1. Welcome to the Snapdragon Class information session

2. School Values
We encourage an understanding of faith and culture in our diverse world, and reflect upon the Christian values of joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. British values of democracy, liberty, the rule of law, individual learning, tolerance and respect are essential to the every day life of our school. Democracy is embedded within school council meetings, and explored through national and international events. Children are taught to understand their personal freedoms and responsibilities. The importance of laws are reinforced in everyday school life through the clear use of sanctions and rewards. The importance of tolerance and respect, including of those from different backgrounds, is strongly emphasised.

3. Our Curriculum
Autumn Term – Space! Sparkly Start – visit from the mobile planetarium, Marvellous Middle – Life on Mars – Fabulous Finish – Planet Suite

4. Challenge in our Curriculum
Must - To achieve age related expectations they must ….. (Challenge)
Should – To secure age related expectations they should …..
(Super challenge)
Could – To exceed age related expectations they could …..
(Ocean deep challenge)

5. Spellings
New spelling sheets – given year group spellings. Need to learn them at home and they are tested. From next week: Monday – investigation Tuesday – using words in sentences Wednesday – dictionary work Thursday – word games Friday - test

6. Expectations
This year, the Year 6 will be taking the SATs tests that consist of a reading paper, two maths reasoning papers and an arthimetic paper and writing is assessed by teacher.
We use Symphony as the assessment tool in the school. If you would like a copy of age related expectations I will photocopy them for you.

7. Words for Learning
Each term we will be giving children a list of words that they are expected to learn in the course of their topic. These will be found on the website. We also have Magpie words – which are words we have discussed in class and children can use in their writing. Year ¾ and Year 5/6 words are photocopied and they are expected to be used in their work.

8. Homework Prove it or Stretch it!
English
Maths
Topic
Prove it or Stretch it!
Choose a poem to learn off by heart and recite it to the class.
(I will give you a choice of poems to learn.)
Design and make a maths game with a space theme! Make sure there can be at least 3 players and include some fraction questions.
London! The capital city of England – what makes it special? Find visual images and make a collage of them. Then write an explanation about your choices.
Ocean deep
Take a piece of text and write a variety of questions about it.
(I will give you the text.)
Make sure there are retrieval, inference and open questions.
Find statistics about 10 different cities around the world.
Eg the population, ages of inhabitants, price of houses, size of households etc. Make a bar graph.
Research a city of your choice – write a non-chron report about it. Remember, it needs to be bright and colourful: have sub-headings and paragraphs and an introduction.
Super challenge
Write a book review about one of your favourite books.
Choose a space maths problem sheet and answer the questions showing your working out clearly.
Design and draw a poster advertising a capital city of your choice. Make it attractive.
Challenge
Re-design the cover of your favourite reading book.
Try doing a Suduko.
(I have some for you to try!)
Find as many capital cities as you can around the world – see how long you can make your list.
Pupil/Parent comments (dated)
Teacher comments (dated)
Reading/ Spelling comments:
Times tables comments:

9. Teaching Strategies
ON YOUR MARKS – We expect children to have pencil cases ready on tables at the start of lessons and PE kits at school. This teaches the children the difference between getting ready for lessons and the start of lessons.
SLANT provides clear expectations for children to show respect and active participation in all areas of school life.
STRETCH IT – extend your answer and give further examples.
FORMAT MATTERS

10. Rewards Individual rewards –
In Snapdragons, 3 full marks in spelling tests – Spongebob!
Children receive SLANT, Cold Call, On Your Marks, Format Matters certificates in the celebration assembly on a Friday.
Teachers also send certificates home in the post for excellent attitudes to learning.
End of term certificates are presented for good and outstanding attendance.
End of year awards and prizes will be given to children who have shown consistently high standards in specified areas of the curriculum and will be presented these by members of the school community.

11. Uniform
We expect children to attend school wearing the correct uniform.
Look on website for more information:
Make sure you’ve checked it first so you can answer questions!

12. Any questions? ?