Year 6 classes
| 6A | Miss Roddy |
| 6B | Mr Arathoon |
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We use Class Dojo regularly to update parents about what their children have been doing. It's free to sign up! Parents should have received a sign-up code from their children's class teacher which is needed when logging in. Click on the link above to go to the Class Dojo homepage. |
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6A do PE on Mondays and Wednesdays.
6B do PE on Wednesdays and Fridays. |
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Homework Daily reading |
Useful Websites
| English |
Reading
Are you looking for a new book to read? Why not try one of these?
Suggested reading listed for children in Year 6
| BBC Bitesize | RhymeZone | Antonyms and Synonyms |
| BBC Bitesize is the site to go to for SATs revision. This is the Literacy page. | Are you struggling to find a word that rhymes? Click here and this site will help. | This game is about antonyms and synonyms. Do you know the difference? |
| Game Goo | Spelling City | |
| .Game Goo is a site full of Literacy games. Have fun here! | Try out the free activities on the Spelling City website. |
| Maths |
| BBC Bitesize | Nrich | Sumdog |
| BBC Bitesize is the site to go to for SATs revision. | This is a great website for maths puzzles | Here's the Sumdog website. |
| Visnos | ||
| Use the interactive maths activities to practise. |
| Science |
| Children's University | Engineering Interact | BBC Terrific Scientific |
| This site contains loads of fun facts, resources and games to do with many areas of science (made by the University of Manchester) | This site contains lots of fun games and animations to do with a variety of science topics (made by the University of Cambridge) | Click here to go to the Terrific Scientific website to find out how the results of our experiments compare to other schools around the country. |
Electricity
| BBC Science Clips | BBC Bitesize | Hwb Circuits |
| The BBC Science Clips site is always a good place to start your research in Science. It contains useful information about all of the topics we study. | The BBC Bitesize site is a good place to do some Science revision. Try to do all of the tests on there! | Use this website to practise making circuits. |
| Blobz Electrical Circuits | Hyper Staffs Electro Bot | Learning Circuits |
| The Blobz website is a great revision guide for electricity and it has some nice little activities to test your understanding. | Help Elvis the Electro-bot repair his spaceship by using your knowledge of electricity and circuits. | The Learning Circuits website is another great place to learn about circuits. |
| Electronics Club | Deadly 60 Electric Animals | |
| The Electronics Club has lots of information about the various circuit symbols. | Steve Backshall's Deadly 60 inspired electricity activity is here! |
Evolution and Inheritance
| Extinction | What is a fossil? | Natural History Museum |
| Find out about extinction here. | Find out about fossils here. | The Natural History Museum website has a great set of pictures showing how fossils are formed. |
| Are you smarter than a plant? | Planet Science | Evolution and Inheritance on BBC Bitesize |
| Find out whether you are smarter than a plant by playing this game. | Here's some more information about fossils. Watch the explanatory video. | There are loads of videos about Evolution and Inheritance on the BBC Bitesize website. |
| Who was Charles Darwin? | Dog Breeding Game | Who Wants To Live A Million Years? |
| Find out about Charles Darwin by clicking here. | It's pretty tricky this one! It's a bit like the Dog Top Trumps that we did in class but it contains a bit more detail about the genetics. Challenging and fun! | Here's the game in which you have to try to create an animal that will survive for 1000000 years. Which traits will survive? |
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| Mini Vinnies | Stations of the Cross | |
| Here is the Mini Vinnies website. Are there any good ideas on the site for us? | Find out more about the meanings of each of the stations of the cross here. |
| Stone Age, Iron Age, Bronze Age |
| BBC Bitesize Prehistory | ||
| Mountains |
| Woodlands Web | Snowdonia | Top Ten Mountains List |
| The Woodlands Junior School website is a useful starting place and contains a helpful glossary. | What do you know about Snowdonia? Find out more about the national park in North Wales here. | Here is a list of the ten tallest mountains in the world. Could you locate them on a map? |
| How are mountains formed? | Mountain Building | Mountain Weather Information Service |
| Watch videos about how mountains are formed here. There are some spectacular scenes! | This video from the History Channel explains how mountains are formed. | Here's the weather forecast for Snowdonia. How is it different to Ellesmere Port today? |
| What to do in the mountains | Mountain Rescue in the Pyrenees | Tourism in the Pyrenees |
| What do people do in the mountains? Find out things you can do in Snowdonia here. | What is life like for the mountain rescue team in St. Lary, a popular ski resort in the Pyrenees? Watch this video to find out. | Here's another video from St. Lary. It's about tourism in the village. |
| Min-y-Don |
| Min y Don | Barmouth | |
| The official Min y Don website. | Find out about Barmouth, the nearest town to Min-y-Don, here. What is the weather like there? |
| World War I |
| The Front Line | Facts about WWI | World War I Poetry |
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What was life like on the front line? Find out on this BBC website. |
Some facts and information about World War I | This page from Oxford University is aimed at Key Stage 3 children but there are some really interesting articles on it. |
| World War I timeline | Animated map of the war | The Great War Visual History |
| Use this interactive timeline to find out the causes of the war and to find out important events during the war. | Click on the image above to see an animation of the progress of The Great War. | This American website contains videos and articles about the war. |
| Crossing The White Line | First World War National Archives | World War One Diary Entries |
| The Crossing The White Line website, which we use in class, tells the story of Walter Tull. Find out more here. | The National Archives website contains digital versions of real World War I diaries and other World War I records. It's well worth a look! | The World War One Movies page from the BBC is an excellent place to find out about life in the trenches. |
| Computing |
| Think U Know | Scratch |
| Do you think you know about e-safety? Check it out here. | Download Scratch from here. |
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