Homework 15.09.23

All homework is due to be completed by Wednesday 20th September (I check that homework has been completed on Thursday morning, so it must all have been completed by then)

  • Bedrock (https://app.bedrocklearning.org/) Please complete at least one lesson. You could win a Chromebook laptop or a £10 voucher this half-term! You need to earn 140 Bedrock Learning points by Sunday 22nd October 2023 to be put into the draw!

  • TT Rockstars (https://ttrockstars.com/)- practise regularly. Next Friday, you will be tested on your times tables.

  • IXL (https://uk.ixl.com/):

    English

    FF. 1 Identify nouns with abstract nouns

    LL 1. Identify prepositions

    Maths

    A. 2 Place Values

    A .10 Compare numbers up to ten million

    REMINDER: you should be spending at least 15 minutes on each IXL unit, unless you achieve 100 in a shorter time than this.

  • Spellings:

    To begin with, I am going to set all of Year 6 the same spellings. After a few weeks, if I can see that there are some that have mastered the spellings I have been giving and some that need more practice, I will start to set spellings in Groups (Group 1 and 2)

    Spellings for this week:

    believe

    bicycle

    enough

    grammar

    knowledge

    library

    occasionally

    reign

    separate

    strength

    surprise

    weight

Lower KS2 Spellings

Upper KS2 Spellings

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AuthorCatherine Slater

Homework 05/05/23

Revise over all your past papers and use your CGP books for extra revision of anything that you are finding tricky. Make sure you also look over your statutory spelling list/key spelling rules for Tuesday’s GPS test.

Remember to take breaks!

You’ve got this Year 6!

See you Tuesday for brekkie :)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 28/04/23

Spelling

Group 1

  1. physical

  2. prejudice

  3. privilege

  4. profession

  5. programme

  6. pronunciation

  7. queue

  8. recognise

  9. recommend

  10. relevant

  11. restaurant

Group 2

  1. imagine

  2. increase

  3. important

  4. interest

  5. island

  6. knowledge

  7. learn

  8. length

  9. library

  10. material

Maths

Power Maths

Problem solving - four operations (2)

Pages 57 - 59

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English

CGP SAT Buster: Punctuation

Section 1 - Basic Punctuation

Mixed Practice (Pages 9 - 10)

Section 2 - Apostrophes and Inverted Commas

Mixed Practice (Pages 19 - 20)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 21/04/23

Spelling

Group 1

  1. lightning

  2. marvellous

  3. mischievous

  4. muscle

  5. necessary

  6. neighbour

  7. nuisance

  8. occupy

  9. occur

  10. opportunity

  11. parliament

  12. persuade

Group 2

  1. forward

  2. fruit

  3. grammar

  4. group

  5. guard

  6. guide

  7. heard

  8. heart

  9. height

  10. history

Maths

CGP SATS Question Book

Section Six - Geometry

Mixed Practice (Pages 80 - 81)

Section Seven - Statistics

Mixed Practice (Pages 88 - 89)

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English

CGP SATS Question Book

Section Six - Spelling

Homophones (Page 63)

Silent and Unstressed Letters (Page 64)

Mixed Practice (Pages 68 - 69)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 06/04/23

Spelling

Group 1

  1. lightning

  2. marvellous

  3. mischievous

  4. muscle

  5. necessary

  6. neighbour

  7. nuisance

  8. occupy

  9. occur

  10. opportunity

  11. parliament

  12. persuade

Group 2

  1. forward

  2. fruit

  3. grammar

  4. group

  5. guard

  6. guide

  7. heard

  8. heart

  9. height

  10. history

Maths

CGP SATS Question Book

Practice Test (Pages 90 - 95)

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English

CGP SATS Question Book

Section Six - Spelling

Practice Test (Pages 70 - 75)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 31/03/23

Spelling

Group 1:

  1. government

  2. guarantee

  3. harass

  4. hindrance

  5. identity

  6. immediate

  7. immediately

  8. individual

  9. interfere

  10. interrupt

  11. language

  12. leisure

Group 2:

  1. eight

  2. eighth

  3. enough

  4. exercise

  5. experience

  6. experiment

  7. extreme

  8. famous

  9. favourite

  10. February

Maths

CGP SATS Question Book

Section Seven - Statistics

Bar Charts and Line Graphs (Pages 84 - 85)

Pie Charts (Page 86)

The Mean (Page 87)

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English

CGP SATS Question Book

Section Five - Vocabulary

Word Families (Page 54)

Synonyms and Antonyms (Page 55)

Mixed Practice (Pages 56 and 57)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 24/03/23

Spelling

Group 1:

  1. equip

  2. equipment

  3. equipped

  4. especially

  5. exaggerate

  6. excellent

  7. existence

  8. explanation

  9. familiar

  10. foreign

  11. forty

  12. frequently

Group 2:

