Mrs Rodgers's new skill!

Hi Year 6,

With all this spare time at home, I have challenged myself to learn a new skill. Here is a video of me practising.

I would love to know if any of you have been learning anything new or practising something you haven't done for a while for example a musical instrument?

If not, can you challenge yourself to learn something new, there are lots of tutorials on the internet to help you.

Take care and stay safe

Mrs Rodgers

Baking Recipes and Methods

Hi Year 6,

We have created a variety of baking that you might want to complete with your adults at home these are a combination of mains, snacks and desserts but are really easy to follow and create if you have the ingredients and want to try them at home.

Each week we will upload two different ones. Please take pictures and send to us as we are really enjoying hearing what you have been getting up to.

This week we will start off nice and easy with Buns and Sausage Rolls.
Mrs Roberts and Mrs Rodgers

Year 6 Email

Creative/Fun activities to enjoy.

Below are a list of creative activities that you could attempt whilst you are not at school.

Have Fun! Why not take Photos and send them to your teachers to show them what you have been up to!

Stay Safe, Mrs Roberts

PE - Fitness Circuits

We know how much you enjoy PE and also know how important it is to stay active so this week we are setting you a challenge that will help to:

to develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance;

to compare your performances with previous ones

demonstrate improvement to achieve your personal best

Fitness Circuits

Use the fitness circuit cards to create your own fitness circuit! 

You can time yourself for one minute doing each exercise and note how many repetitions you complete on the recording sheet (draw out on a plan sheet of paper).

The six exercises are designed so they can be undertaken indoors or outside. Try to complete the fitness circuit regularly, and see how your scores for each exercise increase over time. Ask a family member how you could improve your technique so that you can complete more of each exercise.

Enjoy!

Science - The human skeleton

Can you find out the position of some bones in your skeleton? 

Find out where these bones are and label them on the skeleton - could you attempt drawing your own skeleton?

Do you know how many bones there are in the human body?

The skeleton has three functions; to support; to protect organs; and to help movement.

How does the skeleton support the human body?

How does the skeleton protect organs?

How does the skeleton help our bodies to move?

Science Investigation - Keeping active

How does exercise affect pulse?

This scientific investigation looks at how different exercises affect your pulse rate. To take your pulse rate, place two fingers on your wrist and count how many beats or pulses you can feel for 30 seconds.

You can complete this on a plain sheet of paper.

Planning

1) Choose three exercises that you will complete and write them below (e.g. running on the spot, star jumps, throwing and catching).

2) How long will you do each exercise for?

30 seconds      1 minute       2 minutes      3 minutes

Prediction

Which exercise do you think will give you the highest pulse rate? Try and explain why you think this.

Results

Record your pulse rate before and after each exercise

Exercise	Pulse rate for 30 seconds before exercising	Pulse rate for 30 seconds after exercising

Conclusion

1) Which exercise gave you the highest pulse rate?

2) Why do you think that this exercise gave you the highest pulse rate?

3) Find out why your pulse rate increases when you exercise and write an explanation below.

Grammar Terms

Hi All,

Please find attached a document that explains the Grammar terms used from Year 3 to Year 6 which you may find useful whilst completing your learning.

Stay Safe

Mrs Roberts

Good Night Mr Tom - Chapter 9

Hello Year 6,

We really hope you are enjoying reading Goodnight Mr Tom as much as we are!  Here you will find some questions and activity linked to chapter 9, that you can complete in your ideas books - there is no need to write out the questions just the answers are appropriate.

1. Why is the chapter called Birthday Boy?

2. How might the postman, Matthew Parfitt, know it is Willie's birthday?

3. Why was Willie speechless at the presents and cards that he received?
4. Find and Copy the phrase that shows how Tom tried to make Willie's morning special.
5. Why does the author use the word 'lovingly' to describe how Tom looked at the paints and brushes.
6. What is meant by the term contradicted? 
7. Why is an ellipsis used during Zach's speech at the bottom of page 113?
8. Find and copy the word or group of words that shows Lucy likes Willie and was happy that he liked the cakes that she had made for him.
9. Why has the author chose to use the word 'finally' in the sentence below? 
'After playing several party games, everyone finally returned home.'
10. Why was Willie sick all over the carpet?

Keep smiling Year 6 and remember we are missing you very much! 

Mrs Roberts and Mrs Rodgers

English - Descriptive Poem

Hello Year 6,

For English this week we wanted to share some photos that Aidan has been taking whilst out on his walk. They capture the true beauty of nature and we felt that these photos could be captured even more through description. So this week we would like to use these photos to write a descriptive poem like we created at the start of the year. You could either capture the colours and write a colour poem or the images themselves.

