Welcome to Year 6

Year 6 StaffYear 6 Staff Alun Randell Tracy Hawes Caroline Walsh

Teaching Assistant

Vicky Hawkins Tina Scully

Mrs Smith

What’s good about Year 6?Top of the school!Preparation for transition to secondary.Lots of opportunities for challenge.The topics!Increasing independence and responsibilities.Mentoring younger pupils and caring for others.Chance to interact across the year group, culminating in our Year 6 production.Residential trip.

Topics for the year

Ancient Greece Shima! The Stone Age The Way of the Dodo Our Future What a Performance!

What we do in….

Reading (Guided Reading sessions daily) Maths (Mental maths, 5 discrete sessions; on-

going termly assessments) Writing (Reviewing genres in blocks of 3 weeks,

immersing ourselves in the text, innovating and inventing. Grammar is incorporated within the main literacy lesson, with some discrete booster lessons)

Spelling (Weekly focus, structured home spellings)

AssessmentAssessment Continuous teacher assessments, not

purely a year of tests! However…. Statutory written assessments in

Reading and Maths, Grammar and Spelling in May 2015

Statutory teacher assessments in Reading, writing, Maths, Grammar and Spelling and Science in May/June 2015

Learning at HomeHomework Numeracy homework give every Friday- in on

Tuesday English (Learning Journal entry) or Science/

topic homework in addition every other week Homework Club on Wednesday Lunch time! Homework Challenge Project (4/5 weeks) Weekly Spelling Lists (test on Friday) Weekly Times Tables (for timed challenges) Homework updates are posted on the website

on Thursdays.

Revision/Prep/Extra work etc Prep work for SATs will come around Easter

Holidays

Phase Maths Additional Homework

Task

Time spent per week

on Homework

Task

Reading Time spent on reading

per day as a guide

Spellings Times Tables

Challenge and

enrichment

FS       Books go home as chosen by the children and families

10 min Letters and Sounds graphemes are shared by differentiation via the website.

  Web link on the websiteShow and Tell

KS1 Weekly maths task (Y1 from T3)

  10-15mins Books go home as chosen by the children and families

10 min reading aloud to an adult

Letters and Sounds graphemes are shared by differentiation via the website.3-5 key words (tested informally)

Focus upon 2, 5, 10, 3 and 4 times tables (by end of Key Stage).

Show and Tell Y2 Optional topic based homework as appropriate.Optional termly writing challenge

LKS2 Weekly maths task

One task every other week to focus upon literacy or topic.

20-25mins Books go home as chosen by the children

10 min reading aloud to an adult or 20 minutes reading independently

8-10 words differentiated(weekly test)

Focus upon 2-12 times tables (by end of Year 4).

Optional topic based homework as appropriate.Optional termly writing challenge

UKS2 Weekly maths task

One task every other week to focus upon literacy or topic.

30-45mins Books go home as chosen by the children

10 min reading aloud to an adult or 30 minutes reading independently

10 words differentiated(weekly test)

Focus upon 1-12 and related division facts.

Termly writing challenge. 

Parent plea Trips: Lifeskills, Topic related trips eg

Stourhead. Sports and Clubs . In class projects: Greeks, Japan, The Stone

Age, Evolution, Our future, What a performance (Year 6 Production) .

Regular support hearing readers, practising mental maths.

School Uniform; PE kits.

Year 6 Residential Visit

July – destination and dates being finalised. Likely cost £200

Activities Activities Abseiling,

Archery, Beach visits, Quantock walks, Challenge Course, Initiative Exercises, Orienteering, Rifle Shooting, Grass Sledging Survivor and High Ropes course

Evening Entertainment: e.g. Camp fire, Team games, Trivia Hunt, Disco

Price Price £200 per pupil Need a confirmation slip and

deposit of £40 by end of September.

3 further payments due by end of November/February/May