Year 6

Class 6: The Sensational Sixes

Welcome to the Year 6 page 2019-2020

Keep up to date with all that is happening in class by following our twitter feed:

Netherwood Transition Information

For the attention parents or carers of Year 6 students moving onto Netherwood Academy

Home learning for Summer 2 half term

Hey Year 6!

I hope you are all well and staying safe! From Monday 8th June until the Summer holidays, home learning will be accessed through the following link:

Oak National Academy – Year 6

We are starting our online learning on Week 7 (8th June). The link allows you to access 1 literacy, 1 Maths, 1 topic and PE session every day, Monday – Friday.

Any questions, please do not hesitate to email me – j.butterwood@smat.org.uk

Happy home learning 🙂 Please continue to send me pictures of your learning via email!

Online resources while school is closed

Prodigy Maths Guide

https://www.funbrain.com/books

Here is a list of links for catchy songs that will help your children learn their times tables: Timestable songs

Here is a good website, that allows you to read a range of books online for free!

Fun brain: https://www.funbrain.com/books

Happy reading! 🙂

Supporting well-being and understanding while school is closed

Virus Social Story

Virus understanding for children

Here is a link that contains a free book explaining Covid-19 and social distancing in a child friendly manner:

https://www.flipsnack.com/CSKidsBooks/what-s-going-on.html

Messages and updates while school is closed

A message from Reece

A message from Mrs.Buffon

School work/tasks while school is closed

Week 1 of closure:

History Projects W.C 23.3.20

Y6 Reading booklets W.C 23.3.20

Y6 Reading Questions W.C 23.3.20

Y6 Reading Answers W.C 23.3.20

Mathematics W.C 23.3.20

Arithmetic W.C 23.3.20

Spelling and Grammar W.C 23.3.20 w. answers

Home Learning – MFL

Week 2 of closure:

History Projects W.C 30.03.20

Y6 Non Fiction Reading Text

Y6 Non Fiction Questions

Y6 Non Fiction Answers

Y6 Fiction Reading Text

Y6 Fiction Questions

Y6 Fiction Answers

Maths.Rounding W.C. 30.03.20

Maths.10.100.1000 x and divide W.C. 30.03.20

Maths. Percentages W.C. 30.03.20

Y6 Spelling and Grammar W.C 30.03.30

Week 3 of closure (After Easter Break):

Reading Text W.C.20.4.20

Reading Answer Booklet W.C.20.4.20

Reading Mark Scheme W.C.20.4.20

History-Projects-W.C-20.4.20

Maths.Perimeter.W.C.20.4.20

Maths.Angles.W.C.20.4.20

Maths.Addition.Subtraction.Problems.W.C.20.4.20

Spelling and Grammar W.C. 20.4.20 w.answers

Week 4 of closure:

History-Projects-W.C-27.4.20

Reading Task 1 w.c. 27.4.20

Reading Task 2 w.c. 27.4.20

Maths Arithmetic w.c. 27.4.20

Maths Co-ordinates w.c. 27.4.20

Maths Statistics w.c. 27.4.20

Spelling and Grammar w.c. 27.4.20

Week 5 of closure:

Reading Task 1 W.C.04.05.20

Reading Task 2 W.C.04.05.20

Maths Arithmetic W.C.04.05.20

Maths Unit Conversions W.C.04.05.20

Maths Challenge Mixed W.C.04.05.20

Grammar and Spelling W.C.04.05.20

Creative Writing Task 1 W.C.04.05.20

Creative Writing Task 2 W.C.04.05.20

Week 6 of closure:

Reading Task 1 W.C.11.05.20

Reading Task 2 W.C.11.05.20

Creative Writing Task 1 W.C.11.05.20

Creative Writing Task 2 W.C.11.05.20

Time Capsule Activity Booklet

Choose Objects to Put in a Time Capsule Activity

A Letter to My Future Self

Grammar Task W.C.11.05.20

Maths Arithmetic W.C.11.05.20

Maths Money W.C.11.05.20

Maths Mixed Challenge W.C.11.05.20

Week 7 of closure:

