Morning all,

Work for today below, any queries please contact me on c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

Make sure you are up to date with our class book:

All recordings so far (up to and including Chapter 16) can be found clicking here on our Holes page

P.E – 9am with Joe Wicks

Date for your diary – Next week! Virtual sports week will take place next week and we would like to encourage everyone from your household to get involved and have fun whilst doing so! The only thing you will need in preparation is some water balloons, however a wet sponge will be a fine alternative. Every day next week, I will blog two activity cards for you to complete; you will then send your two scores into me via email. I will then keep you informed of the leaderboard every day. There will be one winning house by the end of the week. Please take a look at the information page for more information.

https://meadowsideacademyyear6.edublogs.org/files/2020/06/Sports-week-Information-page.pdf

 

Early Bird: Complete the questions below:

Maths: Same as Monday (make sure you are confident with reading line graphs: SC below) then continue on with your own line graph on whether exercise affects your heart rate (details below).

Spellings: Focus – ending suffixes to words ending in ‘fer’

English: Same as Monday (completing your animal information text, assessing and editing and improving. I can’t wait to read these. please send them in to me).

 

DEAR: Please go on your Reading Plus accounts and read for 30 minutes

Topic: Art 5R’s graffiti
Mon – Complete your 5R graffiti prototype (try to include the animal we associate with each ‘R’ in your design
Tuesday & Wednesday – Complete the stencil for your graffiti image
Thursday & Friday – If you have the material paint your image on a large piece of cardboard or a piece of word.Please send me the final pictures!

 

Have a great day,
Mr Leverett

 

 

 

Morning all,

Hope you had a great weekend, and maybe had the chance to catch up with someone you had not seen for a while.

Hope your awake and ready to go!

P.E – 9am with Joe Wicks

Next week! Virtual sports week will take place next week and we would like to encourage everyone from your household to get involved and have fun whilst doing so! The only thing you will need in preparation is some water balloons, however a wet sponge will be a fine alternative. Every day next week, I will blog two activity cards for you to complete; you will then send your two scores into me via email. I will then keep you informed of the leaderboard every day. There will be one winning house by the end of the week. Please take a look at the information page for more information.

Sports week Information page

 

Early Bird: Complete the questions below

Maths: This week we start a new topic … statistics! Particularly important at the moment; something that you can’t get away from when you are watching the news. Over the next three weeks we will look at representations of data: line graphs, bar charts and pie charts.

Please read this introduction to reading a line graph

The work below is for Monday and Tuesday.

Spellings: Focus – ending suffixes to words ending in ‘fer’

English: Monday and Tuesday we will be completing your animal information text, assessing and editing and improving. I can’t wait to read these. please send them in to me.

DEAR: Please go onto your Reading Plus account and read for 30 minutes

Topic: Art 5R’s graffiti

Mon – Complete your 5R graffiti prototype (try to include the animal we associate with each ‘R’ in your design

Tuesday & Wednesday – Complete the stencil for your graffiti image

Thursday & Friday – If you have the material paint your image on a large piece of cardboard or a piece of word.

Please send me the final pictures!

Have a great day,

Mr Leverett

 

 

 

 

 

Morning all,

Nearly the weekend! Lay-ins, cooked breakfast and hours on Netflix … well that me, what are you up to!?

But before we get there we need to do today’s work. Any questions I am here to help – c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

Don’t forget to check out ‘Holes’ part 1: chapters 5-7 or chapters 8 – 10 below read to you by Miss. Corkhill

P.E – 9am with Joe Wicks or complete your own homemade circuit.

Early Bird: Complete the questions below

Maths: It’s arithmetic Friday! Challenge someone at home if you can, or simply beat last week’s score. Questions and answers are below.

 

 

Answers: (no peeking!!)

Spellings: Get some in your family, or a friend, to test you on this week’s ten spellings.

 

English: Work for Thursday and Friday

We have now completed the ‘collect and connect’ phases of our animal information text.
Therefore, we are ready to create. Now is the time to start writing the text in the format you have decided. Write up your research into the individual sub-heading you have decided on. Remember the purpose of your writing and your audience; include all the features we have looked at in your work*: Sub heading, pictures, captions, passive voice, subordinating conjunctions, relative clauses, semi-colons and colons.
Some of the examples you have created this week should be easy to just transfer into your final piece.

I would love to see your first drafts; please send them in to me.

DEAR – Please go on your Reading Plus account for 30 minutes.

Topic: DT – Challenge

Below is Ben’s excellent work.

We are going to try and paint our graffiti logos in school. In order to do this we/you would need to create a blank stencil of the word which we can then spray or paint onto.

Your challenge is to create a stencil of you work.

I would love to see your work; please send them in to me.

Have a great weekend.

Take care,

Mr Leverett

 

 

Morning all,

Work for Thursday below. Any problems please get in touch with me: c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

Don’t forget to check out ‘Holes’ part 1: chapters 5-7 or chapters 8 – 10 below read to you by Miss. Corkhill

P.E – 9am with Joe Wicks or complete your own ‘homemade circuit’.

Early Bird: Complete the questions below

Maths: Yesterday you solved a Roman numeral code today’s task is to make one (see below).

Spellings: 

English: Work for Thursday and Friday

We have now completed the ‘collect and connect’ phases of our animal information text.

Therefore, we are ready to create. Now is the time to start writing the text in the format you have decided. Write up your research into the individual sub-heading you have decided on. Remember the purpose of your writing and your audience;  include all the features we have looked at in your work*:  Sub heading, pictures, captions, passive voice, subordinating conjunctions, relative clauses, semi-colons and colons.

