welcome to the year 6 parents meeting spring term 1 (2015-16)
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Recap on Year 6 Expectations BEHAVIOUR High behaviour expectations, exemplary behaviour as they are the eldest children in the school Good choices – positive praise and rewards Bad choices – consequencesTRANSCRIPT
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Welcome to the Year 6 Parents Meeting
Spring Term 1 (2015-16)
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Recap on Year 6 Expectations • COMMITMENT • Very important year for the children• A positive attitude is imperative• Hard work and lots of fun!• Attendance & punctuality
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Recap on Year 6 Expectations • BEHAVIOUR• High behaviour expectations, exemplary
behaviour as they are the eldest children in the school
• Good choices – positive praise and rewards• Bad choices – consequences
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Recap on Year 6 Expectations • UNIFORM• Thank you for your support so far, children
look very smart!• Black trousers or skirt• White shirt or polo shirt• Black shoes – lots of children in trainers• Minimum jewellery • New PE t-shirts available
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Year 6 SATs• SATs week is the week beginning 9th May
2014
• There is no Writing Test this year. Writing will be teacher assessed from the work they produce in class
Day Test Mon 9th Reading test Tue 10th English Grammar & Punctuation
English Spelling Wed 11th Paper 1 – Mental Arithmetic
Paper 2 – Reasoning Thurs 12th Paper 3 – Reasoning Fri 13th No paper -
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Boosting sessions
• We have a big push on Maths and Literacy this term in preparation for SATs • Some children who have been identified to
need boosting (based on assessments) will be withdrawn from class in the afternoons to have a booster session• Booster sessions will be in either Maths,
Reading or Writing• These are similar to the after school booster sessions
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Secondary School Transfer Update • Not long to wait now!• LA will send a letter out to you early March,
informing you of what school your child will be attending. Online applicants will be sent an email.
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Homework
• With the run up to SATs, children may be given additional homework for this too.
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PE• Each class has 1 PE sessions a week• Please ensure you child comes to school with the
correct PE uniform on their correct day:
• A reminder of the correct kit:• White t-shirt or purple Cranford t - shirt• Black shorts• Black tracksuit bottoms for games• Plimsolls or trainers
Class PE days Magenta Thursday
Sapphire Thursday
Azure Thursday
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Literacy this term (6 weeks)
• We will be covering the following units in Literacy this term:• Poetry (fiction) • Narrative – Stories with Flashback (fiction)• Journalistic Writing
• Regular half termly assessments • Also a focus on spelling, punctuation and
grammar
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Reading • Your child should be reading with you daily• Please encourage children to read a range of
texts (e.g. stories, newspapers, magazines, comics, recipes, etc)
• It is important that children get the opportunity to discuss their reading with someone at home to develop their comprehension skills• Things that you could discuss with your child are:
• The type of text they are reading• Key features of the text• Authors’ choice of language• Punctuation• If a story – main character, plot, etc
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Reading – Bug Club • To help support their comprehension
skills, we have bought into a service called ‘BugClub’
www.bugclub.co.uk
A pupil will demonstrate some of the activities they do on Bug Club
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Maths this term (6 weeks)
• We will be covering some of the following topics in Maths this term:• Big focus on Number work• Data Handling• Shape & Space • Measure• Using & Applying • Problem solving • Mental maths
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Other curriculum subjects
We will be covering the following topics this term:• Geography – Rivers • Science –Habitats and Living things• Art – River Reflections • ICT will be taught throughout the subjects.
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Any questions?Please come see your child’s
class teacher.
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Thank you!!
Your support is very much appreciated.