Year 6 2024 - 2025
Friday 10th January 2025
Good morning,
Happy Friday! What a strange week it has been for the first week of term. We both wanted to say a huge thank you to all of our Y6 pupils and their families for being so understanding while it hasn’t been possible for us to be in school. We’ve put together a variety of activities for you to complete. There is no expectation to complete everything as we are trying to provide a mixture of on and offline activities for you to do. We are really hopeful that we will be welcoming you back to school on Monday. In the meantime, have a super day today and for the weekend ahead. Please note, there are four worksheets available for today saved under 'files to download' right at the bottom of the page.
Maths: Login to TTrockstars. Spend at least 10 minutes improving the recall of your multiplication facts. It has been good to see more green on your individual heat maps. Can you set yourself a challenge and improve your rock star status?
Investigate how many different products can you make if you only have the following digit cards and can only use them once? You may need to use written methods of multiplication here, for instance you could do 3 x 7 or combine them to do 278 x 3 or even 38 x 27.
Revise the order of operations using BBC Bitesize. Watch the video clip and attempt the activities and quiz. What is the order of operations? - BBC Bitesize
If you are able to access the Oak Academy lessons today, today we recommend looking at the following lesson which is all about fractions: Explain how to compare non-related fractions finding equivalent fractions with common denominators | Oak National Academy
We do encourage you to complete the start and end quizzes and pause or rewind the video if you need to.
Reading
Find a comfortable place, perhaps curled up on the sofa with a hot chocolate, and enjoy plenty of time reading for pleasure or listening to an audiobook. What did you read? What happened? What did you find out? Record this in your organiser.
Spelling
Use this online game to practice those tricky spellings: Look, Cover, Write, Check- mobile friendly
The following online lesson will help remind you of the words we’ve previously studied that contain ‘ei’ Spelling words with the 'ee' sound spelt 'ei' | Oak National Academy
Alternatively, if you can’t get online, search through the word lists at the back of your organiser and practice how to spell all the words which contain the ‘ei’ grapheme.
Grammar
Today you have been set a ‘to do’ on Purple Mash. If you login, you will see there is a task related to antonyms and synonyms which we revised yesterday. If you are unable to do this, please design a poster that explains what they are and provides lots of illustrated examples.
Writing
Yesterday, we improved a piece of Mrs. Walker’s atmospheric writing. Today, we would like you to have a go at creating atmosphere by writing a DASH! paragraph. The PowerPoint we have provided takes you through this creative writing process, step-by-step. We’d love to see your descriptive writing, so do send us a photo of your final draft.
French
Revise the numbers to 100 and practice counting in French. There are lots of resources online to help with this. Then see if you can complete the activity below. The worksheet is also saved under 'files to download' at the very bottom of the page.
Art
Our next unit of work will involve creating sculptures taking inspiration from Antoni Gaudi, who very famously designed buildings, including the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. We would like you to take a piece of paper and either fill it with lots of little ‘house’ sketches or create an entire streetscape. See the images below to help you visualise what to do or follow the step-by-step guide after those. We’d love to see photos of your work!
Thursday 9th January 2025
Good Morning,
As you will now be aware, school will now remain closed for the remainder of the week to ensure that we all stay safe in the snow and icy conditions which persist. We are really looking forward to welcoming you back to school on Monday 13th January. In the meantime, please continue to complete the suggested activities which we post on both the class webpage and teams. It was lovely to see some fantastic examples of instructional writing yesterday that were attached to the assignment online and also some excellent shape work. Well done! We are awarding dojos for all your hard work. Please note, the area/perimeter and the 'ie' spelling worksheets are saved right at the bottom of the page under 'Files to Download'. Thank you everyone!
Maths
Login to TTrockstars. Spend at least 20 minutes improving the recall of your multiplication facts. Lots of you are putting in plenty of practice minutes – great stuff!
If you managed the rounding lesson on Oak Academy, very well done. If you want to keep your rounding skills sharp, you can practice using the following online game: Rocket Rounding
If you want to extend your rounding skills, you could try to solve the following rounding problems based on the length of some rivers in the UK? Take care – the units of measurement do change.
- The River Mersey has a length of approximately 112 km. What is the length of the River Mersey rounded to the nearest 10 km?
- The River Wye is around 215 km long. What is the length of the River Wye rounded to the nearest 10 km?
- The River Severn is about 354 km long. What is the length of the River Severn rounded to the nearest 100 km?
- The River Clyde is about 106 miles long. What is the length of the River Clyde rounded to the nearest 100 miles?
- The River Trent is 298,100 metres long. What is the length of the River Trent rounded to the nearest 10, 000 metres?
- The River Shannon in Ireland is about 386,000 metres long. What is the length of the River Shannon rounded to the nearest 10,000 metres?
We are going to continue to explore shape in our online learning from Oak Academy today, revising the concepts of area and perimeter in an investigative lesson: Shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters and vice versa | Oak National Academy We would encourage you to complete the start and end quiz and pause or rewind the video if you need to. For the last question on the worksheet, it is still ok to use square units, through you could try a different shape, such as triangles if you wish.
