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Home Learning Guidelines:

Use the grid below to help structure your child’s home learning. We would encourage children to complete at least 2 activities from each column and record their learning experience in their challenge book. This could be done in a variety of ways. For example, writing a few sentences about what they learnt, drawing a picture, sticking in a photograph, completing a thought bubble etc.

To support your child at home with reading we ask that your child reads at least 4 times a week. Remember there are lots of resources to support reading on our website.

There is no expectation that your child completes the home learning challenges if they are unwell or if circumstances at home are such that the completion of the tasks causes unnecessary stress and anxiety to the household.

The highlighted activities on the learning grid show which activities the children will complete in school.

Year 6 Week 11 - Home Learning Grid – Week Commencing 22.06.20Weekly theme: Toys and GamesReading English Expressive Arts

Using words, poetry, drawing, painting and other mediums to describe our inner and outer responses to the word around us.

STEMScience, technology, engineering and mathematics.

People & CommunitiesPersonal and social development, well-being and religious education.Understanding the world in which we live.

Activity 2: Describing and creating witches.This extract is from the original Shakespeare text, when Banquo describes the witches for the first time:

BBC Teach - MacBethIn groups of three children, use drama to create their own trio of witches. They choose favourite elements from their own drawings and the

Describing and creating witches.Draw a picture of the three witches. Try to make each witch different to the next. One might be old and withered, the next

Use a web browser (such as Google) to search Hour of code Course 4. Click on the link Course 4 – Studio code.orgClick on lesson 18: Artist Binary, puzzle 1.

Think about older people you know. What was life like for them when they were your age? What was the same? What was different? What is life like

Using inference and deduction skills, what can we tell about the witches from this speech?• Use the slideshow below to look at the depictions of witches from past Macbeth productions and paintings. Discuss the various approaches to the witches in past productions - age, dress, male or female, etc.Does this go against the children’s expectations of what a ‘witch’ looks like?

slideshow of images to create a physical embodiment of the witch group. The witch group should have a single phrase: ‘All Hail, Macbeth and Banquo!’ Write this on the whiteboard and ask the children to try speaking this either in canon or unison, trying out different types of voices within their group - low, high, croaky, squeaky, giggly, etc. How will each witch move? Will he or she be bent and old with outstretched fingers, shy and childlike or inhuman and zombie-like? Watch some of the witch group dramas.

might be young, one might be a male witch, etc.Use inspiration from the slideshow.Check out “How to make Cuppet Puppets” from Primary Shakespeare Company on Vimeo.The video is available for your viewing pleasure at https://vimeo.com/409214788

Make a drawing or create a puppet of one of the witches.

Complete puzzles 1 to 11.ORPick a lesson from Course 3 or Course 4 that you found challenging and have another go.

for them now? What makes them happy? What makes them sad? Do the same things make you happy or sad?WITH PERMISSION from your parent, decide which older person or people you would like to contact. Find out which games they played when they were young. Learn one of the games (try to choose one you have not played before). After the contact, make a thank you card or picture. Draw or write why the game made you happy. Saying thank you will make them feel happy too.

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Young Game Designers (YGD)

Young Game Designers is an initiative by BAFTA that inspires and supports young people to create, develop and present their new game idea to the world.

Are you thinking about making games when you leave school?

Do you have a great game idea you want to share?

Then BAFTA's Young Game Designers is for you!

The 2020 competition winners have just been announced and you can watch the video to see the nominations and find out the winners. You may be interested enough to enter the competition next year.

Be inspired and start designing some concepts now!

Activity 1: Performing a witch’s spell • Macbeth features arguably the most famous spell in English literature. This is perfect for learning and reciting (in line with the KS2 curriculum requirements). In Shakespeare’s original text, the witches cast this spell when Macbeth visits them for a second time. See script below from episode 6, activity 1.Children can work in groups of three or more to learn and recite this as a performance piece.

Activity 2: Writing a witch’s spell • For this lesson, children will create their own magic spells using the same opening and closing couplets (in bold and italicised) as the original Shakespeare text, but with their own disgusting ingredients in between! Children could mind-map some of the ingredients they wish to include, making them as repulsive as possible!

• It is worth noting that there are seven syllables for each of the ‘ingredients’ lines which children could recite and clap as a whole class. Can they make their own ‘ingredients’ lines seven beats long?

The Imaginator ImageLook at the image above. Why is imagination important? What can we do to keep the imagination active? Which of these quotes about imagination do you like best? Why?

“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” – Albert Einstein“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.” – Terry Pratchett“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.” – Philip José Farmer“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it – or rather,

Design and make a game based on The Tempest. Use the guidelines below and attached.You need to:1. Plan it 2. Make it 3. Play it1. PlanningDecide on • Your game scenario (e.g. The game is ships trying to get from Africa to Italy) • How many players (and whether they are specific, e.g. will they be characters from the play?) • Age suitability (if you are playing with dice, can younger children play?) • What resources I need (e.g. paper/pen/scissor, etc.)?Now go and make your game. You will need to write up the instructions and advertise your game! GO ON THEN…Show us!

Toys and games often make us feel joyful. Christians believe that we are called to be joyful despite what we face. This is not the feeling of being happy but a greater depth of emotion. It is possible to be joyful even when we are finding life difficult.

Joyful paper chains: What makes you joyful? There is a well-known story in the Bible about a son wholeft his father’s home and went looking for ‘joy’ in all the wrong places. When he had run out of food, money and friends, he returned home. Amazingly, his father welcomed him back with open arms! Christians believe that God is this loving Father, who can give them true joy, by loving God and loving people around them. Cut out some coloured paper into strips. As you cut them, think of the things, places and people that give you joy. On your stripsof paper, draw or write each thing that brings you joy on a different strip of paper. Then as you glue them to make a joyful paperchain, you could pray a “thank you” prayer for all the things that bring joy into your life. See how long you can make your joyful chain!

it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don’t suppose many people try to do it.” – Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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Complete the Bitesize Daily Book Club Lesson using the link below. Using the novel The Wolves of Willoughby Chase you will learn how to find information from a text and summarise a character.

