Welcome to Year 5

Staff O Mr Watson – Phase Leader O Class 16 : Mr Gambell and Mrs Cuffley O Class 17: Ms Murray and Ms Harding O Class 18: Mr Murtagh and Mrs Balzan

The St John’s Way

Topics covered in Year 5 O It’s all Greek to me! O Time Travellers O Celebrity Sports

Subjects O Literacy O Numeracy O Comprehension O Spellings (clued spelling) O Guided Reading O Handwriting O GaP O Religion O Philosophy O Science O ICT O Geography/History O Art/DT O PE O Music O French

Homework O Daily homework - Reading - Spellings - Mental Maths (including times tables) If homework is not completed and submitted on the day it is due in children will be required to complete it at playtime. NB: If any problems arise about homework please see set teacher. DaySubjectDue in MondayComprehensionTuesday MathsWednesday Grammar and Punctuation Thursday Mental MathsFriday

Homework Projects Throughout the year children will be required to complete project based homework. This will include research, note making and designing a final product of their choice. NB: Issues with access to resources including the internet can be resolved in school. Please let the class teacher know in good time if this is the case.

Extra Curricular activities O We hope to have a number of educational trips off- site. O These trips include: - Trip to Parliament - Greek Day - Arethusa (residential) - Easter Liturgy (on-site) - Aylesford 'Picnic & Praise’ NB: Some trips may incur a fee, if circumstances prohibit in paying this please contact the school office.

Parent Consultations O Individual parent consultations will take place in November and March O At these meetings you will be able to discuss your child’s progress O Teachers are available throughout the year if you feel you need to speak to them by making an appointment via the school office

Assessment Without Levels Information for Parents

Why do we need a new Assessment system? With the introduction of the New Curriculum, the DFE announced the removal of levels, stating that they were no longer a reliable method of assessment and reporting. Against the new Teaching and Learning regime. Their ‘Core Principles of Assessment ‘ document stated that ‘effective assessment systems’ should: -give reliable information to parents about how their child, and their child’s school, is performing -help drive improvement for pupils and teachers, and -make sure the school is keeping up with external best practice and innovation However, they announced that it was up to schools to devise their own methods of Assessment based on these principles.

4b was the expected average for a year 6 child. The floor target for combined RWM level %. Children should be reported as EMERGING, EXPECTED or EXCEEDING the standards for their year. Floor target of 85% of year 6 children to reach ‘Expected Standard’ for year 6 in Summer Levels: 1c 1b 1a 2c 2b 2a 3c 3b 3a 4c 4b 4a 5c 5b 5a 6c Age Related Standards Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

What Assessment system should we use?

New Assessment system embedded. Formative (ongoing) Assessment and Summative (End point) Assessment

Kent Learning Pathways (FORMATIVE) Use of Kent Standards Assessment to track children’s progress against the EXPECTED standard for each year. -Year group standards will be called BANDS. Year 1 children ‘expected’ to be working on Band 1, year 5 on Band5 etc. The majority of children will begin on the BAND for their age group. They will be described as EMERGING in the band and will work through achieving targets to achieve EXPECTED by the end of the year. Children with gaps in their learning journey may work through achieving objectives on ‘lower’ bands if appropriate. More able children will work on mastering the objectives for their year group band and will be described as ‘EXCEEDING’ by the end of the year. All children will have their own learning pathway,. Achievement of targets will be evidenced and will be updated regularly by the class teacher. A child’s progress along the pathway will be shared with parents and form a basis of the dialogue at parents consultations. IMPORTANT to note the raised expectations for each year group- e.g. in maths, to achieve ‘EXPECTED’ by the end of year 4, all times tables up to 12 x 12 must be known! Copies of blank learning pathways are available at back of hall so that you can become familiar with expectations for your child’s year group.

GL Assessments (SUMMATIVE) Summative end of year test to supplement the ongoing tracking system. Children’s scores are measured against national attainment and standardised scores and will reported to parents. Individual report of test results and next steps for learning will be given to parents as part of the end of year report- helps validate formative teacher judgements Additional CATS for year 5 More information will be provided at the end of the year on how to interpret scores.

Maths  New curriculum has more emphasis on written calculations – school’s calculation policy is being updated and will be available on the website to refer to and support your children at home with the methods taught in school.  More emphasis on deeper understanding, pupils being able to explore, reason and problem solve

Problem Solving and Reasoning  All lessons have been adapted to include problem solving and reasoning opportunities to enable pupils to apply their knowledge and explain their work for deeper understanding.  We will now have additional problem solving lessons covering five different problem types.  ‘Problem Solving Homework Packs’ will be sent home regularly so the children can apply their skills at home…..please support and ‘play’ these games with your children at home (a home/school record book is on order for teacher and parent to record observations)  Some homework may also include online activities, specifically chosen by the teacher to consolidate class learning (log ins will be provided)

Number Skills  Essential for pupils to continue to practice their number bonds knowing them forwards and backwards (eg) 12+8=20 which is the same as 28-8=20  Key Stage 2 must continue to learn and practise the timestables. All tables expected known by the end of Year 4. All division facts expected to be known by end of Year 6.

Website The Maths page of the school website will have links to: The updated calculations policy (by half term) Year Group Guidance / Programmes of Study Links to games and activities The Year Group pages will have information on the skills being covered in each term.

Rapid Rapid is a new intervention programme being implemented across the school. The programme is designed to support children struggling with concepts in the new curriculum in Literacy and Maths. The programme is designed to support pupils to make 'rapid' progress in clearly identified areas and intervention could last from 1 to 6 weeks. Children in need of this intervention will be identified by the teacher and is reviewed regularly. For those children placed in a rapid intervention on occasions the activities may include a short homework activity book to consolidate the learning or some online activities. The class teacher can provide more details on this if relevant at the time.

Rapid – Reading & Writing After ongoing teacher assessment, it be necessary for your child to enter the reading and writing intervention scheme. Based on their reading age. Programme lasts 6 weeks. Books, for reading, will be sent home and also available as e-books online.

Clued Spelling Children will have spellings for 10 minutes every day. Paired work. Children work through a list of words and only learn the words they cannot spell. Therefore, no need to learn words that they already know. No ‘formal’ tests and no need to practise spellings at home.

O Thank you for listening, we look forward to working alongside you in educating your children in Year 5 O Any questions?