Year 6 Week 7

Home School Guidance

18th May - 22nd May

Hello Year 6,

This is now Week 7 of home school. We are really enjoying your work and can see how

much effort you have been putting in. The standard of work you send us seems to increase

every week. This makes us feel very, very proud of you all.

Please read this guidance and the timetable carefully. You will see that we have set some

Nrich activities for most of you this week. Look at the table below to check which ones are

for you and then find the guidance for these activities on the Year 6 page of the school

website or attached in your parents’ email. You will need to use the 2dos set on Purple

Mash to hand in your solutions.

These are your normal daily activities. Please see below for this week’s spellings:

1. 30 minutes of Reading

2. 15 minutes of handwriting practice: either practise your handwriting by writing your

spellings into your purple handwriting book or copy out a passage from your reading

book.

3. 15 minutes of times tables practice: either play card games and/or play times-table

games on Purple Mash.

4. 15 minutes of spelling practice for the weekly spelling test. You should only

complete the spelling test on Purple Mash once you have learnt the words.

Spellings:

The spellings for this week are:

possible, immediate, ancient, visible, tough, exaggerate, visibly,

incredible, sufficient, sensible, sensibly, transferred

Please practise these spellings in your purple handwriting book and then complete the test

on Purple Mash.

This week, the additional activities are :

Maths activities (see the table below). For Jess and Marie’s group only - please choose any

3 out of these 4 activities.

Lauren’s Group My Maths - coordinates

My Maths - 3 x table

My Maths - 6 x tables - OW

Will’s Group My Maths - Statistics - OW

Largest Product 1-9 Upload your solution on the 2do in Purple Mash

Primes and Squares Upload your solution on the 2do in Purple Mash

Jess and Marie’s Group (choose any 3)

My Maths - Nets of 3D shapes

My Maths - Two Way Tables

My Maths - Number and Place Value 6 - OW

Digit Sandwiches Upload your solution on the 2do in Purple Mash

Reading Blog Activity:

We’d like you to take a good look at the entries you haven’t yet paid attention to, comment on the

ones that are of interest to you and add a new entry about a book you have read in the past couple

of weeks. You can also add more ‘Guess the Book’ scenes if you want or you can guess the other

children’s scenes.

Reading Activity:

This week we came across the incredible story of six young boys who were stranded on an island in

the Pacific Ocean. We were so amazed by the story that we wanted to share it with you.

This is a real story that happened in the 1960s- we have created a newspaper report for our reading

activity-but the story is true.

Please read the newspaper report found on the Year 6 page and answer the following questions in

your blue books:

1. What three mistakes did the boys make while carrying out their escape?

2. How did the boys initially survive while drifting across the sea in the boat?

3. In what way was the island not like a typical tropical paradise?

4. Find three things the boys would do on a typical day on the island.

5. Read the paragraph that starts ‘Their days began and ended with song and prayer…’ Which

words or phrase tells us that the lack of water was concerning for the boys.

6. Why do you think Stephen’s friends compared him to the King of Tonga after he broke his leg?

7. Why was Peter Warner so surprised to see a fire burning on the island?

8. Write three things Peter Warner and his crew saw when they arrived on the island.

9. Find and copy the word that shows the people were happy when the boys returned home.

10. The fact that the six boys survived so well on the island for fifteen months is an incredible feat

especially as they were so young. In your opinion, what was it that enabled the children to survive

so well for so long?

Writing Activity: Two diary entries of an incredible day

On Sunday 11 September 1966, Peter Warner looked through his binoculars and saw

something amazing.

On Sunday 11 September 1966, Stephen –who had been stranded on the island of Ata for

almost fifteen months- was going about his usual day when he looked up and saw

something amazing.

Your task is to write a diary entry for Stephen and another for Peter Warner based on the events

that took place on the day the boys were rescued. We have set up a 2do on Purple Mash so once

you have drafted the diary entries in your blue book you can redraft it online.

For Peter Warner’s diary entry:

● How did the day start?

● Why was he surprised by the fire?

● How do you think he felt when he saw the young boy jump off the cliff side?

● What must he have thought when the boys explained their story?

● What did he see when he went onto the island?

For Stephen’s Diary entry:

● How did his day on the island start?

● What was he doing when he saw the boat?

● How did he get the others’ attention?

● What was their reaction?

● What was going through his head as he approached the boat?

● How do you think he felt when they left the island for the last time?

Remember to use the first person in your diary entries. You can use your imagination to fill in any

gaps. Be creative, be as true as you can to the original story, be descriptive and detailed.

Science Activity:

Before starting this activity please look up these scientific words and create a glossary in your blue

book:

● inherited

● offspring

● genes

● characteristics

Last week you learnt about how animals can adapt according to their environment and how over

time their characteristics can change.

Most characteristics of living things are inherited, such as eye colour, natural hair colour, or the shape of the

face. If you live with your biological parents, you will notice you have some of the same physical features. Can you make a list of these? But some characteristics are influenced by the environment, for example, for humans the language we speak or whether we have scars. Therefore if you do not live with your biological parents you may have different physical characteristics but you are likely to have similar environmental characteristics. Can you think of any? Inherited characteristics are passed on from parents to offspring by genes, while those caused by the environment during their life cannot be passed on.

Dogs have been bred for many years so that certain inherited characteristics from different dogs can

be mixed to create a new mixed breed.

For example a labradoodle is the offspring of a Labrador and a poodle; this crossbreed has inherited

characteristics from both its parents.

The labradoodle was bred to combine certain characteristics of each parent. The poodle does not

shed much fur and Labradors are easy to train, so the idea was that the crossbreed could be used as

a guide dog for people who were allergic to dog fur.

This week we are setting you a dog breeding challenge. On the website are dog breed Information

cards-please read these and think about the characteristics of each dog. Then look at the

‘requirements for dogs’, read the requirements carefully and then think about which two dogs you

would breed to get the mixed breed best suited to the family.

You can print these and cut and stick the matching cards into your blue book or you can just write

the answers into your blue book. Please date and title this work ‘Inherited characteristics’

Extra challenge: If you could have a dog, which two breeds would you mix? Explain your choices.

Mother Father Offspring

Art Activity: South American Mola Art

Over the last few weeks we have been learning about South America. This week we would like to

focus on a type of art that actually originated from Panama which is a country in Central America

that borders the South American continent. Mola Art was created by women in the Kuna Tribe; it

has become very popular across South America especially in

Columbia.

The word ‘Mola’ actually means blouse; Mola art is made of

designs sewn on fabric. It usually uses a motif of an animal or a

symbol of nature. Every inch of space is filled with a pattern or

texture. You will notice a Mola often uses layers of the same

image and lots of bright colours.

We would like you to create your own paper Mola

art work. To do this you will need five or six different coloured pieces of paper. If you do not have

this, you can create Mola by using colouring pencils or pens. Use the examples above to inspire you

or if you are making it with coloured paper you can watch this video to help you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fLgqql0D9c

You can create one Mola on an A4 piece of paper or you may

wish to produce multiple mola and create a mola quilt. We

have created a new blog called ‘Mola Artwork’ and you can

upload your pictures onto there. We can’t wait to see them.