Air quality improvement
Air quality has been debated across the globe and many are concerned that pollution is making the quality of air poor in many countries. However, in Birmingham they are introducing ‘Clean Air Zones’ from around July 2020.
Learn about the clean air zones on the website below:
https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/20076/pollution/1763/a_clean_air_zone_for_birmingham
With this in mind, create a set of questions that you could ask your parents, grandparents or other family members about how their local area of Birmingham has changed over time.
Afterwards, interview your family members and then make a video news report about what they have discovered.
Do people intentionally damage an area?
Imagine that a new park, housing development, restaurant or other structure is being built on green land near your home.
1. How might this be positive for the environment? Consider wildlife, air and noise pollution and jobs.
2. How might this be negative for the environment? Consider wildlife, air and noise pollution and jobs.
Create a poster that explains the pros and cons of this new development.
Protecting the Ocean
Marine life faces a number of threats including plastic pollution, tourism, habitat destruction, ocean warming and overfishing. How can we make a difference now?
- Sketch an image representing the impact society is having on today’s oceans using a drawing material of your choice.
- Afterwards, sketch an image of an ideal ocean environment. Research through websites and books to find out what makes the best environment for marine life to flourish (you may wish to research the Great Barrier Reef and its significance).
https://www.wwf.org.au/what-we-do/oceans/great-barrier-reef#gs.a8fddo
Upcycling, Upcycling
Choose an item within the house that you do not really use anymore – this could be an old item of clothing, accessory or household item – and upcycle it to make a new item that they will use.
Once you have made it, evaluate the product and identify any areas that you could improve if they were to make it again.
Write a set of instructions so that other people can upcycle the same item too.
Geography Project Week
This week we will be completing a Geography week. I will be setting activities for you to complete everyday linked to different areas of Geography. I would like you to use your creativity this week when you complete your work. Try not to repeat the same presentation technique more than once within the week, for example if you produce a powerpoint today try not to do another one.
Endangered Species
The tiger, Amur leopard, orangutan, sea turtle and the Sumatran elephant are some of the most endangered animals on the planet.
Task 1
Choose an animal from one region and describe how it has evolved to suit its habitat.
Task 2
Now consider how your chosen animal may need to adapt due to the current environment and human threats it faces.
Task 3
Create an informative leaflet about the threat the animal faces and what humans can do to minimise these threats
Use the WWF website to help learn about the endangered animals:
DT
Creative Creations- Cadburys are launching a new chocolate bar.
- You will create a criteria for Cadbury chocolate packaging by researching current Cadbury products.
2. Once you have a criteria, you will use this to design their own packaging (you may want to do this on a computer if they have access to one).
3. Finally, gather some feedback from the family about the design. You will use the feedback to adapt and refine the design.
4. After creating the chocolate bar, compose a jingle that could be used in an advert. This could be created by using household items such as pots and pans or by using these virtual instruments.
https://www.virtualmusicalinstruments.com/
RE
In RE this term we have been focusing on Christianity and Catholicism. You have learnt about the churches and cathedrals as well as similarities and differences between them.
Today you are going to be learning about different religious leaders. I would like you to research about the Pope, Justin Welby and the Queen and create a fact file for one of them.
https://www.royal.uk/queens-relationship-churches-england-and-scotland-and-other-faiths
https://kids.kiddle.co/Justin_Welby
PSHE
What is the role of magistrates in the legal system?
The magistrates court has 21,500
Volunteers all across the UK. When someone has committed a crime, a magistrate’s court will decide on whether to grant the individual bail. Bail is where a family member pays a certain amount of money to get their loved one out of jail.
The worse the crime, the higher the bail money.
All crimes start in magistrates courts. The more serious crimes are taken to the crown court to be dealt with by a judge and jury.
Are there any questions you might have about the magistrate’s court or the legal system? If so, write them down to discuss the answers as a class (remember that no question is a silly question – someone in your class might be wondering the same thing!).
Question 1: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Question 2: …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
Read this crime that has just reached the magistrates court.
Task
You are going to become the magistrates court and decide what action you would take for Jessica’s crime.
Firstly, you need to take into consideration what has happened. This is very important for any crime as you need to be reasonable for the punishment.
Did Jessica hurt anyone?
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Why did she do it?
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Has she broken the law before? Why do you think this important?
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Was she sorry for her crime?
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The Verdict:
What was your verdict for Jessica? Explain why you have chosen this.
