Year 6 - Eagle | Balliol Primary School

Welcome to Eagle Class

Thank you for visiting our page. You will find class information and updates on what the children are learning about each term. Please contact me if you have any questions or can think of anything to add to the website.

Miss Bowling

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General Class Information

Class teacher: Miss Bowling

PPA Cover Teacher: Mrs Banks

Other adults in Eagle Class: Mrs Banks, Miss Flynn

PE - Monday (outdoors) and Thursday (indoors)

Where do we read?

Here are some of the interesting and inventive places we have been reading! These photos are really making us .

We'd love to see even more photos. You can either bring your photo in, or email it to to office@balliolschool.co.uk with the subject ‘Y6 Reading Challenge’ so that it gets sent to us.

Homework in year 6

Subject	Day set	Day to be handed in	Useful information
Maths	Monday	Following Monday	This will be either MyMaths or a written homework linked to what we have be learning in class. See you child's planner for MyMaths login details.
Spelling	Friday	Following Friday	Weekly spellings will be given on a Friday to practise for the following Friday. These should be practised at least 5 times in the week, using the look, say, cover, write, check method.
Ongoing homework
Reading	Please encourage your child to read as much as possible! Reading is so important but it is also important that your child enjoys what they are reading. If you would like any recommendations, please ask.
Times Tables	Those children working towards their Bronze, Silver or Gold awards, should practise the times tables that they have been given. Those on Platinum can use TT Rock Stars to improve their speed and accuracy.
Key Word Spellings	The children will have 2 of their Key Words in their weekly spellings, but should continue to try to learn the other key words that were sent home at the beginning of the year.

Spellings

Below are the spellings that the children should know by the end of year 6.

Year 3/4 spellings:

accident	bicycle	circle	eight	grammar	important	minute	popular	quarter	strange	woman
accidentally	breath	complete	eighth	group	interest	natural	position	question	strength	women
actual	build	consider	enough	guard	island	naughty	possess	recent	suppose
actually	busy	decide	exercise	guide	knowledge	notice	possession	regular	surprise
address	business	describe	experience	heard	learn	occasion	possible	reign	therefore
although	calendar	different	extreme	heart	length	often	potatoes	remember	though
answer	caught	difficult	famous	height	library	opposite	pressure	sentence	thought
appear	centre	disappear	favourite	history	material	ordinary	probably	separate	through
arrive	century	early	forward	imagine	medicine	peculiar	promise	special	various
believe	certain	earth	fruit	increase	mention	perhaps	purpose	straight	weight

Year 5/6 spellings:

accommodate	category	determined	foreign	marvellous	programme	stomach
accompany	cemetery	develop	forty	mischievous	pronunciation	sufficient
according	committee	dictionary	frequently	muscle	queue	suggest
achieve	communicate	disastrous	government	necessary	recognise	symbol
aggressive	community	embarrass	guarantee	neighbour	recommend	system
amateur	competition	environment	harass	nuisance	relevant	temperature
ancient	conscience	equip	hindrance	occupy	restaurant	thorough
apparent	conscious	equipped	identity	occur	rhyme	twelfth
appreciate	controversy	equipment	immediate (ly)	opportunity	rhythm	variety
attached	convenience	especially	individual	parliament	sacrifice	vegetable
available	correspond	exaggerate	interfere	persuade	secretary	vehicle
average	criticise	excellent	interrupt	physical	shoulder	yacht
awkward	curiosity	existence	language	prejudice	signature
bargain	definite	explanation	leisure	privilege	sincere (ly)
bruise	desperate	familiar	lightning	profession	soldier

SAT's Revision

The following sites can be really useful for SATs revision.

BBC Bitesize (Key Stage 2) https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/levels/zbr9wmn
Topmarks (This is great for Maths.) https://www.topmarks.co.uk/ (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.)
IXL have pages of skills for each Year group. The Y6 page has links to practise both English and Maths skills. Pages are then split into skills of which has practice questions to think about. https://uk.ixl.com/promo?partner=google&campaign=1187&adGroup=Key+Stage+2&gclid=CPPa8teS_8kCFQbnwgodgOIB6A
Maths Is Fun https://www.mathsisfun.com/ Sear for something you need to revise. This site is really good at explaining things and gives you practice questions at the bottom of each page.
Online Maths Dictionary. http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/dictionary.html

Pobble

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Pobble allows all children to become published authors! Children from all over the world can read and comment on your child's work if it is uploaded to pobble. In Eagle class we think it is great, but if you would like any further information then please come and speak to us.

If you haven't already, please give permission for your child's work to be published so that they have the opportunity to become a published author!

TT Rock Stars

This is a great website that children can use to practice their times tables!

https://play.ttrockstars.com/auth/school/student/17733

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Year 6 - Eagle

Book Bingo!

Topic Homework (due Monday 14th October)

Spellings

Year 6 Spelling Menu

Topic Homework - Due Monday 14th October