The Year 6 team are

Mrs Jenkins, Miss Allen,Mrs Shute, Mrs Inman and Mrs Pheasant

Aim of our chat

We will talk about the following: Year 6 overview Year 6 expectations Helpful reminders Example timetable Maths Literacy IPC – International Primary Curriculum Homework E-Safety – use of the internet Parent consultations Parent helpers Grafham Water residential trip

Welcome to Year 6

Year 6 Overview

September – pupils have got a booklet about the secondary school open evenings.

6th October – sign up for Parent Consultations. Parents consultations dates 15th October, 19th October or 21st October .

Bikeability either the week of the 5th October or 12th October.

January/February – National Curriculum Test evening for parents.

Monday 9th May to Friday 13th May 2016- National Curriculum Tests

June - Two day induction at IVC – dates to be confirmed Grafham Residential Trip July National Curriculum Test results – Middle of July. July - Leavers Disco - date to be confirmed.

Year 6 Expectations

Independence – being prepared for lessons!

Responsibility for own actions – follow class behaviour code.

Year 6 special responsibilities. Rewards

Star cards – house points Praise – class rewards HIP points

Time Out

A few helpful reminders School uniform - black shoes. PE kit should be in school all week. For colder weather, PE kit should include tracksuit

bottoms and a sweatshirt (other than their school jumper).

Lunch time footballers need an extra PE kit. They cannot do it in their normal PE kit as it is needed for lessons and will be wet.

All items of the PE kit need labelling. PE T-shirts should be in the correct house colour. Bike racks – no specific places available, must wheel

bikes down path to end of the drive. Water bottles need to be labelled and kept water tight. No jewellery should be worn except stud earrings and

watches. Earrings cannot be worn for PE unless recently pierced in which case they should be taped over.

All hair should be tied/pushed back out of eyes for PE and for learning in the classroom.

An example timetable

ENGLISH Reading Journals – Read 3 times a week to

someone at home. Could be a newspaper article/leaflet/magazine etc. Please refer to the questions and targets in the reading journals.

Writing – read through work, edit and improve.

Topics covered in Autumn term – Fiction genres, developing narrative, poetry, journalistic, argument. Developing Reading and Writing through book study e.g. Kensuke’s kingdom.

Reading and Homework diaries

12.9.12 Matilda by Roald 19-23 Read very fluently. Discussed

Dahl the why the author may have used the word ‘formidable’.

J Smith

Maths

Units in the Autumn term – four rules, money and real life problems, fractions, decimals and percentages, ratio and proportion, handling data, using a calculator, shape and measures.

Word problems/real life situations

International Primary Curriculum

IPC Autumn Term Go with the flow Mission to Mars

Homework

Homework is set on a weekly basis. Alternating between Literacy/other subjects and

Maths (e.g. one week Literacy/other subjects, next week maths). At times we may do a project homework where pupils will have an allocated number of weeks to complete a task.

Homework should be presented to the same standard as class work – black pen (not biro), sharp pencil, ruler.

We expect homework to be completed by the Wednesday/Thursday after it is set or on the date given if it is a project task.

If a child gets all homework in on time they receive a homework certificate at the end of each term.

PLEASE REMEMBER READING and sign journals.

E-Safety

Using the internet responsibly Dangers of the internet, mobile

phones, e-mail, instant messaging, social networking sites, mobile phone use.

Parent Helpers

Importance of safeguarding. DBS checks needed (see office with

any questions about these).

Secondary School

Open days/evenings – you will have or will be informed of the dates of the open days for your preferred choice of college.

Letter has been sent with your child’s unique number to apply online for their secondary place.

Tell the school that you have done this using the return slip.