Year 6
Please see below some useful activities and websites to support your child at home, if they are in Year 6.
You can download the 'Year 6 Home Learning Pack' from the Twinkl website. Please register for free and use the code 'UKTWINKLHELPS', and click on the following link: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/year-6-school-closure-home-learning-resource-pack-t-e-2549915
Year 6 Interactive Learning Links: Twinkl - https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/year-6-school-closure-interactive-learning-links-t-e-2549924
You can download the 'Upper KS2 Home Learning Pack 1' from the Teacher's Pet website. Please register for free and click on the following link: https://tpet.co.uk/downloads/upper-key-stage-two-ks2-home-learning-resource-pack-1/
Upper KS2 Home Learning Pack 2 - https://tpet.co.uk/downloads/upper-key-stage-two-ks2-home-learning-resource-pack-2/
English:
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Daily reading – school reading book, books from home, comics and so on
Write a diary (do not forget to include the date) -use descriptive vocabulary and think about the sentence structures we have been practising in Year 6
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Use your CGP SPaG booklets to revise terminology
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Practise words from the year 5/6 spelling list
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Write a book review - remember to include the author and hook the reader in with persuasive language (explain why it is such a great book)
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Write/design/create/draw a newspaper article based on something positive from Newsround
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A week's planning on 'Biographies' - download the PowerPoint here
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A biography writing template - click here
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Reading comprehension activities - click here
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Reading comprehension activities around the story, The Tiger who came to Tea' - click here
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The Tiger who came to Tea English activities:
Useful English Websites:
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Primary Resources - click here
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BBC Bitesize: English - click here
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SPAG - click here
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Amazon's audible story collection - click here
Mr Shammas Guided Reading Session (Teacher from Catherine Wayte Primary School)
Subscribe to Mr Shammas 'You Tube Channel' to view all his learning materials
Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtE3JRKFdE8l1r2jhMfKHaQ
Mr Shammas Writing Task (Teacher from Catherine Wayte Primary School)
Follow on activity from the Guided Reading session
Mr Shammas Poetry Task (Teacher from Catherine Wayte Primary School)
Mr Shammas Guided Reading Task (Teacher from Catherine Wayte Primary School)
Mr Shammas Writing Task (Teacher from Catherine Wayte Primary School)
Mr Shammas Poetry Task (Teacher from Catherine Wayte Primary School)
Mr Shammas Reading Task (Teacher from Catherine Wayte Primary School)
Mr Shammas Task (Teacher from Catherine Wayte Primary School)
Maths:
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Practise your times tables and arithmetic methods
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Write a timetable for your day
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Measure ingredients to cook something of your choice
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Design a scale map of your dream school- can you calculate the area or the perimeter?
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A week's planning on 'Position and Direction' - click here
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A week's Maths planning - daily worksheets to complete - click here
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Daily online Maths lessons can be found at: http://www.iseemaths.com/home-lessons/
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'Numeracy Ninjas' workbook: daily lessons - 9 weeks worth of work! - click here to download
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Third Space Maths Hub (you will need to register for free) - downloadable resources
Useful Maths Websites:
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Mathletics - click here
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Times Tables Rock Stars - click here
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Maths - click here
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BBC Bitesize - click here
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Times tables - click here
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Maths resources (White Rose Maths) - click here
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Komodo Maths (you will need to register for free) - click here
Mrs Hewitt - Maths Tasks (Teacher from Ruskin Junior School)
A video to help you practise your formal written method for addition

A video to help you practise your formal written method for subtraction

A video to help you practise long and short multiplication

A video to help you practise long division

Topic and Other Activities:
Spanish:
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Live Spanish lessons - https://vimeo.com/rockalingua
Geography:
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A list of fun Geography based ideas to do around the home or garden - click here
Science:
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Complete activities on this website, to unlock further resources! You will need to sign up, but it is completely free - click here
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Can you make a 'jungle in a bottle'? - see the attached sheet
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101 Science experiment ideas! - click here
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Are you ready for a challenge? Download the 'Challenge Cards' - click here
D&T:
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Use newspaper/scrap paper and sticky tape to build the tallest structure possible
Art:
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Create your own Day of the Dead mask. See the resources below to help you:
Useful Websites:
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BBC Bitesize - click here
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BBC Bitesize: Science - click here
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Nat Geo Kids - click here
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The Science Museum - click here
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Science activities across a range of topics - click here
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Science quiz - click here
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Kiddle - click here
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Go Wild - click here
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Spanish: music based learning - click here
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Spanish games and activities - click here
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Geography website username: homeschool password: oddizzi - click here
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Aspire Active Hub: keeping active - click here
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Whizz Pop Bang - Science experiments - click here