Upper Juniors

Each class teacher can be contacted on their class email for additional information.

Mrs Waterfall class9@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Ms Penman class10@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Mrs Osmond/Mrs Broad class11@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Topic Term Overview

Speenhamland School

Linked Learning:

Ancient Greece

Upper Juniors

Summer Term 2021

English:

Using Greek Myths – The adventure of Odysseus, Tale of Troy, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, pupils will:

Write their own version of a Greek myth
Write a new scene for a Midsummer Night’s Dream
Write a balanced argument / discussion linked to a Greek myth
Look at sonnets by Shakespeare and write their own
Improving reading and comprehension skills
Consolidate the use of expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely
Consolidate using semi-colons, colons and dashes to mark boundaries between independent clauses
Consolidate use of ellipsis
Use modal verbs to indicate degrees of possibility
Use relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied pronoun

Geography: Greek European Study

To locate Greece on a world map and its major cities.
To locate the key human and physical characteristics of Greece.
To understand the key geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region in a European country and the UK/ Newbury.
To use atlases, maps, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied.

History: Ancient Greece

To understand what we can find out about the Ancient Greeks by artefacts left behind
To understand the importance of the Greek political system and how it has impacted life today
To understand key events in Ancient Greece and why they were important
To understand the different Greek Gods and Goddesses and the different roles they were said to play

PSHE: Relationships

To know how to keep building my own self-esteem
To understand that belonging to an online community can have positive and negative consequences
To recognise when an online community feels unsafe or uncomfortable
To recognise when I am spending too much time using devices (screen time)

Changing Me

To know how to develop my own self esteem
To understand that puberty is a natural process that happens to everybody and that it will be OK for me
To express how I feel about the changes that will happen to me during puberty
To be confident that I can cope with the changes that growing up will bring
To think about changes I will make next year and know how to go about this

D&T: Moving Toys

To design a moving toy, using a cam mechanism
To be able to join materials together
To be able to use tools safely
To suggest improvements to finished product

Science: Evolution & Inheritance

To know that living things have changed.
To identify similarities and differences between living things in the past and the present.
To identify that parents have offspring.
To identify that the offspring can vary but are of the same kind.
To identify that offspring are not identical to their parents.
To identify how an animal or plant is suited to their environment.
To explain how adaptation occurs in different ways, and how this leads to evolution.
To research Charles Darwin and identify his connection to the learning.

Art: Objects & Meanings

Use a blank still life sheet, create shading, stippling or cross hatching – in one colour
Replicate shapes and tones
Use contrasting colours
Arrange objects for composition
Use colour schemes and colour families
Build up drawings using a variety of techniques
Interpret the texture of surfaces

Maths:

This term we will be working on:

Multiplication and Division
Times Tables
Number-Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
Measure – Converting units
Geometry – Properties of shape
Number – Ratio
Number - Algebra
Geometry – Properties of shape

RE: Islam

Does belief in Akhirah (life after death) help Muslims lead good lives?

To identify ways in which Muslims try to lead good lives and how their belief in Akhirah influences this
To understand what can lead to people making decisions, and that these decisions can be changed
To identify motivation and what it can mean to Muslims (and others)

Computing:

Using Purple Mash, the children will learn about:

6.6 Networks

What is the difference between the internet and the world wide web?
What is the difference between WAN and LAN?
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?

6.7 Quizzing

What factors do you need to consider when creating a quiz?
What are the different types of question?
Apart from questions, what else does a quiz need to contain?

P.E:

Music:

French:

Home Learning March 2021 Archive

Monday 1^st March – Friday 5^th March

We have listened to your feedback about home learning and have made some changes to the way we deliver our home-learning. All Maths & English home learning tasks will be set daily and will be active for 3 days in order to give you an opportunity to complete them at your convenience. As we will be celebrating Book Week this week, and have assigned a couple of activities for you to complete, there will only be 2 recorded sessions for our Foundation subject of RE which will be set on Monday for you to complete during the week.

Each class has a DB Primary class blog that will allow the children to share any of the amazing things they are doing at home. We would love to know what the children are up to. The children can get to the blog by logging on to DB Primary Speenhamland. Your child’s log in for this is in their reading record.

Each class teacher can be contacted on their class email for additional information.

