Author: Miss Beatson

Good morning!

There are two video lessons today: Year 5 maths and Year 6 maths. Please email me if there’s anything you need help with. Have a good day!

Maths: angles

Year 5: angles on a straight line

Please watch the video– my first Year 5 video lesson!

Year 6: angles in a quadrilateral

Please watch the video to find out how to find missing angles in a quadrilateral.

Reading

Here are the answers to yesterday’s reading comprehension.

Today you are going to complete a reading activity on BBC Bitesize: The London Eye Mystery by Siobahn Dowd.

Geography

BBC Bitesize lesson

Watch all 3 videos, have a go at the video tasks. For activity two, name the seven continents of the world.

This is a year 6 task, but it is designed for both year 5 and 6 to do, as our topic lessons are spread across two years. (Basically year 5 and 6 do it, not just year 6.)

Hi guys, I hope you’ve had a good weekend.

Thank you to Hannah, who sent me a video of her doing the physical challenge Mr Mills set for everybody last week. Did anyone else have a go? Please send me some photos of your obstacle courses or any other learning you’ve been doing. Check out the class news page to find out more about what everyone has been up to.

Maths

Year 5: mental calculation

Complete the activity by adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing mentally.

Year 6: four operations

Complete these questions using all four operations.

Challenge

Write you own word problem, similar to Q9.

Reading

Your learning today is a comprehension task.

You should read the FirstNews task. Once you’ve read it, answer the questions on page 2 – these questions will help you practice a range of reading skills.

Challenge 1: create your own questions for someone else to answer.

Challenge 2: ask someone in your house to help – they’ll need to be able to read so maybe not your pet dog or your favourite teddy bear. One of you is going to play the role of a ‘journalist’. The other person will play the role of an ‘expert’. The journalist should ask the expert questions that they can answer using the text. The expert uses the text to answer them. You could swap roles, too. Why not go BIG and put on a different voice, dress up or use a hairbrush as a microphone. You could even film it and send it in to me!

Music: BBC Bitesize singing with feeling

Following on from Friday’s learning, today you are going to try activity 3. Choose one of the ten pieces. It’s time to get arty. Listen to the music carefully and create some artwork based on it. Watch the video to get some more ideas.

Happy Friday!

Thank you to everybody who has been keeping in touch and emailing me some of their learning.

Look out for a video message from all the staff at school; we’re all missing you very much!

Today’s learning…

Maths: angles

Year 5: angles 

Year 6: angles in a triangle

How did you get on with the triangle investigation yesterday? All the angles should have fitted on a straight line because all angles in a triangle total 180 degrees. Here is today’s activity and challenge. 

 

Reading: fact and opinion

First of all, use this BBC Bitesize guide to remind you of the difference between facts and opinions.

Now, open up the FirstNews paper  and go to page 4: it’s called 20 things to know and tell.  Read the article and then answer these questions.

Challenge: I would like you to tell us your opinion about any article from this week’s FirstNews. I want you to email me with your views. You should tell me the article you’ve read and what you think about it. However, in your explanation, I’d like you to include some facts, too. You can show me that you know these are facts by underlining or writing them in bold. I can’t wait to see what you guys think of the articles – please email your response to [email protected]

Music: BBC Bitesize singing with feeling

Here’s something slightly different for your home learning. Watch the videos and complete activity one and two. Send me the notes about your favourite song so I can share them with the rest of the class on the class news.

Challenge: discuss your favourite song with someone in your family. Compare it to their favourite song. What are the similarities and differences?

 

Good morning! I hope you’re all staying happy and healthy. How did you get on with the physical challenges yesterday? Did you beat Mr Mills with the shoe lace challenge? What was your personal best time?

I’ve created my first video lesson today for Year 6 maths – enjoy!

Today’s learning……

Maths

Warm-up: Times Tables Rockstars

Year 5:  polygons

Year 6: angles in triangles

Reading: comprehension

Read the text ‘Adrenaline Towers’ and then answer the questions.

Writing: parenthesis

Parentheses

Brackets, dashes and commas indicate parentheses (parentheses is the plural of parenthesis).

Parenthesis is a word or clause inserted into a text as an afterthought (or as extra information).

A pair of brackets, commas or dashes can be used to enclose the extra information or afterthought.

Complete the BBC Bitesize lesson all about how to use brackets, dashes and commas to indicate parenthesis.

Good morning!

Thank you to Sofia, who emailed me her fantastic writing yesterday, which was part of the writing challenge set last Friday by Mr Roundtree-check it out on our class news page. 

Maths: angles

Year 5: angles

Year 6: angles around a point

Today’s task is to calculate missing angles around a point. Remember – angles around a point have a total 360 degrees.

Reading: summarising

When you summarise, you shorten a piece of text and say/write the main, important points.

There are many technique variations for summarising information, such as mind maps, bullet points or story retelling. These are used to discern the who, what, where and when from a piece of text.

For example:

• Who/What – The Tudor family reign.
• When – 1485 to 1603.
  
• Where – England and Wales

Complete this activity. 

You will need a copy of the First News paper again.

Challenge: Go on to the BBC Sport website (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport), or a different age-appropriate website, and choose an article to read. Once you’ve read it, summarise the article in 20 words. Then, try again in 10 words. After that, have a go at summarising in 5 words. Finally, summarise the article in 1 word.

PE with Mr Mills

Mr Mills has set you two physical activities today to help you keep fit and active.

Video 1

Video 2

 

Good morning- I hope you’re having a good start to the week and staying happy and healthy.

How are you getting on with the home learning tasks? If you have any questions or would like to send me some of your learning then please email me: [email protected]

Today’s learning……

Maths: angles

Year 5: naming angles

Y5 task 1

Y5 task 2

Year 6: angles on a straight line

Today’s task is to calculate missing angles on a straight line. Remember – angles on a straight line have a total of 180 degrees.

Y6 Task

Y6 challenge

Reading: First News

Have a read of the full newspaper. Find an article you like and create your own quiz for a friend / someone in your family to do. You could write questions down or you could do it as a video.

Geography: Where are the major cities of the UK?

This is a recap lesson. Have a go at learning all the major cities in the UK. Challenge your parents to identify as many as they can in a row. Alternatively, take it in turns until one person doesn’t know. Before challenging someone else, study the map yourself so you become an expert.

 

 

Good morning- I hope you all had a good weekend and enjoyed the sunshine.

On Friday, Mr Roundtree set you a writing challenge. Please can you email me your writing today, so Mr Roundtree can read them and decide if he will publish some writing on the school website. Well done Mya, who had her poem published on all three schools’ websites last week!

Answers to Friday’s maths

Year 5 answers

Year 6 answers 

Today’s learning…..

Maths: arithmetic

Year 5

Year 6

Reading

Follow this BBC Bitesize lesson and learn how to select key pieces of information from a text and evaluate the text while giving a personal opinion.

Geography: eight points of a compass

Watch this clip about using a compass and reading a map.

Complete this activity to show all points of the compass.

Complete this challenge to give directions using the eight points of a compass.