Year 6 Blog

Whilst children are not in school, we strongly encourage them to follow the activities on the Daily Home Learning Timetable we have created. Well done to all the children who have been logging on to Reading Plus, Education City, Purple Mash and Twinkl to complete the activities! Although the children will not be sitting the SATs tests in May, our ultimate goal is that the children are prepared for the transition to High School. As such, we feel that any revision activities set will still be of benefit to the children in order to reinforce prior learning and to keep their skills fresh!

(To support children and teachers during this period, Twinkl is offering free access to all Twinkl resources.

Setting this up is really easy to do - go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer and enter the code UKTWINKLHELPS)

Set Tasks for English and Maths w/c 30th March

English

Linked to our Environmental/Evolution topic this term, research an endangered animal of your choice and write an informative article about the animal for a magazine. Remember to include an introduction section and conclusion. Explain in detail why the animal and habitat are endangered and how organisations are trying to protect it. Try to persuade readers to care about the animal and suggest how they could help the situation.   Spend some time gathering notes and researching first, then draft and finally publish your article - you could type it and include pictures from the internet or write it in your homework book and draw some pictures of your own.

Maths

Please complete the Maths questions from the documents below (answer in maths book from Home Learning pack or homework book)

Home Learning Daily Timetable w/c 30th March

• Please spend 20 -30 minutes logging on to your Reading Plus account
• 15 minutes – log on to your Times Table Rockstars account  (This is particularly important for those children who  are not yet fluent in all of their times tables.)
• 10 minutes – practise 10 Year 5/6 spelling words (from the list below on the Year 6 blog)
• Complete a set English and Maths activity from the weekly set tasks (above)  
• Choose 2 activities from Education City/Purple Mash/Twinkl – grammar/reading/spelling/maths                  

Each day choose two from the following activities:

    Geography/History

• As part of the Contrasting Localities Topic, research the History of London/Lancashire-Preston/Lancashire in an ongoing project – either a paper version or Powerpoint
• History/RE
• Use online learning resources from Twinkl to learn about the Golden Age of Islam  https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/tp2-h-177-planit-history-uks2-early-islamic-civilisation-unit-pack
• Computing
• Complete computing activities from Purple Mash and Education City
• PE
• Complete 1 hour of exercise each day (join Joe Wicks in his daily online workout)

• Extra Activities

  Use Year 6 Maths book to revise topics and complete practise questions/Mixed questions section at the back of the book

  Year 6 Activities – Twinkl website

  Revise Year 6 spelling patterns from your Spelling book

Home Learning w/c 23rd March '20

Daily Home Learning Timetable – Year 6

• 30 minutes – Reading Plus
• 15 minutes – Times Table Rockstars
• 10 minutes – practise Year 5/6 spelling words
• Choose 2 activities from Education City/Purple Mash/Twinkl – grammar/reading/spelling/maths
• Complete a set English activity from the blog or a Past SATs Reading Paper /Maths past SATs paper/Past Grammar SATs paper  (Online or paper version from Home Learning pack.)   Past SATs reading texts are available on the website:                                                    https://www.haslamandhall.co.uk/freeKS2SatsPapers.php

• Topic – Each day choose one of the following activities:
• As part of the Contrasting Localities Topic, research the History of London/Lancashire-Preston/Lancashire in an ongoing project – either a paper version or Powerpoint
• Use online learning resources from Twinkl to learn about the Golden Age of Islam  https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/tp2-h-177-planit-history-uks2-early-islamic-civilisation-unit-pack
• Complete computing activities from Purple Mash and Education City

Extra Activities

Use Year 6 Maths book to revise topics and complete practise questions/Mixed questions section at the back of the book

Year 6 Activities – Twinkl website

Revise Year 6 spelling patterns from Spelling book

English Set Tasks w/c 23rd March

Task 1

Compare the two versions of the letter of complaint - look at language choices and organisation and write down the main differences.  Why is the formal letter more effective? Why would the complaint in this letter have more of an impact?

Task 2

Use the scenario given to write your own formal letter of complaint - use the formal letter from Task 1 to help you.

Home learning - WC 16/03/20

English

In English, pupils will be studying persuasive writing. Children will be writing their own persuasive brochure/leaflet for a holiday destination/attraction of their choice. A Powerpoint is included below which provides examples and additional features that should be including in their writing. Children's work should be published in their homework book.

Maths

We are finishing looking at ratio and scale this week before moving on to focus on revision in preparation for the upcoming SATs tests. Below are some problems based around ratio and scale. Children may find it useful to use the bar model which we have been looking at in class to help solve these problems.

General learning

Reading - all children have access to Reading Plus and should be spending half an hour a day completing the reading activities. This can be monitored from school.

