Author: Mrs Hogarth

10 June 2020: Home Learning

Happy Wednesday!

We hope you are all feeling happy and healthy today and that you are full of beans ready to complete your home learning.

Remember that it’s still really important to make sure you are reading at home. You might have just got yourself a new book, or you might be enjoying reading a book that you’ve read before. If you recommend any books, please let us know and we can let other people know and they can enjoy it too!

Here is your learning for today…

Year 5 Maths

Starter

Log in to TT Rockstars and practice your multiplication skills.

Your learning for today is about comparing two or more fractions.

Compare fractions

Year 6 Maths

Here are the answers to the negative number crossword from yesterday.

Since last week’s escape game was such a roaring success, here is another problem solving activity. Watch the video and use this document to help find the culprit!

Year 5/6 Reading

Love of reading.
Today is our love of reading session. Choose a book that you like, a newspaper, or perhaps an online topic that you are interested about to read for pleasure.

Year 6 

Watch and complete this video lesson by Mr Freeman. You will be completing some art linked to topic today.

 

Home Learning

Thank you to those people who are still keeping in regular contact via email. It’s great to know how you’re getting on at home and what you’ve been up to. A few people sent me their reading task from last week in which they explain their dream job – there’s some interesting ones!

Some people have been learning new skills during their time away from school. I wonder if she could make me some new outfits now?

02 June 2020: Home Learning

Hello!

Hope you are all well today and ready for another day of home learning.

Below are some spellings that you can have a go at this week. These words are ‘tricky’ as they don’t follow any particular spelling rule:

bruise

yacht

vehicle

stomach

rhythm

muscle

queue

language

Here is your learning for today…

Year 5 Maths

Starter

Log in to TT Rockstars and see if you can improve your speed!

Your learning today is about volume. You will be investigating cubed numbers.

Just like yesterday, there is a little quiz to get you started.

Click on the following link for this lesson.

Tuesday’s lesson

Year 6 Maths

Thanks for your help yesterday. Only 5 more clues to go. Watch the video for the answers to yesterday’s lesson and solve the rest of the clues.

Year 5/6 Reading

Today’s task follows on from yesterday, using jobs and money as our learning area. Complete today’s retrieval and inference questions using the picture provided.

Retrieval and inference questions

Challenge: Using your dream job (you can use what you wrote in yesterday’s task). Can you answer the same questions about your chosen job?

Year 5/6 Science

In this lesson you will learn all about magnets

Complete this BBC Bitesize lesson.

01 June 2020: Home Learning

Good morning everyone!

We hope you all had a good half term and managed to enjoy this glorious weather we’ve been having. We hope you are all feeling happy and healthy today.

Remember to keep in touch with your class teachers. Send us a quick email to let us know how you’re getting on. Here are our email in case you need them:

marklindsay@spherefederation.org

sarahhogarth@spherefederation.org

olliecatherall@spherefederation.org

benfreeman@spherefederation.org

Here is your learning…

Year 5 Maths

Starter

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

Your learning today is about volume. This will involve reading scales to measure volume. As usual there is a short quiz first and then the video lesson. Remember you can pause the video whenever you like, or skip it back in case you need something repeating.

Click on the following link for this lesson.

Monday’s lesson

Year 6 Maths

Oh no! Mr Lindsay and Miss Greaves are stuck in the school. They can’t remember the passcode to the door. Watch their video and help them escape.

Email Mr Lindsay with your answers.

Year 5/6 Reading

This week, we are going to focus on jobs and money. For today’s task, complete the jobs worksheet – this will help you develop ideas that you can use later on in the week. Here are some questions to help you.

Although this task will significantly help you later in the week, it is not particularly a reading task! On top of this, I would like you to research and read about your dream job. Create a list of requirements you would need for this job, along with some reasons as to why you think people might want to do it as a career choice.

Jobs Worksheet

Year 5/6 Topic

In this lesson you will learn what goes into making a good computer game and try making your own simple game.

Complete this BBC Bitesize lesson.

22 May 2020: Home Learning

Happy Friday!

You’ve successfully completed another week of home learning – well done!

Remember to check out the Class News section of the school website to join in with the quiz tonight – it will be going live at 5pm. It’s going to be another amazing installment from Mr Catherall. Also, keep an eye out for something special on the website on Sunday night. The teachers have been busy again!

Here is your learning for today…

Year 5 Maths

Starter

Log in to TT Rockstars and get that brain working!

Your learning today is finding the perimeter and convert units of measurements.

Friday’s lesson

Year 6 Maths

Mark your Alphabet Algebra questions from yesterday.

Here is the 2018 arithmetic SAT paper. Remember the arithmetic questions from earlier on this week. Set your timer to 30 minutes and off you go!

Instead of waiting all weekend for the answers, mark them yourself here.  Scroll down to the answers starting on page 16.

Year 5/6 Reading

Poetry lesson

You will need the poem  for this lesson.

What do you want to be?

Poetry Questions

  • What do you like about this poem? Is there anything that you dislike why?
  • What are some of the messages of this poem?
  • What patterns can you find in this poem? Are there rhymes or alliteration? What can you say about the rhythm of the poem?
  • Do you think the poem was better when reading it, or listening to it? Why?
  • Did the poem sound like you expected to? What did you notice about my performance?

Year 5/6 PE

Mr Catherall has prepared a PE lesson for you. Enjoy!

21 May 2020: Home Learning

Good morning everybody!

We hope you are having a good week so far? How are you feeling? Please get in touch with us if you are feeling anxious or worried about anything. It’s a very unsettling time for everyone, and lots of people are feeling the same, so it’s good to talk about how you’re feeling.

Here is your learning for today…

Year 5 Maths

Starter

Click on the link above to practice your arithmetic skills.

Your learning today is applying length to real-life problems.

Thursday’s lesson

Year 6 Maths

Play the final stage of Guardians of Mathematica – Ancient City of Algebra.

Test out your algebra skills by solving the Alphabet Algebra questions. Remember to start by using letter D.

Year 5/6 Reading (RIC)

For today’s task, you will be reading the poem ‘What do you want to be?’

Whilst reading this poem, can you find its rhythm as you read? Try reading in your head and then out loud.

Task

Read the poetry RIC questions and think about your answers.

Write your answers in clear sentences.

Year 5/6 Science

Your learning today is science based and is all about adaptation. Complete this BBC Bitesize lesson.

Home Learning

Freya has done a great job presenting her ideas about sustainability. She talks about how we dispose of our waste and the impact that plastic has on our oceans.

If anyone else has done a great poster, please send it to me – I’d love to see it.

If you haven’t been in touch with me for a while, send me a quick email to let me know what you’ve been up to.

Home learning: maths

Good morning.

Mr Lindsay’s maths problem from yesterday caused a challenge for some people – it totally bamboozled some people’s brains. However, Freya and Lilia have completed the task and have sent me a photo to show how proud they are. Well done to those people who demonstrated resilience yesterday – one of our 8R’s.

Year 5/6 Living and learning

It sounds like lots of you are enjoying Mr Freeman’s living and learning lesson from today. I have already been sent some photos of the posters you are creating. They have some great ideas about the importance of money and what you can do with your money. They are very bright and colourful too.