6BB Head Teacher’s award
A massive congratulations and thank you to all the children that took part in Rock Out 2020. We finished 117 out of all primary schools across the country, which is great as over a 1000 took part! I’m so proud to see your dedication and effort. You are all stars! Mrs Walton x
A huge well done to 4MW who scored the most points across the school.
A massive congratulations to Fiza in 4MW who was our top scorer across the school. I know she was very determined to do her best and should be very proud of her contribution.
An extra special thank you and congratulations to the following children, who played for the most amount of time and were top scorers, in each class. You are all amazing and true rockstars!
2AS – Amelia L
2AD – Saba B
3RM – James W Top scorer – Baqar S
3HG – Brody McL
3DW – Qasim B
4AT – Conor McD
4PP – Aadit G
4MW – Zahrah B Top scorer – Fiza R
5RB – Oliver O’S
5HAB – Varsha D
5JT – Riley C
6KP – Levi G
6BB – Jake B
6GM – Robert P Top scorer – Navtej V
Times Tables Rock Stars
As part of Maths week England, Coundon will be hosting a Maths Day on Tuesday 10th November. Through out the week, Times Tables Rock Stars are running a competition, where schools compete to win prizes. All you have to do is play as much as you can. There will also be a small prize for each class member who spends the most time playing games.
Good luck to you all and get playing!
Mrs Walton
Year 6 Homework
Homework
Creative
POW Projects
For your homework over the half term holidays, choose one of the POWer Projects to complete. There are a wide range to choose from. Remember to select just one project to complete. We look forward to seeing these 🙂
Spellings
For spellings this week, the focus is to look at suffixes. We will focus on particular root words whose final letter (ending in a consonant) is doubled before adding the suffix such as forgotten. You will also have some Y5/6 Orange words to learn too.
Year 6 Headteacher Award 23.10.2020
Headteacher Award
6BB – Jamie C
For excellent resilience and perseverance with his long division work in Maths. Well done!
6KP – Max M
For his enthusiasm and hard work in music… you definitely have a natural flair for the ukulele. Well done Max- I am so proud of you!
Year 6 Home Learning Day 5
Home Learning Friday 23rd October 2020
Welcome
Good morning Home Learners! For those self-isolating at home, we are just that little bit closer to the weekend but also we have the half term holidays to look forward too! Apart from the homework, which will be set, there will be no other work.
Most of you have now met me through Teams or have sent some fabulous examples of work through emails. It has also been a wonderful opportunity for me to converse with your parents through emails as well. Now on to today’s learning. Please see today’s timetable for Maths, Guided, English and Computing. Any questions, please email me or chat with me on Teams (between 11am and 12pm) . Have a fantastic day and keep smiling. Mr Mahal 🙂
Timetable
| Friday 23rd October 2020 | |
| Maths | Multiples |
| Guided Reading | Parenthesis |
| English | Continue with yesterday’s lesson |
| Computing | Coding |
Maths
Multiples
Today’s lesson will focus on the mathematical term multiples. So what is a multiple? Can you write a definition of the word? See below for the video, PowerPoint as well as the questions and answers.
Guided Reading
Parenthesis
This week, the focus has been on Chapter Two of the Spycatcher novel. The final activity based on this chapter is on parenthesis. Can you remember what parenthesis means? Adding additional information. Have a look at the worksheet below and see if you can answer the questions.
English
Setting Description
For today’s lesson, please continue with writing your postcard or diary entry from yesterday. Once you have completed the task, please check against the success criteria. Try to make the amendments in a different colour. Thank you.
Computing
Coding
This week for Computing, we would like you to go on to the Hour of Code website and have a go on their different activities. Hopefully through this, you will identify a range of different ways of coding. Remember to also go on TT Rockstars too.
Year 6 Home Learning Day 4
Home Learning Thursday 22nd October 2020
Good Day!
Good morning Year 6 and how are you all doing? First of all, I would like to say a HUGE thank you to the children who have got in contact through either email or Teams.
As well as that, I have been impressed by some of the work that has been emailed to me. Thank you for your hard work, I know it is not easy to work from home. Thank you also to the parents who have got in contact as well. Remember if you have not yet emailed me, please do so before Friday [email protected] Please see the timetable below for today’s learning.
Today’s Timetable
| Thursday 22nd October 2020 | |
| Maths | Common factors |
| Guided Reading | Write an email |
| English | Describe a setting (Diary or Postcard) |
| PE | Catching and Joe Wick’s Exercise |
Maths
Common Factors
Today’s lesson will focus on common factors. From yesterday’s lesson, you should now be able to identify the factors of a number. Today, you will learn how to identify common factors within a pair or set of numbers.
Below are the questions and answers. Please watch the video or view the Power Point if you are not sure. Any questions about common factors then please chat to me on Teams between 11 and 12pm.
Guided Reading
Jane feels guilty about working for another spy network without checking that Milo and Alicia can be trusted. Jane writes an email to be sent to her mother automatically if she goes
missing. Write Jane’s email. Write about the robot, the Technophobes and Alicia Forrest. See below.
English
Greece
In today’s lesson, you are going to use the words and phrases that you had generated yesterday to help write either a postcard or diary entry. The subject matter will be Greece. Your aim is to use as many different examples of figurative language.
Firstly, go through the slides and have a go at the grammar warm ups and then practise writing a range of sentences which include different types of figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification, etc). I have included a model and success criteria to help you. Remember that this lesson will be over two days so please do not rush.
PE
Catching
Practice your aiming, throwing and catching using a tennis ball, bean bag, scrunched up piece of paper or a similar item! Can you catch with your right hand/ left hand?
Why not further challenge yourself and have a go at the Joe Wick’s Workout. See below for the 8 minute active challenge 🙂