  1. early

  2. earth

  3. circle

  4. complete

  5. consider

  6. continue

  7. decide

  8. describe

  9. different

  10. difficult

  11. disappear

Maths

CGP SATS Question Book

Section Six - Geometry

Angle Rules (Pages 68-69)

Angles in Shapes (Page 73)

3D Shapes (Pages 74 and 75)

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English

CGP SATS Question Book

Section Six - Spelling

Prefixes (Page 58)

Suffixes and Word Endings (Pages 59 - 62)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 17/03/23

Group 1:

  1. embarrass

  2. environment

  3. convenience

  4. correspond

  5. criticise

  6. curiosity

  7. definite

  8. desperate

  9. determined

  10. develop

  11. dictionary

  12. disastrous

Group 2:

  1. calendar

  2. breath

  3. breathe

  4. build

  5. busy

  6. business

  7. caught

  8. centre

  9. century

  10. certain

Maths

CGP SATS Question Book

Section Four - Ratio, Proportion and Algebra

Ratio, Proportion and Unequal Sharing (Pages 42 - 43)

Section Five - Measure

Mixed Practice (Pages 66 - 67)

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English

CGP SATS Question Book

Section Four - Punctuation: Mixed Practice (Pages 50 - 51)

Section Five - Vocabulary: Prefixes (Page 52) and Suffixes (Page 53)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 10/03/23

Spellings:

Group 1

  1. category

  2. cemetery

  3. committee

  4. communicate

  5. community

  6. competition

  7. conscience

  8. conscious

  9. controversy

  10. awkward

  11. bargain

  12. bruise

Group 2

  1. accident

  2. accidentally

  3. address

  4. answer

  5. appear

  6. arrive

  7. believe

  8. bicycle

  9. actual

  10. actually

Maths

CGP SATS Question Book

Section Five - Measure

Area (Page 60)

Perimeters and Areas (Pages 61 and 62)

Areas of Triangles and Parallelograms (Page 63)

Volume (Pages 64 and 65)

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English

CGP SATS Question Book

Section One - Reading: ‘Mixed Practice - Non-Fiction’ (Pages 20 and 21)

Section Four - Punctuation: ‘Punctuating Sentences’ (Page 42)

‘Commas’ (Page 43)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 03/02/23

Spellings:

Group 1:

  1. accompany

  2. according

  3. achieve

  4. aggressive

  5. amateur

  6. ancient

  7. apparent

  8. appreciate

  9. attached

  10. available

  11. average

Group 2:

  1. disappoint

  2. disagree

  3. disobey

  4. inactive

  5. incorrect

  6. illegal

  7. illegible

  8. immature

  9. immortal

  10. imperfect

  11. impossible

  12. impatient

Make sure you also continue to practise your individual target spellings.

Maths

Power Maths:

Problem solving - area

Problem solving - perimeter

English

CGP SATS Question Book

Section One - Reading: ‘Mixed Practice - Poem’ (Pages 18 and 19)

Section Three - Sentences and Tenses: ‘Mixed Practice’ (Pages 40 and 41)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 24/02/23

Spellings

Continue to practise the Y5/6 statutory word list. Pay particular attention to any words you have found tricky so far. Make sure you are using your individually highlighted target words.

Maths

CGP SATS Question Book

Section One - Number and Place Value

Negative numbers (Page 4)

Mixed Practice (Pages 8 and 9)

Section Three - Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages (Page 39)

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English

CGP SATS Question Book

Section One - Reading: ‘Comparing’ (Pages 14 and 15)

Section Three - Sentences and Tenses: ‘Standard and Non-Standard English’ (Page 39)

Section Four - Punctuation: ‘Apostrophes’ (Page 44)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 10/02/23

Spellings

Continue to practise the Y5/6 statutory word list. Pay particular attention to any words you have found tricky so far. Make sure you are using your individually highlighted target words.

Maths

CGP SATS Question Book

Section Three - Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

Mixed Practice (Pages 40 and 41)

Section Four - Ratio, Proportion and Algebra

Formulas and Combinations (Pages 48 and 49)

Number Sequences (Page 52)

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English

CGP SATS Question Book

Section One - Reading: ‘Mixed Practice - Story’ (Pages 16 and 17)

Section Three - Sentences and Tenses: ‘Sentences’ (Page 31)

Section Four - Punctuation: ‘Inverted Commas’ (Page 45)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 03/02/23

Spellings

Continue to practise the Y5/6 statutory word list. Pay particular attention to any words you have found tricky so far. Make sure you are using your individually highlighted target words.

