Takeaway Home Learning

Year 6 – Autumn 2
Each week you must choose one take away item for home learning. The spice rating suggests the challenge it
might offer. Challenge yourself and make sure that the home learning that you submit is of the highest
standard. Enjoy! 
Write an interesting short story Imagine you are the young Write a well-structured,
which includes at least three of scientist, Charles Darwin, out on informative and interesting
the following: finches, an old his scientific expedition on HMS biography about Alfred Wallace.
map, Darwin’s notebook, a Beagle. Write an extract from his
mysterious fossil, a globe, a journal that describes part of the
painting of the Galapagos Islands. journey. It could be the start of
the voyage, arriving at one of the
islands, or discovering different
animal species.
What can you discover about Research the HMS Beagle and Create a SPaG booklet, which
Lonesome George, the last giant make a fact file about the includes how to identify and
Pinta Island tortoise? You might information you find. use: modal verbs, relative
want to use the following clauses, passive and active
website: voice, word classes and
Lonesome GeorgeGalapagos synonyms and antonyms.
Conservancy, Inc.
Create a true or false quiz about Explain how animals such as polar Create a fact filled poster all
Charles Darwin and his scientific bears, monkeys and sharks have about Charles Darwin.
expedition on HMS Beagle. evolved to suit their environment.
Create a family tree for your Research conservation charities Design and create your own
family. Include photographs if you such as the World Wildlife Fund, religious themed Advent
can. to learn about current calendar.
endangered species.