1. Welcome to Rhino Class’s Meet the Teacher
September 2016

2. Overview of the evening
Timetable
Topics & Trips
What’s new in Year 5?
RSE
Head’s Award
Assessment
Examples of what learning looks like in Y5
Home Learning
Useful websites & information
Behaviour
Home School Agreement
Handouts
Questions

3. Timetable
Motivate Sessions are on Monday and Tuesday afternoons. Please ensure your child comes with a complete kit both days.
Science will be taught by our deputy-head, Sonia. Our first topic is “Earth, Sun and Moon.”
Music will be taught by Marinus on Thursday afternoons.
Children will be given some class time to work on Heads Awards, but will also need to work on them outside of school as well. Options follow on Friday Afternoon. 3

4. Topics & Trips Term Topic Trip Autumn Invaders and Settlers
Juniper Hall
Lab in a lorry
Kingston Museum
Pantomime
Spring
Pole to Pole
Public speaking workshops
Greenwich Maritime Museum
The Guardian Education Centre
Cycling proficiency
Summer
Ancient Greeks
British Museum
The Globe Theatre
‘Greek’ themed day

5. What’s New in Y5? First residential trip – see Juniper Hall website
Head’s Award
Walking independently and mobile phones
One day of cycling proficiency
Responsibilities within school – lunch jobs, vice captains, JSOs

6. Relationship and Sex Education (RSE)
Becoming men and women
menstruation (periods)
wet dreams
building good relationships
gender stereotypes
hygiene

7. Head’s Award Bronze, Silver and Gold Award
Two celebration evenings a year
Encourages independence, social responsibility, high standards and emotional intelligence
See link of website for more information

8. Reading Key Performance Indicators – Year 5/6
*all of the KPIs are on the website and in your handouts
Make comparisons within and across books
Read a range of modern fiction and books from other cultures and traditions
Discuss understanding of texts, including exploring meaning of words in context
Ask questions to improve understanding of texts
Summarise ideas drawn from more than one paragraphs, identifying key details
Predict future events from details stated and implied
Identify how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning
Discuss how authors use language, including figurative language, to affect the reader
Meet the teacher
September 2013

9. Writing Key Performance Indicators – Year 5/6
*all of the KPIs are on the website and in your handouts
Use a dictionary to check spelling and meaning
Identify the audience and purpose before writing, and adapt accordingly
Select appropriate grammar and vocabulary to change or enhance meaning
Develop setting, atmosphere and character, including through dialogue

10. Writing example
Meet the teacher
September 2013

11. Maths Key Performance Indicators – Year 5/6
*all of the KPIs are on the website and in your handouts
Round any number to the nearest 10, 100 or 1000
Know tables up to 12 × 12
Use place value and number facts to carry out mental calculations
Use short multiplication method
Recognise and use hundredths
Recognise and write decimal equivalents to ¼, ½ and ¾
Divide one- or two-digit numbers by 10 and 100, using tenths and hundredths
Round decimals with one decimal place to the nearest whole number
Find the area of rectilinear shapes by counting squares
Solve problems converting units of time
Interpret and present discrete and continuous data on appropriate graphs

12. Maths example 1. A torch costs £7.65
Kate buys a torch and two batteries.
She pays £8.75 altogether.
How much does one battery cost?
2 marks

13. Home Learning
Home Learning will go out on a Thursday and will be expected back in on the following Tuesday.
Home Learning will include:
Spellings sent home weekly to be learned. Children will be tested on Tuesdays.
Times tables will be sent home weekly and tested on Tuesdays.
Weekly Mathletics tasks will be set. Passwords will be given out
It is very important that children continue to read at home on a daily basis for minutes. Reading records must be completed each day and given in on Tuesdays with Home Learning. Children must record comments twice a week.
Creative home learning tasks – optional, but encouraged

14. Useful Websites
Mathletics

15. Behaviour New policy being written Flow chart sent out to all parents
Code of conduct
Encourage excellence
Eradicate out poor behaviour

16. Behaviour

17. Home School Agreement

18. Handouts Presentation slides Class timetable Spelling sheets Book list
Vocab pack
KPIs
Juniper Hall
Secondary school info
Trips and behaviour code of conduct
Head’s Award
Home/ school agreement- please return to school when signed

19. Any questions? Please do come and see me or make an appointment to discuss anything. Appointments can be made for most mornings and Wednesday and Friday afternoons.