Maths

CGP SATS Question Book

Section Four - Ratio, Proportion and Algebra

Percentage Problems (Pages 46 and 47)

Finding Missing Numbers (Pages 50 and 51)

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English

CGP SATS Question Book

Reading - ‘Structure’ (Pages 10 and 11)

Word Types - ‘Determiners’ (Page 28)

Sentences and Tenses - ‘Active and Passive’ (Page 35)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 27/01/23

Spellings

Continue to practise the Y5/6 statutory word list. Pay particular attention to any words you found tricky this week. Make sure you are using your individually highlighted target words.

Maths

Power Maths

‘Percentages of 2’

‘Percentages of 3’

English

CGP SATS Question Book

Reading - ‘What Happens Next?’ (Pages 8-9)

Word Types - ‘Prepositions’ (Page 26)

Sentences and Tenses - ‘Tenses’ (Pages 36 and 37)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 20/01/23

Spellings

Continue to practise the Y5/6 statutory word list. Pay particular attention to any words you found tricky this week.

Maths

CGP SATS Question Book

Number and Place Value - Decimals (Page 6)

Calculations - ‘Written Multiplication’ (Page 13 - 14)

- ‘Written Division’ (Page 15 - 16)

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English

CGP SATS Question Book

Reading - ‘Summarising’ (Pages 4 - 5)

Sentences and Tenses - ‘Formal and Informal Writing’ (Page 38)

Punctuation - ‘Adding Extra Information’ (Page 48)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 13/01/23

Spellings

Continue to practise the Y5/6 statutory word list. Pay particular attention to the words we found tricky this week:

  • parliament

  • thorough

  • exaggerate

  • embarrass

  • definite

  • conscious

  • mischievous

Maths

CGP SATS Question Book

Calculations - Order of Operations (Pages 20 - 21)

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages - Equivalent Fractions and Decimals (Page 37 - 38)

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English

CGP SATS Question Book

Reading - ‘Retrieving Information’ (pages 2-3))

Sentences and Tenses - ‘Conjunctions’ (page 34))

Punctuation - ‘Hyphens and Bullet Points’ (page 49)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 06/01/23

Spellings

Today you have all received a Y5/6 Word List Checklist. Please learn these for your next spelling tests.

Maths

CGP SATS Question Book

Calculations - Multiplying and Dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 (Pages 17-18)

- Multiplying and Dividing with Decimals (Page 19)

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English

CGP SATS Question Book

Reading - ‘Word Meaning’ (page 1)

Sentences and Tenses - ‘Clauses and Phrases’ (pages 32 and 33)

Punctuation - ‘Colons, Semi-Colons and Dashes’ (page 46 - 47)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 16/12/22

Group 1 spellings:

  1. lead

  2. led

  3. morning

  4. mourning

  5. past

  6. passed

  7. precede

  8. proceed

  9. principal

  10. principle

  11. profit

  12. prophet

Group 2:

  1. completion

  2. expression

  3. discussion

  4. confession

  5. admission

  6. expansion

  7. extension

  8. comprehension

  9. electrician

Maths

CGP SATS Question Book

Fractions - ‘Multiplying Fractions’ (page 32) and ‘Dividing Fractions’ (page 36)

Geometry - ‘Coordinates’ (page 76) and ‘Reflection and Translation’ (page 78)

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English

CGP SATS Question Book

Reading - ‘Making Inferences’ (page 6)

Word types - ‘Mixed Practice’ (page 29)

Spelling - ‘Spelling Tricky Words’ (page 65)

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 09/12/22

Group 2:

  1. advice

  2. advise

  3. device

  4. devise

  5. farther

  6. father

  7. guessed

  8. guest

  9. heard

  10. herd

Group 2:

  1. mountainous

  2. obvious

  3. outrageous

  4. poisonous

  5. serious

  6. spontaneous

  7. tremendous

  8. various

  9. vigorous

Maths:

CGP SATS Question Book

Fractions - pages 29, 30, 31, 34 and 35

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English:

CGP SATS Question Book

Reading - choice of language, page 12 and 13

Word types - pronouns, page 27

Spelling - homophones, page 63

- Silent and unstressed letters, page 64

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AuthorCatherine Leahy

Homework 02/12/22

Group 1 Spellings:

  1. doubt

  2. island

  3. lamb

  4. solemn

  5. thistle

  6. knight

  7. limb

  8. tomb

  9. whistle

  10. plumber

  11. column

Group 2 spellings:

  1. dangerous

  2. famous

  3. enormous

  4. humorous

  5. glamorous

  6. courageous

  7. curious

  8. hideous

  9. courteous

IXL Maths:

L. Fractions

4. Equivalent fractions

6. Write fractions in lowest terms

IXL English:

Reading strategies

H. Inference

3. Draw inferences from a text

Grammar and Mechanics

JJ. Verb tense

5. Correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

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AuthorCatherine Leahy