Year 6 2021-22

Good morning, Year 6! You should all have had an email from us on Friday with a letter about Year 6 hoodies. Please ask your parents to send us a reply by this afternoon . Thank you to everyone who has already replied! Maths Starter To practise your skills from yesterday, have a go at the angles game A Tangled Web (scroll down and click/tap on the play button). Main Activity Today's lesson is about angles in a triangle . First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet:  Tuesday's Maths Worksheet . (Don't forget that you can do this by writing the answers in your book or on a piece of paper - you don't need to print the sheet out.) Then check your work against the answers:  Tuesday's Maths Answers . Literacy Today. we're writing the introductory sentence and the 'Appearance' section. Follow along with the video lesson. GPS Topic R.E. Learn about Wesak  in Buddhi...

Good morning, Year 6! You should all have had an email from us on Friday with a letter about Year 6 hoodies. Please ask your parents to send us a reply by Tuesday afternoon. Maths Starter To get ready for today's lesson, spend at least 5 minutes playing Times Table Rock Stars.   Main Activity Today's lesson is about vertically opposite angles . First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet: Monday's Maths Worksheet (Don't forget that you can do this by writing the answers in your book or on a piece of paper - you don't need to print the sheet out.) Then check your work against the answers: Monday's Maths Answers Literacy We didn't finish our plan from Thursday's lesson  at school. If you haven't already done Thursday and Friday's literacy lessons, then do those. If you have, then pick a topic lesson you haven't already done and do that instead. ...

Good morning, Year 6! Maths Starter Practise your area and perimeter skills by playing Swimming Pool Sid - how many swimming pools can you design in the time limit? Main Activity How many of these challenges can you complete? Post your answers in the comments below! (Or email us at year6.cabot@bristol-schools.uk ).         If you get stuck with Question 5, watch this video. Literacy If you haven't already watched Miss Davies' fluency video this week, then watch the video below and join in: Otherwise, spend some time on  https://switchzoo.com/zoo.htm  finalising the creature that you will write about next week (remember that at school today we found out that this site worked on the iPads if we used Google Chrome, but not Safari).  Make sure that you are happy with the animal you have created, and remember there are different options available, depending on which animal you start with! (Use the button...

Good morning, Year 6! Maths Starter Have a go at this cube counting game . What is the highest score you can get? Main Activity Today's lesson is about finding the volume of a cuboid . First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet: Thursday's Maths Worksheet (Don't forget that you can do this by writing the answers in your book or on a piece of paper - you don't need to print the sheet out.) Then check your work against the answers: Thursday's Maths Answers Literacy Today we're creating our own animals and planning the reports we'll write about them next week. Follow along with the video lesson: This is the video from the start of today's lesson:  Remarkable Animals This is the website to use to make a new creature:  Switch Zoo This is the plan we use in today's lesson - you can look at the headings and make notes in your books:  Literacy...

Good morning, Year 6! Maths Starter To warm up, have a go at a Daily 10 Maths Challenge . Choose your own level of challenge and skill to practise. Have a few goes and see if you can beat your previous score. Or you could challenge someone else in your family! Main Activity Today's lesson is about finding the area of parallelograms . First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet:  Wednesday's Maths Worksheet . (Don't forget that you can do this by writing the answers in your book or on a piece of paper - you don't need to print the sheet out.) Then check your work against the answers:  Wednesday's Maths Answers . Literacy Here's the video clip I mention in the lesson: Seven Worlds, One Planet: Africa (watch from 2 minutes in until the end of the section on chimpanzees). Here's the website where I said you could get extra information about chimpanzees:  Chimpanzee Facts ...

Good morning, Year 6! Maths Starter To practise your skills from yesterday, have a go at the game Perimeter Climber . Main Activity Today's lesson is about finding the area of triangles . First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet:  Tuesday's Maths Worksheet . (Don't forget that you can do this by writing the answers in your book or on a piece of paper - you don't need to print the sheet out.) Then check your work against the answers:  Tuesday's Maths Answers . Literacy Follow along with today's video lesson: Here's the extra video I mentioned in the lesson:  Elephant Diet Video , and here is the worksheet:  Elephant Questions GPS Which words should have capital letters? R.E. Read, watch and follow along with the information here about Nirvana Day . There are mandalas at the end for your to download and colour in, or you can learn how to make your own mandalas...

