Year 6 Topic Home Learning beginning Friday 8th January – Friday 15th January Remember to upload any completed homework that we ask for to your class Teams Channel -Completed Assignments or email us at

year6@colindale.barnetmail.net. Don’t forget to ask any questions you might have.

Subject Objective Activity and Resources

Science Understand what makes something living

Can you think what all of these things have in common?

Do you know what MRS GREN stands for?

Read the information in the SCIENCE RESOURCE SHEET below to find out more about MRS GREN. TASK: Complete the worksheet or make your own poster/ fact sheet showing what you have learnt about MRS GREN. Extra links: 7 Characteristics of Life - Mrs Gren - Mrs Nerg - BBC Curriculum Bites - YouTube https://youtu.be/3p47bGlZuDA (Living or Non-Living?)

What makes something living? MRS GREN (or MRS NERG) is an attempt to try and define the characteristics unique to living organisms (living things) and these are: movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition.

Science Resource

Complete the worksheet or make your own poster/ fact sheet showing what you have learnt about MRS GREN.

Art

Describe and record visual information

about butterflies

Butterfly Art Look at the butterfly painting below by Salvador Dali, who is a very famous artist. This odd painting shows two butterflies hovering in what appears to be a desert environment. They look somewhat static, as if they are not even fluttering their wings. A strong light source is coming from the upper right, casting shadows from the butterflies below them, as well as casting a long shadow from the stone-like wall behind them. Perhaps Dali is painting this captured moment simply as a sort of dream. The landscape with distant horizon appears to be mostly empty other than this wall and the butterflies. Tasks: -Read the various questions and think carefully about your answers. Write your answers around the picture. -Choose two different pictures of butterflies and write lots of descriptive words and phrases around them describing the difference in shapes, patterns and colours. What are the differences? What are the similarities?

Art Resoure Sheet

Write all your ideas around this picture ‘brainstorming’ your ideas. Write as many words and phrases that you can think of.

Art Resoure Sheet

Choose 2 different pictures and write descriptive words and phrases about each butterfly. You can cut and paste them onto a new document or print and cut them out.

Computing Identify ways to keep personal information secure Purple Mash – Message in a Game

Log onto Purple Mash and play the Online Safety Game https://www.purplemash.com/#app/games/2diy/online_safety_game The first activity today is to play a game where online risks and safety features are represented by symbols. To win the game you need to collect all the safe symbols and avoid the risks. There are eight risks and 8 safety features. You should work out what all the 16 symbols are and what they represent to determine whether they are good or bad to online safety Save your work when you have finished. (The game has been assigned for you to complete and hand in by Friday 15th January) No internet access: See the Computing Resource Sheet below

COMPUTING RESOURCE SHEET

PSHE Understand that finance is important to people’s lives

‘What are the links between jobs and money?’

What is a job? Why do people work? Why do people chose their job? Does money influence people’s job choices? What is the difference between full time and part time? Do some jobs pay more than others? You can watch a video here: https://natwest.mymoneysense.com/teachers/resources-8-12s/topic-4-what-are-the-links-between-jobs-and-money/ Think about the factors (things) that people might consider when picking a job. What challenges might they face? Discuss your thoughts and ideas with an adult in your household then write them down. You can take a picture or send them in to your teacher.

RE What current global issues do you know about?

What does global mean? What is a global issue?

What different global issues can you think of? What is the main issue that is affecting the world at the moment? Read the information in the RE RESOURCE SHEET below. Think about the information you have read and discuss any concerns or worries that you have with an adult or with your teacher. Optional Task: Make a poster explaining how to keep safe and how to follow the rules.

Geography What is a rainforest?

What is a rainforest? Carefully read the information about rainforests using the information in the GEOGRAPHY RESOURCE SHEETs below. Answer the questions about the Rainforests. What else can you find out? Do your own research and write about what you have found out. Other links: You can watch this David Attenborough video about rainforests here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b083wt7z/planet-earth-ii-3-jungles# Here are more websites: https://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/rainforest-habitats http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/rainforest.html

Geography RESOURCE SHEET

What else can you find out about rainforests? What is ‘precipitation’?

Do your own research online or from books, if you have any, and write about what you found out.