This week you will receive a message from the class teacher on Monday, topic and extra-curricular videos on Tuesday and Thursday and a further reading for pleasure video on Friday. All other video lessons will be links to BBC Bitesize, BBC Teach, Oak Academy and NCETM. Resources for the entire week will be available on this blog.
Many activities will link to the “Unlock Challenge”, a set of challenges tailored to each yeargroup that focuses on achievable curriculum skills to focus on before we return to school.
Please find here a reminder on how to stay safe online.
Monday 22nd June 2020
Maths
Activity: Use multiplication and division problem solving skills to solve these Piggy Bank Problems
Challenge: NRICH Link – Money Bags
Unlock: Identify the Factors (to 100) Sheet 3
Multiplication and Division Piggy Bank Problems ANSWERS
English
This week you will be watching clips of different celebrities talking about their favourite books, from the BBC Teach series Bringing Books to Life, and completing activities linked to each video.
Video – Dick & Dom: George’s Marvelous Medicine
Activity: Write a set of instructions which tell the reader how to create their own marvelous medicine.
Challenge: Write an additional warning notice which details possible side effects of the potion.
Tuesday 23rd June 2020
Maths
Video – Multiplication Strategies
Activity: Continue using your knowledge of multiplication and division to practice your Problem Solving
Challenge: NRICH link – The Money Maze
Unlock: Identify the Factors (to 100) Sheet 4
Multiplication and Division Problem Solving ANSWERS
English
Video – Saira Khan: The Firework Maker’s Daughter by Philip Pullman
Activity: Predict what could happen next. How will Lyla escape? How does she get the royal Sulphur? Write this as the next chapter of the story.
Challenge: Write a summary of other stories you have read where the main character has had to solve a problem.
Wednesday 24th June 2020
Maths
Video – Revising ‘Factors’, ‘Multiples’ and ‘Common Factors’ in relation to fractions
Activity: Add Fractions with Denominators that are Multiples Activity Sheet
Challenge: Add Fractions with Denominators that are Multiples Challenge Sheet
Unlock: Identify the Factors (to 100) Sheet 5
Adding Fractions Activity Sheet ANSWERS
Adding Fractions Challenge Sheet ANSWERS
English
Video – Barney Harwood: The Demon Headmaster by Gillian Cross
Activity: Write a paragraph explaining the differences between the school and headmaster in this story, and our school and headteacher.
Challenge: How can you tell the Headmaster isn’t like other teachers? How does the author describe the Headmaster’s character? Create a character profile for the Demon Headmaster.
Thursday 25th June 2020
Maths
Video – The Greater Than Less Than Song
Activity: Comparing Fractions Activity Sheet
Challenge: Comparing Fractions Challenge Sheet
Unlock: Writing tenths and hundredths as percentages
Comparing Fractions Activity Sheet ANSWERS
Comparing Fractions Challenge Sheet ANSWERS
English
Video – Hannah England: Robo-Runners’ by Damian Harvey
Activity: Write a paragraph explaining how you know this book is set in the future and what is different about our world and where ‘Robo-Runners’ is set.
Challenge: Create your own imaginary world and write about it, detailing as much as you like. You could consider: climate, atmosphere, rules, inhabitants, language and entertainment.
Friday 26th June 2020
Maths
Video – Exploring the relationship between the numerator and denominator
Activity: Subtracting Fractions Activity Sheet
Challenge: Subtracting Fractions Challenge Sheet
Unlock: Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Sheet 1
Subtracting Fractions Activity Sheet ANSWERS
Subtracting Fractions Challenge Sheet ANSWERS
English
Video – Doc Brown: The Giggler Treatment by Roddy Doyle
Activity: Predict what could happen in the next chapter of the book, how would the gigglers help?
Challenge: Try writing a chapter of ‘The Giggler Treatment’ using humour.
Additional Resources for Maths
Please find below resources and websites that can be used to consolidate the home learning pupils are currently doing:
- Corbett Maths is where Ms Glenister gets the daily arithmetic practice sheets.
- Maths questions to extend learning by topic.
- Maths challenges available daily.
- NRICH challenges from the University of Cambridge.
Additional Resources for English
Please find below resources and websites that can be used to consolidate the home learning pupils are currently doing:
- 10 Minute Writing Challenges.
- RadioBlogging.net is a LIVE daily radio broadcast that teaches literacy and is aimed at families.
- Read the latest chapters published daily for J.K. Rowling’s The Ickabog story.
- Literacy Shed provides stimulus videos and writing ideas.
- Pobble365 publishes a new image with suggested activities to accompany it each day and has a vast back-catalogue of writing ideas.
If you would like to do additional writing, you can find ideas and stimuli here to prompt your writing. You can also find videos to watch and writing ideas at the Literacy Shed.
Reading
This is the perfect moment to explore lots of different books and read for pleasure. Please find below some links where you can listen to authors reading a large selection of books.