Mrs Waterfall – class9@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Miss Penman – class10@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Mrs Osmond, Mrs Broad and Mrs Richardson – class11@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Subject	Task	Location or learning platform	Self-evaluation
Writing and Cosmic Guided Reading	Before the live lesson please listen to ‘Gravity is not a trivial monster’ and ‘Last chance to vote’ before the live lesson. Then join Miss Penman for a live lesson focussing on relative clauses. Finally answer the question based on the chapter on DB Primary.	Teams DB Primary
	Listen to ‘I am half a world away’, ‘If anything goes wrong and ‘You don’t get extra lives in Space’ and then answers the questions based on these chapters. Finally listen to ‘The real thing’, ‘Quest Orange’ and ‘Launch minus 48’	DB primary
	Before the live lesson listen to ‘Some kind of lovely’, ‘I want my Daddy’ and ‘The moon you idiot’ Then join Miss Penman for a live lesson focussing on the use of commas for clarity. Next answer the questions based on the chapters on DB Primary.	Teams DB primary
	Live Lesson Wednesday 3^rd March 1:30pm ‘An unscheduled diversion’	Teams
	Listen to ‘Dark side of the moon’, ‘Doing the Dadly thing’, ‘Logic says’ and ‘This is not a stimulation’ Please note that due to World Book Day activities there are no questions to answer on these chapters.	DB primary
	Join Mrs Osmond for a live lesson to hear the end of the story. Then answer the questions based on the chapters and book on DB Primary.	Teams
Spellings	Spellings using ‘root’ words Upload your paragraph onto DB primary	DB Primary
World Book Day	Live Lesson Thursday 10:30am World Book Day (dressing up optional) Join Mrs Waterfall to introduce our new book ‘What We’ll Build’ by Oliver Jeffers Complete the linked tasks Task 1 – Create your favourite place where you feel most at home. This could be a 3D model made with junk modelling, Lego, Duplo etc. It could be a picture or a collage using any materials you have. Task 2 - Write a detailed description of the place you feel most at home using a wide range of descriptive language techniques. Make sure you explain why this place makes you feel most at home.	Teams DB Primary
Maths Year 5/6	Position and Direction
	Lesson 1 – Drawing Reflected Shapes Complete the L1 activity	Website DB Primary	Watch the pre-recorded Loom video before answering the Lesson 1 activity
	Lesson 2 – Identifying Reflected Shapes Complete the L2 activity	Website DB Primary	Watch the pre-recorded Loom video before answering the Lesson 2 activity
	Lesson 3 – Drawing Translated Shapes Complete the L3 activity	Website DB Primary	Watch the pre-recorded Loom video before answering the Lesson 3 activity
	Lesson 4 – Identifying Translated Shapes Complete the L4 activity	Website DB Primary	Watch the pre-recorded Loom video before answering the Lesson 4 activity
Live lesson:	Tuesday 10:30
Maths Fluency	Complete at least 5 Soundchecks	TT Rockstars
Topic RE	RE – 2 x pre-recorded Loom videos: L1 – To examine religious ideas about Heaven L2 – To compare and contrast ideas about Eternity Complete the linked activities	DB Primary Loom videos
Well-being Wednesday	Join your class teacher in a class catch-up and listen to ‘An unscheduled diversion’	Live stream Weds 1:30
P.E.	P.E. with Joe Wicks (Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9.00) Mr Page’s challenge – sports page	YouTube DB primary
School Council Challenge	Your challenge this week is to do something to celebrate St. David's Day, you could make or draw a dragon, bake some welsh cakes, or a leek pie. You could write a story about St. David, or learn to say something in Welsh. Don't forget to email Mrs Osmond pictures, videos or work so she can include some pieces in next week's newsletter.		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAmnKNmVqx8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G9gtSBAJII

Home Learning February 2021

Monday 22^nd February – Friday 26^th February

We have listened to your feedback about home learning and have made some changes to the way we deliver our home-learning. All Maths & English home learning tasks will be set daily and will be active for 3 days in order to give you an opportunity to complete them at your convenience. This week, our Foundation subject will be Geography and there will be 3 recorded sessions set on Monday for you to complete during the week. Next week, our focus will be on another foundation subject.

Each class teacher can be contacted on their class email for additional information.

