Year 6 Home Learning – Hazeldown Primary School

Year 6 Home Learning – 6/03/2020

Year 6 Home Learning – Friday 6^th March

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 25^th March)

Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 20 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling
Please use Spellodrome regularly at home.

Arithmetic
Complete the questions (making sure you use your squares in your book to show the workings). We will mark this together as a class on Thursday so we can spend time going over any misconceptions or new strategies.

Home Learning Menu

Our new topic, which we will be starting next week, will be ‘Tomorrow’s World’. Please the attached sheet showing some of the things we may be doing over the next three weeks during our SOLE sessions. At home, over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may just complete the fifteen-point activity or may choose to do one ten and a five-point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:

15 points	10 points	5 points
Make a digital presentation about the web and include guidance for online safety. You need to have thoroughly researched online safety and have experimented with digital presentations.	Learn about different codes, such as the reverse alphabet or Morse code. Experiment by sending short messages to your friends or family members. Can they understand you?	Find out what the following computing terms mean: Firewall, app, e-book, emoticon, phishing, wiki, blog and QWERTY.
	Survey your friends or family to find out how much time they spend online, texting or watching TV each day. Present your findings in a chart.	Design an internet ‘scavenger hunt’ for your parents or carers of 10 or more things to search for using a computer. Could they do it? Give them a mark out of 10!
Research a significant figure in the computing world. Write a biography about them using the information you have found.	Write a job advert to recruit a top spy. What skills and experience would they need?	Do some market research. What are the top five websites used by your family and friends? What do they like and dislike about those websites?

Year 6 Home Learning – Friday 31^st January

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 12^th February)

Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 20 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling
Please use Spellodrome regularly at home.

Home Learning Menu

Over the next 2 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may just complete the fifteen-point activity or may choose to do one ten and a five-point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:

15 points	10 points	5 points
Make a model of the heart. You could use clay or plasticine. Use your sculpture to explain how the heart works.	Plan a TV advert that persuades people to exercise. Use a story map or cartoon strip to show the ideas for your advert.	Create a poster to show why exercising is important.
	Research a famous heart surgeon. Create a fact file based on this person showing the key information.	Find out about the historical tradition of Valentine’s Day. Why are hearts traditionally used as symbols of love?
Create a stop motion animation to show how blood cells, water and nutrients are transported around the body. Use small blobs of plasticine or cardboard cut outs to model the movement of the cells and nutrients.	Write a poem about the blood or the heart.	Identify the four ABO blood groups. What happens to a blood sample if mixed with blood of a different group?
	Write a poem about the blood or the heart.	Use paints/ink in different shades of red to create an abstract painting.

Year 6 Home Learning – Friday 10^th January

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 29^th January)

Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 20 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling
Please use Spellodrome regularly at home.

Home Learning Menu

Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may just complete the fifteen-point activity or may choose to do one ten and a five-point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:

15 points	10 points	5 points
Measure your family’s resting heart rates. Then ask them to hop, skip, jump and run, measuring their heart rates after each activity. Record this in a table and look for patterns in the data. Who has the slowest heart rate? Which exercise caused the biggest increase in heart rate?	Create a week’s menu of food that your heart would love. You will need to research foods that are good for your heart first.	Songwriters are often inspired by the heart. Search for songs about heartbreak or cheer yourself up by making a playlist of songs to make your heart sing!
	Find out about the size and structure of a human heart and compare it to the size, structure and number of hearts in other animals.	Draw a scientific diagram of the circulatory system. Label the key parts.
What does the phrase ‘blood is thicker than water’ mean? Write a story using this as a title. Create illustrations to go with your story.	Write your own song/rap about the heart.	Create a poster to help fundraise for the British Heart Foundation.
	Write your own song/rap about the heart.

Year 6 Home Learning – Friday 22^ndNovember

(All learning to be handed in 13^thDecember)

Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 20 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling
Please use Spellodrome regularly at home.

Home Learning Menu

Year 6 Home Learning – Friday 1^stNovember

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 20^thNovember)

Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 20 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling
Please use Spellodrome regularly at home.

Home Learning Menu

Year 6 Home Learning – Friday 4^thOctober 2019

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 16^thOctober 2019.)

Reading

Please encourage your child to read for at least 20 minutes, at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling

Please use Spellodrome regularly at home.

Home Learning Menu

Over the next 2 ½ weeks, you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may just complete the fifteen-point activity or may choose to do one ten and a five-point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:

Year 6 Home Learning – Friday 13^th September

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 2^nd October)

Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 20 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling
Please use Spellodrome regularly at home.

