Year 6

If you’re working from home, follow the instructions below for links, tasks and information so that you can complete similar work to what we’re doing in school. If you need any help, log-ins or further information, please shout up!

My group’s spellings: amateur, sufficient, sacrifice, disastrous, restaurant, conscience, necessary, signature, secretary, prejudice, interest, mention and occasion.

Mrs Howard/Miss Godfrey’s group’s spellings: ease, tease, please, rise, noise, browse, cheese, pause, blouse and because.

English: Read for at least 15 minutes per day and clarify any unknown words. We will be looking at words that include ‘ough’. Complete these activities and then choose some games here. We will be looking at the features of reports before writing our own about Lohmann Brown chickens next week. Start your research using this website so that you can be an expert on how to look after our girls. There is a lot of information. Use the blue sub-sections on the right-hand side and be sure to check out the ‘How to keep chickens’, ‘Chicken Houses’, ‘Health’ and ‘Predators’ sections at the very least 🐔.

Maths: We need some more time on subtraction so I’d like you to follow this link and complete lessons 8, 9 and 10.

Science: Follow the instructions on the video.

Geography: Can you still locate Greece on a map of Europe? Which other countries can you locate on a world map? We are going to be looking at the physical geography of Greece this week. Can you remember what a biome is from your Y3 learning? If not, there is a handy link here. Can you find out what the terrain and elevation of Greece is like? Which animals are native to Greece? What are the bodies of water in and around Greece? Find out as much as you can and create a fact file of your research.

RE: This week, we will be looking at our responsibilities as caretakers of the Earth. Are we as humans doing a good job? Make a list of all of the good things humans are doing for our world and then make another list of the ways that humans are destroying it. Can you think of one thing you are going to change right now?

PE: Choose a PE with Joe to complete.

You could also watch Newsround, play Hit the Button, Sumdog, Education City and go on Read Theory. Send us a message to let us know how you’re getting on!

If you’re working at home this week (or want to do a little bit extra), see below!

My group’s spellings: sincere, relevant, guarantee, leisure, marvellous, bargain, yacht, awkward, committee, accommodate, disappear, eighth, and February.

Mrs Howard/Miss Godfrey’s group’s spellings: house, mouse, grouse, grease, cease, crease, horse, gorse, purse and curse.

English: Read for at least 15 minutes per day and clarify any unknown words. Please also complete the activities for Active and passive verbs.

Maths: Lessons 8, 9 and 10.

Science: Follow the instructions on the video

Geography: Can you locate Greece on a map of Europe? What is Greece’s climate? Can you find out the name of some popular Greek holiday destinations? Can you name any of the major cities in Greece? What is the terrain like? This link will help.

RE: This week, we will be looking at the scientific view of creation. Can you find out 10 facts about the Big Bang Theory? This website will help.

PE: Choose a PE with Joe to complete.

You could also watch Newsround, play Hit the Button, Sumdog, Education City and go on Read Theory. Send us a message to let us know how you’re getting on!

Are you working from home this week? Here are some ideas which are similar to those we are working on in school that you might want to spend some time on.

Spelling: We are currently working on strengthening our visual memories and any of these games will help (and they’re lots of fun too!).

• Pelmanism
• Tricky cups
• Memory Puzzles
• Can you fill your own gaps in the Year 3/4 or 5/6 words? Ask an adult to test you and then practise them in the usual way!

Maths: Follow the links

• Lesson 1
• Lesson 2
• CLIC/SAFE/Learn Its

English: Read for 15 minutes each day and record any words you needed to clarify with a definition.  We will be writing a narrative based on ‘The Discontented Fish’. I’d like you to change the main character to a pupil starting in Y7 who goes from being a big ‘fish’ in Y6 to a little ‘fish’ in the new secondary school. Think carefully about sentence structure and punctuation, please!

PE: Choose a PE with Joe to complete.

Topic: This week we will be recapping our geography skills by locating Greece and all of the other countries you have studied over the years. Think back over all of the topics you have studied at school. Which places can you locate? I’d be highly impressed if you could locate all of the continents as well as Egypt, Brazil, Germany, Baghdad, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Italy!

