Awards

For this award, you will develop a critical awareness of your own and other’s online behaviour. You will develop effective strategies for keeping safe and making a positive contribution online.

‘Growing Up In A Digital World’ Knowledge Organiser

Ask your teacher to provide you with the ‘Growing Up In A Digital World’ Knowledge Organiser.

The Knowledge Organiser outlines the essential knowledge that will be covered in this project.

The online quiz should be accessed multiple times to help secure knowledge and recall basic facts and concepts.

Once the quiz is complete the marks will be released. You should aim to get full marks. The quiz can be accessed time and time again.

For this Maths Award, you will investigate and solve a wide range of real-life problems. The skills are essential to everyday life, critical to science, technology and engineering, and necessary for financial literacy and most forms of employment.

Welcome to the Video Comprehension Awards!

For this award, Mr McGarry (reading and writing guru) will introduce the Video Comprehension activities.

• You can watch the videos as many times as you like and make notes.
• After you’ve watched the videos you will complete a series of short quiz questions.
• The quiz questions will include multiple choice, short answer and longer answers.
• Please make sure your spellings, punctuation and grammar are the best that they can be.

Welcome to the Science Award, The Wonder of Evolution!

You will:

• Research the work of Charles Darwin and study his Theory of Evolution
• Explain natural selection and inheritance
• Look at how animals are adapted
• Examine changes in animals over time, look at artificial selection (domestication)
• Explain human evolution and create a report on the history of the Earth

For each lesson, you will be required to do some research, make notes as you watch videos, answer questions (multiple choice, short answers and longer answers) and demonstrate your understanding.

Throughout this project, there will be suggestions on how you might present your work. WAGOLLs will also be provided for each lesson.

A completed WAGOLL ‘Evolution’ can be viewed HERE.

‘The Wonder of Evolution’ Knowledge Organiser

Ask your teacher to provide you with ‘The Wonder of Evolution’ Knowledge Organiser.

The Knowledge Organiser outlines the essential knowledge that will be covered in this project.

The online quiz should be accessed multiple times to help secure knowledge and recall basic facts and concepts.

Once the quiz is complete the marks will be released. You should aim to get full marks. The quiz can be accessed time and time again.

The following activities are designed to support you as you embark on developing a business idea. The project is completely open-ended and can be built around your passion for something: food, gaming, sports, technology, fashion, design or something completely different.

During the award you will:

• Complete a business plan and outline your ideas
• Create a brand and design a logo for your business venture
• Use your logo to brand a range of products
• Design and create social media adverts to promote your business
• Use special effects to create a promotional video
• Create a webpage for your business
• Create a spreadsheet that looks at marketing and business costs
• Explore the prices of your product and look at profit and loss accounts
• Explain what makes your business special by preparing a pitch.

For this Art Award, you will be using creative media including art, sculpture, textiles, collage etc. to present a mini-exhibition reflecting an emphasis on wildlife (all of earth’s fauna and flora can be represented) in as creative a way as possible.

Here, Mr Andrews introduces you to the Art Award.

Welcome to the Geography Award: Volcanoes!

For this Geography Award, you will cover geographical enquiry and fieldwork skills, location and place knowledge and physical processes.

Here, Mr Andrews’ avatar introduces you to this Geography Award.

You will:

• Investigate The Ring of Fire
• Learn how to use 6-figure grid reference to locate volcanoes around the world
• Compare and contrast volcanoes
• Plan an expedition to a volcano
• Find out how volcanoes work
• Study one of the most dramatic geographical moments in history.

For each lesson, you will be required to do some research, make notes as you watch videos, answer questions (multiple choice, short answers and longer answers and demonstrate your understanding.

Throughout this project, there will be suggestions on how you might present your work. WAGOLLs will also be provided for each lesson.

‘Volcanoes’ Knowledge Organiser

Ask your teacher to provide you with a ‘Volcanoes’ Knowledge Organiser.

The Knowledge Organiser outlines the essential knowledge that will be covered in this project.

The online quiz should be accessed multiple times to help secure knowledge and recall basic facts and concepts.

Once the quiz is complete the marks will be released. You should aim to get full marks. The quiz can be accessed time and time again.

Welcome to the Creative Computing Award

This award is about developing your digital, enterprise and other skills you will require for life. Through a series of online challenges, you can win digital awards to help you stand out from the crowd!

For this award, Mr Andrews will introduce the Creative Computing Award.

iDEA Bronze Award

During your time in Year 6, you will take a number of online challenges. The challenges are split into five main categories, each with its own series of badges to be won – citizen, worker, maker, entrepreneur and gamer. As well as being fun, these badges will help you show off what you’ve learned.

When you’ve taken enough badges in each of the categories, you will be able to earn an Award.

On completion of this digital award, you will receive a certificate from the Duke of York, Buckingham Palace.

Once you have achieved the Bronze Award from iDEA, simply complete the short quiz questions and evaluation to earn 40 credits.