Good morning Class 6,

It’s FRIDAY! You have survived your second week of home learning!

I would like to say a huge well done and thank you to all the home learners and their parents/carers who are doing the most amazing job. Thank you for sending through examples of the wonderful work you have been completing at home – I have thoroughly enjoyed seeing what you have been getting up to.

Today will be a little different because, as you will all know, our day is structured slightly differently in school on a Friday.

PE with Joe Wicks

The link will send you to the Wednesday page. You should be able to find the Friday page from there.

Arithmetic Test

Please complete the attached arithmetic test. When you have finished, ask an adult to help you mark your completed test. Make sure you select the test appropriate for your maths group.

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Handwriting

I know how hard it is to keep on top of your handwriting whilst working from home. If you can, try working on the ing ed sheet.

Spellings

Focused reading

A longer reading task for today. Select the appropriate paper for your group.

Battle of Britain Differentiated Reading Higher Ability

Battle of Britain Differentiated Reading Lower Ability

Battle of Britain Differentiated Reading Middle Ability

Art

In art we are looking at the work of William Morris.

Have a go at working on one of William Morris’s designs.

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Thank you all for your dedication, determination and resilience.

You are amazing!

Hi,

I hope you are all well and are looking forward to the summer holidays. It all seems a little strange for those of us who haven’t been at school for a while.

I hope you enjoyed the class Zoom meeting. Unfortunately, I have a number of meetings this week, so won’t be able to hold one this week. Hopefully, you will now be meeting up again with your friends before too long.

This is also the last home learning pack. Don’t forget, that if you find some of the work a little tricky or too easy, then you can always have a go at the work on another class page that is more appropriate for you.

Remember, if you have any comments on the work, want to send anything to me or just share work with your classmates then feel free to email me at

c.chiverton@shawburystmarys.co.uk

I hope you have enjoyed the work over the last few weeks. Have a good summer, and I look forward to seeing you all in September.

PE

I see that Joe Wicks  is only putting out video content a couple of times a week. That’s not a problem, as you can revisit any of the older sessions on his webpage.

Reading

Hopefully, you have had a chance to access Cornerstones. There is so much good material on there if you have run out of books. Pick the one that is most appropriate for your reading level.

Spellings

I hope you managed to practise your spellings from last week. See if you can work through the spellings below. At the end of the week see if someone in the family can test you on them.

This week we will be looking at statutory spellings from the Year 5.

1. sufficient
2. opportunity
3. disastrous
4. awkward
5. interfere
6. signature
7. government
8. foreign
9. appreciate
10. temperature

Maths

I hope you have been enjoying the White Rose Maths. Don’t forget, if you get stuck on any of it, BBC Bitesize is a good place to find help.

Some of the pages this week are too large to post as an attachment.

Video link

Lesson 1 – Metric units

Lesson 2 – Imperial units

Lesson 3 – Converting units of time

Lesson 4 – Timetables

Times Tables

Literacy

BBC Bitesize continues to have some useful activities that are usually linked to punctuation and grammar. However, I like to take the opportunity to write creatively and use my imagination. I would therefore like you to write a story around the following image.

Question time!

What colour is water?

Is the water in the sea different to the water in rivers and lakes?

Is this water different to the water we have in our homes?

What happens to water when it goes down the drain?

Can you continue the story verbally? You could tell it from the perspective of the boy or the fish!

Focus on describing the boy’s feelings, and what he can see. The boy might come across some other creatures as they travel out to sea. What creatures might they be?

Sentence challenge!

A relative clause is a type of subordinate clause. It usually adds more detail about the noun in the main clause.

Relative clauses turn simple sentences into complex sentences.

For example, this is a simple sentence:

The boy held on to the fish’s tail.

It can be turned into a complex sentence by adding a relative clause:

The boy, who was having amazing fun, held on to the fish’s tail.

The main clause could stand alone as a simple sentence, but the relative or subordinate clause cannot.

Can you use relative clauses to add extra information to a sentence using who, which, where, when, whose or that?

Story starter!

It was the most exciting ride ever! Even better the highest, fastest rollercoaster!

The boy held on to the fish’s tail with both hands as it rocketed through the water. Its scales felt slimy and slippery, yet his grip remained strong.

The warm water whipped against his cheeks as they raced along; the sand from the seabed tickling his toes. Where was the fish taking him? He couldn’t wait to find out!

