Author: Mr Catherall

Hi everyone

We hope you all had a happy and healthy weekend. We hear that lots of you are getting back into the routine of home learning – that’s great. Don’t forget three other super important parts of thriving during times like these:

1. Stay connected – get in touch with friends and family (or your teachers!) for a chat; you’ll all feel better after.
2. Exercise – the weather isn’t great at the moment but there’s still plenty of ways to keep fit. Try going for a walk, a run, doing a circuit in your garden or join thousands of others for PE with Joe.
3. Talk about your feelings – hands up if you’ve had a few ‘down days’. I know I have (and so have many others, too). That’s OK – in fact, it’s perfectly normal. One thing we all know we can do to help ourselves is to talk openly about it. Speak to adults at home or your friends. If you prefer, email us – we’d love to help!

A reminder of email addresses (we want to hear from all of you!):

sarahhogarth@spherefederation.org

marklindsay@spherefederation.org

olliecatherall@spherefederation.org

benfreeman@spherefederation.org

Here’s your home learning for today:

Y5 Maths

Starter

Click on the link above for today’s starter by Mrs Hogarth.

I could sense that you were all missing learning about fractions, so this is what we are learning about this week. I hope you have all just cheered out loud at home!

Your learning for today is about using multiplication and division to find equivalent fractions.

Equivalent fractions

Y6 Maths

This week, we are going to review our place value knowledge. Watch this video from Mr Lindsay, pausing to answer the questions.

Y5,6 Reading

Watch and complete this video lesson by Mr Catherall.

You’ll need this text for the main task.

Y5,6 Topic

Watch and complete this video lesson by Mr Catherall.

Enjoy your learning and, as always, get in touch if you need any help.

Hi again everyone

Well done on smashing your first week of home learning! It’s hard getting back into a routine but I hear that many of you have.

There’s still loads of people who haven’t been in touch for a while. We’d love it if you could give us an email so we can find out about all the great things you’ve been up to.

Here’s your home learning for today…

Y5 Maths

Starter

Click on the link above to practice your multiplication skills. You will be playing ‘Hit the button.’ Select the mixed option for times tables and have a go at ‘Hit the answer’ and ‘Hit the question.’

Your learning today is about volume. You will be converting units of volume.

Click on the following link for this lesson.

Friday’s lesson

Y6 Maths

Starter

Log into Times Tables Rockstar and brush up on your multiplication and division skills for 15 minutes.

This BBC bitesize lesson should remind you of how to convert a decimal into a fraction. Complete activity 1 and 2.

Y5,6 Reading

To finish of this week, you are going to create your own RIC questions and text.

Using your dream job, write a short extract (1 or 2 paragraphs) using the information you know about this job role from earlier in the week. Once you have written this, create 3 RIC questions to go along with your text for other people to answer. Here are some things you can include in your extract:

• Job title/role
• Uniform
• Reasons for choosing this job as a career path
• Why this is your dream job
• Facts that you know about this role.

For your RIC questions, you do not need to do one of each (retrieval, inference, writer’s choice), if you wanted to do three retrieval questions, that is completely fine.

Please email your class teacher with your finished extract and RIC questions – we look forward to reading them!

Y5,6 Writing

Watch this video from Mr Catherall to find out about your learning today.

questions

answers

We hope you all have a happy and healthy weekend!

Hey everyone

We’re well into our first week back of home learning now. I hope you’ve enjoyed it and have managed to get back into some kind of routine – I know it’s really tricky but it’s also really important.

The weather the last couple of days hasn’t been as good as we’ve been used to. This means we might be stuck inside a little more than usual. Some of you might find it trickier to stay happy and healthy (physically, emotionally and mentally). That’s absolutely fine – we all have tricky days! One thing I’ve found that really helps me is to speak to people. Give someone from outside your household a call today (a friend of family member). You’ll help brighten up their day and you’ll feel great after, too.

Here’s your home learning for today…

Y5 Maths

Starter

Click on the link above to practice your division skills with Mrs H.

Your learning today is about volume. You will be describing volume in cubic units.

Click on the following link for this lesson.

Thursday’s lesson

Y6 Maths

Let’s review our knowledge of multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000. Watch the video and complete activity 1 and 2.

Y5,6 Reading

Complete this reading task. The text in this task may look familiar year 5/6!

