COLDEAN PRIMARY SCHOOL

Year 6 Wk7

YOU COULD BECOME A WORLD RECORD HOLDER!

GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS have created a new World Record called -

"The Highest Score achieved on ‘Times Tables Rock Stars' in ONE minute!"

To make an Official Attempt, players need to record a video of themselves achieving their highest score in the Studio* and send the video to support@mathscircle.com by 23:59 UK time on 4th June 2020.

The highest scores seen over the years have been 150+ in a single Studio game so we know the standard for this global title will be high.

(*Studio games go up 12×12 and include corresponding division facts.)

Click here for further details

Friday 22nd May

English Activity

Today, I would like you to use the character you have created in a short story. Write this in your jotter. Nearly all portal stories follow a similar pattern:

Main character (MC) finds magical portal & enters new world
Describe new world
MC explores this new world & encounters a problem
MC has to escape & return through the portal
MC cannot find portal again (sometimes brings back a memento of new world)

Top tips for story writing:

Start in a world/a setting that you know well – it is far easier to describe something familiar to you, e.g. a garden, your school, your local town, etc.
Use a stimulus (e.g. picture) for the new world – an image will help you focus in on the detail and describe what is there.
Let your ideas flow – don’t worry about spelling, handwriting or presentation … you can go back and edit this later.

Illustrate your story if you wish to.

Maths Activity – Angles In A Triangle (Missing Angles)

We are continuing to use the White Rose materials for our maths learning.

Today, you need to watch this video and then complete this worksheet...

Print this off if you're able to, otherwise write down the answers to the questions in your jotter. If the question requires you to draw part of the question, then do your best to draw the part you need to. If a question requires you to use equipment you don’t have, then you may leave that question. Check your work against the answers here...

We have also assigned you an alternative on Purple Mash if you are finding it tricky to copy out the worksheet. You may find the work harder though as it does not match perfectly with the learning from the video. Purple Mash Work

History Activity

Test your knowledge of the ancient Mayans. You will find this task in your 2Dos on Purple Mash.

Thursday 21^st May

English Activity

Now Imagine the main character, that you invented yesterday, is walking along the road when they come across a mysterious doorway. Describe this through their eyes. Do this in your jotter Use this model to help you:

Use a simple opener to drop the reader straight into the action

e.g. Samantha stared. … Ali hesitated. …

Describe the door/portal. (You may like to use two sentences that are closely linked in meaning and connect them with a semicolon.)

e.g. There, rising out of the cliff, was an unfamiliar door; its metallic panels were tarnished in rust.

Add some more detail

e.g. Paint flaked off the brittle walls that made up its frame and the door handle rattled in the bitter breeze.

Include an adverb to hint at how the MC feels. Remember, you can move the position within the sentence

e.g. Slowly,

Use the pattern of three to advance the action and inject a sense of pace into your writing e.g. Samantha gazed all around her, took a deep breath and stepped forward.

Maths Activity – Angles In A Triangle (Special Cases)

We are continuing to use the White Rose materials for our maths learning.

Today, you need to watch this video and then complete this worksheet...

Print this off if you're able to, otherwise write down the answers to the questions in your jotter. If the question requires you to draw part of the question, then do your best to draw the part you need to. If a question requires you to use equipment you don’t have, then you may leave that question. Check your work against the answers here...

We have also assigned you an alternative on MyMaths if you are finding it tricky to copy out the worksheet. You may find the work harder though as it does not match perfectly with the learning from the video. MyMaths Work

History Activity

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

Write an informative text about the Maya. You will find this task at the very end of the Mayan Slideshow. Use all the notes you have made in your jotter whilst reading the information over the last five weeks.

Wednesday 20^th May

Art activity

This week is International Museum Day. Although they’re all shut, you can visit many of them virtually for free, no queues, no crowds!

Brighton Museum has a drawing challenge and any participants could have their work exhibited on its website. Take a look:

https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/discover/2020/05/13/mid-week-draw-online-week-6/

The challenge is all about dragons

You could use whatever materials you have at home- paint, draw, collage, model from card or boxes or work digitally on Purple Mash if you like

You could even make up your own art museum show.

‘Art UK’ has digital collections of nearly all the artwork in museums and galleries in the country!