Good luck

Science

I hope you enjoyed researching some famous naturalists. This week, I’d like you to do something slightly different. Can you select an animal of your choice and carry out as much research as possible about it. Try and find out about their habitat, what their diet consists of, any factors that might be affecting these, reproduction, predators and anything else you think is relevant. When selecting an animal, ensure that it’s one that you can research easily. I’ll leave it up to you to decide how you present this information.

Topic

This week, I’d like you to explore sources about police crime prevention in order to make a poster to help prevent wrong-doing or accidents in school.

You will:

• Explore sources about police crime prevention.
• Make a poster or a presentation inspired by a historical theme.

The police don’t just find criminals after they have committed a crime, they also try to make sure that crimes aren’t committed in the first place. The way they do this is by trying to let people know how they can keep themselves safe from criminals. In the past they often made posters to do this, and, more recently, TV adverts too.

Have a look at examples of crime prevention posters and how they have used pictures, text and colour to get their point across.

I’d like you to to make a poster (and/or a video/presentation – it’s your choice what the end result is) to try to get the rest of the school to avoid accidents or bad behaviour. Think about accidents or bad behaviour that sometimes happens in school. Don’t forget that bad behaviour in school isn’t a crime, and the police enforce the laws made by government.

Choose one issue that you want to make a poster (or video/presentation) about and then  make a poster to give people advice on how to avoid accidents or bad behaviour.

Hi,

I hope you are all well and are looking forward to some relaxation in the social distancing rules.

I hope you enjoyed the class Zoom meeting. I have arranged another one for this week.

Don’t forget, that if you find some of the work a little tricky or too easy, then you can always have a go at the work on another class page that is more appropriate for you.

Remember, if you have any comments on the work, want to send anything to me or just share work with your classmates then feel free to email me at

c.chiverton@shawburystmarys.co.uk

There is now a new way of accessing Twinkl materials. If I have included any you will need to type in a pin number in order to gain access to any materials that have been posted. I will post the number if required.

PE

I see that Joe Wicks  is only putting out video content a couple of times a week. That’s not a problem, as you can revisit any of the older sessions on his webpage.

Reading

Hopefully, you have had a chance to access Cornerstones. There is so much good material on there if you have run out of books. Pick the one that is most appropriate for your reading level.

Spellings

I hope you managed to practise your spellings from last week. See if you can work through the spellings below. At the end of the week see if someone in the family can test you on them.

This week we will be looking at common words from the Year 5.

1. accommodate
2. conscience
3. existence
4. muscle
5. rhythm
6. accompany
7. conscious
8. explanation
9. necessary
10. sacrifice

Maths

I hope you have been enjoying the White Rose Maths. Don’t forget, if you get stuck on any of it, BBC Bitesize is a good place to find help.

As some of the questions require you to measure an angle you could try estimating using this protractor to help.

Video link

Lesson 1 – Regular and irregular polygons

Lesson 2 – Reasoning about 3D shapes

Lesson 3 – Reflection

Lesson 4 – Translation

Times Tables

Literacy

BBC Bitesize continues to have some useful activities that are usually linked to punctuation and grammar. However, some of you might like the chance to do some story writing. There are so many ways you could take your writing that I wouldn’t like to restrict you by saying you have to do it in a particular way. There are a few ideas to start you off from talk4writing but then it’s up to your fantastic imagination and creativity.

Science

This week, I’d like you to:

• Make observations, as a natural scientist would, recording data and reporting findings.
• Learn about some famous naturalists.

Activities

1. Make observations, record findings and draw conclusions, as natural scientists.
2. Research and present, in role, information on a significant naturalist.

If you can, o out into the  local woodland or park and get sit and observe nature. You will need to sit comfortably and remain still and quiet. What can you see, what can you hear, and what can you smell? Move slowly as you write so as to not disturb any wildlife. Hopefully over 10-15 minutes birds and mini-beasts should be seen and heard. Not everything you hear will be natural – you may hear and see vehicles on nearby roads, or planes in the sky.

What is a natural scientist?. A natural scientist, or naturalist, studies natural history, i.e. the study of plants and animals by observation rather than by experimentation. An animal behaviourist makes a scientific study of everything an animal does (from amoebae to gorillas!), so again they observe very carefully. You have just ‘been’ natural scientists and in fact have been working as natural scientists over the past few weeks as you have observed the insects and frogs.

