Year 6: Blog items
Today's Home Learning 11.02.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 11th Feb 2021 @ 9:16am
Good Morning Year 6,
Hope you are all ok!
It's almost Friday and it's almost half term!!
Watch today's video where the tasks of the day are explained.
Overview
Maths - Reasoning and Problem solving - Line Graphs. There is a worksheet uploaded on the school spider for you to work through.
English - Listen/Read chapter 14 and 15 of Journey to the River Sea- you can read ahead if you like as we need to finish before we return from half term.
Please read ALL of the information below…..
Today you are going to put the last three days’ worth of work together to write your own short section of the story.
You will start from when Maia took off her mask…
Art -
Create a South American Landscape using a medium focus of your choice (paint, crayons, tissue paper, and coloured pencils).
Make sure your piece is bold and bright. Think about how it represents South America.
Use the internet to find some inspiration for your own piece.
Have a lovely day!
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes 
Today's Home Learning Blog Wednesday 10th February, by Miss Flynn
Date: 9th Feb 2021 @ 3:56pm
Good Morning Year 6!
We hope you are all ok and enjoying the home learning.
Today's Tasks
Maths - Constructing Line graphs and plotting the data given (worksheet uploaded onto the school spider). Make sure you give your line graph a title and label the X and Y axis.
English - Carrying on from yesterday you are going to be carrying on with writing your story. There is a worksheet on the school spider for you to work through. There is also two new sentence types to include so please look at the examples on the attached document on SchoolSpider.
Science- We are continuing with electricity and different types of circuits. Today's task will focus on parallel circuits..
Have a great day!
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes 
Today's Home Learning 09.02.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 9th Feb 2021 @ 9:12am
Good Morning Year 6,
Happy Tuesday!
We hope you are all ok and enjoying the home learning.
Today's Tasks
Maths - Drawing Line graphs and plotting the data given (worksheet uploaded onto the school spider). Make sure you give your line graph a title and label the X and Y axis.
English - Carrying on from yesterday you are going to be carrying on with writing your story. There is a worksheet on the school spider for you to work through.
Geography - Today you will be focusing on 'What is Fairtrade?' there are some links to videos on the school spider for you to watch. You will be focusing on what Fairtrade looks like in South America and creating a poster. There is then a quiz for you to complete.
Have a great day!
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning Blog Monday 8th February 2021, by Miss Flynn
Date: 7th Feb 2021 @ 7:04pm
Good Morning!!!
We hope you have had a lovely weekend! What did you get uptp?
Here is an overview of today's lessons....
Maths- interpreting line graphs
English-creating a dream-like/magical setting
History-end of half term quiz on the Mayas and you have a map to accurately label
Have a lovely day!
Don't forget to send in pictures of anything fun you get up to :)
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Mrs Worthington, Miss Rylance and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning Blog Friday 5th February 2021, by Miss Flynn
Date: 5th Feb 2021 @ 9:35am
Good Morning!!!
Happy Friday!!
Here is an overview of today's lessons....
Maths- Please complete the algebra booklet attached to SchoolSpider- there is a PowerPoint to support.
English- Please read/listen to chapter 10 and complete the activity outlined on SchoolSpider
RE- Explore and understand the Penitential Act and complete the activities on SchoolSpider.
Have a lovely weekend!!
Don't forget to send in pictures of anything fun you get up to :)
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Mrs Worthington, Miss Rylance and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning 04.02.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 4th Feb 2021 @ 9:05am
Good Morning Year 6,
Happy Thursday!
Hope you are all ok and keeping safe!
A brief outline of today's tasks
English:
Listen again to the end of Chapter 9
The Plan.
In your own words explain the plan that Finn, Clovis and Maia have hatched.
You need to understand the plan – who is involved, what they are going to do and how this looks to others. Imagine you are Finn and you are faced with the task of explaining the plan to others.