Good morning, Year 6! We'd really like to see some of the learning you've been doing at home. Please email us some photos of your work:  year6.cabot@bristol-schools.uk . If you're having any difficulties with your learning, you can ask Miss Ali for help when she calls you, leave us a comment on the blog, or email us. Maths Starter To get ready for today's lesson, spend at least 5 minutes playing Times Table Rock Stars.   Main Activity Today's lesson is about area and perimeter . First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet: Monday's Maths Worksheet (Don't forget that you can do this by writing the answers in your book or on a piece of paper - you don't need to print the sheet out.) Then check your work against the answers: Monday's Maths Answers Literacy Today we're practising writing about habitats. Follow along with the video lesson: Th...

Good morning, Year 6! Maths Starter To warm up, go on Mathletics for at least 10 minutes. Main Activity How many of these challenges can you complete? Post your answers in the comments below! (Or email us at year6.cabot@bristol-schools.uk ).           Literacy Explore limericks:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zpb3trd Word Aware Play 'Taboo' with someone in your house. This is the game where you have to get the other person to guess the word you are describing, but  you can't mention the name of the word. There's an online version here , or you can come up with your own words.  Topic Computing Dr Chips has lots of STEM activities, including the coding lesson on the home page of his blog! All the information and resources you will need are linked under:  9/6/20 | Computational Thinking Tuesday  and the lesson video is here: Library Catch up with, or start rea...

Good morning, Year 6! Maths Starter Have a go at this game all about metric measures. Main Activity Today's lesson is about understanding miles and kilometres . First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet: Thursday's Maths Worksheet (Don't forget that you can do this by writing the answers in your book or on a piece of paper - you don't need to print the sheet out.) Then check your work against the answers: Thursday's Maths Answers Literacy In today's lesson, we're practising using the structure and grammar of a non-chronological report to write about Blue Iguanas. GPS Topic Geography We're learning about the way that three different mountains are formed in today's lesson. Watch today's video and then make a labelled diagram of the way that the mountains in the video are formed. Or  research an example of each type of mo...

Good morning, Year 6! We've not seen or heard much from you this week. We hope that you're all okay? If you are having difficulties accessing the work we are setting, please let Miss Ali know when she calls you. If there are no problems, then we expect that you are all carrying on with your learning as usual - please email us (if you are able to) this week to tell us what you've been working on:  year6.cabot@bristol-schools.uk Maths Starter To get ready for today's lesson, spend at least 10 minutes on Mathletics. Main Activity Today's lesson is about converting metric measures . First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet: Wednesday's Maths Worksheet (Don't forget that you can do this by writing the answers in your book or on a piece of paper - you don't need to print the sheet out.) Then check your work against the answers: Wednesday's Maths Answers ...

Good morning, Year 6! Maths Starter To warm up, have a go at a Daily 10 Maths Challenge . Choose your own level of challenge and skill to practise. Have a few goes and see if you can beat your previous score. Or you could challenge someone else in your family! Main Activity Today's lesson is about finding pairs of values in algebra. First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet:  Tuesday's Maths Worksheet . (Don't forget that you can do this by writing the answers in your book or on a piece of paper - you don't need to print the sheet out.) Then check your work against the answers:  Tuesday's Maths Answers . Literacy and  GPS Our lesson today has a grammar focus. The questions that go with the first and second parts of the lesson are below the video. These are the questions for the second part of the lesson:  Grammar Questions Topic R.E. Watch and read the informat...

Good morning, Year 6! Maths Starter To get ready for today's lesson, spend at least 5 minutes playing Times Table Rock Stars.   Main Activity Today's lesson is about solving two-step equations . First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet: Monday's Maths Worksheet (Don't forget that you can do this by writing the answers in your book or on a piece of paper - you don't need to print the sheet out.) Then check your work against the answers: Monday's Maths Answers Literacy In today's lesson, we're answering comprehension questions about our class text: Monday's worksheet:  Comprehension Questions Class text:  The Rhiswanozebtah - Class Text GPS We'll be using brackets tomorrow in literacy. Review your understanding of brackets first! Topic Science What impact have humans had on plants and animals? Take the quiz  and the...

