Falcon Class 2019/20

Good Bye and Good Luck Year 6

Dear parents and carers,

This home learning is designed to support and aid you as parents and carers. Please use it to help your child, and support their learning in the best way you can. That said, at the current time, we are all experiencing pressures and needs within our own families not know before. Therefore, please do not put undue pressure on yourselves or children to complete everything. Home learning can be done in many ways, and should be a positive experience. The most important thing right now is that all families are able to be safe, look after one another, and maintain the positives at this challenging time. We are here to help and we understand that you know you child best and can strike the balance between using the home learning and providing the care and attention that all of our children need at this time.

If you need any further support, please email admin@upottery-primary.devon.sch.uk and we will do our best to advise and support.

Best wishes,

The Upottery Teaching Team

Home Learning WC: 13th July

Home Learning: WC 6th July

Home Learning WC: 29th June

Task: Sporting History - Choose a sport which is popular in another country and write an information report or create a poster, giving key details about the sport and its history. Hi, Mrs Yallop. I've just finished my Kabaddi poster and managed to scan it with dad's help. My favourite part is the title at the top left - hand corner, which I designed all by my self. I hope you like it, bye! From R.

Collaborative home learning - Under The Sea Poetry - By W, I, R

Pirate Poster and narrative poem - Excellent EA

Narrative poem - The Pirate

Pirate Poem

Hedgehog Feeding Station: under construction and installation. R "The trail camera got some lovely film of our, and a neighbour's, cat each trying to get into it in the dead of night but no hedgehogs yet!"

Home Learning WC: 22nd June

Two superb quotes from pieces of Y6 writing this week - EA: 'It’s not a swimming pool but then one of my life lessons is to make the most of any situation.' - RH: ‘I'll miss Upottery, but there is a whole world of opportunity just waiting for me. As soon as lockdown is over, that is.’

Falcon Gallery - Home made burgers, stone skimming and lovely walks

Home Learning WC: 15th June

Writing conference task: To write an autobiography of my life so far using autobiography word map, features of an autobiography and features of an autobiography check list.

Home Learning WC: 8th June

Independent learning in action: Hi Mrs Yallop. I've been working on the project 'Plough to Plate' and it's finally finished! I chose cucumbers as my food because I really like them. I drew it on a piece of card and it turned out to be too big to scan so here is a picture of it. I spent three and a half hours on this and learnt alot of surprising things! It was really fun and I tried my best to make it as good as possible. I hope you like it, bye!

Falcon Gallery: Come Dine With Me - birthday meal - A beautiful 3 course meal; planned, cooked and presented by W, I & R for Mrs P's birthday - Plus an amazing birthday cake.

Falcon Gallery: 3rd June - Here is a picture of the forest fire that happened 4m from our house, D helped the firemen lay out their hoses (we had 30 firemen and 5 trucks firefighting)

My first year with Pippin

Falcon Gallery: Farming, fox cubs, relaxing and truck signage

Home Learning WC: 1st June

Design and Technology In Action

Home Learning WC 18th May

How about giving this ago: Devon youth parliament is part of a national network of elected young people age 12-18 who are campaigning on issues that matter to our age group. This year, the national campaign is ‘Protect Our Future’ and as a group of Devon young people, we recognise how important this is for young people in this area but also across the world. To kick start our Devon campaign, ‘Greener Devon’, we have set up an environmental competition for ages 0-18 (see below) and we would love for your students to get involved. We would like them to design a logo and/or poster about the environment for our campaign, Greener Devon.

Greener Devon Competition .pdf

Thursday 14th May: Hi, Mrs Yallop. On Wednesday, me and dad went into the woods opposite our house on an expedition. We identified different plants and trees, and ate jam sandwiches by the river. Here are some pictures of different plants we found, and a little bit of information about each one. From R

Falcon Gallery WC: 11th May - Baking, landscape gardening, den building and lots of outdoor fresh air. Well done Falcon Class

Home Learning WC 11th May

Fractions, decimals and percentages blank conversion chart for use with Bitesize

Fraction decimals equiv chart.pdf

Another amazing week from Falcons: baking for neighbours, baking lavender cakes (remember Pixies Holt) baking for birthdays, baking for fun, castle building, model making, VE Day posters and preparation, riding bikes, family walks and so many other things.

Home Learning WC 4th May

P.E Activity ideas and links for everyday this week - And don't forget Joe Wicks 9am daily.

Activity at home Primary 4.5.20.pdf

An Architectural Masterpiece - The task: design a new building/structure to inspire. You must research, plan, design and then make a model of it using materials from around the house.

I think cream then jam wins the debate!

Independent Learners in Action: Project Ancient Egypt; research, pyramids and flat breads. Warrior Cats camp - based on Warrior Cats novels by Erin Hunter - highly recommended by our model maker and avid reader.

Here are some more photographs of things you have been doing:

Friday 24th April – Good afternoon Falcon Class – It has been fantastic to catch up with so many of you this week. I have really enjoyed our two Zoom sessions. As ever I am so impressed with all the independent learning you are doing. It’s lovely to hear about you making dens, finding out about 80’s music, seeing pictures of you riding horses and bicycles, running challenges, kittens being born and lots of baking. Remember to check out this week’s home learning. I’d love to hear about your debate - Cream Teas – Are you a cream then jam, or jam then cream family?

Home Learning - WC 27th April

Week-2-Learning-Project-Falcon Class.docx

Wednesday 22^nd April – Morning Falcons – It was great to catch up with so many of you during our Zoom meeting yesterday. I am so impressed with the variety of activities that you have all been up to. From cooking, walking and reading to learning musical instruments and calving cows! Remember to check out this week’s home learning.

Here are some more photographs of things you have been doing and a very topical story from William. You might have heard about the Kookaburra that was spotted on their farm.

One day there lived a farmer called Dave - William.docx

Thursday 16^th April - Hello Falcons

I hope you have had a lovely Easter and you are enjoying the good weather. I’ve spoken to quite a few of you over the holiday and I know that lots of us are thinking about all the things that Year 6 would normally be doing at this time of year. Like you I’m listening to the news and waiting to hear when we might be back in school but until then below (in a word document) is the work for our first week – Monday 20^th to Friday 24^th April. I really think that you will enjoy the work and I’ve tried to put in lots of detail to help you. I’ve written it for both you and your parents so I hope it’s clear.

To help with this as a class we will have an opportunity to all talk together. On our website and in the newsletter you will find the times when we will be able to Zoom and I can explain our weeks work and we can all catch up as a class. If you need me to explain anything further just email and I’ll get back to you.

As I explained to you before we finished for Easter our Y6 SAT’s tests will not take place this year. However as a class we did all of the 2019 SAT’s tests the week of 11^th March and this together with your class books will help me to make teacher assessments.

Activities like the Summer Production, Sports Day, Life Skills, transition to senior schools, Leaver’s Hoddies, Leaver’s Magazine, Leaver’s Service are all for after half term so I’m sure that we will have a clearer picture of what might happen before then.

Keep enjoying the sunshine, and I hope you and all your family are well.

Mrs Yallop DYallop@upottery-primary.devon.sch.uk

Home Learning Monday 20th April - Friday 24th April

Week-1-Learning-Project-Falcon Class.docx

Friday 3rd April – What’s your favourite book or what are you reading at the moment? Send me a picture or write a recommendation. A class member is reading the Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis - a special copy that belongs to her dad. Here she is with her dogs: reading and walking.

Friday 27^th March - Happy Friday Falcons – What a lovely weather week we have had. I have really enjoyed finishing reading and marking your “How the Whale Became...” stories and looking through your I.L.P books – I’m so impressed with the content and presentation of your work. I hope you have been able to do things that you have really enjoyed too this week. Over the Easter holiday do keep in touch and let me know what you are up to.

Emily and her family have: “Been busy writing and doing mathletics. Lots of baking, walks and looking forward to David Walliams new book coming out next week!”

I will put up on this class page our new work on Thursday 18th April for the following week. Keep up with your folders for maths, SPAG and reading and as much independent writing as you can.

If you word process a story or any work, it would be lovely if you could email it to me, so that I can share it with you.

Take Care Mrs Yallop

Wednesday 25th March Good morning Falcon Class. It was lovely to receive emails and photos of the things you are up to. I knew you were a hard working bunch and would find so many different ways to fill your day, as well as school work. It seems lots of us did Joe Wicks Keep Fit yesterday and enjoyed the sunshine. Here is a diary extract from a Falcon member: “We started Monday school at 10 after feeding the calves, the children were brilliant working hard until about 12 when we did our daily mile. If you run up and down our drive 15 times its 2km. Yesterday we found Joe Wicks on YouTube he is fab and we all joined in. He has now worked out that if he starts his work early he gets to help dad with more exciting jobs in the day so he starts at 6 that's why he is in his pyjamas this morning already!

Falcon Class Update: Tuesday 24^th March

Morning Falcons – I hope you are all well and your family. It is a beautiful day and I’ve just finished Joe Wicks Kids Workout – It is brilliant – Have a go and see if you can do it each day. It’s live at 9am but you can watch it anytime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz0go1pTda8

I will be adding work for the coming week to our class page from the first week after Easter – the week beginning Monday 13^th April. There will be maths, reading, spelling, writing and a topic. The topic will change each week. I will put the work on our class page on a Thursday ready for the following week.

In the meantime keep going with your packs, reading your books, Mathletics, Times Table Rockstars and all the other lovely literacy I know that you are doing.

I think it is important to make yourself a timetable; it will help structure your day. Decide when you will do your school work (it can be in chunks of time), when you will exercise and when you will have free time. I know lots of you will also be helping your family with cooking, jobs around the house, the garden and farms.

If you have anything you would like to share with the class please send it – Photo’s, a poem, photo of art work, of something you have cooked – anything.