Getting ready for Year 6

Tregoze Primary SchoolWednesday 15th July 2015

MathsO The children will complete three

papers.O - One arithmetic paperO - Two papers on reasoning and

problem solving.

1034 + 586472 – 92.5 – 0.051.28 X 10050 000 – 5001440 ÷ 122331 ÷ 3712 – 6.0154 X 2315.4 – 8.8895% of 24017 X 1.5

Times TablesO These need to be learnt by heart. O The trickiest tables are 6,7,8O Knowing them will help in all areas of

MathsO Lots of fun games on Internet (BBC

times table grid game)

Column Addition

O 2536O +1787O 4323 1 1 1

O This includes decimals and adding more than four digit numbers

Column SubtractionO 53413O - 3 3 9O 2 0 4

O This includes decimals and subtracting up to 2 four digit numbers

Long MultiplicationO 43O X32O 86O 1290O 1376

O This includes multiplying a 3 digit by a 2 digit number

Short DivisionFor trickier tables we encourage the children to write the times table down the side of their page.They need to be able to convert remainders in the answer into a decimal and a fraction.

7 5 8 r25 372942 e.g. 758 2/5 or

7 5 8. 46 372942.20

FractionsO Adding fractions with same and

different denominators

O 2/5 + 1/5 = 3/5

O 2/5 + 1/10 = O 4/10 + 1/10 = 5/10 = ½

ReadingO Please listen to your child read as

often as you can.O The key skills are pace, pause, pitch,

and powerO Ask them questionsO - Directly from the text (key points)O - Inference questions (how does the

character feel? How do you know?)O There are library challenges for

reading over the summer.

WritingO They need to always plan what they are

going to write.O Think about using a range of openers

(using fronted adverbials)O Think about using a range of punctuation

(including semi colons, commas, hyphens, brackets)

O Think about using a range of connectives O Most importantly, they need to edit their

writing. Do they have any words missing? Can they use a better word? Connective? Spellings!