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ICT
Modelling in Computing means creating or using a model or simulation of a real life situation, on a
computer.
For example, we could start by creating a page in 2Calculate which added up how much
money we made by selling 3 pizzas for 25p and 2 apples for 10p each in the school tuck shop . We could then use 2Calculate to explore what would happen if we changed parts of the model—by putting up the prices for example. Changing certain values within the page and seeing what happens is what is meant by modelling.
Today we are starting by solving a problem for farmer McFlock. She keeps sheep and each sheep needs at least 1m² of space in the field. Create a spreadsheet to draw fields in like the following example. NB this is not to scale; each cell height or width represents 1m:
Task 1
Recreate this model and work out the maximum number of sheep that can be kept with
12m of fence?
What if farmer McFlock obtains more fencing? Can you think of a way that the
spreadsheet could calculate the best answer?
Here is an example solution:
The area column uses a formula made using the formula wizard.
The perimeter column uses a formula that was typed into the formula bar. Can you explain in
words what this formula says and how it calculates the perimeter?
Task 2
Recreate this on their own spread sheets and try to answer the questions of the maximum number of sheep with different lengths of fencing.
Task 3
If you are ready you can extend this to calculating volumes of cuboids using a spreadsheet.
Can you adapt your field solution to model this situation and work out the volume of the cuboids pictured in the examples file?
Music
Texture
Texture is the layers of sound created by playing together or separately throughout a song.
In this animation hear from Nitin Sawhney about how he uses texture in his music.
Structure
Structure is the order that different parts of the song are played in.
Traditional pop music usually follows a verse, chorus, verse structure.
In this video Elvis explains how to use structure in pop songs.
Task 1
You’ve heard Nitin Sawhney explain how he composed ‘Homelands’, now watch him perform the song in full.
Pay special attention to how he uses texture to bring the song alive.
Task 2
Listen to three of your favourite pop songs then list the various parts of the song and the order that they appear in.
For example:
Verse – Chorus – Verse – Chorus – Bridge – Chorus
Cooking
Today you have a cooking recipe. Unfortunately we missed our cooking lesson due to the school closing before Easter. We were due to make a healthy snack; pitta breads.
Below is the ingredients and the method to make your own pitta bread. We designed our own fillings whilst in school which mainly consisted of salad items and a meat or a cheese filling. Make sure you do not cook unless you parents are present to supervise you.
If you don’t have the ingredients to make the pitta bread, work with your parents in the kitchen to make a healthy snack. It could be a fruit salad, which you chop the fruit for; a fruit skewer; a yogurt pot with fruit at the bottom.
RE
Today in RE as you have researched about different churches I would like you to make your own church with all the features you have learnt about.
Try to use recycled materials to make your churches.
Geography
Over the past few weeks you have learnt about holidays in the past. Today I want you to think about holidays in the future.
What will a holiday look like in 2035 or 2050?
Think about all the activities your family like doing, think about how technology is constantly improving.
Firstly you need to draw your holiday location then describe the holiday you would have, the activities you will do, how you would get there etc.
Could it be you’re sitting on-board a pilotless airliner, cruising across the Atlantic at a cool 3,000mph. The trolley service is a robot named Brenda – she speaks 100+ different languages and offers you an eclectic platter of food based on the dietary requirements in your electronic implant. Content with your 3D printed salad, you put your virtual reality headset back on and go for a pleasant coastal stroll across Ipanema beach.
Could we see virtual holiday:
Did you fly in a rocket? Are the planes different? Maybe more like cruise ships in the sky!
I look forward to seeing and reading about your future holidays. Remember to email your work to 5JP@petershillprimary.org.
ICT
- We are going to see how spreadsheets can also be used for literacy and for carrying out investigations.
- Open a new spreadsheet in advanced mode using 2Calculate on PurpleMash.
- Make their spreadsheet bigger by clicking on the button on the
bottom right of the screen to add more cells.
4. In this lesson we will be testing out a hypothesis about which letters are most commonly used in the English language. We will start off by asking whether ‘e’ is the most popular vowel.
5. Create a spreadsheet like the following picture:
6. The vowels on the left-hand side are the variables that we are going to get the spread sheet to count. Click on the cells next to the letter ‘a’ and add a ‘how many’ tool from the controls toolbox on the right-hand side.
