Date Set: 14/5/21
Date Due: 21/5/21
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| What is my Home Learning task? | How long should it take me? | Where will it fit into my learning at school? |
Consolidation | Log in to CS Kids and complete the following consolidation challenges:
Are there are questions that you struggle with? Prepare to share these with me or Mr Selfridge on Microsoft Teams, or in school next week. Well done to all children who shared their difficulties with the last set of questions! | 15 mins | These are areas we have been learning this week. |
Preparation | Next week, we will be writing a balanced argument.
Research a balanced argument online. What sort of features can you begin to identify for our class toolkit? | 15 mins | We will be generating a toolkit next week! |
Consolidation | Our history topic this half term is the Vikings.
Write a food diary based on what you eat over the weekend.
Which of the foods in your diet do you think would have been available to the Vikings? You may wish to support your answers with research.
| 15 mins | Viking topic |
Date Set: 7/5/21
Date Due: 14/5/21
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| What is my Home Learning task? | How long should it take me? | Where will it fit into my learning at school? |
Consolidation | Log in to CS Kids and complete the following consolidation challenges:
Are there are questions that you struggle with? Prepare to share these with me or Mr Selfridge on Microsoft Teams, or in school next week. Well done to all children who shared their difficulties with the last set of questions! | 15 mins | These are areas we have been learning this week. |
Preparation | Picture walking through a portal and coming out to a cold, wintery scene- just like Narnia.
Write a setting description for the second paragraph (the one where the character comes out the other end of the portal and describes what they see) | 15 mins | We will be generating a toolkit next week! |
Consolidation | Our history topic this half term is the Vikings.
In our class novel, we have read about Viking amulets and slave jewellery. After completing some research of your own, can you design a piece of Viking jewellery in your Home Learning books?
| 15 mins | Viking topic |
Date Set: 30/4/21
Date Due: 7/5/21
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| What is my Home Learning task? | How long should it take me? | Where will it fit into my learning at school? |
Consolidation | Log in to CS Kids and complete the following consolidation challenges:
Are there are questions that you struggle with? Prepare to share these with me or Mr Selfridge on Microsoft Teams, or in school next week. Well done to all children who shared their difficulties with the last set of questions! | 15 mins | These are areas we have been learning this week. |
Preparation | Have a go at writing a short portal tale in under 200 words.
Can you build in some of the toolkit features discussed in Thursday’s lesson this week? | 15 mins | We will be completing our first shared write early next week! |
Preparation | Our history topic this half term is the Vikings.
| 15 mins | Our Viking topic does not build in opportunities for us to explore runes in great detail, so we want to ensure you get a chance to explore them through Home Learning. |
Date Set: 23/4/21
Date Due: 30/4/21
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| What is my Home Learning task? | How long should it take me? | Where will it fit into my learning at school? |
Consolidation | Log in to CS Kids and complete the following consolidation challenges:
Are there are questions that you struggle with? Prepare to share these with me or Mr Selfridge on Microsoft Teams, or in school next week. Well done to all children who shared their difficulties with the last set of questions! | 10 mins | These are areas we have been revisiting during fluency sessions this week. |
Preparation | Read through the model text: Elf Road.
As discussed in class, this is an example of a Portal Tale.
Next week, we will be generating a toolkit for this type of story. Can you begin to generate ideas for a toolkit by reading over the model text in the English resource folder?
Do you think more than one type of toolkit will be needed? | 15 mins | We will be generating a toolkit next week! |
Preparation | Our history topic this half term is the Vikings
Spend 5-10 minutes reflecting on what you know so far, having completed session 1.
