Summer Term 2, Week 5:

Week commencing 29th June 2020 

DT: Northcote Cooks

As a whole school, we are going to be looking at healthy eating this week! As we are focusing on getting fit and healthy, we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to share some healthy recipes with everyone! We will be posting some ideas for healthy snacks which you could make after your daily workouts!

Check our twitter page everyday to see what tasty dishes the teachers have been cooking! Everyday we will be posting recipe ideas that you can try with your family.

You can join in by creating one of the recipes we post, or sending your own ideas in! Whatever your family makes this week, send your teacher some photographs or tweet them with the hashtag #northcotecooks

 

PE: Northcote ‘Sports Month’ Fitness Challenge

During this time of the year, we should have been competing in our ‘Sports Day’. Rather than cancelling, we have decided to change our plans this year. Instead of a ‘Sports Day’ we are organising a ‘Sports Month’.

For the next 4 weeks, we will be setting daily fitness challenges for you and your family to complete –  this will help us achieve the recommended 30 minutes of exercise each day!

Each day you need to check the school’s Twitter account to see what the daily fitness challenge is.

https://twitter.com/northcotesch?lang=en 

We want to see as many photos of you and your family completing all the fitness challenges as well as images of fitness record cards. (Remember when posting a photo on Twitter do not include your name). If you are able to complete all of the week’s challenges, you will receive a certificate. To be able to receive the certificate, you need to email an image of the fitness record card completed weekly to your class teacher. Good luck and let’s get fit!

Sports Month Fitness Challenge Record Chart 

 

Reading:

 

Task   1: Reading speed and questioning

Please make sure you continue to read on Reading Plus. It is very useful and fun website that will help you make progress with your reading!

Everyone in the juniors should now have a login for Reading Plus.

 Please see the guide some of our Year 6 children made on our Reading Curriculum page if you are struggling to log on.

Reading-Plus-Guide-for-Northcote-Parents  

 

Task 2: Reading (P4C focus)

Reading is a great way to help us explore our feelings and the bigger picture. This week, our focus is worry.

Watch/ listen to the story of Silly Billy By Anthony Browne with someone at home using the link below: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHiW5ndFNQQ

 

Now discuss the following questions with somebody at home linked to the main theme in the book:

What did Silly Billy worry about? How does he make himself feel better? What kind of things do you worry about?How does it make you feel? How can you make yourself feel better when you are worrying?

Activity: Make your own worry doll/monster

In the story, Billy's grandma gives him a worry doll to help him release his worries. Now it's your turn to make your own worry doll/monster using the instructions below! 

  

You will need:

a recycled container with a lid one A4 sheet of paper  coloured sticky dots, 2 small circles of white card, googly eyes Pens/coloured pencils

Step 1: Take a small container with a whole in the top ( e.g. a small box, a Pringles tube, etc)

Step 2:Cut a length of paper to cover the sides of the container, making sure you add a 5cm boarder to the top so that you can cut a zig-zag pattern into it to give your monster some spiky hair. 

Step 3: With the remaining paper, cut out some monster arms and attach to the container using  sellotape or glue. 

Step 4: Create your monster using the circles of white card, googly eyes and felt tips/coloured pencils.

Step 5: When you feel worried, write your worry down on a slip of paper and then feed your worry to your monster by posting it through the slot in the container. Watching your worry disappear should help you to feel a bit better! Don't forget to share your worries with a trusted adult too!

 

 

Task 3: Reading for pleasure

Click on the link below to find out more information about texts that you can access for free!

https://www.booksfortopics.com/storytime-online-7-9  

 

 

Take a look at  The Book of Hopes (edited by Katherine Rundell) a fantastic collection of short stories, poems and pictures, written by a range of authors especially for families during lockdown. Click on the link below to start reading the book straight away for free:

https://literacytrust.org.uk/family-zone/9-12/book-hopes/

Alternatively, you might want to read some of the 500 word  short stories that have been submitted by children all over the UK:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/KNWsKPrg7stQ54tTbcf6P7/500-words-the-stories

 

Take a look at https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk to join and take part in the Reading Agency’s Summer Reading Challenge:

 

 

 

 

Writing

Task: Past Tense

This week we are focusing on writing in the past tense.

English Task 1

English Task 2

English Task 3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBVgbxTkEuo

 English Task 4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebeNeQFUMa0

Task: Creative writing

Pobble 365 upload a new picture every day. Go on the link for one day this week and write a story about the image you can see. Make sure you tweet or email it to us so we can see what you’ve been doing – it also gives me a chance to enjoy some exciting new stories!

https://www.pobble365.com/

*Don’t forget all of the sentence types we have learnt, to help engage your reader:

Fronted Adverbials, 2A, Double ly, the more, the more, ad same ad, similes, personification etc.

