Year 6 Expectations
We Will Gain
In preparation for Year 6, we would like your child to do the following:
| English |
| Reading – Read often throughout the week and have opportunities to discuss an increasingly wide range of fiction, poetry, plays, non-fiction and reference books or textbook. Free e-books can be found on Oxford Owls: https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/ Learn your Y5/6 spellings (These can be found on the school website) Grammar – Variety of games on the school website to develop your grammar skills. https://www.broadheath.coventry.sch.uk/games/literacy-games/#6games |
| Maths |
| Our school website has a range of online games to develop the maths skills below: https://www.broadheath.coventry.sch.uk/games/maths-games/#6games Know all times table facts including division facts- TTRS/ Hit the button online game. Use your Mathletics log in to complete regular tasks and challenges to improve your skills. Gain confidence in solving problems using the four operations + – x ÷ When eating, sharing, organising over the summer use your knowledge of fractions. Round any number up to 1 000 000 to the nearest 10, 100, 1 000, 10 000 and 100 000 round decimals with two decimal places to the nearest whole number and to one decimal. Identify 3-D shapes and their features, including cubes and other cuboids, from 2-D representations. Know angles are measured in degrees: estimate and compare acute, obtuse and reflex angles. Travel via the bus or train to learn how to read a range of timetables. |
| Physical Education |
| – Make informed choices to maintain your health and well-being, including your screen-time and sleep routine. – Ensure you eat a healthy range of foods and not too much ‘junk’ food. Think of healthy recipes to cook with your family. – Go on family walks, runs and participate in local community events. (You’ll need your strength for Dovedale) |
| Social |
| Group work: -Look for opportunities to practise group work at home, such as baking a cake together, with one person reading the recipe and the other weighing out the ingredients, or collaborating with siblings or friends on making a LEGO model etc. Independence: – Show responsibility in managing daily tasks and learning, individually and in a team. -Prepare your school bags, make a learning space in your home. Concentration: -Improve concentration skills by playing family games that involve focusing on the task in hand, such as Scrabble, Bananagrams, Monopoly, UNO or even chess. Communication skills: -Encourage your child’s communication skills by making plenty of time to talk as a family, such as over the dinner table. Open conversations- How? Why? When? Then? |
| Creative |
| –Create a scrapbook over the summer – create illustrations, symbols and mini paragraphs about key events to share when you return to school. -Develop a dance routine or rap about our BH values that you can share with younger children now that you’ll be the eldest in the school. -Draw, sing, write, perform, sew, build items that represent you- your teachers would love to see this when you return. |