Good day Year 6! Hope you all have had a good week? Even through these uncertain times, it was lovely to celebrate VE day on Friday 8th May and pay our sincere respects to those that fought so gallantly to preserve the freedom that we have today. How did you celebrate VE day? For this week, we are going to present English and Maths tasks slightly differently. Lessons in English and Maths will be presented either through the National Oaks Academy website or BBC Bitesize – using their online lessons. There will be some English and Maths activities that you will still be able to access from here (see below). Aside from that, we would like to know how you are all doing. What have you all been up to? Drop us an email. Take care, keep safe, keep smiling 🙂
English
As mentioned earlier, the focus for the English lessons will be via online lessons through the National Oaks Academy. The key skills covered will be on the genre of instructions. Remember to click on the links below to access each lesson.
| Day | Coverage | Link |
| Monday | Instructions – Reading Focus (Inference) | Click Here |
| Tuesday | Instructions – Reading Focus (Retrieval) | Click Here |
| Wednesday | Identify Features of Instructions | Click Here |
| Thursday | Varying Sentence Openers | Click Here |
| Friday | Writing a Set of Instructions | Click Here |
Grammar
Focus for grammar this week is on Punctuation. Download the booklet and answer the questions (in your exercise book). Remember you do not need to complete every section.
| Punctuation | |
| Question Booklet | Click Here |
| Answer Booklet | Click Here |
Reading
To Be A Cat
For some guided reading activities, click on the link below to access the BBC Bitesize website. The text is To Be A Cat by the author Matt Haig. Listen to the extract and there are various activities that you can do throughout the week. Let us know what you think about the book.
As well as the reading focus from the National Oaks Academy lessons and BBC Bitesize, there are also some reading comprehension tasks that you could also do. Below you will find a text on Greece. Decide whether you would like to do Clouds, Moons or Stars. Read the text and then answer the questions in your exercise book. Answers have been provided so that you can check. Remember to read the questions carefully.
Fiction Express
Remember to continue to access the Fiction Express website. Chapter 3 is now live from the following books: The Pampered Prince or The Last Guardian or even Cosmo Mars and the Vanishing Woman. Try out the quizzes and the online activities. Identify and find out the meanings of any ‘amazing’ vocabulary that you discover whilst reading. It’s great to see that some of you are enjoying reading the David Macphail text My Gran is a Werewolf.
Spellings
For spellings this week, read through each sentence and identify the word which has been spelt incorrectly and then correct it. Afterwards, look through the answer sheet and check to see if you have identified all the misspelt words correctly. If you are looking for a further challenge then have a go on the Spelling Crossword. There is also a wordsearch too.
| Identify Misspelt Words Task | |
| Spelling Questions | Click Here |
| Spelling Answer Sheet | Click Here |
| Spelling Crossword Challenge | |
| Crossword Clues | Click Here |
| Crossword Answers | Click Here |
| Spelling Wordsearch Challenge | |
| Wordsearch Challenge | Click Here |
| Wordsearch Answers | Click Here |
Maths
BBC Bitesize
For Maths this week, the focus of your learning will be on place value with lessons found on the BBC Bitesize Website. As a Mathematician, you will covering the areas of rounding numbers, negative numbers, add and subtract integers as well as a challenge at the end of the week. Remember to click on the links below in order to access the lessons.
| Day | Skills | Link |
| Monday | Rounding numbers to a degree of accuracy | Click Here |
| Tuesday | Rounding decimal numbers | Click Here |
| Wednesday | Negative numbers | Click Here |
| Thursday | Add and subtract integers | Click Here |
| Friday | Maths Challenges | Click Here |
Arithmetic
If you are missing doing the arithmetic questions, please find below Arithmetic Test 1. Recap on your knowledge of fractions, decimals numbers, percentages, etc. Record your answers in your exercise book and then check your answers. Remember to ALWAYS check your errors and identify why the answer may be incorrect. Have fun and see if you can achieve 40/40 🙂
| Arithmetic Test 1 | |
| Question Booklet | Click Here |
| Answer Sheet | Click Here |
Art & Design
Optical illusions and using shading to show form
In this lesson you will look at an Optical Illusion artwork before creating your own. You will learn to shade in to show that an object is three-dimensional.
Computing
Algorithms & Debugging
For Computing this week, we would like you to go to the BBC Bitesize website and learn all about algorithms and debugging. You will watch two videos which will then be followed by three activities. Click on the link below.
Creative Curriculum
POWer Projects
For the next couple of weeks, we would like to set you some POWer Projects – based on the Vikings. Click on the POWer Project link below and you will discover a number of activities that you can do. For example, you can create a Viking longboat. Or if you are feeling that fashionable, creative flair, why not dress up as a Viking and take a photo. Then provide some information on the clothing. Remember to complete one of your choices per week. We look forward to you sharing these 🙂
MFL – Spanish
Saying Your Birthday In Spanish
In this lesson, you will recap on numbers and the alphabet, as well as saying your name and age in Spanish. It will then expand your number knowledge to learn the numbers up to 31 and the months of the year in Spanish, so that you can say the date of your birthday in Spanish! For this lesson you will need some paper and a pen or pencil.
