Tessellation

L.O. To understand and investigate tessellation with regular polygons

Click on the link below to investigate tessellation using an online app

Create a tessellation pattern in your numeracy books using regular polygons

Challenge - can you create a tessellating pattern inspired by Escher

(Escher tessellation

L.O. To create a tessellating pattern inspired by Escher)

Monday 29th April

Mean, median, mode and range

Click on the link below to access the worksheets for our maths lessons today

Tuesday 16th April 

9am - 10am - Olchfa CHAT counsellors

10am - 10:30am - Spelling shed, Reading Eggs

10:30am - 11am - Amser Chwarae

11am - 12pm - 

12pm - 1pm - Amser Cinio

1pm - Science and Technology

Double page spread

Draw a picture of a coastline with the following features: sand dunes, salt marshes/mudflats, beach and strandlines, maritime cliff, grass, rock pools

Research each feature and identify wildlife that lives in each habitat

Research sea birds that you might find in Gower beaches - draw and label some of them in your picture

Think carefully how you are going to present your work. You could create flaps that the reader has to lift to view information. You could draw and label the wildlife on your drawing, or you could create a key on your diagram and give further information on the next page (eg a silhouette of the creature on your diagram and then create further information on an additional page - please see Caitlin!) 

Please use the following websites to support your work:

Thursday 14th March

Rules, rights and responsibilities 

Click on the link below to access the resources for our lesson today

                                                 Rules, rights and                    Discrimination

                                                   responsibility

Tuesday 12th March 

Click on the link below to access resources for our science investigation 

Tuesday 30th January

Morning tasks -

• Spelling shed
• Reading Eggs assignment 
• Complete maths questions on the board

Humanities

Research key civil right activists

• Dr Martin Luther King Jr
• Thurgood Marshall 
• Ruby Bridges
• Rosa Parks
• Harriet Tubman

Create a mind map for EACH hero above in your Humanities book. 

Once you have completed your mind maps, create a Civil rights hero book, incorporating information texts/fact files about each of the above people. Remember to include titles, images, captions, facts, statistics and key information for how they helped the civil rights movement. 

Click on the links below to support your research

Civil rights hero video                 Rosa Parks - Horrible histories    Dr Martin Luther King - Horrible                                                                                                           histories

Harriet Tubman - BBC

Tuesday 23rd January

8:50am - 9:25am Maths - Function machines - Abacus textbook 2 pages 92, 93 and 94

Pupils to complete questions in their maths books (pupils mark with red pens if you have time) 

9:25am - 10am - prepare for webcast with Holocaust survivor Hedi Argent

Generate questions as a class and copy into Humanities book

Generate questions of your own in Humanities book 

10am - 11am - Webcast with Hedi Argent

11am - 11:20am- break

11:20am - 12pm - reflections on webcast

• Write down 5 things about Hedi that you remember from the webcast
• Answer the following questions:
• Why is it still important for us to hear from people like Hedi? 
• Why is learning about WW2/Holocaust still important today? 
• How has hearing from Hedi helped you to understand more about the Holocaust?
• How can we continue to share important stories like Hedi's? 

Afternoon session

Humanities

Using the resources below and the information that you have leant over the past term, complete an information text about the events that led up to the Holocaust in WW2. 

Remember to include the following:

• Hitler's beliefs about Jewish people
• Use of propaganda to spread misinformation about Jewish people
• Kristallnacht
• What rights did Jewish people lose leading up to the war?
• How did some Jewish people escape the concentration camps? Include information about Hedi Argent and Anne Frank

BBC bitesize - use of Nazi terror and violence 

BBC bitesize - Kristallnacht

Britannica Kids - Kristallnacht

BBC News - Kristallnacht

BBC Bitesize - Anne Frank

Tuesday 28th November 

• Practise new spelling words on Spelling shed
• TTRS - 2 games 
• Complete Reading Eggs assignment
• Complete Humanities tasks - Roles of WW2, Evacuation, Investigate countries during WW2
• Extension - create a Welsh game to help us 'express an opinion'. Use the key words from the section on our Welsh display and make an online quiz/game. You could use Kahoot or another online platform. If you prefer you could make a game using cardboard. For example you could make ‘snap’ where you have to match the Welsh word to the English translation.

21st November 2023

Evacuation resources

BBC Evacuation

Stories from Upper Killay

IWM - Evacuation

World war 2  - roles of war

Thursday 19th October

Inspirational WW2 heroes

In your Humanities books create an information text about all of the following WW2 heroes:

• Simone Segouin
• Tommy Prince
• Charles Jackson French 

Please include:

• why they are heroes
• images 
• facts/statistics 

Please don’t use black marker pens in your books as they go through the pages. Use paper to write on and then cut it out to stick in your book, if you wish to use marker pens or felt pens etc. 

* Extension task - create a word art or portrait of one of the above heroes 

Thursday 28th September 

Humanities - research task

Research the following and complete an information text in your Humanities book

• The Blitz - What was the Blitz? Who did it affect? Why did they target the these locations?
• What bombs were used? What were the different effects of each  bomb?
• How did people shelter from the bombs? What warning systems did they have?
• What was the Battle of Britain? How did radar help Britain? 

Tuesday 19th September 2023

Click on the link below to access the BBC website about Machines of the military - WW2

Friday 15th September

Click on the image below to sign up to our Year 6 Flip group

Join code: ff21e7c5

Tuesday 12th September

Click on the link below to access a helpful website about the timeline of key events in WW2 

Thursday 7th September

Forces in motion

Research friction, gravity, air resistance and aero dynamics. 

Describe each term and draw a diagram to demonstrate. 

Investigate the fastest planes. Draw each plane and describe the similarities and differences between each one. How has aerodynamics influenced the design of the plane? What forces does a plane need to fly? 

Click on the images below for helpful websites:

EPIC planning - Autumn Term 

Click on the image below to access a Padlet for our new topic 'Off we go!'