Welcome to Badgers Class

Your teacher is: Mr Wildman

Your teaching assistants are: Miss Blunn, Ms Noble and Ms Plant 

Organisation

You will need PE kits on a Tuesday for sessions with Mr Moore (Derbyshire PE). 

Curriculum

This half-term, you will be learning about:

English - World War Two (Report) Volcanoes and Earthquakes 9 (Narrative) A River Speaks (Poetry)

Mathematics - Measure, Geometry, Statistics and Shape 

Reading - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time 

Science - Variation (Biology) Adaptations (Biology) and Fossils (Biology)

History - Margaret Thatcher vs The Miners 

Geography -  Amazing America and Raging Rivers 

P.E - Cricket, athletics and rounders

French - Let's Go Shopping!

DT - Cooking and Mechanical Toys 

Art - Lowry 

R.E - What do religions say about Charity?

Computing - Microbits and Coding 

HELP YOUR CHILD WITH SATS REVISION

Important dates 2025:

Monday 12th May - Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar - Paper 1

                               - Spelling, Punctuation & Grammar - Paper 2 (Spelling)

Tuesday 13th May - English Reading

Wednesday 14th May - Maths Paper 1 (Arithmetic)

                                     - Maths Paper 2 (Reasoning)

Thursday 15th May - Maths Paper 3 (Reasoning)

English Revision Resources:

Spelling - these are both websites that we are used to using lots:

https://spellingframe.co.uk/

http://www.ictgames.com/mobilePage/spookySpellings/index.html

Spelling - this is the game we played to help with double consonants.  It uses words from previous SATs spelling tests:

https://www.spellzone.com/word_lists/games-6050.htm

BBC Bitesize - The Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling section is most likely to be useful for revision.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zv48q6f  Make sure you click on the Y6 tab. 

Rollama - The llama-themed grammar, punctuation and spelling website, full of games to play:

https://rollama.com/index-games-toggle.php

BBC Bitesize Crystal Explorers - https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkbkf4j/articles/zbm8scw

Gameshow Quiz: The Punctuation Game - https://wordwall.net/resource/9913005/english/punctuation-game

Synonyms and Antonyms - https://www.abcya.com/games/wordtoss_synonym_antonym 

                                          - https://wordwall.net/resource/1553422/reading/synonyms-balloon-pop

Active and Passive Voice (by Zombies!) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOoFlstyZm0

Maths Revision Resources:

'How To' videos:

Multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000 - https://loom.com/share/32d3c882ec5e4f14807435f4bd1d73e5  This video was made for home learning but is still useful as a reminder.

Dividing by 10, 100 and 1000 - https://loom.com/share/4f95eca7ff0e4908b85c66c970ed9c28  This video was made for home learning but is still useful as a reminder.

Long Division - https://loom.com/share/c7339fce1a0c48a989eb67327e7d4418

Websites:

Corbett Maths Primary - A fantastic website.  Many of the resources can be printed, but could also be looked at on screen with practise being done on paper.

5-a-day: 5 questions to practise every day at different levels.  Perfect for practising some arithmetic and reasoning each day.

Videos:  Videos to explain how to tackle different skills, followed by questions to answer.

Worksheets:  These link to the videos mentioned above.

Quizzes:  Link to Kahoot quizzes.

https://corbettmathsprimary.com/

MathsBot (Y6 Arithmetic Practice) - This is another brilliant website: https://mathsbot.com/primary/ks2Mini 

You can either practise all of the question types, or you can select the types of questions you find tricky.

• To select question types, click on the question number.  (You can select more than one question at a time.)
• Next, click 'New', and the questions that match the types you selected will appear.  (If there are too many, you can change the number of questions in the drop down box at the top, then click 'New' again.)
• To return to the original set of questions, click 'Reset'.
• Whichever page you are on, to change the questions to a new set, simply click 'New'.
• You can check your answers once you have finished by clicking 'Answers'.

My Maths - https://www.mymaths.co.uk/

When you log in, click on 'Practice', then on 'Boosters' just underneath it.

On the first page there is a set of Y6 booster activities.  On the second page, there is a set of KS2 SATs activities.

IXL - A fantastic website.  You can pick an area to work on, look at examples or explanations and also answer some example questions.  To use the website for free, you are limited to a certain number of questions, but it's definitely worth looking at every now and then.  https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-6

BBC Bitesize - A great website.  Again, you can choose an area to look at.  There are videos, explanations and short quizzes to help you.  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z826n39  (Make sure you have Y6 selected.)

Guardians of Mathematica - 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zd2f7nb/articles/zn2y7nb

16 Weeks of SATs Arithmetic - Vocabulary Ninja - As we get closer to SATs, this playlist is being added to each week.  There are videos to help you with the different question types on the Arithmetic paper, with examples from previous papers.  (We know that Vocabulary Ninja resources are always good, but you may be shown a slightly different way than what we do in school.  If in doubt, please ask us.  We will try to watch them, so that we can recommend the best ones.)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOgtrgJ78qEXgygB4rQxEjKEoBR3r4nWZ

Maths Is Fun - This site is really good at explaining things and gives you practice questions at the bottom of each page.

https://www.mathsisfun.com/

Topmarks - You can search for games that link to specific areas of Maths.  Look out for the age range underneath all games.  It will give you a good idea of how useful it is.  https://www.topmarks.co.uk/

Times Tables - https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/17733

                        -  https://www.timestables.co.uk/

                        - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/hit-the-button

MathsBot - Find the Primes - https://mathsbot.com/puzzles/findThePrimes  Great for checking your understanding of prime numbers!  You can adjust the time you are given for each round in the drop down box.  Which level can you get to?

Telling the Time - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/time/teaching-clock  A useful website to help you practise reading an analogue clock, a 12-hour digital clock and a 24-hour digital clock.

Missing Angles game - https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/234/missing-angles  Scroll down to play the game.  Once in the game menu, the first 5 game types will help you with what we've learned.

Reflection - If you want to practise your ability to reflect shapes, this will help: 

https://www.teacherled.com/iresources/symmetry/symmetryshapes/

Ooodle - https://mathszone.co.uk/resources/grid/ooodle/ 

It's great for practising BODMAS, but remember, this is only part of your revision.

Maths With A Mouse - https://www.mathswithamouse.co.uk/satsy-mcsatsface-revision  Lots of this is useful, but remember to be careful and choose games that will help you revise Y6 Maths.  For example, if playing the coordinates game, make sure you select coordinates in 4 quadrants instead of 1.