Year 6 Homework

26 March 2021

This week, the whole school has the same Talk Time homework. In preparation for the upcoming Junior Leadership Team (formerly the School Council) elections, children should complete one of the following tasks:

• I can prepare a speech (Junior Leadership Team elections).
• I know the importance of voting.

It’s time for children to consider if they would like to stand for election for our new Junior Leadership Team (JLT).  With two representatives from each class, chosen democratically by their peers, all children are encouraged to take an active part in pupil voice.

Elections for our new school council will take place on Thursday 01 April with our polling station and ballot boxes at the ready.  Candidates will have the opportunity to give their election speech to their class on Wednesday 31 March ahead of a democratic vote on Thursday 01 April.

What makes a good school councillor has been considered by our current school council.

• ‘use all the 8 Rs for learning’
• ‘be respectful’
• ‘help others’
• ‘be a good speaker and listener (to members of your class and in the meetings)’
• ‘tell the truth’
• ‘be confident with your ideas’
• ‘accept the views of others even if you don’t agree’
• ‘be friendly and approachable’
• ‘make good choices in class and around school’

Hints for your speech include:

• What skills and abilities would a good school councillor have?
• What are you particularly good at that would help you to be a great school councillor?
• What do you think would make the school better?
• What could you do that people would really like?
• Think of things that are realistic, maybe that you could do yourself, rather than having to ask other people to do

Thank you to our current school councillors for all their ideas and contributions.  We hope you have enjoyed this role and responsibility.  You’re welcome to stand again for election.

Good luck to all children who decide to stand in the elections.

If you choose not to stand in the election, you should instead consider the importance of voting.

19 March 2021

19 March 2021

This week our homework is Creative: I can show different ways to stay safe, including how to seek help.

In the first half-term, we promoted resilience as one of our Rs for learning. However, we can’t be resilient in all situations, at all times. It’s important for people to recognise when things seem overwhelming – and ask for help. It’s also important that children know how to stay safe. There are many ways, and many different situations, in which we need to keep safe: at home, at school, in our environment and online.

Children should think about the situations where they need to keep safe and how to seek help if they need it. This could be done in any creative way:

• A story
• A poem
• Instructions
• A comic strip
• An advert
• An interview
• A game
• Scenarios

…or any other creative ideas!

Please send any completed homework to your child’s class teacher via email and it will be reviewed as part of our weekly homework review.

11 December 2020

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework, which should be returned by Thursday 17 December.

The children are invited to respond to something from either a cultural or a spiritual perspective.

I can present a review of a book / TV show / film or something else cultural.

We’d like children to present their responses about a recent book they’ve read, film they’ve watched, piece of art they’ve looked at, piece of music they’ve listened to – anything cultural in fact.

We’re interested to read some sort of description (a summary, for example) and then your child’s opinions. This review might include pictures, an interview (your child could write a fictional script between himself/herself and the artist, for example), a letter (eg to or from a character, or perhaps even the author) – anything which might include your child’s responses!

However, your child might prefer to do the following:

I know what a faith celebration means to me.

Over the course of this term, some children in school may have celebrated a religious festival of some sort.  This might have been

• the Muslim festival of Eid ul Adha
• the Sikh and Hindu festival Diwali
• the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, coming up in December
• the Christian festival (of course, celebrated by many non-Christians) of Christmas
• and the Chinese New Year festival, coming up

There are lots of other festivals and celebrations, which you and your child together might want to reflect on.

We invite children to respond to the sentence above – they might include a recount (like a diary entry), pictures, an interview (perhaps in a script).  Your child might also choose to research a completely unknown festival, or they might even think about creating a brand new festival, one that everyone will celebrate.

Of course, there are many other ways in which children could respond. Children should be ready to celebrate their learning as part of their homework review by Thursday 18 December 2020. 

03 December 2020

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework: I can illustrate different emotions.

This homework, which links to our living and learning statement, is an opportunity for children to show that they can recognise, and show, different emotions. As humans, we display a huge-range of emotions. Sometimes, it’s obvious how we’re feeling. Sometimes, it’s trickier for us to show, or recognise, an emotion. This statement allows us to spend time thinking about the different emotions we experience and how we can recognise these accurately in ourselves and others.

Children could respond creatively to this in a range of ways:

• create a piece of art that shows a range of emotions
• take pictures of themselves (or others) displaying different emotions
• write a short-story in which a character shows lots of emotions
• devise a poem, song or rap about emotions
• create a comic strip to illustrate different emotions

Of course, there are many other ways in which children could respond. Children should be ready to celebrate their learning as part of their homework review by Thursday 10^th December 2020. 

20 November 2020

This week, the whole school has the same Creative homework which children should be ready to discuss as part of our homework review on Thursday 26 November.

