Welcome to Year 6
Curriculum Evening
Miss Wiblin
Mrs Limer
What a start!!!! ☺
• Fantastic attitude and effort from all!
Our aim:-
To provide a calm, caring learning atmosphere, where all children
grow in confidence and develop a real desire to learn and improve.
To develop the children’s social, emotional and academic abilities
in preparation for their transition to secondary school.
To produce some very happy and special memories from their final
year in primary school.
What we expect…
A first-class attitude towards their learning throughout the year.
An understanding that they know to ask for help when needed.
A real effort to develop their organisational skills- in terms of
handing in homework, reading records and spellings.
To develop a real ownership of their work and to be able to identify
personal targets throughout the year to work on.
30 happy, confident children!!!
The Daily Routine
9.00am
9.00am – 9.30am
Registration
Daily Task/ Whole school collective
worship/ Hymn Practice/
9.30am - 10.30am
10.30am – 10.45am
10.45am - 12.15pm
12.15pm – 1.15pm
1.15pm – 2.15pm
2.15pm - 3.15pm
3.20pm
1st session Maths
1ST BREAK
2nd session English/Daily Tasks
LUNCH
3rd session Foundation Subjects
4th session Foundation Subjects
HOMETIME (Yeah! ☺)
Water Bottles / Milk / Tuck shop
• Children keep their water bottles on their desks. They can get a
drink at playtime and when they come in from playtime. Children
can also access their bottles for a drink during lessons.
• They are encouraged to take them home each week to wash them
(and please try and encourage this!)
•If children receive milk at school they have this after morning
break
•Healthy tuck (Monday, Wednesday & Friday) – small charge for
range of products- ran by Y6 pupils
Homework in Year 6
• Homework is generally linked to the activities your child has
been working on in class, for consolidation of their skills.
Day given
Tuesday
Subject
Maths written homework
English written homework
To be handed in
Friday
• Additional written homework is in the form of a topic related
project over a few weeks (can be typed or handwritten) will be
given out at certain times throughout the year. If children are
unable to access internet for research purposes, then this can
be made available during the school day.
Daily Tasks in Year 6
• This happens 5 times during the week. This consists of 5
activities: Guided Reading (led by Miss Wiblin);
• SPAG;
• Mathletics;
• Grammar and
• Handwriting.
The children all have individual timetables, at the front of their
reading records, which tell them when their guided reading day is.
Class Assemblies
Achievement assemblies take place every Friday at the end of the day.
Two children are chosen each week to receive ‘pupil of the week’. Every
effort is made to ensure each child will receive this award throughout the
year. End of term achievement assemblies are on the following dates;
Autumn
Term
Spring
Term
Friday 18th December
Summer
Term
Friday 8th July
Thursday 24th March
Other dates
Autumn Term
Friday 2nd October- Buddy
Assembly
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Monday 14th December- Ice
Skating @Life Centre.
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Tuesday 6th October- RAP event.
Wednesday 11th November –
Remembrance Day Parade
Thursday 26th November
Christmas Craft Fayre
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Thursday 17th December Christmas Party
Spring Term
January – SATs meeting
9th May- 13th May 2016 –
SATs
6th June – 8th June 2016 –
Holy Island
Summer Term
11th July 2016 – Leaver’s
Production
Parents evenings
• 9th- 11th November 2015
• 29th February- 2nd March 2016
Appointment slips will be sent out and appointments will
be allocated to accommodate requests and siblings in the
school.
If for any reason you are unable to make dates – please
contact me at school and I am happy to arrange another
time.
Year 6 Rewards
• House points
• Rainbow Ladder
• Pupil of the week / Pupil of the term
• Leaves
• Fantastic 4:
Writer of the week; Presenter of the week;
Mathematician of the week and
Overall student of the week.
Year 6 Curriculum
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Core Subjects * Foundation Subjects
History
- English
Geography
Art
- Maths
Design &
- Science
Technology
Music
- Computing
French
- RE
PE
Lessons in Year 6
Children are taught in structured lessons, which consists of 4 main parts:
- Sharing of WALT (we are learning to…)
- Whole class teaching (smartboards / powerpoints / practical and interactive)
- Independent work (individual / paired / small group)
- Plenary (summary of lesson)
Assessment is continuous and tracked to ensure that each child’s unique needs
are catered for.
There will also be an assessment week in the Autumn, Spring and Summer
term.
English Curriculum
• Narrative- description, sentence types, character traits, stories,
diaries, flashbacks.
