Y6’s last term ever…
… will be an amazing one!
This half term, we’ve got some exciting learning planned.
PE
With the exciting arrival of our amazing new playground, PE has never looked so good!
This half term, we will be practising our football skills, alongside playing games to deploy them in, in our trusty old MUGA.
Science
We’ve kicked things off with learning about animals including humans. So far, we’ve self assessed our knowledge and learnt some new words!
Challenge your child to tell you some changes that a human experiences as they go from a baby, to a toddler, adolescent and adult.
Computing
This half term is all about Scratch! We will be honing our programming skills to complete a different activity each week.
Take a look at some of the digital art we’ve created so far:
This one is by Daisy and Jess.
Test your child to see if they know what these words mean already:
- repetition
- sequence
- selection
- variable
- logical reasoning
- simulation
- program
- search engine
Writing
This half term will be a mixture of recapping old skills and learning new ones like how to use a semi colon within a list.
We’re starting off with some robot descriptions. Take a look at these incredible ones from Jemima, Emily and Felix respectively.
Reading
To enhance our computing topic, we will be reading about significant individuals, such as Ada Lovelace, learning about digital literacy and how to stay safe online.
To help at home, make sure you’re reading every day (whether that’s your library book, subtitles on the TV or even the back of the cereal box).
Maths
We’re always making sure that everyone is confident with our maths learning, so this half term will be a mixture of recapping prior topics, such as the four operations, and learning new things like ratio and proportion.
As always, we will have a strong thread of arithmetic and reasoning throughout our lessons.
The Captain Tom 100 Challenge
Tennis opportunities
Living and Learning: rights and responsibilities
For our living and learning lesson, Y6 explored rights and responsibilities.
“A right is something you should have,” said Jess.
“A responsibility is something you should do morally,” said Priya.
We discussed our rights and responsibilities with respect to school, home, our communities and the world.
I particularly liked this one from Jasraj and Moh: “At home, we have the right to have fun on a console but the responsibility to manage our own screen time.”
Lots of our discussion about responsibilities involved the good choices we have the power to make: being kind, considering others and inspiring each other.
Week beginning 29 March 2021
Maths
Follow this sequence of maths learning which is linked to number and place value.
- Lesson 1: video, worksheet, answers
- Lesson 2: video, worksheet, answers
- Lesson 3: video, worksheet, answers
- Lesson 4: video, worksheet, answers
- Lesson 6: video, worksheet, answers
- Lesson 7: video, worksheet, answers
- Lesson 8: video, worksheet, answers
- Lesson 9: video, worksheet, answers
- Lesson 10: video, worksheet, answers
You don’t have to print the worksheet. Your child can write or draw their answers on paper. Your child’s learning will be most effective if you sit with them to pause the clip and check / praise / support your child as the clip moves on.
Practise times tables on Times Table Rockstars, too. If your child is in Y3, we’re concentrating on the 3 times table. If your child is in Y4, we’re concentrating on the 8 times table. Email the class teacher if you need your child’s login and password details.
(Suggested time: 30 minutes of Maths and 15 minutes of Rockstars daily)
Spelling
Look on the homework page to find this week’s spellings. They should choose some past spellings that they feel less confident with. Your child should complete one task each day.
- Day 1: Generate more words linked to the spelling pattern or ‘rule’. You could look out for the words in the book you’re reading at home, or any other text, like a website linked to our science topic of Living Things and their Habitat.
- Day 2: Practise the spellings using two of the ideas in our Super Spelling Strategies guide. (Set yourself and others at home a challenge of using some of the words when you’re speaking, too!)
- Day 3: Write separate sentences, each containing one of the spellings. (Don’t forget to show off really neat handwriting and make sure you sentence starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?).
- Day 4: Repeat Task 2 or 3.
- Day 5: Get an adult at home to test you on your spellings. Practise any you spell incorrectly – you could write them out carefully until you’re sure.
(Suggested time: 15-20 minutes daily)
Reading fluency
This is the text we’re using in class this week to build up fluency skills.
In school, we generally follow this sequence:
- Day 1: Read the text aloud with your child listening. Read it clearly and slowly, pointing to each word as you read. Have a chat about any unfamiliar words.
- Day 2: Read aloud each sentence (a full short sentence or part of a longer sentence), and have your child read it back to you. Do this ‘echo reading’ for the whole text.
- Day 3: Read the text and talk about the effect of the punctuation on how you read it – pauses for full stops and expression for exclamations (!) or questions (?). Your child reads the text aloud.
- Day 4: Read together with expression (just like you practised on Day 3).
- Day 5: Your child reads independently and fluently.
(Suggested time: 15 minutes daily)
Reading comprehension
We’ll be using this ‘RIC’ text in class to practise comprehension skills. RIC stands for:
- Retrieve: finding information in a text
- Interpret: using clues in the text to unlock information
- Choice: thinking about the author’s choice of words, techniques or organisation that make the text interesting and enjoyable to read
Follow these lessons on Blitz survivor stories and Goodnight Mr Tom. There’s a whole series of lessons, but start at Lesson 1 and work through, doing one (or maybe even two) each day. (If you’re self-isolating in your second week, stick with the series of lessons you’ve already started and aim to complete the full series.)
