Osprey
Homework
We're making a slight change to how we administer homework. You'll find your reading task below on Friday as usual but your MyMaths tasks will now bet set on that platform on Monday, needing to be completed by the following week. (https://www.mymaths.co.uk/).
The reason for this is we were finding it difficult to support all of the children who needed it on one day, so spreading the homework out will enable us to help the children more effectively.
If you need any help, please speak to your class teacher so they can help you. Catch up will be at break time on Monday and Friday which will be led by one of the Y6 teachers.
Reading Tasks
CGP Books
As promised, to ensure you are getting the best out of this wonderful resource, here are the areas of learning we have covered so far (new areas are in bold):
Maths
- Place Value (not including decimal numbers)
- Addition and subtraction
- Prime numbers
- Factors and multiples
- Square ands cubed numbers
- Multiplication and division
- Simplifying fractions
- Ordering fractions
- Adding and subtracting fractions
- Multiplying fractions
- Dividing fractions by whole numbers
- Multiplying or dividing by 10, 100 or 1000
- Units
- BODMAS
- Solving calculation problems
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
- Clauses
- Word types (nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs)
- Brackets for extra information
- Apostrophes
- Semi-colons
- Words with 'ough'
- Homophones
- Word endings - 'able' and 'ible'
- Word endings - 'ably' and 'ibly'
- Words with silent letters
- Formal and informal writing
- Adding suffixes to words ending in 'fer'
- Word endings - the 'shus' sound
- ei and ie words
- Using ellipsis
- Commas in lists
- Commas to avoid ambiguity
- Commas after subordinate clauses
Reading
- Entirely your choice!
P.S - The answers are in the back of the books (keep an eye on them!)
Welcome to Osprey class!
Happy New Year!!!
So here we are, 2024, the year that your little ones will go through a whole ream of benchmark moments...but let's not get too far ahead of ourselves.
As you would expect, we're back and straight into things in Y6. In maths we're looking at ratio over the next couple of weeks which builds really nicely on the hard work the children put into their fraction units before the break. For our writing we're starting off with the target of writing a newspaper report and then we'll be studying Maya Angelou's famous 'Caged Bird' poem before attempting our own creations.
On this page you will find the KIRFs for this half term (Key Instant Recall Facts) and also this week's homework. It is desirable that the children learn these KIRFs off by heart as that will allow them to free up memory capacity when it comes to solving more complex problems in these mathematical areas. The children will also come home with a copy for you to help them learn.
Without wanting to wish the time away, things move pretty quickly between now and May. If there's anything you want to speak to me about, please contact the office and I will make sure I find the time to call you.
Many thanks,
Mr Inchbald