What questions can you gather to bring to our session next week? | 10 mins | We will aim to answer all questions raised by the end of the unit. |
Date Set: 1/4/21
Date Due: 19/4/21
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READING |
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What is my Home Learning task? |
How long should it take me? |
Where will it fit into my learning at school? |
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Consolidation |
Log in to CS Kids and complete the following consolidation challenges:
Are there are questions that you struggle with? Prepare to share these with me or Mr Selfridge on Microsoft Teams, or in school next week. Well done to all children who shared their difficulties with the last set of questions! |
10 mins |
Based on our recent assessments, this is an area we all will benefit from focusing on. |
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Consolidation |
Have a go at applying your skills to one of the following:
Some helpful toolkits have been added to the resource folder. Feel free to combine aspects if you feel it is appropriate! |
30 mins |
These four texts are types of text we have covered in English. |
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Preparation |
Reading Planet
Log in to https://my.risingstars-uk.com/ When you log-in, please click on ‘My Books’ to see the books assigned to you. You can record your reading in your Pupil Planner as normal! |
30 mins- 1 hour |
This will provide you with a selection of e-books to enjoy through the holidays. |
Date Set: 26/3/21
Date Due: 2/4/21
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What is my Home Learning task? |
How long should it take me? |
Where will it fit into my learning at school? |
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Consolidation |
Log in to CS Kids and complete the following consolidation challenges:
Are there are questions that you struggle with? Prepare to share these with me or Mr Selfridge on Microsoft Teams, or in school next week. Well done to all children who shared their difficulties with the last set of questions! |
10 mins |
We explored ratio and proportion during remote learning. |
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Consolidation |
Read through the explanation writing toolkit that we generated together last week.
Pick one of the following explanation text topics to write about:
Write a short explanation text, following the underlying pattern from our boxing up grid. Apply as many aspects as you can from our explanation text toolkit!
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20 mins |
A chance for you to apply your skills in explanation writing! |
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Preparation |
Y6 Leavers' Celebrations! (Pupil Questionnaire)
Fill in the online form below, including as much detail as possible, following on from the discussion we had today.
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20 mins |
The more detail you include, the more nostalgic your end celebration will be! |
Date Set: 19/3/21
Date Due: 26/3/21
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What is my Home Learning task? |
How long should it take me? |
Where will it fit into my learning at school? |
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Consolidation |
Log in to CS Kids and complete the following consolidation challenges:
Are there are questions that you struggle with? Prepare to share these with me or Mr Selfridge on Microsoft Teams, or in school next week. Well done to all children who shared their difficulties with the last set of questions! |
10 mins |
We explored algebra as our first remote learning topic in 2021. |
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Consolidation |
Read through the example explanation text: Snoozatron. We completed a language task in class earlier this week using this text.
Can you spot features of our explanation text toolkit? Which features were missing?
The toolkit has been shared in the resource folder.
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15 mins |
We will be evaluating our first drafts at the end of next week. |
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Preparation |
Science Our science topic this half term is on Evolution and Inheritance. In the first few lessons, we have explored inheritance, variation and adaptation.
Spend 5-10 minutes researching the ‘Theory of Evolution’ online.
What questions can you gather to bring to our lesson next week? Art Our art topic this term is printing and Digital media. Open 'Creating a Dot Screen Halftone image' in Teams and follow the instructions to create your own image. |
10 mins
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For a headstart on our next lesson!
To create an image to use in the next phase of our art work. |
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What is my Home Learning task? |
How long should it take me? |
Where will it fit into my learning at school? |
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MATHS |
Complete the tutorials and challenges set for you on CS Kids, linked with our maths work on decimals. Mr Selfridge and I will be checking for participation on Monday 4th Jan…make sure you use this week and the holidays to catch up on any missed work!
I have also attached a ‘Holidays Consolidation Project’ to the resources folder for those that wish to test their understanding of our work so far on decimals. 15 points on the chart to anybody who chooses to complete this.
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We explored decimal numbers in school before half term. |
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WRITING |
Can you have a go at writing a short discussion text about a topic of your choice? Remember to follow the underlying pattern and draw upon the discussion toolkit.
The boxing up template and the toolkit can be found on the Year 6 section of the remote learning page:
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15 mins |
For a headstart on our next topic! |
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What is my Home Learning task? |
How long should it take me? |
Where will it fit into my learning at school? |
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Consolidation |
Complete the tutorials and challenges set for you on CS Kids, linked with our maths work on decimals, and multiplying/ dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.
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10-15 mins |
We explored decimal numbers in school before half term. |
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Preparation |
Take a sneak peak at our model text for next week. Prepare a story map for this and begin to retell it, ready for our English lessons next week!
