Year 6

CGP BooksReading: Read the next two texts and answer the questions linked to these texts.Maths: In the three maths books, complete up to page 50Spelling, punctuation & grammar: In the three SPAG books, complete up to page 50

Contents:

Reading

English/writing activities

Maths activities

Project grids

Creative activities

Physical activities & well-being

Links to websites

ReadingReading

Using the hand strategy, summarise a book you have recently read.

Reading: InferencingWrite down 5 things you infer from your Oxford Reading Book. Create a table:

Inferred Idea Evidence

Read a non-fiction book and create an information text based on your reading. Remember to summarise the key points as you do so..

Create a book cover for your own story

White Lies

Rats scuttle, maggots crawl as my wrinkled hands fix a bayonet to my rifle. Hair and

furrowed eyebrows blend in the strong gusts of wind. Gun fire overhead fills my ears,

as I sit in a trench full of sorrow and despair. Guilt and fear rush through my veins as I

contemplate the appalling crime I have committed. What will be the consequence of

my unforgivable actions?

Theft. The word makes my hairs stand on end, and throat dry with anxiety. I

think back to that fearful moment on a bleak, cloudy night. Trembling I had scooped

a handful of the nauseating, vile stew; we had been starved of food for days and my

empty stomach could take no more. I ate and ate until I could consume nothing else.

As I gulped, the taste echoed on my tongue and a cold night breeze brushed my

cheeks. A scary silence allowed guilty memories to attack my conscience, creating a

fear far greater than that of being killed.

What started off as a white lie now leaves me feeling a suspect to a much

greater crime. How could I have done this to my colleagues? Who my life may

depend on, when we go over the top. We are all as hungry, tired, scared and cold.

Now more than ever the realisation that trust plays a major role in our lives, while

together in this bog. Sweat drips from my forehead and my heart pumps swiftly.

Never shall I let this happen ever again.

Vague clouds begin to fade, my scarlet lips dry and crinkled slowly lose colour.

Beige, mud stained uniforms line both sides of the trench. Teeth chatter and hands

shake. Wooden ladders are propped up against the walls leading to an uncertain

future. I have never seen such a mass of fear in pale, drained faces. I feel like I

couldn't tell even the closest of friends, though a confession at this moment would

be an unnecessary waste of time.

Unlike myself, food isn't likely to be a great importance to another soldier at

this time.

Hush fills the air and a stench fills our noses. My hands tremble like an

earthquake. The Field Martials eyes glare at his snowy-white wristwatch and a silver

whistle shines brightly between his colourless lips. I trim my nails with my teeth just

before I take a deep breath to quell my anxiety. Expanding cheeks leads towards a

strong, shrill sound which pierces the air. All hell breaks loose as we clamber up the

ladders.

 

 

V 

Find the meaning for the following words:furrowedcontemplaterealisationVagueWhat does the phrase ‘White Lie’ mean?

I

The setting of the story is not clear although there are clues. Using evidence from the text suggests where and when the story may be taking place.

V

‘a cold night breeze brushed my cheeks.’ This is an example of which type of figurative language?

V

‘I trim my nails with my teeth just before I take a deep breath to quell my anxiety.’ Which word in this sentence suggest that the character is nervous?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Cave

Mary slept fitfully. She tossed and turned without ever properly waking up, and

dreams of anxiety came and went as the moon inched its way reluctantly across

the cloudless sky. For the first time in many a night she was woken by neither the

cries of her hungry young son, nor the late arrival of her workaholic husband.

The previous day had been a long and tiring one. Alfie had been grumpy and had

refused his milk all afternoon. Only by late evening had he finally given up and

gone to sleep. The heating had broken down in the morning and the plumber

hadn’t answered his phone. On top of that, Rob’s Garage had contacted her after

lunch to explain that the repairs to the car were going to take much longer than

expected; apparently the drive shaft was corroded, and the gear box had to be

replaced. Where the money was going to come from, she didn’t know. She had

tried to phone Jake at the office for support but had just got through to his voice

mail every time. Her best friend Belinda, to whom she would normally turn for

help, was on holiday and her elder sister Kate was away in Kent on business.

As she awoke, Mary felt her pillow dig sharply into her neck and she moved her

head to one side to relieve the pain. A sudden shallow scratch appeared on her left

cheek and she sat up with a cry of surprise. Raising her hand to her face, she

dislodged the culprit - a small grain of sand - which fell silently and sulkily to

disappear into the gloom by her hips.

Her bed felt hard – like stone. She put a hand down onto the mattress to discover

that her favourite soft cotton sheets were unexpectedly damp and strangely

unyielding under her exploring fingers. A fraction of a second later she was wide

awake, mind racing, as she realised that she was not in her bed - nor even in her

bedroom! Her heart drummed a frightened rhythm on her ribs and the pupils of

her lovely eyes widened in a desperate quest to gather light for her brain. Mary’s

brain screamed at her to take action, but what action? She scrambled to her feet

and hit her head hard on a rocky ceiling. Tears appeared in her eyes but she blinked

them angrily away and searched in the darkness for a landmark.

