COLDEAN PRIMARY SCHOOL

Year 6

Friday 27th March

English activity

Write a letter, in your jotter, as the author of your horror story, to either the main character or your reader warning them, in a formal manner, about the thing of fear in your story without giving too much away.  Here is an example: 

Dear Reader,  

I am writing to you today, to give you the heads up about something you are about to experience. I am hoping this will not detract from your enjoyment of the tale. I will try not to give too much away about the plot.  

The main character's name is Timmy. He is eighteen years old and has not long finished college where he studied photography, chemistry and the dark arts.  

Timmy is not fond of his job and phones in sick regularly. He is employed, in a shoe shop, owned by a man you will never meet called Henry Weller - a man in his late forties with a dress sense and hairstyle from the late seventies.  

Timmy is about to find out things are not what they seem to be.  

I do not mean to worry you but you might not want to be alone when reading this tale… especially if you scare easily.   

Yours sincerely  

Miss Armstead 

Maths activity - Can I use long multiplication to solve problems?

Check out Purple Mash here for a refresher.

Long multiplication problem solving and reasoning

1. Billy is raising money for charity. For every hour that he stays silent, he is promised £125. How much money will he have raised after 3 days of being silent?
2. For the first half of the new year, an eco-charity have said they will plant 52 new trees every day. How many trees will they have planted in this time?
3. A square tile measures 75cm by 75cm. A rectangular tile is 50cm longer but has the same width. What is the area of the rectangular tile?
4. The area of a school field is currently 6426m2. It has a width of 42m and a length of 153m. The school is proposing extending the width of the field by 26m. How much would the area of the school field increase by?

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R.E activity - You will find this task in your 2Dos on Purple Mash

The Easter Story – watch a video and write a letter to a friend about it.

https://www.purplemash.com/#app/pup/easterstory

Thursday 26th March

English Activity 

Watch this next piece of spooky inspiration:  https://www.literacyshed.com/pere-lachaise.html 

Today, you will create the main character for your horror story. Draw a picture of them in your jotter.  

Challenge: Use the DADWAVERS headings to create detail about your character. You will be able to use these details in your story. Here are example sentences to help you. 

Description – Timmy was a nerdy young man, who had recently started work at a local shoe shop, having finished his A-levels and left school. 

Action – Trembling, he turned the handle. 

Dialogue – “God have mercy upon me!” he shouted into the void. 

Where – Henry Weller’s – part of a small chain of shops – owned by the shop’s namesake – a man in his late forties whose idea of fashion was akin to that of a hippie from the 70s.  

Adverbial – over by the counter, sometime later, when all of this was over, he would… 

Verb – sweating, Timmy took another look 

Estimation of time – Timmy froze. His brain had temporarily disconnected from the rest of his body. 

Rhetorical question – what  was that? Why does it feel so cold in here? 

Simile – as smart as Albert Einstein, his fear felt irrational to him. 

Maths activity - How is dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 related to multiplication?

REMEMBER our generalisation: When dividing by _____, the digits move _____ place(s) to the right.

Check out Purple Mash here for a refresher.

Dividing by 10 is the same as multiplying by one tenth. ÷ 10 = x 0.1 Use this knowledge with these calculations. (PDF here)
Dividing by 100 is the same as multiplying by one hundredth. ÷ 100 = x 0.01 Use this knowledge with these calculations. (PDF here)
Dividing by 1000 is the same as multiplying by one thousandth. ÷ 1000 = x 0.001 Use this knowledge with these calculations. (PDF here)
Challenge: The FLAMINGO is back!  (PDF here)

PE activity - Workout!

Follow the Joe Wicks workout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbFqQarDM50

Create your own 5 minute version and lead your family to try it out. Each minute should consist of 40 seconds work out, 20 seconds rest. 

Use five different exercise types.

You could record the exercises in your jotter!

Wednesday 25th March

English activity

Pick a setting for your horror story – a wood, a spooky house perhaps -  and describe it, using the Slow Writing technique. Pick between 7 and 10 sentences from those listed below to write in your jotter as a paragraph about your setting. 

• This sentence is three words long. 
• This sentence is two words long. 
• This sentence starts with an adverb. 
• This sentence contains an adjective. 
• This sentence is an exclamation. 
• This sentence contains at least two commas for parenthesis. 
• This sentence contains a conjunction (coordinating). 
• This sentence contains a conjunction (subordinating). 
• This sentence is a rhetorical question. 
• This sentence starts with a verb (ing ending) 
• This sentence starts with a verb (ed-ending) 
• This sentence starts with a prepositional phrase. 
• This sentence uses the passive structure. 
• This sentence uses the subjunctive structure. 
• This sentence contains a modal verb. 
• This sentence contains and ENP(expanded noun phrase) 
• This sentence starts with a simile 
• This sentence starts with a fronted adverbial 
• This sentence contains a relative clause, starting with a relative pronoun.  

