Year 5 & 6

If you would like to contact one of the teachers in years 5 and 6, please email directly:

Mr Roper mr.roper@stmarys.leics.sch.uk 

Ms Parry mrs.horsler@stmarys.leics.sch.uk 

Mr Cramp mr.cramp@stmarys.leics.sch.uk 

Mrs Chamberlain mrs.chamberlain@stmarys.leics.sch.uk

We are really pleased to see some of the amazing home learning that children in years 5 and 6 have been doing! Thank you for the photos that have been sent in - these can be viewed on the 'Home Learning photo gallery' section of the website

 

Please email any photos to your child’s teacher:

Mr Roper mr.roper@stmarys.leics.sch.uk  

Ms Parry mrs.horsler@stmarys.leics.sch.uk  

Mr Cramp mr.cramp@stmarys.leics.sch.uk  

Mrs Chamberlain mrs.chamberlain@stmarys.leics.sch.uk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary

Daily lessons via BBC Bitesize

Beginning Monday 20 April, BBC Bitesize will publish daily online lessons for all ages. They will also have a new dedicated TV channel full of learning content, podcasts on BBC Sounds and loads of educational video on iPlayer.

 

Online maths activities and reading quizzes can be accessed via :

www.activelearnprimary.co.uk

 

Active Learn Primary

 

ADVICE TO AVOID PROBLEMS WITH ACCESSING ACTIVE LEARN PRIMARY:

1) Make sure you try to access the UK version of Active Learn Primary (sometimes if you search for active learn primary on an internet search engine, the Australian version of the website appears)

2) Some of the links on the website work best if accessed via Google Chrome (Internet Explorer and Safari might prevent some of the 'popups' from loading)

3) If you struggle to log in due to 'cookie settings' issue on Safari (when using an Apple device), try to clear your search history and then try again.

4) If your child's login (username and password) isn't working, send an email to mr.roper@stmarys.leics.sch.uk. Mr Roper will respond to you as soon as possible

 

Your child has a login for Active Learn Primary. They can use their account to access lots of interactive maths games and also do online quizzes for any books they have read:

www.activelearnprimary.co.uk

 

The school's code on the Active Learn Primary website is pgyx

 

 

Times Tables Rock Stars

 

Children from years 2 up to year 6 have access to https://www.ttrockstars.com/

 

When you load up the website, choose the 'login' tab at the top of the webpage, and select 'school pupils'. You should then type in 'Hinckley' and select 'St Mary's Primary School' before attempting to log in via your child's username and password.

 

If your child's login (username and password) isn't working, send an email to mr.roper@stmarys.leics.sch.uk. Mr Roper will respond to you as soon as possible

Home Learning for week beginning 6th July

As this is the last week of term, the activities below are slightly different.

Transition

Home Learning for week beginning 29th June

Maths

Year 5 Children:

Important - The White Rose links will only allow you to access the videos.  Our school has subscribed to the White Rose's premium service and the worksheets listed for this weeks activities are found below the link.  Follow the link to find the videos and select Summer Term week 10.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/

 

Year 6 Children:

Important: The White Rose home learning activities on the links will only allow you to access the videos.  Our school has subscribed to White Rose's premium service and the worksheets for this weeks activities are listed below the link.  

Follow the link below for videos for each day of the week and select Summer Term week 10.

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

History quizzes (years 5 and 6)

How much can you remember about our history topics from earlier this year?!

 

The Stone Age:

https://www.dkfindout.com/uk/quiz/history/quiz-yourself-on-stone-age/

 

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/57eb16dcd8a050cd0491334d/stone-age-quiz

 

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5d9de6d0474ded001acb23ad/stone-age-britain

 

 

 

 

 

The Industrial Revolution (this quiz is aimed at high school children, so good luck!):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zvmv4wx/test

 

 

Art challenges (years 5 and 6)

 

Would you like to go on an art adventure?

Learn about different artists?

See more art videos? Draw, paint or make something?

