Welcome to Years 5 and 6
Each day during school closures, children in each year group take part in Zoom lessons. They then have access to all their daily learning activities via Seesaw, which includes teaching videos and coverage of curriculum subjects. There are a variety of resources and activities to support home learning below.
Seesaw Home Learning
Seesaw is our online learning platform, used daily for home learning during school closures. Please do not hesitate to contact the school office if you require any help in accessing your child's learning journal.
SeeSaw Picture Instructions.pdf | [pdf 136KB] | ||
Seesaw Presentation January 2021.pdf | [pdf 1MB] |
Home Learning
Seesaw, an online learning platform, was introduced during the summer term to enable children to access activities each day, upload photographs of completed work and respond to teachers' messages. Your child can ask any questions they have or share their work using Seesaw. The system is used daily for lessons during school closures.
On this page, you will find some additional activities that will help you with your learning at home. The learning grids accessible via the link below have been designed so that you can choose activities in any order. There are also links to websites that will help you with your learning.
Oak National Academy has been established to support learning at home, and you can find a link to the Years 1 and 2 content below.
Parents and carers, please feel free to choose activities from different key stages if you feel that they are appropriate for your child's individual needs.
Virtual School Library
The virtual school library is a new initiative that gives children free access to books each week. It is provided by the Oak National Academy and the National Literacy Trust. Here is the link to access this new resource.
Virtual School Library | |
Oak National Academy |
Collective Worship
During assemblies each day in school, children have opportunities to think, listen to stories and music and reflect on values such as friendship, peace, honesty and compassion. They have an opportunity to share in a prayer, or thinking time, if they choose to do so. If you would like to access an assembly at home, please use the link below and then enter the password 'palmsunday' when prompted.
Schools are required to allow time each day for an act of collective worship, and you can view our policy here:
http://www.themeadows.lincs.sch.uk/school_information/policies_and_finance/school_policies.html
Assembly 1 - Classroom Worship | |
iSingPOP Assembly |
Listen to a Story
We have a growing library of stories that you may wish you to use with your child when learning at home. Some of them are familiar to children and link to nurture themes, such as anxiety, what to do with worries and other feelings and emotions. Others are well-known stories that children enjoy. We hope you enjoy sharing them together!
You can find the stories here:
Oak National Academy - Daily Lessons
Oak National Academy has been established to support learning while children are unable to attend school. Each day, there are English, maths and foundation subject lessons provided in a sequence, complete with videos, activity suggestions and quizzes. Your child can participate in all of these, free of charge, by accessing the relevant year group. If you choose to access the lessons, children can use their school exercise book to record learning and then share their work using Seesaw.
Oak National Academy - Daily Schedule Year 5 | |
Daily Lessons | |
Oak National Academy - Daily Schedule Year 6 | |
Daily Lessons |
Pie Corbett's Talk for Writing Home Lessons
Pie Corbett's Talk for Writing strategy is used to teach children a rich vocabulary and to support drafting, structuring and editing writing. You can access units of work for each year group here.
Talk for Writing | |
Home Lessons and units of work |
BBC Bitesize - Daily Lessons
Each day, lessons are available online for all year groups. Use the link to explore this free content to support your learning at home.
BBC Bitesize Daily Lessons |
Lessons from National Centre for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics (NCETM)
NCTEM have produced sequences of lessons for children to access at home, and they encourage thinking, reasoning and problem-solving.
NCETM Maths Lessons |
Maths Activities
Maths lessons are available from 'I See Maths' using the video links below. They are a brilliant resource, and you could do a different lesson each day; they follow in a sequence and build on learning each session. A new lesson is available each day, and you can subscribe to the YouTube channel to access them live. Below, we have collected some one-off activities that you may like to complete as extra challenges! The Problems of the Day are taken from White Rose Maths.
Quick Links
BBC Bitesize
Daily lessons for all subjects are available here. If your teacher directs you to a BBC video in the learning grid to help you with your work, you can find it here.
Oak Academy
You can find lessons for every day here. If your teacher directs you to an Oak Academy video in your learning grid, you can find it here.
DK Find Out!
If you are researching a topic, click here to find some amazing facts and figures. DK information books online can help you with learning in many subjects.
Math Playground
You can practise many areas of maths by clicking here and finding games and puzzles. These can help you to become more confident in remembering number facts.
Home Learning Guidance - children with additional needs
Lincolnshire Councils’ SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) Advice Line Service have worked with recommendations from educational psychologists to bring together this resource to share with parents to help signpost to available support for children with SEND during home learning.
Resources for Parents – Learning and Support @ Home 2021.pdf | [pdf 819KB] |
Internet Legends - Online Safety Activities for Families
Here are some educational resources, produced by Google, that can be used at home to help children to understand how to be safe online. They link to curiculum learning in school about e-safety.