Spelling - the Year 5/6 spelling list has been attached on a previous post. Children should spend 10 minutes a day practicing spellings from this list.

Times table Rockstars - children should regularly practice their times tables on this website. This is particularly important for those children who  are not yet fluent in all of their times tables.

Online learning - we are fortunate to have access to a wealth of online learning resources (Education City, Purple Mash etc.). These can be accessed through the 'Children tab' on our school website. 

Past papers -  Past papers can be found at this link here. https://www.haslamandhall.co.uk/freeKS2SatsPapers.php. Children are encouraged to look at these daily and we will be giving specific guidance for this on a weekly basis.

Year 6 have been extremely busy over the last few weeks. We are all working hard using our Reading Plus programme and lots of children have achieved certificates for making brilliant progress!

Everyone has enjoyed reading Kensuke's Kingdom and completing different activities linked to the novel. We have also been learning about bike maintenance this week, which was really useful. 

Well done to the children who brought homework in to show - lots of tasty baking and super environmental projects!

Over the last few weeks, Year Six have taken part in many different activities such as, watching the Year Two nativity performance, writing biographies about famous peoples lives, autobiographies about a memory from our childhood, and watching the Year Four brass performance. In art, the two classes created a winter wonderland scene using chalk pastels, and Christmas cards, cutting and sticking different coloured cards and paper and sequins. In this term's homework, Year Six had the choice to make a model of an Anderson Shelter. Here are some pictures of some of them: 

We have also been writing our own original Christmas songs, composing our own lyrics and tunes and performing them for the class.

Over the last few weeks, the Year 6 children took part in Heart Start activities and all achieved a certificate in delivering basic First Aid and CPR. Well done everybody for learning these life saving skills!

This week we are all working hard during the school's Assessment week - completing Maths, Reading and grammar papers.

In a few weeks, on 14th November, the Year 6 children will be visited by the school nurse and will complete a health questionnaire. If parents would like to view the questionnaire, the website address is below:

https://virgincare.co.uk/l019q/

Welcome back to school everyone!

Year 6 have made a great start to the new school year. All the children are getting used to the new routines and are working hard to meet the demands of the Year 6 curriculum. Well done to the newly appointed Head and Deputy Boys and Girls. You are doing a brilliant job so far!

We had a brilliant week at PGL - take a look at some of our best moments!

We have all been working hard to prepare for our SATs tests next week. Mr Biggs and Mrs Alty are really pleased with the hard work and effort to meet personal targets  - good luck to everyone!!

Lostock Hall Community Primary School

2019 Year 6 SATS Test Timetable

During this term, Year 6 have been particpating in Militarycation workshops with ex soldiers from a North West regiment.   The values we have been focusing on are CDRILS:

Courage, Discipline, Respect, Integrity, Loyalty and Selflessness. We have had loads of fun and are really enjoying the sessions.

We also had a great visit from the Dogs Trust charity and learnt about responsible dog ownership.

Welcome Back!!!

Year 6 have made a great start to the New Year, working very hard this week. In English we have been reading Environmental poems and having a go at writing our own poems about endangered animals and pollution. In Maths we have been solving some tricky coordinate problems and in Science we have been learning about different animals and their habitats. On Wednesday we had a visit from the local Community Police Officer, who talked to us about staying safe online and not talking to strangers on social media, and not going on age inappropriate sites or games. We also enjoyed watching the Panto performance on Friday. 

Next week we will be taking part in the bike fix programme (you don't need to bring your bikes!!) Don't forget that there is a SATs information meeting for parents on Wednesday 16th January at 6pm. 

Autumn Term 2018

Year 6 have been very busy this term. We have thoroughly enjoyed our World War II topic, with a visit from Mr Turner from the British Legion and lots of us making Anderson Shelters for our homework tasks. Some of us have participated in football, netball and athletic tournaments and the Head boy/girl and Deputy Head boy/girl attended an Anti-bullying conference at the Village Hotel in Blackpool and then delivered a whole school assembly.

Our School Councillors also unveiled our new friendship bench, which they painted for the playground and the new Trim Trail was installed on the field. We have also enjoyed New Technologies week, where we helped the younger children to use a range of robots and technological toys and games. We have been working very hard with our English and Maths, but have also enjoyed lots of other activities such as learning First Aid in the Heart Start sessions and copying the art work of Gaudi.

This week we have worked in groups to design and make our moving vehicles. Last week we held our Christmas Fayre - lots of Year 6 pupils helped with the stalls and we watched Year 2 in their brilliant Nativity performance. We are very excited about all the other Christmas events coming up, with the Christmas Bingo on Friday 14th December and our party on Monday 17th. Remember to wear your party clothes!!