 

Tate Kids has lots of different activities on their website:

 

https://www.tate.org.uk/kids

• FREE Online Animation and Video Game Making Guides

Geography

 

 

The Canal & River Trust have created this selection of resources and information so that children can learn about rivers and canals from home. Rivers flow through pretty countryside, great cities, towns and villages too. Discover how rivers form and flow from source to mouth. Learn why rivers are different to canals, who looks after them and much more.

Home Learning for week beginning 22nd June

Maths:

Year 5 Children

Important - The White Rose links will only allow you to access the videos.  Our school has subscribed to the White Rose's premium service and the worksheets listed for this weeks activities are found below the link.  Follow the link to find the videos and select Summer Term week 9.

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/

 

 

 

Year 6 Children:

Important: The White Rose home learning activities on the links will only allow you to access the videos.  Our school has subscribed to White Rose's premium service and the worksheets for this weeks activities are listed below the link.  

Follow the link below for videos for each day of the week and select Summer Term week 9.

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

 

Writing (Year 5 and 6 children) Transition

Some year 6s may have received a transition pack from their new school.  Therefore you could work on this over the next couple of weeks.

Otherwise, you could put together a leaflet or fact file about yourself and what you have achieved over lockdown and continue to explain what you would like to achieve over the Summer and into the next school year.

 

Year 5 writing activities are linked with finding a better place and resulting in writing a story about this theme.

Year 6 writing activities are dealing with the theme of homelessness. 

STEM Clubs Week 2020

22 - 26th June -  Sustainability     stem.org.uk

This is a free online event for families featuring challenges, career talks, webinars and more.  

Take a look at the time table of events and the competition guidelines below and see if there is anything that may interest you?  You never know, the prize maybe yours! 

Sock Bunnies

We have been making sock bunnies in school and thought that you would like to make them too?

Using paint, pencil crayons or felt tips, choose something simple to draw in this style.  Please take a photo of your work and send in to school via email.

Home Learning for week beginning 15th June

Writing (years 5 and 6) - Transition.

Some Year 6s may have received a transition pack from their new school. Therefore, you could work on this over the next couple of weeks.

Otherwise, you may want to use the resource below, to draft a letter to your new teacher. Introduce yourself, tell them about you and what you hope to achieve next year.

Maths

Year 5 children

 

IMPORTANT - The White Rose home learning activities on the links will only allow you to access the videos.  Our school has subscribed to the White Rose's premium service and the worksheets for this weeks activities are listed below the link.

Follow the link below for videos for each day of the week

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/  

and select Summer Term week 8

Maths

Year 6 children

IMPORTANT - The White Rose home learning activities on the links will only allow you to access the videos.  Our school has subscribed to the White Rose's premium service and the worksheets for this weeks activities are listed below the link.

Follow the link below for videos for each day of the week

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

and select Summer Term week 8

SPACE SCIENCE

How many of you have watched the recent success of the FALCON 9 take off, with the dragon crew linking up with the International Space Station? This is the first time in nearly 10 years, that NASA has sent a crew up into space, via an American launch facility. 

 

Falcon 9 are also continuing to launch satellites into space, to enable the internet to be broadcast around the world. It is called 'STARLINK' and you can see these launches continuing this month.

The remarkable thing about these rockets is that part of the rocket returns to Earth, landing safely, so that the rocket can be used again.

 

The aim of Space X is to establish a colony on Mars, and it's competitor, Blue Origin, wants to establish a colony on the Moon. You can see where the previous moon landings took place, by using Google Moon.

 

Research photographic images, taken by previous Rover missions to Mars. You could then paint or draw a similar Martian landscape. Once completed, you could email in a photograph of your creation.

Local History/Design and Technology

At school this week, Yr 6 Raleigh have been learning about Tudor houses.  Read through the diagrams, photographs and information below.