Good morning, Year 6! Please use today to make sure you are up to date with Wednesday and Thursday's literacy lessons, as well as any topic learning you haven't done yet. Topic learning is posted on the blog as follow: Mondays: science and P.E. Tuesdays: R.E. and PSHE Wednesday: French and History Thursday: Geography and Art/Music/DT Friday: Computing and the Library If you haven't already watched it, then we'd recommend that you watch  Newsround's special programme on racism - we watched it and discussed it this week at school. Remember that you can email us if you have any problems or questions, or if you just want to share your work. Are you at home? Do you have any messages for your friends at school? Email us and we'll pass them on.  year6.cabot@bristol-schools.uk Maths The Friday Maths Challenge is a bit different this week... BBC Bitesize have teamed up with Premier League Primary Stars to bring you some football-themed activities! ...

Good morning, Year 6! We took a few photos at school yesterday to let those of you who are at home know that we're thinking about you (and missing you)! Let us know what you've been doing by emailing us at:  year6.cabot@bristol-schools.uk. Maths Starter Spend some time expolring algebra using Jabara , an interactive maths game. Main Activity Today's lesson is about solving one-step equations in algebra. First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet: Thursday's Maths Worksheet (Don't forget that you can do this by writing the answers in your book or on a piece of paper - you don't need to print the sheet out.) Then check your work against the answers: Thursday's Maths Answers Literacy We're looking at vocabulary in today's lesson: Worksheet for today's lesson:  Thursday's worksheet . (The class text is here: Rhiswanozebtah .) Wh...

Good morning, Year 6! Maths Starter To warm up, have a go at a Daily 10 Maths Challenge . Choose your own level of challenge and skill to practise. Have a few goes and see if you can beat your previous score. Or you could challenge someone else in your family! Main Activity Today's lesson is about substitution in algebra. First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet: Wednesday's Maths Worksheet (Don't forget that you can do this by writing the answers in your book or on a piece of paper - you don't need to print the sheet out.) Then check your work against the answers: Wednesday's Maths Answers Literacy We're starting a new literacy topic this week! We'll be writing a non-chronological report in a couple of weeks, but first we're going to learn about some explorers and some very strange animals. You'll need paper and something to write with. ...

Good morning, Year 6! It's  Empathy Day  today! When has someone shown you empathy? Who or what has made you feel empathy? Let us know what you do to mark Empathy Day by emailing us at  year6.cabot@bristol-schools.uk  or by telling us in school on Wednesday. Maths Starter To practise your skills from yesterday, have a go at this function machine game . Main Activity Today's lesson is about forming expressions . First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet:  Tuesday's Maths Worksheet . (Don't forget that you can do this by writing the answers in your book or on a piece of paper - you don't need to print the sheet out.) Then check your work against the answers:  Tuesday's Maths Answers . Literacy Finish off your persuasive text by following the video lesson: GPS - Spelling Watch the video, read the information and take part in the activity on how to spell the 'shun' so...

Good morning, Year 6! If you're joining us at school on Wednesday, then your most important job for today and tomorrow is to make sure you're eating dinner and going to bed at a sensible time, getting enough sleep and then waking up at the time you'll need to be waking up for school. Getting into a good routine now will make Wednesday easier! We'll be celebrating Empathy Day tomorrow, but there are things you could do all week to participate. See the information here for more details. We'd love to hear what you do to mark Empathy Day - you can either tell us in school on Wednesday or email us:  year6.cabot@bristol-schools.uk Maths Starter To get ready for today's lesson, spend at least 5 minutes playing Times Table Rock Stars.   Main Activity Today's lesson is about converting between finding a rule in algebra. First, watch this video and have a go at any of the questions in it: Then complete this worksheet: Monday...