Y6 Home Learning IdeasDear Year 6 Parents,We hope you are all well and that the children are happy and settled during these very strange times. We are missing you all very much and hope that we will be able to see you all soon. We trust that you will find the information within this guide helpful and that you will be able to use it to support your children throughout the following weeks – if you choose to. Wishing you the very best.Sarah McKenzie (smckenzie@st-james-pri.gloucs.sch.uk)Rachel Williams (rwilliams@st-james-pri.gloucs.sch.uk)Adrian Kellers (akellers@st-james-pri.gloucs.sch.uk)

Learning by Questions @ Homehttps://www.lbq.org/homeFull access to Year 6 question sets in Maths, English and Science, curated by week. Totally free to use, no registration needed.

BBC Bite SizeBBC Bite Size will be producing online sessions for each year group from Monday 20th April for different curriculum areas.https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn

MathsWhite Rose Home LearningFollow the weeks on this site as they are added. There is a useful teaching clip and activity to accompany each learning step.Week 1 Ratio and proportionWeek 2 Angles, using a protractorhttps://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

Can Do Maths Parent Packshttps://stjamesbookbaghome.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/candomaths-workouts-6.1-6.2-march-2020.pdfThese focus on practising and applying learning that has already taken place this year and will follow the same basic structure: some ‘Do It’ practice, problems to solve including a game, empty box, challenges and worded problems. The content will be based on units taught so far this year - more content will be produced by Can Do Maths and will be added to the St James’ Virtual Book Bag as we receive them. At the moment there are three workouts available for each year group. Although they are longer able to produce a video for each day of the workouts, they have updated the playlists on their channel and have put together generic videos for each game and workout for reference.www.buzzardpublishing.com/cando-videos

Corbett maths5 a day tasks (excellent daily consolidation) - aim for gold but there are easier and trickier options so please be led by your child.https://corbettmathsprimary.com/

Kahn Academy is useful for clips to support with methods:https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic-home

WritingAny writing at all would be wonderful!

Here is the link to the expectations in writing for Y6 to help you to remember what elements to include:http://stjamescofeprimary.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Year-6-Expectations.pdf

With any of these writing activities that you complete, please email them to the class teacher. If you have handwritten them, just take a photo and email it that way. We would love to read them!

Literacy Shedhttps://www.literacyshed.com/alma.htmlUse Alma as a stimulus for your writing - it’s a little bit creepy but will generate some great writing. Using the link above you will be able to see some work generated by other Y6 children.

Write as a narrative Write a newspaper article about the events going on in the town about the missing

childrenThe Literacy Shed is a wonderful resource to stimulate writing and they are producing more resources to support learning at home.

Jane Considine Super Sentence Stackers Great writing sessions on YouTube - live lessons but can easily re-watch, e.g. Blue Umbrella, Hair Love… You don’t need to limit yourself to just one chunk!

Literacy with Miss Phttps://literacywithmissp.comOne English idea is being added a day - lots of scope here for inspiring writing.

Inspirational writing using a picture stimulushttps://www.pobble365.com/ - scroll down for short and long writing ideas.  By clicking on the Pdf link, the writing tasks are presented as a Power Point – much more user friendly for children to use independently.

Class 13 - Newspaper article about Philippe Petit’s tightrope walk. For anyone who was absent before school ended, it would be great for you to watch ‘The Walk’ as a stimulus. Alternatively, you could write some ‘good news’ articles based on some of the heroes/treasures we are hearing about in these difficult times.

