Welcome to the Year 6 page!
We are keen to share information about our topics and what we will be learning across the curriculum. Below are links to our current topic overview sheet and our curriculum overview for the term.
The final year of primary school is hugely important for children as they prepare to transition to secondary school. Our approach to teaching, learning and homework is designed to enable children to build their independence. Reading regularly at home is still vitally important for children in year 6 as they continue to expand their vocabulary as well as their understanding of the impact an author’s choices has on a reader. Specific reading comprehension skills are taught in lessons throughout the year and will help children to improve their skills of retrieval, inference and understanding of an author’s intent. Children will continue to practise their times tables as having a rapid, accurate recall of multiplication facts is a fundamental skill required across the maths curriculum.
In addition to the different spelling rules taught in school, children in years 5 & 6 are expected to be able to spell words from the list below.
Home Learning
Children should read a minimum of 3 times a week and record this in their home school diaries. Each week, children will be given a page of maths, reading comprehension and/or SPaG from their CGP books. We also encourage all children to log on to TT Rockstars and LbQ as much as possible.
Learning by Questions (lbq.org)
Maths:
SATS – Key Stage 2 Arithmetic – MathsBot arithmetic practice
Videos and Worksheets – Corbettmaths Primary – How to videos, questions and answers
IXL – Year 6 maths practice– Questions linked to curriculum areas
Problem Solving Games – Free maths games
Grammar:
Rollama– some games require an account, but you can sign up to a free, no obligation, 30 day trial.
Spelling:
EdShed Web Game – Spelling Shed and MathShed
Spelling – Year 6 KS2 English – BBC Bitesize
Lead topics – History: World War Two
Our lead subject this half term is history. As historians, we will be considering the impact that World War Two had on the UK and how it helped shape and change the communities we live in today. Our learning will help us describe the social, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the time, and how these influenced the ideas, attitudes, and experiences of men, women, and children. Throughout this topic, we will use a variety of primary and secondary sources to draw conclusions and evaluate how these help us learn about the war. This will support our development of a ‘critical eye’ in assessing how useful a source is and any biases it may present. This will be particularly useful when examining the role of propaganda art during the war.
KS2 History: World War Two (WW2) (WWII) – BBC Teach
Primary History KS2: World War 2 Clips – BBC Teach
KS2 SATS 12th May – 15th May
Please see below the slides from our SATs Parent meeting and a leaflet published by the Standards and Testing Agency, which provides some further information.
