01 May 2020 : Friday extra maths challenges
BBC Bitesize and White Rose Maths have teamed up to create some challenges that will be published every Friday.
Here are today’s :
Year 1 : https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhmbrj6
Year 2 : https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zh23gwx
01 May 2020: Home Learning
Happy Friday everyone. We hope you’ve enjoyed the tasks this week.
Don’t forget to keep your times tables knowledge sharp with Times Tables Rockstars.
Year 5/6 Music task: BBC bitesize
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkx3bdm
Following on from yesterday’s learning, today you are going to try activity 3. Choose one of the ten pieces. It’s time to get arty. Listen to the music carefully and create some artwork based on it. Watch the video to get some more ideas. Send a picture of your art to your class teacher to enter the Hall of Home Learning Fame.
Year 5/6 Reading
Your learning is all about facts and opinions.
First of all, use this BBC Bitesize guide to remind you of the difference between facts and opinions.
Now, open up the FirstNews whole paper and go to page 4 – it’s called 20 things to know and tell. Read the article and then answer these fact and opinion questions.
Challenge: We would like you to tell us your opinion about any article from this week’s FirstNews. We want you to email us with your views. You should tell us the article you’ve read and what you think about it. However, in your explanation, we’d like you to include some facts, too. You can show us that you know these are facts by underlining or writing them in bold. We can’t wait to see what you guys think of the articles – please email your response to your class teacher.
Year 5 Maths
Answers from yesterday:
- 3
- 5
- One hundred and forty-two thousand, nine hundred and eight four.
- 12,756 – 6,794= 5,962
- 243 – 59= 184
Challenge
False
False
False
Starter
Think of 6 numbers. Each number needs to have either 5 or 6 digits. Divide each number by 10, 100 and 1000. Then put them in descending order.
Your learning today is to read and interpret tables.
Year 6 Maths
Today’s task is to calculate missing angles in a triangle. Remember – angles in a triangle have a total 180 degrees.
The challenge is on page 2 of the same document.
01 May 2020 : Home learning
Happy Friday everyone and Happy May Day too.
See if you can write all your spellings from memory today? You could do the same for times tables too. Remember to read as well.
Maths
Count how much is in each purse. Use your knowledge of counting in 2s, 5s and 10s to help.
Challenges : 1. Write the calculations to match (eg 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 8 or Y2s could write the multiplication 4 x 2 = 8).
2. Draw some purses of your own and work out how much is in each.
Reading
Watch this video from Miss Lowry all about nouns.
You might want to get ready to pause it at some points to do the activities in your home learning books.
https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYf3XNAXUE
Topic – Geography
Draw a compass in your home learning book. Add the points of the compass: north, east, south and west.
Challenge: Can you think of a silly rhyme to help you remember the points of the compass? Miss Parling uses ‘never eat shredded wheat!’ (north, east, south and west).
30 April 2020 : Home learning
The last day of April already. Here is the learning for today but remember to read and work on spellings/times tables too.
Maths
Watch the video from BBC Bitesize. There is an activity too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zp8dmp3/articles/zcrq2p3
Choose 2 toys at a time and write the calculations of how much they would cost altogether. Remember to write p after the numerals eg 2p + 10p = 12p
Challenge: Choose 3 or more toys, write the calculation and find out how much they cost altogether. Draw part whole models to match the calculations.
Reading
Watch the BBC Bitesize about commands.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zrqqtfr/articles/z8strwx
Command sentences are used when you are telling someone to do something.
Commands usually start with an imperative verb, also known as a ‘bossy verb’, because they tell someone to do something. You should also use commands when you are writing instructions telling someone how to do something.
Read the commands below.
Fetch me some biscuits.
Tidy your bedroom.
Run as fast as you can.
Challenge : Write three (or more) commands of your own.
Topic – Geography
Watch the video from Miss Parling all about oceans : https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cYfuX4BcGU
There is also a catchy song all about the oceans too!
