Year 6 Virtual School

29 June 2020

Daily Message

It’s the final Monday of June. You are officially entering your final month at this school – exciting times! Enjoy today’s daily message: you may learn about a new literary sensation.

Listen to today’s class book here


This week’s suggested Year 6 timetable is here

Maths

Maths

It’s Mixed Maths today – hooray! We’re revising some fractions bits before tackling a tricky problem.

Click here to watch the video.

English

English

English today is guided reading. Listen to the text being read here

Click here for a copy of the text, the questions are here and the task sheet is here.

Year 6 Virtual School

30 June 2020

Daily Message

Happy Tuesday Year 6! Last day of June, concluding the first half of 2020. Enjoy today’s learning and see you in school, or virtually if you are at home.

Tuesday’s instalment of our class book can be found here


This week’s suggested Year 6 timetable is here

Maths

Maths

We are nearly done with our revision booklet, well done! Today, we have a practice test, involving everything we have learnt about this year.

Click here to watch the video.

Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have yours.
Click here for the answers.

English

English

This is it! This is the moment you have all been waiting for – it’s time to put all your creativity into action today and write the first half of your own Greek myth. You’ll be writing the second half tomorrow. You need to write about a page and a half today. Here is the lesson.

Click here to run through the answers to your guided reading activity from yesterday

You can find a PDF copy of the answers Poor Ginger Answers .

Your spelling lesson this week is on words with unstressed vowels. Get familiar with your key words for this week here.

Year 6 Virtual School

1 July 2020

Daily Message

We are reading the final chapters of The BFG today. Enjoy it here


This week’s suggested Year 6 timetable is here

Maths

Maths

Today is our final lesson in our revision booklet. We’ll finish our practice test before a grand finale challenge.

Click here to watch the video.

Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have yours.
Click here for the answers.

English

English

It’s the final day of your Greek myths unit today! Watch the film to see how it’s done, then finish your own myth. We can’t wait to read them. Here is the film.

In grammar today, you will need pages 41 – 45 of your revision book. They’re here, if you need them.

And here is a short film talking you through the lesson.

You can find your history quiz answers from yesterday here .

Year 6 Virtual School

2 July 2020

Daily Message

Welcome to Thursday. I’m sure you’re used to Thursdays by now, there’s been on every week of your life (except for that time in February 2009 when Thursday was off work with a recurring migraine)

By the way, your class book is now part of English – you’ll find it there. It is ESSENTIAL that you listen to it as you cannot do the English lessons without it.


This week’s suggested Year 6 timetable is here

Maths

Maths

Two dreadful pieces of news. Watch today’s video to find out more…

Click here to watch the video.

English

English

We are starting a whole new book today in English – woohoo! It’s called Ghost and it’s about a teenage boy. Here is the lesson.

Class book is now part of English. You HAVE to listen to this before tomorrow’s lesson. Sorry – I know it is a lot of listening but you need to know the story (you can pause the film whenever to discuss / recap / summarise the events and to keep focussed).

Here is the film – sorry it cuts off suddenly, the camera died!

Your handwriting lesson this week is on missing word sentences. Click here to watch the video.

Click here for a copy of the worksheet.

Click here for an example of some modelled handwriting

Year 6 Virtual School

3 July 2020

Daily Message

Happy Friday, Year 6! Enjoy today’s daily message, it is all about you and celebrating your wondrous work both in school and at home. In English today, your writing on Ghost continues, along with a maths investigation led by Mr Huxley. In RE you continue your work on Jerusalem and you have a wellbeing lesson to complete too. Don’t forget your spelling test!

Have a lovely, restful weekend when it comes.


This week’s suggested Year 6 timetable is here

Maths

Maths

What a joyous way to end another fantastical week! Missing numbers! Delicious.

Click here to watch the video.

English

English

We are carrying on with Ghost by Jason Reynolds. Here is the chapter that you must listen to before you can do the lesson

Here is the lesson (you HAVE to have listened to the class book chapter first though!).

Ready for your spelling test? Good luck!
Click here to watch the video.

Today's English

English

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Today's Maths

Maths

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Humanities

Humanities

Have you ever wondered what happened at the Ancient Olympic Games in the city state of Olympia? Well, wonder no more! After this week you’ll be experts! You will compare the events and rituals of the Ancient Olympic Games to the modern Olympics.

Click here to watch the video.

Click here for your booklet pages and here for your task sheet for this week.

Mr Bakas leads a virtual tour of the Olympic Games here

Art & Music

Creative

Art

This week we’re creating a Queenie McKenzie inspired landscape featuring a kangaroo! McKenzie, an indigenous Australian artist used natural colours harmoniously. Some say every picture tells a story, what will yours be? Click here for this week’s art lesson with Mr Yusuf, and follow along with the help sheet!

Music

Welcome to the first full school music lesson. We are going to focus on listening and singing today. Try find some time this week to compose using online software that we’ve looked at in previous lessons. Enjoy!

Click here to watch the video.

Science

Science

What is the difference between energy types and energy sources? Click here to find out.

Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have yours.

Active

Active

Yoga

Click here for this week’s energising yoga flow with Ms. Fraser.

Dance

Click here for this week’s Dance lesson with Delene.

French

French

Bonjour Year six!

Make sure to click here to watch our Star Francaise video to see all the amazing work I have received.

This week’s activity is understanding the gist of a simple text using familiar language. This simple text is a really fun song which allows us to explore questions words, feelings and high frequency verbs, the position of French adjectives in a sentence and liaisons.

Click here for our lesson.

If you would like to practise your song, click here for the lyrics!

Au revoir :)

Wellbeing

Wellbeing

This week we are looking at what to do when you are feeling bored.

Click here for today’s lesson.

RE

RE

This week in RE it’s our last day in Jerusalem and we’re heading off to go and see the Dome of the Rock and the Al Asqa mosque and find out why they’re so important for Muslim people.

Click here to watch the video.

Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have yours.

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