Welcome to the Year 6 Information Evening

Our Year - Our Team Miss Remnant, Mrs Perrin – Brown, Mrs Robinson, Mrs Beeden

Weekly Timetable What are the themes in Year 6? Term 1 - Undercover Agents! Term 2 – The Wonderful World of Water Term 3 – The Frozen Kingdom Term 4 – Titanic Term 5 – My Wonderful Body Term 6 – Ancient Civilisations – The Mayans and the Greeks

The children will be working on the Year 6 standards in the new National Curriculum. How do we judge how well your children are progressing? Sharing learning objectives and success criteria together. Questioning Partners/Small group work Self evaluation TASC/ Using and Applying Guided groups Recorded work Summative assessment

Maths: Term 1 -Properties of Number- Large numbers, place value, decimals -Addition and Subtraction- mental strategies and formal written methods -Problem solving, reasoning and algebra -Multiplication and Division – mental strategies and formal written methods -Ongoing practice of mental maths and arithmetic in timed conditions School website –> Our Learning -> Maths support

English: Term 1 Active English – focus on spelling, grammar and punctuation Focus text: ‘Stormbreaker’ Anthony Horrowitz Text types and skills to be covered: -Note taking etc. -Fact files - character descriptions and mission files -Instructional writing -Report writing – use of formal and informal language -Adverts -Narrative writing- spy based narratives

Writing expectations for Year 6 Use a varying level of formality within writing Use paragraphs to organise ideas Use a range of sentence types (simple, compound, complex) Use adverbs, prepositional phrases and expanded noun phrases Use relative clauses Punctuation capital letters, full stops, question marks, exclamation marks, commas for lists and apostrophes for contractions inverted commas for speech brackets, dashes or commas to indicate additional information Plan, draft and re-draft

Reading expectations for Year 6 - read age-appropriate books with confidence and fluency (including whole novels) - read aloud with intonation that shows understanding - work out the meaning of words from the context - explain and discuss their understanding of what they have read, drawing inferences and justifying these with evidence - predict what might happen from details stated and implied - retrieve information from non-fiction - summarise main ideas, identifying key details and using quotations for illustration - evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader - make comparisons within and across books.

Science Light Separating mixtures – dissolving and filtration, reversible and irreversible reactions Living things and their habitats- adaptation and survival The Human body – healthy lifestyles, the circulatory system, puberty, micro-organisms and childhood illnesses, genetics and inheritance

Homework  Miss Remnant will give homework out on a Friday which will consist of Spellings (12-15 in Year 6),times tables, Maths and English. This will be returned on the following Wednesday.  Topic homework will be given out on a Friday which will consist of a research activity based on the termly theme. This needs to be returned on Friday.  The amount of time that we ask pupils to spend on their homework in Year 6 equates to approximately 30 min a day.

What’s happening?  4/10/16 – Harvest Festival  12/10/16&19/10/16 Parents’ Evenings  13/10/16 Individual Photos  21/10/16 Disco  2/12/16 Christmas Fair  3/12/16 Grimethorpe Concert  6/12/16 Carol Service  16/12/16 Whole School Christmas Service  20/12/16 Carols on the Playground

What can you do to help your child?  Regularly listen to your child read and questioning them about what they have read.  Times tables need to be learned – part of the SATs next year  Use numbers (large ones) where possible.  Use Maths in everyday situations, ask your child to tell you the time, what will it be in …?  Encourage your child to be involved with money when shopping, using the right amount of coins etc.

Useful Information PE – This is on Friday with Miss Remnant and Games is on a Wednesday with Mrs Oakley. Children will need trainers and track suit bottoms on this day. Please ensure that hair is tied back and earrings removed on these days. Forest schools will continue. This is a valuable learning experience for children. Further information will be sent out in due course. Children need to bring their water bottles containing water every day. Please keep big bags to a minimum as we do not have room to store things that do not fit in their lockers.

Remember the school website for additional information. 

We look forward to an exciting term ahead! Thank you for your time.