Can you name any scientists who are naturalists or animal behaviourists? (Charles Darwin, Chris Packham, David Attenborough, Alfred Russel Wallace, Steve Backshall, Steve Irwin, Jane Goodall, George McGavin, etc.) You may have seen many of these people presenting natural history programmes on the television. What sort of behaviour or processes of animals and plants might be studied? Feeding, sleeping, finding/building shelter, interacting with other members of their species or with other animals, reacting to stimuli, playing, fighting, learning skills, mating or reproducing, excreting, etc. All things to do with being alive, well and happy! Watch David Attenborough presenting one of his natural history programmes. These programmes introduce people who are not scientists to many interesting and wonderful aspects of animal and plant life. People can see things happening or visit places virtually which they are unlikely to see or visit themselves. The programmes take a long time to make – the naturalists and film crew have to be very patient and can spend long hours waiting to capture a particular behaviour on film; they are filmed in often quite extreme conditions or difficult to access places; some of the plants and animals are rare or timid (in the case of animals) or the behaviour only happens at night (so sometimes infra-red cameras are used).

Jane Goodall is an expert on primates, particularly well-known for her work with chimpanzees. Listen to her talking about her life in the links above. She started working with just a notebook and binoculars – observing carefully.

I’d like you to complete your final observations and diary entries for the insects. You need to look at your propagated plants (if you had a chance to complete it), taking measurements and making observations and draw labelled diagrams, graphs, etc., then drawing conclusions on the success of the cuttings. Examine the runners and potatoes as well.

Exploring important natural scientists: Research and make notes on one of the naturalists.

Scientific illustrations exhibition: You can create your own art books that contain your illustrations from the block as well as select your best specimen to be put forward for the school website.

Vocabulary
Natural scientist, naturalist, observation, conservation, endangered

Weblinks
Jane Goodall Org from www.janegoodall.org.uk
Jane Goodall from http://video.nationalgeographic.com

Topic

This week I’d like you to look at questions of cause and significance when drawing the story of a detective case as a cartoon.

You will:

• Address questions of cause and significance based on historical sources.
• Improvise the story of a historical criminal case.
• Write and/or draw a narrative version of an historical event.

Hi,

What a difference in the weather this last week. I hope you have been able to enjoy it and haven’t been suffering from hay-fever.

Remember, if you have any comments on the work, want to send anything to me or just share work with your classmates then feel free to email me at

c.chiverton@shawburystmarys.co.uk

There is now a new way of accessing Twinkl materials. You will need to type in a pin number in order to gain access to any materials that have been posted.

PE

I see that Joe Wicks  is only putting out video content a couple of times a week. That’s not a problem, as you can revisit any of the older sessions on his webpage.

Reading

I hope you have had a chance to access Cornerstones. I’ve used them a lot in the past and they provide good reading materials. Perhaps you could review something that you have read recently. You could also look at  Twinkl. You’ll find that they are often topical and will be differentiated. Pick the one that is most appropriate for your reading level.

Spellings

I hope you managed to practise your spellings from last week. See if you can work through the spellings below. At the end of the week see if someone in the family can test you on them.

This week we will be looking at words ending in the suffix -shul spelt -cial or -tial

1. presidential
2. official
3. confidential
4. initial
5. essential
6. partial
7. special
8. official
9. artificial
10. financial

Maths

I hope you have been enjoying the White Rose Maths. Don’t forget, if you get stuck on any of it, BBC Bitesize is a good place to find help.

Some of the work this week requires a protractor. I understand that most of you won’t have one, but if you could print one off the internet and use it to estimate your angles.

Video link

Lesson 1 – Measuring with a protractor (2)

Lesson 2 – Drawing lines and angles accurately

Lesson 3 – Calculating angles on a straight line

Lesson 4 – Calculating angles around a point

Times Tables

Literacy

BBC Bitesize continues to have some useful activities that are usually linked to punctuation and grammar. However, some of you might like the chance to do some story writing. There are so many ways you could take your writing that I wouldn’t like to restrict you by saying you have to do it in a particular way. There are a few ideas to start you off from talk4writing but then it’s up to your fantastic imagination and creativity.

Science

This week, I’d like you to:

• Research the life cycles of a contrasting bird, insect, amphibian and plant.
• Record life cycles in the form of annotated scientific illustrations.

Activities

1. Research the life cycles of an insect, amphibian, mammal, bird and plant that contrasts with those already studied.
2. Create a series of annotated scientific illustrations that reflect the life cycles of the animals and plants they have researched.
3. Use all skills developed so far for sketching and developing colour and texture using watercolour pencils.

