Home Learning - Welcome back Year 6

 

Your updated tasks for the start of the Spring Term 2025:

• Mathletics - ensure you have completed all tasks including those focused on measurement.  
• 144 club - Practice your times tables every day.
• Daily reading - children are expected to read for a minimum of 20 minutes everyday & read aloud at least once a week with an adult/older sibling. This needs to be recorded in their reading records which will also be checked every day.

Spellings - Practice your words every day. You will be tested every Friday.

• Please practice your Year 5/6 words. You should know everything on this list by heart.   

       

Grammar:

Complete both quizzes. Make sure you understand the difference between the two:

Antonyms: KS2 English Quiz: Explore Antonyms for Word Adventures

Synonyms: KS2 Synonyms Quiz: Discover Word Buddies in English

Times Tables:   

Make sure you practice all of your times tables 1s to 15s.  

These are also great websites to practice your times tables:

The Maths Factor Times Tables Check - Start

Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds (topmarks.co.uk)

English

Research Harold Carter. Who was he?  What did he become famous for? Why is he still talked about/studied?

Think of how you can present your research in an interesting way to the class.

Reading

Complete the questions for 'Understanding Texts': KS2 English Quiz: Understanding Fiction and Non-fiction Texts

Science:  Make sure this task is handed in before Friday 10th January.

Research different aspects of our next Science topic, 'Heat' using this link:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zh63ydm#zbc94xs

Draw and label a cross-section diagram of a thermos flask.

End of Year Play 

Click on the MP3 audio files below to hear the song tracks.  You need to know these songs by heart.