Year 6 Weekly Home Learning 9/05/24

IT’S THE FINAL PUSH …

The children are very clear about what they need to do and the areas that they need to develop. Please look at the ‘How to Help Your Child’ button on the Year 6 page. There are lots of resources for the children to access as well as the revision boxes that are in the classroom.

READING- Have a go at the short reading task. Please also ensure you’re reading for AT LEAST 40 minutes per day.

GPS- Have a go at the revision map I have sent you, focus on the sentence functions.

There may be other areas you want to go over that you have identified from the last papers you completed.

OPTIONAL BUT WOULD BE GOOD TO LOOK AT:

Year 6 Weekly Home Learning 2.05.24

IT’S THE FINAL PUSH …

The children are very clear about what they need to do and the areas that they need to develop. Please look at the ‘How to Help Your Child’ button on the Year 6 page. There are lots of resources for the children to access as well as the revision boxes that are in the classroom.

Maths: Please have a go and complete the maths reasoning paper. You could do this along side an adult or do it to the time- it should take you 40 minutes to complete the test.

READING- Please complete the SAT’s reading paper- some of you definitely need to practise this paper to ensure you complete the test in one hour.

GPS- Have a go at the revision map on punctuation I have sent you.

There may be other areas you want to go over that you have identified from the last paper you completed.

OPTIONAL

Year 6 Home Learning 25.04.24

With just 2 weeks until the end of year assessments, we have ramped up learning in class. The children are very clear about what they need to do and the areas that they need to develop. Please look at the ‘How to Help Your Child’ button on the link below. There are lots of resources for the children to access as well as the revision boxes that are in the classroom.

GPS

I have prepared a revision map word class sheet for you to have a go at. Once you have completed this, you will soon see any areas that you need to work on at identifying certain word classes. Once you have found the areas you found difficult, why not go to IXL to practise this!

Maths

Please complete the example reasoning SAT’s style word problems.

Keep practising your long divisions at home. I have left the video on to remind you.

Spellings

SPELLING FOCUS - i before e, except after c. This is a really tricky rule! Focus on it.

What other spelling rules do you need to revise?

cashier, priest, mischief, deceive, receipt, mischief, believe, brief, niece, diesel, hygiene, fierce, siege, grief, receive, perceive, inconceivable, yield, efficient, conscience

2) Below is a list of the Year 5 and 6 word list that children are expected to be able to spell by the end of Year 6. Why not take a look at them and see how many you know how to spell? How many do you know you need to work on?

Mrs Barker’s group spellings …

let’s focus on the ‘ou’ sound.

touch, young, double, trouble, couple, country, cousin, courage,

OPTIONAL IXL STRANDS TO REINFORCE THIS WEEK’S LEARNING

HALF TERMLY OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING

In line with our new homework policy, each class will now have some optional tasks in addition to the set reading, spelling and Maths. Year 6 homework will look slightly different to other classes, as the need for reinforcement and revision is crucial on the run up to SAT’s, but then in Summer 2 term will follow the structure outlined on Mrs Gregan’s blog last week. The optional tasks below are for the whole term, some will build on previous learning and others will enrich this half term’s learning. Please click on the link below to view the tasks for this term. You can do these in homework books, as photos, powerpoints or however you like.

Year 6 Home Learning 17.04.24

READING

Please have a go at the short reading comprehension.

Maths

This week we have continued our work on percentages. Please have a go at the example SAT’s percentage questions provided.

Long division- Please complete the division questions using our long division strategy. This week our focus is just on 4 digits divided by 2 digits. Thanks to some more of our wonderful helpers who have prepared a short video to help you remember the strategy …

Spellings

This week’s spelling focus are abstract nouns. We need to know what abstract nouns are for our SPAG and let’s learn how to spell them… Maybe you could think of some more abstract nouns with your grown ups? Remember to practice these throughout the week and to complete the quiz on Purple Mash.

