Y6 News
Y6 SE Teaching: Letter to Parents
Dear Year 6 parents and carers,
I hope you are all safe and well. We will still be providing daily Google Classroom lessons for the children who are not at school in the Year 6 'bubble'. Please continue to ask them to check it daily and keep up to date as much as possible.
This year's Summer Reading Challenge is also underway so please click on the link below for more information.
https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/?utm_source=The+Reading+Agency&utm_campaign=dd5222cd72-CBX_Email_03_October_2017_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ef82b5d6fa-dd5222cd72-82186997&ct=t(Chatterbooks_Newsletter_dan9_15_2016_COPY_01)&goal=0_ef82b5d6fa-dd5222cd72-82186997&mc_cid=dd5222cd72&mc_eid=422acab854
Extra home learning websites and video channels
Maths
Maths No Problem are currently working on providing help for parents. Here is a link to some articles and blogs that help with mastery maths at home:
https://mathsnoproblem.com/home-school-maths-learning-resources/
Maths No Problem also have their own Youtube channel which you can subscribe to here: https://www.youtube.com/user/MathsNoProblem
Mathletics
I have set lots of work for the children on topics we have covered this year. I will regularly check the leaderboards and see how well the children are doing and let them know.
https://www.mathletics.com/uk/
Top Marks and Hit The Button
These are great for daily mental maths practise:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button
The Maths Factor
This website, endorsed by Carole Vorderman, is offering free memberships at the moment.
https://www.themathsfactor.com/
There are also some great ideas for fun maths games that don't need a computer here:
English
The children can complete differentiated reading comprehension quizzes (They all know their logins) and vocabulary games here:
I have also set them some daily creative writing tasks on Google Classroom.
Reading books - it sounds simple but the single best thing children can do to improve their English is read a book. They should all have one from our classroom book corner. If they finish that ask them to finish Holes and then begin After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross (both of which I sent every child home with a copy).
Science
Follow Maddie Moate on youtube. She is posting science lessons and discussions daily on her channel.
https://www.youtube.com/maddiemoate
For those of you on twitter there is a teacher you can follow. Search for @MrsBpriSTEM, she is posting daily science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) projects. For those of you not on twitter I have made some of her activities into a PDF file 'Science Projects' which you can download below.
Geography
Try subscribing to and following Jonny Walker from Otherwise Education who has taught in Newham and has worked closely with St-Luke’s this year on a writing project. Here are some of the geography quizzes (in order) he has done and you can do a home with your children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFxqNLJ-c_o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn7tokBqD84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9LPTvy7QJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E44bFAy7SjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJA7J76Az-4
PE
Keeping children active is obviously important for many reasons.
Joe Wicks is posting daily exercise routines which parents can join in with too!
https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX05HHni9Wk
From next week, Yorkshire Sport Foundation are also starting to produce some videos that explore more skill-based aspects of the PE curriculum that can be done at home or in limited space. You can find their videos here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGVzDT1kETxgbfXe0BCSvkA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvySZYSZFNY
Extra resources
Maths - Please find below some worksheets that the children can use to revise the maths topics we have covered this year.
Spellings - Ask the children to practise using our 'look, cover, write, check' strategy using the attached list below. If they practise 10 at a time that will help them learn a wide-range of words.
