04 May 2020: Home Learning
Good morning.
We hope you’ve had a good weekend and that you’re ready for a new week of home learning. There will be a lot more video lessons this week so we hope you have been enjoying them.
Make sure you all look at the year 5/6 class news page. We update it regularly with messages, news and photographs of your work. Have a look at Mr Catherall’s quiz from last Friday – it’s great fun!
Here is your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths
Your learning today is multiplication
Year 6 Maths
May the fourth be with you.
Time to dust off your CGP books and complete a few of those stray activities.
Today, I have two tasks: Angle rules on page 68/69 and mixed practice on page 8/9
Don’t forget to use the guidance book for support. If you can’t find your book, then email your Mr Lindsay and he will send you a copy of the work.
Year 5/6 Reading
Watch this video – Hobbit Retrieval lesson
Also, using this word document The Hobbit Opening extract might make reading the text easier for some of you.
Year 5/6 Living and learning
‘I can describe and use ways to calm down.’
Living and learning
Task: Create a spider diagram of methods you use to calm down.
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.
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.
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
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
24 April 2020: Home Learning
Hi everyone
Well done on almost finishing your first week back at ‘school’. I’ve spoken to loads of people this week and they all said they had enjoyed getting back into the routine of learning from home. If you haven’t already, make sure you check out the following pages from our school website:
Our class news page has some video messages from teachers and the most recent entrants into the Hall of (home learning) Fame #HoHLF.
The latest news section of our website has a daily update from Mr Roundtree that contains loads of useful tips and information.
On Wednesday, we prompted you to check out BBC Bitesize. If you haven’t, make sure you do. They have loads of great resources including some daily lessons across a range of subjects. We think they’re really useful to supplement our home learning tasks.
Here’s your home learning for today…
Y5 maths task
Answers from yesterday:
Pond = approximately 9m²
Starter
Challenge yourself on Times Table Rockstars!
Your learning today is area.
Draw your own ‘Pirate Island’ to be used as part of a treasure map for a new game. Each square represents 4m². Draw lines to turn the page in your book into squares (imagine a maths book)
The island must include the following features and be of the approximate measure:
Circular Island 180m²
Oval Lake 58m²
Forests with a total area of 63m² (can be split over more than one space)
Beaches with a total area of 92m²
Mountains with a total area of 57m²
Rocky coastline with a total area of 25m²
Send some photos to your teacher to show us your amazing islands!
Y6 maths task
Answers for yesterday – provided by Lucy
There are 10 different ways.
The largest route is 2x7x3x6x2 = 504
The smallest route is 0.1×3=0.3
Your learning today is arithmetic.
Are you arithmetic skills still sharp? Answer these in your exercise book.
Y5/6 reading task
Your reading today is a little bit different! As you all know, we’re living through something that will go down in history for our children and children’s children to learn about!
Today’s task is to create a time capsule to record a snapshot of what is happening at the minute, how people are feeling and what we’re all getting up to in these strange times. The idea is that you bury or keep your time capsule somewhere hidden and then dig it up or look through it again in a number of years eg 2030, a decade after this famous year.
First, you must read this ‘How To’ guide.
Finally, click here to see what the time capsule could look like. Feel free to print this one (don’t worry if you can’t), copy some of the things down into your home learning book, or change or adapt it to create your own. It’d be great to complete this with your family so everybody’s feelings and thoughts are captured!
Challenge
Improve your time capsule by adding in other objects such as photos, games or a newspaper! You could even make your own box (although an old shoe box works just fine).
Y5/6 writing task
Watch the videos about top tips for writing short stories. Choose one or two tips to help improve your story about Alice from yesterday. Rewrite a paragraph or even the whole story based on the top tips.
Evaluate your writing – you don’t even need to use a purple pen. What did you change? What impact did it have? How have you made it even more exciting?
23 April 2020: Home Learning
Hey everyone
I hope you’re all well and have managed to settle back into the ‘school’ routine. If you haven’t already, check out my top tips video for thriving over the coming weeks on our class news page. Speaking of class news, have you been checking it much? Your class teacher may have posted some images of other people learning, or even a little message to stay connected.
Here’s your home learning for today…
Year 5 maths task
Answers from yesterday:
Shape 1- 30m²
Shape 2- 75m²
Shape 3- 68cm²
Starter
Create your own 6-digit column addition sums and answer them.
Your learning today is area.
Estimate the area of the pond. Each square= 1m²
Look at the shapes below. Each square= 1m². Which do you think has the greatest area and explain your answer.
Challenge
Design your own golf course where each square represents 3m². Then work out the area of some of your features e.g. a lake, forest area.
Year 6 maths task
Answers from yesterday:
Answers Working backwards (Use the inverse)
Your learning today is to multiply whole numbers and decimals
Before the holidays, we set a Route product task then challenged you to design one of your own. Lucy rose to the challenge and sent us her puzzle. Today’s task is to solve Lucy’s puzzle.
