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Weekly Planner

Week commencing: Monday 4th May 2020 Class: Year 6 Squirrels and Magpies

Year 6 Leavers 2020 - Mini Mission 1We are continuing with Mini Mission 1 for this week …Following the recording of your leavers song with Mr Smith, your first 'Mini mission' is to record your part for the leaver's video including individual lines and a full run of the chorus too please. Here’s what you need to do:

Log onto your class page on HWB/TEAMS and listen to the official Leaver's song for the Class of 2020: 'Memories'

Film the chorus of the leavers song and any individual lines (if you have one) using either an iphone/ipad/camcorder or android. IMPORTANT: When recording, please play the track in the background, and film horizontally, not vertically.

Click on the following link or scan the QR code, log into your HWB account and upload your video either on a phone or a computer:

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Ug4_TzS3ZEGUCRtgHRR5k6iyNr1JC0lCsML8hIWq9ZlUM0lVN0dYOU5aOEM1N0swVU81TjdRTUI5MC4u

Leavers Video Uploads 2020The audio and lyrics for the official Leavers song for the class of 2020 'Memories,' has been saved in your class planning folder on HWB/TEAMS. Once we have received all your videos, we will be sending them across to Mr Smith who will use his super high tech editing software and sprinkle his magic to produce Gowerton Primary School's official leavers video for the class of 2020. Thank you in advance - we cannot wait to see the final result! For those of you who have not already done so, please send your videos in by next Friday 8.05.20. Diolch.

Languages, Literacy and Communication Writing Task 1 – This week you will be using the picture 'The Sky Journey’ from 'Pobble 365’ as a stimulus for your written work. The task is to continue the story, but we would like you to focus on using the questions first as a stimulus for your writing. Be creative as you can and try to include lots of adjectives to describe the setting, key feelings and emotions. https://www.pobble365.com/the-sky-journey

Here are some tasks you can try from the activity:Read the 'Story Starter,' Can you continue the story about the flying ship? Alternatively, you could write a diary about life on board the vessel. You could even design your own flying machine, creating a set of instructions about how to build it, or an explanation text about how it works.

Other Activities to try:

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Can you improve the 'Sick Sentence,’ by adding extra detail? Identify the articles in 'Sentence Challenge.' Use the following video clip to revise what ‘articles’ are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drTyYqbz6Xk Imagine the sky is full of ships, cars, trains and other types of transport that normally travel on the

ground. Think about what this would look like. Draw or write down what you have imagined.

Writing Task 2 – 1. Read the first verse of The Highwayman. What patterns do you notice? What mood would you say this verse has? What do you think might happen? 2.Watch the PowerPoint of The Highwayman or watch the video animation and follow the words as you do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryu1JZiSbHo

When you have finished try to tell the story out loud. What happens in this narrative poem? 3. Put the events in order. Cut out the Highwayman Events and try to put them in order. Watch the PowerPoint or the video again to help. When you have finished, check your answers with a grown-up. Tell them the story of what happens. 4. The poem is a bit mysterious. Write five questions or puzzles that the poem raises.

Reading Comprehension Challenge – We have uploaded the answers to last week’s reading challenge ‘Giant panda’ for you to check. This week’s comprehension is called “The Lost Queen.” Give yourself 30minutes to read the booklet then work your way through the answer booklet developing key skills of inference and deduction. Answers to the comprehension challenge will be uploaded on Friday so you can check how you have done.

Spelling Task- The spelling pattern for the next 2 weeks is ‘Plural Nouns.’Further creative ways to practice your spelling words can be found here: https://thebarefoothomeschoolingmom.blogspot.com/2019/04/20-creative-ways-to-practice-spelling.html

Please send us your pictures of you learning your spelling words and if you have any alternative ways please continue to share them with us too!

And remember to Read, Read, Read - enjoy reading for pleasure and for sustained periods of time in your bedroom, living room or even venture out into your garden!'The school Reading List' is a lovely resource listing a wide range of wonderful recommended reading materials from children's classics, to graphic novels, to magazine and newspaper recommendations and are suitable for a wide range of ages, interests and abilities.

Visit: https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk/resources/magazines-and-newspapers-for-children-and-teenagers/

Read Theory - Develop your reading and comprehension further by signing up as a student and having a go at answering the questions about the different texts.

Visit: https://readtheory.org/app/sign-up/role

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Languages and Communication - Cymraeg

Here are a range of activities for you to try over this term to help improve your speaking, reading and writing in Welsh.

1. Choose some sentence patterns, from the list provided, to practice with a family member, take turns to ask and answer the questions. How many can you answer in one minute?

2. Use the sentence pattern booklet ‘Newyddion 5 a 6’ to help you write a short diary entry about your week or weekend.

3. Play some of the games on the website below.

https://www.learn-welsh.net/welshgames

4. Read Nici a Chris ‘Canu yn y Cor’ and try and answer some of the questions about the story.

Mathematics and Numeracy

This week we have allocated work on Active Learn linked to mental strategies and written methods in subtracting, including decimal numbers. Some other activities this week include ‘NINE Again! ’problem solving challenge, Cloud Clash game, Sorting Subtractions homework sheet and 3 fluency fitness challenges: ‘Not a Penny More,’ ‘Tricky Temperatures,’ and ‘What is the Area?’ Activities can be accessed via HWB/TEAMS or on your Active Learn account. Remember, the answer sheet to the homework task will be uploaded at the end of the week. A revision video clip – ‘Counting Up to Solve Money,’ has also been sent to your Active Learn account, if you wish to recap on key skills prior to completing the challenges. Log onto https://www.activelearnprimary.co.uk/login?c=0 to view your allocated tasks in the 'My stuff' section and the school code is J3as - Enjoy!

This week's activities include:

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Here are some other activities you can try:

Try the extra challenges on active learn to consolidate your understanding of number including: further problem solving with 'Antarctic missions' and 'Apple Picking' on Active Learn and the weekly Mastery checkpoints.

Log onto TT Rock Stars at https://ttrockstars.com/ and practice those times tables - Which type of Rock Star are you? Will you make it to Rock Legend? Your current weekly challenge is to complete x10 Garage challenges!

Health & Well-beingHave fun this week doing something together.

Choose from the list of 100 things to do indoors...

Join Joe Wicks the Body Coach live every morning at 9am prompt

and get active with families from all around the world!

Why not try the 30-Day Lego Challenge!

Which activities do you fancy this week?

Cross curricular Year 5 and 6 Home School Learning Topic Tasks - Summer Term Complete a task each week linked to our topic “Wales and the Wonderful World

Around Us.’ You can present your information on HWB using your class group. Use a range of multimedia to showcase your work E.G. Photographs, audio, video footage,

PowerPoint and SWAY. Remember to label your work with your name and title of task. Enjoy and be as creative as you can.

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The new planner grid for Summer Term 'Wales and the Wonderful World around us' is saved on HWB in your class folder and has also been shared on our school website.

The Continent Quiz for this week is: 'The South America Challenge'