2) Below is a list of the Year 5 and 6 word list that children are expected to be able to spell by the end of Year 6. Why not take a look at them and see how many you know how to spell? How many do you know you need to work on?

Mrs Barker’s group spellings …

Let’s look at the rule… ‘i before e except after c’

deceive, conceive, receive, perceive, ceiling, receipt,

HALF TERMLY OPTIONAL HOME LEARNING

In line with our new homework policy, each class will now have some optional tasks in addition to the set reading, spelling and Maths. Year 6 homework will look slightly different to other classes, as the need for reinforcement and revision is crucial on the run up to SAT’s, but then in Summer 2 term will follow the structure outlined on Mrs Gregan’s blog last week. The optional tasks below are for the whole term, some will build on previous learning and others will enrich this half term’s learning. Please click on the link below to view the tasks for this term. You can do these in homework books, as photos, powerpoints or however you like.

Year 6 Home Learning 11.04.24

READING

Lots of reading please- let’s get quizzing!

Maths

This week we have looked at percentages. Please have a go at the following IXL strand to revisit your learning.

T3 Convert fractions to percents using grid models

T4Convert between percents, fractions and decimals

Then please complete the arithmetic booklet. This can be either completed independently to a time (30 minutes) or alongside a grown up where you can discuss the strategies and methods you use- you must decide what is going to be most beneficial for you.

Spellings

This week’s spelling focus are words that contain a double consonant. Remember to practice these throughout the week and to complete the quiz on Purple Mash.

Optional revision:

1) Why don’t use look at the pronouns sections in IXL English GG PRONOUNS. We have been doing this in class so it would be great to reinforce!

2) Below is a list of the Year 5 and 6 word list that children are expected to be able to spell by the end of Year 6. Why not take a look at them and see how many you know how to spell? How many do you know you need to work on?

Year 6 Home Learning 28.03.24

Message to Parents

This year really is flying! The children are being asked to work incredibly hard in class and our pace of learning is incredible. As always, the children are rising to every challenge that they are being set.

After this week, we have 6 weeks until our assessment week. Maintaining a balanced curriculum is really important. They have to experience learning in all of the other subjects as well as the increased focus on Maths and English. There has been huge progress made in these areas because the children are so motivated and determined to do well.

Intrinsic motivation and the children being determined to succeed will inevitably lead to their success. Effort breeds success.

Please do get in touch if you need any more support.

REVISION FOR OVER THE EASTER HOLIDAYS

SPELLING - Revise all of your spellings from your spelling book. Which words are you finding tricky? Is there a particular rule? Can you re-learn some of the spellings you have got wrong in your quizzes?

GPS - You have a paper to work through at home. Are you comfortable with all concepts? What could you research further? Could you use IXL for further consolidation?

MATHS - I have given you a reasoning paper to have a go at over the holidays, reason your way through this along side an adult for support. I have added White Rose Home Learning to the button below. You can watch videos to help you in any area of maths that you are not sure about.

Please keep our precentage work ticking over ready to take off where we started after the holidays, by having a go at the following IXL strands:

T1 What percentage is illustrated?

T2 Understanding percents: bar models

READING - Please make sure you are reading every day over half term and be ready to quiz when you come back!

Year 6 Home Learning 21.03.24

Homework is now due back on Wednesdays

Maths

  1. This week it has been all about the fractions- please complete the multiplying fractions sheet to reinforce what we have been doing in class.

2. Complete the following IXL strands:

N 17 Multiply two fractions

N 24 Divide fractions by whole numbers

Spellings

This week’s spelling focus are words that we have already learnt this half term, so let’s see whether we have remembered them! Remember to pratise these throughout the week and to complete the quiz on Purple Mash.

 

Mrs Barker’s Group

Begin below between both city close country

Grammar

This week we have been learning about prepositions and determiners! Please complete the example SAT questions on prepositions and complete the following IXL strands:

LL 1. Identify prepositions

LL 2. Identify prepositions and their objects

Have a go at the following determiners game:



Year 6 Home Learning 14.03.24

Homework is now due back on Wednesdays

Maths

  1. Please could you continue to pracitce converting and telling the time, this is a life skill that needs to be practised. Could you please complete the word problems on time- remember what we say in class ‘when dealing with time, use a number line!’.