Imagining you are Finn…write down the plan to send Clovis back to England so he can stay in the Amazon.
Maths:
Forming Equations - Algebra. A PowerPoint is uploaded onto the school spider for you to work through.
Art:
Today you will look at some of the work of Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo’s artwork.
On the PowerPoint attached you will find several images of her work.
Create a short factfile about who she was, note key information about her life and some key points about her style of artwork.
Have a great day!
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning Blog Wednesday 3rd February 2021, by Miss Flynn
Date: 3rd Feb 2021 @ 9:22am
Good Morning Year 6!
Here is a brief overview of today's lessons;
English today will be reading/listening to Journey to the River Sea- ensure you are up to chapter 8. The links for the chapters are on SchoolSpider and then there are some questions to complete.
In Maths we are continuing with algebra and forming expressions. There is a PowerPoint and worksheet on SchoolSpider to help you.
In Science you will be investigating what happens when certain changes are made to a circuit.
Don't forget to go on the rockstars website (just let us know on the school spider if you need your log in). https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school
We look forward to seeing you all soon.
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning 02.02.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 1st Feb 2021 @ 3:19pm
Happy Tuesday Year 6!!
Hope you are all ok and keeping safe at home. Not long until half term!!
A brief outline of today's tasks
Maths - Two step function machines - a PowerPoint will be uploaded onto the school spider for you to work through with a focus on reasoning style questions.
English - Listren to chapter 7 of 'Journey to the River Sea' and complete the questions on the school spider. Once you have done this please listen to chapter 8 ready for tomorrow's learning.
Geography - You will be making comparsions between England and Brazil, South America. A document will be uploaded onto the school spider to help you with this.
This week is also Children's Mental Health week - keep an eye out for some extra activities realting to this.
There is a virtual assembly to watch here: https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/news/watch-our-children-s-mental-health-week-assembly-with-bafta-kids-and-oak-national-academy/
Have a lovely day and stay safe!
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning Blog Monday 1st February 2021, by Miss Flynn
Date: 1st Feb 2021 @ 8:42am
Good Morning!
We hope you have had a lovely weekend!
Here is a brief overview of today's lessons;
English today will be reading/listening to Journey to the River Sea- ensure you are up to chapter 5. Today we would like you to listen to and make notes on chapters 5 and 6 and then complete the activities outlined on SchoolSpider.
In Maths we have set an activity on function machines. You need to problem solve to try and work out what has happened to the number as it has passed through the function machine.
HIstory will be researching the Maya's diet and what crops they grew. There is also a recipe for Hot Chocolate!
Don't forget to go on the rockstars website (just let us know on the school spider if you need your log in). https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school
We look forward to seeing you all soon.
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning Blog Friday 29th January 2021, by Miss Flynn
Date: 29th Jan 2021 @ 9:10am
Happy Friday Everyone!
Are you all looking forward to the weekend?
Here is a brief overview of today's lessons;
English today will be reading/listening to Journey to the River Sea- ensure you are up to chapter 5. Then I would like you to edit and improve yesterday's work ensuring you have used at least one 2A sentence, 1 relative clause, a rhetorical question and a simile.
In Maths we have set an arithmetic paper- give yourself aroung 20-30 minutes to complete this and then try and boost your class score on Times Tables Rockstars.
RE will be recapping what happened at the last supper and how it is replicated at mass.
Don't forget to go on the rockstars website (just let us know on the school spider if you need your log in). https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school
We look forward to seeing you all soon.
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning 28.01.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 28th Jan 2021 @ 11:40am
Good Morning Year 6,
Hope you are all keeping well and safe at home.
We love seeing the work that you have been completing at home either through the online learning or home packs.
Brief Outline for today
Maths - Reasoning and mastery style questions focusing on volume and capacity.
English - Carrying on a story opening using the image we looked at on Tuesday.
Art - Create a skyline continuation of Liverpool - think about colours, shapes, materials you use etc.
