Welcome to Reflection and Illumination Classes Year 6

Adults in Year 6 Mrs Hickes – Reflection Class Teacher Mr Strudwick – Illumination Class Teacher Mrs Pollard – Higher Level Teaching Assistant (Wednesday am in Illumination, based in Year 6) Mrs Hassall – Higher Level Teaching Assistant (Wednesday in Reflection class) Mrs Suthern – Learning Support Assistant Mrs Hutchinson – KS2 Learning Mentor

Drinks & Snacks Snacks Children can bring a snack to have during morning playtime. This can be a piece of fruit, vegetables or cheese. No fruit winders, biscuits or cereal bars please! Drinks Children can bring a bottle of plain, unflavoured water to school. This can be refilled during the day. We no longer provide plastic cups for hygiene reasons. Children can also have a carton of milk in the morning. Please sign up at www.coolmilk.com.

School Dinners School Meals Children can choose between two hot dinners, one meat and one vegetarian, a sandwich or a jacket potato. Menus are available on the school website.

Year 6 – Wednesday and Thursday PE Year 6 – Wednesday and Thursday PE kit should include: A plain white t-shirt/polo shirt Plain black shorts/skirt A plain black or blue tracksuit Outdoor trainers Please ensure your child’s name is on all of their PE kit and school uniform, including coats!

Use 'please' and 'thank you'. Rewards and Sanctions We expect all children to behave and follow our rainbow rules. We expect the children to be ‘good to be green’. However, children will be rewarded for going above and beyond in terms of behaviour but there are also sanctions should children not maintain our ‘good to be green’ policy. Here are our rainbow rules: Hold the door. Say 'Hello'. Smile! Use 'please' and 'thank you'. Offer to help. Be polite. Pay a compliment.

Rainbow Rules – Rewards… Incredible Indigo – Half-termly Head teacher’s tea party. Brilliant Blue – Go to Mrs Barson to show fantastic work. May include discussion about work and behaviour, stickers or postcards home. Good to be Green – Marbles for class reward, team points, celebration assembly, picked for ‘Always Child’.

... and Sanctions First Warning – Miss 5 minutes of playtime in the Reflection Zone. Second Warning – Miss 10 minutes of playtime in the Reflection Zone. See Mrs Barson or Mrs Oakley immediately. Possible isolation from class and phone call home. There will be a phone call home if your child is in the Reflection Zone more than 3 times.

Reading Most children will have a reading scheme book to be read at home. At Year 6, it is still important to hear your child read and discuss the meaning of the text and any new words. Children need to read every day to help prepare for the tests at the end of KS2. Please write in your child’s reading diary when you have heard them read. If your child has read but not to an adult, this can also be recorded. We encourage children to bring an appropriate book from home into school to read during reading activities every day. This is to encourage the children to make independent reading choices and to read for pleasure.

Planners In Year 6, the children will be given a planner to prepare them for high school. Using this book, is a bit like a trial run for what will be a very important organisational tool next year. The children need to practise writing down what homework they have and any important things that they need to act upon. By using the planner, we encourage independence. The planner needs to be brought to and from school every day.

Homework Reading – Every day. Spellings – These will be given out every Friday for a test on Thursday. The children will learn a spelling rule or pattern and be given some example words. The words that are tested will not necessarily be the words that your child took home, but they will test the rule or pattern. Times Tables – These need to be practised regularly either using the homework book, Mathletics or Times Table Rockstars.

Learning Spellings

Homework Weekly homework – This will be given out every Friday to be returned the following Wednesday. This will include a Maths and an English piece of homework. The Maths could include Mathletics and Times Tables Rockstars. Please encourage your child to give their homework book in when it has been completed!

Year 6 Curriculum Along with a high focus on reading, writing and maths, we also teach the whole range of curriculum subjects: science, computing, history, geography, art, design and technology, music, RE, PE and personal and social education. Topic based work:

Year 6 Expectations The following slides contain examples of the things children should know/be able to do by the end of Year 6, in order to achieve the ‘expected’ level. These are only some of the key areas – for the full list please see the National Curriculum for Year 6 (available online)

Year 6 Requirements - Reading Read age-appropriate books with confidence and fluency (including whole novels and poetry). Read aloud with intonation that shows understanding. Work out the meaning of words from context. Refer to text to support opinions and predictions. Summarise main ideas, identifying key details and using quotations for illustration. Make comparisons within and across books. Explain and discuss their understanding of a text, drawing inferences and justifying these with evidence. Evaluate how authors use language including figurative language considering the impact on the reader. Retrieve accurate and relevant information from non-fiction. Skim and scan to aide note-taking.

Year 6 Requirements - Writing Use a wide range of sentence structures, varying their position within the sentence. Use passive and modal verbs where appropriate. Use adverbs, preposition phrases and expanded noun phrases to add detail. Spell most words on Year 5/6 list correctly. Use semi-colons, colons or dashes to mark the boundary between independent clauses. Use colons to introduce a list and semi colons within a list. Use correct punctuation of bullet points. Use hyphens to avoid ambiguity. Use a full range of punctuation matched to requirements of text type. Use a wide range of devices to build cohesion within and across paragraphs. Use paragraphs to signal change in time, scene, action, mood or person. Write legibly, fluently and with increasing speed.

Year 6 Requirements – Maths Read, write, compare and order numbers up to 10,000,000. Demonstrate a good understanding of place value including large numbers and decimals. Identify common factors, common multiples and prime numbers. Calculate mentally using efficient strategies Use formal methods to solve multi-step problems. Multiply: 4-digit by 2-digit Divide: 4-digit by 2-digit Recognise the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages and express them as equivalent quantities. Calculate using fractions, decimals and percentages. Substitute values into a simple formula to solve problems. Calculate with measures (length, time, capacity, mass). Use mathematical reasoning to find missing angles.

Maths Calculations In Year 6 we focus on mental methods when adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. To help children develop their mental arithmetic skills, we encourage them to learn several maths facts by heart. On the tables are example materials of how arithmetic questions will look when Year 6 undertake their SATs. Please have a look at them to familiarise yourselves with the question formats.

Addition

Subtraction

Multiplication

Division

Assessment Work is assessed in an ongoing way; this includes work in books and oral and practical work. Children also complete a reading, writing, grammar and maths test assessment each term. We will complete SATs (Standard Attainment Tests) in the week beginning 14th May. We also complete teacher assessments particularly in relation to writing and science. Please do not book holidays or take time off during this period. A selection of SATs booklets are available on the tables. There are also examples of work for children working at different standards within the Year 6 curriculum – below Year 6 expectation, at Year 6 expectation and working in depth in Year 6.

Now have a browse… Please have a look at the materials out on the table for further information. To take home – Home School Agreement Please ask any questions as you look around. If you have any further questions or concerns please come and see us before or after school.