YEAR 6 HOME LEARNING – ‘At the Movies’ – Walt Disney Week 7 & 8 LITERACY MATHS WRITING Dear Parents, 1. BIG MATHS – complete the daily practice and the 1. Create a blurb advertising your favourite film. I hope you are still keeping safe and well. Thank you for weekly challenges. See if you can beat your score! What would you say about it to make people want to continuing to work hard at home! view it? Use persuasive language. I will let you know Here are some more learning activities/suggestions for your 2. ACTIVE LEARN PRIMARY – Games, worksheets which blurb catches my attention! children to try over the coming weeks. These activities cover the and videos are being allocated regularly. I will be able weeks beginning 18th May and 1st June. (There is a half term break to see your activity and progress. 2. Write a biography of Walt Disney (Walter Elias included in these weeks) Extra resources will also be uploaded to Disney). Tell me everything about him from his birth our school website. I have included things that can be done online, 3. TIMES TABLES – Complete this daily. Write out to his final days. What did he achieve? What was things that can be printed off and practical things you can do to your times tables; make a rap/song to remember them; the most popular film? Was he married? Did he have take a break from technology! use J2Blast on Hwb to practice and test yourself. children? Wow me with interesting information. In this unprecedented time, it is important that we all focus on and look after our well-being and mental health. One of the 4. BBC BITESIZE - Log on daily and complete the 3. Look up some of Walt Disney’s quotes. Choose tabs on our school website is ‘Well-being’ which contains a lessons. your favourite and tell me why. Think about the ‘Supporting Well–being’ document, identifying resources and https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year-6- quote ‘If you can dream it, you can do it’. Think and ideas to support pupils and parents during the Covid -19 pandemic. and-p7-lessons/1 write about your dreams and aspirations for the future. Mental Health Awareness week falls between 18th – 5. https://nrich.maths.org/14580 - a range of 24th May with the focus being on kindness. Activities and mathematical challenges. 4. Choose your favourite Disney film. Then, choose resources to support this week are listed below. your favourite scene from that film. Can you write a 6. PROBLEM SOLVING – These activities are great. playscript of that scene? Could you create a brand Don’t forget to keep in touch and send me your work via email: Select a) for the easiest level and you’re on your way new scene to include in your film? [email protected] I have really enjoyed receiving emails through. Also available in Welsh if you are brave from the children – I am really missing them! Also, if you would enough! - BBC Bitesize: Log on daily and complete the like to share the work you’re really proud of send it to Mrs Coates https://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/2019/maths/ English lessons. at [email protected] to be published on our school ca2/index.html?iaith=en https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year- website showcase tab! 6-and-p7-lessons/1 Keep checking our social media for any new ideas we come 7. www.topmarks.co.uk – daily practice across. Well done for doing such a brilliant job so far! Keep it up and stay safe. I would love you to share your writing that you 8. Check our school YouTube channel for tutorial produce – be imaginative! You can use Office 365 on videos on a range of mathematical strategies like this Kind regards, Miss Burke Hwb to share your writing with me. one on short division: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20jXd6mVLws &t=8s
DAILY READING HEALTH & WELLBEING Continue to read your books at home, online using Oxford Reading Buddy or Oxford Owls. Complete 1. Continue with the Joe Wicks Workouts daily www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3LPrhI0v-w the comprehensions on our school website. Amazon are doing some free audiobooks also. 2. Mental Health Awareness week falls between 18th – 24th May with the focus being on kindness. Try some of the socially distant acts of kindness posted on the school website. SPELLING The children’s spelling lists for the next couple of 3. Sustrans Cymru has launched a new activity programme aimed at families amid Covid-19. Once you have registered, it’s a weeks will be posted on our school website and free resource for parents providing fun ideas to bring education, health and well-being activities to your emailed to the children. home. ttps://sustrsans-info.org.uk/6EB-6V982-V3MIQJ-41YVWR-1/c.aspx Log onto Hwb and use J2Blast to practise. 4. Thrive – take a look at the suggested activities to support wellbeing uploaded to the school website under ‘Class 7’. SPEAKING/LISTENING - Find out more about your family or friends’ 5. We have been asked to get involved with a Football League /Cardiff City initiative called The Joy favourite or worst ever movies! Discuss favourite of Moving Home School Festival a booklet all about it has been attached. Keep an eye on the school Facebook/website for movies, characters, plots and endings. more details about getting involved. - Remember to check in with family members and friends regularly via facetime or phone calls/texts! 6. Outdoor Learning – take a look at ‘The 30 Days Wild Challenge’ from The Wildlife Trusts. It’s free to sign up to. https://www.wildlifetrusts.org OTHER LANGUAGES: Duolingo is a great app to practice. 7. Try this ‘5 Day Self-Esteem Challenge’ from ELSA support: Welsh: https://www.elsa-support.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/ELSA-Support-Self-esteem-challenge.pdf https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zw9wy4j 8. Fitness Challenge: Create a workout from the letters of your name. There is an example on our school website or you could create your own!