Legendary Learner Pack - Family Activities.pdf | [pdf 953KB] | ||
Legendary Learner Wellbeing Kit Family Activities.pdf | [pdf 1MB] | ||
Legendary Learner Wellbeing Kit Family Link Guide.pdf | [pdf 437KB] |
SATs Materials
Here are some past SATs papers and mark schemes. You could use them to practise particular questions and to challenge yourself. Although Year 6 pupils will now not take the tests in May 2021, the question content and test skils required provide a useful opportunity to support home-learning.
Maths Resources
The links below will help you with your maths learning. We have tried to select resources that can be viewed on a screen and do not need to be printed. We hope that you will find them helpful.
Virtual Maths Manipulatives
We use a range of practical resources in the teaching of maths, and you can learn more about our approach to teaching by following this link: http://www.themeadows.lincs.sch.uk/classes_and_learning/our_curriculum___assessment/maths.html
While at home, counters, small toys and dried pasta can be used for counting and representing numbers. You can follow the link below to access a range of counting resources on screen. We use physical versions of all of these in school, so we hope that they will prove to be a useful addition to maths learning sessions at home.
Virtual Manipulatives for Maths | |
On-screen representations of practical resources |
Useful Links
We have collected some links below which may be helpful to you in your maths and English learning! Gareth Metcalfe is a maths specialist who will be sharing 'live lessons' via a free channel on You Tube. You may wish to subscribe to these to help you with your maths learning each day. You can create a library account using the link below, or use existing details if you are member of Lincoln Central Library. There are lots of e-resources available!
English Heritage History Resources | |
Learning packs for home use | |
Learning with Blue Peter | |
Inspirational Videos | |
e-Bug Project by Public Health England | |
Hygiene and Handwashing | |
Learning about Water - 6 lessons | |
New resource for home learning - Anglian Water | |
Government Home Learning Resources List | |
Latest update April 7th 2020 | |
I See Maths Daily Home Lessons | |
A dedicated channel for children and parents | |
White Rose Maths Year 5 | |
Videos and challenges | |
White Rose Maths Year 6 | |
Videos and challenges | |
TT Rockstars | |
Multiplication Facts Practice | |
Komodo Maths Resources | |
Online maths activities | |
Lincolnshire Libraries Login | |
E-reading and audio resources | |
STEM resources | |
Science and IT links | |
Science Activities | |
STEM Blog | |
Developing Experts | |
Science Activities | |
Chatter Pack | |
Home Learning Resources |
Football Practice with Mr. Hill and Mr. Benson
If you would like to practise football skills with Mr. Hill and Mr. Benson, watch the video and try out the challenges! The teachers would love to hear about your success!
I See Maths Home Lessons
There are many maths lessons to access below, and they work in sequences. You will not need any additional equipment, other than objects found at home. If you can find something below that you need to practise, you can record your learning in your book. If you would like your teachers to look at what you have done, you can share it using Seesaw. This video explains what I See Maths is all about!
Number Detective
Why Rounding?
First Negative
Fractions: Babies, Toddlers and Butterflies!
Building Thousands
Sum of the Digits
Between 2 and 3
Make 32
Part-Finished Book
Line Up, Fractions!
Order and Compare
More than One
Why Fractions?
Comparing Parts
Fractions of Shapes
Planning a Journey
League Tables
Changing Graphs
The Clapper
Which Graph?
Act the Graph
Different Measures
Looking at Time
Broken Clocks
English Learning and Resources
You can find resources to help you with reading, writing and spelling below. The comprehension activities include a text to read and some questions to answer. There are three levels of challenge, with 'three stars' providing the greatest challenge. You could read on-screen and use the questions to talk about what you have read. If you would like to record your answers in your home book, an adult could check them with the answers provided. No cheating! Please note that the 'Grammar Practice Booklet' was written with Year 6 SATs tests in mind, and there are references to the test dates. These, of course, are cancelled for the 2020 academic year, but the content is still appropriate for practice at the correct level.
Useful English Links
These reading book resources will help you to practise reading at home.
Oxford Owl Reading Books | |
Reading e-books | |
World Book Online | |
Free e-book resources | |
National Geographic Kids | |
Useful for information and research | |
Radio Blogging with Pie Corbett | |
Daily writing blog |
Research/Topic Learning
During our 'Explore' term, we focus on geographical knowledge and understanding. Some of the challenges here focus on the themes we have been covering so far this term. The knowledge and facts slides are shared from Twinkl resources.
Learning with Lincoln City
Here are some resources which have been provided by Lincoln City Foundation. There are some fun and practical activities which you can use at home to work on mathematics and spelling.
Lincoln City Foundation Active Maths Challenge.pdf | [pdf 267KB] | ||
Lincoln City Foundation Active Spelling Challenge.pdf | [pdf 151KB] |
Keeping Active!
You can access PE with Joe videos at Body Coach TV on YouTube. Here is a link to one of the sessions to help you to challenge yourselves and stay fit and active while at home.