2. Term 2
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3. The Term Ahead Numeracy Fractions, decimals and percentages.
Literacy Journalistic Writing.
Narrative Writing – Science Fiction.
Science Light and seeing thigs.
History Battle of Britain and The Blitz.
ICT Programming – Lego Mindstorms
D.T Make a World War 2 shelter.
R.E. Judaism and The Christmas Story.
French. School.
Music War of the Worlds - composition.
World War Two songs.
P.E. Volleyball & Gymnastics.

4. Developing A Growth Mindset
A whole school focus at St John the Baptist Primary School

7. Why Growth Mindset?
In order to develop the children as learners we must look at their mindsets.
Teach children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.
It has been proven that having a growth mindset can improve children’s progress and attainment. As a result, we are teaching our children that by having a growth mindset they can grow their brains and intelligence and achieve anything they want!

8. Growth Mindset Language

9. What are St Johns doing to promote Growth Mindset?
Age appropriate teaching about the brain, how it works and what a growth mindset is.
Teaching of strategies to enable independent learning.
Planning lessons which allow for choice and challenge.
Classroom displays.
Modelling growth mindset language.
Use of stories to introduce and discuss growth mindset.
Merit points used to reward children who demonstrate a growth mindset in their learning.

10. What can parents do?

11. Giving feedback to develop a growth mindset
Sometimes we do not realise that words which we think encourage and praise can actually undermine our children’s ability to become the best learners they can be.

12. Good growth mindset language to use

13. Merit Points System
The introduction of our new merit point system last year had Growth Mindset at its core.
The intention has always been to not just reward excellent work and the performance of those children for whom school work comes more naturally but to also highlight and motivate all children to go that step further – to persevere, not to give up and always strive to do the best they can.
We hope this will create a habit forming attitude to any task they are given.

14. Merit Points System
It is a system that is also more about ‘capturing the moments’ of resilience that take place during lessons rather than just the end result.
It is also a system designed to promote long term changes in attitude.
Merits, like team points were, can be used on an individual, group or even whole class level depending on what the teacher is trying to promote or motivate.

15. Reading in Year 6

16. What reading means in Year 6
From a test point of view, reading is mostly about the understanding of a text rather than the skills of reading and decoding.
In class, this means that most of the teaching is targeted towards practising the skills of:
Retrieval of information.
Inference.
Understanding of language and vocabulary choices made by authors.
To a lesser extent, it also covers:
Summarising texts.
Comparing different texts
Making predictions.

17. What reading means in Year 6
Within school we are also conscious of the need for the children to have time to:
Just read a text of their choice for pleasure.
To listen to stories being read by adults or from quality audio productions.
To read a whole text and develop the stamina to read a longer book rather than ‘flitting’ between books without giving themselves the chance to get fully engaged with a narrative.
To ask questions about what they are reading.
To develop the ability to select reading material that is appropriate and of interest to them based on the blurb of the book not just the cover illustrations and title.

18. What reading means in Year 6
At home, we would want to have the following expectations:
Your child reads from a range of genres and text types at least 3 times a week.
Parents talk to their child about what they have read. This can include summarising what they have read, making predictions about what might happen next, inferring character or discussing unfamiliar vocabulary.
When reading, your child should be reading at a minimum pace of 90 words a minute and most (but not all) words should be familiar to them.
Parents being aware of their child’s reading diet – are they experiencing a wide range?
This does not necessarily mean your child has to be reading out loud to someone as long as a conversation about what they have just read takes place.

19. Any Questions?