7. This tool will count all of the letter ‘a’s on the spreadsheet except for the cell to its immediate left.
8. Create a similar spreadsheet and add the ‘how many’ tool for each vowel. Which is the most common vowel so far?
9. Add some common consonants e.g. m, t, s, c, p and see how the count updates.
10. Add some more sentences for the tools to count. These can be typed into cells or copied and pasted e.g. from a website such as an online encyclopaedia.
11. Can you answer questions about the most popular letters? Can they use the spreadsheet to answer hypotheses e.g. Certain genres will use a greater variety of letters than others?
12. Can children present their results in a graph?
13. The count tool can also count words as well as individual letters. Can you suggest words to count?They could enter a variety of connectives for example and see which is the most commonly used in a variety of texts.
PSHE
What does choices mean? What about the law and rules? What does it mean when people ask you to be responsible?
Thought shower 1 – Think about when your teacher has helped you in certain situations.
Write down some class rules that you have in your classroom.
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Is there another rule that you think you should have in your classroom?
Think! Why do some children in school break these rules? What makes them do it?
Thought shower 2 – Why are laws important?
Speak to a member of you family and try to identify positive and negative influences in children’s daily lives.
When does an influence become a pressure?
Choose an example from your negative section and explain why this might be a pressure and result in a child breaking a rule at home/school/outside.
PE
As there is no Black Country School games this year, across the Black Country teachers have been working on a sports week which can be completed at home. We are part of Dudley Borough and we will be completing against Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.
There are 2 Virtual Challenge’s running throughout the week:
Personal Challenge -This consists of 5 individual activities – Speed Bounce – Skipping – Rebound Catch – Star Jumps – Standing Long Jump
Virtual Tri Golf – This consists of 5 Tri Golf challenges that can be done with or without Tri Golf equipment, easily have a go at home.
Once you have completed a virtual challenge at home you will need to complete a Goggle Form below to earn points for Dudley. You can complete as many challenges as you like over the week.
For every entry we so 2 points. If on Friday you are in one of the top 10 scores for each activity our team will get an additional 20 points for first, 18 points for second, 16 point for third and so on …….
Below you will also find activity cards and example video for every challenge to make it easy for everyone to take part.
Personal Challenge Videos
speed bounce_2 (1).mp4
starjumps.mp4
skipping.mp4
Rebound catch (1).mp4
Long Jump Challenge.mp4
Tri Golf Videos:
Virtual Tri Golf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTmuuv0VzEM
Virtual Results
NSSW- Personal Challenges
NSSW- Virtual Tri Golf
Good Luck! Go Team Dudley!
Geography
Now you have researched holidays in the 1950’s and holiday’s now, today I would like you to present your findings, identifying the similarities and differences between the different holiday eras.
Think about why these changes may have happened:
better paid jobs?
longer holidays from work?
better technology?
better access to holidays?
I would like you to make a travel brochure to show these differences for a holiday in the 1950’s and a holiday 2019/2021 (not this year due to no holidays at the moment).
PSHE
What does anti-social behavior and consequences mean?
What types of anti social behavior have you seen or know of. A few examples have already been written down for you. If you can think of anymore, write them down in the list below:
1. Cyber bullying
2. Purposely ignoring teachers/friends
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Now rate your anti-social behaviour from least to worst. 1 being the highest and 9 being the least.
What have you put for number 1 and why?
What have you put for number 9 and why?
What should you do if you see any of these types of behaviours at:
School?
When with your parents/family members?
With your friends?
Read the following newspaper headlines
How does this make you feel? This is a chance for you to express your opinion on stealing.
Why is stealing wrong?
Have you ever had anything stolen from you? If so, how did it make you feel?
Here is a picture of a local supermarket. This supermarket is visited by thousands of people every day.
Write down who will be affected if a member of the public tried to steal a lot of food from this supermarket.
Here are a few examples:
- The staff that work there
- The security guard on the door
Discuss with an adult why stealing is wrong. Write down your opinions:
Stealing wrong because….
Computing
Today for computing you will need to use Purple Mash. To access this you need to login to your RMUnify account and access the tab on the homepage. Go to petershillprimary.org, click on the children tab then learning links to access RM Unify.
We are going to use a spreadsheet to convert measures of lengths. We will be using 2Calulate which can be found in the mathematics tab on purple mash.
We use spreadsheets a lot in everyday life, especially if you are working with money, building, or collecting data of any form. They make the work we do faster by using formulas to convert information or sort information.
