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Year 6 Home Learning - 13th April
April 16, 2020
Hi Year 6!
We still miss you greatly and are keeping up to date with your Mathletics/ Read Theory etc. We hope that you had a lovely Easter and are looking after all your family members at home.
Dear Parents and Carers
Here are some suggestions from your child’s teacher of activities to help you keep your children occupied during the day. Please remember that they are indeed only suggestions and we do not want you to feel pressured in any way to turn your home into a home school. Do what works for you and your family and let us worry about getting your children quickly back up to speed when everything returns to normal. If you do only one thing, it would be best to keep your child reading. Reading to them, listening to them read and talking about what’s been read will be hugely beneficial. Beyond that, do what is easy, stress free and comfortable for you and your family.
Writing
We had been studying Brave Irene before the Easter and writing our own overcoming obstacle narratives. Now you could look at a different text type: A biography. A biography tells you facts about a person’s life (usually a famous person).
You could:
• Have a look at some of the biographies here: https://www.literacywagoll.com/biographies.html
• Highlight the layout features used by the writers that you can see are important to biographies e.g. sub-headings/sections. Highlight the grammatical techniques e.g relative clauses: Usain Bolt, who is a famous athlete.
• Choose a person who you are interested in the life of to research online. Find out the key information about them such as their birth date, personal life and decide what your sections will be for writing a biography on them.
• Write a biography for your chosen person in the same style as the ones you have looked at in your yellow book. Maybe create a plan before you write to make sure you’re clear about how you want to lay it all out AND decide how you could publish it- record it as a video?
Spelling
If you want to practise:
They are on Readiwriter to practise and you could get someone at home to test you on Friday
achieve
belief
believe
brief
chief
field
fiend
fiery
friend
grief
lie
mischief
pie
piece
pier
relief
review
shield
Reading
We encourage you to read every day for 20 minutes to an adult at home.
• You could log onto your Read theory (www.readtheory.org) and continue working on your levels. It’s a brilliant way to access comprehension.
• In the absence of reading books, you could access books similar to the ones you bring home www.oxfordowl.co.uk
Science
- Light
You could:
• Work out which things in your house are sources of light. A source of light is anything that makes light, whether natural and artificial. Natural light sources include the Sun and stars. Artificial light sources include lamp posts and televisions. Many objects simply reflect light from a light source. Organise the light in your house into Natural Light, Man-made light and Not a light source.
Maths
You could:
• Log on to www.mathletics.com
and complete the activities set. Those of you who have finished them all we’ve reset you new ones.
• Log onto www.ttrockstars.com
and see if you can improve your times tables
• Use a mug (it holds usually 350ml of liquid) see if you can estimate the volume of different containers in your house and then check if you’re right by using a mug to measure. See if you can remember how to convert between ml and L(hint: 1 L=1000ml).
• Alongside the usual maths activities we gave set you, White Rose have created online lessons for home learning. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
There is year 6 work on there but other year groups too if year 6 is a bit tricky without a teacher to help out. Each lesson has a video and an activity and there are currently 2 weeks worth of activities to have a go at (parents, the answers are there too so you can go through their work when their done or go through the activity together then check the answers together too).
Wynstream Primary School has hosted a Gabrieli Roar workshop this month for three other schools, ahead of their performance at Exeter Cathedral on the 9th of December. Gabrieli is a choir and period instrument orchestra founded and led by Artistic Director Paul McCreesh. They perform and record choral, vocal and instrumental repertoire from the renaissance to the present day and have cultivated an international reputation for excellence, innovation and ambition. They offer first-class performance opportunities to young people through their education programme, Gabrieli Roar. Pupils from Montpelier Primary School, Ide Primary School and Ermington Primary School came along to join Wynstream’s choir of 45 pupils to prepare for the concert. This initiative is supported by the Devon Music Service whose representative at the rehearsal thanked Wynstream Primary School for hosting and said that their cooperation, organisation and choral preparation of the young people was “exemplary.” The children will be performing at ‘A Grand Georgian Christmas’, the show will be a festive exploration of English music for parish churches during the Georgian period. It has been designed to offer the perfect platform to encourage young singers to connect with choral and classical music. Tickets can be purchased here. Elise Redman, Headteacher at Wynstream Primary School said: "We are so proud of our choir and the dedication they are showing. We know that musical education is really important for children and supports their development in many ways. Rehearsing, working together and performing in front of an audience are all things that help build their confidence and that will help them flourish in every area of life." Matthew Shanks, CEO of Education South West said: “I am so pleased to hear that Wynstream Primary School played host to its neighbours for this exciting workshop. At Education South West we strongly believe in both the power of collaboration and the importance of promoting the arts and this initiative achieves both of those things. I wish the choir all the best with their performance next month.”
Steve Race MP visits Wynstream Primary School
Wynstream Primary School is holding a summer fayre on Thursday the 11th of July.
As you are aware there is currently an amber weather warning in place as storm Ciaran moves towards Devon. An amber warning presents a risk to life, but there is also a large amount of uncertainty about this weather front which means it could increase to a red warning overnight. The combination of wind, rain, and the storm moving over warm sea waters increases risk of very high wind speeds, flooding and trees falling. An emergency strategy meeting has taken place today and it was agreed that we need to ensure school leaders fully appreciate that the current weather warning presents a risk to life and could worsen. Based on the information we have, Devon County Council have taken the decision today to ask all staff where possible to work from home. We are asking all schools to consider the high level of risk presented by this storm and make a decision today about their operations tomorrow. This potential risk to life means that we have taken the regrettable decision to close schools tomorrow. We do not do this lightly. The school will be shut to all pupils and staff. Information on work provided will be sent out later this afternoon Schools will be open as normal on Friday 3rd November. Thank you for your understanding.
On Wednesday 19th April our children began to think about ‘rights’ and what being a ‘Rights Respecting School’ means. We will be looking for parents, carers, staff, governors, and children to help us on this journey. Please speak to Ms Redman or Miss Humphreys if you are interested in helping. Please look at the following for more information: What is a Rights Respecting School? - UNICEF UK
A message from our Chair of Governors. Hello. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you all back to the school after the Easter holidays. As you are aware Wynstream is now part of Education South West Academy Trust. The school has already been working with the Trust for the past year. Together we are continuing to deliver support, exciting opportunities and high quality of teaching and learning across the school and the community. I hope you will all join me in embracing this new journey of Wynstream's future. Your sincerely Michaela Young Chair
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Do you know anybody who would make a great Community (Co-opted) Governor for our school? There is a vacancy on Wynstream's Local Governing Body and we are inviting nominations. Governors are welcomed as valued members of the governor team and play an important role. Life as a governor is interesting and varied. Meetings are at least once every half term. Training and support will be available. Please do let friends and family know, and ask anybody who is interested to pop into school for more information, or call 01392 284990. More information as well as the nomination form can be found by clicking here. Thankyou.
