Just To Keep You Going... Good morning, Year 6!

Welcome to the last day of JTKYG before the half-term break, so use all your energy on today’s work before collapsing in a heap. Today you will be writing your newspaper article about Corporal Punishment in Victorian schools; which side of the fence will you be on? Maths is all about dividing fractions by whole numbers; you will soon be experts in the mysterious ways of the fraction! There will be no Zoom class

meeting next week, so have a relaxing half-term break and we will see you all again soon. ☺

Year 6 Friday 22nd May

A) Salem House

Using your plan from yesterday write an article for a newspaper about the

use of the cane in schools and how you disagree with it. Conjunctions will

help your writing flow:

Remember your words could change the way people think...

B) Steerforth becomes a very good friend to Davy. There would not have been a radio or TV in early 1800s, so books were very popular. David entertains Steerforth. If you loved reading you were popular

because you could re-tell stories to friends to keep them entertained.

David was very popular as he had money to buy treats, was a good friend and he would get wonderful letters and parcels from Peggotty.

The cake and fruit she sent would be shared out by David and Steerforth for everyone to eat and enjoy.

Homophones: Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelt differently, and have different meanings.

David has written a story for Steerforth about Peregrine Pickle. However, he has got confused about the words he has used. Can you help him choose the correct words before Mr Creakle sees and canes him!

1. Peregrine Pickle loved to play where/wear the bridge overlooked the stream. 2. Peregrine put the flour/flower on top of the door so that the powder fell all over his mother. 3. Peregrine always created great/grate tricks to play on his friends. 4.The boys at school always played pranks on there/their teachers. 5. The head teacher fell down the whole/hole that the boys had dug. 6. Peregrine got the slipper and the 2 other boys did too/to. 7. Although the head had herd/heard them giggling he chose to ignore them.

There is an exemplar

article on the Feedback

page.

Puzzle of the Day Shape Shifting

Fill in the empty squares so that each row, column and long diagonal contains five

different symbols.

Maths—Fraction Action For your last lesson of this week of fraction action, we will be looking at dividing fractions by whole numbers. This completes all of the things you need to do with fractions in primary school as the treat of dividing fractions by fractions is saved for your secondary school teachers! Once again, understanding what is actually happening when we are dividing a fraction is much more helpful than just learning the rule and today’s video starts off with an explanation which you should find really useful. Our lesson today is in Year 6 Summer Term Week 4, Lesson 3, Divide Fractions by Integers. Click the link below to go to the site.

While the worksheets are no longer available on the website, we already have a school subscription so today’s worksheet is available on the next 2 pages. When you’re ready, give it a go! Don’t forget—If you do find the work tricky this week, feel free to have a look at the following video lessons on the White Rose home learning website first, which may help remind you of some of the maths we have done in school this year and build your confidence:

Year 5 Summer Term Week 4 Lessons 2 & 3 Equivalent Fractions and Converting Fractions Year 6 Summer Term Week 3 Lessons 1 & 2 Simplifying Fractions and Comparing Fractions

Worksheets are not available for all of them but follow the links to the BBC Bitesize

1. a + b = 7 What are all the possible whole number values of a and b? 2. What will the time be after three quarters of an hour?

3. What is 75% of £60? 4. Find the area of the parallelogram.

5. Multiply 3.28 by 9

Maths Continued

Maths Continued

Feedback Good morning, Year 6.

Below is an example of a newspaper piece about Corporal Punishment in Victorian schools. Read it through and use it as a template for your own writing, if you are having trouble getting started. The fractions answers are on the next two pages. Representing it visually really helps, doesn’t it?

Puzzle of the Day Gold & Silver

Every gold coin has a silver coin found horizontally or

vertically adjacent to it. No silver coin can be in an

adjacent square to another silver coin (even diagonally).

The numbers by each row and column tell you how many

silver coins there are. Can you locate them all?

1. What time is shown? 7:13 2. A square has a perimeter of 88cm. How long are the sides? 88 ÷ 4 = 22cm 3. Round 7.31 to the nearest integer. 7 4. What is 0.48 as a fraction in its simplest terms? 5. What does the flat part mean in this graph?

The thing that was travelling stopped.

The Dickens Times

The Cane By Mr Mell

‘I was scared to go to school!’ a former pupil of Salem House

insisted. Have you ever wondered why some children hate

going to school?