Have a great day!
See you all soon
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Mrs Worthington, Miss Rylance and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning 27.01.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 26th Jan 2021 @ 2:51pm
Good Morning Year 6!
Half way through the week already!! Hope you are all keeping safe!
The daily blog is uploaded for you to watch outlining all of today's tasks.
Don't forget about the well being tasks to keep you busy at home! School work is important but so is staying happy and healthy so remember to keep active and spend some time each day doing something you enjoy.
Brief Outline for Today
English - There is a worksheet uploaded for you to improve some sentences using 2a sentences, relative clauses, similes, metaphors and personifcation.
Maths - Finding the volume of cubes and cuboids (worksheet uploaded onto the school spider).
Science - There is a video to watch all about circuits carrying on from the previous lesson. You need to watch the video and complete the task at the end.
We hope you have a great day!
We are all missing you here in school and hope to see you soon.
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning 26.01.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 25th Jan 2021 @ 3:33pm
Happy Tuesday Year 6!
Hope you are all keeping safe and managing to keep busy at home.
Yesterday we had a few issues with the internet in school so we will catch up on marking the home learning today.
Today's tasks are all explained in the daily blog that we have uploaded for you to watch!
A brief overview
English - There is an image uploaded for you to have a look at. We would then like you to use your imagination to asnwers the questions uploaded onto the spider.
Maths - We would just like you to complete page 1 of the worksheet on volume and then have a go of the challenge uploaded on the home learning weekly timetable.
Geography - It is thinking of biomes in South America and creating a survival guide.
Don't forget to said some pictures of completed work.
Well done to Miss Flynn's class who won the latest Rock Star Times Tables battle. There is another battle which is live until Sunday!! Good Luck!!
Have a lovely day.
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning Blog Monday 25th January 2021, by Miss Flynn
Date: 22nd Jan 2021 @ 4:53pm
Happy Monday Everyone!
Have you had a lovely weekend?
Here is a brief overview of today's lessons;
English today will be reading/listening to Journey to the River Sea- chapter 4. Then please complete questions 8, 9 and 10 from the attached document on SchoolSpider.
In Maths we are starting a new topic on volume and capacity and there is a conversion activity to complete.
History will investigate the Mayan Number System. There is video and PowerPoint to support your learning and an attached activity to complete.
Don't forget to go on the rockstars website (just let us know on the school spider if you need your log in). https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school
We look forward to seeing you all soon.
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Today's Online Learning 22.01.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 21st Jan 2021 @ 3:28pm
Happy Friday Year 6!!
We can't believe we are already at the end of week 3 of online learning! Thank you for all the fantastic work that you have sent in this week.
The daily video explaining today's tasks is uploaded below so make sure you watch that! Don't forget to send us any pictures of your work to us through the school spider.
A brief outline for today
English - Today you will use similes and metaphors to form a descriptive piece of writing. You will be imagining you are Maia from our text 'Journey to the River Sea.'
Maths - Intepreting negative numbers on a line graph and answering questions alongside this.
RE - Following on from last week looking at our topic 'Exploring the Mass' there are some questions uploaded onto the school spider for you.
There is also the home well-being activities for you to complete at home with your families. We have loved seeing some pictures of some of you baking at home so please do send us any pictures of what you get up to.
Also don't forget to take part in the Rockstars Times Tables battle.
Have a great week everyone and we will see you Monday ready for week 4 of online learning.
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning Blog Thursday 21st January 2021, by Miss Flynn
Date: 20th Jan 2021 @ 3:14pm
Happy Thursday Everyone!
Here is a brief overview of today's lessons;
English today will explore metaphors and how we can use them within our writing to paint a picture to the reader.
Maths will continue with negative numbers and will have links to temperatures around the world.
Art will involve finding definitions to key vocabulary linked to our current topic. You will also be expected to re-create a piece of South American art work.
