In preparation for Year 6 2024-25

In preparation for Year 6, we would like your child to do the following:

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

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.

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)

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.

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.

Show responsibility in managing daily tasks and learning, individually and in a team.
Prepare your school bags, make a learning space in your home.

Improve concentration skills by playing family games that involve focusing on the task in hand, such as Scrabble, Bananagrams, Monopoly, UNO or even chess.

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?