• Biographical (including auto-biographies)
• Poetry – using personification
• Journalistic
• Non-chronological reports
Phase 1 – reading about the genre
• Persuasive Writing
Phase 2 – planning/editing drafting
• Formal and Informal Letters
• Shakespeare
Phase 3 – write own text linked to
genre
• Target Sheets
Writing Focus
• Vocabulary – adjectives, similes, descriptive phrases, interesting and
ambitious words, powerful, verbs and adverbs
• Connectives – despite, although, consequently, on the one hand, on the other
hand, nevertheless, even though, in addition, moreover, finally, subsequently.
•Openings – using connectives, ly, ing and ed openers, using clauses and
adjectives.
•Varying sentence types –using a variety of sentence types to control the pace
of their writing: simple, short, 2a, de:de, dialogue, long, compound, complex.
•Punctuation - . , !, ? “ ” ‘ :;
•Spelling & Grammar
SPAG (spelling, punctuation and
grammar).
Grammar:
Word classes – nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives
Grammar cont…
• Tenses
• Connectives
• Types of sentences- statements, commands,
questions
• Phrases and clauses- main and subordinate
• Articles
• Prepositions
• Pronouns
• Punctuation
• Choosing words with similar meanings.
• Prefixes/Suffixes
• Using I or me.
www.spag.com
Please feel free to take a
booklet with all the definitions
your child will need throughout
the year.
Spelling
Currently children are working in 2 groups for
spelling.
One group will receive three 25 minute
sessions per week and will focus on
developing their confidence in spelling.
We trialled this last year and we found
spending 3 weekly sessions focussing on one
particular spelling focus really helped improve
the spelling ability of some children.
Spelling Cont…
The other group will spend an initial 25 minute session focussing on a
weekly spelling focus and then a further independent 25 minute session
during our daily task time.
The structure of the 1st session is as follows:
Spelling Test- using unseen words- where children have to look at
words and determine the spelling focus for that week.
Teacher led teaching of specific spelling rule with independent activity
to follow.
Children spend time during the following week, investigating the rule
and completing some work. They are then retested on rule the following
week.
We feel that it is important that the children fully understand the rule,
rather than simply learn a set number of spellings per week.
Year 6 Spelling:
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Endings which sound like /ʃəs/ spelt –cious or –tious
Endings which sound like –tial, -cial
Words ending in –ant, –ance/–ancy, –ent, –ence/–ency
Words ending in –able and –ible
Words ending in –ably and –ibly
Adding suffixes beginning with vowel letters to words ending in –fer
Use of the hyphen
Words with the /i:/ sound spelt ei after c
Words containing the letter-string ough
Words with ‘silent’ letters (i.e. letters whose presence cannot be
predicted from the pronunciation of the word)
• Homophones and other words that are often confused
• Homophones and other words that are often confused (continued)
Guided
Reading
Guided reading sessions last half an hour and they are led by Miss
Wiblin.
Sessions will focus on different AF’s (assessment focus’) each week:
Text retrieval;
Deduce, refer, interpret information, events or ideas.
Identify and comment on text structure and organisation.
Look at the writer’s use of language.
Look at the purpose of the text and the impact it has on the reader.
Read out loud with confidence and fluidity.
Independent Reading
Children choose a home reader each week, and are
encouraged to pick a range of fiction and non-fiction texts.
They should be aiming to be able to read this fluently
but with some challenging words.
EVERY NIGHT (10 minutes!!)
Not necessary to hear every word but please
encourage children to talk about what they have read.
Comment in reading record is their responsibility!!!
Handwriting – Letter Formation
Children will have regular 20-25 minute handwriting sessions
Aim is for a neat, joined, consistent style of handwriting
Pride in their presentation
Maths
Throughout the year the children will cover the 7 strands of
mathematics ;
• Using and applying mathematics
• Counting and understanding number
• Knowing and using number facts
• Calculating
• Understanding shape
• Measuring
• Handling data
These 7 strands are taught each term.
Maths New Curriculum
• There will be a greater
emphasis on
arithmetic/mental skills – new
paper during SATS.
• The promotion of efficient
written methods of long
multiplication and division.
• More demanding content in
fractions, decimals and
percentages.