They are asking for people to curate their own art exhibition.

https://artuk.org/discover/stories/art-uk-launches-curations-what-will-you-make-of-it

Send your work into the office (just gorgeous art work, no gorgeous faces please…) and I will forward them to Brighton Museum office@coldean.brighton-hove.sch.uk

Thanks to everyone who sent in Rainbow work last week. They were fabulous. I have sent them to the AMEX Testing Site. They loved them and are planning where to exhibit them, so well done everyone who submitted work.

Music activity

Login to Purple Mash and check out your 2Dos. Today’s is called, “Favourite Song”.

I would like you first to put on your favourite song. Then dance to it or enjoy it as you usually do.

Next, I would like you to listen to it again and answer the questions that the ‘Think about’ sections asks.

Fill in the sheet and tell me all about your favourite song. I look forward to hearing about them. If you click on the audio instructions for the task you can hear one of my favourite songs and my reason for liking it.

Extension: If you want you can try making a version of your song here, or one like it.

https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Song-Maker/

Think about the tempo is it the same speed as the song you like?

When you come to save it, see if you can add the link to the 2do document then I will be able to hear it, or you can email to the school office FAO Mr Hornby.

Have fun!

French activity

Congratulations to all you superstars in Amethyst and Indigo classes who have already taken up the Duolingo challenge. I am super impressed with how you’re doing.

Vous êtes incroyables!

Keep going everyone!

As an extra challenge this week, I have set an activity for you to do on Purple Mash to create an attractive and informative leaflet about Paris.

You have two weeks to complete the task …… be as imaginative and creative as you can …… fun and weird facts will be greatly appreciated!

Tuesday 19^th May

English Activity - Through the eyes of a character

One of the things I love exploring when I’m writing is what must be going on in a character’s mind. Whenever I read great portal stories, I always try to put myself into the shoes of the character, to try to imagine how they must be feeling as they discover this passageway to a new world. How must Alice have been feeling as she fell through the never-ending tunnel into Wonderland?

First, think of your character – it’s easier if you base this on someone you know.

What are they called?
What do they look like?
What sort of a person are they (miserable/friendly/kind/aggressive)?
What do they say?
What do they do?
How do they treat other people?
How do other people treat them?

Use your jotter to record your answers to these questions.

Maths Activity – Angles In A Triangle

We are continuing to use the White Rose materials for our maths learning.

Today, you need to watch this video and then complete this worksheet...

Print this off if you're able to, otherwise write down the answers to the questions in your jotter. If the question requires you to draw part of the question, then do your best to draw the part you need to. If a question requires you to use equipment you don’t have, then you may leave that question. Check your work against the answers here...

We have also assigned you an alternative on MyMaths if you are finding it tricky to copy out the worksheet. You may find the work harder though as it does not match perfectly with the learning from the video. MyMaths Work

History Activity

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

Read this section on the Mayans – there are three slides on Arts.

What happened to the Maya?

Use this as a subheading in your jotter and make notes as you read about the key information.

Monday 18^th May 2020

English Activity - Adverbs – Roving Reporters

In the sentences below, the adverb ‘slowly’ is used to describe how the man enters the room. Adverbs are like roving reporters – they can be moved around the sentence, e.g.

The man went in, slowly
Slowly, the man went in.
The man went slowly in.
The man slowly went in.

By changing the position of the adverb, we can often either alter the meaning or add emphasis to a sentence. In this instance, by placing the slowly at the end, we infer that the character has a heightened awareness of the situation they are in and therefore deliberately enters with caution.

Try playing around with the adverb position in the following sentences. Do this in your jotter. Consider how it alters the meaning and where the emphasis is best placed.

Cautiously, Samantha crept towards the door that stood before her.
Sadly, the boy stared out of the window.

Flamingo: Now try this out with a sentence of your own.

Maths Activity - Vertically Opposite Angles

We are continuing to use the White Rose materials for our maths learning.

Today, you need to watch this video and then complete this worksheet...

Print this off if you're able to, otherwise write down the answers to the questions in your jotter. If the question requires you to draw part of the question, then do your best to draw the part you need to. If a question requires you to use equipment you don’t have, then you may leave that question (for example, a protractor as in today’s first question).

Answers here.

We have also assigned you an alternative on MyMaths if you are finding it tricky to copy out the worksheet. You may find the work harder though as it does not match perfectly with the learning from the video. MyMaths Work

History Activity

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

Read this section on the Mayans – there are three slides on Arts.

Arts

Use this as a subheading in your jotter and make notes as you read about the key information.

Last week's learning

Look at how we got on with last week's learning.