Year 6

Updated 20.1.21

Welcome everyone!

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There's everything you need to support your learning on our updated web page. Look in the extra learning section for some great new reads this week, including the entire text of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson.

Please remember to keep the three reads going
so you can send in your evidence on Friday.

You can now access home reading books in Serial Mash - look at the chart below to find out which level you need to read.

Keep scrolling to find out more!

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Congratulations to our Week 2 Home Learning Star: ⭐️ Levi ⭐️

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This is our daily home learning timetable.

Assignments are set each day on the TEAMS App or on the Office.com TEAMS website.

MATHS ACTIVITIES FOR SPRING 1, WEEK 3:

Video links: watch the video and work on the activities when you are asked to. Mark your work at the end and send us a picture using the attachment paperclip on TEAMS. Enjoy your maths learning!

Mr Stone's Group's Videos

Monday and Tuesday - click here.

Wednesday to Friday - click here,

plus on Thursday, complete the arithmetic activity below.

Mrs Harrison's Group's Videos

Please read carefully - Tuesday and Thursday's lessons are slightly different than usual:

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday - click here.

Tuesday is an online activity video - 
(Redistribute from unequal to equal groups) - there is no worksheet

On Tuesday, you also have two activities on Purple Mash to complete.

Click here to go to Purple Mash and click 2Do.

On Thursday, complete the same work as Mr Stone's Group (Questions 1 to 3).
Then go on to the arithmetic sheet below.

📖 Reading Activities 📚
  

Please keep your Reading Journal up to date.
 

Every Friday, at 10AM, we will publish our 3 reads results:

Spring 1	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6
% Reads:	63%	67% 🧐
Comment:	We can do better!	Improving. We can still do better!

There's plenty to read here on Purple Mash with their fantastic,
episode-based serial books called Serial Mash. Click to log in and go to Serial Mash.

Three levels of reading are available.
Use the chart above to find your level based on your school book band colour.
Aim to include Serial Mash books in your three reads each week.

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ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES & MORE READING MATERIALS

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BBC Bitesize Home Learning pages.

There's even more to do this week! Just click and choose!

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Now you can learn on your TV

Having computer problems? Not your turn to go online yet?

CBBC has come to the rescue. You can learn on TV!

Send us a picture of anything you do using Teams General channel Post.

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If you want some fun stories read to you, these are short and entertaining with a quick quiz at the end. Search around the site for more challenge or just enjoy them as they are! 

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, WE LOOKED AT THESE VIDEOS IN ASSEMBLY ON MONDAY:

Click the picture to find out how Jacqueline Wilson thinks up her writing ideas. You can read the entire tracy Beaker book for free - see below!

Click above: Author of one of our class texts this half term, Isabel Thomas,
has made a video of herself reading Moth - an Evolutionary Story.

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Enjoy the complete Tracy Beaker text here at the Oak Academy Virtual Library.

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Move with Maths Supermovers activities! Maths and Dance?

Switch on the glitterball! Keeeeep Moving!

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Further Maths Activities & Maths Challenges

Go to MathsWatch / My Work to find your activities.

These are updated regularly.

Decimals
 

Here is a fun set of activities from White Rose Maths

Decimals Game on Espresso / Discovery Learning

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Joe Wicks returns to keep us all fit with a
20 minute daily workout. Click below.

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There's something new to do every day here:

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⭐️ HELP WITH MATHS ⭐️

Maths equipment: here is a complete set of maths manipulatives, just like the ones we use in class, only ONLINE!

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This set of video explainers for tricky maths topics is really helpful.

It uses diagrams and bar models with example problems to solve.
If you're stuck, take a look! 😁

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📚 FURTHER ENGLISH 📚

Last chance to read the first two chapters of
The Girl Who Stole an Elephant.

Click the book cover below.

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Log in to Purple Mash discover more about computing and many other areas of the curriculum.

                     Video lessons on all subjects        Maths, English and Topic lessons          Quick videos on lots of topics

Maths

English

Spelling

P.E.

FUN ACTIVITIES: Choose from suitable activities here.

Computing

The person who wins this award shows extra dedication, incredible patience and perseverance and a drive to become a more independent learner. 

Autumn 1 - Ruby & Oliver K.

Autumn 2 - Chelsea & Levi

Handwriting Award

The following pupils have met the grade and achieved their Year 6 Pen Licence:

Ollie F., Oliver T., Evie, Grace, Miller, Ruby, Lily, Levi