Maths Activity  - Place Value with negative numbers. 

Copy the questions and answers into your jotter. If you would like to practise your presentation skills, you could also draw the table! 

In which months does London have its coldest maximum temperature? 

In which month does Stockholm have its warmest maximum temperature? 

Order the three coldest months in Stockholm by their maximum temperature, starting with the coldest. 

Order the three coldest months in London by their maximum temperature, starting with the coldest. 

In which month is Stockholm’s average temperature furthest from zero? 

In which month is Stockholm’s average temperature closest to zero? 

In which month is London’s average temperature furthest from zero? 

In which month is London’s average temperature closest to zero? 

Challenge 

Present the data for Stockholm’s minimum temperatures in a bar chart. Think carefully about how this might look. Here’s a bar chart with negative numbers to give you an idea: 

(If inaccessible or if you would like extra work, an alternative/further task is here - https://www.purplemash.com/#app/pup/maths_inveverydaysituations4_L6) 

History activity

You will find this task in your 2Dos on Purple Mash 

Our summer term topic is The Mayans. Read these three sections on the Mayans:

• Who were the Maya? 
• Monarchy 
• Laws 

Use those as subheadings in your jotter and make notes as you read about key information. 

Tuesday 24th March

English Activity 

Use these story mountain headings as a basis for your own horror story plan:  

Opening

Build Up

Problem

More Problems

Ending.  

Make notes on each section. If you are stuck for ideas, use the story of Alma that you watched yesterday. You will write each section over the next few days. 

Please continue to read every day. Remember there are books for you to access on Bug Club. 

Maths Activity 

Place Value – rounding 

Copy what is there into your jotter – the questions and your answers.  

Round these amounts to the nearest 10,000 and then to the nearest 100,000: 

2,361,000 

4,316,000 

5,136,000 

9,163,000 

8,997,000 

7,004,000 

Explain why 7,004,000 rounds to the same nearest 10,000 and 100,000: 

For each of these amounts, write down the previous multiple of 10,000 and the next multiple of 10,000: 

2,192,815 

5,422,122 

7,605,911 

Now round them to the nearest 10,000. 

For each of these amounts, write down the previous multiple of 100,000 and the next multiple of 100,000: 

2,192,815 

5,422,122 

7,605,911 

Now round them to the nearest 100,000. 

Challenges

When I round my number to the nearest ten thousand, the answer is two hundred and thirty thousand. When I round my number to the nearest thousand, I get the same answer. 

• What is the smallest amount my number could have been?  
• What is the largest amount my number could have been?  

Use only the digits 0-9 to make two numbers so that the following are true.

When ______________ is rounded to the nearest thousand the answer is 13,000 

When ______________ is rounded to the nearest ten thousand the answer is 30,000 

An alternative task/further task is here: 

https://www.purplemash.com/#app/pup/maths_activities_Y6_rounding 

Geography Activity 

You will find this task in your 2Dos on Purple Mash 

Can you name the countries in Central America? Can you think of way to remember them all?

How many islands around the UK can you name? Match the labels to the maps. 

An alternative task/extension task is to write the alphabet in order in a list in your jotter. Write the name of a place in the world next to each letter. 

Monday 23rd March

Please continue to read every day. Remember there are books for you to access on Bug Club.

Maths activity - Please copy the following into your jotter and answer.

(Alternative/additional learning activity here) 

Can I compare and order numbers up to 10,000,000?

Complete the following numbers sentences with the correct symbol: <, > or =.

294,000 ____ 285,000

43,000 ____ 420,000

534,000 ____ 300,000 + 5,000 + 4,000

97,000 ____ 101,000

148,000 ____ 69,000

8,000,000 ____ 1,000,000

Order these amounts from smallest to largest:

A) fifty-four thousand

B) 450,000

C) One hundred and fifty-five thousand

D) Four thousand

E) 504,000

F) 45,000

Challenge:

Which is the largest multiple of 100,000 that makes both of these inequalities true?

723,000 > ? + 30,000

723,000 > ? + 20,000

Which is the biggest multiple of 10,000 that makes both of these inequalities true?

723,000 > ? + 30,000

723,000 > ? + 20,000

Which is the biggest multiple of 1,000 that makes both of these inequalities true?

723,000 > ? + 30,000

723,000 > ? + 20,000

Which is the biggest multiple of 100 that makes both of these inequalities true?

723,000 > ? + 30,000

723,000 > ? + 20,000

Science activity