Year 6
Week Beginning 28th September
Well done Year 6, another great week! You have produced some excellent descriptive writing about London and worked hard in maths when learning about factors, multiples and prime numbers!
We are super proud of everyone who wrote letters and took part in interviews for the Junior Leadership Team; we know that the decision was very tricky for Mr Brown and Mrs Dodd.
Many congratulations to Iris, Victoria, Zara, Nancy, George, Lennox, Rex and Shrikar for forming
the initial Junior Leadership Team of 2026/27!
The homework sheets have now gone home, and we would love to see some more of the children’s fantastic homework brought into school. It would be wonderful to display their work in the classroom and celebrate all of their hard work and creativity!
Please join us in Church on Thursday 1st October for our Harvest Festival service.
This year, instead of Parent Information Evenings, we have also made a welcome video for you to learn all about Year 6. Here it is below:
Children will be going home with their reading records this week – in it, you'll find their logins for My Maths, Purple Mash and Times Tables Rockstars. Furthermore, homework has also been sent home.
Just a reminder that Friday is our PE day, so please ensure children are wearing PE kit.
Worship theme:
Teamwork
Our whole class reading text is: Mortal Engines
Curriculum learning
In English, we will be begin to work on our Mortal Engines chapters.
In maths, we will be working on division, cubed numbers and multiplication.
In art, we will be drawing our own cityscapes.
In science, we will be continuing with our work on classification and looking at vertebrates and invertebrates.
In RE, we will be exploring the question 'What kind of world would Jesus want?' while looking at when Peter denied Jesus.
Our spelling words this week are: changeable, noticeable, knowledgeable, manageable, serviceable, forcible, illegible, eligible, terrible.
The My Maths tasks for this term are as follows: Place value worksheet, Decimal place value, Counting 5, Negative numbers in context, Number and place value 6 - OW, Arithmetic assessment 1, and Mixed assessment 1.
Key dates
Thank you for your continued support!
Mr Slattery and Mrs Clark
Learning as a family in Jesus, through Love, Hope, and Forgiveness.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13
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Below are some resources you can use for optional additional activities if you so wish:
English reading activities
English reading activities should consist of reading an extract or short story and answering questions. Guidance here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Y_67GMkP4
- What are facts and opinions?
- What does an author do?
- What is inference?
2. https://www.everyschool.co.uk/english-key-stage-2-comprehension-2.html
- All activities through this link
3. https://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/reading
- All activities through this link
SPaG – Spelling punctuation and grammar activities
- SPaG exam questions
Your username and password are in the password pack you received from school.
- Apostrophes – Demo 1
- Apostrophes – Demo 2
- Homophone magic
- Is it a noun?
- You should be able to sign up for free and get some free questions.
- Glossary of Grammar terminology
- Grammar and punctuation information- click to be taken to the document
6. Year 5/6 spelling list - Y5 and 6 spelling list
Maths
Remember, MyMaths tasks will be set each week as identified in the weekly web update. Please ensure that you do the tasks set for the week. Remember, you also have access to Timetables Rockstars, too.
Remember, the Maths exam is split into three; one arithmetic paper and two reasoning papers. The arithmetic paper is more calculation based, whereas the reasoning focusses more on the application of these skills.
Arithmetic
https://myminimaths.co.uk/year-6-arithmetic-practice-paper-week-1/ - weekly arithmetic practise, very much in the style of the Year 6 tests.
https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/486/Y6-Arithmetic-Practice - practice arithmetic; select how many questions you want to try.
Daily arithmetic can be downloaded here: 1-4 13-16 17-20 21-24 25-26 27-30 31-34 5-8 9-12.
Reasoning
https://thirdspacelearning.com/blog/year-6-maths-reasoning-questions-answers-ks2-sats/ - List of the different styles of reasoning/problem-solving questions.
https://mathsmadeeasy.co.uk/ks2-revision/maths-made-easy-ks2-sats-practice-papers/ - access to a range of free papers in a very similar style to the tests.
https://www.3minutemaths.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Quicktestreasoningyear6.pdf - Reasoning quick tests
https://thirdspacelearning.com/resources/year-6-rapid-reasoning-weeks-1-6/ - An excellent reasoning resource. You need to sign up for free, but then the download is also free.