Over there! A lighter patch of dark – no bigger than a grape! With her left hand

outstretched, and her right hand shielding her bruised head, she bent over at the

waist, crouched as much as comfort would allow, and carefully made her way

towards the light.

To keep her fear at bay, she focused her thoughts on other things: the price of

children’s clothes; the baby aardvark at the zoo – recalling that “It feeds on ants

and termites.” She remembered the local newspaper report of the man who had

apparently gone missing “without trace” from his seaside holiday home last week

and that her husband was particularly fond of cheesecake.

The floor was highly uneven, but largely flat and free from obstructions, and Mary

made steady progress towards her goal, collecting only minor bumps and scratches

on her elbows and shins. Soon, the light had become the size of a football, and

then large enough for her to see more clearly and allow her speed to increase. She

soon reached the entrance of the cave.

Stopping suddenly with a sharp intake of breath, Mary looked down in disbelief.

Below the delicately painted toenails of her besmirched and grimy feet stretched a

sheer limestone cliff face. At its base, perhaps one hundred metres below, snaked a

silent silvery stream, shimmering in the sunlight.

 Text Title: The Cave

Highlight or underline the words.

Bronze Silver Gold

Fitfully, drummed, outstretched

Reluctantly, unyielding, obstructions, disbelief

Workaholic, besmirched, culprit

V Identify a word in the first paragraph that suggest Mary did not sleep well. Find and copy a phrase that suggests that Mary’s husband worked a lot. Find and copy a phrase that shows Mary hurt herself when her head hit the rocky ceiling. 

I ‘No bigger than a grape’ - what does this suggest about the lighter patch of dark. 

P There is evidence to suggest that she is not the first person to disappear.  How do you think this will impact the story?

E Mary moves from confused to scared during the story - find and copy a phrase that shows each emotion.

R Find three reasons to support the statement that Mary’s previous day had been difficult.

S Attempt to summaries the story in seven words only. Draw a ‘mind movie’ to summarise paragraph 2.

 

 Find Me

The boy caressed the rusty key in his palm. Hours had passed, scouring this unknown territory: a waste of time until he found this reward, this trophy. With the eagerness of an archaeologist he

rubbed away at the encrusted dirt until his grimy fingers revealed two words, inscribed on the key's shaft - "Find Me".

The instant he stepped foot into the house again, all his senses marvelled at the uniqueness of the Manor. The sinewy fingers of stale pipe tobacco smoke crawled up into his nostrils, and the irritating sound of creaking chafed at his eardrums as he pounded the wooden floorboards searching for hidden curiosities.

His mother had sunk into poverty since her husband had died in The Great War. A hardworking and trustworthy woman, she was fortunate to have been given the position of housekeeper by the owners of Pensfort Manor whilst they were travelling. Her son, an exuberant nine year old, short for his age but fearless nonetheless, was delirious to find himself free to roam the many formal gardens, orchards and wildernesses surrounding the Manor and play to his heart's content within the walls of the ambling house.

Nimbly traversing the many corridors, the boy wandered into a room, yet undiscovered, and pondered over its impressive paintings with elaborate gilt frames which looked to him centuries old. Someone tapped him on the back - it was a delicate touch, more that of a child than an adult, but surely not his mother's. There it was again, a gentle prod, undoubtedly real, for he felt fingernails pierce his shirt.

He wove around to face a life sized portrait of a girl - she had flowing golden locks, peaceful blue eyes but a sad pale face full of longing and loneliness. In the background of the painting was a decaying oak door with a rusting lock...

The girl moved! He could swear on it. She seemed to be clawing at his hand - why? He spread out his palm: of course, the key! She smiled but her eyes were bulging with hunger as she beckoned him hypnotically to come forward. The girl pointed eagerly to the lock in the door behind her; as he slid the key into it, a huge wave of light flooded out of the painting, engulfing him and his screams for help.

"Son?" his mother called to him. No response. "Son?" All day she had searched every inch of the house in vain desperation before she remembered the deserted corridor of rooms the owners of the house had told her not to disturb. Her heart pounded as she retraced the boy's boot prints on the dusty floorboards. On entering the room, her eyes followed the footprints leading curiously up to the gloomy picture of the girl; she recoiled in horror as her eyes took in the scene before her: the girl's pale hand rested on the shoulder of a new companion, one that was not meant to be there...her son.

Find Me questions:

1. Read the words in context in order to figure out what they mean. NO DICTIONARY!

Scouring encrusted inscribed chafed poverty

Exuberant delirious amblingundiscovered elaborate

Nimbly traversing undoubtedly decaying engulfing

2. Vocabulary questions:

The ‘un’ prefix is used on two words – what effect does this have on the word?