- Audible (currently free)
- First News is offering free weekly issues during this time frame.
- Get Epic is an online library with 40,000 children’s titles available to read.
- Oliver Jeffers’s will read one of his books every day. Readings will take place at 6pm UK time and are broadcast via Instagram Stories. All broadcasts have been recorded and will also be added to Jeffers’ website
- Poets are reading out their poems here, with online prompts offering comprehension questions.
- Storyline Online
- Best children’s books about coronavirus (e-book downloads)
Our Guided Reading text this week is a News Article – London’s Oldest Theatre.
Activity 1 Retrieval Skills
Activity: Answer these questions.
Challenge: At the bottom of the article, there is a short glossary. Look through the article again and add to the glossary with what you think are tricky or topical words. For an extra challenge, specify whether the words are nouns, adjectives, verbs or adverbs – or something else altogether!
Activity 2 Retrieval/Inference Skills
Activity: Using the information that is available to you in the text, create a poster advertising John Brayne’s “The Theatre” to local residents of London in the sixteenth-century.
Challenge: Create a similar poster for the Red Lion – there isn’t as much information about this theatre, so you may have to use a little imagination mixed with the facts that there are!
Activity 3 Prediction/Summarising Skills
Activity: Write a report, from the archaeologist who made the discovery, to his boss explaining what he has found and why this find is so significant.
Challenge: Write a reply back from the boss to the archaeologist with further instructions…
Additional Subjects
Art
Mark Kistler is hosting a live drawing session every weekday at 5pm.
Rob Biddulph is also hosting a Draw-A-Long every Tuesday and Thursday.
Ideas for being creative outdoors can be found here.
Computing
If you would like to practice your touch typing you can visit Typing Club or Nitro Typing. Both are free to sign up for.
Educode Academy also offer 30 minutes of free coding time each day.
ThinkUKnow has also developed a pack of 15 minute activities for you to do at home that explore different aspects of online safety. Each fortnight, they will release a series of new activities.
French
Please find below the activity sheet to accompany the video sent out on Tuesday 23rd June 2020.
You can also find below a list of websites that have a range of speaking, listening, reading and writing activities to support the learning of French:
Handwriting & Spelling
If you would like to practice more spellings, Spelling Frame has home learning opportunities for you to work on. Pen Pals, the scheme of handwriting UCPS follows, is currently also offering resources for free.
Year 5 and Year 6 Statutory Spelling List
Our spelling focus this week is ‘ei’ after ‘c’.
Activity: Your spelling words are deceive, receive, perceive, ceiling.
Challenge: Use these words in a sentence.
History
Active History is offering one month free access to their simulations, games and quizzes. They cover a broad range of historical eras.
Mindfulness
AvantiSchools are providing free daily well being opportunities. “Stay home and be well.” You can register and find the videos here.
Outdoor mindfulness activities
Free 30-day mindfulness challenge for families
Music
Singing is a great way to lift your spirits and connect with those around you. You can find songs with music and lyrics to sing on the SingUp website.
National Celebrations Challenges
As a community, our country celebrates a range of diverse and interesting themes. Each week, you can find here challenges and brain teasers related to some of these celebrations. This week:
Philosophy
If you would like to challenge your brain with some fun thinking visit this website for weekly challenges, riddles and games.
P.E and Games
Although we’re spending more time indoors, there are lots of things you and your family can do to keep fit and healthy! including:
- Tokyo Ten Activities – All you need is 10 minutes and simple equipment, and you will find discover new, simple ways to get moving.
- Get Active Activity Guide from Get Set
This week we have also started sending out videos from Premier Sport to help keep you fit and healthy. We hope you enjoy them!
Youth Sport Trust and Sky Sports have teamed up to unite the country through sport this summer with National School Sport Week At Home. It will take place between Saturday 20 June and Friday 26 June and you can find a range of activities, along with more information, here.
Science
Last week in Virtual Gardening Club, we told you about the photography competition for National Insect Week. From Monday 22nd June the competition is open. Good luck!
This week in Virtual Gardening Club, Ms Watson and Ms Glenister are tackling some of the toughest plants known to man… weeds! Your task is to join them in identifying as many weeds as possible, using the Royal Horticultural Society website as the key source of information. You can also use the following template to check off the different plants that you spot when you go exploring:
British Plant Photo Identification
You can find daily science activities and challenges at the Children’s University and Club SciKidz. Science Spot also offers ideas of science you can do at home, as well as Mystery Science, which is free for now.
Sustrans Outside In
Walking, cycling and scooting are great ways to contribute to keeping us active and healthy in body and mind. During this time where we are mostly required to stay at home, these activities become harder to do so. Sustrans Outside In therefore aims to provide ideas and inspiration to bring health and wellbeing activities into the home.
www.sustrans.org.uk/campaigns/outside-in/