Corporal punishment is the use of the cane (or similar) in Victorian Schools.

This article looks at the reasons why teachers use it and the effect it has on

children.

Undoubtedly, the cane may stop bad behaviour and, in addition, it may make

the teacher feel powerful. The teachers can give a very quick punishment and

then the lesson may continue. Therefore, the use of the cane is not disruptive to

other’s learning.

Indeed, we don't know why some children act in a naughty way. It might be

because they are hungry or emotionally upset and drained; the cane may be

hurting them more than helping them and teaching them the wrong way to deal

with their problems.

Hitting a child is unethical; furthermore, it does not respect their rights as

humans. Also, if teachers cane children when they are young, will they receive

worse punishment when they are older? Without a doubt, children are being

taught that if they do wrong, they will get nothing but a whack. There must be

another way, clearly, to teach children that their behaviour was not

appropriate. What about sending children to the Head? When these children

grow up and commit more serious crimes will they expect the court to give them

a slap on the wrist and let them off?

I feel that corporal punishment only hurts our children and teaches them

violence. Teachers and society need to find a different form of punishment and

then perhaps more children will enjoy learning and going to school. After all

Florence Nightingale said, ‘How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.’

Maths

Maths

Before 1840, letters were stamped with ink and hand stamps to prove they had been paid for. Hand stamp

History: Postage Stamps In 1837, Rowland Hill (teacher and social reformer– yay!) invented the adhesive postage stamp, and in 1840, the first postage stamp in the world arrived– the Penny Black.

Who is this on the Penny Black?

Over the years, the Royal Mail has issued stamps of various sizes and values, and usually with the head of the reigning monarch on.

As well as the usu-al stamps, the

Royal Mail often issue stamps

commemorating special events or

people.

Let’s imagine you work for the Royal Mail and are in charge of designing a new set of

stamps to commemorate the social reformers that Britain has produced over the years.

Use last week’s history pages to help you decide who to include.

There will be 5 new stamps, each with a different value. First, choose the five reformers that you think had the most impact. The most expensive stamp will be the reformer that you think is the most important or influential to reform in Britain. The next expensive stamp will be the next most

important reformer, and so on…

On the next page, you will find the templates for your stamps. Remember to use colour and be as detailed as you

can in the design.

Philately Facts

Stamp-collecting became popular soon after the invention of the stamp. The world’s most expensive stamp is now worth £7.7 million!

£5

25p 50p £1

£3 Here are your postage stamp

templates.

Remember to copy your reformer

portraits as accurately as you can. You

want people to know who they

are.

If you include

their names,

you will be giving the

stamp-buying public a history

lesson as well!

We would love to see your finished stamps. It will be interesting to see

who you think the important

reformers were. Remember, it’s

your choice, there’s no right or

wrong here!

Little Cat Knitting Pattern Special feature from Sue!

For the body: Cast on 24 sts. Knit 48 rows. Bind off.

For the head: Cast on 14 sts. Knit 15 rows. Rows 16-19 Knit 2 together, knit to end. Rows 20-23 Knit 1, increase 1 (knit into the front and the back of the stitch), Knit to end. Rows 24-37 Knit. Bind off.

To help you: How to increase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWzpwSURUM

For the tail: Cast on 16 sts. Row 1: Knit Row 2: Knit 10, turn. Row 3: Knit Repeat rows 1-3, 3 times. Bind off.

Fold the head over and sew 2 of the seams. Add stuffing and sew the 3rd seam closed.

To make the ears look more defined, add a stitching line at the base.

Fold the tail in half and stitch closed.

Sew the tail and head on to the body.

To make the body:

1

2

3

William Morris Prints William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. He played an important role in bringing British textile art back into popularity. William was close friends with Pre-Raphaelite artists Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and with Neo-Gothic architect Philip Webb. In 1861, Morris founded the Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. decorative arts firm with some friends, amongst them Burne-Jones and Rossetti. Their products became highly fashionable and much in demand. The firm profoundly influenced interior decoration through-out the Victorian period, with Morris designing tapestries, wallpaper, fabrics, furniture, and stained glass windows. In 1875, he took over control of the com-pany, which was renamed Morris & Co. This company still exists today and you may recognise some of his patterns in everyday objects around your home, such as dinner plates, furniture and curtains.