Investigation – analysing secondary sources/pattern seeking
Compare the lifecycles of mammals, amphibians, insects and birds (pattern seeking).
Research reproduction in plants and animals.

We are going to do some travelling! Try to find some interesting and quirky animals and plants from around the world and explore their life cycles online. We are going to research a range of life cycles, from around the world. Do mammals lay eggs? Not in general, except for two unusual species: duck-billed platypus and the spiny anteater.They are called monotremes and are found in Australia and New Guinea.

Another type of mammal called a marsupial, e.g. kangaroo, wallaby and koala bear are found mostly in Australasia and the Americas and they have a slightly different life cycle as well – they give birth to poorly developed babies who after birth crawl into a pouch in which they can suckle on the mammary glands to grow and develop further. Have a look at the kangaroo life cycle diagram and note that the baby kangaroo (called a joey) weighs less than 2g when it is born and is about 2 cm long. It is blind and hairless. It crawls through the mother’s fur and into the pouch where it starts suckling on one of the mammary glands. After about 6 months it starts to climb out of the pouch to spend some time exercising and eating. At about 8 months it leaves the pouch.

These are examples of different life cycles to the ‘classic’ mammalian life cycle and make for an interesting contrast to the native mammal that you researched in the last session. How might you create a scientific illustration for any of these more unusual mammals – what sort of sketches might you include to show how these life cycles differ. Think about the kind of information you will need to find out for your illustration.

Try to create a total of six illustrations. Talk to an adult about what you have found and check the language you are using.

Vocabulary
Life cycle, mammal, bird, amphibian, insect, reproduction

Weblinks
DK Find out from www.dkfindout.com
All living things from www.bbc.co.uk

Topic

This week I’d like you to find out what a police officer does and make drawings of police officers at work.

You will:

• Find out what a police officer does today as a prelude to doing historical research.
• Write a job description.
• Draw an image of a person doing a task.

If we were at school I would have asked for a police officer to come in for a chat. As we can’t have that, then I’d like you to watch the YouTube video from 4.10 and do the fitness test at the same time as the police recruits. You have to run from one end of the room to the other by the time the beep sounds – if you’re too quick or too slow, you’re out. The beeps get closer together every few goes!

Have a look at the Police PowerPoint to recap on some of the things that a police officer has to do today. You are going to write a job description for a police officer. Job descriptions are written to try to show people who want that job what it would be like.

Have a look at the Police Officer Job Description and the sections like headings, sub-headings and bullet points. Think about the different sections of the job description and what you want to add.

Once completed you can add a picture of a police officer doing something to the job description you have written in the box on the template using the drawing materials you have provided.

Weblinks

Hi,

Hopefully, you have all been able to access the week’s home learning and like the range of tasks provided.

Remember, if you have any comments on the work, want to send anything to me or just share work with your classmates then feel free to email me at

c.chiverton@shawburystmarys.co.uk

PE

I hope you are enjoying, and keeping up with your daily Joe Wicks.

Reading

An excellent resource for reading has been provided by Cornerstones. I’ve used them a lot in the past and they provide good reading materials.

Spellings

I hope you managed to practise your spellings from last week. See if you can work through the spellings below. At the end of the week see if someone in the family can test you on them.

This week we will be looking at words ending in shus spelt –tious,one tricky spelling that sounds like it follows the rule and a few common misspelt words.

1. infectious
2. cautious
3. nutritious
4. ambitious
5. fictitious
6. superstitious
7. anxious
8. believe
9. because
10. separate

Maths

I hope you have been enjoying the White Rose Maths. Don’t forget, if you get stuck on any of it, BBC Bitesize is a good place to find help.

Video link

Lesson 1 – Subtracting decimals with the same number of decimal places

Lesson 2 – Subtracting decimals with a different number of decimal places

Lesson 3 – Multiplying decimals by 10 100 and 1000

Lesson 4 – Dividing decimals by 10 100 and 1000

Times Tables – With the ultimate times tables sheet I would like you to time yourself and see how many you complete correctly in 5 minutes. Next week, complete the same test and see if you can beat your score.

The answers are are a little too large to upload, so I’ve put them at the bottom of this page. No peaking!

Literacy

BBC Bitesize continues to have some useful activities that are usually linked to punctuation and grammar. However, some of you might like the chance to do some story writing. There are so many ways you could take your writing that I wouldn’t like to restrict you by saying you have to do it in a particular way. There are a few ideas to start you off from talk4writing but then it’s up to your fantastic imagination and creativity.