Can you think of another word for exuberant?

3. Retrieval of information questions:

What are the two words inscribed on the key?

How old is the boy in the story?

What colour eyes does the girl in the portrait have?

How did boy’s father die?

4. Inference questions

How do you know that the owner of the manor smoked a pipe?

Why was his mother given the job at the manor?

5. Put the events of the story in order from 1 -5

The boy is tapped on the shoulder.

The boy finds a key.

His mother finds him trapped in a painting.

He finds a portrait of a lonely looking girl.

The boy puts the key in the lock.

English/Writing activities

WritingWrite three different paragraphs describing the following characters: Stanley from Holes,Michael from Skellig and Ron Weasley from Harry PotterSuccess criteria: Dialogue, verbs, -ed. -ly and -ing sentence starters and parenthesis.

Writing

SpeechesCreate a speech on recycling.You must convince your audience to begin recycling and especially focus on it taking places in schools, commercial units, offices etc. Remember to use persuasive language, colons and semi colons.

Spelling, punctuation and grammar

Create a crossword with words that are: Nouns (proper, common and

collective) determiners adverbs

Spelling, punctuation and grammar

Using the Year 5 and 6 spelling list, ask an adult to test you on these words. How many do you know?

Visual Literacyhttps://www.literacyshed.com/catchit.html

Visual Literacy continued...https://www.literacyshed.com/catchit.html

Create some dialogue between the meerkats at various points in the film.

Create some commentary for the 'rugby' scene at the end of the film -

Create your own idea:)

https://www.onceuponapicture.co.uk/ - Images for creative writing

Creative Writing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zhrrd2p -Use the grammar revision to help you revise fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases to improve your description in writing.

Maths Activities

MathsCreate a table:Fractions Decimals Percentages

Add the digits below to the correct section of your table:

42%, 0.9, 2/8, 4/10, 0.4, 42/100, 0.99, 35%, 75%, 2/4, ¾, 0.75, 9/10, 0.1, 43%, 1.8, ⅘, 6/7, 0.5

Can you match up any that are equivalent?Which value is the odd one out? Why?

RatioUse a dice to generate some random numbers. If you don’t have a dice, you can find one online or ask somebody else to give you some random numbers!Using the randomly generated numbers, create questions in this format and answer them.

“Share _ _ _ into a ratio of _: _”Bronze medal: Answer 10 correctly.Silver Medal: Answer 25 correctly.Gold Medal: Answer 50 correctly!Too easy or too hard? decrease or increase the number of place value columns.

Algebra - Solving problems using algebra(worksheet)

Geometry

White Rose Hub Follow this link to access lessons on ratio and fractions.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/

Maths packs online:

https://www.mathematicsmastery.org/free-resources 

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ - Great bank of interactive games for Maths

Project Grids

Topic Project

Your project for topic over the next two weeks is to create a portfolio showcasing everything you know about Fair Trade and the impact it has.

Your portfolio should include these sections but you can customise it and present it however you like. You could do this on a computer or handwrite

it.

1. Title Page2. Contents3. What is Fair Trade?4. Case Study 5. Persuasive Letter6. My Life

Here’s what each section means:

1. Title Page: Create a title page! (Fair Trade)2. Contents: Create a contents page. You might want to do this last so you

know exactly what your portfolio contains.3. What is Fair Trade?: Tell your audience what fair trade is and what it

does. You could use the fair trade website for this.4. Case Study: We have looked at Sierra Leone and Pakistan amongst other

examples and you wrote about this in your last homework pack.

5. Persuasive letter: Choose somebody to write to to persuade them to only buy/sell/use fair trade goods. Make sure you give evidence and use a formal tone. You could write to a supermarket or Mrs Nicholas or the school canteen or anybody!

6. My Life: What are you going to do now that you’ve learned all about fair trade? Will you make changes? Only buy fair trade bananas etc?

Good luck with your portfolios! We really look forward to seeing them whenever that may be. You could send photos to the parentcomms email if you are really proud and we can put them on the website!

Creative activities

Art/DT

Dioramas:

Pick your favourite chapter from Harry Potter and design the scene. To challenge yourself:

You take two pieces of paper, fold them in half, then you glue one side of each paper together, forming a wall between the two other halves. It looks something like this: __/\__. This creates a two-sided diorama.

On one side of the page you put a scene from the beginning of the book and on the other side a scene from later in the book. For example, the first scene could be Harry arriving at the Dursleys', the second could be Harry arriving at Hogwarts.

You have been appointed the new chief rollercoaster designer for a top UK theme park. Your first assignment is to design a rollercoaster to be built next year.

This task aims to test your ability to research information for a given task and you knowledge on angles!