Key Maths Skills for Year 6
• Tables facts and division
facts to 12 x 12
• Knowledge of place value
(numbers to 1,000,000)
• Multiply and divide by 10,
100, 1000
• Written methods of
calculation for all four
operations
• Problem solving and
application of skills
Addition Written Methods
164
+125
289
5486
+1225
6711
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1
Subtraction
165 – 34 =
165
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34
131
174 – 46 =
6
1
174
46
128
Check with inverse – 128 +
46
174
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Calculation Strategies
Short
Multiplication
34
x 6
204
2
Short Multiplication – Using larger
numbers
Long Multiplication – Using 2 possible
methods
Grid
Method
Division – Using multiplication facts
3 x 4 = 12
12 ÷ 4 = 3
So
30 x 4 = 120
So
3 x 40 = 120
300 x 4 = 1200
0.4 x 3 = 1.2
0.004 x 0.003 =0.000012
120 ÷ 4 = 3
120 ÷ 40 = 3
1200 ÷ 400 = 3
1.2 ÷ 4 = 0.3
Short Division 68 ÷ 4 =
17
4 68
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Short Division
Long Division
Other areas:
Area and Perimeter
Shapes
Graphs- line, bar, pie, scatter
Measures – mass, length, capacity
Ratio and Proportion
Fractions, decimals and percentages
Mode, median, mean and range
Reflection, rotation and symmetry
Basic algebra
Number
Angles
Probability
Booster Work
All children will be monitored closely throughout the year.
Additional opportunities to work with members of staff to
improve the level they are working at if needed.
Offers of additional support will be given after October Half
term to those children we feel could do with a confidence
booster in this area of the curriculum.
Opportunities of additional support will also be offered to
children, where Maths is a particular strength, after the
Christmas break.
National Curriculum Tests (SAT’s) –
9th -13th May 2016
• No more levels – new year group expectations for each
year group- emerging, expected, exceeding.
• New format to tests.
• Raw scores  scaled scores.
• Target of 100  comparable to the old 4b.
• Results will still be sent back to us at the start of July.
• Discussed more at meeting in January.
Science
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Living things and their habitats.
Animals including humans
Evolution and inheritance
Light
Electricity
Computing
The children have one computing lesson a week in the
computing room.
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E Safety – Safety online, Reporting issues, Social Media
Computer Science – Programming/Coding/Gaming
Digital Literacy – Multimedia, Comic Life, Blogging
Spreadsheets/ Graphical Modelling
Religious Education
Religious Education is based on the new
“Come and See” programme.
Autumn Term
Loving/Vocation and Commitment/Expectations / Judaism
Spring Term
Sources/Unity/Death and New Life/ Islam
Summer Term
Witnesses/ Healing/Common good
History
TERM
TITLE
AUTUMN 1
The Victorians and the Industrial
Revolution
AUTUMN 2
War (Looking at the 1st World War).
SPRING 1
War (Looking at the 2nd World War).
SPRING 2
The Amazing Americas (Looking at the
Aztecs, Incas and Mayans).
Brazil and the Olympics
SUMMER 1
SUMMER 2
Geography
TERM
AUTUMN 1
TITLE
A sense of place
AUTUMN 2
SPRING 1
Mapwork and navigation
SPRING 2
SUMMER 1
SUMMER 2
Brazil
PE
Lessons take place on a Tuesday PM for 1 hour
and on Thursday PM for 1 hour (6 weeks per term)
• P.E kit is needed for all PE lessons. Please ensure that all items,
including plimsolls, are labelled with your child’s name.
• It is your childs’ responsibility to remember their own PE kit
• Y6 children also get the opportunity throughout the year for
some additional coaching and events – Tag Rugby, Cricket,
Athletics etc.
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Autumn Term
Games (Bounce Tennis, Benchball)
Gymnastics
Outdoor Pursuits (Thurston)
Spring Term
Dance
Games (sit down volleyball)
Summer Term
Games (Cricket, Rounders)
Athletics
French
• The children have an hour of French every Wednesday
morning.
• This is taught by Mrs Thomas
The children are taught oral and written skills in French on a range
of subjects.
Grammar: Conjugation of ‘er’ verbs. Preposition (‘a’), Connectives,
Conjunctions, Partitive article (‘du’).
Key questions and answers: Sports, Parts of the body, Clothing,
Simple opinions.
Vocabulary: Sports, Parts of the body, Clothing, Town buildings,
Music
• The children have a weekly music lesson with Mrs Bell
• Elements of music, Keyboard skills, Pulse and Rhythm,
composition and preparing for Year 6 Production. Individual
instrument lessons are available for a small fee.
• Mr Bourdiec provides a weekly ukulele lesson for Y6 on a
Monday afternoon.
TERM
Art and DT
TITLE
AUTUMN 1
DT – Davey Lamp Work
AUTUMN 2
Art – Mrs Limer
SPRING 1
DT- Davey Lamp Work, Shelters
SPRING 2
ART – Mrs Limer
SUMMER 1
DT- Production Work
SUMMER 2
ART – Mrs Limer
Marking
• All children’s work is marked with 2 positive
comments.
• A challenge / next step is also identified.
Year 6 – “An open door”
• I am in school most mornings by 8
15 am and usually leave around
6pm.
• Please come and see me about
anything that is concerning or
worrying you.
• Contact the office to make an
appointment.