Good morning.  Here are today’s tasks:

*English – Unit from The Oak National Academy.  Using the link below, find Year 5 week beginning Monday 19th October.  Select Wednesday’s English lesson for Year 5.  It is called ‘To explore relative clauses’.  Follow the instructions in the lesson to work through the teaching video and the related activity.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/year-5

*Maths – today we continuing to focus on our confidence in using the long division method.  Take a look at the attached PowerPoint and then complete the worksheets.  Remember that you only need to complete one level for each area – VF (varied fluency) and RPS (reasoning and problem solving).  Choose whichever level you feel most confident with – developing, expected or greater depth. Mark using the answers at the back of the packs.

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Y6-Autumn-Block-2-ANS8-Long-division-4

Y6-Autumn-Block-2-WO8-Long-division-4-2020

*Reading – make sure that you are reading for at least 10 minutes per day.

*Times Table practice – log onto TTRockstars and spend at least 20 minutes improving your quick recall of times tables.

*DT – We are continuing our shelters topic in school today.  Last week, we looked at a variety of shelters and thought about what the purpose of a shelter was.  Today, we are looking at how materials are joined and how to test the strength (durability) of different materials.  The overall aim outcome of our topic is to design, build and test a model bomb shelter.  You can have a go at the material testing using the sheet attached below.

Testing materials

Record your work in the book sent home from school.  Please send copies/photos of your work to the admin email address.

Have a good day,

Mrs Hollis

Good morning.  Here are today’s tasks:

*English – Unit from The Oak National Academy.  Using the link below, find Year 5 week beginning Monday 19th October. Select Monday’s English lesson for Year 5.  It is called ‘To idenitify the features of a persuasive letter’.  Follow the instructions in the lesson to work through the teaching video and the related activity.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/year-5

*Maths – today we are focusing on long division.  Take a look at the attached PowerPoint and/or the teaching video clip and then complete the worksheet.  Mark using the answers at the back of the pack.

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Y6-Autumn-Block-2-ANS7-Long-division-3

Y6-Autumn-Block-2-WO7-Long-division-3-2020

*Reading – make sure that you are reading for at least 10 minutes per day.

*Times Table practice – log onto TTRockstars and spend at least 20 minutes improving your quick recall of times tables.

*French – take a look at BBC Bitesize’s French section and choose an area to practise.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z39d7ty

*PE – find a way to get active today.  That could be an indoor workout or time in the back garden.

Record your work in the book sent home from school.  Please send copies/photos of your work to the admin email address.

Have a good day,

Mrs Hollis

Good morning.  Here are today’s tasks:

*English – Unit from The Oak National Academy.  Using the link below, find Year 6 week beginning Monday 19th October.  Select Wednesday’s English lesson for Year 6.  It is called ‘To read a text and make inferences – part 2’.  Follow the instructions in the lesson to work through the teaching video and the related activity.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/year-6

*Maths – today we are focusing on using factors to help us divide.  Take a look at the attached PowerPoint and then complete the worksheets for your year group (the Year 5 sheets focus on just short division with remainders as using factors is a Year 6 objective).  Remember that you only need to complete one level for each area – VF (varied fluency) and RPS (reasoning and problem solving).  Choose whichever level you feel most confident with – developing, expected or greater depth. Mark using the answers at the back of the packs.

Year-5-6-Autumn-Block-3-PPT-Step-11

Year-5-Autumn-Block-3-Step-11-RPS-Divide-with-Remainders

Year-5-Autumn-Block-3-Step-11-VF-Divide-with-Remainders

Year-6-Autumn-Block-3-Step-11-RPS-Division-using-Factors

Year-6-Autumn-Block-3-Step-11-VF-Division-using-Factors

*Reading – make sure that you are reading for at least 10 minutes per day.

*Times Table practice – log onto TTRockstars and spend at least 20 minutes improving your quick recall of times tables.

*DT – We are beginning our DT topic in school today which is looking at different shelters.  Take a look at the pictures attached of different types of shelter,choose one and then complete the questions evaluating the design and materials used.

Shelter pictures and questions

Record your work in the book sent home from school.  Please send copies/photos of your work to the admin email address.

Have a good day,

Mrs Hollis

Good morning.  Here are today’s tasks:

*English – Unit from The Oak National Academy.  Using the link below, find Year 6 week beginning Monday 19th October.  Select Tuesday’s English lesson for Year 6.  It is called ‘To read a text and make inferences – part 1’.  Follow the instructions in the lesson to work through the teaching video and the related activity.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/year-6

*Maths – today we are focusing again on revising short division.  Take a look at the attached PowerPoint and/or the teaching video clip and then complete the worksheet.  Mark using the answers at the back of the packs.

