1. Welcome to Year 6

2. everyone will try their best everyone will come to school on time
Expectations for Year 6
everyone will try their best
everyone will come to school on time
everyone will complete their homework
everyone will keep positive
everyone will be happy

3. Homework
This will be given out every Friday. All children will be expected to complete this and return it by Wednesday.
The Maths homework will relate to the topic taught in class that 
week plus there are times tables books to ensure children are secure in knowing their tables.
The English homework will involve completing reading comprehension exercises, writing in specific genres that have been taught and grammar activities.
Spellings will be given out each week and children will be tested on a Friday.

4. Spelling Award Scheme
We are pleased to introduce our new Spelling Award Scheme this year designed to motivate pupils and reward them for learning the key words for their year group.
Children will have the opportunity to work through the different colour levels showing their ability to learn a range of spellings. This encourages the children to practise key skills and once a level is achieved they will earn themselves an award.
We will select an appropriate colour for your child to begin with and their list will be handed out this week. Each year group will start at a level based on age related expectations. Some pupils may begin on a different level according to their ability. This list is theirs to learn, at home, this half term alongside their weekly spelling lists which are given to learn and practise individual spelling patterns. Parents are encouraged to support their children learning these at home. Your child will be tested in the penultimate week of this half term and results will be sent home the following week.

5. Children can go up and down within a given day.
6 house points achieved in a day. A gold certiciate is
given out in Friday's celebration assembly.
Children can go up and down
within a given day.
Children can redeem themselves
and move back up from red or
yellow to green.
In some circumstances, children
may move down to yellow for a
serious incident, despite being on
gold, silver or bronze.
Each day children start back on
green, regardless of where they
were on the chart the previous day.
4 house points achieved in a day. Children recieve
a silver certiciate in class.
2 house points earned in a day.
Green is the starting point. It's fine to be remain
on green the whole day.
After a verbal warning, children will be placed
on yellow to correct their behaviour. Children
will be moved to a quiet area of the classroom.
After a final warning, children they will move to red. 
They will be sent to another class and parents will be 
notified.

6. Fruit and vegetables at playtime
NO NUTS!!

7. Are you entitled to free school meals
Are you entitled to free school meals? 
Please read the letter sent from the school 
office.
Any questions please see them. If you 
haven't already done so, please sign up to 
Parentmail.

8. PE Kit
All children are expected to wear the correct PE kit 
during games and PE lessons.
red shorts
plain white T-shirt/school logo T-shirt
track suit during colder months
plimsolls or trainers
long hair needs to be tied up (every day)
PE days
6Palm - Wednesday / Friday
6Willow - Tuesday/Thursday
6Poplar - Monday / Friday

9. Autumn Term: Kensuke's Kingdom (letter, diary, emotive writing)
English
Autumn Term: Kensuke's Kingdom (letter, diary, emotive writing)
Grammar (Punctuation, Verbs, Adverbs, Conjunctions, Clauses, Phrases, Types of sentences)
Spelling - Y5/6 focus spellings
Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
A more detailed Curriculum map for the year will be added to the website soon.

10. Key areas throughout the year:
Maths
Key areas throughout the year:
number work (read, write, compare and order numbers up to and beyond, rounding a number to the nearest 10, 100, 1000, )
calculations (all operations; recall use of all times tables for multiplication and division; 
money facts and calculations; word problems)
geometry (properties of 2D and 3D shapes, Angles)
time (tell and write the time: analogue clock, including Roman numerals from I to XII, 12-hour and 24 hour clocks)
length, mass, volume, capacity (key facts)
fractions, decimals, percentages
statistics (pictograms, bar charts, tables)

11. Topics
We are using a new Topic based scheme of work this year called Cornerstones, which enables us to provide a broad, balanced curriculum to all children.
Each topic begins with an event to engage the child. They then spend several weeks acquiring skills and knowledge before creating their own work based on what they have learnt.

12. The foundation subjects will be taught using this scheme.
Details will be given on the Curriculum Map. We have begun with
'Gallery Rebels'.

13. Theatre trip
Wednesday 7th November 2018
SATs meeting
Thursday 22nd November 2018
6pm

14. Any questions?