Year 6

Social and emotional learning

Which part of your brain are you using? How can you regulate and engage your thinking brain?

How can you calm your worries? The worry tree

Try some 'bunny breathing' to bring yourself back to being calm.

Reading 

Check your 'learning by questions' account for reading comprehension revision.

Read these verses from a poem and answer the questions.

How many of these idioms sound strange?

Strand 1: Synonyms and antonyms

Strand 2: Can you differentiate between these facts and opinions?

Strand 4: Be a detective and use your inference skills.

Try this comprehension quiz.

Makesure you have explored all of these areas to prepare for reading comprehension.

Reading test practice A

Maths

Check your 'learning by questions' account for personalised revision.

Revise this information about the place value of numbers. 

Rounding whole numbers.

Click through the areas of learning here to find revision for paper 1: arithmetic.

Click this link and scroll down to find revision for paper 2 and 3.

Try this revision game to move between different areas of maths.

Watch this video to remind you of long division. Now try these.

Try these multiplication and division problems, remember to pause the video to do your own calculations.

Watch this video to revise how to multiply fractions. Now try these.

How do you divide a fraction by a whole number?

Watch this video to remind yourself how to convert percentages to fractions and decimals.

Key information about converting measurements. These videos will remind you how to convert measurements (length) (time) (capacity)  (mass)

 Try these word problems which use measurements.

Spelling, punctuation and grammar

Check your 'learning by questions' account for personalised revision.

What are metaphors and similes?  What is personification?

Revise what you know about word classes here: verbs, pronouns, adverbs, modal verbs, prepositions, subordinating conjunctions, coordinating conjunctions, relative pronouns

Revise what you know about punctuation here: apostrophes for contractions, possessive apostrophes, semi-colons, commas, hyphens and dashes, ellipsis, bullet points, brackets, inverted commas,

Try this grammar quiz.

Which of these spelling patterns can you improve? 'ough', 'cious' and 'tious', sounds that sound like 'shun', when 'ch' sounds like 'sh', when 'i' is spelt with a 'y', 'sion' suffix

Now you have refreshed your memory, try this spelling quiz.

History - current learning

What can you find out about the Indus Valley?

What was life like in the Indus Valley?

What artefacts are available and what do they tell us?

What could have happened to the civilisations?

Science - current learning

How does our circulatory system keep us alive?

How does our heart work?

Find out what blood vessels do by reading and watching this information.

History revision

What did archaeologists and historians discover about a local mill?

What was it like in a textile mill?

Science revision

Can you build a successful circuit?

How does the human eye work?

What amazing facts can you find out about the human eye?

What happens when light enters our eyes?

What can you learn about light?

 Design and technology revision

Which mechanisms can you see being used?

How do gears and levers work?

What are gears and pulleys? How are they used?

Parents and carers, the following documents help you to help your child with their learning:

10 top tips for SATs revision

Revision tips to help your child

Top tips for reading with your child at home

Reading with your Year 6 child