Here are two examples that may help:

Blue is the cloudless diamond sky, tranquil and shining, hovering above ready to heal people as they venture on their daily walk.

Yellow is a host, of golden daffodils; beside the lake, fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

 

maths puzzles 2

Here are some more maths puzzles to keep you thinking! Good luck :)

A special message from Mrs Hayes

Mrs Hayes is missing you all very much so here is a special message from her.

Mrs Hayes

This Week's Year Six Super Stars:

It has been great to see you all embrace the new way of learning and therefore we have decided that every Friday we will create a Year Six Super Stars’ section on the blog to celebrate some of the super work that is being shared with us.

Mrs Roberts and Mrs Rodgers super stars this week are:

Leo has been making posters in support of the NHS

Oliwia has made some Blueberry icecream:

Aidan has made some cake like Diane would but he said, "Diane's is better." He has also created an American to English dictionary, explained about a natural disaster in America and told us about the Life cycle of a Brown Bear!

Lily has been baking an array of delights, making these masks and spending time outdoors.

 

Well done to Enzo and Harry who have sent us examples of completed learning from their packs.

Please keep sending us your wonderful learning so that we can share it with others - be as creative as possible! 

Maybe you would like to:

Share a story or poem for us to enjoy?

Sing us a song?

Share a dance with us?

“We have created our own little family in school and thank everyone for keeping us safe.”

Hello Year 6,

We hope you are staying safe and well. We thought we would share with you some of the exciting things that our lovely children have been up to this week with Mrs Roberts, Miss Wilcox and Mrs Shaw, in case you wanted to try out any of them!

1. Building masks from cardboard and paint.

2. Making balloon models using modelling balloons and you tube tutorial, 

3. Making hugs to send to someone who needs one. 

(Mrs Roberts sent one to Mrs Rodgers and Miss Wilcox sent one to Miss Hanson) Even grown ups need a hug sending!

4. Made a rainbow of hands which we have displayed in the hall window for you to see when you enter via the hall doors,

5. Playing on the gym equipment and shark attack. 

6. Today we had our very own sports day with everyone receiving a certificate and an ice pop in the sun.

“We have created our own little family in school and thank everyone for keeping us safe.”

Are the words that have been shared this week.

week 4 English

We hope you managed to write some exciting, creative diary entries last week, We can't wait to read them when we are back at school.

This week for English, you should complete section 2 of the reading paper in your pack. (you should have completed section 1 last week)

We would also like you to complete the following tasks focusing on homophones.
Here is a great website to revise all about homophones if you need it:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/english-ks2-wonderful-words-homophones/z732t39

Monday
Re-write the sentences choosing the correct homophone
It was definitely there/their/they’re fault.
There/their/they’re my favourite!
It’s up there/their/they’re on the shelf.
There/their/they’re so happy they won!
They left there/their/they’re dog with there/their/they’re auntie while they were on holiday.

Now write 3 sentences of your own correctly using there/their/they're

Tuesday
Re-write the sentences choosing the correct homophone
Your/you’re doing my head in!
Pass me your/you’re finished work.
It’s your/you’re future.
Your/you’re a credit to your parents.
Your/you’re going to regret it if you don’t take your/you’re coat

Now write 2 sentences of your own correctly using your/you're

Wednesday

Write a sentence for each of these homophones, to show that you understand the correct context to use them in.

1). were

2). where

3). would

4). wood

5). there

6). their

7). they’re

8). which

9). witch

10). past

11) passed

12). write

Thursday

Re-write the paragraph and correct the underlined homophones

Won fine day when the son was shining weigh up in the sky, a pear of hairs

came hopping buy. Watching them from behind a fur tree was an enormous

grizzly bare. He had bean keeping an I on them four about a weak from his cave

 in the hills. Now hear was his chance for a peace of succulent hair pie for tee.

Friday 

Spot the incorrect homophones and correct them. Re-write the paragraph correctly.

The hairs looked over there shoulders too sea the bare stamping his feet with

rage. As they turned back they noticed sum dead pheasants in a sack. The van

driver was a poacher and was thinking, "Eye rather fancy a nice crusty hair and

pheasant pie four tee tonight," as he reached four his gun.

week 4 maths

Hi Year 6,

Here is a 'daily dozen' maths questions for you to complete in your exercise book each day this week.

In addition to this, please complete the second maths reasoning paper provided in your pack. You can choose to do this as a timed paper (40 mins) or you could spread it over the week and do a few questions per day.