Mrs Waterfall – class9@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Miss Penman – class10@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Mrs Osmond, Mrs Broad and Mrs Richardson – class11@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Subject	Task	Location or learning platform	Self-evaluation
Reading	Just the Beginning Chapter 5 Complete online multiple-choice questions	Purple Mash
Reading	Just the Beginning Chapter 6 Complete online multiple-choice questions Write a book review	Purple Mash
Writing and Cosmic Guided Reading	Before the live lesson watch the recording of ‘Thrill Ride of the Century’ on the Cosmic page. Then join Miss Penman for the live lesson focussing on conjunctions. Finally answer the questions linked to the chapter in full sentences using conjunctions to help you to explain and add detail.	Teams DB Primary
	Watch the recording of ‘I am the Space Dad’ on the Cosmic page. Then answer the questions linked to the chapter in full sentences using conjunctions to help you to explain and add detail.	DB primary
	Before the live lesson watch the recording of ‘The Ice-Cream Man of the Gobi Dessert’ on the Cosmic page. Then join Miss Penman for the live lesson focussing on semi-colons. Finally answer the questions linked to the chapter in full sentences using conjunctions to help you to add information or detail.	Team DB primary
	Watch the recording of ‘I can’t work my trousers’ on the Cosmic page. Then answer the questions linked to the chapter in full sentences using conjunctions and semicolons to help you to explain and add information and detail.	DB primary
	Before the live lesson, watch the recording of ‘The Vomit Comet’ and ‘Astrogossip’. Then join Miss Penman for the live lesson focussing on brackets and dashes. Finally answer the questions linked to the chapter in full sentences using brackets and dashes to help you to add information or detail.	DB primary
Spellings	Statutory word lists Upload your paragraph onto DB primary	DB Primary
Maths Year 5/6	Shape
	Lesson 1 – Multiples of 90⁰ angles Complete the L1 activity	Website DB Primary	Watch the pre-recorded Loom video before answering the Lesson 1 activity
	Lesson 2 – Missing angles Complete the L2 activity Extension task available	Website DB Primary	Watch the pre-recorded Loom video before answering the Lesson 2 activity
	Lesson 3 – Shape reasoning Complete the L3 activity Extension task available	Website DB Primary	Watch the pre-recorded Loom video before answering the Lesson 3 activity
	Lesson 4 – More shape reasoning Complete the L4 activity Extension task available	Website DB Primary	Watch the pre-recorded Loom video before answering the Lesson 4 activity
	Lesson 5 – L5 activity - Fluency	Website DB Primary
Live lessons:	Tues 10:30, Thurs 10:30
Maths Fluency	Complete at least 5 Soundchecks	TT Rockstars
Topic Geography	Geography – 3 x pre-recorded Loom videos: L1 – Earthquakes Complete ‘Mercalli Scale’ worksheet. Statement sorting worksheet. Have a go at the seismograph challenge! L2 – Tsunamis Complete the worksheet on tsunamis L3 – Concluding Extreme Earths topic Write a diary entry	DB Primary Loom videos
Well-being Wednesday	Join your class teacher in a class catch-up	Live stream Weds 1:30
P.E.	P.E. with Joe Wicks (Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9.00) Mr Page’s challenge – sports page	YouTube DB primary

Week Commencing 8th February 2021

Monday 8th February – Friday 12^th February

We have listened to your feedback about home learning and have made some changes to the way we deliver our home-learning. All Maths & English home learning tasks will be set daily and will be active for 3 days in order to give you an opportunity to complete them at your convenience. This week, our Foundation subject will be Science and there will be 3 recorded sessions set on Monday for you to complete during the week. After half-term, our focus will be on another foundation subject.

Each class teacher can be contacted on their class email for additional information.

