Gayton Primary School Year 6 2017-2018 WELCOME

The Creative Curriculum Autumn Term – World War 2 Spring Term - ‘The Egyptians Summer Term – Brazil English and different subjects are linked together to support the development of the children’s learning. ICT is also used to develop the themes but we also include teaching Internet Safety.

The Year 6 Time Table PE SWAP Monday English Maths ICT Tuesday Grammar   Monday X Tables Task English Maths Assembly Guided Reading/ Comprehension ICT ICT/ Music Tuesday Spelling Task Music Assembly Grammar Project Art/DT Wednesday Mental Maths Break Time RE PSHE Lunch Time PE Thursday French Spelling Test/ Science Friday Merit Reciprocal Reading PE SWAP

Who works in Y6? * Miss Hassan - Class Teacher Ms Ashcroft -Teaching Assistant Mrs Fletcher – Additional Needs Support and PPA cover Ian Colligan – PPA Cover

English - Writing Handwriting – needs to be legible and show ability to join clearly. To gain GD, the writing must be joined. Spellings – Year 5/6 list some rather tricky. Spellings needs to be correct in free writing to gain the Expected standard. Punctuation - use commas to clarify meaning, hyphens, brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesis, semicolons, colons and bullet points.

Grammar & Vocab – formal and informal speech and writing, including subjunctive forms, various verb tenses, expanded noun phrases to convey complicated information concisely, modal verbs or adverbs, relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that or with an implied and relative pronouns. Alan Peat – Use AP to aid sentence construction, vocabulary and punctuation.

English -Reading apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes read aloud and understand the meaning of new words that they meet

Apps to Support English Spelling Shed SpellFix Lovereading4kids.co.uk

Maths mental arithmetic Number and place value Addition, subtraction. multiplication and division FDP Ratio and Proportion Algebra Measurement Properties of Shape Position and Direction (co-ordinates) Statistics

Apps to Support Maths Reastheory DoodleMaths Prodigy Games Wuzzit Trouble

Homework Children will be given maths homework on a Friday once the topic they are covering is complete and return it on Monday where it will be marked together before moving onto a new topic. They will be given weekly spellings which they will be tested on each Thursday. English homework will be given out on a Monday and returned on Friday. We trust that each child will read regularly at home and keep a regular reading record. A book review will be completed at the end of each book. If your child finds something difficult, please make sure you let me know and we can work through it in class.

Rewards and Sanctions As a school we follow ‘It’s Good to Be Green’ and Class Dojo. Housepoints are given for good work and Dojo points for behaviour. Our aim this term in Y6 is to focus on our listening skills and following instructions.

Parent Helpers If you have any spare time to help out we’d greatly appreciate it! We would like some help with handwriting on a weekly basis and is any are keen gardeners – please lend us your skills!

Keeping in Contact Phone At the gates Come in and see me before or after school Email – y6gayton@hotmail.com Twitter – @Y6Gayton

Thank You for Coming We really hope that your child enjoys their time in Year 6 and that they really achieve their best in class. GIVE OUT A COPY OF TIMETABLE, SHOW NEW PENCIL CASES AND ALLOW PARENTS TO PURCHASE BOOK BAGS