(Suggested time: 30 minutes daily)
Writing
Follow these lessons on diary writing from Oak National Academy. There’s a whole series of lessons, but start at Lesson 1 and work through, doing one (or maybe even two) each day. (If you’re self-isolating in your second week, stick with the series of lessons you’ve already started and aim to complete the full series.)
(Suggested time: 30-40 minutes for each)
Topic
Our topic this half-term is about history – all about World War II.
Follow these lessons on World War II from Oak National Academy. There are 9 lessons in total, but start at the first lesson and work through, doing two or three in the week.
(Suggested time: 30-40 minutes)
Science
Our focus this half-term is sound.
These six lessons from Oak National Academy link closely to what we’ve been doing in class. Start at Lesson 1 and work through, doing two or three in the week. If you’ve previously completed on of these lessons, have a go at the ones you haven’t completed yet.
If Science really motivates your child, you could also use look at these lessons all about practical Science.
(Suggested time: 30-45 minutes)
PE
Don’t forget to do some daily exercise!
Do two or three of these Five Minute Moves from Joe Wicks each day – spread them across the day as if they were playtimes, maybe!
Try working through this series of 25 lessons from the Association for Physical Education – do two or three in the week.
(Suggested time: 5 minutes daily, plus 30 minutes for the longer PE lessons)
Extra stuff…
As an extra (or as an alternative, if this helps to motivate your child)…
Geography isn’t a topic-driver this half-term, but you could brush up on your locational knowledge – something that was missed when schools closed earlier this year. You could explore some online maps and try to memorise some new countries, capitals, rivers and mountain ranges. These three lessons about Europe are worth checking out.
What about some Living and Learning? While you’re away from school, you could check out these lessons on money!
Yorkshire Dance virtual dance workshops
Yesterday, all classes took part in dance workshops, led by dance artist Ellen, as part of the Yorkshire Dance RE:FRESH dance festival.
From Reception to Year 6, all the children copied, explored and performed different dance moves in their workshops.
While we can’t have visitors in school at the moment, this was a great virtual project we could get involved with.
Here are some comments from the Year 1 children.
I loved it because of all the moves we did.
I loved it because I like all the animals.
I liked to see you smiling.
It was amazing and you were amazing, Ellen.
Dancing for Yorkshire
Yorkshire Dance “came in” via Zoom and took Y6 for a dance workshop, today!
“I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would!” said Noah, whose dance move was chosen to be incorporated into the final piece!
Aayan said, “It’s not really my thing so I felt a bit silly.”
Hey, that’s ok, too! I was really proud of everyone who, despite feeling a bit silly like Aayan, still gave it 100% and just got stuck in.
“I thought the instructor was really enthusiastic and always smiling,” noticed Musa. We agreed that her positive attitude made us feel more positive – a good life lesson!
Nice one, Y6!
TTRS tournament winners (wb 15 March)
Hello again to all of the Times Tables Rock Stars out there,
It’s been great having you all back in class and seeing how much you are all improving with your times tables!
BREAKING NEWS:
The results are in. We have our ROCK STARS OF THE WEEK.
Recording an average score of 1451, the winners this week are Y3!
That’s now six times in a row (yes, six!) AMAZING!
Which class will knock Y3 off top spot this week or will they claim their seventh successive victory?
Remember to give your teacher a nudge as the week goes on if you’ve not yet had a chance to play on TTRS. If you’d like to play at home and would like a reminder of your login details, let your teacher know.
All the best TTRS!
Imagine you were evacuated in WWII…
… Y6 did just that, today!
We’ve been practising fundamental writing skills, this week: our must dos. These are things you must include in your writing or it’ll be wrong. For example, capital letters for proper nouns, commas to separate clauses and phrases and avoiding squashed sentences.
We’ve also learnt about moving subordinate clauses to different parts of a sentence. I’ll use Eeshan’s example of when he imagined himself as an evacuee, getting on the train to the countryside and meeting new people.
- Awkwardly, I told them my name.
- I, awkwardly, told them my name.
- I told them my name, awkwardly.
Let’s have a look at some pieces of writing. Look out for commas separating main from subordinate clauses!
I love Priya’s use of punctuation in this first one. The dash really emphasises how much she wants her new family to accept her.
Phoebe has nailed the openers, here. I also like her vocab choice of ‘herded’ which makes me think that the children were rounded up like cattle.
Joude’s used a variety of lengths for her fronted adverbials and even included a nod to our history lesson where we learnt that some children didn’t know they were being evacuated – they thought they were off on holiday.
The suspense is really built up by Alishbah in our next example! She uses onomatopoeia, ellipses and rhetorical questions to achieve her desired effect.
I like how Jess edited her writing to move her subordinate clause which became her opener.
Thanks to all Y6s who have been brilliant in our live lessons.
Homework Heroes
In science, we’ve been learning about the human body!
This week’s homework task was to show our understanding of how either the digestive or circulatory system works.
Take a look at these crackers of submissions!
Joude made great use of colour to demonstrate oxygenated vs deoxygenated blood.
Priya’s explanation was clear and concise alongside her brilliant scientific diagram.
Leo responded in a brilliantly creative way – using superclay to produce this 3D model!
Ethan clearly showed how the digestive system fits into the body itself. (Nice, neat spellings, too!)
Pollyanna had the fab idea of creating a quiz!
Click here to take it for yourself!
And, finally, have a look at Phoebe’s fantastic explanation of the digestive system – I love the pictures she chose!