Class 14 - daily diary or poetry task making sure each day they use adventurous vocabulary and complex grammar

Spelling, Grammar and PunctuationConsolidate and revisit the content covered so far. This sheet is a good guide for revision, definitions and explanations:http://www.tranmerepark.leeds.sch.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Phrase-clause-explanation.pdfSome useful revision activities, covering the main areas of grammar and punctuation on BBC Bitesize. They will also be launching lessons from 20th Aprilhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwwp8mnLearning by Questions @ Homehttps://www.lbq.org/homeFull access to Year 6 question sets in Maths, English and Science, curated by week. Totally free to use, no registration needed.Keep practising the Y5/6 Common Exception Words - link belowhttps://www.chawton.hants.sch.uk/attachments/download.asp?file=54&type=pdf

ReadingSee Virtual Book Bag for ‘100 Books to Read’ as well as ‘Take 5 CLPE’ resourcesDedicate time every day for DROP EVERYTHING AND READ.Love Reading for KidsA very helpful book recommendation website for children and with the mission to engender that lifelong love of reading in kids. You can register for free.https://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/

GeographyChoose an area of North America and write a non-chronological report about it, making sure you refer to the physical and human aspects of the region.

ScienceElectricityBBC learning zone have fabulous science clips.https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zj44jxsLearning clips linked to electricity, conductors and circuits

After your child has watched a clip, are they able to start a knowledge organiser on an A3 piece of paper? Each time adding more and more key information to it once another video has been watched. This can be done independently, all they need to know and understand is that, they need to write/draw down the key information they have learnt from each of the short video tutorials. See below for an example – there are plenty of other examples on the internet for inspiration/ideas for presentation.

STEM LearningSTEM Learning is producing some great resources which can be used to investigate scientifically at home - great to do with siblings if that helps. Have a go at any of these - you don’t have to stick to electricity. Photos of anything you do would be wonderful and we would love to see them!https://www.stem.org.uk/home-learning/primary

Religious Educationhttps://www.natre.org.uk/uploads/Free%20Resources/2%207-11%20RE%20Today%20and%20NATRE%20home%20learning%20Spirited%20Arts.pdf Click on the above link to find out more about the Spirited Art and Spirited Poetry competition. You will have 3 themes to choose from, and you are able to use any resources and medias. Your work can be 3d or 2d and remember to use the sentence stems on page 3 to explain your thoughts about your art as you were doing it. The closing date is the 31st of July 2020, so you have plenty of time to be creative.

ArtPop ArtTake a look at this link;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhEyoDCTSDQand this one to understand some of the concepts behind the pop art movement – it is great fun!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHBm8_ooPVoResearch different artists, e.g. Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein - could create a knowledge organiser as you gather information.

Use their work to inspire your own Pop Art compositions, e.g. explosions, self-portraits… - could use paint, collage, pens…

SketchingSketch in your own style not following a drawing program. Do a 10 minute daily sketch of something e.g. an animal one day, a person the next, a flower.Sit in the garden to draw or sketch.DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE VALUE OF DRAWING AND SKETCHING AND PAINTING - it’s super for brain development and relaxation.

DTPlan a menu typical for an American diner in the 1950s. Once you have researched and planned your menu, you could prepare it for people at home and then evaluate it suggesting any modifications you would make. Would definitely love to see some photos of this if you do it!

MusicTry to listen to various types of music and write down your thoughts on it - Mr Kellers has made a play list to go with this:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4TrX9eXcTHk0bg9HFQTzeLSome questions to help you:

Do I like it? Why? How does it make me feel? What does this make me think of? What instruments can I hear? Is it fast/slow/loud/quiet? You might even want to try and draw some pictures based on the music that you are

listening to.

Have a go at using things that you have around the house to make some instruments that you can use to play along with. (Some ideas can be found here https://feltmagnet.com/crafts/Music-Instruments-for-Kids-to-Make). Send a picture/video of your instrument to us and explain how you can make sounds from it.

Computinghttps://studio.code.org/s/express-2019 Earlier this year, we used this website to learn various tools for coding. There are plenty of courses on there that you can go through, some that we have done that you can re-visit, and others that are completely new.

Philosophy for Children (P4C)Here are some ideas and stems for discussing big questions.https://www.thephilosophyman.com/p4c-questionsSome more clips here to promote discussion.https://www.youtube.com/ThePhilosophyMan/videos