Year 6
Week Beginning 21st April
The children have been a credit to everyone this term and we are so proud of everything they have achieved. May we wish you all a very Happy Easter with your families.
Important dates and messages:
Worship theme of the week:
Responsibility
Colossians 3:23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for me
What does responsibility mean? Who or what are you responsible for?
Becoming responsible citizens means being people who can be trusted to do their best for the good of others.
Being responsible means being prepared to stand up on behalf of others and act and speak for them.
Being responsible means that others can expect you to make a sensible ‘response’ in a situation – you won’t just give up or stay quiet. You will be ready to act.
- When do we act responsibly?
- Where does responsibility lie for ethical issues?
- Do we recognise that responsibility for learning and achievement lies with each of us as individuals?
- How do we take responsibility for our environment?
- Are we given responsibility to help make decisions for our school?
Curriculum
In RE, we will be exploring revelation in Islam.
In computing, we will be looking at the importance of online consent in our E-Safety lesson.
In geography, we will be learning about how to locate countries in Europe.
In Art, we will be studying the work of Banksy.
Destination reader
This term, we will be reading 'Holes' written by Louis Sachar.
Other news:
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PPA Days - PPA Days will be every other Friday and children should come in wearing PE kits.
- PE every Friday - Children should wear their PE kits every Friday.
Homework
- Project overview and Project homework - please find links to the relevant information below.
- MyMaths - we will be setting MyMaths tasks during the first week back.
- Reading books - we would like to remind everyone to have a reading book in school - this can be a school or home book. We would like all children to be able to share recommendations and reviews of what we have read recently. We are displaying books that we've read in the classroom to get children talking about the stories they love and to inspire others to try new titles.
- Reading records - All children should now have a blue reading record in which they can record how often they are reading. They will receive one raffle ticket if they read three times a week and two if they read more than five. At the end of each term, we will be drawing a raffle. There are activities in the reading records that can be completed at home for fun!
Best wishes,
Year 6 Team.
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.