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
Mathematics
- 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)
Creative
- Sculpt something. Use playdoh, modelling clay, dough, plasticene, junk, even cake!
- Make music. Use GarageBand or similar apps, instruments you have at home, or make your own instruments!
- Put on a homemade stage production, following a script of your own creation or find another, with family or friends to practise your speaking and performing skills.
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?
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