Mrs Waterfall – class9@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Miss Penman – class10@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Mrs Osmond, Mrs Broad and Mrs Richardson – class11@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Subject	Task	Location or learning platform	Self-evaluation
Reading	Just the Beginning Chapter 3 Complete online multiple-choice questions	Purple Mash
Reading	Just the Beginning Chapter 4 Complete online multiple-choice questions	Purple Mash
Cosmic Guided Reading	Cosmic – Competitive Dadliness and InChinayouidiot. Live lesson with Mrs Osmond at 10.30 on Friday. Comprehension questions. On Cosmic Tab. Recording of the lesson will also be there.	DB primary
Writing	Lesson 1: Join Miss Penman at 10:30am for a live lesson. We will be thinking about what we can see and hear when we look out the window at night and writing phrases including figurative language	Teams DB Primary
	Lesson 2: Read the poem Space Staring by Pie Corbett and annotate what you see, notice and know. Think about the following: Which figurative language devices can you spot? What poetic devices can you spot?	DB primary
	Lesson 3: Join Miss Penman at 10:00am for a live lesson. Using the phrases created on Monday, we are going to write a free verse poem, editing and improving as we go.	Teams DB primary
	Lesson 4: Read the poem: When I’m an astronaut by Bobbi Katz and answer the questions	DB primary
	Lesson 5: Watch the video: Michael Rosen’s top tips for performing poems and stories. Then pick a space poem, it can be one we have looked at or written in the last two weeks or it can be a different one and rehearse and perform your poem. We would love to see them and for you to upload a video or recording onto DB Primary	DB primary	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvV23xoZRkI
Spellings	Year 5/6 statutory words. Upload your paragraph onto DB primary	DB Primary
Maths Year 5 and Year 6	Shape By the end of this unit, all children should be able to: regular and irregular 2D shapes; acute, obtuse and reflex angles; angles are measured in degrees; angles on a straight line and half a turn.
	Lesson 1 – To estimate and compare angles. Complete the L1 activity Extension task available	Website DB Primary	Watch the pre-recorded Loom video before answering the Lesson 1 activity
	Lesson 2 – To identify missing lengths and angles Complete the L2 activity Extension task available	Website DB Primary	Watch the pre-recorded Loom video before answering the Lesson 2 activity
	Lesson 3 – To find angles (half turn) Complete the L3 activity Extension task available	Website DB Primary	Watch the pre-recorded Loom video before answering the Lesson 3 activity
	Lesson 4 – To find angles (whole turn) Complete the L4 activity Extension task available	Website DB Primary	Watch the pre-recorded Loom video before answering the Lesson 4 activity
	Lesson 5 – L5 activity - Fluency	Website DB Primary
Live lessons:	Thurs 10:30
Topic Science	Session 1: What does it take to be an astronaut? Watch the Loom video: Time Peake Take the quiz: Becoming an Astronaut Complete the task: Astronaut team	DB Primary
	Watch the NASA Space Place videos: How do we launch things into space? Mars in a minute: How do you get to Mars? Then design a rocket that you would use to get to Mars. Think about what you might need to take and the space you will need. You even build your rocket? Can you launch it?	DB Primary	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2FFtPPM3iY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYJsMBabjVY&feature=youtu.be
	Watch the Oak Academy lesson: Who is Katherine Johnson. Complete the tasks and share your work of DB Primary: Story the main events in her life Carry out your own trajectory experiment	Oak Academy DB Primary	https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/who-is-katherine-johnson-61gpar
Safer Internet Day	Join Mrs Waterfall for a live session introducing Safer Internet Day (Tuesday 9^th February 10:30am) Look for the fun activities that have been set on Purple Mash	Teams DB Primary Purple Mash
	Advertising – What are adverts? Why do we have them? Where would you see or hear them? Advertising Quiz	Purple Mash
	Fake or Fact? Article 1 Read the article about an ancient discovery and decide whether the article is factual or not.	Purple Mash
	Fake or Fact? Article 2 Read the article about Earth, and then decide if the article is factual or not.	Purple Mash
	Fake or Fact? Article 5 Read the article about the possibility or life on the moon, and then decide if the article is factual or not.	Purple Mash
	Email authenticity. Create a poster to inform others of clues to look for when checking the authenticity of emails.	Purple Mash
Well-being Wednesday	Join your class teacher in a class catch-up	Teams Weds 1:30
Q&A Drop in sessions Optional	Join the teachers in an optional class question and answer session	Teams Tues 1:30
P.E.	P.E. with Joe Wicks (Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9.00) Mr Page’s challenge – sports page	YouTube DB primary
School Council challenge	This week, millions of people will be getting ready to celebrate Chinese New Year on the 12^th February. People will eat lots of food, enjoy fireworks, wear special clothes and hang red lanterns to mark the occasion. The Chinese New Year calendar has 12 years in a cycle. Each cycle is named after an animal, in a particular order. Find out how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac decided who would have which year named after them https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/chinese-new-year Your challenge this week is to decide which animals would you have to represent each new year, and how would you decide their order. You could draw a picture, write a story or design a challenge for your animals. Send your ideas to kosmond@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org.

Week Commencing 1st February

Speenhamland School Home Learning Spring Term 2021

Monday 1^st February – Friday 5^th February

We have listened to your feedback about home learning and have made some changes to the way we deliver our home-learning. All Maths & English home learning tasks will be set daily and will be active for 3 days in order to give you an opportunity to complete them at your convenience. This week, our Foundation subject will be Art and there will be 3 recorded sessions set on Monday for you to complete during the week. Next week, our focus will be on another foundation subject.

Each class teacher can be contacted on their class email for additional information.