William was the son of the wealthy owner of

the largest arsenic mine in Britain. He didn’t believe that

arsenic in wallpaper could harm people but we now know

that it definitely did!

Deadly Wallpapers

During the Victorian period, some wallpapers that included greens were made with a poisonous chemical called Arsenic. This could make people very ill, and some even died from it. It wasn’t just in wallpapers either, it was everywhere, even in food colouring! The Pre-Raphaelites also used it in their paintings, many of which you will know!

“I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few., or freedom for a few.” William Morris

While William was at university, he was

inspired by the art, music and culture of the medieval period and features of this

period began to appear in his various

creative activities. Some of his writings as an author helped to establish the modern

fantasy genre!

When William set up his own company, he made sure that his workers were paid fairly and worked in excellent conditions. He didn’t believe in mass pro-duction but in the skill of the individual craftsman.

DANGER!

Design your own wallpaper or wrapping paper William Morris wallpapers are famous for their repeating patterns and motifs.

Come up with your own motif and then use it, alongside the following steps, to create a wallpaper pattern that will endlessly repeat both vertically and horizontally. Use it to trace a repeating pattern onto a large piece of paper.

2. Fold your piece of paper exactly in half length ways. Put it face down on the table.

You will need:

- A piece of square plain paper

- A marker pen

- A pair of scissors

- Cellotape

- Coloured pens or pencils

- A second piece of larger paper

Handy Hint: Creating a square piece of paper.

You can create a square by tak-ing a piece of A4 paper and bringing one corner across to the opposite edge to make a triangle. Cut off the rectangular piece that is hanging over the edge to make your square. 1. Draw your pattern with at

least one main motif. Don’t worry about making it symmetrical but you can if you want to. Leave some blank space around the out side. Don’t touch the edges—this is important for the design to work.

3.Cut along this line and swap the two pieces over. Tape them back together. Make sure to tape on the back!

A motif in a pattern or design is a key element that is repeated. In William’s designs, motifs were often, flowers, leaves or fruit shapes.

For extra help, watch this video to see how it’s done. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HhtO0WrLAE

4.Turn your paper so that the vertical cut is now horizontal.

5. Repeat steps 2 and 3.

6. Fill in the blank space that will now be in the middle of your design.

Masterpiece Madness! There have been lots and lots of blogs, articles, websites and videos showing a new craze that is sweeping not just the nation, but the world...recreating a famous art masterpiece at home.

Music: The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Answers to Task 2:

Go online and find a painting that you really

like. Use clothes and objects to recreate it.

Why not try with

these famous

paintings:

The Mona Lisa

Whistler’s Mother

Christina’s World

The Sleeping Gypsy

Lady with an Ermine

The Girl with the

Pearl Earring

Arnolfini Portrait

American Gothic

Stay Active– GPS Art

Have a look at these pictures. They have all been ‘drawn’ by using a GPS tracking app while out getting exercise.

Your challenge this week is to get out either walking, cycling or running and create your very own GPS piece of artwork. What to do: Download a GPS tracking app onto a mobile device— please

ask your handy grown-up to assist! Take a close look at either Google Maps or even better an OS

map of your local area and plan a route carefully. You might need to use the scale to work out how far your picture will take you.

Set off on your walk, cycle or run. Take a screenshot when you’re done and send it in. You might need to refine your design and have a few goes—it’s

all good for you! PE, maths, geography and art all in one activity. We can’t wait to see what you create—have fun!

Science— Bicarb Balloons

This week, we’ve got a chemical reaction that might get a bit messy so please check with your responsible grown-up before you decide to have a go at this on the brand new cream carpet! You will need: Bicarbonate of soda Vinegar A bottle A balloon. What to do: Put some bicarbonate of soda in the balloon. Pour vinegar into the bottle Carefully attach balloon around the neck of the bottle When you’re ready, pour the bicarb from the balloon into the

bottle and watch the chemical reaction take place. What is the reaction that causes this? Could you use a glove instead of a balloon? What effect does changing the amount of vinegar or bicarb have? What effect does changing the size of the bottle have? Challenge Time Can you use what you’ve learned to make a plastic bottle into a rocket using bicarb and vinegar? We’d love to see videos of your results!

It’s Still Competition Time!

Don’t forget the art and creative writing competitions are still running. See last week’s JTKUG for details of both.