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Year 6 Home Learning
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