and -tious

We shall be looking at how you get on with the revision of these endings. Please let us know if you need your login details again.

 

Passive and active voice

T2-E-551-Identifying-Whether-a-Sentence-is-in-the-Active-or-Passive-Voice-SPaG-Grammar-Powerpoint-Quiz_ver_1

Active and passive voice activity

 

Reading

Read the text and answer the questions. Send the answers to us on Class Dojo!

The-Cave

 

The Cave – Questions – Page 1

The Cave – Questions – Page 2

 

The Cave – Answers – Page 1

The Cave – Answers – Page 2

 

History

L.O. To develop chronological understanding about Benin

The Kingdom of Benin (article) | Nigeria | Khan Academy

Key Question – When was the Benin Kingdom in power?

Starter – 

What do you know already about Benin?

What would you like to know about Benin?

Mind map these two questions in your book/paper.  Share and group types of questions, e.g. life questions, geography questions, leadership qus etc.

 

Talk through the info slides that set Benin in context of time and place.  One map shows where the Benin Kingdom was and the other is a modern map of Africa.  Point out on the modern map that there is a country called Benin now, but that this was named after the Kingdom and is not in the same place.

 

Input and development – 

Order the periods of history (on the slides) in chronological order.

Parent help – Label the centuries in which the Benin Kingdom was in existence (900 – 1897 AD) with a coloured sticker / symbol so it stands out.

What do the children think they mean?

Ancient Egypt and the Stone Age, although important periods in the primary curriculum, are not featured here since they are before the earliest date on this timeline, 1000BC

The WWII symbols is smaller to indicate comparative scale.

Which periods in history that we have studied ran concurrently? What was the longest period in history of these examples?

In books, write a summary of what you have learnt.

Plenary – 

Look at the end date of the Kingdom of Benin. (1897). Why do you think this powerful, long lasting Kingdom might have come to an end in 1897?

Benin – Week 1 – Chronology

 

Spanish

Watch the online lesson and practise your Spanish numbers.

Flag of Spain - Wikipedia

https://www.thenational.academy/year-6/foundation/el-alfabeto-y-los-numeros-year-6-wk1-2

 

Science

We shall be starting our new topic called Fossils and Animals over Time. Lesson 1 starts off ‘lightly’ by looking at What is the Theory of Evolution?

The Theory of Evolution | Namakparay

Watch lesson 1 here.

 

Maths

Lesson-1-Multiply-and-divide-by-10-100-and-1000

Lesson-2-Multiply-decimals-by-integers-2019

Lesson-3-Divide-decimals-by-integers-2019

Lesson-4-Decimals-as-fractions-2019

Year-6

 

Art

This week, we would like for you to collect a few items that have been meaningful to you whilst you have been at home to create a still life piece of art. Think about how you would like to arrange them and you can choose any media (drawing, painting, sculpture) to depict them.

Drawing - Still Life on Behance

 

Geography

Geography Map Challenge 3 – Rivers, Mountains and Oceans

 

Music

All year group pupils from year 1 to year 6 can access the making music online for music activities.

https://www.cma-online.co.uk/making-music

 

The password is makingmusic123

 

PE

It is super important that we are still keeping active whilst at home. Please find below a selection of resources for you to choose from:

 

Real PE
The website address is: home.jasmineactive.com
Parent email: parent@howardprim-1.com
Password: howardprim
If you log onto Facebook and join their closed group-you can then post photos of you and the family taking part in these activities. They have weekly competitions with winners announced on their facebook page. There are all sorts of different prizes so have a go!
Facebook: Join our real PE at home – tips & ideas
The Youth Sport Trust 
There are some good home learning activity cards for children that can all be done at home, and they have videos which show the children what to do. These can be found at: