Shottermill Junior School Year 6 - Autumn 1 2016
You need to choose 6 activities from the tables below to complete over the
whole half term. You may present your work in an appropriate style of your
choice. Homework should be handed in each Tuesday. Please send any
electronic files also by Tuesday to: [email protected]
marked FAO Year 6 teachers.
Note to parents: If your child has a valid reason why they cannot complete
their homework on time, please could you send in a letter.
PSHE
How do the Paralympics relate to
our core values?
PE
Design an obstacle course for your
family to complete! Make sure you
take a photograph/draw your
obstacle course.
Choose a British Paralympic athlete
and find out how they have
demonstrated one or more of
these.
Computing
Science
Create a factfile about the founder
of an App or Computer game that
you use regularly e.g. Minecraft.
What can you find out about
rainbows?
You should include details such as
how the founder got into
programming in the first place and
what made their product
successful.
You may choose how to present
your information e.g. a mind map,
a poster or a video.
Independent Learning
DT
Choose a topic of your choice which Make your own Chinese fan!
interests you and write about it for You may wish to research Chinese
an assembly.
fan dancing first.
Geography
R.E
Create a glossary using the following Write your own prayer and decorate
words that will be used in our it.
project about rivers in China:
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Source.
Groundwater
Spring
Stream
River
Floodplain
Confluence
Tributary
Meander
Ox bow lake
Mouth
Delta
You may wish to include diagrams,
maps and pictures to aid your
learning.
English
Slow Writing.
Using the picture on the
right as a stimulus,
complete the slow write
using the sentence
structures below.
1. Your sentence must
start with a present
participle (eg. looking.)
2. Your sentence may
only contain three
words.
3. Your sentence must
contain a semicolon.
4. Your sentence must
contain a rhetorical
question.
5. You must start your
sentence with an
adverb.
6. Your sentence must
contain a simile.
7. Your sentence must
contain alliteration.
8. Your sentence must
contain two commas.
9. Your sentence must
contain brackets.
10. Your sentence must
contain a colon.
11. Your sentence must
contain speech.
12. Your sentence must
contain only one word.