Week beginning 29th June 2020
English
This week, we have teamed up with The Guardian and Newswise’s new project from promoting the teaching of news in schools. It is called The Happy News Project. It has a focus on wellbeing with uplifting stories, and developing teamwork, speaking and listening and news writing and reading skills.
How it works (from their website):
Organise your pupils into editorial news teams and set them the challenge of researching and reporting a happy news story to share with others.
Working in teams: organise pupils into teams so they have the opportunity to work together to research and produce their final report. Use the suggested roles below to give pupils additional responsibilities:
- Desk Editor: acts as team leader and makes the final decisions, including which story to report.
- Reporter: researches key witnesses for the story and/or conducts interviews.
- Subeditor: proofreads the report, checking for grammar, spelling and punctuation errors – as well as checking the facts! Subeditors also write the headline.
- Picture Editor: selects the most interesting and appropriate pictures to use in the report. They can also write the captions.
Create a real audience: decide who your audience is and how your pupils can share their happy news stories with them. Could it feature on the school website or newsletter? Could you create a printed version to share with families? Remember, it’s all about spreading happy news to others!
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Begin the project with a focus on wellbeing – see our PSHE
lesson on managing feelings to explore how news can affect emotions and different
strategies for managing wellbeing – of course, focusing on happy news is one of
them.
Try out the different roles in a newsroom in our lesson on
how news is produced. Pupils can have a go at different roles from reporter to
subeditor, and practise the skills needed ahead of producing their own reports.
Explore how journalists choose which news stories to report
in our newsworthy news lesson, preparing pupils for selecting their own news
stories.
Day 4 – Find a story:
Allow time for pupils to research possible happy news stories to
report, remembering what makes a newsworthy story. Once teams have decided on
one, hold a news conference where they share their chosen story with the rest of the
newsroom, justifying how it will help to spread joy and why it is newsworthy for
their audience.
Maths
This week’s learning:
Lesson 1 – Solve two-step equations 2019
Lesson 2 – Find pairs of values (2) 2019
Lesson 3 – Convert metric measures 2019
Lesson 4 – Miles and kilometres 2019
Last week’s answers:
Lesson 1 Answers – Area and perimeter
Lesson 2 Answers – Area of a triangle (3)
Lesson 3 Answers – Area of a parallelogram
Lesson 4 Answers – Volume of a cuboid
Science
What impact have humans had on plants and animals?
In this lesson, we will look at how humans have changed over time and use the theory of evolution to explain these changes. Learning how to make and use tools, shelter, fire and language has enabled humans to spread all over the world. We will start to look at the impact that humans have had on some species of plants and animals.
Reading
Read last week’s copy of First News. Once complete, tell us on Dojo what your favourite article was and why…
Click here for last week’s copy.
Geography
Where are all the people?
In this lesson, we will be starting a new topic all about population! We will consider how many people there are on the planet, how this has changed, and where populations are distributed.
PSHE
This week, we will be exploring the dangers of smoking. Have a look at the PowerPoint and complete the activities.
Dangers of smoking Powerpoint resources
Art
Please follow Mrs Glenn’s lesson plan on ‘The Fauves’.
All about the Fauves – PowerPoint
Examples:
RE
The National Association of Teachers of RE are running their annual Spirited Arts Competition. Full details of the competition can be found at the link below.
https://www.natre.org.uk/about-natre/projects/spirited-arts/spirited-arts-2020/
Over the next three weeks children in year 6 will plan a piece of artwork around the theme “inspiring”.
The video clip below explains a little more about this theme. The video is long but you only need to watch the part from 12:04 to 21:12 to see examples of work connected with this theme.
Think about a person, place or quotation you would like to focus on. It can be linked to a religion but it doesn’t need to be. The attached PowerPoint may give you some ideas.
Use the planning grid to plan out your artwork.