Reading Task 1 W.C.18.05.20

Reading Task 2 W.C.18.05.20

Reading Task 3 W.C.18.05.20

Grammar and Punctuation W.C.18.05.20

Maths Arithmetic W.C.18.05.20

Maths Sequences W.C.18.05.20

Maths Shape W.C.18.05.20

Science-Projects-W.C-18.05.20

Week 8 Home Learning

Arithmetic W.C. 01.06.20

Decimals W.C. 01.06.20

Time Problems W.C. 01.06.20

Creative Tasks W.C. 01.06.20

Writing Tasks W.C.01.06.20

Monday – Synonyms and Antonyms

Friday – Past and Present Tense

Daily Reading – Roman Rescue 1

Daily Reading – Roman Rescue 1 Adult Guidance and Answers

Daily Reading – Roman Rescue 2 Adult Guidance and Answers

Daily Reading – Roman Rescue 2

Daily Reading – Roman Rescue 3

Daily Reading – Roman Rescue 3 Adult Guidance and Answers

History Hackers Roman Rescue ebook

Week 9 Home Learning

Arithmetic W.C. 08.06.20

Factors and Primes W.C. 08.06.20

Inrepreting Data W.C. 08.06.20

Stig of the Dump Chapter 1 – Questions and Answers

Stig of the Dump Chapter 2 (Part One) – Questions and Answers

Stig of the Dump Chapter 2 (Part Two) – Questions and Answers

Writing Tasks – grid

Creative Tasks

Week 10 Home Learning

Add.Subtract.Fractions.Arithmetic.W.C.15.06.20

Add.Subtract.Fractions.Reasoning.W.C.15.06.20

Compare.Order.Fractions.W.C.15.06.20

Maths.Detective.Game.Challenge.W.C.15.06.20

Maths.Detective.Game.W.C.15.06.20

Reading Booklet W.C.15.06.20

Reading Answer Booklet W.C.15.06.20

Creative Tasks – grid

Writing Tasks – grid

Week 11 Home Learning

maths area and perimeter

maths answers area and perimeter

maths converting metric measures

maths answers converting metric measures

maths converting miles and km

maths answers miles and km

Reading Task. The Way of the Dodo

Reading Task. Treasure Island

Writing Task. Supporting Year 5 Transition

Writing Tasks – grid

Creative Tasks – grid

Week 12 Home Learning

Maths. Arithmetic. BODMAS. W.C 29.06.20

Maths. Sequencing number patters. W.C.29.06.20

Writing. Mystery narrative W.C 29.06.20

Reading Skellig Chapter 1 Questions W.C. 29.06.20

Creative Theme Learning

Week 13 Home Learning

Mathematics Mixed Operations W.C.06.07.20

Mathematics Missing Digit Problems W.C.06.07.20

Reading Acitivity Booklet W.C.06.07.20

Writing Uplevel Vocabulary W.C.06.07.20

Science W.C.06.07.20

Science Example Habitats W.C.06.07.20

Spelling and Grammar Questions W.C.06.07.20

Spelling and Grammer Answers W.C.06.07.20

Curriculum

Our Topics covered this year will be:

Year 6 Curriculum Overview

You can help your child by:

Encourage your child to read around the current topic studied and complete homework
Use topic knowledge organisers (below) to support content understanding

Year 6 Knowledge Organisers

Knowledge Organiser Roman History Year 6 Autumn

Knowledge Organiser. WWII History Y6 Spring

Our Writing genres covered this year will be:

Year 6 Writing Genres

You can help your child by:

Encourage your child to read and discuss reading at home (minimum 3 times per week)
Support completion of Grammar and Punctuation Homework
Encourage and support your child to learn their weekly spelling rule

Our Mathematics topics this year will be:

Maths Content Coverage

You can help your child by:

