Welcome to Year 6 at Hollinhey

Please remember that you can contact us via email: year6@hollinhey.cheshire.sch.uk

We are here to keep everyone in our school community safe. If you have a safety worry, Mrs Clough is here to help.

Email head@hollinhey.cheshire.sch.uk

An exciting final half-term for Year 6. As well as continuing with formal writing, ratio and algebra in English and Maths, pupils will be looking at the circulatory system in Science, the local area in Geography, our electric vehicles in DT and, of course, preparing for Tunnicliffe, Sports Week and our Leavers Production 'Midsummer Dream's Night'!

Homework:

Pupils are encouraged to learn and practice their lines and lyrics for Tunnicliffe and the Leavers Production. TTRockstars and Spelling Shed/IDL are still expected to be carried out as weekly homework. Praise Points will be awarded.

PE Days are Tuesday & Thursday!  Please ensure that the children wear Hollinhey PE kit and their school jumpers/hoodies. 

Book bags

In year 6 the children only need a small book/ruck sack. Please ensure the only things the bag contains are lunch/snack and  water bottles. All children will be provided with their own school equipment so there is no need to send in pencil cases etc.

All current planning and Knowledge Organisers are in the 'Files to Download' below.

HOMEWORK

All pupils should be reading every night. They may bring a book home from school (they can exchange it when finished) or read a book from home or the town library. They will have a different book in school and read in school for at least 15 minutes every day.

Weekly spellings are set every week for the majority of Y6 Pupils. They are practised in school on Weds, Thurs & Fri then tested on Monday. To help their learning they need to complete at least 5 games of Spelling Shed plus practise a quick test before Monday. Some pupils complete IDL rather than have set weekly spellings. This needs to be accessed at home too.

It is really, really important that Y6 pupils have quick and accurate recall of multiplication and division facts. Practise, practise practise! It makes a huge difference to their attainment in Maths if the recall is fluent (imagine trying to complete 234 x 23 if you don't know your 2x 3 x 4x tables!) Every month we complete a 'Gig' on TT Rockstars in school which monitors their progress and sets their questions on TT Rockstars.

 Our Y6 Digital Platform Learning expectations are:

3 x 5 min TT Rockstars

https://ttrockstars.com/

5 x Spelling Shed games or 5 IDL activities (Weds onwards)

https://play.edshed.com/en-gb 

Suggested Homework Timetable 

          Don't forget that you should be Reading for Pleasure every single day at home - either independently or shared.