Welcome to the Year 6 Parents Meeting

Spring Term 1 (2015-16)

Recap on Year 6 Expectations • COMMITMENT • Very important year for the children• A positive attitude is imperative• Hard work and lots of fun!• Attendance & punctuality

Recap on Year 6 Expectations • BEHAVIOUR• High behaviour expectations, exemplary

behaviour as they are the eldest children in the school

• Good choices – positive praise and rewards• Bad choices – consequences

Recap on Year 6 Expectations • UNIFORM• Thank you for your support so far, children

look very smart!• Black trousers or skirt• White shirt or polo shirt• Black shoes – lots of children in trainers• Minimum jewellery • New PE t-shirts available

Year 6 SATs• SATs week is the week beginning 9th May

2014

• There is no Writing Test this year. Writing will be teacher assessed from the work they produce in class

Day Test Mon 9th Reading test Tue 10th English Grammar & Punctuation

English Spelling Wed 11th Paper 1 – Mental Arithmetic

Paper 2 – Reasoning Thurs 12th Paper 3 – Reasoning Fri 13th No paper -

Boosting sessions

• We have a big push on Maths and Literacy this term in preparation for SATs • Some children who have been identified to

need boosting (based on assessments) will be withdrawn from class in the afternoons to have a booster session• Booster sessions will be in either Maths,

Reading or Writing• These are similar to the after school booster sessions

Secondary School Transfer Update • Not long to wait now!• LA will send a letter out to you early March,

informing you of what school your child will be attending. Online applicants will be sent an email.

Homework

• With the run up to SATs, children may be given additional homework for this too.

PE• Each class has 1 PE sessions a week• Please ensure you child comes to school with the

correct PE uniform on their correct day:

• A reminder of the correct kit:• White t-shirt or purple Cranford t - shirt• Black shorts• Black tracksuit bottoms for games• Plimsolls or trainers

Class PE days Magenta Thursday

Sapphire Thursday

Azure Thursday

Literacy this term (6 weeks)

• We will be covering the following units in Literacy this term:• Poetry (fiction) • Narrative – Stories with Flashback (fiction)• Journalistic Writing

• Regular half termly assessments • Also a focus on spelling, punctuation and

grammar

Reading • Your child should be reading with you daily• Please encourage children to read a range of

texts (e.g. stories, newspapers, magazines, comics, recipes, etc)

• It is important that children get the opportunity to discuss their reading with someone at home to develop their comprehension skills• Things that you could discuss with your child are:

• The type of text they are reading• Key features of the text• Authors’ choice of language• Punctuation• If a story – main character, plot, etc

Reading – Bug Club • To help support their comprehension

skills, we have bought into a service called ‘BugClub’

www.bugclub.co.uk

A pupil will demonstrate some of the activities they do on Bug Club

Maths this term (6 weeks)

• We will be covering some of the following topics in Maths this term:• Big focus on Number work• Data Handling• Shape & Space • Measure• Using & Applying • Problem solving • Mental maths

Other curriculum subjects

We will be covering the following topics this term:• Geography – Rivers • Science –Habitats and Living things• Art – River Reflections • ICT will be taught throughout the subjects.

Any questions?Please come see your child’s

class teacher.

Thank you!!

Your support is very much appreciated.