 

If you visit the home learning gallery, you can see photographs of the Tudor houses that we made last week. If you would like to do the same, then all you need is a cereal or shoe box. You can paint and decorate the box, to make it look like a Tudor poor house. Or, if you have more than 1 box, you could make a rich person's house, by having 2 floors, with the upper floor larger than the ground floor. Once completed, email in a photograph of your creation.

Home Learning for week beginning 8th June

Years 5 and 6 spelling online game:

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/spookySpellings/index.html

 

Maths

Year 5 children

 

IMPORTANT - The White Rose home learning activities on the links will only allow you to access the videos.  Our school has subscribed to the White Rose's premium service and the worksheets for this weeks activities are listed below the link.

Follow the link below for videos for each day of the week

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/  

and select Summer Term week 7

 

Maths

Year 6 children

IMPORTANT - The White Rose home learning activities on the links will only allow you to access the videos.  Our school has subscribed to the White Rose's premium service and the worksheets for this weeks activities are listed below the link.

Follow the link below for videos for each day of the week

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

and select Summer Term week 7

Home Learning for week beginning 1st June

English Activities

Year 5 Children

Why don't you try some of the writing activities linked to www.pobble365.com for something different?

Don't forget to keep on top of your spellings and reading.  All spellings are to be found on our website.

J K Rowling (of Harry Potter fame) has written a new book which is available free online to all children to read called The Ickabog. Two chapters are being released each day.  Let us know what you think about it.

Maths

Year 5 children

IMPORTANT - The White Rose home learning activities on the links will only allow you to access the videos.  Our school has subscribed to the White Rose's premium service and the worksheets for this weeks activities are listed below the links.

Follow the link below for videos for each day of the week

https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5   and select Summer Term week 6

 

STEM Science activities for you to investigate

Home learning for week commencing 18th May

English activities:

Year 5 children

Year 6 children

Maths:

IMPORTANT - The White Rose home learning activities on the links below will only allow you to access the videos. Our school has subscribed to White Rose's premium service, and the worksheets for this week's activities are listed below the links

Year 5 children - follow this link for videos for each day of the week:   https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/ and select 'Summer Term - week 5'

Year 6 children - follow this link for maths videos for each day of the week:  https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/ and select 'Summer Term - week 5'

Design and Technology Activities:

If you love lego, then I think you might like this. Create your own lego pinball maze. All you need are some LEGO base plates, a small ball and LEGO! Watch the video below.

You could go grow some too! Why not start with radish, potatoes, cress or carrots.

If you want to grow a herb, start with mint (but keep this in a pot.)

 

Have a go and let me know how you get on! 

Mr Cramp

Home learning for week commencing 11th May

English activities:

Year 5 children

Year 6 children:

Maths activities:

IMPORTANT - The White Rose home learning activities on the links below will only allow you to access the videos. Our school has subscribed to White Rose's premium service, and the worksheets for this week's activities are listed below the links

Year 5 children - follow this link for videos for each day of the week:   https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/ and select 'Summer Term - week 4'

Year 6 children - follow this link for maths videos for each day of the week:  https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/ and select 'Summer Term - week 4'

A to Z photo challenge - can you beat Mr Roper (who could only get from A to J)?

St Mary's Community Art Activity

From Mrs Ayres: School is really quiet without the children and we miss them so much. Wouldn't it be fantastic if every child drew a self portrait of themselves on an A4 sheet of paper with their arms outstretched which we could put on the perimeter fence? Not only would it brighten up the fence but it would be a daily reminder of who makes our school community so special. If you would like to take part, please draw yourself with your arms outstretched, colour it carefully and add your first name only.

On your daily walk you can post your picture in the letter box on Station Road, outside Picasso class or post them to school if you don't live close by. We look forward to seeing them.

Home learning for week commencing 4th May

Maths online activities - White Rose maths

 

Year 5 children - follow this link for maths activities for each day of the week:   https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/ and select 'Summer Term - week 3'

 

Year 6 children - follow this link for maths activities for each day of the week:  https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/ and select 'Summer Term - week 3'

Home learning for week commencing 27th April

English activities:

Year 5 children

Year 6 Children

Maths activities:

Each daily lesson is accompanied by a video tutorial. 