Topic

This week we are going to look at the courts. I would ideally like to have set this up in class.

In a court you have to swear to tell the truth. What do you think a court of law is? If you laugh you could be threatened in a semi-serious manner with ‘contempt of court’.

I would like you to research the following:

What is the  job of the judge?

What is usually decided in a court of law?

What are people like you who give evidence called?

Who else would you find in a court of law?

Who often helps the judge make a decision about whether someone is guilty?

What happens to people if they are found guilty?

How long have we had courts of law?

Have they always worked in the same way?

These last questions will be hard to answer, so this is a good time to become investigators to report back after doing some research.

Look at the second question and see if you can break it down into smaller questions, as it covers a lot of information, e.g. Have courts of law always had juries? Have courts of law always been run by one judge? Have you always had to swear an oath to tell the truth if you are a witness? Have fines and prison been the main types of punishment? 

In the weblink are some sites that might help you. I’ve also included a Brief history of courts  for you to look at.

Weblinks

Science/Art

You might need to have a chat with a grown up in your house before you consider the science for this week. We would normally be teaching this at this point in the year and it is appropriate for the age group.

Match the offspring names to the mammalian adults Mammals and their young.

We first need to consider what a mammal? – It is an animal that has mammary glands, which in the female develop and produce milk for feeding the young. Mammals are warm-blooded and normally have hair (fur) on their bodies. They have live births (not eggs, in general – exceptions will be explored in another session). Mammals have a fairly simple life cycle and reproduce using sexual reproduction – once male (sperm) and female (egg) gametes come together through internal fertilisation, a foetus forms which remains in the mother’s uterus for a gestation period (this varies from less than a month for a mouse to almost 2 years for an elephant). Watch the human reproduction video then note that young are born live and look like the adult, just smaller and less developed. The young then develop and grow into adults. Compare the mammalian life cycles to the more complex life cycles that you explored in the previous session. Watch a horse giving birth in the BBC clip and highlight how the foal gets onto its feet within minutes – does this happen with human babies? Now watch the BBC reproduction video and identify the most obvious difference between birds and the large majority of mammals. Birds lay eggs! Look at the BBC bird clip then look at the egg diagram and notice that if the egg has been fertilised before it was laid (internal fertilisation) the germinal disc gradually grows into the chick using the nutrients stored in the yolk. The white protects the egg and the cords hold the yolk in place. The air cell/sac allows the bird to breathe just before it breaks out of its shell. There are tiny pores in the egg shell which allow air to enter.

Consider the life cycle of a swallow. They breed in the northern hemisphere (including Britain) and fly south in winter to South Africa crossing the dangerous Sahara, then return to their breeding grounds the following spring. Other birds might migrate only within Britain, e.g. thrushes from Scotland migrating down to southern England. Migration is usually driven by the non-availability of food, which is often the result of climate & habitat changes during different seasons. Birds usually migrate in flocks. We will be exploring zoological illustration of native mammals and birds during this session.

Activities

1. Identify a local mammal and bird species and research their life cycles online.
2. Draw and annotate a life cycle zoological illustration for both mammal and bird lifecycles.
3. Use watercolour pencils to create texture and colour in their drawing.

Draw the life cycle of a ‘local’ or native mammal (see list). You will need to complete online research to help. Make sure you use reliable sources of information and how to check details by cross-referencing. Think about how to create feather and fur textures with your watercolour pencils.

Investigation – analysing secondary sources
Research and sketch mammalian and bird life cycles for comparison.

Vocabulary
Mammal, bird, sexual reproduction, life cycle, gestation, foetus, sperm, egg, uterus, chick, egg, baby, adult

Activities

1. Identify a local mammal and bird species and research their life cycles online.
2. Draw and annotate a life cycle zoological illustration for both mammal and bird lifecycles.
3. Use watercolour pencils to create texture and colour in their drawing.

Investigation – analysing secondary sources
Research and sketch mammalian and bird life cycles for comparison.

Vocabulary
Mammal, bird, sexual reproduction, life cycle, gestation, foetus, sperm, egg, uterus, chick, egg, baby, adult

Weblinks
Horse giving birth from www.bbc.co.uk
Human reproduction from www.bbc.co.uk
Reproduction (from 3min 16) from www.bbc.co.uk
Life of birds – egg laying from www.bbc.co.uk
Chicks hatched and raised online from www.relaxedfarming.co.uk

I hope you have a good week.

Mr Chiverton

Maths answers

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4