Mrs Waterfall – class9@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Miss Penman – class10@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Mrs Osmond, Mrs Broad and Mrs Richardson – class11@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Subject	Task	Location or learning platform	Self-evaluation
Reading	Just the Beginning Chapter 1 Complete online multiple-choice questions Write about friendship – what is special about this friendship? Why has it stood the test of time?	Purple Mash
Reading	Just the Beginning Chapter 2 Complete online multiple-choice questions	Purple Mash
Cosmic Guided Reading	Chapter 8 – You like it when you get there? Recorded Chapter	DB primary
Cosmic Guided Reading	Chapter 9 – Hello lucky Winners Live lesson Friday 5^th February 10:30 Complete Comprehension tasks	DB primary
Writing	Join Miss Penman for the live lesson at 10:30am to hear the end of the story and then write a book review of the book. You can choose how you present this.	Teams DB Primary
	Watch the PowerPoint called Figurative language on the English page. Then complete the quiz identify examples of different types of figurative language.	DB primary
	Join Miss Penman for a live lesson at 10am to explore the poem Six Ways to Look at the Moon by Pie Corbett. Then answer the questions in full sentences in the task called Six Ways to Look at the Moon.	Team DB primary
	Pick a celestial body, you could choose a planet, the sun or even a meteor and write a series of metaphors to describe it. Aim for eight metaphors considering its different aspects or characteristics.	DB primary
	Using your metaphors from yesterday’s lesson, write a poem in the style of Pie Corbett’s Six Ways to Look at the Moon. It should follow the same structure as discussed in Wednesday’s lessons.	DB primary
Spellings	Homophones (words that sound the same, but have different spellings) Upload your paragraph onto DB primary	DB Primary
Maths	Multiplication & Division
Maths Year 6	Percentages https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/spring-week-2-number-decimals/ https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/spring-week-3-number-percentages/
	Lesson 1 - Watch the video titled ‘Understand Percentages’ Complete the L1 activity	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/492101741
	Lesson 2 – L2 activity - Fluency	Website DB Primary	Maths of the Day: Pitch Percentages - BBC Bitesize
	Lesson 3 – Watch the video titled ‘Fractions to percentages’ Complete the L3 activity	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/492449530
	Lesson 4 – L4 activity - Fluency	Website DB Primary	https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/guardians-mathematica
	Lesson 5 – Watch the video titled ‘Equivalent fractions, decimals & percentages’ Complete the L5 activity	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/492474663
Live lessons:	Tues 10:30, Thurs 10:30
Maths Year 5	Multiplication & Division https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/spring-week-2-number-multiplication-division/ https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/spring-week-3-number-multiplication-and-division/
	Lesson 1 – Watch the video titled ‘Divide 2-digits by 1-digit’ Complete the L1 activity	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/488870720
	Lesson 2 – L2 activity - Fluency	Website DB Primary	http://www.math-play.com/Division-Millionaire/division-millionaire-game_html5.html
	Lesson 3 - Watch the video titled ‘Divide 3-digits by 1-digit’ Complete the L3 activity	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/492054040
	Lesson 4 – L4 activity - Fluency	Website DB Primary	https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/guardians-mathematica
	Lesson 5 – Watch the video titled ‘Divide 4-digits by 1-digit’ Complete the L5 activity	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/492054136
Live lessons:	Tues 10:30, Thurs 10:30
Maths Fluency	Flash back Week 5, day 2	DB Primary
Maths Fluency	Flash back Week 4, day 4	DB Primary
Topic Art	Join Mrs Waterfall in 3 pre-recorded lessons Lesson 1- To collect visual information to help develop ideas about the environment. Lesson 2 - To compare ideas, approaches and methods in the work of a variety of artists. Lesson 3 - To look at how artists use perspective and investigate ways of recreating images accurately.	DB Primary
Well-being Wednesday	Join your class teacher in a class catch-up	Live stream Weds 1:30
P.E.	P.E. with Joe Wicks (Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9.00) Mr Page’s challenge – sports page	YouTube DB primary
School Council challenge	This week's school council challenge is to make and send a card to a friend. Send a Card to a Friend Day - 7th February 2021end a C Everyone loves and appreciates their friends, and we all just assume that they know how much we care and that we are always thinking about them. Sadly, many of our friends will experience loneliness and feel under appreciated from time to time. That’s just how life goes. That’s why Send a Card to a Friend Day exists, and why year after year it is so popular! A small gesture that we may not think make any difference could actually make our friends day. All it takes is a cute little card with a nice personal message in it to put a smile on their face. This could be an e-card that you send to them online, or better yet, a home made one that oozes thoughtfulness, ideal for your extra special besties. Whatever you do, don’t miss out on celebrating your friendships on this special day!

Home Learning January 2021 Archive

Speenhamland School Home Learning Spring Term 2021

Monday 25^th January – Friday 29th January

All home learning tasks will be set on a Monday and this will be active until the following Wednesday (10 days for completion). New tasks will be set every Monday.

Each class teacher can be contacted on their class email for additional information.

