Alongside the recommended resources and links, these are the key skills your child would benefit from practising at home on a regular basis. The activities below are completely optional and the timings are only a guide as we do not want to add extra pressure at home during an already challenging time.

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(Daily) Reading

Try to read a range of books

(fiction/non-fiction – novels / comics/ magazines /websites /newspapers)

Activities you could try

• Write a description of the main character or setting
• Summarise the story or chapter into one paragraph
• Write a book review or recommendation
• Create a fact file from the information
• Infer why a character might have behaved in a certain way
• Write an alternative ending to the book 
• Try to predict how the story might end
• Compare books you have read to identify similarities and differences
• For further ideas, see the home reading diaries

 

(Daily) Learn the statutory spellings

• Look, cover, write, check
• Speed write a word repeatedly and see how many times you can write it in 60 seconds
• Have a test
• Create a word search or cross word using the spellings.
• Learn what the words mean
• Explore spelling rules.

 

(Daily)Practise your times tables

Year 5 and 6 should learn all times tables facts up to 12 x 12 at speed (less than 3 seconds) and the related division facts. 

 

• Online games
• Write them out in order
• Jumble them up
• Test yourself - Can you time yourself to answer 10 questions or complete a multiplication grid? 
• Learn the related division facts
• Roll a dice or pick two playing cards and multiply the numbers together
• Play rock paper scissors with a partner by holding up an amount of fingers. Race to multiply your own and partners numbers together

You may wish to open the document below to find out what topic your child was about to study and the related ideas and activities you might like to try at home. 

	Year 5 and 6 Learning Activities	[pdf 354KB]
	My Activity Book Age 7 11	[pdf 22MB]