2. Could you also complete the arithmetic sheet.

Spellings

This week’s spelling focus are words ending in ‘ance’. Remember to pratice these thoghout the week and to complete the quiz on Purple Mash.

Mrs Barker’s Group

try turn went why world along

Reading
Please continue reading at home for AT LEAST 20 minutes each night.

Please complete the short comprehension sheet on the ‘The first man on the moon’. This is great practice to improve your fluency and comprehension skills so please take the time to complete it carefully.

Year 6 Home Learning 7.3.24

Homework is now due back on Wednesdays

Maths

During our feedback sesions it was clear that some children need to revise and practice telling the time and converting time between anolgue and digital and 12hour to 24 hour clock. Please use the folowing website to help you and then complete the worksheets provided. If you need to spend more time on this then please ask a grown up to help you.

Spellings

This week’s spelling focus are words from the Year 6 Statutory word list. There is a quiz for you to complete on PurpleMash.

Mrs Barker’s Group

circle maybe angle whenever therefore exclaimed

Reading
Please continue reading at home for 20 minutes each night, the children are making good progress towards their reading targets.

The Bible

This week, as we head towards World Book Day, the most important book of all, centred around our faith is the bible. Can you read a story together from the Bible? Can you retell the story to a friend?

Year 6 Home Learning

Homework is now due back on Wednesdays

Maths

In Maths this week we have focused on converting mixed fractions and improper fractions- please reinforce this learning with these IXL strands.

L8- Mixed numbers

L9-Convert between improper fractions and mixed numbers

Spellings

This week’s spelling focus are words where you need to double the consonant. There is a quiz for you to complete on PurpleMash.

Maybe you could have a go at completing these sentences in your book- not compulsory but to check your undertsanding!

Mrs Barker’s Group

read should spell still study such

Reading

Well done - many of the children have already starting making progress towards their reading target this half term. When was your last 100% score? Have you made it into our 100% club yet?
Please continue reading at home for 30 minutes each night, it really does make a difference!

Kindness Homework

Now we have swapped lenten boxes with our Reception partners, what can you do at home this week to add money to our box? All money collected this year will go to CAFOD.

Year 6 Home Learning 23.02.24

Maths

Please get on TT Rockstars this week and speed up with your times tables- some of you are in desperate need! This will HUGELY help you with your fractions work!

Grammar

Many of us are making mistakes when using apostrophes in contractions within our writing- this needs revising and revisiting before lessons next week. Please complete the following IXL strands:

NN.Contractions

  1. Pronoun-verb contractions

  2. Contractions with 'not'

Reading

Please complete the reading comprehension- remember you can do this independently or alongside an adult to help you practice certain strategies.

Spellings

This week’s spelling focus are words ending with ‘ence’ ‘ency’ and ‘ent’. There is a quiz for you to complete on PurpleMash and flash cards if they help you. I have also put an ideas that may help you to learn your spellings below- just another staretgy that will help!

Mrs Barker’s Group

move must need page picture point

Research (due next Thursday)

Can you research William Shakespeare - what information can you find out about him? Then bring back your research after half term please for our English lessons. Think about the following titles: Early life; education; how he became a playwright; late life and legacy

Year 6 Home Learning 9.02.24

Maths

Long division- Please complete the division questions using our new long division strategy. This week our focus is just on 3 digits divided by 2 digits without a remainder. Thanks to our wonderful helpers who have made a short video to help you remember the strategy …

You may need extra practice with short division and you will have a sheet for this, but if you would like to have a go at the long division over the holidays then please do!

Please complete the following IXL strands:

L6 Write fractions in lowest terms

Reading

Please do lots and lots of reading over half term- read independently and read with an adult! Some of us are very behind on our quizzing!