Science: Please follow the instructions on the video.

You could also watch Newsround, play Hit the Button, Sumdog, Education City and go on Read Theory. Send us a message to let us know how you’re getting on!

Here is a brief summary of some of the things you can be working on at home if you’re not able to be in school this week.

Spelling: We are currently working on strengthening our visual memories and any of these games will help (and they’re lots of fun too!).

• Pelmanism
• Tricky cups
• Memory Puzzles
• Can you fill your own gaps in the Year 3/4 or 5/6 words? Ask an adult to test you and then practise them in the usual way!

Maths: Follow the links

• Lesson 1
• Lesson 2
• CLIC/SAFE/Learn Its

English: Read for 15 minutes each day and record any words you needed to clarify with a definition. Complete as many of these lessons as you can.

PE: Choose a PE with Joe to complete.

History: Think back over all of the history topics you have studied at school. Which important dates can you remember? Could you put them in chronological order? If you can, make yourself a timeline of key dates. If you can’t remember, do some research and then create a timeline!

Science: Please follow the instructions on the video.

RE: Think about how the world was created. What do you believe happened? This link will help you to remember the story of creation from the Bible. Write a paragraph to explain what you think happened.

You could also watch Newsround, play Hit the Button, Sumdog, Education City and go on Read Theory.

Please leave a message to let us know how you’re getting on or if you need anything 🙂

Hello Year 6 😊 As a couple of you are at home at the moment, I thought I’d pop some ideas and links on here for you to work on if you’re able to! I will update each week so that you have similar activities to what we’re working on in school. From Monday, there will also be resources on Teams for you but don’t worry about that too much right now as there’s plenty here for you to get your teeth into!

Spelling: We are currently working on strengthening our visual memories and any of these games will help (and they’re lots of fun too!).

• Pelmanism
• Tricky cups
• Memory Puzzles
• Can you fill your own gaps in the Year 3/4 or 5/6 words? Ask an adult to test you and then practise them in the usual way!

Maths: This week, we are focusing on sharpening our mental recall and becoming super-speedy again with times tables facts. Hit the button is always a favourite or we still have access to some games on Sumdog. You can also go on Education City (choose any activities you fancy this week). Friday is CLIC/SAFE/Learn Its day so complete them online using the same login details as last year.

English: Please read your reading book for at least 15 minutes each day and remember to clarify any words you’re not sure of. You can also access Read Theory using last year’s login details.

Topic: Please follow the instructions on the video.

Science: Please follow the instructions on the video.

RE: Last week, we started thinking about how awesome our world is. We looked at the natural world and will eventually be investigating different people’s beliefs about creation and our responsibilities as humans to protect our world. This week, write ten big questions that you would ask someone who has all of the answers. They might be questions that no-one currently has (or will ever have) the answer to. For example, Why don’t stars talk? Why is the sky blue? Why do humans make the same mistakes? Do spiders feel love? What will my future be?

Try to watch Newsround every day.

Post us a message on the blog.

I’m hoping that’s plenty to be getting on with for this week but if you want more, post me a message and let me know! If you need any login details re-sending, let me know too! See you soon 😊

Just in case you want a few activities over the summer, Briony has some ideas that you might like to complete. Here is the first one…

Create a personal lockdown timeline.

Think back all the way through from when we had our practise Teams meeting all the way through to today.

Last day, lovely Year 6s! Hopefully, you watched the end of term service last night but if not, you can watch it here. You were all absolute superstars!! 💖

Here are your tasks for today. All of them are explained in further detail in today’s Notebook. 

• You guessed it….post a message on here to tell us what your favourite part of this week has been.
• Make a plan for the summer holidays.
• Say goodbye to your Priory teachers @11am.
• Class novel meeting at 1pm: We know that Charice has been defeated but how will our friends in the tower fare?
• Online Good News straight after class novel.

My goodbye to you is here.

You have all earned yourself a well-deserved break. I am so proud of you for a million different reasons. Please check back in regularly to let me know how you are all getting on – over the summer but long into the future as well. I mean this with 100% of my heart: you will ALWAYS be a part of our Priory Family 💖

🌈 Stay safe and stand strong my little sunbeams 🌈