Don't forget to go on the rockstars website (just let us know on the school spider if you need your log in). https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school
You also need to ensure you have read/listened to chapter 1, 2 and 3 of Journey to the River Sea. You may begin Chapter 4 if you are have.
We look forward to seeing you all soon.
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Home Learning 20.01.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 19th Jan 2021 @ 3:01pm
Good Morning Year 6,
We are half way through the week already!!
We hope you are all ok and getting on with your home learning.
We have uploaded the blog for today outlining what we would like you to do at home and there are some worksheets on the school spider for you to complete.
There is also a battle set up on Rockstar Times Tables for you to compete in! Just let us know through the school spdier if you need your log in details again.
We hope you all have a great day and look forward to seeing you all soon!
Stay Safe!
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning Blog Tuesday 19th January 2021, by Miss Flynn
Date: 18th Jan 2021 @ 4:21pm
Happy Tuesday Everyone!
Here is a brief overview of today's lessons;
English today will involve a new poem called 'Rainforest Phantoms'- you will need to read, annotate and explore the poem in detail noting any unfamiliar vocabulary and researching meaning/definitions.
Maths today will continue with Roman Numerals
Today's Geography will investigate trade and the economy within key South American countries. You will need to label and colour a map and complete the attached worksheet.
Don't forget to go on the rockstars website (just let us know on the school spider if you need your log in). https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school
You also need to ensure you have read/listened to chapter 1, 2 and 3 of Journey to the River Sea. You may begin Chapter 4 if you are have.
We look forward to seeing you all soon.
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Home Learning 18.01.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 17th Jan 2021 @ 2:31pm
Good Morning Year 6,
We hope you have all had a lovely weekend and are staying safe at home with your families.
We can't believe it is already week 3 of online learning, we can't wait to see you all soon!
We have uplaoded a video briefly outlining today's lessons for you and there will be worksheets on the school spider for you to complete at home.
Don't forget we have also uploaded some well being ideas for you to do with you families while you are stuck at home (don't forget to send us some pictures).
We hope you all have a great week and don't forget if you have any questions you can send us a message through the school spider.
Take care and stay safe!
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning Blog Friday 15th January 2021, by Miss Flynn
Date: 14th Jan 2021 @ 5:22pm
Happy Friday Everyone!
We hope you have found this week's Online Learning enjoyable - we have really enjoyed looking at what you have uploaded!
We hope you are all ok and staying safe at home. We have uploaded a video below that briefly outliness today's activities for you.
We have also uploaded your lessons for today onto SchoolSpider. We have provided you with step by step instructions and links to any videos that may support your learning.
Here is a brief overview of today's lessons;
Maths today will involve using adding, subtracting and multiplying decimals.
English today will be completing your persuasive letter on deforestation and then you have a comprehension task to complete
RE will be recapping the story of the feeding of the 5000 and will then be looking at an image of the story and will explore symbolism.
Don't forget to go on the rockstars website (just let us know on the school spider if you need your log in). https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school
You also need to ensure you have read/listened to chapter 1 and 2 of Journey to the River Sea before Monday- the link is on SchoolSpider.
We look forward to seeing you all soon.
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning 14.01.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 13th Jan 2021 @ 2:55pm
Good Morning Year 6,
We hope you are all keeping safe and enjoying some time with your families.
We have uploaded a daily video explaing the tasks we would like you to complete today.
A brief overview
English you will be completing your final letter to Boris Johnson perusading him to help you slow down deforestation and the impact it is having on our country. We would like you to edit the work from yesterday and then write your final piece.
Maths is multiplying decimals (there is a PowerPoint for you to work through on the school spider).
Art is to research a famous South American artist and create a fact file including information about his early life, his work and what inspires his artwork (more information on the school spider).
We really do love seeing your work that you have completed at home so please do send us some pictures of your work through the school spider.
