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Home Learning 17.05.23

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Home Learning – Wednesday 17th May 2023

This Wednesday afternoon we would like you to complete some of the following tasks.

If you complete a task, you should upload it to your portfolio on your dojo account or you can bring in anything completed on paper into school tomorrow.

Reading:

Can I remind parents and children that we expect three signatures a week from parents in your child’s reading record to show that children have read at home either to a parent, a sibling or independently.

Computing:

We will be looking at animation over the next few weeks. What can you find out about animators? What is it like to be an animator? Research Wallace and Gromit and how the animators create those films and cartoons. Can you learn any tips or tricks ahead of our lessons?

Mindfulness

It’s really important to have some time being mindful. This could include listening to music, going for a walk, drawing, painting, playing board games, making something out of lego etc. Please share how you spend time being mindful to support your wellbeing.

Maths:

Miss Osmond’s Maths group will be learning how to calculate integers (whole numbers) with decimals. Use the links below to further your understanding of this:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsjqtfr/articles/zsbd7p3

The link below will take you to the Oak National Academy page for KS2 Decimals. Don’t forget to try the unit quiz before and after to test, this will tell you what you know at the beginning and end of the unit.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/decimals-8526

Please use TTRS to practice your times tables: https://www.ttrockstars.com/login

You can also use arithmequiz 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 to practice a variety of arithmetic style questions to improve your fluency.

https://www.candomaths.org/arithmequiz1.html

https://www.candomaths.org/arithmequiz2.html

https://www.candomaths.org/arithmequiz3.html

P.E.

This week, make sure you spend some time doing a physical activity with a family member or on your own. This could be a Joe Wicks P.E lesson or Cosmic Yoga on Youtube or going for a walk, out on your bike or going to the park with a family member.

Where can we find hope?

For the next four weeks we will be learning about hope and what that looks like to us personally and to others within different religions. If someone is feeling down or upset, how can they become hopeful? Where might they find hope? Talk to your family members about where they find hope when things seem tough? How can we stay hopeful for the future when things seem impossible? Write down a few words or create a poster about how we can find hope.

Thank you for your cooperation,

Miss Taylor and Miss Osmond

Home Learning – Wednesday 10th May

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Home Learning – Wednesday 10th May 2023

This Wednesday afternoon we would like you to complete some of the following tasks.

If you complete a task, you should upload it to your portfolio on your dojo account or you can bring in anything completed on paper into school tomorrow.

Year 6 SATs:

Please find below some useful links for revision.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zrd6mfr

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7ch6v4

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zbh892p

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7vm7nb

Reading:

Can I remind parents and children that we expect three signatures a week from parents in your child’s reading record to show that children have read at home either to a parent, a sibling or independently.

Computing:

We will be looking at animation over the next few weeks. What can you find out about animators? What is it like to be an animator? Research Wallace and Gromit and how the animators create those films and cartoons. Can you learn any tips or tricks ahead of our lessons?

Mindfulness

As it is SATs week, we would like year 6 to have some time being mindful. This could include listening to music, going for a walk, drawing, painting, playing board games, making something out of lego etc. Please share how you spend time being mindful to support your wellbeing during SATs week.

Maths:

Miss Taylor’s Maths group have been preparing for their SATs, please use the bitesize links above or the arithmequiz links below.

Miss Osmond’s Maths group will be learning about measurement. Use the links below to further your understanding of measure.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z4nsgk7

The link below will take you to the Oak National Academy page for KS2 Measures. Don’t forget to try the unit quiz before and after to test, this will tell you what you know at the beginning and end of the unit.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/measures-86db

Please use TTRS to practice your times tables: https://www.ttrockstars.com/login

You can also use arithmequiz 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 to practice a variety of arithmetic style questions to improve your fluency.

https://www.candomaths.org/arithmequiz1.html

https://www.candomaths.org/arithmequiz2.html

https://www.candomaths.org/arithmequiz3.html

P.E.

This week, make sure you spend some time doing a physical activity with a family member or on your own. This could be a Joe Wicks P.E lesson or Cosmic Yoga on Youtube or going for a walk, out on your bike or going to the park with a family member.

What is Hope?

For the next four weeks we will be learning about hope and what that looks like to us personally and to others within different religions. Create a mind map, poster, diary entry or a drawing to represent the different scenarios below.

  1. A time when you were hopeful
  2. A time when somebody told you they were hopeful
  3. What are you hopeful for in the future
  4. Find out what a family member hopes for and why
  5. Why is hope important?

Thank you for your cooperation,

Miss Taylor and Miss Osmond

Non chronological report – research

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This morning, the children in Group 3 the children used their kindles to research facts about King Charles to innovate our model text. First, the children identified that they needed to research: King Charles’ date of birth, line to the throne, why he became king and when his coronation is. The children were great, thinking about the reliability of sources (linking to their history and computing lessons). There were a few debates about how old King Charles is, so we had to complete some maths sums to work it out. We managed to work out that King Charles is 74 year old.

As a group, using the text for sentence structure support, Group 3 were able to write an innovated introduction paragraph ready for their fact file about King Charles.

Classifying Characteristics

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In order to complete their science today, Phase 3 needed to use a kindle to present a Venn diagram relating to classification of animals! Two problems: One, what was a Venn diagram and two, how could they do this?

Once pupils had all looked at a Venn diagram, they soon realised it is the same as the ones they’d seen before in maths. Problem two was a little more tricky. They managed to use docs (or files for some) to create a presentation which was almost like working in Power Point. With a little bit more practice, they should get to grips with the insert features and pen.

IT’S ALL IN THE ALGORITHM

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Algorithms and obstacles.

As part of our Man and Machine topic this term, we have begun exploring computer concepts: starting with the all important algorithm.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT AN ALGORITHM IS?

Well the year sixes set about finding out what they are. Firstly considering what they thought it was and finding out that it was not exactly the same as coding. Instructions was the name of the game and they were also fascinated to find out that algorithms were first created in the 9th century: a long time before computers.

We clarified our understanding of the concept – watching the video below and making some whiteboard notes, before writing our own algorithms, to achieve a set task: moving from one place to another. First we explored this in class (negotiating the tables and chairs) and then the pupils competed in groups to avoid obstacles on a course in the playground – blindfolded (using their teammates algorithm to succeed). The pupils learnt that sometimes they needed a back-up instruction (or ‘IF’ instruction), or a variation in the steps to allow for differences in the environments where it was used, ensuring that an ‘error’ did not occur.

Finally, we discussed how algorithms were all around us in technology that they use and that there were many careers that they could explore using these skills.