Y6 Home Learning 5.1.21

Hello everyone! I’m so sorry that we won’t be together in class today. After the Prime Minister’s late announcement last night, I have put together today’s home learning in the format below that you will be used to from the last lockdown when you were in Year 5. Work through the tasks in any order and remember to take breaks just like we would do at school.

Going forward, we will be changing the way we share home learning with you. We will be using a new online learning platform called Google Classroom. Details of this will be shared with you and your parents as soon as possible so look out for these.

Have a great day everyone. Keep smiling and stay safe.

From Mrs Fielding

Maths LO: To use, read, write and convert between standard units of measure using decimal notation to up to three decimal places

Today we are going to continue working on converting units of measure. Click the link below:

Home Learning - Year 6 | White Rose Maths | Maths Lessons Online

Scroll down to:

Summer Term - Week 8 (w/c 15th June) Lesson 3 - Convert metric measures

Watch the clip.

Have a go at the questions below:

English LO: To explain the meanings of new vocabulary within the context of a text

Yesterday we began our new biographies unit. Today you are going to read an example of a biography about and .

Begin by reading each paragraph. After reading each paragraph, try to summarise what you have read by writing one sentence only. Highlight any unfamiliar words that you come across.

Once you have read the whole text and highlighted any unfamiliar vocabulary, use a dictionary, thesaurus or WordHippo.com to find out the meanings. Write a definition of each highlighted word and some synonyms for each.

Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean - Life on Ice

Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean were both born in in 1957 and 1958 respectively. Both ‘only’ children, they began skating before their tenth birthdays and met in their late teens in 1975. At the time, Torvill worked as an insurance clerk and Dean was a trainee policeman. Working together, they became legends of British sporting history.

Early Career

Although started as figure skaters, when was introduced into the Olympics in 1976, they quickly switched training techniques to focus on this new discipline. However, unlike many of the world’s athletes, they couldn’t afford to train full time and needed to fit in their practice sessions around their working hours. Their determination paid off and in 1977 they qualified for the European and World Championships the following year, in which they were placed 9th and 11th. On their return to training, they acquired a new coach, Betty Calloway, who encouraged them to have ballet lessons to develop further their dance skills. The lessons paid off and later that year they won the British Championships – a feat they were to repeat for the next six years.

First

In 1980 the pair had a major breakthrough: having come 4th in the European Championships in Gothenburg, they qualified to compete in that year’s Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, USA. In an outstanding field they succeeded in achieving 5th place. They were pleased but they realised that if they were to achieve their true potential, they would have to give up their jobs and focus solely on their skating. With no income they worried about how they were going to survive, but luckily Nottingham Council offered them a grant which allowed them to work exclusively on their sport.

A Fresh Start

The following year, 1981, they entered the European Championships; the Russians were expected to take first place but Torvill and Dean swooped in and plucked the prize from them. They followed this success six weeks later by winning the World Championships. Torvill and Dean were now firm British favourites and that year they won BBC Team of the Year and were awarded with MBEs by the Queen at Buckingham Palace

Invention

The skating couple - who in spite of a lot of speculation were not romantically involved – were keen to re-invent the sport of ice dancing. Whilst at a performance of the musical ‘Barnum’, which starred Michael Crawford, the pair was inspired to base their next routine on the circus-based musical. This was the first time that an ice dance told a story. This approach and their technical ability impressed the judges and for the first time in ice dance history, Torvill and Dean achieved some perfect scores of 6.0 at the World Championships.

Ultimate Goal

In 1984, the Winter Olympics were held in in Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina). Torvill and Dean were the favourites to win the Gold medal but no-one could have anticipated the style in which they were to win. Dancing to music called Bolero, by Ravel, they achieved perfect 6.0 scores from all nine judges. This had never been achieved before and hasn’t since.

Arithmetic

French LO: To learn new vocabulary relating to a cafe

Today we are starting our new topic called “Creating a Café”.

Click the link below to watch a short clip which shows a typical Parisian café and some traditional French meals. *Start the clip at 1 minute 42 seconds.*

Below are the French names for some drinks that you might order at a café.

Read the words and practise saying them out loud. If you are unsure about the pronunciation, you can use Google Translate to listen to each one.

Je voudrais... I would like... s’il vous plaît please

un café coffee un café au lait coffee with milk une tasse de thé cup of tea un chocolat chaud hot chocolate un coca coca cola une limonade lemonade un milkshake milkshake une eau minérale mineral water

Write three sentences using the vocabulary above to say what you would like to drink.

E.g. Je voudrais une lemonade, s’il vous plait. I would like a lemonade please.

PSHE LO: To learn about diversity and what it means to live in a diverse community

Look at the word below:

DIVERSITY

What do you know already about this word? Do you know what it means? Have you heard it before?

Using a dictionary or WordHippo.com, look up the word and try to understand its meaning. It is often useful to look up synonyms to help you to fully understand what a new word means.

Now that you have an understanding of the meaning, what do you think it means to live in a diverse community?

Task:

Using what you have learnt about the meaning of diversity, write an acrostic poem about the word.

D______I______V______E______R______S______I______T______Y______

NumBots Try to spend some time on NumBots and Times Table Rock Stars at home today! and Times Table Rock Stars