Year 6 | Broomhill Junior School

Meet our team!

Welcome to Year 6!

Respect Relationships Reflective Responsible Resilient

Learning from home

We have put together some links to online resources that can support children learning at home.

Parents- We would ask that Parents consider how to keep children safe when they are online. NSPCC has some fantastic guidance available here: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/. We would recommend setting parental controls on any devices and keep an eye on your child's history.

Children- just a reminder if you ever see anything that makes you uncomfortable please speak to an adult. This website is brilliant for learning about how to keep yourself safe https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/ - there are even games!

Every child has been given a login for classroom secrets. They will have work set every Monday, Wednesday and Friday sent via Class Dojo.

Reading for pleasure

We have produced some suggested reading lists for each year group which might be helpful to provide high quality texts at home for your child.

Audible stories Audible are now offering children free audio books whilst schools are closed.

www.getepic.com (hundreds of free books to read on line)

Maths games

TT Rock stars - you will need your school login

White Rose Maths Select your year group to view videos and activities to complete

Maths games- all age maths zone

Year 1 and 2 Maths games Top marks

Maths games KS2 top marks
Numberblocks episodes
https://nrich.maths.org/ - Welcome to the home of rich Mathematics
www.edshed.com/en-gb
https://numbots.com/
https://www.transum.org/

English games

Phonics play- Infant 1 and 2 phonics games Username: march20 password: home

Phonics and Letter formation - Infant 1 Miss Emma

English games top marks

Alphablocks- episodes

Phonics games- Woodlands literacy zone

English junior games top marks

Junior writing prompts Literacy shed
Pobble365 – writing challenges

World e-books Wide range of e-books all available free
https://www.teachwire.net/news/5-of-the-best-online-grammar-games-for-ks2-english
www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home
www.storylineonline.net/
www.onceuponapicture.co.uk (images and questions to inspire writing)

Topic games/ useful websites

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach - Free curriculum-mapped videos for your classroom, arranged by subject and age-group; Live Lessons presented by top BBC talent; educational campaigns including Super Movers and Bring the Noise.
www.dkfindout.com/uk
www.natgeokids.com/uk/ (geography activities)
Scholastic classroom - infant 1 A different book, video and activity ideas for every day

Scholastic classroom- infant 2 A different book, video and activity ideas for every day

Scholastic classroom Junior 1 A different book, video and activity ideas for every day

Scholastic classroom Junior 2 A different book, video and activity ideas for every day

Researchify To research any topic!

Homework help for kids Geography, History, Art and RE useful information

BBC bitesize - Infants Fun activities and games for every part of the curriculum

BBC bitesize- Juniors Information and games about all the different subjects we cover at school

Home learning padlet A padlet with ever growing list of further links

Rock Steady Music resources
https://www.robinhoodmat.co.uk/learning-projects/ (lots of projects for all key stages)
http://www.lcfclubs.com/ (French games, English games and grammar activities. Use the password LCF2020sch to create a single user account)
https://www.tts-group.co.uk/home+learning+activities.html

Staying active is really important, but harder if you’re having to try and stay away from others here are some websites that might help.

Joe Wicks Home workouts for kids

Change 4 life10 minute shake up activities

Cosmic yoga Home yoga exercises

Fit kids club Exercise videos currently free (normally on demand)

Twinkl currently have an offer for all parents to be able to access their resources:

Step 1: Go to www.twinkl.co.uk/offer

Step 2: Enter the code CVDTWINKLHELPS

Step 3: Share the offer code and website link with anyone who could benefit

A very warm welcome to Year 6 from Mrs Plaskitt, Mrs Beckinsale-Yates, Mrs Price, Miss Monaghan, Mrs Goodman, Mrs Veasey and Mr Aherne!

In Year 6, children are given the opportunity to build on their successes from their time in Key Stage 2. Throughout Year 6, the children will be exploring a variety of exciting and engaging cross-curricular topics including: Ancient Greece, South America and Natural Disasters and World War Two.

Throughout the year we will cover weekly SEAL lessons, which will focus on our 5 Rs. This half term our 5R focus is Responsible and our SEAL topics is 'Good to be me!'.

All of our topics will have a Creative Homework Project linked to them, which will give children the opportunity to showcase their talents, strengths and interests. This will be given to children at the start of each half term and is optional.

We also encourage our year 6 pupils to become young ambassadors and take on leading roles around school. We have a young leaders programme which runs on a Friday afternoon, where our pupils lead our year 3/4 children in P.E. and music activities. Our super sixes also get opportunities to develop their gardening skills and complete a very exciting 'Forest Schools' programme which is always incredibly popular.

Could we please ask that you ensure PE kits are kept in school all week. Our PE days are Thursdays and Fridays, but there are often extra PE opportunities throughout the week. Children will also have daily physical activities.

Homework expectations:

We expect children to read as much as possible. Children in year 6 should be reading daily.
By the end of year 6, children already should know all of their times tables. We recommend that children practise these as much as possible. We are now signed on to 'Rockstars Times tables which is proving very popular and practise makes perfect when it comes to times tables!
Children are given a spelling test weekly, so we expect children to practise their spellings at home. We have one practice session in school to help children with this.
In addition to this, we will give children English and maths related homework on a Monday. This is always due in on the following Friday.

We believe, all children should have a love for reading and we actively promote this in school. If you aren't enjoying a book- it's the wrong book for you! Find one you fall in love with and can't put down!

We believe, all children should have a love for reading and we actively promote this in school. If you aren't enjoying a book- it's the wrong book for you! Find one you fall in love with and can't put down! 1

Attendance:

The more children are in school, the more they are learning. Our aim is to have children in school as much as possible. Ideally, we are aiming for at least 97% attendance.

Our attendance:

Class 8

Class 9

Class 10

Class Dojo

We use class dojo to support good home / school communication and enable children to celebrate their achievements and share this with the people who care.

You can access this by visiting https//www.classdojo.com

Please see Class dojo for children's weekly spellings and homework. Thank you.