SCIENCE ICT 1. Log on to BBC Bitesize and do the science lessons - Research the 10 most successful Disney films and create a bar or line graph to show them. Look on our school website for a posted there: week beginning 18th May the focus is list and graph paper. Don’t forget to label your axis! on Magnets and week beginning 1st June the focus is on Life Cycles in Humans and Animals. - Use HWB to log on to J2Easy – there are many programs to use such as J2Code, J2Data, J2Write. There are lessons on https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/tags/zncsscw/year- there to follow or you can just explore and have a go yourself. 6-and-p7-lessons/1 - Microsoft 365 is an area on HWB where you can access office programmes such as PowerPoint and Word. 2. Watch some nature documentaries and create a fact file on the different animals observed. Try this - Minecraft Education Edition via HWB. Share your creations with me – can you ‘screen-shot’ your screen and send what David Attenborough ‘Our Plant’ one to start with: you’ve made to me via email? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9PeYPHdpNo - Can you create your own ‘Toy Story’ stop animation film? Use your toys/teddy’s to create a scene for a new Toy Story film!
CREATIVE/TOPIC ONLINE HELP: Please continue to log on to our online learning platforms: Active Learn, Oxford Reading 1. Sketch a movie character of your choice and send it to me. Have a look through this playlist of ‘how Buddy, Big Maths and Hwb. to draw’ Disney characters for inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv5qFYJNTbs&list=PLflf8xbnbx65Z2oa2F9uqKZxJJn-4Nynr Teachers Pet: https://tpet.co.uk 2. Make a poster for the Cinema advertising an upcoming movie. Twinkl: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/home- learning-hub 3. Can you design a new Disney character? Are they human? What are they called? Where do they Scratch : live? What do they look like? Draw a picture and label the features. Write a short description of your https://scratch.mit.edu/explore/projects/gam new character. es/ Creative computer programming 4. Create a timeline of Walt Disney’s movies starting with the first feature length animated film – For help in a range of subjects: Snow White (1937) and the most recent animated film - Frozen II (2019). Think about how these https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wm films have changed/improved and write about it on your timeline. n 5. Create a fact file about a particular country which is where a Disney film is set. Ideas for films https://www.letterjoin.co.uk – for online help and the countries they are set: China - Mulan, Australia - Finding Nemo, Africa - The Lion King, with handwriting France - Beauty and the Beast, Pinocchio – Italy, India – The Jungle Book, Norway – Frozen. Try to research the physical and human geography of your chosen country. Carol Vorderman Maths: https://www.themathsfactor.com
SUGGESTED EXAMPLE TIMETABLE
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
Session 1 Maths Maths Maths Maths Maths – 45 mins
Session 2 English English English English English – 45 mins
30 Reading for Reading for Reading for Reading for Reading for minutes pleasure pleasure pleasure pleasure pleasure
Health & Health & Health & Health & Health & Session 3 Wellbeing Wellbeing Wellbeing Wellbeing Wellbeing – 45 mins
Session 4 Science Topic/Creative ICT Science Topic/Creative – 45 mins
PLEASE be flexible with the timetable and remember that it is for LEARNING and ENJOYMENT. Learning can be fun and should be challenging, yet attainable. A problem does not mean it is too hard; it simply means we must search for the answer. The answer may not always be in the first place we look. Keep a positive GROWTH MINDSET and most importantly STAY SAFE!