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    • Year 6

    Welcome to Year 6!

    What Your Year 6 children will need each day

    Item Day /s Details
    PE kit Needed everyday Include shorts, t-shirt, sweatshirt pumps or trainers and joggers in a named bag (not a carrier bag)
    Dinner money Monday Payable online via our School Money app
    Homework In on Thursday Pages to be completed written in the front of each book

    Reading every day
    Book bags Everyday Only books to be carried in them
    After schoolclub Everyday apartfrom the last daybefore a holiday To be booked in advance, phone school for details
    Reading Everyday Please read to and encourage your child to read a little each day.
    Drop in sessions Monday 9.10-9.25am Please make an appointment with the office to check staff are available.
    Swimming Kit Wednesday Your child will be informed when they need their swim kit. They need a bag for their kit, a towel, long hair tied back, no jewellery. Girls need a one piece costume. Boys need short trunks.

    Ways to support your child and their class 

     

    Please ensure they have breakfast each morning, plenty of sleep and are in school on time.

    Encourage them to do their homework- there is homework club in school Monday and Tuesday if they need help

    Handwriting practice

    Recall multiplication and division facts daily

    Quick fire calculations

    Listen to them read and ask questions about the content read.

    Research

    Encourage them to play English and Maths games on www.sumdog.com and purple mash

    Take them to the library

    Take them swimming

    Enhance their knowledge and experience by taking them to places of interest like museums, country parks, castles etc. BMAG and Barber gallery at the University

    Take them shopping so they can use money.

    Telling the time, analogue and digital using time tables

    Encourage them to tell the time e.g. we are leaving in 20 minutes what time will it be?

    Give them a quiet place to read / do homework where possible

    Help them practice spellings

    Click on the links below to see what will be covered in each Year 6 Theme

    1. Y6 Theme 1 'What was the impact of World War II?'
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    2. Y6 Theme 2 'Where did we come from?'
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    3. Y6 Theme 3 'How do we look after ourselves?'
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    4. Y6 Theme 4 'What was the Shang Dynasty?'
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    5. Key Vocabulary Word Lists Year 6.pdf
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    Click on the links below for information about what your child is expected to learn by the end of Year 6

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    1. Writing Assessment Checklist Year 6
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    2. Reading Targets Year 6
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    3. Maths Targets Year 6
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    4. Year 6 Science targets
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    Please bear in mind these are generalisations for children of this age,  some will be working towards them and some may have exceeded them by the end of the year.

    Homework

    1. Water Mill Homework Overview.pdf
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    2. Year 6 Optional Homework Ideas Theme 1.pdf
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    Year 6 children will be provided with CGP books as additional homework as we begin to prepare them for the homework expectations at Secondary School.

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