The model text, ‘Is Honesty The Best Policy?’ can be found in the Writing Resources folder.
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15 mins |
For a headstart on our next topic! |
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What is my Home Learning task? |
How long should it take me? |
Where will it fit into my learning at school? |
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Consolidation |
Complete the consolidation questions linked with our work so far on fractions.
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10-15 mins |
We explored adding and subtracting fractions in school before half term. |
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Consolidation |
Explore the extract from ‘Mokee Joe is Coming’ for examples of our suspense writing toolkit.
I have uploaded it to the ‘English resources’ folder.
If you come across any specific words or phrases that you like, jot them down and you can transfer them to your magpie book next week!
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10 mins |
For even more words and phrases to help us write with suspense. |
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What is my Home Learning task? |
How long should it take me? |
Where will it fit into my learning at school? |
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Consolidation |
Complete the consolidation questions linked with our work a few weeks ago on adding and subtracting fractions.
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10-15 mins |
We explored adding and subtracting fractions in school before half term. |
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Consolidation |
Explore your own reading book for examples of our ‘suspense writing’ toolkit.
I have uploaded our most recent toolkit to the ‘English resources’ folder.
If you come across any specific words or phrases that you like, jot them down and you can transfer them to your magpie book next week!
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10 mins |
Seeing the toolkit in action will help you to become a master at applying it in your own writing. |
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Preparation |
Science Recap on the definitions of sexual and asexual reproduction.
Do plants reproduce sexually, asexually or both?
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5 mins |
We are doing the second part of this lesson on Monday. It will be really helpful to come prepared with these definitions!
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To keep things ticking over the half term holidays, I have equipped CS Kids with lots of consolidation tasks and fun activities for maths, grammar and reading.
Explore them as and when you get a chance: remember, your login details are in your Planner.
Why not write up some revision notes in your Home Learning book?
Get plenty of rest everybody, and stay safe.
Take care,
Mr Roycroft, Mr Selfridge and Miss K Goodison
Date set: 16/10/20
Date due: 23/10/20
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How long should it take me? |
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Consolidation |
Log onto CS Kids.
Watch the video tutorial for a recap on how to compare and order fractions.
Complete the short challenge activity on CS Kids. |
15 mins |
We have just finished a series of lessons on comparing and ordering fractions. |
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Consolidation |
Write a persuasive paragraph in no more than 150 words based on the statement below:
You should come to Barwick Primary!
Aim to include as many aspects of your toolkit as possible. I have uploaded this for you in the English resources folder as a reminder!
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15 mins |
This will help to consolidate some of the work we have covered so far in our persuasion unit. |
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Preparation |
Continue to explore different possible discussions to persuade the reader about when it comes to your independent application stage next week. |
5 mins |
You might come up with a brilliant idea that inspires your writing next week. |
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Consolidation |
Science (optional)
Download and explore the app below on a phone or smart device, to consolidate some of other work done in Science with Mr Selfridge!
Non-app version:
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What is my Home Learning task? |
How long should it take me? |
Where will it fit into my learning at school? |
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Consolidation |
As discussed in class today, your maths task this week is to explore the trial tasks on CS Kids.
I have assigned some trial tutorials and games linked to other subjects as well.
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As long as it takes to get to grips with the platform! |
This platform will be regularly used by the school as part of home learning. |
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Consolidation |
Write a short descriptive passage that includes at least one of these toolkit techniques:
How about including these as an extra challenge? You might have already planned to use these grammar and punctuation tools:
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10 mins |
This will help to consolidate some of the work we have covered so far in our fiction unit. |
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Preparation |
Have a look at our new short text: Don’t Go Out After Dark.
You will be retelling this next week. Why not have think about some actions you might use? Can you begin to think about the type of text we might be working on?
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5-10 mins |
Our new text was launched today, and we will be starting the ‘Imitation’ phase on Monday. This will give you a headstart! |
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Art
Explore other artwork by L.S. Lowry, ready to feed back to Mr Selfridge in your next art lesson. |
10 mins |
This will help you to get a wider understanding of the techniques and themes applied throughout Lowry’s work. |
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What is my Home Learning task? |
How long should it take me? |
Where will it fit into my learning at school? |
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Consolidation |
Take a look at the ‘rapid reasoning’ questions in the Maths folder on our Class page. How many of these problems can you solve in 15 minutes?