Spellings

We have reflected and the spellings last week were tricky! We are going to give you over half term to learn these …


Mrs Barker’s Group

large learn letter listen men mother

Research (needed for 2nd week back)

Can you research William Shakespeare - what information can you find out about him? Then bring back your research after half term please for our English lessons. Think about the following titles: Early life; education; how he became a playwright; late life and legacy

LET’S GET CREATIVE

Two creative tasks for you to do over half term:

  1. Can you design and make a special lenten box for your Reception partner. This needs to be a specially designed and decorated container that you can give to your partner the first week back after half term ready for them to take home and collect money during lent for our chosen charity. Think about what your partner likes and what their interests are, this may help you when planning what to do- refer to your partners card they wrote for you. You could make your box out of any plastic container, cardboard box, it is up to you- just make sure it is fully cleaned out first!

  2. Start thinking about what character you want to become on World Book Day! Be creative with what you have!

Year 6 Home Learning 2.02.24

Spelling

Spelling - this week our focus is on words with a silent ‘t’. There is a Purple Mash quiz set for you annd the flascards should you wish to use them.

Mrs Barker’s Group

large learn letter listen men mother

Reading

Some children have not quized since being back at school after Christmas- please make sure you are reading every night for at least 20 minutes!

Maths

Please complete the TWO practise Maths sheets- one is to consolidate our multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 and the other for long multiplication- we have found we need much more practise as we are forgetting the method!

ENGLISH (final week to complete)

On a piece of paper, or typed up, please could you write a biography on an inspirational person of your choice. Please remember all of the tools we need to include in a biography:

Year 6 Home Learning 26.01.24

Spelling

Spelling - Homophones- words that are easily confused. Please check the meaning of each of the words. You may also want to use these word in sentences so that you fully understand the words meaning and when the correct spelling would be used. There is a quiz for you to complete on PURPLE MASH.

Mrs Barker’s Group

hand high home house kind land

Reading

Some children have not quized since being back at school after Christmas- plese make sure you are reading every night for at least 20 minutes!

Maths

Please complete the IXL strand L1: Fractions and go on TT Rockstars a lot this week! Be good if you could try for 10/15 minutes a day.

ENGLISH (two week homework)

On a piece of paper, or typed up, please could you write a biography on an inspirational person of your choice. Please remember all of the tools we need to include in a biography:

Year 6 Weekly Home Learning 19.01.24

SPELLING: This week our focus is on words ending with ‘cial’. Once you have practiced there is also a Purple Mash quiz set for you to test yourself at home. I have also set a 2Do on Purple Mash, where you will find some downloadable flash cards, that may help you if you want to print them off:

Mrs Barker’s Spelling Group

tell end England even found hand

MATHS:

Complete the worksheet in books practicing your multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000.

GRAMMAR:

Please complete the semi colons sheet in your books.

Rosa Parks

This needs to be in school or on Purple Mash for Monday please as we need the research for our writing.

Please research Rosa Parks ready to write a biography on her in English lessons next week. Think about the following titles:

  • Early life and family

  • Education and working life

  • Experiencing Injustice

  • Fight against persecution

  • Later life and legacy


Year 6 Weekly Home Learning 12.01.24

SPELLING:This week our focus is on words ending with ‘cious’. Once you have practised there is also a Purple Mash quiz set for you to test yourself at home. I have also set a 2Do on Purple Mash, where you will find some downlaodable flash cards, that may help you if you want to print them off:

Mrs Barker’s Spelling Group

Answer away because change different does

MATHS:

Complete the following IXL strands on adding fractions with the same denominator:

M2 Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator using number lines

M3 Add and subtract fractions with the same denominator

ENGLISH

This needs to be in school on Tuesday, as the research you do will be used in class to aid your writing in class. I have set a Purple Mash to do for you and we can print this at school to go in your book.

