Year6

English

This week in English we are continuing to teach reading and grammar in sets. As a result of this the children will be working on a range of reading comprehension skills and general punctuation. The children will be reading and analysing a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry texts.

What can you do at home to help your child?

Encourage your child to ask if there are parts of the curriculum they do not understand.

Encourage your child to check their work.

The website has some useful revision activities – although some of the resources require subscription, the first 6 days are available without charge.

Use the - although you need to subscribe to access some of the content, there is a sample grammar test and two sample spelling tests available without paying.

The previous papers are aimed at the old curriculum, however may be a useful revision tool. You can use the link look at past S.A.T.s papers. These include all past papers dating back to 2003 with mark schemes and the reading booklet instructions.

Help your child practise the spellings. We are currently working through the spelling rules for Years 5 and 6.

1) relieved

2) brief

3) receive

4) yield

5) deceive

6) fierce

7) science

8) variety

9) achieve

10) thief

11) seize

12) neither

13) height

14) hygiene

15) believe

Maths

This week in Maths we will continue to beworking in sets revising a variety of maths skills.

What can you do at home to help your child?

Encourage your child to ask if there are parts of the curriculum they do not understand.

Practise the arithmetic questions from last year’s paper using myminimaths.

Use the - although you need to subscribe to access some of the content, the first 6 days are available without paying. There is also an example arithmetic paper available here:

 - This will help your child with all aspects of maths.

The previous papers are aimed at the old curriculum, however may be a useful revision tool. Use the link to look at past S.A.T.s papers. These include all past papers dating back to 2003 with mark schemes. Remember however, the older maths papers have a calculator paper, whereas this year there will be no calculator paper and there will also be no mental maths paper. There are very few example arithmetic papers, as this was a new element last year.