Year 6 Home Learning
Summer Term 2 - Home Learning
Geography
What is trade?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zx72pv4/articles/zkx2m39
Explore trade, exportation and importation:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zx72pv4/articles/zk4rmfr
Explore economy:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zx72pv4/articles/z7jdnrd
Choose your own island and research what it would be like to live there. Think about the economy, trade, climate and the use of natural resources.
Science
How do scientists carry out investigations and achieve accurate results? Take a look at the following. What investigation wouold you like to carry out?
How do scientists present their findings? https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqkk7ty/articles/zbxsp4j
What are secondary sources of information? https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqkk7ty/articles/zysbvwx
What are accuracy and precision? https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqkk7ty/articles/zccqqfr
Art
Research the life and work of Hokusai. Recreate or be inspired by his work to create your own. Can you recreate the same idea but using a different medium?
https://kids.kiddle.co/Katsushika_Hokusai
Summer Term 1 - Home Learning
ENGLISH:
Revise your Grammar using Oak Academy unit 'Grammar Practice:
https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/grammar-practice-e855
Try out your comprehension skills using BBC Bitesize:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zs44jxs/year/zncsscw
MATHS
We will be spending the first few weeks revising areas ready for our SATs.
Use the following websites to revise any units where you feel you need to be more confident.
BBC Bitesize: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z826n39/year/zncsscw
Use Oak Academy to revise any areas necessary: https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-year/year-6/subjects/maths
Take a look at our Maths Revision Mat to develop your Maths facts.
Time Tables:
It's so important to have all of your times tables at your finger tips.
Spend any spare moment on TTRockstars or, if you need to practice a particular times table, try Top Marks - Hit The Button: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button


SCIENCE
This term we will be studying ‘Light’. Here are some activities to follow to run alongside our work in class:
How does the eye detect light? https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z3nnb9q/articles/zrs62v4
Don't forget to relax and focus on your own mental health and well- being. Follow some of our homework suggestions to help.
SPRING TERM 2
ENGLISH:
Revise your Grammar using Oak Academy unit 'Grammar Practice:
https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/grammar-practice-e855
Try out your comprehension skills using BBC Bitesize:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zs44jxs/year/zncsscw
MATHS
We will be completing units on Geometry, Position and Movement, Graphs and Statistics this term in order to return and revise after the Easter break. Use BBC Bitesize to cover these units:
Lines and Angles: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zb6tyrd/year/zncsscw
Scale factors: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvmxsbk/articles/z2vm8hv
Coordinates: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zgthvcw/year/zncsscw
Use Oak Academy to revise any areas necessary: https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-year/year-6/subjects/maths
Take a look at our Maths Revision Mat to develop your Maths facts.
Time Tables:
It's so important to have all of your times tables at your finger tips.
Spend any spare moment on TTRockstars or, if you need to practice a particular times table, try Top Marks - Hit The Button: https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button


SCIENCE - Humans including Animals
Use BBC Bitesize for:
The Circulatory System: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zcyycdm/articles/z9w9r2p
The effects of diet, exercise and drugs on the body: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zcyycdm/articles/zk784xs
Use Oak Academy for:
How is oxygen transported round the body - Lesson 5
How d humans digest food? - Lesson 6
https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/human-anatomy-f968
Don't forget to use your Sticky Knowledge Mat to help you.
HISTORY - Medicine through the Ages
Do your own research to find out more about common illnesses of the past and the medicines and cures used. Here's a website to get you started:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2LwpBTHK7f5PwhwFNYJ6GV7/medicine-through-time
How could you present your work? Be as creative as you can:
- information leaflet
- informative poster
- recorded documentary
- a series of cartoon strips
- a series of artworks
Don't forget to use your Sticky Knowledge Mat to help you.
Don't forget the topic homework!