Year 6 – Summer 2nd Half Term Week 1 Hello to you all. We hope that you have had a restful half-term and are looking forward to receiving some more tasks, challenges and activities to you through the coming days and weeks. Below we have set out daily mathematics and English work followed by some topic choices. English The home learning tasks for English this half term will look a little bit different to the way they have been presented in previous weeks. You should now have completed all of the tasks in the revision guides that we sent home – Please keep the revision guides safe, as we will be collecting those back in; as soon as it is safe to do so. The theme for this week’s English work is a short video clip called ‘The Lighthouse’ You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HfBbSUORvo&feature=youtu.be

MONDAY Task 1 - SPAG see SPAG MAT Task 2 - Reading Comprehension - Diary from the Beagle – read the text, and answer the questions

TUESDAY Watch this video that has been created by 2 younger children. https://www.literacyshed.com/uploads/1/2/5/7/12572836/the_lighthouse_by_alfie_and_will_on_vimeo_579.mp4 Today’s task is to use this idea, but write an improved version of the retelling of the story. Use the DADWAVERS sheet to give you some ideas of how to open your sentences in different ways. Re-tell the story on paper. Use as much imaginative vocabulary as you can – remember to include AS MUCH of the Year 6 writing checklist within your writing. Remember that the example has been made by children who are NOT in Year 6, so yours needs to be much more detailed than this one!

WEDNESDAY

Create your own iMovie or PowerPoint in a similar style as the one you watched yesterday. We are looking for the most imaginative/ creative ways of presenting your retell of the story – ensuring that you use all of the fabulous vocabulary, and evidence from the Year 6 writing checklist. Send your video/ PowerPoint to the Year 6 email address for us to judge. crowleesyear6@kirkleeseducation.uk We will choose our favourite video/ PowerPoint from each class; the winning one from each class will be posted on the school website.

THURSDAY

Plan a newspaper article to report on the events that happened in ‘The Lighthouse’. Use the newspaper resource to help you with your ideas. Plan the newspaper, using the 5 Ws on the planning sheet. Write an effective first paragraph for your newspaper report, hooking your reader in with your vocabulary. Think about the quotes which could be used in your report. Write your newspaper in draft form. You will edit and redraft tomorrow.

FRIDAY Read through the newspaper article that you wrote yesterday. Check for spelling, grammar and punctuation errors. Can you improve anything about your sentence structure (check alongside the Year 6 Writing checklist)? Copy up your newspaper, so that it LOOKS like a newspaper article – use columns, a catchy headline, pictures, captions etc. You could type up your newspaper if you prefer. We would love to see your finished work from this week – you could email it to us, or upload it to Seesaw. crowleesyear6@kirkleeseducation.uk

Maths Our last maths lessons in school were learning about ratio- therefore, now you have completed the revision guides, this is a logical place to start our learning from. Ratios are simply a way to compare numbers or quantities. They tell us how much there is of one thing compared to another. To find the resources mentioned in the timetable below, please visit the Whiterose website, locate the year 6 area and click week 1. Please only look at week 1 home learning- do not go onto other weeks learning. For each day you need to watch the video, complete the activity and then finally check your answers. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/

Home learning

Year 6

Week 1

Lesson 1

MONDAY Week 1, Lesson 1: Using ratio language

TUESDAY Week 1, Lesson 2: Ratio and Fractions

WEDNESDAY Week 1, Lesson 3: Using the Ratio symbol

THURSDAY Week 1, Lesson 4: Calculating ratio

FRIDAY Week 1, Lesson 5: Using scale factors.

Additional useful ratio websites: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsq7hyc https://mathsnacks.com/ratio-rumble.html Feeling confident? Why not try the mathsframe interactive quiz or the ‘Pumpkin Pie Problem’ challenge below (see end of this document). Username and password: crowlees https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/380/Y6-Ratio-and-Proportion-Interactive-Quiz

Other curriculum areas Science – Task 1 How does a tree drink? This is a task (attached along with this) sent by the Cliffe House team that we thought that you would enjoy completing. Don’t forget to send us your photos on SeeSaw or via email. French https://www.thefrenchexperiment.com/stories/petitchaperonrouge

Play the video and listen to the story of Little Red Riding Hood in French. Try and work out what the words mean by listening to the French.

(If you scroll down the page, you can look at the words in French. You can check if you are right by clicking the translate button).

Music https://www.nyphilkids.org/ypc-play/mendelssohn.php

Watch the interactive video ‘The two worlds of A Midsummer Night’s dream’.

Listen to the music and think about which theme represents the humans and which the fairies. Pause the video at 1:19 and write why you have made that choice. Try and use musical vocabulary to explain your choices (use the box underneath to help you).

Answer the questions on the video with the help of the vocabulary box. Musical Vocabulary: Tempo – how quick or slow the music is Pitch – how high or low the notes are Timbre – the quality of the sound Dynamics – how loud or quiet the music is

Watch the next video ‘Music traits of two worlds’.

Think about the questions in the video. They will help you think about the music in more detail.

Try and answer them as best you can using the musical terms from the video. Cliffe House Activities Cliffe House have planned 2 activities that you might like to try:

Making fruity flapjack (see separate PDF for recipe)

Make a bird box (see separate PDF for instructions) Remember to send us a picture (by email crowleesyear6@kirkleeseducation.uk or post your pictures on Seesaw) of the wonderful things that you make.

Canals & River Trust Some lovely ideas on this website… https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/explorers/learning-from-home

Ratio Challenge: Pumpkin Pie Problem Peter, the pumpkin eater, wanted to make two pies for a party. His mother, a professional pie

maker, had a recipe for him to use. However, she always made 80 pies at a time. She used:

10 dozen eggs

27 litres of condensed milk

480 tablespoons of sugar

100 teaspoons of cinnamon

140 cups of pumpkin

Peter looked in the cupboard and found:

4 cups of pumpkin

2 eggs

112 teaspoons of cinnamon

23 of a litre of condensed milk

15 tablespoons of sugar

Did Peter have enough ingredients to make two pumpkin pies for the party or did he need to buy more?

Answer can be found: https://nrich.maths.org/1026/solution