Year 6 Easter Challenges
Year 6 Easter Challenges
Take part in our fun challenges - there are prizes and rewards to be won
There are 5 challenges – a wellbeing challenge, a reading challenge, an art challenge, a science challenge and a PE challenge. You could choose to do one challenge or as many as you want. There are prizes and rewards to be won!
Year 6 Wellbeing Challenge
Make a Resilience Toolkit
Here’s how to take part:
- Watch this video with Miss Wilson.
- Think about resilience, what it means and why it is important.
- Watch the video below with Ormie the pig.
- Think about challenges you may have faced, anything that may have made you want to give up or not try in the first place.
- Think about what you did to deal with the situation.
- Think about 5 positive ways you can deal with difficult situations.
- Write these down and put them in your resilience toolkit. You could use an old jar like Miss Wilson or a box or anything you want.
- You might want to decorate your resilience toolkit.
- Get your grown up to take a photo of your resilience toolkit and email it to transition@newhouseacademy.co.uk making sure they include your name and primary school.
Year 6 Reading Challenge
Create your own book cover and write a short book review
Here’s how to take part:
- Design a book cover for a book you love. It can be a re-design of the original cover or you can create your own design.
- Write a short book review to go with your cover. Add your favourite characters and favourite parts of the story.
- Get your grown up to take a photo of your book cover design and book review and email it to transition@newhouseacademy.co.uk making sure they include your name and primary school.
Year 6 Art Challenge
Design your own Easter Egg full of pattern
Here’s how to take part:
- Draw an egg shape on a piece of paper and decide what you are going to use to create pattern on your egg.
- You could decide to use pencils, paint, felt tips – the choice is yours.
- Get your grown up to take a photo of your Easter egg design and email it to transition@newhouseacademy.co.uk making sure they include your name and primary school.
- Watch this film with Miss Allen and Miss Jones to see an example of their pattern inspired design.
Year 6 Science Challenge
This looks like a job for a science expert!
Here’s how to take part:
- Watch this film with Mr Hartley carefully.
- In experiment 1 Mr Hartley is burning metals. Can you answer these 2 questions from watching the experiment.
- What colour does copper turn when it’s burned?
- What is an example of where you might have burned iron filings before?
- In experiment 2 Mr Hartley is making elephant’s toothpaste. Can you answer these 2 questions from watching the experiment.
- This is an exothermic reaction, what does that mean?
- What gas is given out from this reaction?
- Get your grown up to pop all 4 of your answers into an email and send it to transition@newhouseacademy.co.uk making sure they include your name and primary school.
Extra stuff – Mr Hartley makes slime in our second film ‘The science behind slime’. If slime is your thing give it a watch and if you manage to make your own slime get your grown up to email us a photo at transition@newhouseacademy.co.uk don’t forget to include your name and primary school.
Year 6 PE Challenge
Take part in the Sock Olympics
Here’s how to take part:
- Watch the video with Mr Jeffrey and Mrs Tough.
- Have a go yourself and record your score. You will need someone to time you, you could do the best of 3.
- Throw the socks in the bucket – Mr Jeffrey got 7 – how many can you get?
- Knock over the target – Mrs Tough took 5 attempts – how many can you do it in?
- Kick the socks into the bucket – Mr Jeffrey got 0 – how many can you get?
- Tip tap challenge – Mrs Tough got 5 – how many can you get?
- Get your grown up to send your scores to transition@newhouseacademy.co.uk making sure they include your name and primary school. They can include a photo of you attempting the challenge if you wish.
