Welcome to the

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Welcome to the Year 6 Parents Information
Evening

• Please make sure you have
• collected a pack
• signed by your childs name
• written down your email address for Parent
  Mail (if not already signed up)
• completed the Reading Evening query sheet
• Thank you

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Welcome to Year 6

• The Year 6 team
• Mrs Blyth (Shakespeare Mon, Tues, Wed)
• Mrs Territt (Shakespeare Thurs, Fri)
• Mrs Foxley (Rowling all week)
• Mrs Senussi (Rowling TA - mornings)
• Mrs Des Forges (Shakespeare TA - mornings)
• Mrs Steed (Year 6 Admin. Assistant)
• You!
• Important year
• Preparation for secondary school
• Responsibility
• Independence
• SATs

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General Information

• Timetable
• literacy maths (each morning)
• Foundation subjects (afternoons)
• Swimming / PE
• Kit needed
• Monday/Tuesday (changes at half term)
• Thursday / Friday
• No jewellery
• Helpers for swimming
• School times
• Children should not arrive to school before
  8.45am
• Prompt start at 8.55am
• 3.20pm finish
• Lateness absence

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General Information

• Illness
• Contact details up to date
• Bumped head letters
• Medication
• Health info updated
• Inhalers etc (check dates)
• Mobile phones
• School uniform
• www.simplyschoolwear.co.uk/shop/wildridings_primar
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• Freephone order number is 0800 404 6644
• Healthy snacks / lunch / drinks

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Class Rules Behaviour

• Rules displayed in classroom
• agreed by children
• Hierarchy of rewards and consequences
• Golden Time and Detention (Wed 12.30-1.00pm)
• Visual prompts/reminders for good behaviour
• Support during PSHCE sessions
• Communication between home and school
• Share important information
• Parent support

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Shared
Guided
Independent
Whats Happening at School?
Links to the wider community
Links to other subjects
Practical experiences
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Literacy

• Reading, Writing, Speaking Listening, Drama
• Narrative, Non-fiction Poetry
• Hour lesson everyday
• Embedded into all other subjects
• Links to topic work where appropriate
• Purposeful
• How can you support your child at home?

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Helping with readingReading Curriculum Evening
4th October- What time?

• Be a good role model
• Read lots yourself - be seen reading!
• Talk about what you are reading show that
  reading is important AND enjoyable
• A child is never too old to be read to
• Be willing to share different books and texts
• Look for reading opportunities in everyday life
• When helping your child to read remember
• a good ten minutes reading is better than a
  difficult half hour
• Be positive
• Stay relaxed

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Reading can be anything!
CD roms
TV listings
Books
packets
Newspapers
Internet pages
Magazines
messages
Signs and captions
leaflets
teletext
instructions
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Helping with spellings

• Resist the urge to tell them!!
• Look for
• Sounds
• Tricky bits
• Patterns
• Make up rhymes
• Play games
• Crosswords
• Countdown
• Dont panic!
• Talk and share
• Dont worry about handwriting

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Maths

• Daily lesson
• Different strands
• Using and applying
• Counting and understanding number
• Knowing and using number facts
• Calculating
• Understanding shape
• Measuring
• Handling data
• Mental written methods
• Calculators
• Problem solving
• Real life situations

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Helping with Maths

• Talk about and involve your child in situations
  where you might use maths in everyday life
• Play games involving numbers and/or logic
• card games, dominoes, darts, draughts, chess etc
• Encourage maths thinking at times of boredom
  (e.g. on a long car journey) with mental maths
  activities
• Quick fire questions, guess my number game etc
• Internet
• games
• tutorials/ explanations of methods e.g. chunking
  (for division)
• SATs revision
• Multiplication tables practise, practise,
  practise!

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Other Subjects Topic Work

• Links between different foundation subjects are
  made wherever possible.
• Allows application of knowledge/skills
• Take account of childrens interests
• This term
• Victorians
• History based

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Health Sex Education

• Takes place in the summer term
• Led by a nurse
• Discussions, Videos and written activities
• Opportunity to ask questions confidentially
• Combination of joined and separate sessions for
  the boys and the girls

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Homework

• Maths Literacy
• Given out on Wednesday
• To be handed in on Monday
• Detention if not returned
• Spellings
• Given out on Friday
• Tested on Friday
• Multiplication tables
• Reading
• Topic work
• project
• Plastic folders

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SATs

• Tests will be in week beginning Monday 14th May
  2012
• Avoid holidays around this time
• Literacy
• Reading
• Writing (long and short task)- changes this year
  and 2013
• Spelling
• Maths
• With and without calculator
• Mental maths
• Science
• Teacher assessment
• Revision

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Communication

• Class notices
• Letters home
• Please check you get them!
• Parent Mail
• Website
• Parent / Teacher meetings
• November 9th 10th
• Open door policy- emergencies only please at 8.45

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Little Canada

• PGL Centre Isle of Wight
• Friday May 25th- Monday 28th May 2012
• -depart 10.30 am - return 5.00 pm
• Coach and ferry
• Outdoor and adventurous activities
• En-suite cabins sleeping 3-7 children
• Secure site
• -accompanying adults 110

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And Finally

• Its an important year we need to all work
  together to make it successful
• Encourage the children to talk to you about their
  day
• Thank you for coming
• Any questions?