UK Year 6 homeschool support thread.

[Homeschool101]

I have a daughter, in current UK year 6. Born 2009.

Do you need help with this? Cos I do! Let's help each other.....Please!!

So, no SATs!? No idea how to prepare her for high school. What should she be doing?

Please feel free to share tips, websites or anything that you feel could be educational or frankly...anywhere close to what they should be learning!

We can do this .... right?

(Yes I've posted pretty much the same thing for my younger daughter, but the age gap is too big to merge the threads and be of any use!)

I'm a TA in year 6! Let me know if you need any help with questions

It's school at home, not home schooling. Has she been given work by her teacher?

Hi. My dd is in yr6.
We have a very loose timetable.
10 mins mental maths/ arithmetic book
30 mins working through the cgp maths book that school sent home
20 mins TT rockstar online.

10 yr 6 spellings
20 mins SPaG (cgp book)
1 section of reading in cgp book
20 mins of reading and accelerating reader quiz if needed.

Lunch

After lunch today we are looking at photography - and portraits, and the way light can make photos look different.

Other things we are going to do.

Research your fave youtuber- why are they your favourite? What do they do? What would you ask them?

Where do all your family live? Mark it on a map and make a bar chart of people in different locations.

Create a dance to a song from your parents generation any excuse to sing spice girls

Make a chart of traffic that goes past the window in a 15 minute slot

Draw what you can see from your bedroom window

Find the area of the living room not very big

Write a daily diary of things we have done

Hello!

Sorry, having a 'mare trying to log on to the various systems. Plenty of teething problems.

I'm aware it's not "homeschooling" per se. It was just a title to get my point across in as few words as possible. I'm usually always a "say at little as possible type" waffling is not my bag.

I've been directed to whiterosemaths.com and it seems there's maths for every age group on there. Might be worth a look, you don't appear to need an account or school affiliation.

iLovee & theone
Thank you for the support, I feel way out of my depth even just doing the most basic first task with my year 2 DD. Year 6 dd work hasn't come through yet.
My patience is thin already. No one seems to have any sort of attention span.

Has your DD's school not set work for her to do OP?

My year 6 DS's school closed on Wednesday. Every day since he has received (via Showbie, which they already used for homework) a set of tasks/lessons - a literacy task, two maths tasks, an instructional video to watch, and a theme project to work on. The school are also suggesting a link to follow each day for extra educational resources.

I thought all schools would be doing this? The teachers are also in communication with students (as a class and individually) via Showbie.

I think this is enough, for now at least. He's done the Joe Wicks PE workout, done his English and Maths and is now playing on the XBox. Will do his theme project later...

All year 6 children will be in the same position with regard to moving up to secondary school, and I'm sure there will be allowances made and efforts to catch them up.

Our school closed on Friday so today was the first online lesson. There is a problem with my year 6 DDs login, I've contacted school to rectify but nothing as yet.
I've heard about the joe wicks PE and will check it out later.
The maths thing doesn't seem to be supported on iPad, so we're struggling with that too!

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I teach year 7. We spend lots of the first term doing investigations. She could plan an investigation, collect some data on a results table, maybe calculate an average, draw a graph, write a conclusion and saw what she would do better next time.

Does the steepness of a ramp iimpact a toy cars speed?
Does salt being added to an ice cube affect how it melts?
How does different volumes of water affect how sunflowers grow.
Cook together, practise accurately reading measuring equipment.

Learn parts of an animal and plant cell.

Challenge herself to learn the first 20 elements of the periodic table, ASAP science eriodic table song is great for that.

Times tables, reading and handwriting practise are the most important things for secondary school. Read widely, fiction, non fiction, new books, old books for a range of vocabulary and writing styles.

Thanks HP! I will look into all of those.