Mrs Waterfall – class9@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Miss Penman – class10@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Mrs Osmond, Mrs Broad and Mrs Richardson – class11@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Subject	Task	Location or learning platform	Self-evaluation
Reading	The Sleeping Volcano Chapter 4 Complete online multiple choice questions	Purple Mash
	The Sleeping Volcano Chapter 5 Complete online multiple choice questions	Purple Mash
	The Sleeping Volcano Chapter 6 Complete online multiple choice questions	Purple Mash
Cosmic Guided Reading	Chapter 6 – My planet Panda Pop - Live lesson Tuesday Complete Comprehension tasks	DB primary
Cosmic Guided Reading	Chapter 7 - I am on Hold – live lesson Friday Complete Comprehension tasks	DB primary
Writing	Join Miss Penman for the live session at 10:30am Following the lesson, create an image that represents one of the blankets. Complete the task called Blanket Image on DB Primary	Teams DB Primary
	In the story the stony-eyed stranger tries the ocean’s blanket, the forest’s blanket, the mountain’s blanket and the earth’s blanket. What blanket might he try next? Think about other habitats that he might try and choose one. Create a thought shower of all of the things you might find there, remember to use your senses. Complete the task called Blanket Ideas on DB Primary	DB primary
	Join Miss Penman for the live session at 10am Following the live session, design your own blanket for the princess, you can use whatever you have around the house but think about the colours and textures you might find within the blanket. Then annotate it with descriptive words and phrases. Try to include: your senses, adverb adjective, paired adjectives and figurative language. Complete the task called Blanket Design on DB Primary.	Team DB primary
	This is the description of one of the blankets from the book: He came into the bedchamber and tossed a huge blanket over her. The blanket was coarse and spiky and, as the princess tried to push it off, it scratched at her arms and hands, drawing blood. It was roughly woven in blacks and browns and dark greens. The blanket smelled mossy and damp, and the Princess saw that it was patterned with ancient trees and birds of prey, embroidered with dark undergrowth and small, wild creatures. “The forest’s blanket,” he said. There was darkness in the blanket; there were frightening shadows. There were brambles and snakes. The blanket clawed at her and she felt faint. Write a description of the blanket you have designed as if it was the next blanket the stranger gave to the princess. Complete the task called Blanket description on DB Primary	DB primary
	Listen to the next part of the story, what do you think will happen next? Remember to use what has happened in the story so far to justify your ideas. Complete the task called Prediction on DB Primary	DB primary
Spellings	Rare GPC (grapheme, phoneme correspondence) Upload your paragraph onto DB primary	DB Primary
Maths	Multiplication & Division
Maths Year 6	Multiplication & Division https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/resources/year-6/spring-block-1-decimals/
	Lesson 1 - Watch the video titled Divide decimals by integers’ and then complete the L1 activity.	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/490691239
	Lesson 2 - Watch the video titled ‘Division to solve problems’ and then complete the L2 activity	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/490691954
	Lesson 3 – Watch the video titled ‘Decimals as fractions’ and then complete the L3 activity	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/490693175
	Lesson 4 – Watch the video titled ‘Fractions to decimals 1’ and then complete the L4 activity	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/491237616
	Friday Maths Challenge: https://nrich.maths.org/5632	Website DB Primary
	Live lessons: Tues 10:30, Thurs 10:30
Maths	Multiplication & Division
Year 5	https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/week-2-number-multiplication-division/
	Lesson 1 – Watch the video titled ‘Multiply 2-digits by 2-digts’ and then complete the Multiply 2-digits by 2-digits task on DB Primary	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/488553863
	Lesson 2 - Watch the video titled ‘Multiply 3-digits by 2-digits’and then complete the Multiply 3-digits by 2-digits task on DB Primary	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/488555095
	Lesson 3 - Watch the video titled ‘Multiply 4-digits by 2-digits (basic practice)’ and then complete the Multiply 4-digits by 2-digits task on DB Primary	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/488667737
	Lesson 4 - Watch the video titled ‘Multiply 4-digits by 2-digits’ then complete the Multiply 4-digits by 2-digits task on DB Primary	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/488668598
	Friday Maths Challenge: https://nrich.maths.org/5573	Website DB Primary
Maths Fluency	Flash back Week 4, day 1	DB Primary
	Flash back Week 4, day 2	DB Primary
	Flash back Week 4, day 3	DB Primary
	Flash back Week 4, day 4	DB Primary
Science	Watch the lesson from Oak Academy: How have our ideas about the universe changed over time. Share the activities from the lesson through the task named: Our understanding of the universe on DB Primary Oak Academy DB Primary	Oak Academy DB Primary	https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/how-have-our-ideas-about-the-universe-changed-over-time-69h68d?from_query=moon
	Join Miss Penman for the live lesson on Wednesday at 1:30pm: How is day and night created on Earth? Following the live lesson draw and label diagram that shows your understanding of how day and night is created. Complete the task called Day and Night on DB Primary Teams DB Primary	Teams DB Primary
		DB Primary
Topic Geography	Join Mrs Broad in a live lesson Looking at the risks and benefits of living near a volcano. Sort statements into advantages and disadvantages of living near a volcano. Justify your thinking. DB primary Georgraphy.	Live stream Mon 1:30
Topic RE	Join Mrs Waterfall in an RE session to introduce our current key question: Is anything ever eternal?	Live stream Thurs 1:30
Topic PSHE	Join Mrs Waterfall in a loom recording of our next PSHE session	DB Primary
P.E.	P.E. with Joe Wicks (Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9.00) Mr Page’s challenge – sports page	YouTube DB primary
School Council challenge	Monday 25th January is Burn's Night in Scotland. It is an annual festival to celebrate the life of RobertBurns. Watch the video to see who Robert Burns was. As is it a Scottish festival, your challenge this week is to make some Scottish Tartan by weaving paper. I have attached some instructions to help. Email pictures of your work to kosmond@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org.		https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMxIBqpryG0

Week Commencing 18th January

All home learning tasks will be set on a Monday and this will be active until the following Wednesday (10 days for completion). New tasks will be set every Monday.

