Year 6 Home Learning Page

Home Learning During Coronavirus Pandemic

Letters to Year 6 from Mr C and Ms B

Week beginning 18.5.20 Mr C letter #5 Ms B letter #5

Dear Parents and Carers,

We understand that this is a difficult time and, during the period where SSMJ is closed, we will aim to provide all work on this Year 6 page. Each morning the Year 6 team will upload English and Maths work for the day. Work will be uploaded between 8 am and 9 am. There will also be an optional project to complete which the children have already started in school. See below for details:

English

We would encourage the children to read for at least half an hour a day and then spend an hour on their English work. Each week, English will include the following:

Mathematics

A lesson will be uploaded each day with an accompanying instructional video. There will then be a worksheet for the children to complete. If you are looking to supplement your child’s learning further: Mathletics and other resources are available here (Chatterpack is a blog that provides a huge amount of free resources for home learning ranging across KS1, KS2 and KS3).

In addition to this, Twinkl and Classroom Secrets have provided free home learning packs for each year group.

The Year 6 team wish you all the best. Any additional questions should be emailed through the school office.

P.S – Dear children, we would love to hear from you and about any independent learning you have done. If you want to share anything with us or even just drop us a note, email us and we will try to reply. 

HOME LEARNING TERM 5 LETTER TO PARENTS

Home Learning Term 5 Year 6

Daily work 

Date: 22.5.20

Maths

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/

Please complete Lesson 5, ‘Friday Maths Challenge’. Please find the activity sheet and answers below. Write all answers in your home learning Maths exercise book.

Family-Challenge-Friday-22nd

Family-Challenge-Friday-22nd-Answers

English – 

https://www.literacyshed.com/the-poetry-shed.html

Please watch the video from the above web page entitled, ‘Budapest’.

Task: Write your own personification poem about an object of your choice.

NEW

The BBC has produced new, comprehensive learning resources. Do look at these links for supplementary materials:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/dailylessons

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p089nk5f

Project work 

Art Term 5 (20/04/20 – 22/05/20) – Miss H Edwards

This term you can carry on with your conservation hybrid animal theme, however,  I have some more fun activities that you could add to your theme.

The attached video was made by my friend Mrs. B. (Mrs. Sarra Bird) who is also an Art teacher and is studying the Art and Education MA with me. She is fab and you will love her work. Have a go with the activities and add them to your theme.  I will post a different video every week.

Week 1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyObpftlcG0           Bubble Print Art Tutorial

Week 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pDGpL0smww      Potato Printing Pebble Art

Week 3 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJAb-r_wqQQ         String Tree Art  

Week 4 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE5uS1X5qWs          Painting with Coffee

Week 5 –https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pj7Dd3BA3M          Mono-printing  NEW

Have a look at these 18 contemporary artists who are looking at climate change and conservation.

                                              https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/environmental-art_n_5585288?ri18n=true 

Year 6 were asked to develop their own versions of a hybrid animal, having looked at the work of various artists (see attached PowerPoint) who have created a range of mutated and evolved species.  The children were asked to think about their animals in the context of 500 years from now and how the animals have evolved through conditions such as climate change.   The children created their own animals and were then thinking about the environment in which the animal now lives.  I have attached an additional PowerPoint showcasing the artist Nigel Cook who creates surreal and fantastical environments by using a range of painting techniques.

The children can approach this in various ways.

• They can begin with a drawing of their new hybrid animals by looking at two or three animals/fish/birds that we have on the planet today.
• The children can also take inspiration from the Greek Myths and look at some of the mythical beasts in the classical stories.
• Next, the children need to think about the habitat in which the animal lives, how has the habitat changed to adapt to the environmental challenges that have occurred over the last 500 years.
• The children will then need to come up with a composition. What is the new environment going to look like and where are they going to place their animals within it?  Is there going to be only one hybrid animal or several, a family or a group? What are they doing: hunting, sleeping, eating, alert or relaxed?
• The children can use whatever they have at home to create the piece.  It can be a drawing and coloured in with colour pencils or felt tips, they can create a painting using poster paint or watercolour, they can create a collage or they can combine ideas.  The children can use computer programs to develop compositions such as Photoshop or create a stop motion animation.  They can also look at creating a 3D version using junk modelling, Plasticine or play-dough.
• Be creative, use whatever you have at home to expand on ideas and post a photo of your lovely creations!

Hybrid Animals

Nigel Cook

Thanks for all of your lovely artwork that you have been sending in, it’s all so varied and fantastic. I always said you are amazing artists! xx

Art Gallery:

If you would like to share some of the artwork that you have created at home, please photograph it and email it to the school office. We will then post it in this gallery. Arty links on Jo Acty’s ArtWorks website https://www.artworks.org.uk/links

		Alice H P	Alice HP
Sophie C Candy canes	Sophie C Red Admiral	Sophie C	Sophie C Miner bee
Natalie W, Red still life	Hafsah sponge paint	Sophie C	Edie G. Hybrid animal
Anita’s poem, ‘Wind Boy’.	Anita’s illustration for her poem, ‘Wind Boy’.	Anita’s sketch	Anita’s sketch

Anita’s sketch	Anita’s sketch	Natalie’s painted pot	Mali’s Dinosaur sketch
Hollie’s animal fact sheet	Toby’s poem inspired by Kwame Alexander	Andi’s art	Andi’s art

Andi’s art	Andi’s art	Sol’s art	‘Hilda’ by Felix

Felix’s art	Felix’s art	Hafsah A’s rock art	Megan’s journal entry

Leon’s art	Anita’s journal	Felix’s jam tart	Delilah’s art

Scarlet	Scarlet’s Eton Mess	Thomas S’s Brooklyn 99 themed models	Thomas S’s Brooklyn 99 themed models

Thomas S’s Brooklyn 99 themed models	Freya	Thomas S’s poem	Ocean predators by Thomas S

Ocean predators by Thomas S	Hollie’s VE Day poster	Hollie’s air-dry clay project	Hollie’s tie-dye t-shirt

Hollie’s poster for the NHS	Edie with her guinea pigs!	Edie’s pressed flowers	Edie’s cushion cover project

Edie unicycling	Megan’s art work	Megan’s art work	Alice’s diary entry

Misty’s hybrid animal	Scarlet’s poster about India	Fin’s artwork	Fin’s animal project

Anita’s hybrid animal	Rose’s origami slinky and knitted hat for her baby cousin	Thomas’s ‘Map to an Unknown Place’ and origami infinity cube

Other resources:

Here we will sometimes upload items of interest. This will have a nature and conservation theme as this is our theme for this term. We will post any other interesting activities and articles that the children may find interesting.

For keeping fit, mentally and physically, try the following links:

PE with Joe Wicks 

Smiling Minds

Previous work: