Year 6 Homework – Period 1
From this term you will be getting a literacy homework every 2 weeks which will be handed out on a Monday and due in the
following Monday. This should be completed in your blue literacy homework book.
You will be set bi-weekly homework tasks in Maths using the MyMaths programme – a super internet resource that you will be able
to access with a login that you will be given. This programme is used very successfully at local secondary schools.
You should also take at least 5 homework ideas from this grid based our topic for this term ‘Into the Deep’. Complete the tasks in
your red homework book which will be collected in on Thursday 22nd October and then marked by your teacher.
Please read at least 3 times a week (preferably every day!) recording the reading in your diary. You should also learn your spellings.
In addition, try to learn quick recall of your times tables and related division facts
Geograp
hy
Can you find out about a
famous ship wreck? Write
about where it is located
and how it came to be
there.
Art / DT
Find a painting of a
mythical sea creature.
Sketch a picture of it,
then use pastels or paints
to add colour and texture.
Can you write your own
short story based on an
ocean theme such as a
ship-wreck, a pirate, a
mermaid, a whale or a
dolphin ?
Can you complete a mixed
times table grid in under 2
minutes? Go on and
challenge yourself! Ask
your teacher for a grid.
Literacy
Mathema
tical
Music
Science
Can you create a piece of
music which represents
the sounds of the sea?
Use anything you like to
create the sound-scape.
Record it and bring it in to
share.
Choose a shell you have
found. Find out all about
the creature that it once
belonged to.
What are the five major oceans of
the world? Find some interesting
facts about each ocean e.g. What
climate zones are they in? How
deep are they at their deepest
point? What countries do they
surround? What is the largest
creature that inhabits it?
Can you design a working
lighthouse?
Build a circuit with a switch. Then
create a model of a lighthouse and
put the circuit in it.
Can you read the Buckingham
Advertiser to find out what is
going on in your locality?
Review the article, stating your
opinion.
Use this WWF website to
find out about how we can
help protect our oceans. Read
a story and create a poster
to explain how we can all help.
http://gowild.wwf.org.uk/regi
ons/oceans-stories
Create 5 word problems with a link
to water or the ocean.
Complete this puzzle
Every day at noon (Greenwich Mean Time) a boat
leaves Le Havre for New York while another boat
leaves New York for Le Havre.
The ocean crossing takes seven days and seven
nights.
How many boats on the New York to Le Havre
route will the boat leaving Le Havre today meet
during its journey to New York?
How can you illustrate your answer?
Be sure to include the answers!
Use some photographs to
draw some pencil sketches of
your favourite sea – creature.
Write a diary as if you are a
light house keeper, keeping
watch over a rocky out-crop.
Can you find a song about sailing or
the sea? Write down your
favourite lyrics from the song.
Explain why you like them.
Play a piece of music to the
rest of the class on a musical
instrument.
Choose a sea mammal. Find out all
about its migration paths.
Starting with an ocean
predator, draw the food
chain.