Each class teacher can be contacted on their class email for additional information. Mrs Waterfall – class9@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Miss Penman – class10@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Mrs Osmond, Mrs Broad and Mrs Richardson – class11@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Subject	Task	Location or learning platform	Self-evaluation
Reading	The Sleeping Volcano Chapter 1 Complete online multiple choice questions and Chapter 1 activity	Purple Mash DB Primary
	The Sleeping Volcano Chapter 2 Complete online multiple choice questions and Chapter 2 activity	Purple Mash DB Primary
	The Sleeping Volcano Chapter 3 Complete online multiple choice questions and Chapter 3 activity	Purple Mash DB Primary
Reading	Cosmic Listen to the story on live learning. Answer questions on chapters 4 and 5	DB Primary
Writing	Lesson 1 – Making a prediction Use the image of the front cover to predict the genre and what might happen in the story. Make sure you explain and justify your ideas	DB Primary
	Lesson 2 – Join Miss Penman for a live lesson and then complete the explanation for the King on DB Primary	Teams DB Primary
	Lesson 3 – shades of meaning Watch the PowerPoint Task on DB Primary	DB Primary
	Lesson 4 - Join Miss Penman for a live lesson and then complete the letter for the King on DB Primary	Teams DB Primary
	Lesson 5 – Identify word classes Watch the Oak Academy lesson then select a passage from your	Website	https://classroom.thenational.academy/lessons/to-explore- word-class-65k6ar?activity=video&step

	reading book and classify the words within in under the headings: Noun, verbs, adverbs, adjectives and prepositions
Spellings	Rare GPC (grapheme, phoneme correspondence) Upload your paragraph onto DB Primary	DB Primary
Maths	Multiplication & Division
Maths Year 6	Multiplication & Division https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/resources/year-6/spring-block-1-decimals/
	Lesson 1 - Watch the video titled ‘Multiply by 10, 100 and 1000’ and then complete the L1 activity.	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/487198038
	Lesson 2 - Watch the video titled ‘Divide by 10, 100 and 1000’ and then complete the L2 activity	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/488186549
	Lesson 3 – Join Mrs Waterfall for a ‘live-stream’ lesson and then complete the L3 activity (Multiplication of Decimals A, B or C)	Website DB Primary
	Lesson 4 – Watch the video titled ‘Multiply Decimals by Integers’ and then complete the L4 activity	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/490690764
	Friday Maths Challenge: https://nrich.maths.org/5714/index	Website DB Primary
Maths	Multiplication & Division
Year 5	https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/week-1-number-multiplication-division/
	Lesson 1 – Watch the video titled ‘Multiply 2-digits by 1-digit’ and then complete the Multiply 2-digits by 1-digit task on DB Primary	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/486774671
	Lesson 2 - Watch the video titled ‘Multiply 3-digits by 1-digit’ and then complete the Multiply 3-digits by 1-digit task on DB Primary	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/486775113
	Lesson 3 - Watch the video titled ‘Multiply 2-digits (area model)’ and then complete the Multiply 2-digits (area model) 1^st page of worksheet	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/488075946
	Lesson 4 - Watch the video titled ‘Multiply 2-digits (area model)’ and then complete the Multiply 2-digits (area model) 2^nd page of worksheet	Website DB Primary	https://vimeo.com/488076765
	Friday Maths Challenge: https://nrich.maths.org/5714/index	Website DB Primary
Maths Fluency	Watch the video and then write out the square numbers from 1² to 12² For example: 1² = 1 x 1 = 1 2² = 2 x 2 = 3² =	Website	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvjDpD_fLwA

