COVID Closure Home Learning |
Year Six WorkWe have reached the end of term and with it your final day at Smithy Street Primary School and as a primary school pupil!
We will leave up all the slides with the lessons Chris and Lizzie have prepared through the Summer term. You may wish to return to some of them during the holidays and complete any work you missed or refresh some of your skills. Good luck at your secondary schools - you will all do so well. Previous Days Learning for Year Six
July
SECONDARY TRANSITION - IMPORTANT INFORMATION
We have a range of transition materials for pupils to work on with their parents in readiness for moving onto secondary school in September. Please click on the buttons below to access. Each secondary school will be arranging virtual tours of the schools - please go to your new school's website for further details or click on the link below. You can also investigate the range of extra resources and websites listed below.You may wish to make use of any of the following interactive sites for other learning activities across the curriculum. To access via a link click on the web address.
Please note: Links are regularly checked and are all working when checked, however the links are to external websites and so if those sites are experiencing high demand or server issues or the users own internet connection is weak some sites may struggle to load at some times. This is beyond the schools control we are afraid. AR Reading: Tests can be accessed by clicking on the link below: www.acceleratedreader Read Theory: IMPORTANT for quick comprehension www.readtheory.org Read Theory is an online resource where children can practice their comprehension. The website automatically adjusts the difficulty of the extracts/texts given and assigns tailored questions. Children could access this website as part of their daily reading or when directed by their teacher in the link above. Login details are displayed in the folder sent home from school or as a link in the daily work details above. Get Epic: IMPORTANT to read fiction and non-fiction books www.getepic.com Get Epic is a reading and learning platform (that also links to Accelerated Learner or AR Books). Children can choose from a range of topics, across a range of reading abilities. Children could either browse in their own time or look for the recommended/assigned books to read by their class teacher. Login details are displayed in the folder sent home from school or as a link in the Google Slides above. Study Ladder: IMPORTANT for a range of tasks, across a variety of subjects www.studyladder.co.uk Studyladder can be used to provide work for a variety of topics. There's a wealth of interesting and fun activities for your students to learn from the site. Class teachers will arrange for children to work on specific topics or let them explore freely on their own. Login details are displayed in the folder sent home from school or as a link in the daily work details above. Mathletics: IMPORTANT for key maths skills www.mathletics.com The children access Mathletics through their own username and password. This gives them access to all the mathematical games, resources and activities on the site/app. Upon logging on, your child will not have access to all the games and self-choice learning activities until any specific activities that may also be set by their teacher have been completed. White Rose: IMPORTANT Maths www.whiterosemaths.com The White Rose Maths Team have prepared a series of five maths lessons for each year group from Year 1-8. They will be adding five more each week for the next few weeks. Every lesson comes with a short video showing parents clearly and simply how to help their children to complete the activity successfully. I See Maths: Maths tasks and activities www.iseemaths.com Daily lessons for KS2 children with follow up tasks/activities. Literacy Shed: IMPORTANT for writing ideas www.literacyshed.com Literacy Shed is a brilliant website with plenty of inspirational videos and pictures to help your child with writing at home. Class teachers will arrange for children to work on specific areas of the website or let them explore it freely on their own. Hamilton Trust: IMPORTANT Literacy and Maths Activities www.hamilton-trust.org.uk A highly recommended resource of weekly sets of learning activities by year group in English and Maths. Free to use during the closure period. Pobble: for writing ideas www.pobble365.com On Pobble365, a new picture is uploaded every day with matching writing prompts and reading comprehension questions that are suitable for children. Children can complete these activities independently. LGFL: Curriculum Activities www.lgfl.net A variety of links to London Grid for Learning recommended websites and activities tailored especially for Key Stage Two. DK Find Out! www.dkfindout.com/us/ DK Find Out! contains plenty of child-friendly webpages for science, history and geography. Class teachers can arrange for children to work on different subject areas of the website. Scratch: Computer Coding www.scratch.mit.edu Computer coding activities on a platform the children have used previously at school Hour of Code: Computer Coding www.hourofcode.com/uk Computer coding activities on a platform the children have used previously at school Code Studio: Computer Coding www.studio.code.org Excellent online coding courses and games Purple Mash: Multiactivities www.purplemash.com A multi activity site regularly used by pupils in school. Pupils have their own log on user names and passwords Language Angels: French activities www.languageangels.com Pupils should click on the pupil log in tab using the details below. For lesson activities username: smithy 1236 password: lahome For French language based games user name: frenchgames password: frenchgames Lightbot: Computing www.lightbot.com A computer coding activity/challenge site familair with children from class use Timestables Rockstars: Multiplication facts work www.ttrockstars.com Another site familiar to chidlrne accessed through their own user names and password Numbots: Key Addition and Subtraction activities www.play.numbots.com A sister site to Times Tables Rockstars supporting key number skills Classroom Secrets: Various www.classroomsecrets.co.uk General activities and ideas National Geographic Kids: Science and Geogrpahy https://www.natgeokids.com/uk Information, activities and games linked to Science and Geography topics National Geographic Interactive Mapmaker: Geography www.mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org/ Interactive atlas and online mapping tools Children University Manchester: Various www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk Information and activities across the curriculum Scouts Association: Design and Technology Actvities www.scouts.org.uk A range of interetsing DT based activities bringing the outdoors indoors! Tate Kids: Art and Design www.tate.org.uk/kids Art and Design focused activities and games A longer list of sites by subject recommended by the Department for Education is available here some of which already appear above: www.gov.uk/government Other General Sites to explore www.busuu.com www.subscribe.firstnews.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing www.sumdog.com www.teacherled.com www.nhm.ac.uk www.sciencemuseum.org.uk www.museumoflondon.org.uk On Line Safety With children likely to be accessing the internet more regularly, we would also recommend viewing of the following links relating to on-line safety with your child. www.childnet.com www.internetmatters.org Child-Friendly Search Engines www.kiddle.co www.alarms.org/kidrex/ |