1. Year 6 Meet the Teacher Evening
Thursday 13th September 2018

2. Year 6 Teachers – Mrs Aulds Mrs Connolly Mrs Sexton
Teaching Assistant: Mrs Bandoo

3. Organisation Religion – Termly newsletter P.E (Tuesday)
Assemblies (Monday and Friday)
6AC Class Assembly Wednesday 26th September
6SS Class Assembly Wednesday 31st October
Parent class representative?
Encourage children to attend Mass on Sundays and holy days. Confessions etc.
Need p.e. kits kept in school until holidays
Sports clubs – any questions? – children need collected – too late to be walking home unsupervised, even year 6. Can wear own sports wear – wear these home.
Trips – PGL and in December – trip to Imperial War Museum – voluntary contribution is very important.
Assemblies – 18th and 25th of November – all very welcome to attend
Literacy and Numeracy setting – similar to year 5 groups – based on teacher assessments
Science – no more science SAT – encourage children to develop AT1 – experiments etc.

4. Uniform P.E. – kept in school until holidays
Trainers
Hair tied up
Plim soles for the hall
School Colours
No ear-rings
Jewellery - no necklaces/ bracelets
only stud ear-rings
watch
Winter uniform from after October half term– no polo-shirts
Name on EVERYTHING!
Sturdy trainers
Children are not allowed to wear any jewellery except a watch and stud ear-rings. Anything else, will be removed.
On days when the children have P.E. – can you ensure they have no ear-rings in.

5. Homework Friday - Wednesday
Presentation – writing/ books
Fountain pens/handwriting (joined writing) and pencils
Please ensure your child takes a pen to school EVERY DAY!
Sometimes homework is given during the week if it is something we feel they need to work on.
Reading Journals
Reading Journal for homework tasks
Listen to children read every evening (10 mins)
Encourage a varied reading diet
To be signed 5 times a week
Can you encourage children to keep their writing neat and joined (3 marks)
Homework books need to be covered.
No writing or drawings on the cover of books
Children must take their own pens and pencils to school every day – fountain pens/ ball point pens
If the child loses their book, they will need to replace it
Children will have to do weekly tasks in their reading journal

6. TRIP TO THE GLOBE THEATRE
Please ensure you have paid (via parent-pay) for your child to go on our Year 6 trip to the Globe.

7. At home learning Spellings - weekly spelling rules/ set of spellings
Learn ALL times-tables up to x12
Punctuation – full-stops, capital letters, commas and apostrophes
Grammar –read over your child’s work
Check your child’s homework
Watch English educational Television eg Newsround/Blue Peter/CBBs
Help your children learn spelling rule for homework or set of words
Children should know all tables – ask them quick questions in the car on way to school, few pop questions every so often. Really important that you help your children to learn tables. Write them out (not every night, just ones they find very difficult). If you can purchase a poster displaying these and put them in the bedroom/ bathroom!!!
Read child’s work and help edit for full-stops and capital letters as well as commas and other punctuation. Show the editing in pencil/coloured pen or pencil

8. Behaviour
High expectations – dress and presentation in your child’s book.
Soft Start – Arrive 8:40am-8:55am – children will be set different activities to complete.
School finishes at 3:15pm
Absence – not during term time – if sick, please ring school to let us know.
Trying to teach children to be responsible for their actions and prepare them for High School.
Collect children no later than 3:30pm.
Parents need to be punctual for after-school clubs also.

9. Behaviour
Consistent bad behaviour is recorded on the school system and parents will be called.
Mobile phones- switched off in the morning at the gates please and handed in to the class teacher to be handed back at the end of the day.
Trying to teach children to be responsible for their actions and prepare them for High School.
Collect children no later than 3:30pm.
Parents need to be punctual for after-school clubs also.

10. Healthy Eating Packed lunch – No sweets/ fizzy drinks
Break time – snack
Treat Friday
Water bottles
Birthday books
Healthy Eating
Packed lunch – encourage healthy, balanced lunch
Break time – piece of fruit or fruit drink. No crisps, chocolate bars, sweets

11. Reports - New Curriculum – age related expectations
New expectations – exceeding, expected and emerging
Healthy Eating
Packed lunch – encourage healthy, balanced lunch
Break time – piece of fruit or fruit drink. No crisps, chocolate bars, sweets

12. What are SATS?
Towards the end of Key Stage 2, all Year 6 pupils take the KS2 SATS. (Statutory Assessment Tests)
The children are assessed by tests in English and Numeracy during the middle of May each year.
Teachers also assess their general day to day progress as part of their Teacher Assessment.

13. What do they test?
English is separated into different aspects as follows:
Writing– (teacher assessment only)
Reading
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling

14. Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
Spelling test
Spelling investigations
Grammar lessons in isolation and during writing lessons
Piece of text with gaps that’s read aloud several times
Children carry out spelling investigations weekly in class and it is important that they learn the spelling rules at home.
Handwriting could be difference between level ¾ or 4/5

15. Maths is tested by 3 papers
Paper 1 - Arithmetic
Paper 2 – Reasoning
Paper 3 - Reasoning
NO CALCULATORS ALLOWED
Both papers involve a lot more problem solving.

19. What happens after the tests?
Maths and Reading are marked externally.
Writing will be marking internally and moderated by staff/local authority
Returned before the end of term.
Parents receive the results in school reports.

20. What happens if my child misses a test?
Children who miss a test are recorded as absent and are not given a test level in that subject.

21. Hot tips for parents
Remember your child's education is a partnership. Meet with teachers and see how they believe you can help.
- Approach a subject from lots of different angles. - Look through a practice paper together and talk through the answers, try drawing or acting out answers of difficult concepts such as fractions.
- Make sure your child is aware that getting stuck is not a problem, move on and if they have time come back to the hard ones at the end.
- Remind your child that the tests are important, but that they are not the only way they are to be measured.

22. SATS tips Do homework early
Agree a routine for homework with your child.
A good time for homework is after a short break when your child returns from school, get it out of the way early, leaving the rest of the evening free - who wants to start work at 7.00pm
Life can become a constant 'nag' if you do not start this from the beginning

23. Helpful websites www.satsguide.co.uk www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk

24. Thanks for coming tonight
Thanks for coming tonight! Please join Ms Sullivan for the High School Transfer meeting in the ICT room.