Encourage your child to practise multiplication tables and mathematical method

Homework is set on:

Friday and to be returned the following Friday
Spellings are given on Monday and are to be practised throughout the week
Homework can be emailed to Mr Butterwood j.butterwood@smat.org.uk

Y6 Autumn 1 Homework

Y6 Autumn 2 Homework

Y6 Spring 1 Homework

Reading Expectations:

Read with an adult or to yourself (parent’s signature required) at least 3 x per week.
Complete a reading response activity or a selected Journal Activity
Completing the above will enable your child to receive their Reading Challenge Stars

Reading Journal Activities Autumn

Reading Journal Activities Spring

Our Spellings

Every half term your child will be expected to learn around 15 common exception words.

Find these in the links below:

Autumn 1 All Spellings

Autumn 1 Common Exception Words

Autumn 2 Weekly Spellings

Autumn 2 Common Exception words

Spring 1 Common Exception Words

Spring 1 Weekly Spellings

Other important information:

PE kits will be required on *updated Spring* Monday – Children come to school wearing them.

If you would like to discuss any of these aspects further feel free to make an appointment.

Thank You,

Mr.Butterwood Mrs.Buffon Mrs.Sykes

Archived content Class 6: The Outstanding Emojis

Welcome to the year 6 page.

Keep up to date with all that is happening in class by following our twitter feed:

Curriculum

Our Topics covered this year will be:

A Taste of Britain

Using maps to locate the different regions within Britain
Discussing and sharing your view on what Britain was like for you in the past

Enterprise Project

Using skills to plan and make Autumn themed crafts
Encouraging children to think of creative business ideas

A Piece of History – The Roman Empire

Reading and discussing modern history using the website link provided
Researching key historical figures that have influenced the past

The War Room – Words War II

Reading and discussing modern history using the website link provided
Prompting children to ask questions about the past

Video Star

Reflecting on your child’s time at school
Discussing the things they would like to look back on

In Literacy the genres we will be covering are:

Modern stories / stories with modern settings
Short stories with flashbacks
Author studies – Rosemary Sutcliffe, Kate DiCamillo
Classical texts
Descriptive writing
Classical Poetry
Persuasive – speeches, advertisements and formal letters
Recounts – Biography and autobiography, news reports (radio/television) and contrasting diaries
Journalistic writing
Balanced arguments – speeches and newspaper/magazine articles
Information texts/report – Consumer product reports/product reviews

You can help your child by:

Encourage your child to read and discuss reading at home (minimum 3 times per week)
Support completion of Grammar and Punctuation Homework
Encourage and support your child to learn their weekly spelling rule

In Maths we will be covering the objectives for year 6:

These can be found at

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-mathematics-programmes-of-study/national-curriculum-in-england-mathematics-programmes-of-study

You can help your child by:

Encourage your child to practise times tables and number facts at home.
Support the completion of Mathematics Homework
We have purchased a subscription to Times Tables Rockstars – please use it at home to support the learning of multiplication facts.
Another Times Table game can be accessed by clicking on the link below:

http://www.mathschase.com/

Homework is set on:

Friday and to be returned the following Wednesday
Spellings are given on Monday and are to be practised throughout the week
Homework can be emailed to Miss Neal at l.neal@smat.org.uk

Other important information:

PE kits will be required on Monday – Children come to school wearing it.
Y6 Residential – 24th to 26th October

If you would like to discuss any of these aspects further feel free to make an appointment.

Thank You,

Miss Neal Mrs Buffon Mrs Griffiths

Homework

This half term’s homework can be found by following the link below:

Year 6 Autumn 2 Homework

Year 6 Autumn 1 Homework

Lot’s of creative homework is happening and we want to provide you with an easy way to share it. Have you just finished making a model? Is your homework a creative project like a science experiment? Any homework that is not in homework books can now be evidenced with a few snaps and emailed to your class teacher! Be as creative as possible and evidence your homework the easy way.

Year 6 Homework Email: l.neal@smat.org.uk