Home Learning Menu

Reading
Please encourage your child to read for at least 20 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling
Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday.

Year 6 only – Arithmetic
Complete the questions (making sure you use your squares in your book to show the workings). We will mark this together as a class on Thursday so we can spend time going over any misconceptions or new strategies.

Home Learning Menu
Over the next 3 weeks you must complete an activity/series of activities that total at least 15 points. How you choose to do so is up to you! For example, you may just complete the fifteen-point activity or may choose to do one ten and a five-point activity; you could also choose to do three five-point activities – it is completely your choice! Have a look at the activity menu below:

Over the next few weeks, we will be testing pupils on a random selection from the word lists below. It is important children regularly practise the spellings they are unfamiliar with.

Year 5 and 6 Home Learning – Friday 1^st March (All learning to be handed in Wednesday 20^th March .)

ReadingPlease encourage your child to read for at least 20 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

SpellingSpellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday.

Year 6 only – ArithmeticComplete the questions (making sure you use your squares in your book to show the workings) We will mark this together as a class on Thursday so we can spend time going over any misconceptions or new strategies.

Year 6 Spellings Spring 2 Week 1– en and em prefixes

Handed out on Monday25^th February tested on Monday 4^th March

Use one of the above prefixes to make a new word

force
danger
brace
act
pathise
power
courage
individual
interfere
interrupt

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s spelling focus; Spellings 8-10 are from the year 5/6 word list.

Year 6 Spellings Spring Week 4– Unstressed Vowels

Handed out on Monday 28^th January tested on Monday 4^th February

Correct the unstressed vowel and practise learning the correct spelling

E.g. personul = personal

Differunt
Frightuning
Inturesting
Economicul
Envulope
Discribe
Parliument
Hindrance
Identity
Immediately

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s spelling focus; Spellings 8-10 are from the year 5/6 word list.

Year 5 and 6 Home Learning – Friday 25^th January

(Due to Bristol Trip, all learning to be handed in Thursday 14^thFebruary)

Reading

Please encourage your child to read for at least 20 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling

Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday.

Year 6 only – Arithmetic

Complete the questions (making sure you use your squares in your book to show the workings) We will mark this together as a class on Thursday so we can spend time going over any misconceptions or new strategies.

Home Learning Menu

15 points	10 points	5 points
Contour lines on maps show the steepness of hills. Create your own contour model (see picture) and investigate how the steepness of the hill relates to the positioning of the lines.	Research the design of trains, in relation to the forces that act upon them. How have they changed over a time?	Research at least three types of forces (Eg. Air resistance, pushes and pulls, water resistance, friction, gravity, magnetism). Explain how they work using diagrams.
	Stephenson’s Rocket is famously the first working steam train. Research and write an explanation text about how it worked, and draw a detailed diagram (labelled) of the train.	Create a fact file of at least three famous bridges.
	Research and carry out a science experiment involving forces. Write up your investigation in the way you have learnt in SOLE. If you need any ideas, there are some pictures to inspire you on the Blog.	Find the distance of a railway line between two cities. Find this distance in miles, km, m and cm.

Year 6 Spellings Spring Week 3– ie and ei

Handed out on Monday 21^st January tested on Monday 28^th January

Field
Receive
Science
Protein
Believable
Weight
Wield
Guarantee
Hindrance
Harass

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s spelling focus; Spellings 8-10 are from the year 5/6 word list.

Year 5 and 6 Home Learning – Friday 11^th January

(All learning to be handed in Wednesday 23^rdJanuary.)

Reading

Please encourage your child to read for at least 20 minutes at least five times per week. Please record what you have read in your reading record.

Spelling

Spellings will be handed out each Monday, to be tested the following Monday.

Year 6 only – Arithmetic

Home Learning Menu

15 points	10 points	5 points
– Design and make (evaluate optional) a bridge with a gap of at least 30cm. It must hold at least a can of baked beans. Choose from these bridges: suspension, clapper, arch, cantilever, truss or combined bascule bridge.	– Research the design of trains, in relation to the forces that act upon them. How have they changed over a time?	– Find famous bridges in the UK and place on a map of Britain.
	– Find the distance of a railway line between two cities using a scale of a map. Show your workings for how you have used the scale and calculated the distances.	– Create a fact file of at least three famous bridges.
		– Find the distance of a railway line between two cities. Find this distance in miles, km, m and cm.
		– Research at least three types of forces (Eg. Air resistance, pushes and pulls, water resistance, friction, gravity, magnetism). Explain how they work using diagrams.