Y6-Autumn-Block-2-ANS3-Short-division

Y6-Autumn-Block-2-PPT3-Short-division-2019 (1)

Y6-Autumn-Block-2-WO3-Short-division-2020

*Reading – make sure that you are reading for at least 10 minutes per day.

*Times Table practice – log onto TTRockstars and spend at least 20 minutes improving your quick recall of times tables.

*Science – Today we are starting our new topic of forces in school.  Use the links from The Oak National Academy and BBC Bitesize to explore forces and find out about gravity.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/what-are-forces-6dh3ec

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zf66fg8/articles/zqbm3k7

Record your work in the book sent home from school.  Please send copies/photos of your work to the admin email address.

Have a good day,

Mrs Hollis

Good morning.  Here are today’s tasks:

*English – Unit from The Oak National Academy.  Using the link below, find Year 6 week beginning Monday 19th October.  Select Monday’s English lesson for Year 6.  It is called ‘To engage with the text’.  Follow the instructions in the lesson to work through the teaching video and the related activity.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/year-6

*Maths – today we are focusing on revision of short division.  Take a look at the attached PowerPoint and/or the teaching video clip and then complete the worksheet.  Mark using the answers at the back of the packs.

Y5-Spring-Block-1-ANS6-Divide-4-digits-by-1-digit-2019

Y5-Spring-Block-1-PPT6-Divide-4-digits-by-1-digit-2019

Y5-Spring-Block-1-WO6-Divide-4-digits-by-1-digit-2019

*Reading – make sure that you are reading for at least 10 minutes per day.

*Times Table practice – log onto TTRockstars and spend at least 20 minutes improving your quick recall of times tables.

*French – take a look at BBC Bitesize’s French section and choose an area to practise.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z39d7ty

*PE – find a way to get active today.  That could be an indoor workout or time in the back garden.

Record your work in the book sent home from school.  Please send copies/photos of your work to the admin email address.

Have a good day,

Mrs Hollis

Good morning,

This week is assessment week in school so I have uploaded some activities from The National Oak Academy for English and revision of previous units for maths.

Here are your tasks for today:

*English – Using the link below, find Wednesday’s English lesson for Year 5.  It is called ‘To explore relative clauses’.  Follow the instructions in the lesson to work through the teaching video and the related activity.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/year-5

*Maths – today is another activity to revise addition and subtraction. Take a look at the attached PowerPoint and then complete the worksheets.  Remember that you only need to complete one level for each area – VF (varied fluency) and RPS (reasoning and problem solving).  Choose whichever level you feel most confident with – developing, expected or greater depth. Mark using the answers at the back of the packs.

Year-5-Autumn-Block-2-Step-2-PPT-Subtract-More-than-4-Digits

Year-5-Autumn-Block-2-Step-2-RPS-Subtract-More-than-4-Digits

Year-5-Autumn-Block-2-Step-2-VF-Subtract-More-than-4-Digits

*Reading – make sure that you are reading for at least 10 minutes per day.

*Times Table practice – log onto TTRockstars and spend at least 20 minutes improving your quick recall of times tables.

Record your work in the book sent home from school.  Please send copies/photos of your work to the admin email address.

Have a good day,

Mrs Hollis

Good morning,

This week is assessment week in school so I have uploaded some activities from The National Oak Academy for English and revision of previous units for maths.

Here are your tasks for today:

*English – Using the link below, find Tuesday’s English lesson for Year 5.  It is called ‘To investigate homophones’.  Follow the instructions in the lesson to work through the teaching video and the related activity.

https://classroom.thenational.academy/schedule-by-year/year-5

*Maths – today is an activity to revise addition and subtraction. Take a look at the attached PowerPoint and then complete the worksheets for your year group.  Remember that you only need to complete one level for each area – VF (varied fluency) and RPS (reasoning and problem solving).  Choose whichever level you feel most confident with – developing, expected or greater depth. Mark using the answers at the back of the packs.

Year-5-6-Autumn-Block-2-Step-1-PPT

Year-5-Autumn-Block-2-Step-1-RPS-Add-More-Than-4-Digits

Year-5-Autumn-Block-2-Step-1-VF-Add-More-Than-4-Digits

Year-6-Autumn-Block-2-Step-1-RPS-Add-and-Subtract-Integers

Year-6-Autumn-Block-2-Step-1-VF-Add-and-Subtract-Integers

*Reading – make sure that you are reading for at least 10 minutes per day.

*Science – Have a look at the link below and work through some of the light activities as a way of finishing off our topic and seeing what you have learnt.

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/revision/Science/lightshadows.html

Record your work in the book sent home from school.  Please send copies/photos of your work to the admin email address.

Have a good day,

Mrs Hollis