Year 6 Information Meeting Welcome

We are trying to promote… Mature and respectful attitude. Responsibility for themselves, their belongings and their actions. Monitor and leader responsibilities. Contributing to the life of the school.

An important year This year is all about development for the children. They need to develop skills at organising their belongings and getting their homework done on time. They will need to take responsibility for their own learning and organisation. Please try and encourage your child to prepare their own equipment for school, make their packed lunch, get their homework done, read to you and ensure they have all the correct equipment for school. You will be helping them enormously, if you let them take responsibility for their own mistakes. It could be a good idea to give your children additional jobs to do at home. Please encourage them to spend their time wisely at home – continue to save games consoles and televisions for treats, when everything else is done!

PE and Swimming Swimming every Monday afternoon. (Goggles, please!) PE currently every Friday afternoon. (This will change to Thursday for Term 3 or 4.)

Homework Encourage them to read often. This can be comics, books or even instructions for a game! Homework timetable to go home each term. Information can also be found on the class blog. Please support the learning of spellings and multiplication tables; go through mental maths papers with them; discuss their grammar work with them.

Homework

What you can do to help: English Reading – 20 minutes aloud every day is the ideal. Discuss television programmes / films – why did that character respond that way? What might happen next? Read anything and everything and discuss it. Look at posters/adverts – how are they laid out, do they catch your eye? Why? Challenge poor presentation, spelling, punctuation and grammar in homework.

What you can do to help: Maths Times tables must be known up to at least 12 x 12 Estimating, weighing, measuring are all good to discuss and do practically. Must use metric measures. Money – using it in the shops, working out change, adding up bills, questions e.g. if 1 bag of sugar costs 56p, how many will 7 cost? Mental addition, subtraction, multiplication & division Reading and writing numbers to 10 000 000 Doubling and halving, including decimals

Enquiries for this year…. Very flexible at the moment, due to changes in the National Curriculum – a provisional overview can be found on the Term 1 letter. Term 1: How does conflict affect people’s lives? Term 2: Why do people evacuate? Term 3: Why were the colonies good places to settle? Term 4: How do our bodies work? Term 5: Why do organisms evolve? Term 6: Choice topic (details to be confirmed)

Trips… Nothe Fort – Weymouth (19th November 2014) Evacuation Experience – The children need to be dressed up for this.

Treginnis Farm Residential in the first week after the Easter holiday.

National Curriculum Tests We will work towards the tests throughout the year to achieve a balance between academic work and more practical subjects. The tests will be in Reading, Maths and Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG). Teacher Assessment in Writing and Science.

11th – 14th May 2015 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Level 3-5 Reading Level 3-5 SPaG Level 3-5 Mental Maths + Paper 1 Level 3-5 Paper 2 Level 6 Reading Level 6 SPaG Level 6 Papers 1 and 2

Year 6 Blog http://cammyyear6.weebly.com