1. Welcome to Cherhill class.

2. Our Timetable
Monday
Reading card due in, please can you sign the card at least 3 times to show the reading that your child has completed.
Home learning is due in.
Spelling test.
P.E.
Tuesday
Wednesday
New spellings set to learn for the week .
Home learning set.
Thursday
Friday
Maths games 8:50- 9:10, you are welcome to join us!

3. Our learning strategies
We have a learning partner. Our learning partners are randomly changed each week and we have someone different each week for a whole term, then repeats are allowed. We sometimes work with our partner, discussing ideas and explaining our work, sometimes our partner evaluates our work and sometimes we just sit next to each other and work separately.

4. Our class room rules. Cherhill’s classroom rules. Love 2 learn.
Try your best.
Keep going – you will succeed.
Respect everyone’s feelings.
Work together and have fun!

5. Our main topics.
Term 1 –Rivers– geography study. Forces. Buddhism. E-safety. Colour and Pointillism. Term 2 –The Mayans – History. Masks. Coding. Term 3 – Materials. Sikhism. Portraits. Term 4 – Lifecycles. Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. Jewellery making. Term 5 – Space and gravity. DT mechanisms – cams. Term 6 – Knowledge of locations, our trip to GPH. Still life.

6. Some of the important events in the year
Some of the important events in the year. (There will be lots I have not mentioned!)
Harvest festival –
Parents’ evenings – and and again in the Spring term. Open evening in the Summer,
Remembrance service, at 10:45am,
Christingle service, ,
SATs – information meeting early 2017, mocks and then tests week,
GPH – Letters out soon. Meeting 10th October at 6pm
Secondary transfer and preparation for Year 7, apply for place by
Leavers’ assembly.

7. Ways to help your child
Support with their home learning. All work is closely
linked to our learning in school to help you know what is
going on and to support the progress that your child
makes.
Let me know early of any concerns or worries that you
have, I will try to help!
Share any skills that we could use in the classroom. You
are always welcome.

8. Ways to help your child
Presentation of work - neat handwriting, layout is clear,
Correct punctuation, grammar and spelling, all important throughout every piece of work,
Spellings – weekly words are based upon the Y5/6 spelling list provided in the English curriculum – we have lots of ideas in class of how to learn words and spend time on this each week.
Reading – sharing books, discussing reading and choices of materials.

9. Ways to help your child
Recall of mental facts – speed and accuracy is needed in Year 6 so we don’t have overload when tackling more difficult work.
Times tables, number bonds, doubles and halves as well as relating facts together to make connections.
We are developing our ability to visualise our maths and so are beginning to use more drawings and models to help us understand work and explain things to others, thus showing we understand deeply.
Web site maths guides.

10. Thanks for coming!