* When you evaluate, think what you would do differently next time and what you think went really well!.

Year 6 Spellings Spring Week 1– aero, micro, tele, photo and circum

Handed out on Tuesday 8^th January tested on Monday 14^th January

For each of the words below, use a prefix from the list above to make a new word

plane
wave
shopping
stance
copy
dynamic
chip
existence
explanation

10.familiar

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s spelling focus; Spellings 8-10 are from the year 5/6 word list.

Year 6 Spellings – Homophones

Handed out on Monday 10^th December tested on Monday 17^th

For each of the spellings, make sure you know the difference between the definitions.

Isle/aisle
Who’s/whose
Assistants/assistance
Sent/scent
Weather/whether
Altar/alter
Sent/scent
Especially
Exaggerate
Excellent

Year 5 and 6 Home Learning- Friday 7^thDecember. Due in Friday 14^thDecember.

Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes

Spellings –please practice them and remember you can now use ‘Spellodrome’.

Times Tables – Rock Stars

You need to look for the celebration your group is working on.

You are currently working on the celebration of Diwali on Friday you will be setting up your table to represent a traditional Hindu celebration. This week for home learning you may like to think about completing one of the tasks below to further enhance your group’s table.

Decorations

Make paper lanterns, create firework art, create flower garlands, finds some battery-powered fairy lights or tea light

Food

Sugar disk sweets, samosas, home-made festive sweets such as Jalebis (please remember no nuts)

Optional Extras

Create a traditional costume to wear, create some jewellery, cut out footprints to place on the floor to welcome Lakshmi

You are currently working on the celebration of Christmas on Friday you will be setting up your table to represent a traditional Jewish celebration. This week for home learning you may like to think about completing one of the tasks below to further enhance your group’s table.

Decorations

Make a red and gold wreath, create cardboard Christmas tree, create decorations for the tree, finds some battery-powered fairy lights

Food

Mince Pie, Gingerbread, Christmas pudding, yule log

Optional Extras

Make a stocking, create small nativity scene, make some crackers

You are currently working on the celebration of Hanukah on Friday you will be setting up your table to represent a traditional Jewish celebration. This week for home learning you may like to think about completing one of the tasks below to further enhance your group’s table.

Decorations

Make a blue and white wreath, create a Star of David, create blue and white bunting, finds some battery-powered fairy lights or tea light

Food

Potato Latke, doughnuts, sweet noodle kugel

Optional Extras

Find the instructions playing for dreidel, create a dreidel, make some gold coins

Year 6 Spellings – Confusing nouns and verbs

Handed out on Monday 3^rd December tested on Monday 10^th December

For each of the spellings, make sure you know which one is the noun and which one is the verb or adverb

Advice/ advise
Practice/ practise
Devise/ device
Effect/ affect
Licence/ license
Accept/ except
Access/ excess
Embarrass
Environment

10.Equipment

Year 5 and 6 Home Learning- Friday 30th November

Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes (They should be over 50% of their AR target)

Spellings – Spellings will be given out on Monday. In addition to learning the 10 words (sent out Monday) please use spellodrome to practice the previous rules

Times Tables Rockstars– it is crucial that year 5 and 6 children know their times table facts up to 12 x 12 – this really supports other areas in maths. Have a go at improving your score to progress through your ‘Rockstar’ career.

Arithmetic (Year 6)- Complete the questions (making sure you use your squares in your book to show the workings) We will mark this together as a class on Thursday so we can spend time going over any misconceptions or new strategies.

SOLE

Our new topic is called ‘Let’s Celebrate.’ Children are working in groups to learn about popular festivals around the world. They are focusing on either: Christmas, Diwali or Hanukkah.

On Friday 14^th December, at 2:30pm, we would like to invite you to our celebration event, which will take place in the year 5 and 6 classrooms.

During the celebration event, the children will set up a table displaying all of their work about the festival. In addition to the information and artwork they produce in school, they will need to think about: 1) how to decorate their table and 2) the food which is eaten as part of the celebration. Therefore, for their home-learning, please can they cook/bake a traditional celebratory dish (which relates to their chosen festival) ready to bring and enjoy as part of the celebration event).

We’ll look forward to seeing you there!

Year 6 Spellings – Week 11 words with silent letters

Handed out on Monday 26^th November tested on Monday 3rd December

Doubt
Fascinated
Rhinoceros
Scissors
Solemn
Design
Rhythm
Develop
Dictionary

10.disastrous

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s spelling focus; Spellings 8-10 are from the year 5/6 word list.