Please research Rosa Parks ready to write a biography on her in English lessons next week. Think about the following titles:

  • Early life and family

  • Education and working life

  • Experiencing Injustice

  • Fight against persecution

  • Later life and legacy

Year 6 Home Learning

For homework over Christmas I would like you just to relax, make memories with your families and re-charge those batteries ready for another busy term.

However, the one thing we would ask is that you do lots of reading over the holidays!

It would be great if you could go to the library and borrow a couple of Biographies, as we will be writing our own when we come back! This will help you to gather certain vocabulary and get used to the style of writing, as well of course as being extremely interesting learning about the lives of others!

Here are some websites that you can download free biographies from incase you can’t get to the library:

https://freekidsbooks.org/subject/childrens-book-biography/

https://www.getepic.com/collection/37559/biography

https://www.ducksters.com/biography/

Year 6 Home Learning 15.12.23

Spelling

This week our focus is on the PREFIXES ‘sub’ and ‘mis’. Both of these prefixes are from Latin origins- can you tell us next week what the meaning of these prefixes are? How does that help you understand unfamiliar words? Next week we will be asking each of you for three words with each of these prefixes.

Please complete the IXL strands U3 and U4.

Your quiz will be picked from random on words with these prefixes so just do your best!

Library books …

On Monday I will be asking you if there are any books for series that you would like to see in our school library- have a think over the weekend what books you want and we will try to get them!

Maths

Please complete the IXL strands on comparing numbers.

A 11 Put numbers in order: up to one million

A 12 Put numbers in order: up to ten million

ENGLISH

It is all about Walt Disney next week. This weekend could you watch a NEW Disney film that you haven’t seen before or even one you have already watched!

OPTIONAL : If you want to write want to write a film review of this and add it to our working wall then please do!

Christmas songs.

Keep practicing the songs for your Christmas Concert and your words- make sure you are speaking them slowly, clearly and loudly enough.


Year 6 Weekly Home Learning 8.12.23

SPELLING:Another week of CONSOLIDATING the spellings that we have previosuly learnt. This should be easier and give you another chance of getting any incorrect ones another try! We will only quiz you on 10 random ones from this list. Once you have practised there is also a Purple Mash quiz set for you to test yourself at home. I have also set a 2Do on Purple Mash, where you will find some downlaodable flash cards, that may help you if you want to print them off:

Mrs Barker’s Spelling Group

work year again air animal another

Science

Please complete the ‘Animal Habitats Adaptations’ quiz on Purple Mash.

It’s that time of year again …

URGENT- Please continue to practise and know your lines off by heart. Remember to ensure your speak clearly, loudly and with expression.

Also, please practise and learn this final song for our Chrsitmas Concert…

Year 6 Weekly Home Learning 1.12.23

SPELLING: this week we are CONSOLIDATING the spellings that we have previosuly learnt. This should be easier and give you another chance of getting any incorrect ones another try! Once you have practised there is also a Purple Mash quiz set for you to test yourself at home. I have also set a 2Do on Purple Mash, where you will find some downlaodable flash cards, that may help you if you want to print them off:

Mrs Barker’s Spelling Group

thing think three through very want

MATHS:

Let’s practice our place value skills with the short quiz on Purple Mash- please find the 2Do!

Continue practising speeding up your recall on halving and numbes bonds to 100 or decimals- such a vital skill we need to approach deeper learning- keep trying to beat your score!

Science (two weeks to complete for our display)

This week we have started our topic on evolution, inheritance and adaptations. Next week we will be looking at inhetited characteristics that we get from our family. For homework, I would like you to please find a photograph of a family member or members who show these inherited characterisitcs… this photograph will be displayed in class so make sure we are ok to use this! Could you also write a few sentences/ paragraph on what inheirted characteristics you have from parent or grandparents!

It’s that time of year again …

URGENT- Please could you learn your lines that you now have- would be great if you knew this off by heart for next week’s rehearsal! Also, please practise and learn the next three songs off by heart for our Chrsitmas Concert…