Bitesize Daily Book Club

Commas can save lives! Look at how adding a comma to the simple sentence below changes the meaning:

Let's eat Rose - we're going to eat Rose.

Let's eat, Rose - we're eating with Rose.

Recap how to use commas with the BBC Teach lesson.

BBC Teach - Using commas

Choose one of your favourite toys and create a detailed observation drawing of it. See examples of the quality you are trying to attain below.

Try multiplying fractions and simplifying fractions using the resource below linked to The Tempest.The object of chess is to capture the king. That, at the simplest level, is the symbolic significance of Prospero revealing Ferdinand and Miranda playing chess in the final scene of the play. Prospero has caught the king—Alonso—and reprimanded him for his treachery. For each section of chess board you need to work out the fractions, multiply and simplify.

Crazy but True…..The small article below, from First News, about the gaming grandmother who is 90 years old shows that anyone, at any age, can learn how to play video computer games. Why don’t you show a grandparent how to play a game with you, it could open up new avenues of keeping in touch!

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Look at the picture ‘A Giant’s Game’ below. Have a go at answering the questions.

Look at the picture ‘A Giant’s Game’ below. Read the start of the story and continue it – what might happen next?

Can you draw a picture of the giants who are playing the game?

There are lots of videos on Youtube of how to draw cartoon giants if you want some help. Here is one that might be useful:How to draw a giant

Rust? What is it? Why does it happen? What impact does it have, particularly on toys, left outside, e.g. bikes, trampolines and skateboards? Can it be fixed?Find out what can be done about it after carrying out the experiment below. When you have gathered all the information share it with us on a factsheet.

As we continue to think about the question “Can we know what God is like?” We want you think about the following:

1. If God was only “loving”, what would the inside of a church look like?

2. If God was only “holy”, what would the inside of a church look like?

Sketch two different churches in

which God’s worshippers would feel best described the two aspects of God above.

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Physical DevelopmentMonday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Random Routines (could be played on your own or with other members of your household):1) Roll a dice. Each player creates a

balance that has that number of contact points with the floor. E.g. if you throw a 2 you could balance on one knee and one elbow – you can make it as hard or as easy as you like.

2) Keep throwing the dice and practise making different balances for a few minutes.

3) Now create a sequence of balances and perform the routine. You could add some music!

Team GB’s most decorated gymnast, Max Whitlock, is posting regular gymnastics workouts from on his You Tube channel. Try one of his sessions using the link below:Max Whitlock's Gymnastics Sessions

Quick Change1) Place a pile of clothes at one end of the

room or garden (make sure they are not you best clothes!)

2) One person is the scarecrow and stands beside the other player(s). The clothes are at the opposite side of the room.

3) Play as a relay race. Set your timer for 3 minutes. One player runs to the pile of clothes, selects one item, runs back to the scarecrow and dresses them in that item of clothing.

4) The next player (or the same player) runs and selects another item and adds this to the scarecrow.

5) Continue until the time is up. How many items of clothing is the scarecrow wearing? Swap scarecrows and start again.

Variations:- Place clothes at intervals along a line,

i.e. the second item is farther away than the first and so on.

- Travel in different ways (e.g. hop, run, side-step).

- Each player is a scarecrow and dresses themselves.

Quick Change is a game that keeps the players active whilst having fun. Create your own game that keeps players active.

Play with other people in your household.

Go to Joe Wicks’ website and join in his daily workout activities.Joe Wicks

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Rust Formation Experiment

What do you know about rust? We’ve come up with a rust formation experiment for you to understand and see how rust forms, with just a few things you can find in your home!

You will need:

Two clear cups Steel wool, we used this one but you can purchase steel wool

pads in most supermarkets. White vinegar A timer

Method: Place the steel wool in one of the cups and fill it up with the

vinegar. Wait for one minute. Remove the steel wool and put it into the other cup, placing it

upside-down on the table. Wait for a few minutes.

The steel wool is changing colour because of rust formation, and there is condensation in the cup. Touch the cup, it’s slightly warm! Bonus: if you turn the cup the right way up again, you’ll get a strong smell of metal.

The science bit: Steel is a combination of iron and carbon. Rusting happens

when iron mixes with oxygen, creating an orangey colour on the surface.

When the steel wool mixes with vinegar, its protective coating is removed; this allows the iron to mix with oxygen from the air and to start rusting.

The rusting reaction also releases heat, that’s why there’s condensation in the cup and that also explains why it is warm to the touch! Now you know everything about rust formation!

One way to get rid of rust:Lemon and saltMethod: Generously coat the rusted area in a layer of salt, cut a lemon (or lime) in half, and squeeze the juice over the salt. Let the mixture sit, and then scrub away the rust with the rind. If rust

remains, repeat the procedure and let the salt and juice sit for another hour or two, until rust disappears completely. Rinse, then pat dry.

A Giant’s Game

Question time!1) What number did the die land on?2) Who is playing the game?3) What game might they be playing?4) What will happen now that the die has stopped?5) Is there anybody else nearby who has witnessed the game?6) Where have the giants come from? Is this their home?

Story starter!The enormous die crashed into the sand with a thud, but what number would it land on?

The giants ran after it, craning their necks, jostling with one another to see what the outcome would be. As they moved across the beach the ground shook violently, barely able to contain their mighty weight and size.

Finally, the die came to rest. One of the giants let out an almighty roar of delight that reverberated for miles around…