If you have forgotten these, click on this school's link, which has posters for each sentence type:

http://www.kelsall.cheshire.sch.uk/serve_file/94451

 

 

 

Maths: Finding Fractions of Amounts

 

Task: Finding Fractions of Amounts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jbTfvJV_8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2QvVicQcMo

Maths Task 1

Maths Task 2

Maths Task 3

Maths Task 4

Maths Task 5

Maths Task 6 

 

 

 

Science: States of Matter

This week's focus: identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle andassociate the rate of evaporation with temperature

This term, our new unit is 'States of Matter'. We will be understanding what solids, liquids and gases are and how they change when temperature is changed.

Read the information and watch the video from the website link below:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkgg87h/articles/z3wpp39

 

Science Task 1, 2 and 3

Science Task 2 Information-Please read this before completing Task 2    

Humanities - Geography: Mapping Skills

Last week, you looked at what maps are, how to use them and how to read them!

I now want you to research more about your local area - Walton, Liverpool.

TASK 1: Key geographical questions I want you to consider:

Where is Walton and which other places are near it? Is Walton a village, town, suburb or part of a city? What types of buildings can we find and what are they used for? What different types of land-use can we find? Are there any green spaces and what are they used for? Who lives here and what do they do? How do people use this landscape in different ways? Are there any local ‘landmarks’? What types of transport links can we find? What evidence is there of connections to other places? What was Walton like in the past? How and why is it changing?

 

TASK 2: Now, I want you to go onto Google Earth and zoom all the way out! Then, I want you to follow the steps below and screenshot/print screen when you have found them!

1. Find the United Kingdom on the map.2. Find England on the map.3. Find Liverpool on the map.4. Find Walton on the map.5. Find Northcote Primary School on the map.

CHALLENGE... Can you?

1. Find your house.2. Find your favourite shop/park/place to visit.3. Find a country you have been on holiday to!

 

 

 

Art: Famous Artist Study

This week's focus: Famous Artist Study

This year we have been working on our ability to sketch and have practised and developed different shading techniques. The famous artist we are going to study was famous for keeping many sketches of his thoughts and inventions. He used his ability of shading to show his detailed ideas.

The artist we are going to study is: Leonardo da Vinci  

Task 1: Watch the Biography about Leonardo da Vinci

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm0qszPJnc8

Task 2: Create a piece of artwork in the style of Leonardo da Vinci

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCRveDlxbrs

 

 

 

 

Computing

 

YOUR TASK: Google Earth

Linked to your Geography topic on mapping skills, I would like you to spend some time exploring Google Earth!

How many of these challenge cards can you complete?

Click here for your Google Earth Task Cards

 

 

 

Spanish

This week we are going to focus on Spanish culture. We are going to research a famous Spanish festival; 'La Tomatina'

            

Spanish Task 1 

 

PSHE

Story: Many statues around the world have been questioned for their purpose and value in recent weeks.

Question: Why do we have statues?

 

A statue is an object made from  a hard material, usually stone or metal.  They are often of people or animals and are life-size or larger. Following protests campaigning for Black Lives Matter, demonstrators in Bristol pulled down a statue of former slave trader, Edward Colson and threw it into the harbour.  It is likely that the statue will now be placed in a museum.  Many other statues have been in question in other parts of the UK with issues regarding what they represent and if they should be given such as prominent position in towns and cities.

 

Task 1: Read the Picture News article below and then complete the question sheet to share your thoughts.

Picture News at Home - 29th June

Picture News Prompt 2

 

Task 2: There are lots of statues in Liverpool. Research these on the internet and find out the following:

Who are they? When were they born? Why do they have a statue? Where in Liverpool is the statue located?

 

Task 3 –   Research a living person that you think deserves a statue.  Use the planning sheet to help you.

PSHE task 3

 

 

Religious Education

 

Inspirational People

Inspirational people make a positive difference to the lives of others. There are inspirational people all around us; in your home, your classroom, your sports club, your library, your local shop,etc.

 

TASK 1: What makes an inspirational person/hero?

Listen to ‘Special Kind of Hero’ using this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meGptWZWgUA

As you listen, follow along with the lyrics below and underline any words or phrases that tell you the qualities of an inspirational person

Special Kind of Hero Lyrics

 

TASK 2: Research an inspirational person

1. 5 facts about them2. Why do people think consider them to be inspirational?3. What is one thing you can learn from them?

 

Below is a list of people who are widely considered to be inspirational. Choose somebody from the list below (or somebody of your choice!) and research them:

Nelson Mandela Mahatma Ghandi Mother Teresa Colonel Tom Moore Jesus Guru Nanak

 

TASK 3: Create a poster including facts about how they have made a positive difference to the lives of others. You may wish to draw a picture of them and present information around it. (Feel free to do a Pic Collage!)

 

 

 

Music

 

This week’s focus: write your own story inspired by a mythical creature.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/ten-pieces-at-home/zjy3382

Watch Pixie Lott as she explores romance and revenge in Bernstein’s Cuban-inspired piece Mambo from West Side Story.

 

TASK: Create your own mythical creature.

What does your character look like? How do they move? What problems do they face?