Year 6 Spellings – Week 10 words with ‘ough’

Handed out on Monday 19^th November tested on Monday 26^th November

Bought
Rough
Enough
Thought
Although
Nought
Through
Curiosity
Definite

10.Desperate

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s spelling focus; Spellings 8-10 are from the year 5/6 word list.

Year 6 Home Learning- Friday 16th November

Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes (They should be over 50% of their AR target)

Spellings – Spellings will be given out on Monday. In addition to learning the 10 words (sent out Monday) please practice the ie and ei words using ‘Spellodrome.’

Times Tables Rockstars– it is crucial that year 6 children know their times table facts up to 12 x 12 – this really supports other areas in maths. Have a go at improving your score to progress through your ‘Rockstar’ career.

Arithmetic- Complete the questions (making sure you use your squares in your book to show the workings) We will mark this together as a class on Thursday so we can spend time going over any misconceptions or new strategies.

SOLE

Christmas games- In groups, start planning ideas for games for the Christmas fayre. You will need:

1) a creative name

2) a set of instructions explaining how to play

3) a list of materials and resources you need

4) price list

5) prizes

6) a poster to advertise

SOLE book pictures– please bring in pictures/photographs to decorate the covers of the SOLE books.

Year 6 Home Learning- Friday 9th November

Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes (They should be over 50% of their AR target)

Spellings – Spellings will be given out on Monday. In addition to learning the 10 words (sent out Monday) please practice the ‘ably and ibly’ rule using ‘Spellodrome.’

SOLE- Holes (Circle Artwork)

Write a short biography (for your SOLE books) about your chosen artist (Kandinski or Milhazes)

Make sure you explain the techniques they use. How do they create circle-based artwork? How were they influenced?

Optional Extra– Experiment with circle artwork and bring in examples for your SOLE books.

Year 6 Spellings – Week 9 ei and ie words

Handed out on Monday 12^th November tested on Monday 19^th November

Field
Receive
Science
Weight
Relieved
Receipt
Believe
Convenience
Correspond

10.Critisise

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s spelling focus; Spellings 8-10 are from the year 5/6 word list.

Preference
Offered
Difference
Suffering
Transferable
Differing
Conferring
Conscience
Conscious

10.Controversy

Year 6 Home Learning- Friday 2^nd November

Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes (They should be over 50% of their AR target)

Spellings – Spellings will be given out on Monday. In addition to learning the 10 words (sent out Monday) please practice the ‘ably and ibly’ rule using ‘Spellodrome.’

SOLE- Holes (Geography)

Produce a piece of work (for your SOLE books) about the characteristics of a desert biome.

Provide examples of biomes such as tundra, savanna, or tropical rainforest and write a description.

You could also include photos or drawings

Handed out on Monday 28^th October tested on Monday 5^th November

For the spellings below, work out which word endings each of them should have.

Forgivably/ fogivibly
Incredably/ incredibly
Responsibly/ responsably
Understandably/ understandibly
Noticeibly/ noticeably
Reasonably / reasonibly
Terribly/ terribly
Communicate
Community

10.Competition

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s spelling focus; Spellings 8-10 are from the year 5/6 word list.

Year 6 Spellings – Week 6 ‘able and ible’

Handed out on Monday 15^th October tested on Monday 29^th October

For the spellings below, work out which word endings each of them should have.

Possible/possable
considerible/considerable
applicable/applicible
visible/visable
questionible/questionable
comfortable/comfortible
reliable/relyible
category
cemetery

10.Committee

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s spelling focus; Spellings 8-10 are from the year 5/6 word list.

Year 6 Home Learning- Friday 12^thOctober

Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes (by week 4, they should already have achieved 30% of their Accelerated Reading target.

Spellings – Spellings will be given out on Monday. In addition to learning the 10 words (sent out Monday) please practice the ‘able’ and ‘ible’ rule using Spellodrome.

Year 6 Home Learning- Friday 5^thOctober

Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes (by week 4, they should already have achieved 30% of their Accelerated Reading target.

Spellings – Spellings will be given out on Monday. Spellings will be given out on Monday. In addition to learning the 10 words (sent out Monday) please practice the ‘ance’ ‘ancy’, ‘ence’ and ‘ency’ rule using Spellodrome.