Reading
Find a comfortable place, perhaps curled up on the sofa with a hot chocolate, and enjoy plenty of time reading for pleasure or listening to an audiobook. What did you read? What happened? What did you find out? Record this in your organiser.
Spelling
Use this online game to practice those tricky spellings.
Look, Cover, Write, Check- mobile friendly
The following online lesson will help remind you of the words we’ve previously studied that contain ‘ie’
Lesson: Spelling words with the 'ee' sound spelt 'ie' | KS2 English | Oak National Academy
Alternatively, if you can’t get online, search through the word lists at the back of your organiser and practice how to spell all the words which contain the ‘ie’ grapheme.
Grammar
Use the BBC bitesize website to learn about synonyms and antonyms.
What are synonyms and what are antonyms? - BBC Bitesize
Watch the video and complete the activities. Instead of activity 3 you might like to draw and colour a large rainbow and write 5 synonyms for each different colour in each arc, e.g. crimson in the red section, emerald in the green section. Dojos will be awarded here for creativity, presentation and synonym selections.
Writing
When we return to school, we will be examining how authors create atmospheric setting descriptions.
Mrs Walker had a go at creating a scene description of a busy streetscape from the point of view of a lost and abandoned teddy. Can you rewrite the passage by finding a suitable synonym to replace and improve the words in bold? Can you draw a picture of the scene from your improved description?
Lying on a wet pavement, a teddy bear stared at the busy world around it. Its fur, once fluffy, was now dirty and tangled, clinging to its stuffing. Shoppers with heavy bags rushed past, their faces stern and distant. Cars honked their horns loudly, the sound echoing off the tall buildings towering overhead. A child’s cry rang out, but it wasn’t for the bear—it had been left behind long ago. A cold breeze pushed a faded sweet wrapper along the ground, joining a soggy, crumpled newspaper and a dented drinks can near the teddy. Overhead, the grey sky mirrored the bear’s gloomy state. Nobody stopped or even looked. The city had never felt more scary for the lost teddy.
PSHE
At this time of year, some people like to make some New Year’s resolutions. These are little promises that you may make to yourself to try and do something good or helpful at the start of the year. It’s like setting a goal to make your life a little better or to learn something new. For example, you might decide to eat more healthy food, be more active, be kinder to others, make a new friend, do your homework without being asked, or spend more time playing with your siblings. Resolutions are a chance to think about what makes you happy and what could make your days even more exciting or fun. They’re not rules you have to follow perfectly, but more like little steps to help you grow and feel proud of yourself. Making some New Year’s resolutions can be a great way to start the year with a big smile and lots of hope for what’s ahead!
With this in mind, create a poster to illustrate some of the ways that you could ‘Be Ambitious’ for the year ahead. Dojos will be awarded for creativity!
What goals do you have for the year ahead? What would you like to accomplish or achieve? What new skills would you like to acquire? What little steps could you take in order to have a big, positive impact on the year ahead?
P.E.
Why not take regular movement breaks throughout the day? We have attached a fitness alphabet so that you can squeeze in workouts at home by spelling your name, an inspirational word, a word linked to the learning today, or even the longest word you can find on a page in your reading book! The possibilities are endless. Please feel free to adapt the task if it is too long or too difficult. I know I will need to do a 20 second plank for example, not a 2 minute one!
Wednesday 8th January 2025
Good morning,
What a start to the new school year! We hope you are keeping safe and warm. Because the snowy and icy conditions continue to make it difficult for us to be safely back at school, we will continue to provide some activities for you to complete at home. Some of you have started sharing your work with us on teams, which is great. Please continue to do so – we love seeing what you have done! There is 1 accompanying worksheet which is available to download if you wish right at the bottom of the page - it is called 'Shape Worksheet' under 'files to download'. Thank you everyone!
Maths
Login to TTrockstars. Spend at least 20 minutes improving the recall of your multiplication facts.
If you managed the rounding lesson on Oak Academy, very well done. If you want to keep your rounding skills sharp, you can practice using the following online game: Rocket Rounding
Today, we are going to look at something a little different and remind ourselves about the names of some regular 2D shapes using another Oak Academy Video lesson. Use knowledge of shape properties to sketch and identify shapes | Oak National Academy We would encourage you to try the starter and end quiz and pause or rewind the video if you need to. If you wish, you could then have a go at drawing some of the shapes in the snow and photographing them!
The following game on Purple Mash, may also be useful in helping you to get started: Purple Mash by 2Simple
English Reading
Find a comfortable place, perhaps curled up on the sofa with a hot chocolate and enjoy plenty of time reading for pleasure or listening to an audiobook. What did you read? What happened? What did you find out? Record this in your organiser.
Spelling
Use this online game to practice those tricky spellings. Look, Cover, Write, Check- mobile friendly
You may want to study some of the Y5/6 patterns that we learned last term, such as ible/able, ough and -fer.
