Year 6 Virtual School
1 June 2020
Maths
Welcome back after half term, year 6! Today, we’re looking at area of squares and rectangles. Click here for the lesson
Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have yours.
Click here for the answers.
Ready for some challenges? Then click here.
English
In today’s English, Mr Windle’s life is in danger. You must save him! Click here to watch the video.
The video says the 2nd of June but it really is for today.
Year 6 Virtual School
2 June 2020
Maths
Peri peri chicken? You wish! Click here to work out perimeters of shapes.
And here for your daily extensions.
Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have yours.
Click here for the answers.
English
Today’s English is guided reading. Listen to the text being read here
You can find a copy of the text here.
You can find a copy of the questions and task sheet here
The lesson guide is here
Ready…steady…SPELLINGS! Find your activities on words ending in ‘ery’ ‘ory’ and ‘ary’ here
Year 6 Virtual School
3 June 2020
Maths
Today, we’re calculating the area of triangles and parallelograms. Click here for the main lesson.
Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have yours.
Click here for the answers.
Click here to challenge yourself.
English
In English today discover if Mr Windle has escaped the minotaur and his shed. Click here to watch the video.
Your grammar lesson is all about relative and conditional clauses today. Watch this song about relative clauses here
After that, watch Mr Windle explaining conditional clauses here (please forgive his inability to avoid banging into the whiteboard. His spacial awareness is shot).
Then have a go at pages 26, 27 and 28 in your Grammar Revision book. You can find them here if you need them.
Well done for completing your guided reading yesterday. Mark your answers here
Here is a PDF of the answers
Year 6 Virtual School
4 June 2020
Maths
We tackle volume today. Click here for the lesson.
Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have yours.
Click here for the answers.
Ready for a challenge? Here it is!
English
Mr Windle is free! He has escaped the shed and visited the Museum of Ancient Greece to unearth the minotaur myth. Click here to watch the video.
For your handwriting lesson today you will be recapping homophones. Click here for an explanation of the activity sheet.
You can find a copy of the activity sheet here.
Click here to see an example of some modelled handwriting
Year 6 Virtual School
5 June 2020
Maths
It’s Mixed Practice today, so grab a sheet of paper, a pencil and click here.
Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have yours.
Click here for the answers.
Here is the online worksheet and don’t forget to select “Email my answers to my teacher” once you have finished and enter year6.charlesdickens@gmail.com, alongside with your name and class.
And here is today’s investigation.
English
Explore the true nature of heroism in today’s English lesson. You will listen to the end of the minotaur myth and then make your own mind up as to who the real hero of the story is. Here is the film.
It’s time for your weekly spelling test folks, good luck! Click here to watch the video.
Contact
Humanities
History
Our history unit this term explores the Ancient Greek culture and considers how their powerful civilisation changed the world! Over the next 7 weeks we will explore their religious beliefs, their system of democracy and their inspiring inventions. Click here for Lesson 1.
The Peloponnesian War was fought between Athens and Sparta. Mr Bakas takes us on a virtual tour of two key battles from this war here
Find your booklet pages here
Time Capsule Project!
This week, you will be using your mapping skills to draw or build your new classrooms. During this unique time in our history, most of us have have been working from the safety of our own homes. Find out more about your mapping activity in this week’s video here
Art & Music
Art
Using the Oil Pastels from our art packs we’ll be creating a Henri Rousseau inspired lioness mask.
Click here for this week’s art lesson with Mr Yusuf, and follow along with the help sheet!
Music
In this lesson you’ll be analysing a piece of machine made music, sight reading with a twist and singing. Enjoy!
Click here to watch the video.
Science
New half term, new Science topic! We embark on a journey to green and sustainable energies. Click here to learn everything about the natural greenhouse effect.
Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have yours.
Active
Click here for this week’s Dance lesson with Delene.
Click here for this week’s Yoga lesson with Ms. Fraser.
Animal yoga pose ideas here
Click here for the worksheet if you don’t have yours.
French
Bonjour Year six!
This week again I have received A LOT of your beautiful work! 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 using high frequency verbs to describe our trip to Paris. We are also discovering the Paris metro, some special overground lines and completing a landmarks challenge! Click here for this week’s lesson.
When you have finished our lesson, click here to complete this fill in the gaps challenge!
I can’t wait to see who will be sending me their work through the liveworksheet website!
Au revoir! :)
Wellbeing
This week, you will be learning about what to do when you’re feeling stressed. You’ll then be given a range of strategies designed to help you regulate that emotion.
Click here to watch the video.
SRE
In today’s SRE lesson you will learn about reproduction in humans.
Click here to watch the video.