Pope Francis’ words really do resonate deeply with me; ‘Prayer leads us forward in hope.’ During these uncertain times, I am hopeful for the future that lies ahead, and prayer has truly helped me to remain hopeful. I hope (for use of a better word) these words also provide you with comfort and reassurance that we are moving forward positively and we must remain hope-filled and use prayer to help us to see the bright future that lies ahead. Miss Haggerty has been putting daily prayers on the ‘News’ page on this website, so please do refer to these to help you in prayer. Fr Jim is also still streaming the Sunday Mass from the church website, so you can join him and many others in shared worship, every week.
As we enter the seventh week of Home Learning, this also had me reflecting on the year we have had together. Today should have been the first day of our SATs, and it has made me reflect on how proud I am of my class and all of the hard work and effort each of you put into preparations for this week. I could have cried with pride watching the progress you all made with the mock assessments you did, and seeing how much you all cared. So even though you will not be sitting your SATs this week, I would like you all to know that I am so proud of each and every one of you, and how much you have achieved, so far, during your time in Year 6-please keep up that hard work!
Suggested Timetable- please click here to view a suggested timetable for this week’s learning. I know some of you have already benefited from using a timetable so I thought I would share it with all of you, should you wish to use/adapt it.
If you have any CPG Mock SATs score yet to send me, please email them to year6@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk ASAP. I still have gaps on my score record for the class.
Expected work:
at least 2 Bedrock lessons
IXL at least 3 times a week
Regular home reading
SumDog-I have set 15 new spellings, Times tables and a grammar focus. I have not set a maths focus as I have set White Rose Maths lessons for this week (see below)
Education City- Science work (Circulatory System)
White Rose Maths (Fractions)-click on the link below and I would like you to complete as many of the lessons as possible on: Summer Term – Week 3 (w/c 4 May)
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/year-6/
Each lesson has a video and an activity sheet, there are 5 lessons so 1 a day would be the best way to timetable them.
English-Romeo and Juliet Lesson 4
Please click here for lesson 4 on Romeo & Juliet, which is centred around the balcony scene.
Here are the two versions of the play you will need to refer to:
Romeo & Juliet Story Adaptation
I was very impressed with some of the writing you produced last week as well. I have put some of the pieces of writing that I was sent at the bottom of this post! Click on one picture to see them enlarged and read them in full! (Please do send me any other pieces of writing, and I can add them this post!):
Additional resources:
Pie Corbett Talk for Writing Packs:
I have set Maths, English & Science work on Education City- https://www.educationcity.com/
TT Rockstars- https://ttrockstars.com/
Espresso Learning- https://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk/what-we-offer/discovery-education-espresso
Oddizzi (Geography)-https://www.oddizzi.com/schools/login/
Click here for an Oddizzi activity pack on Global Knowledge
Any questions, updates, queries etc, please email me on year6@our-lady.blackpool.sch.uk.
Take care and stay safe-as always, we are missing you all!
Miss Slater, Mrs Murray & Miss Evans x
