Week beginning 18th January

Hello Year 6! Here is your suggested timetable for this week - if they are light blue, that means that you can click on them and it should take you to a video in the Video Resource Centre.

Please continue to send me lots of work - you worked exceptionally hard last week and produced some fantastic learning at home. Please also remember to book in a 1:1 catch up with me by clicking here and remember to join our story time on Wednesday at 11:30am.

	Morning lessons			11.30am -12pm	Afternoon lessons		2-3pm
Monday 18^th	Maths 1	Spelling	English 1	Reading for pleasure	SPaG	History	From 2-3pm each day. Mr Hawkins is available for phone calls, emails and Microsoft Bookings/Teams catch ups.
Tuesday 19^th	Maths 2	Spelling	English 2	Reading 1	SPaG	P.S.H.E
Wednesday 20^th	Maths 3 Additional video	Spelling	English 3	TEAMS story time or Reading for pleasure	SPaG	P.E
Thursday 21^st	Maths 4 Additional video	Spelling	English 4	Reading 2	SPaG	Art
Friday 22^nd	Arithmetic	Spelling test	Big Write	Reading for pleasure	SPaG	Science

Mr Hawkins will be available from 11:30am-12pm every day, as well as 2-3pm, for phone calls, emails and Microsoft Bookings/Teams catch ups.

Maths

You can find this week’s Maths resources below. There is a video in the Video Resource Centre of Mr Hawkins talking through each lesson and strategies to help solve the work. The following links may also provide additional support:

BBC Bitesize – Adding and subtracting fractions
White Rose Maths – Adding and subtracting fractions

Arithmetic – please complete the Arithmetic quiz, writing the calculations in your grey Maths book. There is a video in the Video Resource Centre discussing some of today's questions. The answers are on the last page for you to mark your work afterwards – Q28 is 2/10 or 1/5 (if you simplify it).

Spelling

This week’s spellings are based on words from the Year 5 & 6 list. Please complete one activity each day, remembering to write any written work in your yellow book. The assignment is also on Spelling Shed.

English

In English, we are continuing to explore the exciting historical story ‘Letters from the Lighthouse.’ This week you will be planning your own next parts of the story, deciding on what happens with Olive, Cliff and Sukie. I can’t wait to read your ideas! I have recorded a video for the English lessons this week in the Video Resource Centre and any relevant resources for each lesson are below.

Big Write

For your Big Write, please view the video in the Video Resource Centre, where your task is explained. The resource is also below. Please complete this in your yellow book.

Reading

Completing any type of reading activity (including joining the class story time every Wednesday at 11:30am) will give you a raffle ticket in our Reading challenge. Please send me photographs of your work.

Reading for pleasure: read a book, e-book, magazine or comic of your choice.

Reading 1: complete p6-7 of your KS2 English Comprehension book. A video is included in the Video Resource Centre to help discuss this text. Answers are below for you to mark your work afterwards.

Reading 2: complete the Reading 2 Fluency Comprehension below. The answers are on p2.

SPaG

Your SPaG this week is exploring speech punctuation. Please complete p56-57 in your KS2 English Grammar, Punctuation & Spelling book. The answers are on p108 for you to mark afterwards.

There is also another speech punctuation activity below for you to complete in the week – please complete this in your yellow book.

History

This week’s History lesson is focusing on Judaism during World War Two. Please look at the Video Resource Centre for a video of Mr Hawkins talking through this lesson and the activity.

P.S.H.E

Our P.S.H.E lesson is continuing our learning on discrimination. Go through the information below to recap different types of discrimination, then look at the activity (there are two sheets - make sure you complete the first one, then if you get time please go onto the second). Complete this in your yellow book.

P.E

Please complete the activities on the resources below - we will be doing this on two separate days to see how our fitness improves. You could also take part in Joe Wicks’ exercise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhFmi_OaBG4

Art

This week’s Art lesson is focusing on drawing the silhouette buildings to your Blitz art work. Look in the Video Resource Centre for a video from Mrs Duncan explaining what to do.

Science

Science this term is exploring the circulatory system. This week’s lesson is examining blood in more detail – have a look at the Video Resource Centre, which discusses the resource below and your activities.