Year 6 – Homework

Hello Year 6!

Thank you for a wonderful week once again. We have been busy looking at Christmas adverts in preparation for our Christmas project, working on our ‘Pie Corbett’ story maps and practising how to decrease and increase percentages. Well done all of you for preparing wonderful oral presentations!

Over the weekend, we would like you to start learning the songs for our online Christmas show. There is a folder in your files on TEAMS. Try to learn as much of the words as you can. We will be focusing on the show/video during the next few weeks.

Please look at your Welsh spelling words over the weekend.

Enjoy the weekend with your families.

Diolch, Mrs Miles-Farrier, Mr Lewis a Mr Davies.

Good afternoon and a happy Friday to you all.

What an extremely interesting week. We had such valuable experiences such as learning about the life of Welsh actors and having them give us some advice ahead of our planning of our Christmas show. We also learnt about the history of Tryweryn and Capel Celyn – thank you very much to former Treganna teacher, Miss Elenid for allowing us to learn more about her family’s history and for showing us artefacts from the period.  In addition to this, we’ve been looking at examples of portal stories and learning about how to write our very own. In maths, we’ve been learning to calculate percentages of values and equivalent percentages, fractions and decimals.

Mr Davies and Mrs Miles-Farrier have also enjoyed listening to the wonderful oral presentations given by members of their class, whilst Mr Lewis is extremely excited about returning to listening to those of dosbarth Gronw next week.

This week’s homework will be based on percentages. We have created an assignment and shared this with you within your class’s TEAMS account. Remember to read the question carefully, as it may ask for more than one answer.

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Geiriau Sillafu Saesneg 20.11

Remember to make use of Bugs or reading personal books as well as TT Rockstars.

Enjoy your weekend,

Mr Lewis, Mr Davies a Mrs Miles-Farrier.

Good afternoon and happy Friday year 6!

Well done on another week full of effort, perseverance and work of a very high standard. We’ve really enjoyed seeing you learn about the experiences of the Welsh group who travelled to settle in Patagonia and witnessing your wonderful presentations. We’ve also been very pleased with your commitment towards learning equivalent fractions, percentages and decimals…not an easy task in the slightest.

This week’s homework will follow on from last week where we’ll be asking you to prepare an oral presentation based on an inspirational hero of your choice. Look through last week’s homework for more details on what to include and some suggestions of who you could base your presentation upon.

English spelling will be our focus for the next fortnight so make sure you check your spelling list and learn the pattern as well as utilising Bugs Online and TT Rockstars.

Enjoy the weekend,

Mr Lewis, Mr Davies and Mrs Miles-Farrier.

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Hello year 6,

It’s been wonderful seeing your excellent progress this week in our maths lessons on fractions and we look forward to developing our literacy skills further next week whilst writing diaries about Patagonia!

Your homework this weekend, and next weekend, is to prepare for a Welsh language oral task. We would like you to conside: in your opinion, who is the most inspirational hero, and why?

You could choose a hero we’ve studied this term or another person from the list below:

• Malala
• Paul Robeson
• Martin Luther King
• Rosa Parks
• Michael D Jones
• Shirley Bassey
• Tanni Grey-Thompson
• Betsi Cadwaladr

If you are keen to choose someone who is not on the list, it would be better if you haven’t undertaken homework on this hero this year already. 

We would like you to research about the person’s background and the challenges they’ve had to overcome in order to succeed.

Which qualities have they developed?

Why do you think they are inspirational? Why are they important to you?

How do they compare to other heroes or other similar people?

What makes them unique, in your opinion?

Remember: when presenting, it’s essential that you are familiar with the facts and arguments that you want to share. Try to learn what you want to say. You could use flash cards to help prompt and remind you. You could also use short bullet points (containing a few words only) on screen. It’s important that you don’t read from the screen or script. Eye contact is crucial. We would prefer that you say less but that you’ve learnt it and are confident sharing, rather than reading a long script.

Be careful if using Google Translate. Read back over its recommendations to try and make sure it makes sense.

Here are some helpful openers when expressing your opinion:

Yn fy marn i,…

Does dim amheuaeth mai….

Mae yna sawl rheswm….

Mae’n amlwg bod….

Er bod……,

Tra bod…..,

Yr hyn sydd fwyaf trawiadol am …[ENW]… yw…………

Y peth sydd yn fy ysbrydoli fwyaf am [ENW] yw………

We hope to organise the task as some kind of class discussion / debate. Your presentations, therefore, will act as a springboard for further discussion and so your friends might ask you questions or challenge you on some of the things you’ve said. Be prepared to stand up for what you believe and, most importantly, give reasons for your opinion (so use the word “because” [oherwydd] a lot!).

