Year 6
Week Beginning 24th November
Crikey, one more week until the season of advent begins! We are delighted with how brilliantly our Year 6 children are doing and they have produced some super work so far this term.
As a reminder, you are welcome to come in on Monday, straight after school, to look at your child's books in the classroom. Following on from this, online parents' evenings will take place on Wednesday and Thursday. We look forward to celebrating your child's successes with you!
Worship Theme This Week
Our worship theme this week is: Spirituality
“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
2 Corinthians 3:17
Curriculum news
In maths, we will be continuing with our learning of fractions.
In English, we will be exploring poetry and beginning to write our own emotive war poetry.
In history, we will be piecing learning about the rise of Nazi Germany.
In science, we will be learning about electricity.
In DT, we will learn about the Japanese art of 'Sashiko' and how this links to WW2.
In computing, we will be blogging as a child evacuee.
In RE, we will be looking at the different interpretations of the Christmas story.
My Maths
The My Maths tasks for this term are as follows: Adding subtracting fractions, Multiply decimals by 10 and 100, Comparing fractions, Ordering and simplifying fractions, Equivalent fractions 2, Multiplying decimals by whole numbers, Divide decimals by whole numbers and Multiplying fractions by fractions.
Key dates
Thank you for your continued support!
Mr Slattery and Mrs Clark
Learning as a family in Jesus, through Love, Hope, and Forgiveness.
Matthew 19:26 “With God all things are possible.”
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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.