Year 6 25.4.25

Welcome back to everyone! We were happy to see smiling faces on Wednesday as we started our very busy summer term. Please do keep an eye on this blog over the coming weeks as lots of information will be going out about residential, end of year arrangements, productions and more!

Maths

This week we have completed our shape unit and begun our final unit on position and direction. We have been working on using our knowledge of coordinates to help us visualise shapes on a grid – we know that those pesky SATS questions get harder every year and one of the ways in which they can be tricky is by asking questions but not including a grid to work out the coordinates on!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zcy62v4

Can you help?

We have noticed a few children are a little wobbly with a few areas of maths which were taught long ago at the beginning of KS2 – if you have a little bit of time over the next few weeks could you work on the following with your child:

Telling the time – on an analogue clock and converting this to digital time

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zcrmqty

Working out change – can you calculate what several items cost and work out the change from £5 or £10. Even better – can you work out the price of a mystery object when told the change and the prices of the other things that have been bought?

Names of 2D shapes – Can you play this 2D shape reveal game for a few minutes together? (play levels 2 and 3) https://www.topmarks.co.uk/shapes/2d-shape-reveal

https://www.topmarks.co.uk/shapes/2d-shape-reveal

Who can identify the shape first? Does your child know the number of vertices of the shape? If there are any shapes you aren’t sure about this http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com is a brilliant resource for a reminder.

Homework

2 pages of your choice in both Maths and English booklet. Be prepared to tell your teacher which pages you chose next week.

Extreme reading – every day

Spelling Shed – 5 x games

TT rockstars – 10 minutes over the weekend