Welcome to Year 6
Year 6 will be taught by Mrs Dixon and Ms Lightfoot.
If you have any queries or need any assistance please do not hesitate to contact us. You can leave messages for us at the school office, contact us on Class Dojo or talk to us at home time.
Useful Information
PE Kits: Year 6 have PE on a Monday and a Friday. Children should wear their PE kit to school on those days.
Reading: Year 6 children are expected to read independently three times each week, they are able to sign their own planners but we ask that you sign your own initials to confirm that the reading is actually taking place. You can also log any concerns that you may have. Reading diaries are required in school every day. They will be checked on Fridays.
Homework Children will be tested on their times tables throughout the week, their times tables books should be handed in on a Friday. Reading logs are checked every Friday.
Planning and Expectations
Please click below to see our planning and expectations:
SPaG Revision
We have been revising word classes. Here is a guide to the different types of word:
Nouns
Nouns are naming words. They name people, places, things or ideas. There are different types:
Common nouns - general names for people, places or things e.g. dog, cat, boy, house.
Proper nouns - specific names for people, places or things e.g. London, Mrs Dixon, St Andrew's Primary School. Proper nouns start with a capital letter.
Abstract nouns - names something you cannot see, hear, taste, smell or touch. They are ideas, qualities or feelings rather than objects e.g. happiness, love, hatred, peace, freedom, justice, bravery.
Collective nouns - names for groups of people, animals or things e.g. team, class, flock, herd, pack, bunch, pile.
Verbs
Verbs are 'doing', 'being' or 'having' words.
Action verbs show what someone or something does e.g. run, jump, walk, eat.
Being verbs tell us what something 'is' or 'was' e.g. is, are, was, were, am, be, being
Having verbs show possession e.g. have, has, had
Prepositions
Prepositions show the relationship between the noun (or pronoun) and another word in the sentence e.g. in, on, under, between, next to, with, to, before, after
Adjectives
Adjectives are describing words. They describe nouns or pronouns e.g. horrible, scarlet, tiny, elusive
Maths - Area and Perimeter
We are currently covering a unit on Area and Perimeter. Here are some useful reminders:
Key Vocabulary:
Perimeter: The total distance all the way around the outside of a shape.
Area: The amount of space inside a shape.
Volume: The amount of space inside a 3D shape.
Cubic units: Units used to measure volume.
Cuboid: A 3D shape that has 8 rectangular faces, 8 vertices and 12 edges.
Width: How wide something is from one side to the other.
Length: How long something is from one end to the other.
Rectangle: A 2D shape with 4 sides, opposite sides the same length and four right angles.
Rectilinear: Describes a shape made only from straight lines that meet at right angles.
Parallelogram: A 2D shape with 4 sides where opposite sides will never meet.
Perpendicular height: The straight-up distance from the base of a shape to the top, measured at a right angle (90°) to the base.
Arithmetic
There are a number of calculations that the children find more challenging than others. Multi-step problems can be difficult to follow so the children would benefit from practising these at home. You can download Year 6 reasoning past maths papers and print them if you are able.
Other calculations to practise are long multiplication and long division. The children can do these calculations but need to practise the order and process. Ask them to tell you about Does McDonald's sell burgers and KFC! Percentages of an amount is also quite a challenge so the children would benefit from accessing the past Year 6 arithmetic papers which can also be downloaded and printed.
Revising all types of fraction calculations would be useful, especially when using mixed numbers.
For any other suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact Mrs Dixon.
Thank you.