	Draw the array for 3 of these.
	Then complete a series of quizzes that will appear as tasks on DB including a multiple choice quiz and a crossword	DB Primary
Science	Join Miss Penman for a live lesson to explore the difference between a star, planet and moon. Then on DB Primary explain what the difference is between a plant, start and moon.	Teams DB Primary
Science	Research the planets in our solar system and present your findings in a creative way. You may choose to focus on one specific planet or the solar system as a whole and present information on all of the planets.	Upload your final piece onto DB Primary
Topic Geography	Join Mrs Waterfall/Mrs Broad in a live lesson to talk about the structure of the Earth and how and where volcanoes are formed.	Live stream DB Primary
Topic PSHE	Join Mrs Waterfall in a PSHE session to introduce our current unit of ‘Dreams & Goals’	Live stream DB Primary
P.E.	P.E. with Joe Wicks (Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9.00)	YouTube
School Council challenge	Interesting Fact: The first escalator was for fun, rather than for practical purposes. It was installed at Coney Island in New York and ridden by 75000 people in it's first 2 weeks'. Your challenge this week is to find your own interesting fact (that no-one else would know) and email your ‘interesting fact’ to Mrs Osmond – Class11@speenhmaland.newburyacademytrust.org by Thursday 21^st January

Week Commencing 6th January

Wednesday 6^th January – Friday 15^th January

All home learning tasks will be set on a Monday and this will be active until the following Wednesday (10 days for completion). New tasks will be set every Monday. Please note: due to the later start to this week, all tasks will run until Friday 15^th January 3pm.

Each class teacher can be contacted on their class email for additional information

Mrs Waterfall – class9@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Miss Penman – class10@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Mrs Osmond/Mrs Broad/Mrs Richardson – class11@speenhamland.newburyacademytrust.org

Subject	Task	Location or learning platform	Self-evaluation
Reading	Cosmic Task 1 Using the front cover and blurb answer the questions on DB Primary	DB Primary
Reading	Cosmic Task 2 Listen to Mrs Waterfall read Chapters 1 – 3 of Cosmic by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and answer the questions that you will find on DB Primary	DB Primary
Writing	Persuasive Task One - Writing Create a piece to persuade us to include a wide range of activities for you to complete during home learning Remember to include: Subject Type of activities PEE	DB Primary
	Persuasive writing https://classroom.thenational.academy/units/healthy-food-persuasive-writing-2b8f
	Watch Lesson 1: to understand the purpose of adverts making sure you complete the written sentences for your own understanding	Oak Academy
	Watch lesson 6: to design a healthy snack	Oak Academy
	Watch lesson 4: to develop a rich understanding of words associated with meals	Oak Academy
	Watch lesson 10: design and write a TV advert Share this on DB Primary	Oak Academy DB Primary
	Friday English Challenge: Use your new understanding of persuasion, to persuade a member of your family to do something they would not normally do. For example: join you in a Joe Wickes workout, eat a vegetable they wouldn’t normally eat Share pictures of your success on the class blog on DB Primary	DB Primary
Spellings	Statutory Words (starting 11^th January 2021) Upload your paragraph onto DB Primary	DB Primary
Maths	Perimeter https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/week-11-measurement-perimeter-area/
	Watch the video titled measure perimeter and complete the measuring perimeters activity on DB Primary (Green circle or yellow triangle)	Website DB Primary
	Watch the video titled perimeter of rectilinear shapes and complete the measuring perimeters year 6 activity on DB Primary (Red square)	Website DB Primary
	Friday Maths Challenge: Pick a room in your house, find the perimeter and then draw a scale diagram
	Watch the video titled calculate perimeter. Pause the video at 7 minutes and 18 seconds. In the forum on DB Primary, share why Ava is incorrect. Then watch the rest of the video.	Website DB Primary
	Area https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-5/week-12-measurement-perimeter-area/
	Watch the video titled area of rectangles Complete the area of rectangles task on DB Primary	Website DB Primary
	Watch the video titled area of compound shapes Complete the area of compound shapes task on DB Primary	Website DB Primary
	Friday Maths Challenge: Pick a room in your house, find the perimeter and then draw a scale diagram. Using your scale diagram to find the area of the room.
Maths Fluency	Maths Fluency Week 1: 2021! Answer the questions about the number 2021	DB Primary
Maths Fluency	TTRS – complete the gig and then two of each studio, garage and sound check games each week (Remember the link is on your DB Primary Class homepage)	Website
Science	Using the paint features on DB Primary, create an image that shows what you already know about our solar system.	DB Primary
	Watch the following clip to learn the different names of the planets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b2twHNy9L8 Create a mnemonic to help you remember the names and share in in the DB Forum	YouTube DB Primary
	Create a scale model of the solar system The following website will give you an idea of the size: https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html On DB Primary there are some scaled down information Share a photo and tell us how you did in on the Class Blog	Website DB Primary
Topic	Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjXSCumeqxo Complete the to do on Purple Mash titled: Layers of the Earth	YouTube Purple Mash
P.E.	P.E. with Joe Wicks (Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9.00)	YouTube
School Council challenge	To commence in Week 3
PM Pal Challenge	To commence in Week 3

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