1. Open your 2Do – conversion example
2. Below is an example of a spreadsheet. What do you need to do to a measurement in metres to convert it to cm?
You multiply metres by 100 to make cm as there are 100cm in a m.
3. Now use the same format to convert from cm to m on their own sheets.
4. You will now need to open the advance view in 2Calculate; you were introduced to this in Year 4. To switch to the advanced mode of 2Calculate, click on the mode switch button at the top of the screen:
5. Open a new blank spreadsheet choosing the advanced format spreadsheet.
6. Create a spreadsheet with the headers as follows:
7. Click on cell B2. We want the number in this cell to equal the number in cell A2 x 100.
8. Click on the formula wizard button this will open the Formula Wizard screen in simple mode.
9. Click on cell A2 then choose x as the operator then click on cell G1 (this contains the number 100).
10. Click OK and then try entering a number in cell A2, the calculation of the conversion to cm should occur automatically.
11. Create a similar formula for the other cells in column B on your spreadsheets and test it out by entering different values in column A.
12. Now look at the formula bar for one of the formulae e.g. click on cell B2 and look at the formula bar:
13. To enter formulae, you can type directly into this bar. Now, the formula says that this cell (B2) = whatever is in cell A2 x whatever is in cell G1.
14. Click in the formula bar and change the text ‘G1’ to the number ‘100’.
15. Press enter and the resulting number of cm (in cell B2) should not change. The advantage of ‘hardcoding’ the number 100 in the formula bar is that now the formula can be copied and pasted instead of having to enter it into each cell individually.
16. Copy cell B2 (click on cell B2 then press
. Now select the rest of column B and then paste
. This should copy the formula and automatically update it to each row. The rows where column A is empty should initially display zeros. Test this out by entering numbers into the cells in column A.
17. Use this method to create a formula that takes the contents on the cells in column D and divides by 100 to convert from cm to m. You will need to use the ‘/’ key for a divide sign.
18. Apply your knowledge to convert from km to miles and vice versa. Use the information below to help.
RE
Do all churches look the same?
This term we have been looking at Christianity and Catholicism. Today you are going to research about churches which Christians attend and Catholics attend.
I have put a website below to look at Christian churches and Roman catholic churches.
What do you notice are similarities and what are differences?
http://request.org.uk/life/church/
You can present your work in your own way: drawing examples of the churches, a comparison table, a leaflet, a poster.
Science
Today in Science you are going to be investigators. Over the last few weeks I have asked you to research about different areas in science and different famous scientists.
Normally in this part of the term we start to look at conducting fair tests.
A fair test is a test which controls all but one variable when attempting to answer a scientific question. Only changing one variable allows the person conducting the test to know that no other variable has affected the results of the test.
We look at different types of investigations such as experiments, sorting materials and surveys.
You have three different tests to complete:
- What material is the most water resistant?
Find four different material around your house to check to see which is most water resistant. Please check with your parents first over which materials you can use. By materials it could be wood, cloth, metal, stone etc.
You are testing how long it takes water to go through the material. Think about the equipment you need, think about your method ensuring the variables controlled for every test and only changing your material (independent variable). Present your findings in a table and then write a conclusion on what you have found.
2. Which is the best handwriting pen?
For this experiment you will need 4 different types of pen. You will need to ask members of your house to try all four pens to determine which is the best to write with.
Think about what you are controlling; is it the word they are writing, they time the are writing with it for.
3. How would you categorise materials?
This is a sorting activity. Choose 10 different objects in your house (check with your parents first). Look at the objects and try to categorise them into 3 or 4 groups. Grouping could be what they are made of or what they are used for. Once you have grouped them once can you use the same 10 items and group them in other ways.
French
Today we are going to use everything we have learnt this year to write a postcard about a holiday you have been on. In your postcard you need to include :
Where you went
What you wore
What the weather was like
What you ate
Places in town you visited.
Below you will find all the vocabulary sheets we have used this year to help you formulate your sentences. Once you have finished your postcard you can draw a picture on the reverse of your holiday destination.
On holiday I went to = En vacances, je suis allé à
Music
Thinking about the holiday jingles you have listened too to create your own jingle for a holiday advert you design. Use garage band to help create your composition.
What is a composition?
Making up your own music is called composition. People who write music are called composers.
When it comes to composing music there are no set rules.
You can write a song any way you want to. The important thing is that you enjoy creating it. Grab an instrument, warm up your vocal chords and let’s get to it!
Composing is all about experimenting and finding out what works and what doesn’t. Give yourself time to play and try out lots of different ideas.