30 April 2020: Home Learning
Year 5/6 Music task: BBC Bitesize singing with feeling
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zkx3bdm
Here’s something slightly different for your home learning. Watch the videos and complete activity one and two. Send your teacher the notes about your favourite song so they share them with the rest of your year group on the class news.
Challenge: discuss your favourite song with someone in your family. Compare it to their favourite song. What are the similarities and differences?
Year 5/6 Reading task
Your learning today is poetry.
Use this link (https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zn8bgwx) to access the BBC Bitesize reading lesson (dated April 24). For your main learning, complete activities 1 and 2.
Challenge: complete activity 3 from the Bitesize lesson.
Year 5 maths task
Starter: Times Tables Rockstars- improve your multiplication skills. Spend 10 minutes becoming a legend of rock!
Your learning today is to read and interpret tables.
Year 6 maths task
Answers Vertically opposite angles
Your learning today is about types of triangles and angles in triangles.
29 April 2020 : Home learning
Good morning everyone!
Remember to read and work on spellings/times tables today.
Maths
Play shops at home by making some of your own price tags (just using scraps of paper or cardboard from your recycling). Write a different amount on each price tag all the way up to 20p (or more if you want a challenge). You could buy and sell fruit, vegetables, clothes or toys (just pretending, of course, and remember to put everything back once you’ve used it).
How many different ways can you make the amount on the price tag? Your parents, brother, sister, pets or teddies might like to join in with playing shops too?
Challenge : Make a price list, signs and write receipts for your shop.
Reading – Statements
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zp7mn39/articles/zdmjjhv
Statements are the most common type of sentence. They tell the reader a fact or idea about a single topic. They must always end in punctuation, usually a full stop.
Read the statements below.
I go to Scholes Primary School.
My favourite thing to do is learn new things.
The sun was shining all through the month of April.
Challenge : Write three (or more) statements of your own.
Topic – Geography
Follow the link to watch a selection of Go Jetters videos all about some of the UK’s most significant landmarks. What is a landmark? Can you think of any landmarks in Leeds?
After watching, can you locate all the landmarks on a map?
Challenges : 1. Choose one of the four landmarks. 2. Sketch or paint and label the landmark. 3. Write sentences describing the landmarks.
29 April 2020: Home Learning
Good morning.
Hope you are all feeling happy and healthy this morning. If you haven’t been in touch with your class teacher for a while, please get in touch. We always like to know how you’re getting on.
Below are a few spellings that you can have a go at. These are linked to the learning we did on homophones:
aloud
allowed
past
passed
affect
effect
herd
heard
Here is your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths Task
Challenge
Write 3 questions for your graph that someone else could answer.
Year 6 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
Your learning today is angles
Your learning today is about vertically opposite angles
Vertically opposite angle lesson
Year 5/6 Reading Task
Answers from yesterday
Answers from Tuesday comprehension
Watch this video from Mr Catherall to find out what today’s learning is.
Then, complete Part B of this activity.
Wednesday – summary lesson main task
Challenge: Go on to the BBC Sport website (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport), or a different age-appropriate website, and choose an article to read. Once you’ve read it, summarise the article in 20 words. Then, try again in 10 words. After that, have a go at summarising in 5 words. Finally,
summarise the article in 1 word.
Year 5/6 Geography Task
Your learning is: Where are the major cities of the UK?
This is a recap lesson. Have a go at learning all the major cities in the UK. Challenge your parents to identify as many as they can in a row. Alternatively, take it in turns until one person doesn’t know. Before challenging someone else, study the map yourself so you become an expert.
Here’s the link for the website.
28 April 2020: Home Learning
Hello everyone.
Hope you all had a good sleep last night and that you’ve woken up refreshed and ready to learn. Remember that you can contact your class teachers via email if you have any questions with your learning, or you have any worries about anything.
The latest news section of our website has regular updates from Mr Roundtree that contain loads of useful tips and information.