 

Year 5 children - follow this link for maths activities for each day of the week:   https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/ and select 'Summer Term - week 2'

 

Year 6 children - follow this link for maths activities for each day of the week:  https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/ and select 'Summer Term - week 2'

Science Activities

Activity 1 - How clean are your hands?

We all know we have to keep our hands clean - but why? What is on the surface of our hands that we cannot see?  Use 5 pieces of bread to find out.

1. Do nothing (this is the control).

2. Wipe your dirty hands on a slice of bread.

3. Wash your hands with soap and then handle the bread.

4. Wash your hands with hand gel and then handle the bread.

5. Wipe your phone, tablet or laptop with the bread. 

 

Place each piece of bread into a separate sealed bag - and wait for the mould to grow.

Can you make a prediction about each one?

Why is there a control - what does this tell you?

Once there is mould, has any result surprised you?

Can you make a decision about which method of handwashing is the best? 

Can you develop the experiment further, testing other surfaces?

 

Activity 2 - DNA Detectives!

DNA is in every living thing (and it's only in living things). All living things, bananas and people included, pass on information from one generation to the next using the same basic material, DNA.

(Deoxyribonucleic acid).

Within every living organism, most cells contain a complete set of DNA instructions. The information in DNA tells our bodies how to develop, grow, and work. It also controls many of the features that make an organism unique.

 

To extract DNA for this activity, it is best to use mushy fruit. Bananas and strawberries are great choices. Add four tablespoons (60 ml) of this mixture to two teaspoonfuls of hair shampoo (10 ml) and two pinches (0.5 ml volume) of salt. Stir gently for 1 min, then filter through a coffee filter or fine sieve into a clear container.

After 30 min, check how much liquid has come through the filter.

 

For the next part, the help of a grown up is needed and necessary!

Add about four times this, the volume of alcohol spirit (vodka, rum, or ethanol, with 50% or so alcohol content).  It works better if the alcohol is ice cold. The DNA will then emerge from the solution as a stringy mass which can be spooled out on a plastic fork. DNA is a long, stringy molecule. The salt helps it stick together.

Home learning for week commencing 20th April

English activities:

Year 5 children

Year 6 children

Examples:

The car, which was a pale shade of blue, was driven by an old man.

 

The vast array of vehicles raced through the dessert, which was covered in a thin layer of salt.

 

Maths activities:

 

Year 5 children - follow this link for maths activities for each day of the week:   https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/ and select 'Summer Term - week 1'

 

Year 6 children - follow this link for maths activities for each day of the week:  https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/ and select 'Summer Term - week 1'

Creative Activities:

Activity 1 - model of a clock tower

 

Before our school closed, we were all enjoying reading Philip Pullman's 'Clockwork'. The book is set in the town of Glockenheim, which has the most magnificent clock tower in the whole of Germany (the Great Clock of Glockenheim).

Here are some examples of models of clock towers.

We would like you to make or draw a clock tower using whatever equipment you have in your house.

If you choose to draw a clock tower, include as much detail as possible.

If you are making it, you could use Lego, cardboard, plasticine, wood, duplo, Mechano - anything you can get your hands on (with the permission of a parent!).

You might even attempt to create a virtual model of a clock tower using a computer.

Please send photos of your finished projects - we look forward to seeing them. 

We hope you have lots of fun creating your clock tower!

Activity 1 - photography project (choose a colour)

 

Choose a colour you would like to focus on. Then, look around your house or in your garden for things that are that colour - take a photo. If you are out on your daily walk with your family, can you spot things which are that colour? If so, take a photo! 

 

Afterwards, make a collage of all of your photos.

 

If you manage to create a photo collage, please send us your collage so that we can see it! We look forward to seeing your photo collages. Good luck and enjoy this exciting challenge.