Starting points for songs can be very different. It could be a sequence of chords, a guitar riff, a drum beat or even just a feeling!
Think specifically about:
Creating a beat and rhythm
tempo
dynamics
pitch
Remind yourself about these terms using the website below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zwxhfg8
Art
Over the last few weeks you have been researching about seaside art. You have researched the different artists and looked at different styles of painting.
Thinking about the images you have researched today I would like you to create a seaside image based on the poem A Day At The Beach.
Salt-spray glistens in the sunlight,
like diamonds in the air.
Sandals salvaging feet from the burning sands,
as the beach welcomes each new arrival with surf-song.
Riding the waves on boogie boards,
the young build their bronze six packs.
On the horizon boats buzz to and fro,
like little ducks in a carnival game.
A dry ocean breeze
slides its invisible tentacles through everyone’s hair
and no one seems to mind; they’re all watching the distant dolphins leaping in the shimmering sea.
Task 1
Identify the nouns within the poem and think about the adjectives which describe them.
Task 2
Draw a picture which is your interpretation of the poem. Think about the descriptions when you are drawing your picture. Think about the medium you want to finish your picture in; watercolour, crayon, pointillism, oil pastels etc
Geography – Holidays
Good morning 5JP. Today we are carrying on with our Geography from Friday. We researched what holidays were like in the 1950’s.
Now we are going to research about holidays in the 60’s, 70’s etc up to today 2020.
Think specifically about:
activities
entertainment
food
price
accommodation
Make a postcard to a family member for each decade (10 years) telling them about the activities you did, what entertainment did you see, what food did you eat (all inclusive/self catered), how much was it and what was your accommodation like.
Website links to help:
https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Great-British-Seaside-Holiday/
https://www.seasidehistory.co.uk/seaside_statistics.html
https://www.seasidehistory.co.uk/camps.html
Geography – Holidays
Good morning 5JP, this term our topic for Geography is holidays. We look at how holidays have changed since the 1950’s. The activity today is a two-day project researching today and presenting tomorrow.
As we know how we holiday in the present day, the first thing we need to do is to research holidays in the 1950’s.
In the 50’s the main type of holiday for British people was to go to holiday camps where they had access to lots of different things all in one place. A famous holiday camp of the time was Butlin’s. There are still three Butlin’s campsites in the UK now.
Your task today is to research about holidays in the 1950’s at a Butlins holiday camp.
You will need to find out :
What would a chalet be like?
What activities could you do on the holiday camp?
What services were provided on the holiday camp?
What activities were available for children?
Who were the entertainment team?
Why did they become popular?
What was included in the price of your holiday?
Here are some website links that you can use to help you:
https://www.butlins.com/about-us
https://www.butlins.com/about-us/our-timeline
https://www.seasidehistory.co.uk/camps.html
Tomorrow your task is to present your findings. However, you choose to present your findings needs to include all the information you have researched.
You could write a postcard as if you were on the holiday camp and tell your friend about the chalet, the entertainment team, the activities you have done. You could then draw the picture of holiday on the reverse.
You could make a PowerPoint answering all the questions you have answered.
You could present a fact file about Butlins holiday camps or an advert encouraging people to go to the holiday camp.
Remember to send your work to me at 5JP@petershillprimary.org
Science – Famous Scientists
Good Morning 5JP,
Today for curriculum, we are going to be describing what a scientist is and researching the different ways in which they work.
Task 1
Write down on a piece of paper:
- What we learnt about last week and Science (which scientist did you research and what were they famous for?)
- What you think the definition of a scientist is. Can you remember from last week?
Task 2
Scientists are people who discover new things and research how things work!
There are numerous different areas of science that scientists explore.
Watch the following two videos to find out what a scientist is and the different ways in which they work.
Please be aware that I am unable to control or monitor which videos come up after and are recommended whilst these videos are watched. Please ensure you are aware of this when your child watches these videos.
Task 3
You are now going to research different types of scientists.
I would like you to research biologists, geologists, astronomers, chemists and physicists.
First, find out what they study! What area of science do they look at in particular?
Then, find a famous biologist, geologist, astronomer, chemist and physicist and explain why they are famous.
BBC teach might be helpful for this activity- https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/science-ks2-scientists-and-scientific-method/z43mbdm
It is up to you how you display your research. I have attached a worksheet which you can use to display your findings if you would like to use it.
Class 6JP 