Remember, any queries with regards to learning or any learning you wish to share with us please use the year 6 email.

year6@hilltop.doncaster.sch.uk

Daily Dozen Maths – 27.04.20

1. Emma gets 9 out of 12 on a maths test. What percentage did she get right?

2. Sofia scored 56 goals this season. If she played 14 matches, how many goals does she score on average each match?

3. Adam sets off walking to school at 7.45am. If he arrives are 8.35am, how long does it take him to walk?

4. The ratio of boys to girls in a class is 2:3. There are 18 girls, how many boys are there?

5. How many more grams is 8kg than 6200g?

6. How much money must I add to £12.40 to make £25?

7. What is 6 times 6 added to 5 times 5?

8. 13 x 13 =

9. Calculate the perimeter of an octagon with sides 12cm.

10.How many 20ps in £800?

11. Put the following in order: 0.06, 0.602, 0.26, 0.262, 0.002

12.What is 1/5 of 0.4?

Daily Dozen Maths – 28.04.20

1. Josh is watching Beauty and the Beast. At the end of the film it says MCMXCI. What year was the film made?

2. Sam is 6 years younger than Chloe. Their total age is 18. How old is Chloe?

3. Multiply 24 by 7.

4. Find 10% of 480.

5. How many grams is 9.5kg?

6. Mrs Roberts walks 6 miles every day. How many miles is this each week?

7. It’s 48 miles from Algon to Belview. It’s 32 miles from Belview to Cambert. How far is it from Algon to Cambert?

8. What is 8 times 8 minus 5 times 5?

9. How many 1cm squares can fit in a rectangle

which measures 5cm by 7cm?

10. Pens cost 15p and pencils cost 10p. Leo wants the same number of pens as pencils. How many can he buy for £2.50?

11. What decimal is equal to 3/100?

12. Divide 124,000 by 1000.

Daily Dozen Maths – 29.04.20

1. Write seventy-eight thousand and eight as a numeral.

2. Divide 180 by 9.

3. Multiply 6 by 7.

4. What is 6 out of 36 as a fraction? Write it in its simplest form.

5. Apples cost 40p per kg. How much do 2.5kg cost?

6. Fizz saves £4 every week. How much does she save in a year?

7. 79 – 5squared x 2 + 7

8. 5609 minus 809

9. Calculate the perimeter of an equilateral triangle with sides 7cm.

10. How many lines of symmetry has a rectangle?

11. What name is given to an angle less than 90o?

12.What is 25% of 400?

Daily Dozen Maths – 30.04.20

1. Write 84,708 in words.

2. Add 5698 and 2356.

3. Multiply 48 by 17.

4. Write 54/7 as a mixed number in its simplest form.

5. Gemma shares 50 sweets between her 4 friends equally. How many sweets are left over?

6. Hannah got 63% on a maths test. If the maximum

marks were 90, how many did she get right?

7. Divide the sides on a hexagon by the sides on a triangle.

8. How many vertices has a cuboid?

9. Calculate the perimeter of an octagon with sides 7cm.

10. How many 20s in 1800?

11. What decimal is equal to 7/10?

12. What is 4/5 of 400?

Daily Dozen Maths – 1.05.20

1. Divide 7209 by 27.

2. Add two thirds to three quarters.

3. Multiply 48 by 14.

4. What is 4 out of 36 as a fraction? Write it in its simplest form.

5. How many cm is 8.5km?

6. How much money must I add to £240 to make £500?

7. What is 3 times 3 taken from 5 times 5?

8. Multiply 3.6 by 2.4.

9. How many lines of symmetry has an equilateral triangle.

10. How many faces has a square based pyramid?

11. Which is bigger 25% of 360, or 30% of 400?

12. What is 15% of 1400?

Mrs Macleod's Story Time

Hello everybody!

I hope you are all well and staying safe. I am missing you all so much so I have decided to read you a special story! My special story contains a dinosaur who is very hungry... Can you guess the title?

Clink on the link below to see!

Mrs Macleod's Story Time 

Take Care and Stay Safe

Mrs Macleod

End of the Day - Jack and the Beanstalk - Revolting Rhymes

Over the last couple of days I have been talking to some of you who said that you are missing our end of the day story. So with a little help from Mrs Shaw, who thought you would much prefer me with a snap chat filter, have created one for you from our revolting rhymes!

Jack and the beanstalk - we hope you enjoy it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K7zm7PU1Ww&t=

EMail address

Hello Year 6,

We hope you have had a lovely Easter and ready for the new term. We will continue uploading challenges for you but we now have an email address that you can contact us on with any queries related to your learning or if you would like to send us your photos we would love to see them.

year6@hilltop.doncaster.sch.uk

We miss you and hope we get to see you again soon.

Mrs Roberts and Mrs Rodgers

Maths puzzles

Good morning Year 6,

Here are some maths puzzles to get your brains working this week.

1. Using just 4 straight lines, can you cut the pizza into 11 pieces? The pieces do NOT have to be equal.

2. How many blocks are in the shape below?

3. Use the information to solve the problem.

Good luck!