Year 6 Home learning January 2021
Year 6
Welcome to our Year 6 home learning page.
We have uploaded work which we will be learning in class. Please come and collect a class guided reading text –
Dracula from school.
We will send out daily links via dojo and google classroom for you to join so that you can be part of online learning with your teacher.
Here are suitable websites which may help your child with their home learning.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn – bbc bitesize KS2.
https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-year/year-6 – Oak academy Yr 6.
https://www.mymaths.co.uk/ – mymaths
Top tips on how to keep your child safe whilst on line for home learning.
- Always make sure that no one else is in the background.
- Turn on your camera.
- Ensure that you are dress correctly.
- Are you sitting in a suitable room?
Here is some more information about keeping safe.
If you need any help, please email your class teacher.
Mrs Allingham – louise.allingham@academystjames.com
Mr Brownsell – chris.brownsell@academystjames.com
Week 1 –
Word of the day
Spellings
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
What an outstanding effort the children have put into their learning this week, starting with their creative artwork in school on Monday. From research on fossils and pop-up cards, to moon personification poems and retrieving key information in Dracula and The Highwayman, the Year 6 children both in school and participating at home have made us all very proud!
Week 2
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday – Snow day – Home learning live lessons for all.
Who had fun in the snow?
Week 3
Monday
Curriculum – music
Our English wagoll is Frankenstein.
Can you write a book report about this story? Upload this challenge to dojo or the classroom.
Tuesday
What is coastal erosion? We have made models to represent the different types of erosion which play apart on the destruction of the East Coast of England.
Wednesday
Curriculum – Science
Don’t forget to look out for the live home learning PE link.
Here are some of the examples we have been doing in school this week.
Thursday
Our guided reading text is Dracula.
We are using a range of reading strategies to support children’s learning. The skills of skim, scan and close reading are being taught daily along with vocabulary check through pre teach vocabulary.
Friday
Here are some of the examples of the English which has been written in school and via home learning.
Enrichment – Can you post what you have done to remain active during this lesson? In school we have been using the small playground equipment.
Week 4
Remember to log onto live home learning lessons. The links are sent to dojo and classroom.
Collective worship with Mr Tolson is at 9 am every day.
Monday
Curriculum – science
This week we have been learning about how fossils are made, how we know that animals existed in the past and what we can learn from these fossils. The children have also made their own fossils.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Mental math’s
Maths
Enrichment – Today we have been riding the bikes and the scooters. What have you done to remain physically fit?