Home Learning
We hope you are managing the home learning we are putting out and enjoying the changing themes. For each theme, we will provide recommended activities which can be completed alongside the educational websites/resources we have provided separately. Each topic will be adopted across the entire school and should therefore alleviate some of the pressures of home education, particularly for families who have children in more than one year group. We would like to take this opportunity to stress that our home learning packs are flexible and should be adapted to reflect the needs of your individual family, slotting in the activities suggested in a way which suits you best. Whatever you are doing as a family is more than enough, these are unprecedented times and, as has always been our outlook, the well-being of your children and family is paramount – don’t be too hard on yourselves and ensure your routine works for you.
We understand that our school community has a range of different circumstances with regard to home IT devices. We know for some families, children do not have access to a device all of the time (as it may be being used by other siblings or adults working from home) and therefore need content that can be looked at online and then completed offline. We know that some children do have access to a device all of the time and therefore benefit from online content (such as Abacus, Ed City and videos). We also know that most families do not have access to a printer so we have only included a few printable activities on our home learning. We have designed the majority of our tasks so that children/families would look at the activity online and then complete the activity using their exercise book. When you see a document online, for example the weekly Maths Challenges - questions can be opened on the screen and then answers written into exercise books. The document itself does not need printing. Equally, reading comprehension activities, can be read from the screen and then questions responded to in exercise books. The children will be somewhat used to this format as we often pose questions on our classroom screens and they respond in their work books.
Please click the links below to access the plans and resources for each week.
The planning below is for 23rd March - 3rd April 2020. This was our first response to providing home learning and we have since revised our format. The updated planning will be posted above.
At present, many of the resources and activities here are what you will have received in your pack. This area of our website is likely to be subject to change in the coming days. Please refer to your letter from Miss Rogers to help support your home learning set up.
Look after yourselves everyone and keep smiling.
Year 6 Home Education Pack
Here are a list of resources you can use for your home education learning for the time being. Please refer to the timetable within your master pack as a suggestion to when you could complete these tasks.
Look after yourselves and remember to keep smiling.
Happy learning J
English
Spelling
In your yellow folder we have included a spelling menu to help inspire the ways in which you can practise your spellings over the comings days. Remember to use your ‘Super spellings Strategy’ pack to help you with extra ideas of how to practise your spellings. See our English page on the website to download this again if needed.
We have also included the Year 5 and 6 Statutory Spelling list from the National Curriculum which you could also practise too! There are also some word searches to help you practise these words too.
Spelling Set 1 – Year 6 statutory words to learn.
Physical
Prejudice
Privilege
Pronunciation
Queue
Rhyme
Rhythm
Sacrifice
Shoulder
Signature
Spelling Set 2 – Year 6 statutory words to learn.
Average
Interfere
Frequently
Foreign
Sincere
Stomach
System
Temperature
Thorough
Vegetable
You have been assigned a variety of spelling activities on Education City too to keep you busy.
Reading
Offline activities
Online activities
-Access Pobble 365 each day and complete the various activities connected to the image of the day.
Writing
In your packs you will find: your plan from Thursday’s Literacy lesson, a success criteria of the key features to include in your writing, a character description summary from class discussion and chapter 2 for your reference.
In English this term we have been looking at The Borrowers by Mary Norton. Read Chapter Two of the Borrowers, paying close attention to the way the author has introduced both the setting and the main characters. Feel free to annotate your texts as you would in a Blended Reading session.
Create a thought shower with the following title:
“What makes an effective description?”
Using the text as an example, plan and write:
Online activities
Grammar and Reading focus -
Maths
Music - Tudor Music
Listening
Listen to this piece of Tudor recorder music carefully.
Singing & Playing
Don’t try to deny it, Mrs Irons knows this is your favourite Spring Time Song: ‘Spring Chicken’ https://youtu.be/IEey4LZLeGw
Practise this song and then teach someone at home the actions whilst you sing.
Making your own music
Make up your own rap about the Tudors.
Instrumentalists: Don't forget to practise.
Over the next few weeks Mrs Irons will be busy writing new tunes for you to try out.
Digi Map for schools -Log onto https://digimapforschools.edina.ac.uk/login
USERNAME: RG248AJ PASSWORD: zieked8351
(this is a subscription the school pays for our children to use and as such, log in details should not be shared wider than this)
French
If you would like to continue practising your French vocabulary, here are a few games that have been assigned on your Education City accounts.
Other: Research your journey to Secondary School – plot your new route.