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15 mins |
Many of these consolidation questions tie in with our recent work on place value and the four operations. |
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Preparation |
Refresh your understanding of fractions by watching this short video: Challenge: show me what else you know about fractions in your Home Learning book!
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3 mins
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Next week, we will be embarking on a fractions unit in maths. |
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Consolidation |
What if? Story retelling. Choose a significant moment in our class text: Alien Landing. List some ‘what if’ scenarios to explore ways in which the story could have taken a different turn, e.g. “What if Tom and Jez had taken a picture of the spaceship on their phones?” If you wish, you could do this task about your own story plan that you completed this week.
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10 mins |
This may inspire you to take your story down different avenues, or incorporate clever twists and turns like we have discussed in class. |
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Preparation |
Next week will be our ‘hot write’! Prepare yourself for this by choosing a range of fronted adverbials you wish to include in your story. If you’re stuck for ideas, try adapting some from the ‘Fronted Adverbials’ resource in the Writing folder on our Class Page.
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5-10 mins |
This will give you some useful sentence openers to magpie for your independent write next week. |
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Research task: Why was George Stephenson known as the ‘Father of Railways’? Be prepared to share your research in class next week! |
10 mins |
Our next lesson in the Industrial Revolution unit will look at the impact of new forms of power, and the further impacts these innovations had on transport, including the railways. |
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Consolidation |
Take a look on the Maths Resource area in the Home Learning section of our Class Page. Choose TWO of the red star homework extension questions on addition and subtraction to complete. Challenge yourself with the blue or gold star activities if you feel confident enough!
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10 - 15 mins |
This week, we have been exploring reasoning and problem solving questions for the four operations. |
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Preparation |
Refresh your understanding of division by watching this two minute video:
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2 mins |
Next week, we will be using the short and long methods for division. It will help to recap on what division is all about! |
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Consolidation |
Writing Toolkit
See if you can memorise the writing toolkit for mystery writing that we generated as a class. You can find it on the Writing Resources area of our Class Page.
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5 mins |
We will be planning and writing our mystery stories this week! Knowing the toolkit will help you to succeed. |
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Preparation |
Marvellous Magpies
Whilst home reading this week, try to magpie words and phrases to include in your mystery story.
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‘as and when’ |
The best writers pinch their ideas from somewhere! You can too. |
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History: Innovative Agriculture
Research what agricultural machinery looked like before the mid 1700s. Can you jot down some notes in your Home Learning book? |
10 mins |
Next week, we will be looking at how agriculture evolved as part of the Industrial Revolution.
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What is my Home Learning task? |
How long should it take me? |
Where will it fit into my learning at school? |
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Consolidation |
Visit this link: Play the ‘rounding to nearest million’ Pacman game
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10 mins |
This week, we have been rounding to various degrees of accuracy, up to one million. |
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Preparation |
Refresh your understanding of negative numbers. Draw a number line and use it to count backwards beyond zero. Can you count in different intervals, e.g. 6, 9 or 25?
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5-10 mins |
Next week, we will be reasoning and problem solving with negative numbers. It will help to refresh your memory on what they are! |
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Consolidation |
Performance: Alien Landing
Can you retell the story of Alien Landing using our class actions?
Perform it to a friend or family member.
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5 mins |
We are learning to become confident storytellers, and when it comes to the innovation stage of Talk For Writing, we will need to remember the story in as much detail as possible! |
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Preparation |
Recap on some of the devices writers use to build SUSPENSE in their writing. If you can’t remember anything, try researching!
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5 mins |
Next week, we will begin the ‘boxing up’ stage of our mystery writing. |
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History: Industrial Revolution Refresh your memory on the six factors that were responsible for the Industrial Revolution. Can you list them in your book? Be prepared to recite them in class! |
5 mins |
Next week, we will be delving into one of the six factors in more detail.
Can you predict which one? |