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Year 6 Home Learning
SUMMER 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
HOME LEARNING - 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 looking at fractions and their relationship with decimals and percentages. There are so many lessons on Oak Academy that cover everything you need to know:
To help you work on area and perimeter, use BBC Bitesize Maths:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zfnqfdm
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!
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:
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:
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://www.thenational.academy/pupils/programmes/maths-primary-year-6-l/units/fractions-8ae5/lessons
For number facts, work through Top Mark - Daily Challenge:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
As well as TT Rockstar, try Top Marks - Hit the Button to focus on specific times tables and their division facts:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
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=AM9HkKmR-ak67Du1B7ajt7vLT2uAWyyHPA: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