You do not need to watch the teaching video if you do not feel like you need to – you can flick through the slides on your own and work through the lesson independently.

https://www.thenational.academy/year-5/english/setting-description-reading-comprehension-fact-retrieval-year-5-wk1-1

Y5,6 Topic

Watch this video from Mr Catherall to find out about your learning today.

Questions

Answers

As always, if you have any questions, get in touch with your class teacher by email. Also, if you haven’t been in touch yet, please email us. Let us know how you’re getting on, how you’re feeling and what you’ve been up to. We’d love to hear from you!

marklindsay@spherefederation.org

sarahhogarth@spherefederation.org

olliecatherall@spherefederation.org

benfreeman@spherefederation.org

Because this week is half-term, we’re taking a break from the usual daily home learning tasks (just like we did at Easter). Instead, we’ve prepared a menu of home learning activities that you might want to dip into this week – these are optional only, but you might want to encourage your child to have a go at being a quiz master, doing some up-cycling, presenting a cookery masterclass or any of the other activities.

Whatever you decide to do, we hope you have a happy and healthy half-term.

Hello again

Did you complete yesterday’s special mission? Did you connect with someone outside your home? If not, do it today!

In addition to your home learning, don’t forget that one of the most important things you could be doing at home is reading regularly; ideally, every day. If you’re looking for a book, I would recommend ‘The Boy at the Back of the Class‘.

Here’s your home learning for today – enjoy!

Y5 Maths

Starter

Click on the link above to practice your division skills.

Your learning today is converting between units of length.

Wednesday’s lesson

Y6 Maths

Play Guardians of Mathematica – Ancient City of Algebra. Complete the first three stages.

Y5,6 Reading

Today your task is simply just to read for pleasure.

This may be a book that you are enjoying, a magazine, a newspaper, or perhaps something online about something you find interesting. I am currently reading online about creating NHS PPE face masks, which I am finding extremely interesting!

Y5,6 Topic

Your learning today is geography based. Watch this video. 

Hi everyone

We hope you’re all happy and healthy. It’s been great to hear from so many of you about what you’re up to – don’t forget to keep in touch.

With that in mind, I’ve got a special mission for you today. I’d like you to make sure you speak to one person from outside of your house on the phone; this could be a friend, a family member, a neighbour, etc! I’m definitely finding that when I stay connected to my family and friends I feel much happier. I wonder if you’ll feel the same? Let me know. 

Before we get in to our daily home learning tasks, here’s some spellings for you to learn:

accumulating            managing            surprising            calculating

acquiring                     analysing            deciding                debating   

Use our super spelling strategies to help. Check out the ‘Help Your Child‘ section of our website for more ideas like these.

Here are your home learning tasks for today. Don’t forget to email your class teacher if you need any help.

Y5 Maths

Starter

Click on the link above to practice your arithmetic skills.

Your learning today is about solving problems involving time.

Click on the following link for this lesson. Just like yesterday’s lesson there is a quiz to start off with.

Tuesday’s lesson

Y6 Maths

Watch this second video lesson on algebra. Remember to pause the video to work out your answers.

Y5,6 Reading

Watch this video to find out your learning for today.

Y5,6 Topic

First, take a look at these presentations made my members of Year 5 and 6 as a response to yesterday’s learning. They’ll remind you of your learning.

Amelie’s presentation

Molly’s recycling presentation

Ellis’s sustainability presentation

Your learning today is geography based. Watch this video.

For the main task, you might prefer to download this document.

We hope you enjoy today’s tasks – don’t forget about your special mission, too!

Hi everyone

We hope you all had a happy and healthy weekend and you’re ready to smash another week of home learning. If you haven’t checked out the quiz of the week yet take a look – it’s on the class news section of our website.

Here’s is your learning today. As always, if you need any help don’t hesitate to email your class teacher.

Year 5 Maths

Starter

Click on the link above to practice your multiplication skills.

Your learning today is about converting between seconds, minutes and hours.

Click on the following link for this lesson.

Monday’s lesson

There is a short quiz and then a video lesson to watch. During the video there are some independent activities.

Year 6 Maths

Watch this video lesson on algebra. Remember to pause the video to work out your answers.

Y5,6 Reading

Complete this BBC Bitesize lesson.

Y5,6 Topic

Your learning today is geography based. Complete this BBC Bitesize lesson.