Read at least 3 times and ask an adult to sign your reading diary to confirm.
Learn your spellings. Complete detailed sentences and definitions in your homework book.
Complete the division maths homework – children will choose either the 1*, 2* or 3* challenge to practise short division method.
Due to the changes in the Literacy curriculum children in Year 6 are expected to be secure with all KS2 spellings. There will be no choice of spellings, in terms of degree of difficulty. All children, of all abilities, need to learn the following for next week:
actually extreme
certain height
history imagine
increase island
important accident
Please support your child to ensure spellings are recorded as accurately as possible in their homework books and they present their homework to a high standard. Also, there are no proper nouns, therefore there is no need for capitals apart from sentence work.
Read at least 3 times and ask an adult to sign your reading diary to confirm.
Learn your spellings. Complete detailed sentences and definitions in your homework book.
Complete maths activity – column multiplication – solve questions using formal method
Learn words for Harvest year group song – preparation for Harvest celebration in church on 18th October.
Maths homework is using column method and is set out as a 1*, 2* and 3* activity. Children will choose an appropriate challenge to bring home.
To support with understanding definitions for spellings, the ‘Collins Children’s Cobuild Dictionary’ is a very useful tool. There is an online version available.
Due to the changes in the Literacy curriculum children in Year 6 are expected to be secure with all KS2 spellings. There will be no choice of spellings, in terms of degree of difficulty. All children, of all abilities, need to learn the following for next week:
business certain
enough February
forwards guide
naughty popular
strength various
There is one word that requires a capital but the others MUST have lower case letters!
Read at least 3 times and ask an adult to sign your reading diary to confirm.
Complete the times tables activity. This is not a gird activity, there are a handful of random times table questions to solve.
Learn your spellings. Complete detailed sentences and definitions in your homework book.
Complete the activity on subordinate clause sentences. This is a one star, two star, three star activity, therefore, your child has chosen a challenge.
Subordinate clauses start with a subordinating conjunction. The children have been using I SAW A WABUB to help them remember some of the most common conjunctions:if, since, as when, although, while, after, before, until, because
All afternoon the children have been completing different themed activities to practise their French. The children in lower school have enjoyed the following:
Geography of France
Watching some French TV
Playing number games
Learning songs
Reading stories
Alphabet games.
Children in upper school have enjoyed the following:
Playing Guess Who?
Reading stories
Singing Songs
Watching French TV
Playing number games
Performing a short poem
Well done to everyone taking part this afternoon!
Miss Sherry
exercise experience
separate history
disappear possible
notice occasion
often reign
The homework for this week is as follows:
Read at least 3 times and ask an adult to sign your reading diary to confirm.
Learn your spellings. Complete detailed sentences and definitions in your homework book.
Use the picture and write a story about what is happening. Remember to focus on sentence structure, conjunctions and descriptive language.
The words this week are the following:
caught
century
busy
decide
difficult
centre
heart
continue
minute
consider
Encourage your children not to use capital letters inappropriately as this will impact on assessments later on in the year. Unless a word requires a capital letter it should always be in lower case.
Many thanks,
Year 6 team
Year 6 this week are being asked to complete the following homework:
1. Read at least 3 times to an adult and ask the adult to sign the reading record. Encourage your children to add their own comments also.
2. Learn spellings. Complete detailed sentences and write definitions of each spelling word in the list.
3. Complete the maths sheet on factors. We have worked on factors this week. Children need to use their tables knowledge to identify pairs of factors for the numbers given.
For example: 45 – 1, 3, 5, 9, 15, 45
Have a good weekend!
Year 6 team
Newport C.E. Junior School
Avenue Road,
Newport,
Shropshire
TF10 7EA
Tel: 01952 386600
Head Teacher: Mrs Nicola Moody
School Business Manager: Lesley Green