I know how to STOP bullying.

This homework is a response to our learning this week during anti-bullying week. Throughout the week, each class has had the chance to talk about what bullying is, what the different types of bullying are and how can we STOP it:

• Start
• Telling
• Other
• People

As part of your discussion you may find our school definition of bullying useful, as agreed by our School Councillors:

Bullying is when you hurt someone, physically or emotionally (including online), several times on purpose.

As the homework is creative, you can do anything you want to respond to the statement. Here are a few ideas to help you:

• Create a cartoon strip of a bullying scenario and how it is solved.
• Create an acrostic poem using the word bullying.
• Write your own ‘kindness statements’ for your class.
• Create a scenarios quiz for your class to decide what they would do.

06 November 2020

This week, our homework is Talk Time and is due in on Friday 13th November:

I can show what I think about Wolf Brother.

In class we’ve really enjoyed starting to read our rather gruesome Class Novel – Wolf Brother. We’d like children to read this text and do the homework explained below…

Read the text with an adult.

Try some of these:

• Take it in turns to read a sentence each to help notice where sentences end.
• Have the adult read a sentence and the child ‘echo’ it back, reading it in the same way.
• Pay attention to punctuation – you’ve got to pause where there are full stops, and a little where there are commas too. Where are commas being used and why?
• Choose a line and focus on your expression. Imagine you’re reading it to an audience (or aloud to the class like we do at school). How can you make your voice interest and engage anyone who is listening?

Discuss the following questions:

1. Do you think the wolf is Torak’s guide? Why? Why not?
2. Why do you think the author chose to write ‘Fever.’ on a line of its own?
3. What do you think the wolf cub might call the fire?
4. What words are you less familiar with? What do they mean? Can you use them in sentences yourself?
5. Are there any parts that puzzle you? Do you have any questions?
6. Does this remind you of any other stories, films or TV?
7. Are you enjoying the book so far? Why? Why not?
8. What do you think will happen next?

16 October 2020

1. 345,923 + 102,127
2. 628,209 + 87,206
3. ? – 16,289 = 1,204,192
4. 67,092 – 34,189
5. 57,000 – 34,193
6. 24,129 – ? = 15,291
7. 2,289 x 9
8. 12,263 x 34
9. 65,823 x 76
10. 8,238 ÷ 4
11. 1,408 ÷ 8
12. 3,190 ÷ 11

Remember to write clearly, lining your numbers up in the right columns.

For division, remember that we’ve been using the bus stop method so far.

If you need any help, don’t hesitate to send me an email before the due date.

09 October 2020

I can share my views about health

Week 14: 16 July 2020: Home learning

Happy Friday, everyone!

It’s the last day of term and what a crazy year this has been!

Finally, now we’ve all seen it at school, here is the Y6 Leavers video. Hopefully you can keep it and look back on it in years to come and be reminded of how awesome we think you are. Enjoy!

Mr Wain and I would just like to thank you all, both adults and children, for all your hard work – not just over this tricky lockdown period – but the entire year. It’s been a pleasure to work with each and every one of you.

Today is the final part to our Dragon’s Den task!

First up, your first task is to present your sales pitch to someone else at home or video it and send it to me. You’re presenting your product to the Dragons so really go for it! You’ve worked so hard!

R2s:

• volume
• expression
• steady speed
• confidence
• really sell your product

The final part to your Dragon’s Den is to make a prototype – a small model to show what it would really look like.

You can make your prototype out of any materials: play doh, newspaper, card… anything at all!

As always, send a picture of your finished article!

Week 14: 16 July 2020: Home learning

Morning, everyone!

Today, we’re carrying on with your Dragon’s Den task.

The first part is market research. You need to have a discussion with someone else about your product design. Speak to someone face to face, call someone on the phone or chat over video call. You might ask the following questions or add your own.

1. What do you think to the product’s look?
2. What would you improve?
3. What are the best features?
4. Can any be improved?
5. Do you think the price is reasonable?
6. Would you buy this product?
7. What are the overall strengths?
8. What are overall areas to improve?

The more people you ask, the better your product will be.

The second part of today’s task is computing.

After taking on board feedback and making any necessary changes, you need to create a sales pitch to present to the Dragons tomorrow. You could do this on multiple posters, on PowerPoint or KeyNote. You might need to do some online research so make sure you’re making safe choices! You should present:

• the best features
• why your product is better than your rivals
• who it’s aimed at
• your market research results
• what it’s made of and why
• how much it would cost
• why you decided to make this product

Your presentation should last 5-10 minutes so you could prepare some flash cards with your speech on it, too.

As always, we’d love to see your inventions and products! Send us an email and we might even want to buy one!