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 would 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

Why are shadows made?  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z3nnb9q/articles/zmn3ydm

What is reflection?  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z3nnb9q/articles/zy34r2p

SPRING TERM 2 - 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 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

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 do humans digest food? - Lesson 6

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/human-anatomy-f968

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!

SPRING 1 - HOME LEARNING

ENGLISH

Active and Passive tense:

https://teachers.thenational.academy/units/the-passive-9p8t7p4

Using colons:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-explore-the-functions-of-a-colon-c5hkjd

Using semi-colons:

https://teachers.thenational.academy/lessons/grammar-for-writing-using-semicolons-to-link-main-clauses-c4uk8c

Parenthesis:

https://teachers.thenational.academy/lessons/grammar-for-writing-using-brackets-and-dashes-6mwkec

Grammar - so many lessons to dip into to help with your grammar:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage/key-stage-2/subjects/english-grammar

Don't forget to keep practising your spellings.  See the list below.

MATHS

Dip in to Oak Academy to learn more about fractions, ecimals and percentages:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/fractions-decimals-and-percentages-8726

Convert measure using your place value knowledge:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/converting-units-of-measure-1475

Revise your knowledge on measures and money:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/solving-measure-and-money-problems-2bf5

SCIENCE

What is classification?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6wwxnb/articles/zyq9r2p#z8sff82

What are classification keys?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6wwxnb/articles/zdt2jsg

What is a microorganism?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z6wwxnb/articles/zsgtrwx

HISTORY

Find out about the Viking:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/search?q=vikings+ks2&seqId=03d70110-99d5-11ee-8b85-d79acf63e327&d=BITESIZE

DT

Have a go at making a Viking longship:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZVzj3zLJcs

AUTUMN TERM 2 - HOME LEARNING

ENGLISH

Narrative story writing - follow lessons from Oak Academy:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/the-viewer-narrative-writing-159c

Grammar - so many lessons to dip into to help with your grammar:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/subjects-by-key-stage/key-stage-2/subjects/english-grammar

Don't forget to keep practising your spellings.  See the list below.

MATHS

Dip in to Oak Academy to revise all of our work on fractions:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/fractions-ed51

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/fractions-0678

Our next unit will be working with decimal numbers.  Why not get a step ahead?

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/decimals-8526

SCIENCE

Revise our use of circuit symbols:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zj44jxs/articles/zqryn9q

Learn about the different roles that electrical components have:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zj44jxs/articles/zrd2qfr

HISTORY

Follow our learning about the Shang Dynasty using BBC Bitesize:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z39j2hv

ART

Don't forget your creative homework tasks too!

AUTUMN TERM 1 – HOME LEARNING

ENGLISH

For Grammar, try out a series of lessons from Oak Academy:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/grammar-practice-e855

As we are working on writing a non-chronological report, try out the series of lessons on pandas:

https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/pandas-non-chronological-report-b43a

MATHS

Start by revising your place value knowledge to one million.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zsjqtfr/articles/zfjgf82

Use BBC Bitesize Maths to brush up on your addition and subtraction.  There are so many activities to work through:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zy2mn39/year/zncsscw

The following activities will help with your written multiplication and division:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z36tyrd/year/zncsscw

There is always time to rehearse rounding and estimating too:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zh8dmp3/year/zncsscw

SCIENCE

What can fossils tell us:      https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvhhvcw/articles/ztbshcw

What is evolution?      https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvhhvcw/articles/zxwcbqt

Watch a video clip:     

https://www.google.co.uk/search?sca_esv=567979616&sxsrf=AM9HkKmRk67Du1B7ajt7vLT2uAWyyHPA:1695553260808&q=evolution+for+children&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjoobuOjMOBAxUbXEEAHS_fCIEQ0pQJegQIDxAB&biw=1366&bih=619&dpr=1#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:35ae429b,vid:470N1pxIZbk,st:0

What is inheritance?      https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zvhhvcw/articles/z4vhxbk

Watch the video clip for the story of Charles Darwin – The Origin of Species:      

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=who+is+charles+darwin+for+kids&sca_esv=567979616&biw=1366&bih=619&tbm=vid&sxsrf=AM9HkKk8sQZVQHs6Tgn63TUh00gjsX0OFQ%3A1695553265877&ei=8RYQZbD0NMS3hbIP45WZgA4&ved=0ahUKEwjwsPCQjMOBAxXEW0EAHeNKBuAQ4dUDCA0&uact=5&oq=who+is+charles+darwin+for+kids&gs_lp=Eg1nd3Mtd2l6LXZpZGVvIh53aG8gaXMgY2hhcmxlcyBkYXJ3aW4gZm9yIGtpZHNIxCRQAFimI3AAeACQAQCYAaUBoAGCEqoBBDI4LjK4AQPIAQD4AQHCAgQQIxgnwgIHEAAYigUYQ8ICCxAAGIAEGLEDGIMBwgILEAAYigUYsQMYgwHCAgUQABiABMICCBAAGIAEGLEDwgIIEAAYigUYkQLCAggQABiKBRiGA8ICBRAhGKABwgIFEAAYogTCAggQABiJBRiiBIgGAQ&sclient=gws-wiz-video