Science
In Science, we will be learning about electricity. Read the text which follows, where you will learn about famous scientists who contributed significantly to the development of electricity. Who do you think had the biggest impact?
Tuesday 7th January 7, 2025
Hello!
As we are closed again, here are some suggested activities for you to complete at home - we have set a range of different activities so you can choose which ones you would like to complete. You can record your work in your homework book. You don’t need to print out any of the worksheets to complete the tasks but we will set them as an assignment on teams too, so that you can, if you have the facility to do so at home. Please note, there are 3 accompanying worksheets which are available to download if you wish right at the bottom of the page - under 'files to download'. Thank you everyone!
Maths
Login to TTrockstars. Spend at least 20 minutes improving the recall of your multiplication facts.
Before the holiday, we were brilliant at reading, writing and comparing larger numbers. See if you can complete the activities on rounding larger numbers to the nearest million using the suggested Oak Academy lesson:
Rounding 7-digit numbers to the nearest million | Oak National Academy
These are also useful and fun games to play online to help develop your maths skills:
Angles Alien Attack - Mathsframe
Reading
Spend at least 20 minutes reading. What did you read? What happened? What did you find out? Record this in your organizer.
Given that it is very snowy at the minute, enjoy learning about Earnest Shackleton, an intrepid explorer who ventured to Antarctica:
Introducing the context of 'Shackleton's Journey' | Oak National Academy
Grammar and Spelling
Revise the use of the apostrophe and how to punctuate speech by using the suggested Oak Academy lesson: Apostrophes and speech punctuation revision | Oak National Academy
Use this online game to practice those tricky spellings: Look, Cover, Write, Check- mobile friendly
P.E.
Create your own 20-30 minute workout using some of the activities below:
Geography
In Geography, we will be learning about Rivers. Read the text about Rivers of the World which follows and answer the questions that follow. Do you know the names of any of the Rivers in the UK? What can you find out about some of the UK Rivers? Complete your own research and create a poster to show what you have found out.
Snow Day 06.01.25
Hello Y6!
Happy New Year. As you are aware, school is closed today due to the snow.
We have put together some activities for you to do today with the theme of Winter. You have access to Purple Mash and TTRockstars and could also do some reading or revise the spellings in the back of your organiser. We have also included some links to Oak Academy for maths and grammar revision.
Hopefully we can be back at school together soon.
Reading: A Winter Landscape
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Writing
Have a go at writing your own descriptive winter landscape. Can you use a range of fronted adverbials, ambitious vocabulary and similes or metaphors, just like the writer did in the extract you have just read?
Maths:
Answer the following questions and spend some time on TTRockstars improving your times table recall.
Oak Academy:
Maths
Determine the value of digits in numbers up to 10 million | Oak National Academy
Compare numbers with up to eight digits | Oak National Academy
Grammar
Apostrophes: for contraction, singular possession and plural possession 2 | Oak National Academy
Spring into the New Year!
Welcome back to school for the Spring Term 2025! Your teachers will continue to be Mrs Ashcroft and Mrs Walker. Can you guess which teacher is which photo?
We have lots of exciting learning planned to take us from now until Easter!
Geography
Our topic this term is Rivers. We will begin the unit with exploring why water is important to our lives and how settlements are built around water. We will learn about how rivers are formed and the journey they take to the sea. Using atlases, we will locate the main rivers of the UK and compare this to the location of major cities. We will study our local river (Bollin) through fieldwork at Macclesfield Forest where we will look at erosion, deposition, meanders and the journey of the river. The children will then use maps and atlases to locate other major rivers of the world, looking at the Mississippi to make comparisons with the River Bollin.
Science
This term, we will focus our learning on the physics strand of science. The children will begin the term by learning about electricity and understand how to construct circuits using a range of components. After the half-term break, we move on to light and will discover how we see things as well as many other fascinating facts about the colour spectrum.
Art/DT
During art, our focus will be on exploring sculpture as an art form. The children will study Gaudi's art and use his work as an inspiration for their own sculptures. In Design and Technology, the children will consider the impact of sustainability in food products so that they can create and devleop their own tasty break-time snack using a range of fairtrade ingredients and/or locally sourced ingredients.
French
This term, the children will engage in conversations using familiar vocabulary to ask and answer questions.
PSHE/RE
The children will continue to learn about themselves in the wider world, focusing on building and maintaining friendships, resolving conflict and setting personal goals. They will also learn more about different faiths and beliefs.
Computing
Using Purple Mash, children will extend their knowledge about how to create engaging presentations. They will also explore new functions within spreadsheets and databases.
P.E.
This year, Y6 will have PE on Tuesday and Thursday and should come to school in their P.E. kits on these days. This term we will be developing our skills in dodgeball and tag rugby.
Homework
Homework be set and collected using Teams and will consolidate the work done in class in English and Maths. It will go home on a Friday and due in the following Wednesday.
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