Challenge
Lucy left two of the lines without values. Choose your own numbers to go here and calculate 5 more route products.
Year 5/6 reading task
Your learning today is all about the writer’s choice of language and the specific vocabulary they use.
First, reread the text we’ve been reading this week. Then, answer the questions. But! There’s a twist! Once you’ve worked out the answer to each question, you must then find it in the word search on the page underneath!
Challenge
Choose a synonym that the writer could have used for each question. Even better if you discuss your reasons why with someone at home or prepare your own reasons and write them in your home learning book.
Year 5/6 writing task
Here is the opening to a story.
She pulled down on the chain with her left hand, steering herself towards her target. It was supposed to be the most exciting birthday present ever; a hot air balloon ride. However, Alice had been hanging on for dear life for over 100KM (since the basket of the hot air balloon had fallen off). She was now getting used to steering the huge balloon by manoeuvring her body, leaning to the left or to the right.
Terrified yet excited at the same time, Alice could just about make out her house and garden far below. It was the one surrounded by trees straight ahead, wasn’t it?
She took a deep breath and focused…
Continue the story about Alice and the hot air balloon. Will she reach the ground safely? Is that really her house? Will she land in the right garden?
22 April 2020: Home Learning
Good morning. We hope you are all staying happy and healthy and excited to see what home learning we have put in place for today. Have a look at the Class News page to see a video from Mr Catherall. He is giving some great tips on how to stay well during lockdown. Don’t forget that there are some great resources online that you can access too. The BBC offer some great programmes, videos and lessons that might inspire you. Have a look on the link below to see what’s available.
Here is your learning for today…
Year 5 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
2.180cm²
Starter
Choose a sum from a times tables. Write down the associated division facts for each one. Repeat for other sums.
3 x 4= 12 12 ÷ 4 = 3
Your learning today is area.
How could you calculate the area of these compound shapes? Can you split the shapes into 2 rectangles? What is the area of each?
Draw some of your own compound shapes and calculate the area.
Challenge
Find out as many ways as you can to find the area of this shape.
Year 6 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
| 1)3 Zids and 4 Zods
2) The 5 possible ways of making 140 are: 28 Zids 21 Zids and 5 Zods 14 Zids and 10 Zods 7 Zids and 15 Zods 20 Zods |
Your learning today is working backwards.
Today, we’re practicing working backwards to solve I’m thinking of a number puzzles.
Working backwards (Use the inverse)
Challenge
Design some of your own similar questions. If you email them to us, we can choose some for everyone to complete next week.
Year 5/6 Reading Task
Answers from yesterday:
Answers for Tuesday’s retrieval questions
Your learning today is inference and interpret.
Skim over the text from Monday and Tuesday to remind yourself about it. All of today’s questions are about this text.
Now, answer the inference questions.
Wednesday – inference questions
For a challenge, imagine you are Mary and you are trapped in the cave. You don’t have any mobile reception but you manage to log on to the cave next door’s WiFi and so you can send an email. Choose someone to email asking for help. This could be her husband, her sister orher best friend.
PS I’m aware that if you were on the WiFi you could also send a message or Facetime etc –but an email made for better learning!
Year 5/6 Writing Task
21 April 2020: Home Learning
Good morning. Hope you had a good sleep last night and that you’re ready for your learning today. Remember to get outside for some fresh air too – this is just as important for you and your mental health.
Your learning for today is…
Year 5 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
- 58cm
- 34cm
- 70cm
Challenge
14.2cm
Starter
Write down as many number facts that you know about 1,092. Think about addition and subtraction calculations, partitioning, multiplication and division, part-whole models.
Your learning today is area.
To calculate the area of a rectangle or a square, multiply the height by the width.
- How many rectangles can you draw with an area of 24cm²?
- Mo buys a house with a small back garden, which has an area of 12m². His house lies in a row of terraces, all identical. If there are 15 terraced houses altogether, what is the total area of the garden space?
Challenge
Year 6 Maths Task
Answers from yesterday:
Solve puzzles
Today’s maths is a problem solving task that uses times table facts and mental addition.
Problem solving – Zids and Zods
Challenge
How many different solutions can you find?
How do you know you’ve found them all?
Year 5/6 Reading Task
Your learning today is retrieval.
First of all, you should re-read the text from yesterday (The Cave).
Next, you should answer the retrieval questions.
For a challenge, create your own retrieval questions for someone in your house, or even better someone in your class, to have a go at – remember that you’ll need to know the answer so you can check if they’re right or not.
Year 5/6 Writing Task
Re watch the video from yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-45TbOGadro
Read your work from yesterday. ChARM it! Check for punctuation errors, missing words and sense. Add more to a sentence or paragraph. Remove anything that you don’t like. Move a clause, phrase, word or sentence to improve the flow of your work.
Now, publish your work by rewriting in your best handwriting and sending it to your teacher to add to our Class News page.