SOLE – Holes trip

Having been on a trip to the beach to get into the character of one of the boys at ‘Camp Green Lake’, we would like you to write a reflection of your trip in your home learning book. Please include what you learnt during the day, which learning values you had to use and what you would do differently if you had to build a hole that big again. Also, reflect on how you think the campers would have felt based on your feelings during the day.

These reflections will act as a first draft and then will be writing these up neatly during SOLE time. They will then be added to your SOLE book during Journaling week.

Year 6 Spellings – Week 4 ‘ant’ and ‘ent’ word endings

Handed out on Monday 1^st October tested on Monday 8^th October

For the spellings below, work out which word endings each of them should have.

Apartment/ apartmant
Permenant/ permanent
Accidant/ accident
Argument/ argumant
Elephant/ elephent
Brillient/ brilliant
Hesitant/ hesitent
Attached
Available

10.Average

Year 6 Home Learning- Friday 28^thSeptember

Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes (by week 4, they should already have achieved 30% of their Accelerated Reading target.

Spellings – Spellings will be given out on Monday. In addition to learning the 10 words (sent out Monday) please practice the ‘ant and ent’ suffix rule using ‘Spellodrome.’

SOLE- Holes (Pre-Learning)

Next week, we start our new learning journey ‘Holes.’

The science aspect of the learning will include separating materials and reversible/irreversible changes.

Please use the following website to learn some of the important facts!

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/clips/zb9c87h

Summarise what you’ve learnt by writing a reflection in your home-learning book. You may choose to include diagrams.

Mr Hardee and Miss Tapp

Handed out on Monday 24th September. Tested on Monday 1^st October

Special
Essential
Beneficial
Confidential
Influential
Official
Residential
Ancient
Apparent

10.Appreciate

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s spelling focus; Spellings 8-10 are from the year 5/6 word list.

Over the last three weeks, we have been focusing on our whole school topic of ‘My Compass for Life’. This morning, we are writing our biographies about an inspirational figure. Next week (Friday 28th September), these biographies will be on show at our celebration event.

Year 6 Home Learning- Friday 21^stSeptember

Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes (by week 3, they should already have achieved 20% of their Accelerated Reading target.

Spellings – Spellings will be given out on Monday. In addition to learning the 10 words (sent out Monday) please practice the ‘shun’ suffix rule using ‘Spellodrome.’

SOLE- My Compass for Life

Please make sure the following tasks (which have been previously set for home learning) are completed:

1) A letter (or email) written to your chosen celebrity

2) A growth mindset poster

New task: Write an acrostic poem using your full name- using motivation words and phrases (You can choose how to present this- but remember to be creative and neat)

E.g. P- Pride

O- Outstanding effort

W- Winning attitude

E- Ethical behavior

R- Respecting others

It is essential these tasks are completed as they will form part of their SOLE work. If you have any difficulties or run out of time, we can provide opportunities during the lunch hour.

Mr Hardee and Miss Tapp

Year 6 Spellings – Week 2 the ‘shus’ sound

Handed out on Monday 17^thSeptember. Tested on Monday 24^thSeptember.

Delicious
Ambitious
Conscious
Obnoxious
Infectious
Spacious
Atrocious
Achieve
Aggressive
Amateur

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s spelling focus; Spellings 8-10 are from the year 5/6 word list.

Year 6 Spellings – Week 1

Prefixes – ‘trans’

Handed out on Monday 10^thSeptember. Tested on Monday 17^thSeptember.

transfusion
transparent
transient
transcontinental
transmitted
transmission
transplant
accommodate
accompany
according

Note: Spellings 1-7 focus on this week’s spelling focus; Spellings 8-10 are from the year 5/6 word list.

You can also practice these spellings on Spellodrome. Your logins for Spellodrome were given out in school on Monday.

Year 6 Home Learning- Friday 5^th January 2018

Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes

Spellings – Practise spellings from the spelling list

Arithmetic – Complete the sheet showing your workings in your red books. We will go through it as a class on Thursday

SOLE (Geography)

This half term, the children will be learning about different countries in Africa, including: Malawi, Kenya, Benin and Ghana. In order to do a comparison of life here and life in Malawi, we are asking that the children take photos of the following things:

Local shops, your house, your bathroom, your school, your town/buildings and anything else that is part of your every day life. Please could photos either be printed or emailed to us.

Spelling Revisit and Review – Year 6

Please revisit all of the spellings which you have learnt over the past half term. Make sure that you can still accurately spell them all, giving a bit of extra time and practise those you didn’t get correct the first time round! There will be a spelling test based on a random selection of these words next week.

