18 June 2020: Home Learning
Year 5 Maths
Click on the link above for today’s starter.
Your learning for today is about converting between pounds and kilograms. You will be using conversion to solve problems.
Year 6 Maths
Let’s play the classic game of countdown. Set a timer to help you do the calculations at speed. You could set it to 1, 2, 3 or even 5 minutes. I like to choose one or two larger numbers from the top line. Give yourself 10 points for finding the solution. 5 points for being within 5 of the answer and 1 point for being within 10 of the answer. Once you have 50 points, pat yourself on the back and call it a day – Rachel Riley is proud of you.
Year 5/6 Reading
Your learning today is all about inference. Watch this video to find out more.
Year 5/6 Spanish
Today we are continuing with our Spanish skills from last week. Learn how to say your birthday and other phrases in this lesson. Buena Suerte (means good luck…I think!)
17 June 2020: Home Learning
Thank you so much to the children who continue to share their work, stories and achievements with their class teacher. You can see some of these on the class news page.
Year 5 Maths
Starter
Log in to TT Rockstars and practice your multiplication skills.
Your learning for today is converting units of mass in a real-life context.
Year 6 Maths
Today’s challenge is to complete all four levels of Dark Tower of Division on Guardians – Defenders of Mathematica. If you haven’t completed Monday and Tuesday’s maths lessons, you might want a quick recap before starting. Be warned – Level one is ridiculously easy but levels 2-4 are much, much harder. Good luck on your quest!
Year 5/6 Reading
Your learning today is all about summarising and giving your own opinion. Have a go at this BBC Bitesize lesson.
Year 5/6 Living and Learning
Today, we’re going to focus on Living & Learning. Your learning today is about racism – particularly the recent events and the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement.
Watch this video by Mr Catherall to find out more.
16 June 2020: Home Learning
Good morning.
Hope you all had a good night’s sleep last night and that you are full of energy ready for your home learning.
Below are some spellings to have a go at:
foreign
achieve
convenience
mischievous
soldier
sufficient
variety
ancient
Here is your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths
Click on the link above for today’s starter.
Your learning for today is converting between grams and kilograms. The lesson will focus on why we measure in grams and kilograms and how to read scales.
Year 6 Maths
Today, we will revisit our chunking method for long division. Remember to email your teacher if you have any questions.
Year 5/6 Reading
Today is our love of reading session. Choose a book, magazine, newspaper or online topic to read for your pleasure.
Year 5/6 Topic
Your learning today is Design and Technology related. It’s all about mechanical systems. Watch this BBC Bitesize lesson to learn more.
15 June 2020: Home Learning
Good morning everyone!
We hope you have had an amazing weekend and that you are feeling happy and healthy today. Remember to stay in touch with your class teachers – our email addresses are below. Keep sending us messages and photographs of your learning – we love it!
olliecatherall@spherefederation.org
benfreeman@spherefederation.org
marklindsay@spherefederation.org
sarahhogarth@spherefederation.org
Here is your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths
Click on the link above for today’s starter.
Your learning for today is about converting miles and kilometres. There is the quiz to start with and then you will look at the difference between imperial and metric units.
Converting miles and kilometres
Year 6 Maths
This week we will be focusing on division. Firstly, let’s recap our knowledge of short division.
Year 5/6 Reading
Your learning skill today is to make predictions using retrieved information. Watch this video and have a go at the predictive tasks. If you are feeling particularly academic today, there is a challenge to complete at the end.
Year 5/6 Topic
Your computing learning today is about decomposition – don’t worry, it’s not as confusing as it sounds. Watch this video by Mr Catherall.
You’ll need this document for the main activity.
For the challenge, go to the Scratch Website.
12 June 2020: Home Learning
Happy Friday everyone. Have a great weekend and don’t forget to send in any questions or comments about the home learning to your class teacher. What did you enjoy? What type of activities do you want to do more?
Year 5 Maths
Click on the link above for today’s starter.
Your learning for today is about adding 2 fractions where the answer could be greater than 1.
Year 6 Maths
It’s been a few weeks since we took our last arithmetic check. Here is the 2017 paper. Set your timer to thirty minutes and off you go. If there are any questions that you are struggling with, just e mail Mr Lindsay and he can dedicate a whole lesson to it next week. Have Fun!
Here are the answers so you can check how well you did.
Year 5/6 reading
Today we are using our reflective skills, and using the National lockdown as our subject. Watch this video and complete the tasks.
Why are we doing this?
It is important to talk share our thoughts and feelings about the current global pandemic and the different effects it has had on us as individuals. Use this lesson to talk honestly, and reflect upon the positive and negative impacts of your lives today. Maybe talking about some of your less favourite parts will open up ideas and opportunities to make them better!
Year 5/6 Spanish
Ola! Do you remember any Spanish? Have a go at this video from Oak National Academy.
11 June 2020: Home Learning
Happy Thursday! We are really pleased to see so many of you sending in your work. Remember to read for at least 20 minutes per day. You might want to send in your book reviews so that other people know which books to read.
Year 5 Maths
Click on the link above for today’s starter.
Your learning for today is about adding and subtracting fractions within 1.
Adding and subtracting fractions
Year 6 Maths
Here are the answers to yesterday’s problem solving activity.
For your starter, complete the 12 missing digit additions in your book. Remember to check your answers using an inverse calculation.
To complete our work on place value, play the Palace of Place Value levels on Guardians of Mathematica
Year 5/6 Reading
Have a go at this First News comprehension.
Year 5/6 Writing
Watch and complete this video lesson by Mr Catherall.
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.
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.
09 June 2020: Home Learning
Hi all
Yesterday, we asked for people to get in touch – a huge thank you to those of you who did. If you didn’t, that’s OK but we’d love to hear from you soon.
I thought I’d start Tuesday off with a joke…
Why did the kid throw her alarm clock out the window?
She wanted to see time fly!
HAHA! Get it? Classic joke. If you have a funny joke, send it to your class teacher. The more you laugh, the more you smile. The more you smile the happier you feel!
Here’s your learning for today…
Y5 Maths
Your learning for today is about converting improper fractions to mixed numbers.
Y6 Maths
As part of our place value review, today we are going to work with negative numbers. Read the information and watch the video to recap negative numbers. The task is a negative numbers crossword. -43 would take up three spaces. You could print the sheet or draw the crossword into your book. Remember to use the blank number line with the number 0 to help you solve the questions.
Y5,6 Reading
Watch and complete this video lesson by Mr Catherall.
You’ll need these questions Tuesday – activity for your main task. And, this link to the whole First News paper for the challenge.
Y5,6 Topic
Watch and complete this video lesson by Mr Catherall.
Have a great day!
08 June 2020: Home Learning
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:
- Stay connected – get in touch with friends and family (or your teachers!) for a chat; you’ll all feel better after.
- 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.
- 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
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.
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.
05 June 2020: Home Learning
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
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.
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.
We hope you all have a happy and healthy weekend!