We hope you have a lovely weekend,

Year 6 team

Hello year 6.

Half term week is upon us! We’ve had such a fantastic first half term with you in year 6. You are all stars.

Well done for your wonderful Big Writing this week. It was lovely to read all of your fantastic newspaper articles based on Martin Luther King’s ”I have a dream’ speech.

You have been working hard on your fraction’s skills over the past week.

Over the half term break, we would like you to complete a fractions quiz via FORMS on Assignments. Don’t worry if you can’t do all the questions; do what you can. These are mixed level questions.

You can also read books, practise some BUGS online and work on your times tables through TT Rockstars.

And of course, remember to relax over the holidays. Thank you.

Year 6 staff 

Good afternoon and a happy Friday to you!

This week, our pupils have been extremely busy looking at things from the features of newspaper articles to using emotive language to celebrating ‘Shwmae S’umae day. They have also worked extremely hard in maths sessions and have learnt about equivalent fractions as well as using them in addition and subtraction problems.

Your homework this week is to look through newspapers or magazines with someone at home and find an article that you find particularly appealing. It could be about your favourite band, sport or film or be about a news topic. Your task is to highlight/colour any emotive words you find in the article and write a list of them. An extra challenge is to use these words to form your own sentences. Make sure to get permission from whoever owns the newspaper or magazine before you highlight or colour. Make sure you send a photograph of your work to your class’ TEAMS account or to send it back via assignments.

Also, remember to look over the English spelling words, to revise times tables and to find an opportunity to read.

Week 3 – English spelling – Test 23.10.2020

Pob lwc and enjoy the weekend!

Hello year 6!

Your effort this week has been excellent this week. We’ve been very impressed by your progress whilst dividing in mathematics and whilst writing a blog about Cardiff Bay. Well done! ?

Over the weekend, we would like you to complete the Division quiz that’s on Assignments, on TEAMS. The homework is due on Wednesday.

Additionally, why not spend some time on your times tables and reading skills on TT Rockstars and BUGS?!

Enjoy and relax!

Year 6 teachers

Hello year 6,

Once again, another busy and interesting week has flown by. We have been looking at the history of Cardiff Bay, practising our multiplication and division skills and looking at blogs for our Big Writing next week. Our Big Write is to write a blog persuading tourists to visit Cardiff Bay.

In order to support our Big Write, for this week’s homework you will be interactive tour guides showing how Cardiff Bay has developed and changed over time. This week’s homework is in Welsh. You should use Adobe Spark, Flipgrid (available through Hwb) or any other video creating software of your choice. Pob lwc!

You will need to present your work via Assignments in TEAMS by Wednesday, the 7^th of October. If there is a problem, please let us know.

Things to think about:

• Power of 3: Repeating words 3 times to emphasize the fact.
• Emotional vocab: Words that make you feel a certain way.
• Rhetorical questions: Questions that you don’t accept an answer.
• Facts and figures (data): To prove that these are correct.
• Idioms: Heb os nac oni bai, rhoi’r ffidil yn y tô, bwrw hen wragedd a ffyn, a’i wynt yn ei ddwrn…
• Images
• Vary the tone of your voice and to express words in an enthusiastic way: As tour guides, you have to keep the interest of your listeners by being interesting and energetic.

The next week’s spelling will be Welsh spelling. They are on TEAMS.

With our open day days away, please let us know of any question or queries you may have before the evening. Please send via your child’s individual channel on TEAMS.

Have a lovely weekend, Mrs Miles-Farrier, Mr Davies and Mr Lewis

Good afternoon year 6 and a happy Friday to you!

We have enjoyed another very busy week and we’ve thoroughly enjoyed seeing your biographies on members of the family. We are very lucky to have such a variety of extremely interesting families amongst us here. Our highlight of the week was witnessing the confidence of all pupils when presenting to the class, by speaking so eloquently and clearly. They also maintained the interest of the audience at all times.

We have been learning about the features of biographies this week and have been preparing towards our extended writing session on Monday. Subtraction and multiplication have been our focus in maths and we’ve been learning more about refugees and migration in our themed lessons.

Your homework this week is to complete the multiplication challenges that are beneath this message and to complete some reading on Bugs Online or using novels you have at home. Remember to complete a session on TT Rockstars as well. Gwaith-cartref-coch-oren-gwyrdd

More importantly, have a good weekend!