Spelling Rules		Year 5/6 words
Luscious	Hesitance	Committee
Infectious	Innocence	Signature
Gracious	Balance	Guarantee
Conscious	Resistance	Communicate
Ambitious	Evidence	Sincerely
Anxious	Substance	Harass
Ferocious	Appearance	Profession
Special	Nuisance	Soldier
Essential	Convenience	Pronunciation
Residential	Conscience	Competition
Crucial	Isle aisle	Stomach
Official	Affect effect	Identify
Beneficial	Who’s whose	Excellent
Influential	Assistants assistance	Accident
Apparent	Whether weather	Environment
Assist	Cereal serial
Evident	Sent scent
Brilliant

Year 6 Spellings – Week 4 Autumn 2: ance and ence

Add the correct word eneding:

Handed out on Friday 24^th November

Hesit
Innoc
Bal
Resist
Evid
Subst
Appear
Nuis
Conveni
Consci

Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes

Spellings – Practise spelling from the spelling list

Arithmetic- Complete the questions using your squares in your book to do the workings (We will mark this together as a class so we can spend time going over any misconceptions or new strategies).

SOLE/DT

In preparation for our celebration event (9:30am on Tuesday 17^th October), we would like the children to create an outfit or an item of clothing made from recycled materials. This will be worn during the celebration event.

You have until the morning of the event to complete this

Don’t forget to bring in an old t-shirt for out DT in school

Optional extra maths- Diagnostic questions

If you want more to do, search for Cheryl Drew quizzes

Year 6 Spellings – Week 5 Focus: hyphenated prefixes

Handed out on Friday 6^th October; Tested on Friday 13^th October

The 7 spellings are the root word only: you have to work out which prefix is added to make a new word which is hyphenated. (Make sure you know what each prefix means)

Operate
Establish
Mark
Signed
Ordinate
Treat
Creation
Cemetery
Shoulder
Excellent

Note: 1 to 7 will be based on the rule we have learn this week and 8 to 10 are from the year 5 and 6 spelling list

Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes

Spellings – Practise spelling from the spelling list

Arithmetic- Complete the questions using your squares in your book to do the workings (We will mark this together as a class so we can spend time going over any misconceptions or new strategies).

Maths

You need to complete the at least one of the challenges on the sheet you have been given. Please remember to lay out your work in your home learning book in the same way you would in your maths book; margin, date, LO and 1 digit 1 square.

Optional extra maths- Diagnostic questions

If you want more to do, search for Cheryl Drew quizzes

Year 6 Spellings – Week 4 Focus: aero, micro, tele, photo and circum

Handed out on Friday 29^th September; Tested on Friday 6^th October

The 7 spellings are the root word only: you have to work out which prefix is added to make a new word. (Make sure you know what each prefix means)

plane
wave
vision
stances
dynamic
copier
shopping
category
secretary
frequently

Note: 1 to 7 will be based on the rule we have learn this week and 8 to 10 are from the year 5 and 6 spelling list

Year 5/6 Home Learning- Friday 22^nd September

Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes every day.

Spellings – Practise spelling from the spelling list

SOLE

If you have not finished your musical instrument, take it home and finish it. Remember it must be mainly made from recycled materials, it must have at least two different pitches (notes) and it must look good.

If you have finished your instrument, you need to reflect on how you made your instrument, what was difficult and how you overcame it, think about whether your instrument looks like your original design, how did you adapt it? Why did you adapt it? You may want to draw what your instrument looks like now so that you can put it in your SOLE book with your original design to explain the changes you made.

Year 6 Home Learning- Friday 20^th September

Please hand in on Wednesday

Reading – Please encourage your child to read every day for at least 20 minutes

Spellings – Practise spelling from the spelling list

Arithmetic- Complete the questions using your squares in your book to do the workings (We will mark this together as a class so we can spend time going over any misconceptions or new strategies).

SOLE

If you have not finished your musical instrument, please take it home and finish it. Remember it must be mainly made from recycled materials, it must have at least two different pitches (notes) and it must look good.

Year 6 Spellings – Week 3 Focus: Trans, Bi, Tri and Semi

Handed out on Friday 22^nd September; Tested on Friday 29^th September

The 7 spellings are the root word only: you have to work out which prefix is added to make a new word.

circular
action
angle
cycle
formation
finalist
mission
bruise
sacrifice
forty

Note: 1 to 7 will be based on the rule we have learn this week and 8 to 10 are from the year 5 and 6 spelling list