Year 6

Please use this Home Guide to support any work that you may choose to do with your child at home. The idea behind the guide is to provide parents with suggestions for activities that will reinforce the learning taking place at school. Please go through this with your child. It contains information about what we are covering this term, including:

Literacy:
Spellings for the term. Children will have a spelling test each week on Friday.
We also include information about work we are covering in class.

Maths:
A summary of the topics we are covering this term, and a list of the multiplication and division tables we expect the children to know. In addition, to help consolidate class work in preparation for SATs in May, your child will take home a workbook appropriate to their level and we will tell them which page to work on each week to give extra practice. These are for their own use and the answers are provided at the back of the book. The work need not be returned to school but if your child has any difficulties of course they may bring the book in to ask for help.

Science:
A summary of topics and related vocabulary and links to interesting websites.

There will be some activities and links to websites you may find useful for other curriculum areas.

Maths
In Maths this half term we will be revising and consolidating the four number operations.
The relationship between multiplication and division.
Halving and doubling
Approximation and word problems

Passport to Numeracy
We are also continuing 'Passport to Numeracy' which is designed to improve number skills and rapid recall of number facts

Multiplication and Division Tables:
- By the end of year 6, children are expected to know all multiplication and division tables. Please use the copy of the multiplication & division tables included to help your child learn these.
- They are very valuable tools for quick mental calculation. When learning or revising these, it is helpful to recite aloud each segment.
E.g.: “One times five is five, five divided by five is one.
            Two times five is ten, ten divided by five is two.”
- This is more effective than children just saying “five, ten, fifteen, etc.”!

ICT
In ICT we will be learning about e-safety, digital research and control technology and will be working on an exciting multimedia projectexciting project with the City Learning Centre involving film, photography and music.

E-safety
www.thinkuknow.co.uk/8_10/

Touch typing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/

A slightly annoying but useful free site to speed up typing.

Science
Our science topic this half term will be Interdependence and Adaptation 
This covers how plants and animals depend upon each other and adapt to suit their environment and changing conditions.
Here are some useful links:

http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/thezone/animals/life/index.htm

http://www.teachers-direct.co.uk/resources/quiz-busters/quiz-busters-game.aspx?game_id=4490

Learn this vocabulary

plant
growth


fertiliser


nutrients


consumer


producer


predator


prey


food chain
key


suited


plant food


produces


identify


habitats


life processes



Use a dictionary to find out what the words mean.

Literacy

This term we will be concentrating on the features of different writing genres both fiction and non-fiction.

We will be doing a weekly comprehension and studying ‘Skellig’ by David Almond. Although some children may already be familiar with this book and the film we would ask that you do not read this with your child in advance as this can not only confuse them but also make the teaching of higher reading skills such as prediction, inference and deduction impossible! All reading will be done in the class followed by discussion and planned activities related to the text

This term we will be concentrating on the features of different writing genres both fiction and non-fiction.

We will be doing a weekly comprehension and studying ‘Skellig’. Although some children may already be familiar with this book and the film we would ask that you do not read this with your child in advance as this can not only confuse them but also make the teaching of higher reading skills such as prediction, inference and deduction impossible! All reading will be done in the class followed by discussion and planned activities related to the text.

History

We will be studying the Tudors this term. We will be learning about the wives of Henry VIII, Tudor monarchs, the lives of the rich and poor and exploration in Tudor times. We are also planning a trip to Southwark Cathedral to learn about the dissolution of the monasteries and illuminated manuscripts.

http://www.tudorbritain.org/