We have also added some at home well-being ideas for you to complete throughout the next few weeks to keep you busy and bring some enjoyment to you and your families through this very strange time.
We hope you have a great day and we can't wait to see you all soon!
Take care
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
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Today's Home Learning Blog Wednesday 13th January 2021, by Miss Flynn
Date: 12th Jan 2021 @ 3:22pm
Good Morning Year 6 ,
Happy Hump Day- we are half way through the week!!
We hope you are all ok and staying safe at home. We have uploaded a video below that briefly outliness today's activities for you.
We have also uploaded your lessons for today onto SchoolSpider. We have provided you with step by step instructions and links to any videos that may support your learning.
Here is a brief overview of today's lessons;
Maths today will finding equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages.
English today will be exploring persuasive language and persuasive devices and then you will be drafting out a letter to persuade either Boris Johnson or the President of Brazil to take more action against deforestation.
Science will be learning about electrical circuits and the components needed to make a complete circuit.
Don't forget to go on the rockstars website (just let us know on the school spider if you need your log in). https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school
You also need to ensure you have read/listened to chapter 1 and 2 of Journey to the River Sea before Monday- the link is on SchoolSpider.
We look forward to seeing you all soon.
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning 12.01.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 11th Jan 2021 @ 3:58pm
Good Morning Year 6
Hope you are all keeping safe and managing to keep active at home. We have really enjoyed seeing your work that you have been sending in.
We have uploaded a daily video to explain each activity and uploaded the day's tasks onto the school spider.
Brief overview of today
English-
Watch the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEbKmH8fAsc
Activity 1:
Find 3 pieces of quality evidence on the impact of deforestation to include in your letter- use the internet to find these or the videos watched last week. The video above explains this.
Activity 2:
Write three sentences that use repetition in each to reiterate an important point. The video above explains this.Activity 3:
Write 3 sentence about the impact of deforestation using interesting adjectives and adverbs. The video above explains this.
Activity 4:
Write one sentence about why we should reduce/stop deforestation
Maths: It is following on with addition and subtraction of decimals. There will be a worksheet uploaded onto the school spider. There is a silver and gold challenge! How many can you do?
Geography: Understand the geographical similarities and differences between Brazil in South America and USA and Russia. More information will be on the school spider.
Have a lovely day everyone and we look forward to seeing the work you produce.
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning Blog Monday 11th January 2021, by Miss Flynn
Date: 11th Jan 2021 @ 7:49am
Good Morning Year 6 ,
Happy Monday!!
We hope you've had a lovely weekend!
We hope you are all ok and staying safe at home. We have uploaded a video below that briefly outliness today's activities for you.
We have also uploaded your lessons for today onto SchoolSpider. We have provided you with step by step instructions and links to any videos that may support your learning.
Here is a brief overview of today's lessons;
Maths today will be adding and subtracting using decimals.
English today will be exploring persuasive language and persuasive devices.
History today will be finding information about Mayan Gods and exploring the differences between ancient religions.
Don't forget to go on the rockstars website (just let us know on the school spider if you need your log in). https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school
We look forward to seeing you all soon.
Miss Flynn, Miss Houghton, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes
Today's Home Learning 08.01.21, by Miss Houghton
Date: 7th Jan 2021 @ 2:58pm
Good Morning Year 6 ,
Hope you are all ok and staying safe at home. We have uploaded a daily video explaining the activities further for you.
Maths - We have uploaded a worksheet onto the school spider for you to complete at home carrying on with BIDMAS.
English - Is to imagine you are going on a protest about deforestation and create a poster to take with you.
RE - We have also uploaded a word document with some links to websites/videos that you need to watch about the Epiphany. We would then like you to draw a picture to represent the Epiphany.
Don't forget to go on the rockstars website (just let us know on the school spider if you need your log in). https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
We look forward to seeing you all soon.
Miss Houghton, Miss Flynn, Miss Rylance, Mrs Worthington and Mrs Hayes