Please click on the links to access resources for the topics you are learning this half term.

	Evolution and Inheritance
	Consolidation of Learning

At St Thomas’ we value the link between home and school and we recognise parental support is vital to a child’s progress and education. This year, we have developed how our children will complete home learning tasks, using evidence informed guidance from the Education Endowment Fund. Below are a range of age-appropriate ways that you can help support your child’s learning from home, complimenting their classroom work and ensuring accelerated progress. Please encourage your child to engage in these tasks, little and often, and let us know how they have done by writing in your child’s planner. Parental support for homework can promote the self-regulation in children necessary to achieve academic goals including goal-setting, planning, perseverance, and the management of time, materials, attentiveness, and emotions. There are learning opportunities all around us so let us embrace them and develop confident, well-rounded young people, who can flourish in the modern world.

• Complete research on our current topic. Can you find any facts that we haven’t discussed in class?
• Daily Journal – Encourage reflections, gratitude lists, or goal-setting.
• Share with an adult the morphemes that we have looked at in our spelling sessions.
• Practise the Y5/Y6 common exception words. Do you know their definitions and can you use them in a sentence?

• Check the Y6 Leesfield Life Skills in the planner – can you tick any of them off?
• Sports clubs/ teams/ tournaments/ competitions/ drama/ musical instruments.
• Family time & trips: Board Games/ Family Meal/ Museum/ Gallery visit
• Taking a spiritual moment – listening to music, time for reflection, quiet time (however that looks for you).
• Take responsibility for your planner/ bookbag/ home learning.
• Future Prep – talk about your new secondary school - routines, practice organisation and reading a school timetable. Visit their website and find out information for your transition day!

Year 6 will take part in 2 PE lessons each week, on Tuesday and Friday. On Tuesdays we will be doing cricket and on Fridays, we will be doing athletics.