1. Research roller coasters.If you do not have access to the internet, you can create one based on one you’ve seen on TV, in books, newspapers or even in real life!2. Come up with a mind map of as many different roller coasters as possible. These can be named coasters or types of roller coaster.

3. You must now choose one rollercoaster to base your design around. REMEMBER– you will be relying on gravity to move your marble, so loops may not be the best idea!

 

4. Once you have made a decision, research this rollercoaster  in greater detail on the internet. You must think

about:

It’s location It’s history It’s size and dimensions Any other relevant information Write this information up IN YOUR OWN WORDS. 

5. Design, plan and build an imaginative coaster for a marble to roll along. (Think about time!)You now need to plan and design your marble coaster on plain paper. Think about how you will make the coaster stand up, how you will make the path for the marble/ball to roll down and how you are going to make it last as long as possible.6. Once you have thoroughly planned, you may begin to build your marble coaster!

Challenge:

Physical activities & well-beinghttps://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga - Cosmic Yoga

Exercise For Children To Keep Active At Home

Stretches- each stretch should be held for 10-15 seconds for each limb, with a 30 second break before switching sides and before moving onto the next exercise

· Quad stretch- stand on one leg, while holding the other leg up behind while trying to keep knees together, for balance stretch the opposing arm outwards or hold ear

· Hamstring stretch- the leg which is in front should be straight with the toes lifted up, the back leg should have the knee bent, with hands leaning on the bent leg

· Shoulder stretch- bring your arm across your chest and place your hand from the other arm on your elbow

Jumping- each exercise should be done for 30 second with a 30 second break straight after

· Star jumps- stretch arms and legs out to the side like a starfish while jumping, return arms to sides and legs to centre on landing

· Tuck jumps- bend knees and lift heels high while jumping

· One foot hops-lift one knee and jump on standing leg, switch standing leg after 15 seconds

· Burpee- Drop quickly to the floor and explode out off the push up into a

jump.

· Pretend Hurdle jump- Imagine there is a hurdle and jump side to side over it, jump with both feet together

General exercises- each exercise should be done for 30 seconds with a 30 second break after completing, unless the exercise says otherwise

· Running on the spot- run in one spot as quickly as you can

· Lunges- step forward with one leg and then bend your legs, alternate constantly between the leg which steps forward

· Sit-ups- lay on the floor with your knees bent and feet bottoms touching the floor, put your arms across your chest, then try to sit up and get your arms to touch your legs, then go back to the floor and repeat the movement

· Plank- Elbows on the floor and balanced on your tiptoes, just try hold it as long as you can

Competition – Do the above exercises for 6 days before doing the competition

1. Count the number of Sit-ups you can do in 30 seconds2. How many Seconds can you hold the plank position

for?3. How many hurdle jumps can you perform in 30

seconds?4. How many burpee jumps can you perform in 30

seconds?5. How many hops can you perform on your right leg in

30 seconds6. How many hops can you perform on your left leg in 30

seconds

Level 1:

Level 2:

Level 3:

Links to websites Interactive Learning:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn https://www.tinkercad.com/

https://thekidshouldseethis.com https://m.youtube.com/user/crashcoursekids

Reading:www.readingbuddy.co.uk

Maths:https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/www.timestablesrockstars.co.ukwww.myminimaths.co.ukhttps://kids.classroomsecrets.co.uk/category/year-6/

Year 6 learning consolidation: The link below is a home learning pack which contains a variety of work. For example: living things and their habitats, reading fiction and non-fiction revision, writing revision and SATS revision.https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/year-6-school-closure-home-learning-resource-pack-t-e-2549915

Topic: Fair Trade- https://schools.fairtrade.org.uk/resource/next-fairtrade-adventure- story-poster/ https://www.theschoolrun.com/homework-help/fair-trade National Geographic Kids channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXVCgDuD_QCkI7gTKU7-tpghttps://www.natgeokids.com/uk/ - National Geographic Kidshttps://world-geography-games.com/world.html - Geography gaming!https://world-geography-games.com/world.html – Geography games!

ScienceCirculatory System revision https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zwdr6yc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9ONXd_-anMDigestive system revision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBZWgrfZFbU

Twinkl is free this month! Go to their website or follow this link to find out how you can utilise it for extra resources: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/blog/how-to-utilise-twinkl-during-the- coronavirus-shutdown-a-guide-for-schools Day-day activities per subject:https://content.twinkl.co.uk/resource/53/6a/t-e-2549924-year-6-school-closure-interactive-learning-links_ver_6.pdf?__token__=exp=1585751904~acl=%2Fresource%2F53%2F6a%2Ft-e-2549924-year-6-school-closure-interactive-learning-links_ver_6.pdf%2A~hmac=bb547a4643819283e3c8e160be4870fde29dd065b06c2ec30a5624298217311b