• Some of the examples you have created this week should be easy to just transfer into your final piece.

DEAR – Please go on your Reading Plus account for 30 minutes.

Topic: DT – Challenge

Below is  Ben’s excellent work.

We are going to try and paint our graffiti logos in school. In order to do this we/you would need to create a blank stencil of the word which we can then spray or paint onto. Your challenge is to create a stencil of you work.

 

 

Have a great day!

Mr L

 

 

 

 

Morning folks!

Work for today, any problems do not hesitate to contact me: c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

Don’t forget to check out ‘Holes’ part 1: chapters 5-7 or chapters 8 – 10 below read to you by Miss. Corkhill

P.E – 9am with Joe Wicks or complete your own ‘homemade’ circuit.

Early Bird: Complete the questions below

Maths: Try to solve this quotation below (the code is in Roman Numerals)

 

Spellings: Complete the wordsearch

English: We carrying on looking at features we need for our information texts. Today we are looking at semi-colons and colons. Read the success criteria and then complete the tasks (I suggest at least three sentences for each task).

DEAR: Either read on your Reading Plus account for 30 minutes or read your own book for 30 minutes.

Topic: PSCHE

Complete your graffiti image of one of our 5R’s: respectful, resilient, resourceful, relationship, reflection

 

Morning all.

Work for today below if you have any problems let me know: c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

Don’t forget to check out ‘Holes’ part 1: chapters 5-7 below read to you by Miss. Corkhill

P.E – 9am with Joe Wicks or do your own ‘made-up circuit’ for 30 minutes.

Early Bird: Complete the questions below.

Maths: Refresh your knowledge on Roman numerals below. Then take on today’s two star challenges and go onto the 3 star if your feeling confident.

Spellings:

English: We are carrying on our with the grammatical features of an information text today we are looking at: expanded noun phrases and relative clauses. Please complete the sheets below.

Task one can you identify these famous character (clue – they appear in cartoon films or in story rhymes). Answers tomorrow!

See task 2 below.

 

DEAR: Please either read on your Reading Plus account or read your own book for 30 minutes

Topic: Art (as per yesterday)

Choose one of our school 5R’s and make it into graffiti.

Have a great day,

Mr Leverett

 

 

 

read to you by Miss. Corkhill

Morning all,

Hope you all had a great weekend.

Work for this week below any problems or queries please get in contact with me: c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

P.E – 9am with Joe Wicks or carry on develop your own workout circuit for your family

Early Bird: Complete the questions below

Maths: We will be recap our work on Roman numerals this week.

Please read the success criteria first. Then answer the 2 star challenges and take on the 3 star challenges if your feeling confident.

Spellings: (focus aught)

 

English: This week will be carrying on our work on our animal information text, first looking more deeply at some of the grammatical features, then beginning the writing.

Today we will recap subordinate conjunctions

DEAR: Please read on your Reading Plus accounts for 30 minutes

Topic: (Art Monday-Tuesday)

Please choose on of our school 5R’s and create a the word in graffiti.

5R’s:  resilience, reflection, resourceful, relationship, respect

Have a great, constructive day!

Take care,

Mr Leverett

Hey there! I am LOVING being able to record this for you guys. Apologies though in advance for my dodgy and swaying accents – but it’s how I believe the characters speak!

Enjoy!

Look out for chapters 5-7  on Monday,

Miss. Corkhill

Nearly the weekend!

Hope your all safe and well.

Below is the work for today any queries please let me know: c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

P.E – 9am with Joe Wicks or create your own circuit for you and the family.

Early Bird: Complete the questions

Maths: Its arithmetic Friday!  Take on the challenge with a member of your family or a friend, can you beat them! Questions and answers below.

Questions:

 

 

Answers:

 

Spelling: Get a member of your family or a friend to test you on this weeks spellings: focus ‘ought’

English: Over the next few days we will be reminding ourselves of some of the grammatical features within an information text.

Today we will look at active and passive . First look at the success criteria below.

 

Task: first complete questions 1, 2 and 3.

Then try to identify if the sentences are passive or active.

DEAR: Please go on your Reading Plus account for 30 minutes

Topic: PSCHE

Complete your positive negative picture. One half has the positive aspects you have found discovered during lockdown (new skills, things you have tried for the first time, or simply hobbies or pastimes you have had time to do). The other half is the negative things during lockdown (not seeing friends, not going to school etc).

I’d love to see some of them – please email them into me.

 

A special treat from Miss. Corkhill – Story time!

 

Have a great weekend,

Mr Leverett

 

 

Morning all,

Hope everything is going well. Work for the day below any queries contact me on: c.leverett@meadowsideacademy.org

Make sure you also check out the special treat from Miss. Corkhill below . . .

P.E – 9am with Joe Wicks or create your own works circuit with for your family.

Early Bird: Complete the questions below

Maths: Continue our work on the area of circles. First look at the example then complete the 2 star challenges and take on the 3 star challenge if you are feeling confident.

Example

Work:

Spellings:

 

        

English: Hopefully, your list of features for an information text looks similar to mine one below.

Today I would like you to do two things.

Firstly, carry on researching your chosen animal.

Secondly, design how your information text will look. How many sheets, How will they be folded? Where will the pictures go? How many will you have? What sections, sub-headings will you include?

DEAR: 30 minutes on your Reading Plus account please

Topic: PSHE

Please complete your split pictures from yesterday – showing the ‘positives’ and ‘negatives’ of lockdown.

A special treat from Miss. Corkhill – Story time

Click on this link to listen to Part one: chapters 1-3

 

Take care,

Mr Leverett