Here is your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
Temperature
5pm = -1⁰
3pm and 7pm = 4⁰
2pm
4:15pm
-1.5⁰
Population
40,000
45,000
2005
Challenge
The first graph matches with the second statement.
The second graph matches with the third statement.
The third graph with the first statement.
Starter
Think of 6 numbers. Each number needs to have either 5 or 6 digits. Multiply each number by 10, 100 and 1000. Then put them in descending order.
Your learning today is line graphs.
Draw out the line graph and plot the information onto it.
Challenge
Can you collect your own information and present it as a line graph? This could be linked to toys, types of books that you have in your house etc.
Year 6 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
Answers Angles on a straight line
Your learning today is angles
Today’s task is to calculate missing angles around a point. Remember – angles around a point have a total 360 degrees.
Year 5/6 Reading Task
Answers from yesterday:
| Across
4) resolution 5) telescope 6) high 7) Galaxy 8) plasma |
Down
1) magnetic 2) irregular 3) elliptical |
Your learning today is a First News Comprehension.
Tuesday – Firstnews Comprehension main task
Challenge: Have a read of the following extract from the newspaper.
From the article, create your own quiz for a friend / someone in your family to do. You could write questions down or you could do it as a video.
Year 5/6 Writing Task
Your learning today is punctuating sentences.
Check out this video about punctuating your sentences.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AGt8d-Sj97hJWE7XSYrHsI_ZwbJXZx5c
28 April 2020 : Home learning
Hola everyone! Here are your tasks for today.
Maths
Write the amounts of money that are in each jar counting in 2s, 5s or 10s. Remember to use a ‘p’ after the numerals eg 20p.
Challenge: Draw around some 2p, 5p and 10p coins in your home learning book. Count in 2s, 5s or 10s to work out the total amount that you have made.
Reading – Questions
Watch the first short video about questions on BBC Bitesize Daily Lessons. Then, if you can, there are 2 follow up activities all about The Magic Faraway Tree, which was our much-loved class novel earlier in the year.
https://bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z7b72sg
Topic – Geography recap
Can you remember the seven continents of the world? You could watch the song to remind yourself. Write them in your home learning book from smallest to largest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6DSMZ8b3LE
If you have a globe or atlas, you could find the continents there too.
27 April 2020: Home Learning
Good morning.
Hope you all had a lovely weekend and that you’re ready for some more home learning. We will be using some different resources this week which you will see cropping up in the different subjects. This may include links to BBC Bitesize lessons (these could be aimed at year 5 or 6, but as you know, we plan for a mixed-age year group) or some video lessons from us. We would like to know what you think of these new ideas, so please let us know.
Remember that it is still very important to get some exercise and fresh air as part of your daily routine.
Have a happy and healthy day.
Here is your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths Task
Starter
Your learning today is line graphs.
Year 6 Maths Task
Your learning today is angles.
This week, our maths learning is about angles. Today’s task is to calculate missing angles on a straight line. Remember – angles on a straight line have a total 180 degrees.
Calculate missing angles on a straight line
Challenge
Angles on a straight line challenges
Year 5/6 Reading Task
There are no answers from Friday’s reading task but we would love you to email your final version to your class teacher.
Your learning today is retrieval.
There are two challenges you could do today.
Challenge 1: create your own video that would help children lower down school answer retrieval questions (like mine but better).
Challenge 2: create your own retrieval questions based on an article from FirstNews. You could get creative and do this as a crossword, or a word search, or even a treasure hunt.
Year 5/6 Topic
Geography task: I know some regions in the UK.
This week, some of the writing tasks have been replaced with our geography topic. Below is the link to the BBC Bitesize lesson. Thinking back to our first geography topic, some of you may be able to recall where the highest point in England is. Listen and read the information about The Lake District – remember to test yourself with the quiz. Now, draw an outline of the UK and label The Lake District. Write five facts about Lake District. Be creative with your presentation. Don’t forget to send your work to your class teacher to publish on the class news page.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z3fycdm/articles/zvys8xs